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17DEC2002 President of U.S. doesn't get it - Lott is bad news! "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." -- Trent Lott "Just what troubles does Mr. Lott refer to? Lynchings? Cross-burnings? Assassinations in driveways and motels? Marches met with dogs and bullets? Riots in the cities? Sure, none of these would have happened after the administration of President Thurmond..." -- Thanks to www.weblog.nohair.net Ed. note: Our story ends where it began. Over the days it has become obvious who is on which side of the pre and post-1948 racism issue. Trent Lott's merely stepping down won't be enough. All of the 30% pro-Lott, pro-War, pro-Israel and anti-Environmentalists, in government as elected officials and in the bureaucracy must be identified and voted out of office and/or otherwise fired. The lobbyist-connected Military Industrial Complex contracts need some serious review, and the socially irresponsible corporates that monopolize our water, food, housing, transportation and news should be identified and viable alternatives should be made integral to our lives and life style. The Jerry Falwells, the Pat Robertsons, the Billy (and Franklin) Grahams, and their idiotic, perverse and racist-justifying interpretation of the King James Version of the Holy Scriptures needs to be made known. The influence they have, especially through the Congress of the United States must end. There is a separation between "church and state" in this country, and that democracy-insuring dynamic needs to be restored to our everyday lives. To understand why it was the Civil Rights Legislation following the Civil Rights Movement failed to end rights-denying racism, and to understand who was responsible for thwarting our efforts and how they did it, and who is still doing it and how they're doing it, we need to understand the 1948 election, Dixiecrats, "traditional values", hypocrisy, Jim Crow, segregation, states' rights, the Confederate (Bob Barrs and Ken Starrs) flag, quotas, affirmative action, the Welfare Queen, and the post-Civil Rights era "Southern Strategy" ploys of George Wallace, Richard "Silent Majority" Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and George HW, Lee Atwater and Willie Horton, Karl Rove, John Ashcroft, and George W. A quick overview of all of the above (and below) was a CBS News Internet posting, that gives a chronology and names some of the important players; both those who helped, even reluctantly, and those who stood in the way of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passage. No discussion of the Great White Switch can take place without a reference to "The Rise of Southern Republicans" and "The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. If we're gonna make any changes around here, we've got to know how it was we arrived at this place in history. The CBS posting is a kind of Book Review, by Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch. In the post-Enron collapse era, the recent George W suggestion that CSX CEO John Snow serve as Treasury Secretary is absurd, and an indicator of how talk-only Bush is regarding the Good Old Boyism's continuing racism and economic discrimination as usual. See: What Do We Do Now? by Arden Buck. Also see: "Traditional Values, GOP-Style - Bush talks a good game on race, but the presence in his party of a Jim Crow relic like Trent Lott mocks his words -- and the GOP's future" by Howard Gleckman "Southern Strategy, Inc. - Where Wall Street Meets Tobacco Road" by John Hoefle CIVIL RIGHTS AND WRONGS: A MEMOIR OF RACE AND POLITICS, 1944-1996 by Harry S. Ashmore 
"Near the beginning of his 1944 seminal work on American race relations, Swedish author Gunnar Myrdal expressed hope that "huge institutional structures" would mitigate bigotry and renew faith in the American Creed. Among the structures with the potential to serve as "mighty organs" of racial justice and understanding were organized religion, the public education establishment (especially higher education), organized labor, and the business sector. If not champions of integration and racial equality, these institutions, Myrdal believed, were capable of tempering the excesses of white supremacy." -- Stephen H. Wainscott, Clemson University] By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race by Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown Jim Crow and Black Voters - No Paranoia By Black Voters Over Florida Vote, A Lesson In The Republican Party's Racial History, and Bamboozled at the Voting Booth by Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Race and the Subversion of the Two Party System "Since the beginning of the republic, we have been taught that the essence of democracy resides in the system of "checks and balances" manifested in our three branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. But since the elections of 1994, a right-wing party -- which is anti-choice, anti-Labor, anti-city, anti-mass transportation, anti-public housing, anti-public education, anti gun control, anti-black and Brown folk, anti-clean air and water, anti-raising the minimum wage, anti-national health insurance, anti-culture (at least as represented by the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities), anti-immigrant, anti-nuclear test ban treaty, ad infinitum -- now controls the House and Senate