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Mount Rushmore Cartoon and the Free Speech Issue

If Mount Rushmore Could Speak

23AUG2002 Trees bring war protest to a head

Portland, Oregon Portland IndyMedia Center - While the $80 billion cost of a war in Iraq, and the killing of 10,000 Iraqi civilians and many deaths to our own soldiers didn't get the attention of ordinary American activists, defying the logic of cutting down every tree in the forest to prevent fires brought "Drop Bush not Bombs!" into the war protest mix. [MORE]

22AUG2002 Demos and Israeli Lobby toss McKinney

Representative Cynthia McKinney lost the primary election in Georgia's Fourth District. McKinney has been one of the few voices in Congress, calling for an end to sanctions against Iraq, protection of old growth forests, and a thorough investigation into the 9-11 attacks. She has also been one of the few politicians courageous enough to question the wholesale shredding of our civil rights and creation of a police state. [MORE]

21AUG2002 Insider trading won't prevent Martha from selling magazines

Martha Stewart won't give in or give up. When required to submit documents, she blacked-out that which she deemed none of the Congress' business. The Congress responded by saying, "Screw ya, Martha, and Barbara Streisand too (for backing Democrat candidates)! You don't give us what we want, and we won't let you publish the prison magazine!" [MORE]

19AUG2002 Free Speech in America

Is True Free Speech Alive and Well under Neo-Amerika's Neo-4th Reich? Although none have sed so within the past 48 hours, elsewhere and earlier on some have complained about a Priviliged Uppard Nazi Hitler Berlin 1938 re-run taking place before our very eyes. It's like the 911 hijackings turned flying planes into buildings instead of flying the planes to Cuba. That's how it must have seemed for the Jews while it was happening. Who could believe Hitler & the Priviliged Uppards would murder 6,000,000 Jews? Certainly not the ground-zero Germans. Certainly not the ground-zero Jews. Who could believe the Bush/Ashcroft regime (in a state of having wholly succumbed to the Spirit of the Priviliged) could be setting us up for an Uppards-like Nazi takeover of the United States, and a conquest of the world starting with circumventing our dangerous and irresponsible dependence on mideast oil by simply taking over the Iraqi and Sa'udi oil fields - in the name of a War on Terrorism and protecting us from weapons of mass destruction? There are two problems with this scenario, folks. One: The Arab (and Persian) and Muslim world (world wide) won't like the infidel mucking around in such close proximity to Mecca and Medina - forget the theft of the two major sources of oil in the world. And two: U.S. citizens won't like being put into concentration camps for telling 911 or George WWIII jokes or for otherwise criticizing the government's fuelish declaration of war on the whole wide world - just for Three Days of the Condor oil. The European Jews didn't like it. Too soon it was too late for those who held any kind of wealth. In our case it is just "too much" freedom of speech or too much freedom of the press we exercise and hold too dearly. Will it happen to us? Will we be rounded up for practicing stand up comedy or taking pot shots at the religious right wing goof balls who recently stole our government from us?? Where does Israel (the fourth largest military in the world) fit into the 4th Reich's unfolding equation of mischief beyond the imagination? Can we focus on the unthinkable(s) for a moment; that the Israelis possess and could fire off nuclear weapons (speaking of "weapons of mass destruction"), and the Ashcroft (factor) in world affairs means to provoke the Uppard into staging a Final Battle on the Plains of Armageddon at the hands of the Israeli, in order to "hurry" the Loward into returning? This is Dr. Strangelove thinking, but NOT unprecedented. Very seriously: Do you remember Reagan's Interior secretary James Watt? He was an Ashcroft-type (so-called) "Christian" who didn't believe in conservation because the Loward was gonna return anyhow. Maybe such an attempt at not-so-revisionist KJV-ism should be saved (no pun intended) for the Ray Taliaferro Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting... because it would take a Miracle for I don't know what to happen, and as Cher said in Moonstruck, "This is modern times. There aren't suppose to be miracles anymore..." This article will end on the count of three. Talk to me about the weather. "Is it hot enough for ya?" or "Is it hot in here or what??" or as barometer readings on the well being of our country go, if we CAN'T run with this story, we ARE in trouble!

