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  • Catch 22 at the U.N.
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US is in a doozy of a situation,created by Bush’s own hand.
    The United Nations desperately needs an honest Human Rights Committee...but can’t get one.
    Why?
    Because not only are there dozens of UN members who don’t begin to qualify judging "respectable" countries,....but many of OUR top allies (including Jordan,Egypt,Pakistan,Saudi Arabia and now,IRAQ!) are guilty of numerous human rights abuses.
    But the real joker is the United States itself! Of course we have a long,dark history (…)

  • F**king, spineless, gutless, b*llless Congressional Democrats
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Once again our elected so-called leaders stick wet fingers in the wind, consult the political "Don’t-ever-take-a-stand-or-some-voter-realorimagined-somewhere-may-take-offense-and-not-vote-for-me" manual, and fail to back Russ Feingold in his (actually mild) censure resolution. It was okay for 20 Senate Dems. to vote to censure Bill Clinton for getting bl*wj*bs by a consenting adult on his own time, and for the House of Representatives to impeach him for the same thing, but not okay to even (…)

  • Wake Up America: Congress Just Took Away Free Speech
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every member of Congress swears an oath to uphold and defend The Constitution. They have violated that oath.
    The First Amendment:
    Congress shall make no law.. abridging the freedom of speech..
    Congress just passed such a law: Section 602 of the new “Patriot” Act:SEC. 602. INTERFERENCE WITH NATIONAL SPECIAL SECURITY EVENTS. [It is against the law to] willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building... with intent to (…)

  • Revolution or Tyranny, it’s Time to Choose Again
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Revolution or Tyranny, it’s Time to Choose Again.
    Almost two-hundred-and-thirty years ago a group of fifty six American colonials signed a Declaration of Independence in which they declared themselves to be finally free from the corrupt, decadent and manifestly unjust rule of the British Crown. In that most sacred declaration its signatories recognized the essential rights of all men and women to live freely, in the pursuit of their happiness.
    And, "whenever any Form of Government (…)

  • The erosion of free speech by Robert Fisk
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was the wrong sort of courage and she was defending the freedom of the wrong people
    03/11/06 "The Independent" — — You’ve got to fight. It’s the only conclusion I can draw as I see the renewed erosion of our freedom to discuss the Middle East. The most recent example - and the most shameful - is the cowardly decision of the New York Theatre Workshop to cancel the Royal Court’s splendid production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie.
    It’s the story - in her own words and emails - of the brave (…)

  • LAUGHING JACKASS AND SINISTER SECRETARY
    10 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LAUGHING JACKASS AND SINISTER SECRETARY
    By Peter Fredson
    March 10, 2006
    Looking at the TV news yesterday I was struck by two separate views. One was of George Bush signing a document. He had a big grin on his face, and was obviously ecstatic with his success, badly needed after several months of falling polls. Why did that puzzle me?
    First the Republican Senators gave Bush the ability to commit the most outrageous attack on civil rights ever perpetrated in this country against our (…)

  • SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MUST HOLD HEARINGS TO INVESTIGATE THE ILLEGAL DOMESTIC WIRETAPS
    7 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On March 7, the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a vote on whether to investigate the domestic wiretaps that the president has already admitted were performed in defiance of the FISA court.
    Bill Frist has now threatened to restructure the Senate Intelligence Committee itself to strip it of oversight responsibility if it even dares to investigate the president’s dictatorial violations of the law. It is critically important that we speak out now to make sure justice prevails in this (…)

  • PATRIOT Act Is A Full Frontal Assault On The Bill Of Rights And Constitution
    7 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - March 7 - On the eve of House consideration of amendments to the USA PATRIOT Act, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement:
    "At the very time our troops are overseas heroically fighting and dying in the name of protecting and promoting freedom and democracy, tomorrow the House of Representatives will consider a bill to strip those very freedoms at home.
    "The PATRIOT Act threatens the civil liberties of every citizen of this nation, and is a full (…)

  • A US Gestapo?
    7 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A US Gestapo? Nancy Miller Saunders
    March 6, 2006
    Congress is about to renew the USA PATRIOT Act. After the act was first passed in 2001, members of Congress excused away their votes by saying they didn’t have time to study it and were still under the influence of 9/11 shock. By now, they have had ample time to study it, and even to examine "improvements" added to the bill, such as section 3056A.
    Others have had the time, like the author of the following.
    A provision in (…)

  • Feingold reads constitution on Senate floor
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) has read the text of the U.S. constitution to the U.S. Senate after the body voted 95-4 approving 3 amendments to 16 controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, set for renewal.
    Feingold spent 34 minutes sharing the document with his fellow Senators, stopping to repeat the Fourth Amendment, which he feels the law violates.
    The Fourth Amendment reads:
    "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against (…)