of the United States, orchestrates a five-vote majority on the Supreme Court, and has appointed two-thirds of all the federal judges on the bench. Didn't you ever wonder how Kenneth Star kept winning all his appeals?" "Most of all, they want to loot the public treasury by eliminating taxes upon their wealth and by hiring their friends to "privatize" education, housing, health care, prisons, Social Security, sports stadia, you name it. It is a pretty game plan which, if enacted, means the kidnapping of America." "Now, in the year 2000, they covet the White House to complete their coup. Then the last political domino will have fallen and the unchecked reign of the troglodytes will have begun." -- PeaceWork February 2000 The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History by David Greenberg - History News Service GOP and racists? Thick as thieves by Cynthia Tucker With his words, Trent Lott lost in the game of racial politics by Philip Gailey Religious Right and Republicans Shoot at (their) Own Feet by Jack Nichols Finally, Lee Atwater and the Destruction of Black Music is a not so amusing look at how we got from there to here with or without Rod Stewart. And in the spirit of Lee Atwater, try Rapping for the Right Wing or not. 15DEC2002 President of U.S. doesn't get it - Lott is bad news! Ed note: While condemning Trent Lott's remarks as "Offensive", George W wouldn't go so far as to say Lott should not serve as Senate Republican leader. A New York Times article reports: "Any suggestion that the segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive, and it is wrong," Mr. Bush said as his mostly black audience of religious leaders in Philadelphia rose from their chairs and erupted in shouts of approval and long burst of applause. "Recent comments by Senator Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country. He has apologized, and rightly so. "Every day our nation was segregated was a day that America was unfaithful to our founding ideals," the president continued. "And the founding ideals of our nation and, in fact, the founding ideals of the political party I represent was, and remains today, the equal dignity and equal rights of every American." While Mr. Bush did not address the question of whether Mr. Lott should step aside, the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said in an interview after Mr. Bush's speech that "emphatically and on the record, the president doesn't think Trent Lott needs to resign." A question we have asked, and a question we've heard asked is, "Which side of 1948 are you on?" As the days pass since the Lott story became a story we're following, a whole laundry list of racist garbage that we were suppose to have disposed of during the Civil Rights days is still alive and well, part of the American racists' play book today. Which may explain WHY racism is still alive and well, deadly on a daily basis. At least now, in the post-Lott/Thurmond/1948 revelations, why we haven't made better progress is somewhat more understandable. The leadership of this country, and particularly the Republican leadership, starting with Nixon and carrying through all the way to Reagan, and Gingrich, and now Lott sez it all. This is an ongoing story, and we'll keep working on it with the idea that for the first time in 40-50 years, we may be seeing some light at the end of those dark days tunnel. Racism must be a no-tollerance kind of deal. That means, racists and people who haven't come to terms with being racist or not ought not be elected to public office where legislative matters or race, religion, sexual preference and the like get written. Same with judges who must decide related cases. Let's move the process forward starting with busting Trent Lott's racist ass, and throw him out of the senate. If the truth be known, the majority of the people who elected Trent Lott to public office are NOT racists. Once the truth is known about this guy, he won't be elected again. IF he is re-elected, there are ways to hurt the people who elect him to office, and their whole damned state. [To be continued] According to PlanetOut.com, some gay political organizations, including the nation's largest gay Republican group, have called for Trent Lott's resignation. Equality Mississippi, which advocates for GLBT rights in the Republican senator's home state, said in a statement on Friday: "Lott has been, and continues to be, an embarrassment to the state of Mississippi and to the Mississippians who believe in equality for all people." The Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest gay GOP group, called for Lott's resignation in an e-mail newsletter sent to members on Wednesday. "If the GOP is going to expand and keep their majority, they must remove Lott as their leader," LCR leaders wrote in a message headlined, "Trent Lott must go." The newsletter noted that Lott had made similar remarks about Thurmond in 1980 while speaking to a rural crowd in Mississippi. "The legacy of segregation is not something to be celebrated in a political speech -- not in 1980 and certainly not in 2002," said the LCR newsletter. Over the years, Lott has made several statements that have angered proponents for equal rights. In 1998, for example, he drew sharp criticism for a television interview in which he equated homosexuals with alcoholics, sex addicts and kleptomaniacs. Now, his critics believe he has gone too far. "It is our hope that this spotlight on the true Trent Lott will wake Mississippi voters up and that they will stop sending this 'Blackeye of Mississippi' to represent us in the United States Senate or any other public office," said Equality Mississippi. 