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American Prison Camps Are On The Way
Post Date: 2006-10-16 15:14:38 by Mind_Virus
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American Prison Camps Are On The Way by Prof. Marjorie Cohn October 14, 2006 AlterNet - 2006-10-09 The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, "unlawful enemy combatants." Bush & Co. has portrayed the bill as a tough way to deal with aliens to protect us against terrorism. Frightened they might lose their majority in Congress in the November elections, the Republicans rammed the bill ...
Cop Suspended Over Graphic MySpace Site
Post Date: 2006-10-16 12:28:47 by Mind_Virus
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Cop Suspended Over Graphic MySpace Site By The Associated Press 10.16.06 WICHITA FALLS, Texas — A police officer whose Web page on http://MySpace.com included images of dismembered women has been indefinitely suspended, authorities said. Jeremiah Love's page on the social-networking site contained images and statements that could undermine public confidence in the police department, an internal affairs report said. Love, 26, was suspended on Oct. 10. The Wichita Falls Times Record News reported on Oct. 14 that Love had appealed his suspencion from the police department. Julia Vasquez, an assistant city attorney, said Love espoused a fondness for violence on the Web page that would ...
Supreme Court Won't Review Berkeley Boy Scouts' Case
Post Date: 2006-10-16 11:45:18 by Brian S
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(10-16) 07:55 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A Boy Scouts sailing group that lost free use of a public boat slip because of the Scouts' discriminatory policies failed to persuade the Supreme Court to take its case. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/10/16/state/n075532D70.DTL
Scalia Says Constitution Silent On Abortion, Race In School
Post Date: 2006-10-16 00:18:12 by Mind_Virus
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Scalia Says Constitution Silent On Abortion, Race In School POSTED: 9:13 p.m. EDT, October 15, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday defended some of his Supreme Court opinions, arguing that nothing in the Constitution supports abortion rights and the use of race in school admissions. Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, sparred in a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen. He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues. Arguing that liberal judges in the past improperly established new political rights such as abortion, ...
The Seven-Headed Hydra
Post Date: 2006-10-15 23:39:40 by robin
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The Seven-Headed HydraThat Blocks The Path To Freedom By Jim Kirwan10-13-6 In the means streets of any city anywhere-reality always trumps spin-because survival always depends upon knowledge of the truth at any given time. In this environment, survivors need to consider both the facts that created the past, as well as the potential situations which the mystery of any future might well bring. History matters in street warfare-apparently that fact has been lost upon the yuppies of today! To that end this brief overview of some of what has happened could lead to a more explicit understanding of what waits for us, if this course we're on is not immediately interrupted! During the Second ...
Olbermann on the Murder of Habeus Corpus
Post Date: 2006-10-15 23:22:25 by robin
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Poster Comment: This one might be good to send to the more confused among our family and friends.
The Patriot Acts I and II
Post Date: 2006-10-15 20:52:45 by IndieTX
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While ignorant people wish to annoy others with the re-election of Bush, here are the facts in plain language regarding the Patriot Act that will extend another four years. (And PAT 2 will be even worse) I’m all for the defense of our safety and the prevention of terrorist activity, but not at the cost of rights and civil liberties. And yes, I’ve actually read all 300 plus pages as well as varying opinions about them. Oh yeah, the Canadians are none to happy with the Patriot Act either since it places their citizens unknowingly under scrutiny in connection to stateside investigations as well. Now, let us move on to the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate ...
Expecting U.S. Help, Sent to Guantánamo
Post Date: 2006-10-15 08:31:49 by Zipporah
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Expecting U.S. Help, Sent to Guantánamo By TIM GOLDEN Abdul Rahim Al Ginco thought he was saved when the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and overthrew the Taliban regime. Mr. Ginco, a college student living in the United Arab Emirates, had gone to Afghanistan in 2000 after running away from his strict Muslim father. He was soon imprisoned by the Taliban and tortured by operatives of Al Qaeda until, he said, he falsely confessed to being a spy for Israel and the United States. But rather than help Mr. Ginco return home, American soldiers detained him again. Nearly five years later, he remains in the United States military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — in ...
Video: Chris Shays says Abu Ghraib was a “sex ring”
Post Date: 2006-10-14 19:32:24 by Zipporah
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This is beyond the pale. (I'll look for the downloads) Is he losing his mind? I'd like to know what his definition of torture is. Inquiring minds would like to know. (h/t Bob) Link: "Now I've seen what happened in Abu Ghraib, and Abu Ghraib was not torture," Shays said at a debate Wednesday. "It was outrageous, outrageous involvement of National Guard troops from (Maryland) who were involved in a sex ring and they took pictures of soldiers who were naked," added Shays. "And they did other things that were just outrageous. But it wasn't torture."
