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Who Are the Citizens for a Legitimate Government?
By Abigail Adams (about the author) Page 1 of 2 page(s)
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I mostly ignored the postings, but on March 6 2008 Lori R. Price forwarded an e-mail to the list serve that provided grounds for the FBI to initiate a counter-terror investigation into the social justice organization that operated it. I was inspired to take a closer look into Lori R. Price, and Citizens for a Legitimate Government. A quick search led me to the Intelligent Software Agents Group of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute where cutting edge research and development projects designed to produce software to support counter-terror operations were underway, and where CLG's founder, Michael Rectenwald, was formerly employed.
On March 6 at approximately 3:45 a.m. an improvised explosives device (IED) was detonated at the entrance to the Armed Forces Career Center in Times Sq., which housed recruiting offices for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corp, and enlisted an average of 10,000 volunteers a year. The FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, one of 16 joint task forces established throughout the country to facilitate cooperation between the FBI and local police departments on domestic terrorism investigations, was at the scene collecting evidence. A spokesman from the Department of Homeland Security stated that they were closely monitoring the investigation of the explosion.
At 9:01 pm on March 6, while the investigation was in its infancy, and initial speculation focused on the anti-war activity of left-wing organizations, the following e-mail was forwarded to the list serve of a social justice organization that was within driving range of the attack, had a counter-recruitment program, and had been previously involved in non-violent direct action against recruiting centers.
So it begins. An explosion here, an explosion there, a Homeland Security functionary beaten up, a CPS worker or media whore mugged, no money taken but a warning pinned to their shirts, preferably through skin -- pretty soon the foot soldiers of the New World order realize that the enemy is fighting back. That wasn't how it's supposed to be.
Though the US fascist apparatus has been compared ad nauseum to Nazis, we must give the Nazis their due. They fought other armed soldiers. Our armed forces rape 15-year-old girls and throw puppies off cliffs.
Martha
The e-mail was initially posted to the Citizens for a Legitimate Government yahoo group CLG_Revolution_Tactics@yahoogroups.com, but had been forwarded onto a list serve of about 300 people with a personal note from CLG's Manager.
Great post, Martha.Yup, I think that was a genuine freedom fighter, rising to the occasion.:) Hopefully, more recruiting stations will bite the dust so that we can stop overpaying baby killers, child rapists and puppy torturers.
Cheers,
Lori R. Price
The appearance of the e-mail on a moderated list serve, which had been previously notified by the local police department that it was monitored for illegal activity, could easily have initiated a federal investigation into the small social justice organization. Lori Price's desire to share her, and CLG's endorsement of the domestic IED attack, and subject the organization to potential danger, sparked my personal investigation into Citizens for a Legitimate Government.
Citizens for a Legitimate Government describes itself as an activist organization devoted to exposing the Bush coup d'etat, and occupation of the white house. Initiated in an apparent protest to the election fraud surrounding Bush's 2000 election, it claims to be involved in strategies and efforts to oppose and counter the policies of the Bush administration, and offers a newsletter, an online library, various petitions, a calendar of protests, and 5 on-line forums, one of which is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CLG_Revolution_Tactics.
The revolutionary tactics yahoo group was established for individuals who proscribed to the following statement:
The time for liberal activism as it has been conducted to date is now passed. Illegitimate elections now become the rule, not the exception---the chances of fair elections are dwindling and perhaps already gone. We know what the majority wants, but voicing alone, it will not obtain it.-The liberal version of political persuasion by means of dissemination of ideas alone, protests, petitions, letter-writing, lobbying, and influence of all kinds will obviously not bring us to our goal. The only hope that remains for legitimate government that represents the majority is akin to a revolution.
The CLG moderator, Lori Price, encourages the 763 group members to post tactical ideas to the group, because "We must undo the Coup!"-
In CLG's official charter it is carefully stated that the postings on the message boards do not reflect the opinions of CLG, and that CLG does not advocate any action other than those it has either drafted or endorsed. CLG published an essay by Charles Southwell in its New Pro-Democracy Movement subsection of the Political Education webpage, Arming the Left: Is the Time Now?, which cited the failure of protests, petitions, and letters to advocate for the use of arms against the fascist powers that be. An asterisk was placed by the author's name, and it was stated at the bottom of the article that the opinions in CLG published essays, also, do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CLG. As of Oct. 2008 Arming the Left is the only article in the New Pro-Democracy subsection not written by Michael Rectenwald. One of Rectenwald's articles in the sub-section is The Ballot, The Bullet, and the Grand Refusal, which calls for massive strikes and spectacular demonstrations if the 2004 elections were postponed, or fraudulent.