12DEC2002 Trent Lott in the News - Not funny! Ed note: It's time to speak out and say enough is enough of racism! Back in the 60s, blacks went on record one at a time as to which side they were on. Some were still willing to "take it slow" and they were denounced as "Uncle Toms" by the young militants. I remember when Louis Armstrong came out sounding uncharacteristically harsh; shocking the shit out of whites who up until that defining moment in the Civil Rights struggle thought he was a good fellow. They had no idea that Satchmo had it in his heart to demand what Martin, Angela and Malcolm were demanding - equality, and Justice for All NOW! We now have a situation where whites are having to go on record as to which side of the 1948 election they're on... and now the Republicans mostly, and deservedly tarred with the same racists brush are hem-hawing around as they attempt to make lame excuses and apologies for what Trent Lott said, and they are falling way, way short of out right denouncing what he said (and meant). In their foot dragging and as a manifestation of their own denial of their own mental illness and racist affliction, they seem to be hoping to stave off the inevitable day Martin spoke of in his Dream speech. Unconsciously and certainly without conscience, those who continue to side with Trent Lott are living to perpetuate the status quo, or to turn back the clock to 1948 if they could. The rest of us ARE denouncing what Trent Lott said, and demand that for what he articulated so damned well, he get his ass out, uh, step down from his leadership position in the Senate, and for what he did in support of Bob Jones University that he leave the Senate altogether. While it ain't exactly A Dark and Stormy Night, with the blue pill or without life is more complex than would seem the case on the surface. For example, on either side of The Matrix there are do or don't want to be lesbian wannabees and there are lesbians among women and some men too no doubt. The latter in hell easily identifiable by the singed beards, nuns' habit and smoking cigars - standing next to some mostly straight guy, probably a politician telling jokes and thinking he's giving a stump speech... The audience laughs. The nun who we'll call Gracie takes a puff off of his cigar. In yet another dimension of human existence or imagination there are living gods and goddesses where women in the spirit of Sappho actualize among men and angels and fairies and streetcar conductors and busy people cooking food in Chinese restaurant kitchens in San Francisco while out front others mostly preoccupied with variations of drugs (and alcohol) and sex and rock'n'roll and sports events and fast blue cars sit and talk while eating up our food and breathing up our air. Trent Lott, who as determined by TiVo* is gay, besides, he was a boy-cheerleader (and don't forget Lott's wife - what a pair - Russian grapefruits if I've ever seen 'em; anti-communist, anti-socialist and anti-social) and if so, dimensionally speaking the male counterpart of the Sappho-type lesbians then follows. What diff IF you know which side of The Matrix you're on, or 1984 or 1948?? Is it really so hard to understand you think that's air you're breathing? While Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr and Ken Starr have been relegated from nightmare fading to bad dream or Joseph "Are you now or have you ever been?" McCarthy-like history the likes of Trent Lott, or what would you call a gay, uh, GUY! GUY! GUY! ...something to say so's to not demean genuine homosexuals? The Trent Lott definition in replacing John Rocker as poster child for the Satanic Church of the American Flag identification with a contrived hair-do or hair piece is what you could shout out through the bars... But who would? The most feminine coquette with Bambi-like eyes and a mouth and lips, and black, so beautiful... What might be referred to as the ideal self-imaging perfection; a mental projection of a non-digital self They separate the men from the drag queens in jails; a guy could learn real quick that all people are probably NOT born bi-sexual... "You fucking queer!" There was this Indian guy I knew once. Built like a bear or a barrel. He was from Oklahoma. A nurse. He told me about when he was prancing around on a street corner in San Francisco and some creeps pulled up next to him and yelled from inside the car. He swished up to the car window, grabbed the offending front seat passenger, pulled him through the window hole, beat the living shit outa the guy and calmly told him, "I might be a queer, but I'm a fightin' queer!" The closet queen, Ku Klux Klan wannabe Trent Lott decried for his role and "off the cuff" Salute to Thurmond hailed hi colleague's run as a segregationist provoked criticism by saying the United States would have been better off if then-segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948. "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." On July 17, 1948, delegates from 13 southern states gathered in Birmingham to nominate Thurmond and adopt a platform that said, "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race." Thurmond