78. Mail manipulating (7/30)
I had bedroom for rent. When tenants moved out, sometimes there would be a few letters still coming. But it was few and won't last long. If that happens, I called them to pick up it.
About one year ago, something unusual happened. Everyday, I received several letters to a tenant who moved away eight years ago. Although these were junk mail mostly from credit card company, there was no reason for that tenant to use the address he lived 8 years ago. I fear it's another dirty method to plant crime on me that if I throw these junk mail in rubbish can. I could be accused of abusing other people's private mail. So I have to return every letter by blacken my address and writing 'Moved. Return." on each envelope. It became a routine. They made it one to three letters each day more than a year. I think they constantly put the tenant's name with my address in credit line and kept a bunch of the junk mail, let the mail carrier deliver some every day.
In later May, T suddenly gave a week's notice of moving away. He also asked me to keep his mail. He said he would come back to pick up them several weeks later. I refused. That would have been a bunch of letters, that could have been a bunch of accusations, too. I still remember FBI accused 56 crimes on Wen Ho Lee, they counted each tape Lee had down loaded as one crime. I told him there was a transfer service by post office. What he needed to do was only to fill a form in post office. And if he gave me the new address, I would help him transferring his mail. T burst into rage. That was first time I saw him losing his temper. He blamed me for not helping him and said he didn't know the new address though he knew how to get there. I was firm that I would return all his mail if he won't give me the new address. I told him the way he had found the new rented house was also the way he could find the address. And I believe my suggestion was better for him. It took only 5 miles to go to post office for requesting service while it took 50 miles to drive from Oakland to San Jose to pick up mail. And instead of several weeks delay, the transfer service may only cost 2 days for each letter. He at last gave me the new address. Strange thing was though T said he filled the address change notice in post office, his letters were still sent to my house. And his mail replaced old tenant's. The day I started to write new address on envelope of T's mail, was the day they stopped sending old tenant's letter which had constantly poured in everyday for more than a year. It looked like all these financial company had been noticed there was no such a person in my house in same day.
In early July, T wrote a letter to me saying that he changed his address again. He said he had informed post office of changed new address. In case there were letters still sending to my house, he authorized me to throw the junk mail away. But he emphasized that there was possibility that INS would mistakenly send his immigration document to my house though he had noticed them of address changing. He hoped I could transfer the INS mail to him if such things happened. His request remind me of experience in Thailand.
79. Mail planting
In March, 2000, after I complained to US consulate in Thailand of alleged FBI abusing, my wife mailed me the tax return document. I worked on it in reception hall of the guesthouse because it was spacious and airy and with a big table there. When I almost finished the work, a man came to me and asked, "Are you filing tax return?" He said he was from US. The 1040 tax form on table reminded him the life in America. We had a little chat. That afternoon, he and other tenants checked out. Some Thai people moved in. The guesthouse was particularly run for western backpack travellers. The sudden change alarmed me. Agents used to watch as close as they could, and avoid being involved if there was an operation occurring. Would there be an operation coming? I could feel the pressure after complaining. Newspaper densely reported drug arrest on board so I had feared they might plant drug in my bag. I was suddenly aware, they could plant in mail too. I didn't mail documents to my wife next day. Instead I tried to deliver it by electronic transmission.
At first, I tried computer but failed. There were so much trouble and harassment: technical problem, personal problem, they even closed the transfer service of the internet bar I attending. I gave up several days later. Then I thought of fax. I had my wife's confirm that fax machine of her tour company working 24 hours. I went to state run telecom to fax. The staff there assured me of receiving. They pointed to a mark on paper, said it was a confirmation of receiving feedback by the other party. But next day my wife said she didn't find copy because the paper of fax machine exhausted. They didn't know the story of confirmation mark. What I did was at midnight that day, I found an internet bar worked later. I called my wife in her office, (It's morning in US) making sure the fax machine was working, then sent all the copies. I experienced all troubles they created in electronic transmission once they wanted victim to use mail.
If I had mailed the document by post office, the envelope would have been a big express one. And I think the INS' mail envelope T talked about will be the same big. Big enough to plant some drugs.
80. Operation TIPS
In mid-July, Ashcroft announced Operation TIPS in which government will recruit one million mail carriers, utility readers..... to be informants to report suspicious event.
The operation is an absurd one designed for particular purpose.
1. It will do little to stop terrorist. Do they expect those informants will recognize terrorist at one glance? Or terrorist will show them the bomb they made? It could hurt the normal police work by flooding false information.
2. If FBI couldn't handle properly with many valued clues,(e.g. they even neglected report about suspect who connected to 911 attack by their own field office of Minisota and Phoenix.) Why they now prefer information from inexperienced amateurs?
3. In a hurry. One million informants, even one per cent of that amount, will consume a lot of resource. Interview, training....how much does it cost? They didn't talk about it. But within days, in August, they will carry on the plan. It only means they are planed to do something under that name of TIPS.
4. Unnecessary. Informant should work covertly. If they really need some informants, the recruit must be in secret. Now what will people think of those people of mail carrier, truckers...? Why did they openly announce that notorious plan?
5. It will invade people's privacy. It's a plan spited by most people. It will hurt the fame of current government and thus influence the coming Nov. election. Yet, they choose this time to announce such a plan, obviously are in urgent.
As a matter of fact, they already have a complete surveillance net all over the country. What they need is to find an excuse. In Cement gate scandal, it's obviously an result of intelligence surveillance. Lacking of such an excuse, they left a suspended "deep throat". In Lewinsky scandal, they had Linda Trip to play that 'excuse'. In many cases, they got secret through illegal surveillance. They couldn't say it because they don't want people be aware of they are under monitor. TIPS will give a reasonable excuse for them. 'One million' is a random pick used to describe the popularity of the plan. They didn't consider other factor when they talked about it.
In previous messages I talked about they are in a hurry to murder me. TIPS is a continue to that 'in a hurry'. I said they tried to kill if I go outside. When this is revealed, they turn it into my own house.
Now they could have an easy informant to report suspicious mail. Though I have been under surveillance for more than 10 years, this time they can give a reasonable excuse under the name of TIPS. The mail carrier will play an important role in it. That's why when people cheer that post office said they won't join the program, I remind them a news neglected by most ones. Quote, "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a shift from its position 24 hours earlier, the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it had decided to meet with the Justice Department to discuss Operation TIPS, a government plan to encourage U.S. postal workers to report suspicious activity as part of the government's war on terrorism."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/18/ope...ips/index.html
They had made supreme court announcing the rule "of police search in bus" on 6/17, they of course made Post Service to join the TIPS because it's in a hurry.