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November 5, 2002 - Be there!!

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AUGUST 24th - 3:30pm

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An OCNS Editorial Support for Democrat candidates is crucial. When it is convenient the Republicans tell us about how they want smaller government, but then they impose more government and more government intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans than any we've ever known. They tell us how they'll run government like a business. The way Bush ran Harken? The way Cheney ran Halliburton? These aren't flip questions rhetorically speaking. Gordon Smith is up to his whatevers in agriculture gone wrong in this country. A congress under the Republicans means more welfare for the already rich Corporate Farms at the expense of the ordinary taxpayer, while food safety, nutrition and farm labor bites the dust. The Republicans still want to privatize Social Security; to invest some portion of American workers' retirement in Las Vegas Casinos or Wall Street? The list goes on and on... Criminal Justice has become an industry enabling the rich to get richer. The so-called War on Drugs is designed to criminalize and institutionalize the population for the benefit of privately-owned prison corporations and to keep ordinary citizens from voting. Too simplistic an observation? Besides national implications, the international implications stretch from the poppy fields of Afghanistan to cocaine traffic in Bolivia, Columbia and Peru, leading all the way up to Mexico, California, Texas and downtown Miami's chad machine. Next to the National Republican Senatorial Comittee, which gave $18,500, the second highest amount contributed to Gordon Smith was $16,500 contributed by Enron's PAC, its individual members and/or employees and/or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. In addition to Gordon Smith's Energy-Gas-Oil contributions from Enron, the Americans for Sound Energy Policy (McLean, VA), made up of only nine contributors representing the Williams Companies (Tulsa), the American Petroleum Institute (Anchorage), John Key (Anchorage), Kito, Inc., (Sultan, WA), Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (Anchorage), Alyseka Pipeline (Anchorage), Penco Properties (Anchorage), D.N. Rose (Bountiful, UT), and Arco (Anchorage), contributed $10,000. Pfizer, Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline, Microsoft, Intel (inside), Qwest and Boise Cascade are among the other major contributors to Gordon Smith. View the dismal voting record of Gordon Smith on bills that represent a wide range of the issues most important to working people and their families. -- AFL/CIO Smith voted yes on: Fast Track, Yucca Mountain, Energy Bill, Ashcroft confirmation, and on subsidizing insurance on nuclear energy plants. Smith voted no on: protection on energy company abuses, re-regulating energy companies, campaign finance reform, USDA Meat inspection authority, Electing "democrats" and Democrats to Congress is our only hope for protection from what in the first twenty months of the Bush/Ashcroft administration could hardly have been predicted. 911 and Sa'udi Arabia. Oil and Energy. The Bush - bin Laden - Carlyle Group connection. The Corporate-Government War Machine. With a congressional rubber-stamp in the hands of the Republicans, we'll only get more of the same. I can never remember a time when it has been popular to be on the right side of an issue - and the Republicans have handed us the whole platform; food, drugs, transportation, housing, Enron, Harken, Halliburton, the 2000 election, John Ashcroft, a Middle East war that none except the Military Industrial Complex and the Carlyle Group want, 401Ks, Social Security, Las Vegas, Wall Street, Martha Stewart... Martha Stewart? Barbra Streisand? Weren't they demos?? Never mind. We've still got Tom Daschle, Patrick Leahy, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, who the mysterious Anthrax Killer attempted to murder. Ditto Fidel Castro, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and does anyone remember the good old days when all we had to worry about was an occasional blow job in the Oral Office and some girl with a blue dress on or off? BTW, have you heard the latest Waco joke?? - By karma or just good luck, Democrats are not invited to be the participating butt of this "inside" joke on the GOP. Also see Economic forum designed to show Bush's concern; Democrats call it blatant infomercial and Bush will mix with Everyman, well almost every man unless he's a democrat. Does this remind anyone of an Energy Summit that excludes all except friends of Enron?? Ed. note: The winning of elections is about fund raising anymore. According to usatoday.com Bush is setting all-time records on scaring up money for the Republicans, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Hillary are you there? Hillary, did you really say that dog was hard to keep on the porch?

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