Schoolgirl investigated for Bush 'threat'
Post Date: 2006-10-14 09:59:36 by buckeroo
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A SCHOOLGIRL was quizzed by Secret Service agents after posting anti-George W. Bush comments on a popular Internet chat room, a US newspaper has reported. Julia Wilson, described as a freckle-nosed 14-year-old who wears braces and has a love heart on her school backpack, was yanked out of a biology class at her school in Sacramento, California to answer agents' questions. The Sacramento Bee newspaper reported that she posted a cartoon photo collage of a knife stabbing President George W. Bush's hand beneath the words "Kill Bush" on MySpace, which is hugely popular amongst teens. It was one of several images the teenager had used to decorate an anti-Bush page on the website – ...
U.S. Govt Appeals Court's NSA Wiretapping Decision
Post Date: 2006-10-13 21:45:30 by Brian S
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Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:19pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Friday appealed a federal judge's ruling this summer that a controversial post-September 11, 2001, domestic spying program was illegal. The U.S. Justice Department, in documents filed with a federal court in Cincinnati, argued that President George W. Bush had acted within the law in authorizing the surveillance of domestic wiretaps of international telephone calls. In its appeal, the government stated that the federal judge's ruling "dismantles a tool that already has helped detect and disrupt al Qaeda plots." It stated that U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision directly conflicts with the ...
U.S. Agents Question Teen : Girl Ran Anti-Bush Page On MySpace
Post Date: 2006-10-13 15:14:08 by Mind_Virus
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U.S. Agents Question Teen Girl Ran Anti-Bush Page On MySpace By Laurel Rosenhall and Ryan Lillis - Bee Staff Writers Published 12:00 am PDT Friday, October 13, 2006 Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A1 Julia Wilson The latest Sacramento resident to be questioned by federal agents in possible threats against President Bush is a 14-year-old girl with a heart on her backpack and braces on her teeth, a freckle-nosed adolescent who is passionate about liberal politics and cute movie stars. Her name is Julia Wilson, and she learned a vivid civics lesson Wednesday when two Secret Service agents pulled her out of biology class at McClatchy High School to ask about comments and ...
Another Good Rant
Post Date: 2006-10-13 12:12:40 by bluedogtxn
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When Lies Fly – and When They Don’t by Becky Akers by Becky Akers DIGG THIS If you tell a lie within the gulag that has become American aviation, be sure you work for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). It pays employees for such sin. Meanwhile, prevaricating passengers risk twenty years in prison and million-dollar fines. A couple of recent whoppers illustrate this double standard. The first issued from the lips of passenger John Azzinaro, 37, of Oak Ridge, New Jersey. John appears to have been drunk, distraught or both onboard Continental Express Flight 2772 from Cincinnati to Newark, according to his fellows: "Passengers interviewed by local television ...
Why Bush Won't Be Impeached
Post Date: 2006-10-13 10:34:25 by bluedogtxn
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Bush’s Willing Legislators: The Case for Impeachment, and Why It Won’t Happen by Paul Craig Roberts by Paul Craig Roberts DIGG THIS The case for impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is far stronger than the case against President Bill Clinton or the pending case that drove President Nixon to resign. With Republican control of Congress, especially of the House where impeachment must originate, it is hardly surprising that impeachment of the Republican Bush administration is a dead letter. What is surprising is that conservatives with a long tradition of adulation for the US Constitution and Bill of Rights have not been up in arms against the Bush ...
Pentagon shows anti-war database's scope
Post Date: 2006-10-13 08:05:44 by Eoghan
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Internal military documents released Thursday provided new details about the Defense Department's collection of information on nationwide demonstrations last year by students, Quakers and others opposed to the Iraq war. The documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show, for instance, that military officials labeled as "potential terrorist activity" events like a "Stop the War Now" rally in Akron, Ohio, in March 2005. The Defense Department acknowledged last year that its analysts had maintained records on war protests in an internal database past the 90 days its guidelines allowed, and even after it was ...
Bush's Willing Legislators: The Case for Impeachment, and Why It Won't Happen
Post Date: 2006-10-13 05:12:09 by Zoroaster
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Bush’s Willing Legislators: The Case for Impeachment, and Why It Won’t Happen by Paul Craig Roberts by Paul Craig Roberts DIGG THIS The case for impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is far stronger than the case against President Bill Clinton or the pending case that drove President Nixon to resign. With Republican control of Congress, especially of the House where impeachment must originate, it is hardly surprising that impeachment of the Republican Bush administration is a dead letter. What is surprising is that conservatives with a long tradition of adulation for the US Constitution and Bill of Rights have not been up in arms against the Bush ...
Documents Reveal Scope of U.S. Database on Antiwar Protests
Post Date: 2006-10-13 01:03:38 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Internal military documents released Thursday provided new details about the Defense Department’s collection of information on demonstrations nationwide last year by students, Quakers and others opposed to the Iraq war. The documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show, for instance, that military officials labeled as “potential terrorist activity” events like a “Stop the War Now” rally in Akron, Ohio, in March 2005. The Defense Department acknowledged last year that its analysts had maintained records on war protests in an internal database past the 90 days its guidelines ...
