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A N N O T A T E D Elaborated Descriptions of Links whereby you can get "the jist of the story" right here! --- This page is here to say why each citizen needs to give that 5 minutes a week (See Christopher's Political Page for specifics as needed). Updated Apr '08 There is also the Poly-Psy Spirit mailing list for the most recent postings on what's going on: you can either/both join the list or just peruse the Archives Or both. Thank you for your patience. --cp] |
to Impeach Bush & Cheney and Send Rove to Jail (for starters, and by '09, have all the others join him) Find Link-loaded Messages for quickly getting your sigs on petitions and sending letters to Elected Officials via PolyPsyList Archives: Use "Impeach" in its efficient Search Engine, sort by latest, etc. PolyPsy List Message 38 of '06 May still be still useful. Related: Impeachment Resource Links; For a quick read to dispel doubt of need, see Myths About Impeachment |
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. - James Freeman Clarke "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Gandhi Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia "If the nation states of the world are working day and night on a crash course of their own for our mutual annihilation, we cannot afford to be any slower in our work in the opposite direction. The leisurely teaching that was possible in ancient tribal cultures is no longer appropriate. The forces of nuclear and ecological destruction are in a hurry, and we must be too. People need to be awakened, not just through ordinary reality education, however important it is, but also through personal heartfelt spiritual realization-deep realization of the connectedness of all things. May we work together, and fast as we can." -- Michael Harner, a Shaman Before we can achieve Planetary Sustainability, we have to attain 'Citizenry Sustainability.' A military revolution - large enough to make any difference - will also reap more pain, confusion, and denial. More than we can heal to regain sufficient capacity for planetary healing - before Global Warming takes the rest of us. We're going to have to outsmart that unevolved part of us - and those who represent it politically. That means we vote with our our dollar and our pen or keyboard, and maybe with our feet - as well as with the ballot. - Christopher Pringer |
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the Oct 27 Action Are still available for $2 ea! Please ask Chris Pringer via PolyPsyArt@iinet.com or ask your local Oct27 Coalition Rep |
| Yo! You Want Signs? We Have Signs. More than I can show here - for your yard, for your hands, even for the top of your car, AND for certain Seattle area neighborhoods as well... Here you go! Tell 'em Rad-Dad sent you <grin> | 
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You keep your activism current, right? Well then, let's keep the message on cue for the current situation, I say <grin>. A certain Veteran for Peace keeps used to his car-sign message on cue - at Greenlake pro-peace vigil in May of 2004 (with almost 800 crosses representing GI's killed in Iraq). |
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Do they remind you of anyone !?! Let us demand withdrawal of the "October Surprise" legislation that removed key citizen protections [right-click the above and open in new tab. More in Civil Rights section] |
In "THE FRAUDULENT WAR," Richard W. Behan of Lopez Island provides a great summary of how we got into the Iraq War as well as Afghanistan, and includes some of the more recently revealed Iraq Oil shenanigans. Is possibly a little slow (for some) to substantiate the facts of the story, but an intriguing, illustrated presentation keeps it interesting in the meantime. "This presentation is deliberately not copyrighted: it may be reproduced and circulated without restriction." The detailed pdf file with illustrated slideshow presentation, is available via *http* (opens file in your browser), or by ftp (downloads the 5.5 mb file). A smaller digested article (105kb Word Doc) by Behan is "The So-Called War On Terror" (downloads by ftp).
The BLUEPRINT FOR THE CREATION OF A 'GLOBAL PAX AMERICANA,' uncovered by the Sunday Herald (details next paragraph), was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (former defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff), among others. The document, put out in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC), and entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century," was a grand re-write of a 46-page document, "Draft Defense Planning Guidance," conceived in 1992, during the first Bush Administration. The 90 page 2000 version was apparently available at New American Century .Org (http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqmiddleeast.htm) but is reported no longer available there. It was downloaded before it's disappearance however, and IS available (at various sites including here) via pdf for the browser or by ftp (downloads the .85 mb file)
Right after the September 11 attacks the Wall Street Journal's editorial writer, Max Boot, published "The Case for American Empire" in the Weekly Standard (a major conservative rag). "Boot endorsed a return to nineteenth century British imperialism, this time under American hegemony." See A SECRET blueprint for US global domination By Neil Mackay. or see "It's Empire Versus Democracy" at http://www.alternet.org.
Also: "History Repeats Itself Clear and Present Danger, Analysis of CPD and PNAC" by Candi Crider (2/4/07) -- A comparative analysis between four different groups that arose within the US government and had the purpose of influencing foreign policy in this country, incl. Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) and Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
Also: The President's Real Goal In Iraq: "In essence, it (the National Security Strategy plan released last Sept 20 by the Bush administration) lays out a plan for permanent U.S. military and economic domination of every region on the globe, unfettered by international treaty or concern."
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: a) PNAC update by W.R. Pitt: "...Ten years on, the Project [PNAC] is doing quite nicely, thank you. Failure is only in the eye of the beholder, and if the beholder is getting everything he wants with a tidy payday to boot, "failure" is not what they are going to see. As far as PNAC is concerned, this has been a decade filled with astonishing achievements. In other words, it's all about priorities and perspective, especially for those who don't give a damn for the dead. ..." Compared to Pitt's earlier assessment, ... well, he's right on. b) "Oil-buying craze tops excess of dot-coms - And the speculator bubble is due to burst, analysts say," By Michael Patterson And Elizabeth Stanton, Bloomberg News, June 15, 2008: "The rally that recently drove oil to a record $139.12 a barrel has surpassed the gains in Internet stocks that preceded the dot-com crash in 2000..."