was one of the best-known segregationists. Lott was saying the country should have voted to continue segregation. That is what Strom Thurmond stood for in 1948." As the breakaway Dixiecrat Party's presidential nominee Thurmond carried Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and his home state. In 1998 and 1999, Lott was criticized after disclosures that he had been a speaker at meetings of the Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization formed to succeed the segregationist White Citizens' Councils of the 1960s. In a 1992 speech in Greenwood, Miss., Lott told CCC members: "The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy. Let's take it in the right direction, and our children will be the beneficiaries." The dirty laundry (list) continues: previous speeches voting record voted against judge While it was about 50-50 between the Democrat's Gore and the Republican's Bush, 70% want Trent Lott to step down from the Senate, while 30% think Trent Lott's racist views and utterings don't matter. Only 30% of the people in this country are racists and bigots and homophobes and sexist and agists. Unfortunately, that minority holds the power in the corporations, in the Military Industrial Complex and in the United States government, and the branches of government, including the Executive, the Legislative (the Congress and the Senate), and the U.S. Supreme Court. While it is more difficult although not impossible to get at the corporations, it should be relatively easy getting at the government and the government agencies, to rout out the offenders now that a 1948 "litmus" test has surfaced into the question and struggle of civil rights in this country. Also by coincidence, nearly 100% of the 30% are of the religious right and Republicans. Religiously, within the ranks of the 30% believe in an interpretation of the King James Version of the Bible that makes racism and bigotry and homophobia and sexism and agism ok somehow. Also within the 30% are the most wealthy (Republicans) who value money and who value of their corporations more than they value the economic well being of the American people. In the "kernel of truth" clause, a point of view or Lott's denial of his own homosexual tendencies while spewing a homophobic rhetoric. Lott presently leader of the U.S. Senate of the United States, which the Republicans control didn't put up much of a fight in his C-SPAN salute and outing the other night at Strom Thurmond's 100th Birthday celebration. Yes, he declared during his campaign against Truman, who supported civil rights legislation, and Republican Thomas Dewey: "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches." Voting Fronts of our busses Seats at our lunch counters Backs of our gas stations' restrooms for men, women and colored Limbs of our poplar trees The audience laughs, and the nun who we'll call Gracie takes a puff off of his cigar. Last time I checked racism was no laughing matter. In a supposed defense of Lott's comments, Bob Novak said this weekend on Meet the Press, "Lott was just kidding around - why don't we forget it?" Last time I checked racism was no laughing matter. We must speak out... Lott's remarks are wholly unacceptable for someone about to assume the role of Senate Majority Leader. His racism embracing is offensive to the majority of Americans. His remarks are an insult to the progress this country has made over the last 50 years. They should be strongly repudiated Ð by readers of this newspaper, by Lott's fellow Republicans, and by the media. Instead, the press has mostly ignored the issue and allowed it to be dismissed as an off-the-cuff remark. Last time I checked racism was no laughing matter. We must speak out now: Email Senator Lott at senatorlott@lott.senate.gov and tell him to step down. Contact your local media outlets and tell them to address Lott's remarks and to condemn them on their editorial pages. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper denouncing Lott. Forward the Washington Post article to your email lists. Your homework assignment is to read: What Do We Do Now? by Arden Buck Also see: Co-op America Global Exchange Witness for Peace Applied Racism - The Last Chapter Ed. note: Thanks to Thomas B. Edsall and the Washington Post, The Progressive Majority, Tom Musbach, Gay.comand the PlanetOut.com Network, TiVO and The Matrix 1999 for content help in these articles. *All techno-profiling companies contacted for the TiVo article said that information gleaned is for the customer's personal use only. Still, even Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos knows the potential mortification factor. For a live demonstration before an audience of 500 people, Mr. Bezos once logged onto Amazon.com to show how it caters to his interests. The top recommendation it gave him? The DVD for "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity." That popped up because he had previously ordered "Barbarella," starring Jane Fonda. Also see "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death."     