MADSEN ON LINDAUER CASE
Post Date: 2006-10-12 19:07:51 by aristeides
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October 12, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE. It sounds like a case from the old
Soviet Union. An activist opposing the government's policies is charged with
crimes against the state, declared mentally unbalanced, and forced to take
psychotropic drugs in a military prison hospital. However, this case occurred in
the United States and involved a Justice Department attempt to silence a
one-time CIA asset who was engaged in backchannel negotiations with Saddam
Hussein's government to avert a war.
On September 8, Susan Lindauer, a one-time congressional staffer for Rep.
Peter DeFazio and Sen. Ron Wyden or Oregon [Wyden is a member of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence], and ...
LSD Mystery: DoD Slow To Release Padilla's Medical Records
Post Date: 2006-10-12 17:29:31 by aristeides
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LSD Mystery: DoD Slow To Release Padilla's Medical Records By Justin Rood - October 12, 2006, 3:16 PM I finally had a chance to speak with Orlando do Campo, a public defender representing Jose Padilla, about his allegation that government interrogators forced Padilla to take drugs similar to LSD and PCP. Do Campo declined to be more specific about the effects Padilla has described that make the lawyer believe his client was given those illegal hallucinogens, or how many times the alleged terrorist says he was drugged. But do Campo said that more information may come out soon -- if the Defense Department complies with an order from the judge hearing the case. Early this year, do Campo ...
The United States government is not violating the Constitution
Post Date: 2006-10-12 15:13:57 by richard9151
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The United States government is not violating the Constitution Sorry for the delay, but I have been very busy, both with work and with groups where I am talking about a Solution. So, permit me to recap; All of you basically hold the position that the United States government is violating the Constitution. And, to support this, you go to code books, cut and paste parts of the code and say, see? Don´t you understand?! Well, actually, no, I do not understand how anyone can go to a code book and use that as support for anything that the government does or does not do, as the code is a creature of Congress, and with the code, Congress can do as it wishes/desires/decides. And since there ...
Habeas Corpus: The Lynchpin of Freedom
Post Date: 2006-10-12 13:14:45 by bluedogtxn
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Habeas Corpus: The Lynchpin of Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger by Jacob G. Hornberger
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In the recently enacted Military Commissions Act, Congress acceded to President Bush’s request to remove the power of federal courts to consider petitions for writ of habeas by foreign citizens held by U.S. officials on suspicion of having committed acts of terrorism. While it might be tempting to conclude that the writ of habeas corpus is some minor legal procedural device that the president and the Congress have now canceled, nothing could be further from the truth. The writ of habeas corpus is actually the lynchpin of a free society. Take away this great writ and all other rights – ...
The Cultural Devastation Of American Women
Post Date: 2006-10-12 12:26:15 by Mind_Virus
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The Cultural Devastation Of American Women Nancy Levant You may have read the article by the same title, which was the forerunner to the book, and that is now in print and available via http://Amazon.com. Many thanks to my readers who waited patiently for the book’s release. But, onward we must go with the subject of American women and the damage caused to our gender by the global culture in the making. The institution of marriage, children, and the condition our public school system and churches demands that we consider very carefully the freedom and rights given to women in this nation. Have we abused or mishandled this freedom? American women are perhaps the luckiest women in the ...
BUSH: No Guns, No School Shootings
Post Date: 2006-10-12 12:20:38 by Mind_Virus
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No Guns, No School Shootings Zach Ragbourn October 12, 2006 Zach Ragbourn is the assistant director of communications for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. On October 10 , President George W. Bush convened a nationwide summit to address the root problems of school shootings. Following the horrible events in a one-room Amish schoolhouse, in a rural Colorado school, and too many others to contemplate, the nation was going to finally figure out how to stop the disturbed and the violent from shooting and killing our students, teachers and children. But how much discussion is really needed? Apparently, quite a lot. Because in the hours and hours of debate and debriefing, the ...
Al Qaeda Suspect: U.S. Government Gave Me LSD
Post Date: 2006-10-11 19:56:23 by Zipporah
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An alleged operative for Al Qaeda imprisoned for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant is saying he was tortured and forcibly medicated with "a sort of truth serum" while in a Navy brig. Jose Padilla, 35, was arrested in 2002 on suspicions that he was plotting a radioactive explosion, also known as a dirty bomb. He spent several years in a military jail in Charleston, S.C., without facing criminal charges. As legal wrangling over his fate continued, prosecutors in Miami charged him late last year with providing material support to a terrorist group and conspiring to murder, maim, and kidnap Americans abroad. Lawyers for Padilla, who was born in Brooklyn and converted to Islam while ...
Caledonia protest will lead to violence, politicians warn
Post Date: 2006-10-11 15:01:15 by Tauzero
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Caledonia protest will lead to violence, politicians warn April Lindgren, CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 TORONTO - Ontario politicians of all political stripes are warning of a violent clash Sunday if a proposed march on lands now occupied by native protesters in Caledonia, Ont., goes ahead. ''I'm not sure who thinks this rally is a good idea,'' Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday when asked about the march being organized by a Toronto-area couple to protest what they say is ''two-tier justice.'' ''The people of Caledonia don't think it's a good idea. I certainly don't think it's a good idea. The OPP (provincial police) don't think it's a good idea. The ...
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