In 2004, while Michael Rectenwald was publishing political manifestos through the Citizens for a Legitimate Government that called for action, and warned those that were ready to take a stand that they would be subjected to violence and brutality, he worked as a writer/editor for the Intelligent Software Agents Group, a research lab of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, which was established in 1979 to conduct research and development in robotics technology, and receives funding from a variety of federal agencies, including the Air Force, Army, Marines, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Office of Naval Research. As a technical writer, Michael Rectenwald was responsible for describing in the written word the research projects of the Intelligent Software Agents Group. He co-authored a number of reports for the lab, and wrote press releases to promote their work.
The Intelligent Software Agents Group is concerned with the development of complex computer systems that are composed of interacting software agents, entities that have the intelligence and the authority to act on behalf of a user. The programs promise to revolutionize the relationship of humans to the World Wide Web by transforming the content of the internet into a language that is intelligible to software agents so that they may operate to complete tasks for humans. Michael Rectenwald explained some of the potential benefits of the research conducted by the Intelligent Software Agents Group in a 2001 press release he wrote, Software Agent Technologies Speed Emergency Response to Terrorism Crises.
As threats to national security change to include well-orchestrated covert and unexpected terrorist attacks, we must add to our lines of defense superior information gathering and fusing capabilities. Visual recognition agents that can instantly perceive threats, relay information, and coordinate responses with teams of agents and humans, can proactively stop attacks before they occur, and respond instantly when they cannot be prevented. Agent technologies offer the greatest opportunity for sifting through the mountains of often contradictory information, to supply the right information to the right decision-maker, in time to avert and respond to crises.
The Reusable Environment for Task Structured Intelligent Network Agents (RETSINA) is the flagship system developed by the Intelligent Software Agents Group. The system is composed of 4 types of reusable software agents that have been designed to utilize information, coordinate tasks with other software agents, provide access to information, and connect service requests to service providers. The RETSINA project is particularly concerned with facilitating the communication of software agents through middle agents, which is the focus of the sub-group Matchmaker. Rectenwald explained in a 2000 press release that the vision of the RETSINA project
is one in which intelligent software agents will read the content of web pages, advertise their services, and find other agents who will perform needed services for their human subscribers. Intelligent software agents will find information, coordinate it with other domain-specific data, perform scheduling, planning and other tasks, flexibly and dynamically responding to changes in their environments. The World Wide Web will change from a static web of information to a dynamic web populated by agents performing various tasks for their human users.
The RETSINA structure has been applied to assist its users in the fields of financial portfolio management, book-buying auctions, logistics management in military operations, and joint mission planning.
The RETSINA project, and its subgroup Matchmaker, are technology contributions to the Coalition Agents Experiment (CoAX) Technology Integration Experiment (TIE), a project funded through DARPA, and national agent technology programs in Australia and the UK. Through CoAX TIE, Universities, and private industry work together to facilitate the production of software agent technology that can assist the military operations of coalition forces, and the integration of the computer systems of coalition countries. The lead researcher of the Intelligent Software Agent Group, Katia Sycara, is, also, involved in the IBM-led consortium International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences (ITA), which pairs academics with private industry to develop secure networks that will ensure the interoperability, and communication of military units in coalition forces.
The research done by the Intelligent Software Agents Group, also, promises to provide "the next generation of battlefield information systems"- through advanced information fusion software that will increase the decision-making capabilities of military commanders. Information Fusion for Command and Control: The Translation of Raw Data to Actionable Knowledge and Decision is a project funded by a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Its goal is to develop software agents capable of integrating disparate information sources, and selecting, and disseminating relevant information to the decision-maker. The lab is paired with Northrop Grumman, and others, to conduct research that will enable military commanders to "translate information superiority into decision superiority, i.e., to make information into knowledge, in order to rapidly arrive at better decisions than adversaries can respond to."- [click here This research would provide the U.S. military a technological advantage that is critical in information driven wars. 
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