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The Antiwar Right's Bent View of the World
Post Date: 2006-11-21 20:16:24 by gargantuton
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The Antiwar Right's Bent View of the World By Lawrence Auster FrontPageMagazine.com | December 16, 2004 I first became aware of something deeply askew on the antiwar right shortly after it came into being in the spring of 1999, as an intellectual protest movement against the U.S. war on Serbia. I myself was deeply opposed to the war, seeing President Clinton's initiation of the conflict—on March 24, 1999, one month and twelve days after his acquittal by the U.S. Senate—as utterly lacking in moral or legal justification, and as leading to the ruin of Kosovo. While the Kosovo war is not the subject of this article, a summary of it (or at least of my view of it) will provide the ...
Man who was TASERed at council meeting speaks -Student says he didn't struggle, was exercising rights
Post Date: 2006-11-20 22:55:58 by Zipporah
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SAGINAW (WJRT) - (11/13/06)--The man who was TASERed at last week's Saginaw City Council meeting says he never attacked anyone.
Charles Littleton says he was only standing up for his rights -- rights he says society continues to lose every day.
That is what got 22-year-old Littleton in trouble. He didn't obey a rule inside Saginaw City Council chambers. That rule is that all men must remove their hats.
"It means more than just a hat," Littleton said. "It's like my crown. It's like asking a king to remove his crown."
Littleton had his Los Angeles Dodgers hat on at last week's council meeting.
He was dragged ...
Janet Reno Files Challenge to Terror Law
Post Date: 2006-11-20 21:55:01 by Brian S
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Monday, November 20, 2006; 7:21 PM WASHINGTON -- Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system. It was the first time that Reno, attorney general in the Clinton administration, has spoken out against the administration's policies on terrorism detainees, underscoring how contentious the court fight over the nation's new military commissions law has become. Former attorneys general rarely file court papers challenging administration policy. Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah ...
Judge: NSA Not Required to Released Wiretapping Details
Post Date: 2006-11-20 21:33:13 by Brian S
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Monday , November 20, 2006 WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is not required to release details about its secret wiretapping program, a federal judge said Monday. The People for the American Way Foundation, a liberal advocacy group, sued to obtain records under the Freedom of Information Act. The group sought to find out how many wiretaps were approved and who reviewed the program. President Bush has acknowledged the existence of the program, which he calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. The National Security Agency monitors phone calls and e-mails between people in the U.S. and people in other countries when a link to terrorism is suspected. Civil liberties group ...
Post-9/11 detainees who were raped and beaten sue Bush admin
Post Date: 2006-11-20 20:29:29 by Zipporah
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From the LA Times: Five years after Muslim immigrants were abused in a federal jail here, the guards who beat them and the Washington policymakers who decided to hold them for months without charges are being called to account. Some 1,200 Middle Eastern men were arrested on suspicion of terrorism after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. No holding place was so notorious as Brooklyn's nine-story Metropolitan Detention Center. In a special unit on the top floor, detainees were smashed into walls, repeatedly stripped and searched, and often denied basic legal rights and religious privileges, according to federal investigations. Daisy Cutter's diary :: :: Make sure to read the whole thing, ...
Houston Police Trample Protesting Janitors With Horses...
Post Date: 2006-11-19 18:56:01 by Zipporah
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From >http://mydd.com Here's a testimonial from one of the organizers of the protest. Brutality against workers should not be tolerated in our country. We sat down in the intersection and the horses came immediately. It was really violent. They arrested us, and when we got to jail, we were pretty beat up. Not all of us got the medical attention we needed. The worst was a protester named Julia, who is severely diabetic. We kept telling the guards about her condition but they only gave her a piece of candy. During roll call, she started to complain about light-headedness. Finally she just collapsed unconscious on the floor. It was like she just dropped dead. The guard saw it but just ...
Padilla Case Raises Questions About Anti-Terror Tactics Treatment in Brig Could Hinder His Prosecution
Post Date: 2006-11-19 12:25:34 by Zipporah
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Sunday, November 19, 2006; A03 After he was arrested in 2002, Jose Padilla was considered so dangerous that he was held without charges in a military prison for more than three years -- accused first of plotting a radiological "dirty bomb" attack and later of conspiring with al-Qaeda to blow up apartment buildings with natural gas. But now, nearly a year after his abrupt transfer into a regular criminal court, the Justice Department's prosecution of the former Chicago gang member is running into trouble. A Republican-appointed federal judge in Miami has already dumped the most serious conspiracy count against Padilla, removing for now the possibility of a life sentence. The ...
Military Commissions Act of 2006 Not Lawfully Passed
Post Date: 2006-11-18 21:42:30 by rack42
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Talk show host Alex Jones’ brief interview last week with an unknown caller has sent constitutionists and legal researchers scurrying for the law books. “The Military Commission Act is not law!” the man barked. “The ‘pocket veto’ clause of the constitution has already nullified it.” He then pointed out to the national radio audience exactly what the part about “pocket veto” in Article One, Section 7 of the U. S. Constitution means. Indeed, it appears that President Bush’s signing of the infamous “6166,” which in effect eliminates the 4th Amendment protection of citizens in their homes and a whole lot more, is moot. He was too ...