Scramble to carve up Iraqi oil reserves lies behind US diplomacy, The Observer (London), Sunday October 6, 2002, Ed Vulliamy in New York, Paul Webster in Paris, and Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow. "Manoeuvres shaped by horsetrading between America, Russia and France over control of untapped oilfields. Oil is emerging as the key factor in US attempts to secure the support of Russia and France for military action against Iraq, according to an Observer investigation..."
9-11 and US Global Hegemony by Ed Rippy - Indymedia, 17 July 2002: "...About two months before the attacks former US diplomats put out an unofficial message that the US would attack Afghanistan in mid-October, two days before the attacks US planners finished "contingency plans" for a war on al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, and tens of thousand of US and allied troops (including two aircraft carrier battle groups) were converging in the area around Afghanistan for exercises. Since the rout of the Taliban, oil companies are signing deals for pipelines across Afghanistan and the heroin business is booming as never before (and the US has exempted the provisional Afghan government from penalties for its failure to stop drugs while that government has gutted its drug eradication agency)..."
Suppressed details of criminal insider trading, lead directly to the Cia's highest ranks, including as related to the 9-11 attacks (!). Understanding the interrelationships between CIA and the banking and brokerage world is critical to grasping the already frightening implications of these revelations. Articles at Mike Ruppert's "From the Wilderness" Site look at the history of CIA, Wall Street and the big banks by looking at some of the key players in CIA's history, including AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, and its connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations. Mike Ruppert, who also created the 138 minute video, "The and Lies of 9-11" (which is about much more than 9-11), offers $1000 to anyone who can disprove the authenticity of any of his source materials - which, obvious from this tape, are voluminous. He is a former LAPD narcotics investigator who discovered CIA trafficking in drugs in 1977. After attempting to expose this he was forced out of LAPD in 1978 while earning the highest rating reports possible and having no pending disciplinary actions. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, Ruppert was among the first to be publicly critical of a number of transparent flaws in the official story presented by the US Government. In more than twenty stories since 9-11 he has followed his tested strategy of using only government documents, official statements or verifiable press reports as the basis for his work. As a result he has been openly received by several members of Congress and maintains open lines of communication with congressional and committee staffs. Ruppert is publisher and editor of "From The Wilderness", a newsletter read in 27 countries, by 20 members of the US Congress, professors at 12 Universities in the US and Canada and by the Intelligence committee of both houses. You can also contact "From the Wilderness via phone 818-788-8791.
MoveOn.Org features many articles and bulletins, including on Energy and War (Nov 20, 2002), Conscientious Objection (Oct 16, 2002), Iraq and the Art of Misdirection (Oct 2, 2002), Selling the War on Iraq (Sep 19, 2002), American Kleptocracy (July 31, 2002), Can Democracy Survive an Endless 'War'? (July 17, 2002), Who is Dick Cheney? (July 10, 2002), Media Concentration (Nov 6, 2002)
Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire! Bush, Cheney, Blair, Rumsfeld, Powell, and Lady MacBeth. What do they all have in common? Another goodie at commondreams.org. And then there's Rumsfeld Caught Lying on Camera. And if you haven't seen it... "Iraq on the Record - A Detailed List of Bush Administration Lies About Iraq" [WAXMAN REPORT]. Noam Chomsky: Bring Them to Justice!: about support for the government's efforts to maintain what amounts to a powerful, permanent, military and diplomatic presence in Iraq.
US bribes and threatens "allies" over Iraq - A MUST READ!
What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA, David Corn, The Nation, 9/6/06. "Valerie Wilson was no analyst or paper-pusher. She was an operations officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration. Armitage, Rove and Libby had revealed information about a CIA officer who had searched for proof of the President's case." ...she was in the Counterproliferation Division's "modest Iraq branch. But that summer--before 9/11--word came down from the brass: We're ramping up on Iraq. Her unit was expanded and renamed the Joint Task Force on Iraq. Within months of 9/11, [this unit] grew to fifty or so employees. Valerie Wilson was placed in charge of its operations group..."
See about another Intelligence Cover-up in Civil Liberties Section, where Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about the Sibel Edmonds (9/11 attack) case be retroactively classified, to Silence Former FBI Translator.
"What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11"
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The Real Reason $$$ Cheney Pushes for War ??? "When Dick Cheney was CEO of the oilfield supply firm Halliburton, the company did $23.8 million in business with Saddam Hussein ...As the former Secretary of Defense under Bush the Elder, Cheney was in particularly vulnerable position on the hypocrisy of doing business with Iraq....After the Gulf War...Using two subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser, Halliburton helped rebuild Saddam's war-damaged oil fields. The combined value of these contracts for parts and equipment was greater than that of any other American company doing business with Iraq -- companies including Schlumberger, Flowserve, Fisher-Rosemount, General Electric...." From Article by Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate
The oil companies connections... They ARE the Administration, including the President (Arbusto Energy and Harkin Oil); Vice-President Dick Cheney (Halliburton Oil); Army Secretary Thomas White (Enron); Commerce Secretary Don Evans (Tom Brown Inc., an oil exploration company); and National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice (Chevron). "Lest anyone dismiss the oil connection as "cynical," keep the following in mind: According to Cheney's National Energy Policy Development Group, U.S. domestic oil production wi ll decline 12 percent over the next 20 years, while oil consumption will increase by one-third, two-thirds of which must be imported. Since the Middle East has 65 percent of the world's oil reserves, and Iraq might just have as much as-- or more than--Saudi Arabia, is it "cynical" to suggest that oil is a big part of this? As one unnamed U.S. diplomat told the Sunday Herald (Scotland), "the impending U.S. regime change in Baghdad is a strategic necessity."
Clerics Response to War: The leadership of The Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation was with regret and concern minutes after President Bush announced that the nation had launched a war with Iraq, in a letter to the White House and a web feature displaying “Statements For a Nation At War” from national civic and religious leaders (the full text). Statements To A Nation At War are displayed at this page in the IFA's Religious Resources Section.
