Deepp.. but I must say That
I have personally "FIT" the Profile
so many times, that I now, have
DR on all My Credit Cards, and Business Cards,
have everyone call me that, and demand to be
treated with a high level of respect.

This is an extention of the DWB Phenomena
into a new vista, and hopefully with enough
complaints, and lawsuits about this newest
racist tactic, Minorities can finally travel about
unhindered, "Just because they are there "

Free The Land !

REality Ausetkmt
 <"http://welcome.to/RealTruth/">

"Live Patiently in the world; know that those who hate you
 are more numerous than those who love you" {african proverb}
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From: Libertarian Party <announce@lp.org>
To: <brc-news@igc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 9:34 PM
Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Vacationing While Black, Checking In While Speaking
Spanish


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> NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
> 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
> Washington DC 20037
> World Wide Web: http://www.lp.org/
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> For release: May 10, 1999
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> For additional information:
> George Getz, Press Secretary
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> Police pay hotel workers to snitch on
> "suspicious" guests for $1,000 bounty
>
>         WASHINGTON, DC -- State troopers in New Jersey are paying hotel
> employees $1,000 to spy on their guests and anonymously snitch on them
> to the police -- a practice the Libertarian Party calls a "shocking
> police state tactic" that threatens the privacy of hotel guests across
> the country.
>
>         "For the price of an overnight stay on the New Jersey Turnpike,
> you get a clean room, a comfortable bed -- and a government informer,"
> said Steve Dasbach, national director of the Libertarian Party. "Thanks
> to this spy-on-your-guest program, the next time you enter a Holiday
> Inn to check in, you may end up checking into a jail cell, especially
> if you're Black or Hispanic."
>
>         Under the New Jersey State Police's so-called Hotel-Motel
> Program, troopers have been conducting "surveillance seminars" to
> recruit hotel employees -- from such major chains as the Hampton Inn,
> the Ramada Inn, and Holiday Inn -- to inform on overnight guests who
> fit their "profile" of drug smugglers, according to a recent expose in
> The New York Times.
>
>         Indications of drug trafficking can include paying for your
> room with cash, taking too many phone calls, or pulling a trailer
> behind your vehicle, according to police.
>
>         When hotel employees spot such "suspicious" behavior, they are
> encouraged to call the police, who promise to protect the anonymity of
> the spy by making arrests off hotel property. If a tip from a
> desk-clerk-turned-government-informer leads to a successful arrest, the
> police will pay a $1,000 bounty.
>
>         The snitch-on-your-guest program has been going on since "the
> early 1990s," according to The New York Times, and is modeled after a
> similar program in Los Angeles and by some federal agencies.
>
>         "Thanks to these kinds of programs, you can be stalked by state
> troopers, interrogated, and arrested -- all based on information from a
> hotel clerk who was bribed into invading your privacy," said Dasbach.
> "Vacationers and business travelers beware: You can now be treated like
> Public Enemy Number One every time you check into a hotel."
>
>         The danger is especially great if you are Black or Hispanic,
> noted Dasbach, because like most police profiling operations, the
> Hotel-Motel Program has a racial component.
>
>         "The police instruct hotel workers to single out
> African-Americans and Spanish-speaking people for special scrutiny," he
> said. "Apparently there aren't enough murderers, rapists, and robbers
> in New Jersey to keep the troopers busy, so they've created two new
> crimes: Vacationing While Black and Checking In While Speaking
> Spanish."
>
>         The hotel spy program bears an eerie resemblance to the FDIC's
> recent Know Your Customer program, said Dasbach, in which the
> government forced bank tellers to spy on customers and report any
> "unusual transactions" to federal agents.
>
>         "Call this program Know Your Guest," he said. "First the
> government coerces your banker into destroying your financial privacy,
> and now it's bribing bellboys into violating your right to check into a
> hotel room without alerting the police.
>
>         "Sadly, in America in 1999, police are constantly tracking,
> monitoring, and investigating innocent people -- even as they lay
> sleeping. Because of the War on Drugs, racist police, and a casual
> disregard for our civil liberties, the No-Tell Motel has been turned
> into the No-Rights Motel."
>
>
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