Criminalizing Compassion in the War on Terror - by Katherine Hughes (submitted by Stephen Lendman)
Post Date: 2006-11-18 10:30:41 by Stephen Lendman
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By Katherine Hughes
“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I
stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But … the good
Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man,
what will happen to him?’” Martin Luther King, Jr.[1]
“The truth shall set you free? Maybe. But first the Truth must be set free.”
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, educator.[2]
Since the events of 9/11 the government has implemented powerful new
prosecutorial tools to gain convictions in its War on Terror. In an
article entitled, “Terrorist Financing,” Jeff Breinholt, Deputy Chief
of the Department of Justice’s Counterterrorism ...
Dem judiciary leader seeks torture documents
Post Date: 2006-11-17 19:25:51 by Zipporah
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In a letter addressed to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, chairman-to-be of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has requested the release of documents that outline the Bush Administration's interrogation policies. If the request is not met, the Democratically-controlled Judiciary Committee will have the option to subpoena when the new Congress begins in January. The documents, which have long been thought to exist by observers and critics of America's national security policies, were confirmed to exist as the result of a still-pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the ACLU. One of those documents is believed to be a companion piece to the now-infamous August 200 ...
Fascism the American Way
Post Date: 2006-11-17 17:54:02 by Kamala
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Fascism the American Way September 30, 2006 by Jason Miller Relentless indoctrination by a vast corporate media complex has convinced many that the United States of America is an exceptional nation. Charged with the sacred duty of preserving Pax Americana, the United States is purported to be the embodiment of the ideals of truth, justice and liberty for all. Before making firm intellectual commitment to such pleasant fictions, consider these questions: Why is it that virtually every liberal or progressive proposal for socioeconomic or political change in the United States is still-born, or on the rare occasions it survives the birthing process, it is beaten into submission by a ...
House Passes Terrorism Act Against Animal Activists [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-11-17 17:43:02 by Kamala
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House Passes ‘Terrorism’ Act Against Animal Activists by Megan Tady Nov. 15 – Monday afternoon, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that reclassifies unlawful animal-rights tactics as terrorism under certain conditions, even if they are non-violent. As reported by The NewStandard just hours before the House took its voice vote on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), the bill will classify civil disobedience actions – such as blockades, property destruction, trespassing, and the freeing of captive animals – as terrorism. The AETA amends current law enabling the government to prosecute activists for intentionally damaging property used by ...
Big Brother is Watching You
Post Date: 2006-11-15 17:21:55 by IndieTX
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The federal government is building a domestic spy network unlike any the world has ever seen. When it's complete, every keystroke you make on a computer and every automated transaction that has ever involved you will be captured, correlated and relentlessly mined by dozens of federal agencies day in and day out. While privacy advocates and the nation's big newspapers and networks battle the federal government over the National Security Agency's phone record collection and the Treasury Department's fishing expedition through international banking records, federal domestic spying programs are mushrooming. Odds are that if the American people knew the full story about the federal ...
Democrat Control Means Hate Bill Will Pass
Post Date: 2006-11-15 10:37:41 by Horse
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For the past eight years, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has tried unsuccessfully to pass its Orwellian federal "anti-hate" bill. It has failed largely for one reason: Republican control of Congress. Repeatedly, Republican opponents of their hate bill, such as Rep. Roy Blunt and Sen. Bill Frist have been able, with Republican congressional backing, to block passage. With Democrats now in control, such freedom-saving clout no longer exists. ADL's federal thought crimes bill, "The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act," will be reintroduced soon after January 1. Since no Democrat in Congress has ever voted against the hate bill, it will pass. Pres. Bush has ...
It Ain't Easy Peeing Green
Post Date: 2006-11-15 06:40:54 by Kamala
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It Ain't Easy Peeing Green By Nicole McClelland, Orion Magazine Posted on November 13, 2006, Printed on November 15, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/44202/ Honey, could you please bring me the tissues out of my bag?" I called from the bathroom in the rundown backpackers' hostel. Dan and I had paid two extra American dollars for en suite facilities, and I'd sat down on the toilet without noticing that there was nothing to wipe with. Tiny ants patrolled the cracks between the sink and the wall and the wall and the floor. A few lizards took turns scurrying across the ceiling. I eyed them sharply. "What for?" Dan asked through the door. "What do you mean, 'what ...
Arthur Butz's website gone from Northwestern U.
Post Date: 2006-11-14 19:09:53 by bluegrass
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http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/ "This Web site is no longer available." Partial mirror here
A NEW BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW
Post Date: 2006-11-14 09:06:06 by Kamala
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A NEW BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW By Jim R. Schwiesow November 14, 2006 http://NewsWithViews.com Those of us old enough to remember the comic act of George Burns and Gracie Allen will recall that the recurring theme of the show was the interaction between a shrewd and astute husband, George Burns, and a simple-minded and intellectually vacuous wife, Gracie Allen. The show provided many hours of merriment for thousands of radio and TV listeners and viewers throughout the United States. I now announce that the country is soon to be introduced to a new Burns and Allen show in an all-new format. It will be called the George Bush and Nancy Pelosi show. I welcome you to view the new king and queen of ...