How Did Iraq Get Its Weapons? We Sold Them. See Sunday Herald.com's Sept 16, 2002 article : Recent reports in the U.S. Senate reveal that the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992. Related Article, "US Role In Creation Of Iraqi Bioweapons Becomes Issue" (October 1)
The Pentagon seems to be generating bigger accounting mistakes than all of Corporate America combined. The GAO and the Defense Department’s own Inspector General found that $2.3 trillion in accounting entries were simply not supported by “adequate audit trails” or “sufficient evidence” in the books they audited. That makes Worldcom’s recent admissions of 7 billion mis-stated dollars seem like a rounding error. See "Take Action" at http://www.truemajority.com/ The Military Advisory Committee of TrueMajority includes a dozen distinguished military analysts and experts on the subject of excess Pentagon spending, including the Chair, Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan (USN, ret.); Former CIA Director, Admiral Stansfield Turner (USN, ret.); Dr. Lawrence Korb, Former Asst. Sec. Of Defense in the Reagan Administration; Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll (USN, ret.); and Col. David Hackworth (USA, ret.), America’s most decorated living combat veteran.
Cynthia McKinney, a five term Democratic Congresswoman, has taken the lead on demanding accountability for the $2.3 trillion "LOST" by Department of Defense, and is demanding a full independent inquiry of what Bush knew and when he knew it about 9-11. She has been targeted by her own party, and by the U.S. corporate media. Donations can now be given online at: http://www.cynthia2002.com. Those who want to volunteer in any other way to Cynthia McKinney's campaign can email: kharabia@khayumbia.com
"100,000 contractors in Iraq" - Renae Merle & Griff Witte, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2006. That number is 10 times that in first Gulf War, far more than previous estimates. "There are about 100,000 government contractors operating in Iraq, not counting subcontractors, a total that is approaching the size of the U.S. military force there, according to the military's first census of the growing population of civilians operating in the battlefield. The survey finding, which includes Americans, Iraqis and third-party nationals hired by companies operating under U.S. government contracts, is significantly higher and wider in scope than the Pentagon's only previous estimate, which said there were 25,000 security contractors in the country..."
"Mercenaries 'R' Us" By Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet, March 24, 2004: "...While Blackwater USA is not nearly as well known as Halliburton or Bechtel - two mega-corporations making a killing off the reconstruction of Iraq - it nevertheless is doing quite well financially thanks to the White House's war on terror. The company specializes in firearm, tactics and security training and in October 2003, according to Mother Jones magazine, the company won a $35.7 million contract to train more than 10,000 sailors from Virginia, Texas, and California each year in 'force protection.' ...The practice of using mercenaries to fight wars is hardly new, but it is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. During the first Gulf War, one out of every 50 soldiers on the battlefield was a mercenary. The number had climbed up to one in ten during the Bosnian conflict. ...Apart from Chile, the other popular source for military recruits is South Africa. The United Nations recently reported that South Africa "is already among the top three suppliers of personnel for private military companies, along with the UK and the US. ...There are more than 1,500 South Africans in Iraq today, most of whom are former members of the South African Defense Force and South African Police." Mercenary casualties do not show up in reported casualty statistics, by the way.
"Clean separation with effective delegation": Our government employs "military contractors," see (a) extracts from a NY Times article, (b) remarks on a recent book by Philip Bobbitt entitled *The Shield of Achilles*, and (c) the latest update from Debka on what's going on militarily in Iraq. Mark Jensen has assembled a review for "The Military, the State, and the War" (at this site) Some key links there include "America's For-Profit Secret Army: Military Contractors Are Hired To
Do the Pentagon's Bidding Far From Washington's View." and http://www.debka.com
one of the first major newspaper reports on the role played by George Bush and soon to be CIA chief Casey in the arming of Iran, Published in The Age, in Australia, 18 May 1991 By Jani Roberts with John Kelly ©96JR outside Australia. About How some of the world's most shadowy characters say they helped George Bush trade arms to delay the release of American hostages.
More George Bush and the CIA "The Man Who Wasn't There, 'George Bush,' C.I.A. Operative" By Joseph McBride THE NATION, July 16/23, 1988: "The F.B.I. memorandum, dated November 29, 1963, is from Director J. Edgar Hoover to the State Department and is subject-headed "Assassination of President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963." In it, Hoover reports that the Bureau had briefed "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" shortly after the assassination on the reaction of Cuban exiles in Miami. A source with close connections to the intelligence community confirms that Bush started working for the agency in 1960 or 1961, using his oil business as a cover for clandestine activities...That memo also provides insight as to the qualifications for why George Bush was selected Director for Central Intelligence in 1976, during a period when the CIA was washing its dirty linen and allegedly reforming itself... George Bush lied through his teeth about being "out of the loop" on Iran/contra."
On the uncontrolled US arms market to terrorists and mercenaries, the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia, on the State Department's foreign terror watch list: For the full story, read "The Guns of Opa-Locka" by Jake Bergman and Julia Reynolds from the December 2, 2002 issue of The Nation.
Understanding Special Operations And Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era
[or, go to http://www.ratical.org , then click on "Understanding Special Operations" beneath the picture of the rat]. "If you really want the truth about American governmental activities during the 1950's & 60's (as opposed to what we were brainwashed into believing in "history" classes), you can read (& copy/download) an entire 500-page book (at this site) written by a high-ranking American military officer (rank of colonel & offered the rank of general at one point) who was directly in the midst of all the key political leaders & who decided to retire & provide public documentation of all the covered-up activities perpetrated by your government & military. This is one of the most truthful, revealing, & informative sources of governmental operatons on the internet."
