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John Young wrote:
> Not to diminish Jim's claims about "ZERO legal exports of
> TSCM equipment out of the United States in the past six
> months," but the Federal Register document he refers to covers
> only large, multi-million dollar transactions which must
> be reported to Congress. The large dollar amount items
> usually are for expensive weapons systems.
>
> Smaller dollar amounts are excluded, and it is likely exports
> of TSCM equipment would fall into this category along with
> thousands of other less expensive items.
>
> For example, I follow exports of encryption products and
> crypto-systems. Over ten or so years these items, also
> categorized as munitions, have not appeared in the Federal
> Register as a report to Congress except when they are part
> of expensive systems.
>
> Another example, small arms are not usually reported to
> Congress although they are used to kill and maim far more
> people than expensive weapons systems. Law enforcement
> and espionage equipment do not appear.
>
> There are other substantial gaps in export controls of all countries
> which are there to allow government-sponsored defense industries
> to thrive by direct sales and through intermediaies, government,
> commercial and private arms merchants -- white and black.
> Arms and export control treaties condone this lucrative slaughter
> and espionage market and provide whitewash for venality.
>
> "Dual-use" is a favored and abused gap through which huge
> amounts of officially-sanctioned contraband are openly and
> secretly smuggled.
>
> It should be no surprise that there is official-criminal cheating
> in TSCM equipment, a small part of a large racketeer influenced
> organized criminal enterprise.
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James M. Atkinson
President and Sr. Engineer
"Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting"
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15178662
Granite Island Group
jm..._at_tscm.com
http://www.tscm.com/
(978) 546-3803
Received on Sat Mar 02 2024 - 00:57:26 CST