Candidate gets no votes -- but he voted for himself
Post Date: 2006-11-14 07:03:28 by Neil McIver
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Candidate gets no votes -- but he voted for himself Associated Press | November 13, 2006 Randy Wooten figured he would get at least one vote in his bid for mayor of this town of 80 people -- even if it was just his own. He did not. Now he has to decide whether to file a formal protest. Wooten got the news from his wife, Roxanne, who went to City Hall on Wednesday to see the election results. "She saw my name with zero votes by it. She came home and asked me if I had voted for myself or not. I told her I did," said Wooten, owner of a local bar. However, Poinsett County results reported Wednesday showed incumbent William H. Wood with 18 votes, challenger Ronnie Chatman with ...
Pentagon Lacks Independent Watchdog
Post Date: 2006-11-13 18:13:03 by Eoghan
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The Pentagon has been without its chief watchdog for more than a year, even as the military spends billions of dollars a month in Iraq and controversy simmers over warrantless surveillance, missing weapons and friendly fire deaths. President Bush's nominee for the inspector general job is being held up because answers he gave lawmakers have raised concerns with a key senator about his independence. The inspector general's job was created by Congress more than a quarter century ago to be an independent watchdog to investigate fraud, mismanagement and abuses like the infamously overpriced hammers and toilet seats that became past symbols of Pentagon waste. The Defense Department's last ...
Bush Administration: Detainees Have No Rights
Post Date: 2006-11-13 16:07:32 by Brian S
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In Court Filings, Justice Department Says Guantanamo Detainees May Not Challenge Detention By MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Monday that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have no right to challenge their detentions in civilian courts and that lawsuits by hundreds of detainees should be dismissed. In court documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the Justice Department defended the military's authority to arrest people oversees and detain them indefinitely without access to courts. It's the first time that argument has been spelled out since President Bush signed a law last month setting up military commissions for the thousands ...
Sean Hannity And Michelle Malkin Sneer At Democracy
Post Date: 2006-11-13 07:54:13 by Kamala
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Sean Hannity And Michelle Malkin Sneer At Democracy Reported by Ellen - November 12, 2006 - 79 comments Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin were not just sore losers over the election Friday night (10/10/06) on Hannity & Colmes, they seemed to be vying for “Un-American Of The Year Award” as they spewed hate and invective toward America’s chosen Party of the year, Democrats. Perhaps graciousness was too much to hope for from those two but, in the final analysis, their desecration of the election results belied any respect for America, itself. It was proof positive that the so-called patriotism they flaunt, and which they use to berate others, is nothing more than window ...
Are Democrats Turning a Blind Eye to Civil Liberty?
Post Date: 2006-11-13 05:15:49 by Zoroaster
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Are Democrats Turning a Blind Eye to Civil Liberty? by Paul Craig Roberts by Paul Craig Roberts DIGG THIS Unless November’s new blood improves the Democratic Party’s civil liberties pedigree, the Democrats will have failed even before they are sworn in next January. In its disregard for truth, public opinion, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, the US Constitution and statutory law, the Bush administration has been more of a regime than an administration. The Bush/Cheney executive branch has operated independently of all the constraints that provide accountability and prevent despotism. The Bush regime was able to evade these restraints, because Republicans ...
How the Government Breaks the Law
Post Date: 2006-11-12 10:51:53 by boonie rat
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Napolitano: How the Government Breaks the Law By Andrew P. Napolitano It should be against the law to break the law. Unfortunately, it is not. In early 21st-century America, a dirty little secret still exists among public officials, politicians, judges, prosecutors, and the police. The government - federal, state, and local - is not bound to obey its own laws. I know this sounds crazy, but too many cases prove it true. It should be a matter of grave concern for every American who prizes personal liberty. When I became a judge in New Jersey, I had impeccable conservative Republican law-and-order credentials. When I left eight years later, I was a born-again individualist, after witnessing ...
DEMOCRATS WILL REVISIT MILITARY HABEAS DEBATE
Post Date: 2006-11-12 09:33:04 by Zipporah
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DAILY JOURNAL NEWSWIRE ARTICLE © 2006 The Daily Journal Corporation. Posted with permission. This file cannot be downloaded from this page. The Daily Journal's definition of reprint and posting permission does not include the downloading, copying by third parties or any other type of transmission of any posted articles. November 10, 2006 DEMOCRATS WILL REVISIT MILITARY HABEAS DEBATEMbr> Likely Chair Leahy Objects to Limits on Detainees' Rights By Lawrence Hurley Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - An effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants could be the first test of the Democrats' resolve to change course in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. ...
AIPAC Builds Ties With New Lawmakers
Post Date: 2006-11-11 13:02:23 by robin
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AIPAC Builds Ties With New Lawmakers AIPAC reached nearly every lawmaker elected in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. During the campaign that ended Tuesday, nearly every viable candidate met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy. A non-partisan organization, AIPAC has for decades worked with Republican and Democratic members of Congress to strengthen the ties between the United States and Israel.
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