There does exist most credible documentation with the Christic Institute that clearly indicates, that since the 1960's, there have been some most interesting connections, brought out primarily through court proceedings in suites against various government entities, between many of the White House Administrations, the CIA, worldwide drug and arms sales, foreign governments initiated and deposed, and much more. Most of the operations, since they were primarily funded by international drug sales, are more obviously about personal gain of money and power. [Note: The Christic Institute was "legally" destroyed by the government, but it is quite alive as a search key word phrase]
Do they remind you of anyone !?! Let us demand withdrawal of the "October Surprise" legislation that removed key citizen protections [right-click the above and open in new tab. More in Civil Rights section] |
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What are those Iraq Sanctions Really About? Yep, if you think they are/were meeting good purposes, you've been fed half-truths. Some very powerfully compassionate, not to mention courageous, people are doing their best to clarify the issues and make a difference. Read more at End Iraq Sanctions.Org. They can use all the help they can get to make a few things actually work there. Most of this is an oldie but goodie section except for the 2nd link (on IRAN) |
See SNOW-news List Archives] and The Resource Page at SNOW (Sound Non-violent Opposition to War) for Lists of some most illuminating questions asked on the Iraq-War / Mid-East Conflicts -- in session by U.S.Congresspersons. In fact, this is a great page for Anti-War Resources in general (Is it strange that pacifists tend to be some of the least punchy and most intelligent people around? - Nah, I didn't think so either <grin>)
IS WAR WITH IRAN INEVITABLE? By Geoffrey Millard and Scott Galindez October 18, 2006 [Truthout video]: On Wednesday, October 11, Congressman Dennis Kucinich hosted a briefing on the march to war with Iran. Former chief nuclear weapons inspector David Kay testified that Iran currently does not pose an imminent threat to the United States or the region. Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardner, who was assigned to the War Planning College, presented his analysis of current preparations for war with Iran.
"The most inside view yet of Iraq war planning" by Karen Kwiatkowski, who teaches an American foreign policy class at James Madison University, and writes regularly for militaryweek.com on security and defense issues. excerpt: "...Neoconservatives are fairly easy to study, mainly because they are few in number, and they show up at all the same parties. Examining them as individuals, it became clear that almost all have worked together, in and out of government, on national security issues for several decades. The Project for the New American Century and its now famous 1998 manifesto to President Clinton on Iraq is a recent example. But this statement was preceded by one written for Benyamin Netanyahu's Likud Party campaign in Israel in 1996 by neoconservatives Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith titled 'A Clean Break: Strategy for Securing the Realm. David Wurmser is the least known of that trio and an interesting example of the tangled neoconservative web. In 2001, the research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute was assigned to the Pentagon, then moved to the Department of State to work as deputy for the hard-line conservative undersecretary John Bolton, then to the National Security Council, and now is lodged in the office of the vice president. His wife, the prolific Meyrav Wurmser, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, is also a neoconservative team player...'" In email, ggersmehl@hotmail.com introduced this long article with "I received this from a friend under the title 'The New Pentagon Papers' -- not the author's title, and one that offended me at first. Yet for the Iraq war, it may be the closest thing to what the Pentagon Papers offered: the facts, from the inside."
Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. and the War Crimes Left Behind by Heather Wokusch, From the Baltimore Chronicle& Sentintel, June 4, 2004. On the use of DU weaponry, electrical attacks, and the pre-war sanctions. "Given repercussions over Abu Ghraib, it isn't surprising that Washington recently asked the UN Security Council for another one-year extension on its war crimes exemption for peace-keepers. The prison abuse scandal is just the iceberg's tip of Geneva Convention violations by the United States, and closer inspection could send Bush Jr. and Bush Sr., not to mention Bill Clinton, straight to the courtroom docks... A second US Defense Intelligence Agency document, 1991's 'Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities,' predicted how sanctions would then be used to prevent Iraq from getting the equipment and chemicals necessary for water purification, which would result in "a shortage of pure drinking water for much of the population" leading to 'increased incidences, if not epidemics, of disease.'" This article is also posted on the Veterans For Peace talking points under Battlefield Exposure and War Crimes page
Congress Overwhelmed With Anti-War Calls (AND MORE!) at Voice4change.Org
Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott Asserts Bush Would Mislead U.S. on Iraq[This is from before the war, and he's been very accurate... He's very on top of things in D.C. - I'm sure there are McDermott updates at this and/or other sites. Don't forget how to use your search engine :-) ]
Senator Byrd saw Iraq-Vietnam analogy. Senate debates how much authority to give Bush in using force against Saddam. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., has been leading Senate Democratic opposition to the resolution authorizing President Bush to use force against Iraq. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - As the Senate debated a resolution that would authorize President Bush to use military force against Iraq, one senior Democrat compared the measure to the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which authorized President Lyndon Johnson to escalate the Vietnam War - and, some said later, gave him too much power to wage war. (...) "Things that I think should have been in there are all classified, they declassified some for release but not others," said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. "It is frustrating on this to have classified information which contradicts popularly held views. It is troubling to have classified information which contradicts statements made by the administration. It is maddening to have classified information which contradicts classified information leaked by the administration," Durbin said.
CITIZENS’ HEARING ON THE LEGALITY OF U.S. ACTIONS IN IRAQ: Hearing held over January 20-21, 2007, more than 600 citizens joined a distinguished tribunal panel in listening to testimony about the legality of the US invasion of Iraq. The Citizens' Hearing was convened to present evidence that Lt. Ehren Watada would have presented in his February 5, 2007 court martial on the question that the military ruled barred from entry on Jan. 16 - the question of the Iraq War's legality. Testifiers included experts in military policy, international law and war crimes: * Daniel Ellsberg Military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers in the Vietnam War; * Denis Halliday Former UN Assistant Secretary-General, coordinated Iraq humanitarian aid; * Richard Falk Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University; * Antonia Juhasz Policy-analyst and author on U.S. economic policies in Iraq; * John Burroughs Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy Executive Director; * Benjamin G. Davis Assoc. Prof. of Law, University of Toledo; expert on law of war; * Francis Boyle Professor of international law at Univ. of Illinois (video). * Marjorie Cohn National Lawyers' Guild President; Thomas Jefferson law school (video)
I haven't even read this one, would bet it's pretty radical - I just think the title says it all: The White House On Iraq: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Proof (Sept 30)
Daniel Ellsberg: "It's possible to tell the truth" re: Iraq War
Here's a link to what Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers (published in the New York Times in June 1971 and revealing US duplicity to the public about Vietnam), had to say on Saturday [Oct 19, 2002] on CNN about US Iraq policy. At www.ellsberg.net there is a link to a chapter from his new book, "Secrets, a Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" which is available online. Iraq-related excerpts from Daniel Ellsberg's speech is in honor of Mordechai Vanunu (the man who blew the whistle on Israel's nuclear arms program. An excerpt from the interview:
"It's possible to tell the truth. The message I would like to get to people inside right now: if they feel that what the President and the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense are saying is deceptive of the public, is not founded on the evidence that they know passing across their desks or they know, by expertise, I would like them to consider doing what I wish I'd done in 1964 and 1965, rather than waiting five years, as I did until 1969. They should consider going to Congress and the press and telling the truth with documents. They shouldn't do what I did, wait until the bombs are falling. That's why I think the message in my book is urgent. So urgent, in fact, that I decided to put the first chapter on the internet tonight on Ellsberg.net. You don't have to buy the book to read that. That tells us what is happening right now. It's about the week that Congress passed the first Tonkin Gulf Resolution, having now—this is the time to read it, when they've just passed the second one."
DO POLLS REFLECT MEDIA DISTORTION? The vast majority of Americans are reported to support a war with Iraq, but a new organization is asking, "can we trust the polls?" After doing its own survey, Retro Poll calls into question the accuracy of major media polls. "The Retro Poll attempts to show that public opinion is molded by media misinformation and disinformation (propaganda). It addresses the question: does the public opinion reported in the usual major media polls reflect the true values and beliefs of those Americans polled, or not?" Retro Poll writes in a press release. Based on Retro Poll's own survey data, they suggest that "by continually highlighting Washington's viewpoint unchallenged, the news bureaus in the U.S. can change the facts in the minds of many Americans. The opinions formed from those unsubstantiated facts are then used by polling organizations to report back the values, ideas, and thinking of the public." SOURCE: Retro Poll Press Release, October 17, 2002 To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1034827200
Nagy Visit on Iraq Sanctions Takes Denmark by Storm (July 15) Nagy presented unshakeable documentation for how the sanctions have been applied to ban the import of water purification equipment and chemicals, thus provoking epidemics of diseases such as cholera, hepatitis and typhoid fever. See article at CommonDreams.Org
OOPS, MORE UNEXPECTED CASUALTIES Before we commit to another Gulf War, our government must come clean on what happened to our Desert Storm heroes.
THE DAY AFTER THE ATTACK Experts on Iran and the Kurds dread the aftermath of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, which they say would destabilize the entire region.
Anatol Lieven has an excellent analysis of the current U.S.-Mid-East political situation in his article in the Oct. 3 *London Review of Books*
to Impeach Bush & Cheney and Send Rove to Jail (for starters, and by '09, have all the others join him) Find Link-loaded Messages for quickly getting your sigs on petitions and sending letters to Elected Officials via PolyPsyList Archives: Use "Impeach" in its efficient Search Engine, sort by latest, etc. PolyPsy List Message 38 of '06 May still be still useful. Related: Impeachment Resource Links; For a quick read to dispel doubt of need, see Myths About Impeachment |
After Downing Street .Org Impeachment Center ...working to expose the lies that launched the war and to hold accountable its architects, including through censure and impeachment.
After Downing Street Impeachment FAQ or what we've been calling "Impeachment Myths" and "Myth Busters"
Washington for Impeachment .Org/ a one-stop shop (at least for WA state, but useful in anycase) for basic to specific info, Neighborhood Starter Kits, Resource Links, etc.
And what I added to the petition for impeachment at www.democrats.com: "Why bother with impeachment if they will be out of office in January 2008?": What most folks haven't stopped to realize, simply by taking stock of the wrecking crew's history, is that these guys are not done now, nor do they intend to let go of power - in 2008 or ever. Why else all the recent "stacking": stacking the nation's chain of command under emergincy conditions with no time limits, the martial law related authorities, the courts, the state judiciaries and voting authorities (Thank you Gonzalez, unpresidented in his silence in such a position), not to mention stacking the 911 commission panel, the presenters of the case for attacking iraq, the decision makers on Iraqi oil & profits, and now the insult to justice via the Libby sentence commutation. It's critical time to regain the Balance of Power in government.
"Why Impeach Bush and Cheney?" Editorials and Information on How to Impeach Bush & Cheney. Includes a Summary of Impeachable Offenses commited by Bush and Cheney, and tells why Congress should impeach them. Has a "How to Impeach" section among many others.
Much of US favors Bush impeachment: poll WASHINGTON (AFP): Nearly half of the US public wants President George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll out Friday. The survey by the American Research Group found that 45 percent support the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Bush, with 46 percent opposed, and a 54-40 split in favor when it comes to Cheney. 07/06/07
ANGLER: THE CHENEY VICE PRESIDENCY, PART I: 'A DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING WITH THE PRESIDENT' By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, Washington Post June 24, 2007 Page A01
Impeachment Related Issues, Supporting Documents for H Res 333 (Articles illuminating reasons for impeachment, incl. more Sy Hersh articles):http://kucinich.house.gov/SpotlightIssues/documents.htm
"Resign, Mr. President" This is one of the most impassioned and complete encapsulations of reasons why; might also be called the most accurate summary execution. On YouTube, Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:14:19 -0700
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Basics: 1) When DU munitions explode, the DU is atomized into a fine powder that is extremely easily stirred up from the ground and inhaled. It also rises high into the atmosphere, by the way. More on that via the chart (link) below. 2) DU is the primary reason why 10% of veterans from the First Gulf War died from related cancers & toxicity, & another 30% are sick or dying. That amount of DU is a fraction of the amount that our soldiers are exposed to now. 3) But it's not just about our kids over there (see next paragraph as well as the "LIARS WAR" section intro). Jim McDermott, US Representative from Washington State, said "In Iraq I visited children dying of leukemia. A 10-year-old boy dying of leukemia told me – through an interpreter, in Arabic – tell Mr. Bush that bombs are not the answer. Children there are getting leukemia from the dust from exploded shells made of depleted uranium that were used in the Gulf War. There's a five-year latency period, but in the last five years leukemia rates have increased 100% there. Birth malformation rates are up more than 100%. And we're thinking of sending American troops over to fight in this dust?" (Oct 6, 2002 at the Jefferson Community Center in Seattle) "Depleted Uranium comes home" from http://lefti.blogspot.com:: "Since this blog began I've been writing about the evils of depleted Uranium, most recently here [at Blogspot.Com]. Iraqis and Americans (and others elsewhere that DU weaponry has been used) have suffered as a result. The story goes one step further, both qualitatively and quantitatively: "Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169 charged that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War. Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, 'The real reason for Mr. Principi's departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the 'Gulf War Syndrome' has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.' "Bernklau continued, 'This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed. |  [Thanks to Not In Kansas Anymore] |
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"He added, 'Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of 'Disabled Vets' means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!' The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam. 'The VA Secretary (Principi) was aware of this fact as far back as 2000,' wrote Bernklau. 'He, and the Bush administration have been hiding these facts, but now, thanks to Moret's report, (it) ... is far too big to hide or to cover up!'"
And, as I've also discussed before, not only is this a health problem, it's also part of the never-ending cost of war. Repeating something from that just-linked post: "While the exact cost of compensating those injured in fighting in Iraq is uncertain, the Department of Veterans Affairs already expects to pay $600 billion over the next three decades in disability payments to veterans of earlier wars." Let's repeat -- that $600 billion does not include those serving in Iraq. Add to that the cost of paying for a lifetime of healthcare for hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have been exposed to DU in Iraq (on top of all the other medical problems resulting from the war) and, as Everett Dirksen famously said (http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/everett_dirksen/), "Pretty soon you're talking about real money." And you're definitely talking about real lives. And real deaths. |  |
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Shown at Upper Right: A Chart illustrating the worldwide effects of using DU (Depleted Uranium), the "DU Cycle Problem-Solving Chart," by PolyPsyArts (yours truly). download via [Right-Click, "Save as"]
Dr. Helen Caldicott on DU effects! ... DU killing soldiers, innocent civilians and future generations. See www.traprockpeace.org for all you need to know, including Pentagon memos that prove Pentagon know the DU hazards! The only way we will stop DU weapons is to inform the mainstream. sign letter at www.nuclearpolicy.org/bombfactory.cfm to President Bush to not launch a new nuclear arms race. Please pass this link onto your family and friends. Also, see "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War" by Leuren Moret.
Iraqi Cancers, Birth Defects Blamed on U.S. Depleted Uranium By Larry Johnson Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Foreign Desk Editor. Pictures and news article of deformities in children in Iraq related to DU exposure.
nbsp; More on the science of DU, effects on the body at Love And Subversion .Net, and many many more resource links at Gulf War Vets .Com "WHO 'Suppressed' Scientific Study Into Depleted Uranium Cancer Fears in Iraq" by Rob Edwards. Radiation experts warn in unpublished report that DU weapons used by Allies in Gulf war pose long-term health risk. Published on Sunday, February 22, 2004 by The Sunday Herald (Scotland). The Uranium Medical Research Centre is at http://www.umrc.net/ |
 Schematic representation of intake, uptake and excretion (DU) Original Here |
There is a very lengthy and detailed resume of US weapons for the war created by serious experts and focusing on the predominance of depleted uranium among the cruise missiles, bunker busters, etc. But the truth is, the DU is all over Iraq now, really. The URL is: http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/u231.htm That's a big part of the hundreds of thousands of Gulf War Sickness causualties and tens of thousands of deaths since then. One future question concerns *undepleted* uranium - currently a very very classified topic. An Index Page Link with more references at same site.
More collected References on DU are available thanks to Mark Jensen. and still Another DU Ref "thanks again to Dr. David Sparling of Steilacoom, WA".
DU Links from the Canadian Military are linked to the VFP92 website.
The National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc. provides information to Gulf War veterans concerned with exposure to DU during our service in the Gulf War. This is a very comprehensive resource. Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal By Bob Nichols Jan 22, 2006: “...Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.
At the VETERANS FOR PEACE web site, in the "Iraq Special Section" (a Chronology of Reports), see articles listed, including "US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal' - Mar 30, 2003" (links to a "DU_use_illegal_033003.htm" at the VFP site)
Becoming one of the hottest reasons for concern during and AFTER the Iraqi War, for both Iraqi peoples' and our own soldiers' healthUranium Blitz Facts from Dai Williams, independent weapons researcher, Chartered Psychologist, Eos, Woking, Surrey, UK, eosuk@btinternet.com, Community projects (3/23/03). Article also posted at
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=302602&group=webcast
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(...wishing I could claim the design as my own PolyPsyArt! but alas...) I'd like to introduce this great example of activist creativity in How to Define the Bottom Line (Preservering against hypocracy). The spokespersons at this site say Tribal sovereignty and self-determination is the foundation of not only of tribal nations but also of Native families and individuals. "We should determine our future, because it's our legal right. Tribal sovereignty is meaningless unless it's exercised." For many great T-Shirt designs to choose from see the Tribal SovereignTees .Com CATALOG page! Find more at The Home of the ORIGINAL "Homeland Security - Fighting Terrorism Since 1492" t-shirt design |
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law (August-October '06): In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. Sources:
"WHEN LAWYERS ARE WAR CRIMINALS" By Scott Horton, 10/8/06; Military Commissions Act passed to protect Yoo, Bybee, Gonzales, Addington, Haynes, et al. In announcing the Military Commissions Act, President Bush insisted that he needed the legislation to lay to rest the concerns of 400-500 professional interrogators... [ 1 ] First, he suggested that the interrogators faced the prospect of prosecution under the War Crimes Act... [ 2 ] Bush revealed that there was a new "Program," of "extraordinary procedures" that he, personally, had been advised of and had approved... But the facts here are different: the Program was always against the law, and the U.S. Army's own interrogation manuals stated just that. [ 3 ] Bush stated that the reach for highly coercive new techniques came at the instance of the interrogators themselves. But in fact, we now know from an array of leaked documents that these techniques were rammed down their throats, often over courageous opposition, both within the CIA and the uniformed services...
US's approval of torture related to 'collective numbness and apathy': "A Soul-Defying, Tacit Approval Of Torture: How Did We Come To This?" By Phil Rockstroh, Dissident Voice 9/28/06; According to this analysis, it's American culture as a whole that is indicted by collective endorsement of torture that the legislative branch of the U.S. government has just conferred upon the the executive, at its urgent request. Phil Rockstroh argues that the embrace of a "false self" underlies the death of soul perceptible in so many of our fellow "corporate/consumer citizens", as Rockstroh calls them. As a result, he maintains, "a collective numbness and apathy levels upon the land and ultimately our desensitization to genocide and torture." -- Commentary by Mark Jensen
How the Anti-Terrorism Bill Affects Civil Liberties: 9 Updated Fact Sheets at ACLU
In a rare maneuver, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about the Sibel Edmonds (9/11 attack) case be retroactively classified, to Silence Former FBI Translator. Read "Translator in Eye of Storm on Retroactive Classification" By Anne E. Kornblut, Boston Globe: "Sifting through old classified materials in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, FBI translator Sibel Edmonds said, she made an alarming discovery: Intercepts relevant to the terrorist plot, including references to skyscrapers, had been overlooked because they were badly translated into English. Edmonds, 34, who is fluent in Turkish and Farsi, said she quickly reported the mistake to an FBI superior. Five months later, after flagging what she said were several other security lapses in her division, she was fired. Now, after more than two years of investigations and congressional inquiries, Edmonds is at the center of an extraordinary storm over US classification rules that sheds new light on the secrecy imperative supported by members of the Bush administration." Another piece on que: AN INTERVIEW WITH SIBEL EDMONDS By Christopher DeLiso. More quotes and paraphrases at Common Dreams .Org: (recent story), (original story),
and via Search at Commondreams.Org.
A not-so-minor detail you may have missed in the reporting on the new Department of Homeland Security: the entire department, and all information generated by or through it, will be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Mr Cheney has been a key figure through three administrations in the history of the FOIA - since President Ford! And remember Iran-Contra? See Attack On The FOIA from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
"James Baker's firm is already a top player in the Great Game of seizing Caspian Sea oil. (An executive of Exxon-Mobil, one of Baker Botts's clients, has been charged with evading taxes on bribes paid in Kazakhstan.)" -Greg Palast "President's business partner slices up Iraq." In the same article: "All year the elves at his law firm, Baker Botts of Texas, have been working day and night to prevent the families of the victims of the September 11 attack from seeking information from Saudi Arabia on the Kingdom's funding of Al Qaeda fronts."
"Success for Instant Runoff Voting in San Francisco" by Steven Hill and Rob Richie, Published 1/12/05 by CommonDreams.org
Demo Flash makes it easy to understand via http://www.chrisgates.net/irv/
Related Promotional Video by BBC: at Better Ballot Campaign .Org
Related Articles: Vanishing Votes by GREGORY PALAST, 5'04 - Civil Rights time bomb: will blacks be disenfranchised yet again?
Willie Nelson on Voting: I was at a concert this weekend in California to raise money for the National Veterans Foundation. I'm an Air Force veteran, and I have great respect for the military. I like to support the soldiers whenever I can. But I don't support this war in Iraq. I was against the war before it started. I always thought it was a terrible decision, badly thought out, badly planned, and then horribly executed. I want to see our troops come home right away, and so do most Americans. Unfortunately, too many politicians in both parties refuse to listen. So when will the troops come home? When we won't put up with it anymore-when we change our government. And how will we do that? By voting the bastards out! On November 7, you should vote for anyone who's against the war and vote against anyone who's for the war. It's that simple.
"Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say" By Matthew Cardinale The Atlanta Progressive News. And Princeton Scientists Create Vote-Stealing Program for Diebold AccuVote-TS: A group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected.
Kucinich Introduces Paper-Only Voting Bill Oct 5, 2006 http://www.kucinich.us/
Just Try Voting Here 11 of Americas Worst Places to Cast a Ballot (or Try) By Sasha Abramsky, Mother Jones, September/October 2006 Issue: Machines that count backward, slice-and-dice districts, felon baiting, phone jamming, and plenty of dirty tricks.
Brennan Center Report - one page summary (PDF)
US League of Women Voters' New Official Position on U.S. Voting Systems (PDF)
There are Virtually NO Federal Voting System Guidelines (PDF)
Wanna Get Back? ( By Bringing us back to Reality, that is ? ) Still Want Your Vote to Count ? V O T E W I T H Y O U R D O L L A R ! Use These Resources As Needed |
Also, Greg Palast in "President's business partner slices up Iraq." quoted James Baker as having said, "I fixed the election in Florida for George Bush." That was the gravamen of his remarks to an audience of Russian big wigs as reported to me by my somewhat astonished colleagues with BBC television. It was Baker, as consiglieri to the Bush family, who came up with the strategy of maneuvering the 2000 Florida vote count into a Supreme Court packed with politicos. Baker's claim to have fixed the election was not a confession. It was a boast. He meant to dazzle current and potential clients in the former Soviet states about his Big In with the Big Boy in the White House. Baker's firm is already a top player in the Great Game of seizing Caspian Sea oil. (An executive of Exxon-Mobil, one of Baker Botts's clients, has been charged with evading taxes on bribes paid in Kazakhstan.)
Also, Greg Palast's book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" thoroughly documents the fraudulent removal of thousands of black voters' names from the state's registration list. It also seems that servicemen abroad were "urged" to cast late ballots which then did get counted. (You might also note Greg Palast's web site at http://www.gregpalast.com.)
"Johns Hopkins researchers at the Information Security Institute issued a report declaring that Diebold's electronic voting software contained "stunning flaws." The researchers concluded that vote totals could be altered at the voting machines and by remote access. Diebold vigorously refuted the Johns Hopkins report, claiming the researchers came to "a multitude of false conclusions." Find out more on "Blackbox Voting," Diebold Election Systems, the ES&S (software) system, and Bev Harris - who needs our support as she works tirelessly for the critically needed reform: Blackbox Voting .Com, Ecotalk .Org, Vote-Smart .Org and What Really Happened .Com. Worthy of Your Attention: Did you know that "The winner of past (U.S.) elections has been "nobody"-- more people have chosen not to vote than to support anybody. President Bush was elected by 17% of the public." according to an Utne .Com article.
Are you going to be out of town or busy on Election Day? What if you could check "vote" off your to-do list ahead of time? You may be able to accomplish both these things by voting early, using an absentee ballot. To learn how to get one, go to: Votes For Students.
"In the last election, we knew the election was stolen; in this election, we may not even know." --By John Greeley in "Protect Your Vote: Get A Receipt!"
* Find out more about Instant Run-Off voting at Fair Vote .Com - a ranking system where votes for lower-ranked candidates (that don't win) get moved up to a candidate higher on the list - read about the advantages and where it's caught on already.
Jim Hightower helps at Rock the Vote .Com in "Thieves In High Places - They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back!" and so do the Dixie Chicks.
Home page: http://www.rockthevote.org/
"Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He had this brilliant idea of secretly selling missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, and with the illicit proceeds to illegally support contras in Nicaragua. A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. He ... is back again with a plan even more scandalous than Iran-contra. He heads the 'Information Awareness Office' in the otherwise excellent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which spawned the Internet and stealth aircraft technology. Poindexter is now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and private act of every American..." -- words of conservative columnist and former Nixon administration official William Safire, in his famous NYTimes article, "You Are a Suspect," about the "Homeland Security Act." As written in the last weeks of November '02, it would create a single database to round up personal information on every American. Click Here to read the text of the Bill (it's official address in Congress). If the Senate passes this bill, the government will bring together in one grand database all the public and private information they can get their hands on including your credit history, the magazines you subscribe to, your banking, travel information, etc. It contains language to protect big drug companies from liability when they produce vaccines that hurt children. They've included a provision to ensure that our government can do business with the companies that avoid paying their fair share of taxes by renting a post office box in Bermuda or another tax haven. Click Here to tell Congress to Stop this legislation. or Here to see the bill's status (links to Cong. Record pages, votes)
"In 1975, Church told the nation, and J. Edgar Hoover, that COINTELPRO had been 'a sophisticated vigilante operation aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights of speech and association.' And Church pledged: 'The American people need to be reassured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers a threat to the established order...' Back in 1975, Frank Church issued a warning that is far more pertinent now than it was then. He was speaking of how the government's intelligence capabilities--aimed at 'potential' enemies, as well as disloyal Americans--could 'at any time' be 'turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left--such is the capacity to monitor everything, telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide... There would be no way to fight back,' Church continued, 'because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.' Without even a gesture of consultation with Congress, Ashcroft unilaterally has thrown away those guidelines... the poisonous core of this reorganization is its return to the time of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO, the counter-intelligence operation--pervasively active from 1956 to 1971--that so disgraced the Bureau that it was forced to adopt new guidelines to prevent such wholesale subversion of the Bill of Rights ever again..." -- Nat Hentoff, in 'There Would Be No Place to Hide' Unleashing the FBI, Village Voice.
'Citizens Will Not Become Informants' -- Nat Hentoff, 8/2/02 in "Ashcroft’s Master Plan to Spy on Us"
How the anti-terrorism bill puts the CIA back in the business, article From www.ACLU.org of spying on Americans
Facts on Secret Evidence FROM SECRET EVIDENCE TO NO EVIDENCE: Why is the Attorney General Asking Congress for the Power to Jail and Deport Immigrants Without a Trial or Any Other Way to Establish Their Innocence? article From www.ACLU.org
Bush's war at home: government censorship, secrecy, and lies, From www.wsws.org
Widespread violations of civil liberties in US dragnet - Nearly 600 detained, From http://www.wsws.org
Americans Demand Freedoms Be Kept During Bush's Terror War - Article from www.NewsMax.Com WASHINGTON - More than 150 organizations on the left and right, and hundreds of computer scientists and law professors are circulating a petition urging that personal freedoms not be sacrificed in the fight against terrorism.
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