09DEC2002 From somewhere in a country called America - Rebellion update The online Spanish-language magazine Rebelion has published an astute and informed analysis of the dynamics at work this week in Venezuela by Heinz Dieterich Steffan. According to Dieterich, there are very solid explanations for why the Venezuelan "opposition" is behaving so erratically, irrationally and desperately. There are steps that the democratically elected government in Venezuela can take to defeat the coup plotters, legally, once, and for all. [See English translation] Ed. note 17DEC2002 - UPDATE: Friday's desperate maneuver by U.S. President George W. Bush - his cynical call for "early elections" in Venezuela, a country that has had six national elections in the past four years Ð has backfired after it was revealed as unconstitutional. Read also, about the machinations within the Organization of American States, as NarcoNews name the names of which countries' leaders have lined up with the coup plotters, which have been strongest for democracy, and which have broken from the United States position in recent hours. Florence Peace Theatre - Citizens Democracy Watch  One Nation Under Surveillance, $200 Billion War, War Empties Pockets, War - The Ultimate Hate Crime, Silence is Consent, It's About Dead People, War Inflames Violence, Peace Prevents Terrorism, Solar is Cheaper Than War, War Depletes the Economy, Sanctions Kill Babies, War = Global Warming, Human Rights Day IS Every Day, Call Your Paper & Protest, Call & Protest, Call, call, call... [MORE] 08DEC2002 VanGoghs stolen from museum AMSTERDAM: Thieves broke into Amsterdam's VanGogh museum and made off with two early paintings by the artist. When told that "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen" and "View of the Sea at Scheveningen" had been stolen, Oregon impressionist Curtis Hempt said in a phone conversation, "No problem." His wife later wrote in an e-mail, "Curtis intends to put Modgiliani's Girl with Braids aside tomorrow and start in on a stolen VanGogh. Curtis painted a Mona Lisa that is better than the original. More info on the Amsterdam Theft. More info on Curtis Hempt. bin Laden Family quitely leaves US after 911 - Follow up Ed. note: After asking a friend if he heard the one about the ONLY planes allowed in the air, for several hours after the 911 incident, were the ones flying about the U.S., picking up relatives of Usama bin Laden's family so's they could be flown to safety somewhere?? Speaking of the Bush White House NOT going after Usama and his gang. Then throw in the fact that mostly Sa'udi were the actual hijacker-terrorists, and that two of those received funding directly from the Sa'udi (kiss my "royal" al-Sa'ud ass) family. Also, it should be noted here because it ain't noted elsewhere, that just as the Jewish Lobby (the Israeli and Zionists) is the tail that wags the U.S. foreign policy dog, the Wahabbi is the tail wagging the al-Sa'ud dog; i.e., they are the buffer between House of al-Sa'ud and the former bedouin or the pre-Lawrence of Arabia Arabians. al-Sa'ud pays (protection money) to the Wahabbi (brawn) to protect the al-Sa'ud status quo, then Al-Quaida (brains) are free (or else) to preach their blaspheme in the Name of God and with the blessing (and more money) from al-Sa'ud. It's little different from Saddam's hometown Baathism only Saddam's has a secular slant rather than traditional taken to absurdity ala Wahabbism and the Taliban brand of blasphemy. Of course, that's just my opinion, and the only reason I mention it is because I am an American in America with some idea that I am free to say what I believe to be true. God knows I couldn't say any of the above in Sa'udi Arabia, the Islamic Republic (Iran), or downtown Jerusalem. It would be a shame if ever anyone said something that wasn't true about God or religion (the Return to God), or for a Muslim to criticize another Muslim. Justification for AMERICAN Muslim criticism in this instance is ok because the organizational rules of the Wahabbi and Taliban-types (and in name only Islam) cannot be enforced in the United States except by murderers, as we saw in the instance of the bird brain bunch of bin Laden & Company killing innocents on 911. As has been written elsewhere, Usama is dearly loved worldwide by more millions of Muslims than there are Americans in the first place. Not for killing innocents but for engaging Imam Khomeini's Great Satan in Jihad. The only way America may now avoid a fight with Usama's followers is to defy the Israeli and Jewish lobby in the United States and then use it's influence to settle the Palestinian problem - to force the Israeli into vacating the settlements of the occupied Palestinian lands and to work out a water sharing plan that is absolutely fair. If by some Miracle, an all out war can be avoided in Palestine, and peace might be attained to the satisfaction of all parties, it doesn't end there for those whose intent it is to liberate Muslims from the infidel. Just as Saddam had intended to "liberate" Kuwait and protect his own (Iraqi) oil from the side-drillers that brought on the George HW Bush war in Iraq, the next Islam v. Infidel hot spots have got to be Cypress and of course, Kashmir, in the north, and some of the former Dutch (Indonesia) and Spanish (Philippines) colonies in the southern hemisphere. Actually on subject: The Iranian mullahs who are attempting to steal the Revolution away from the followers of Imam Khomeini are the same as the Wahabbi/Taliban-types, except in matters of Islamic ritual-as-religion. That is, they've set themselves up as equal to the Prophet and Ali, only beyond a respected authority, their demand to be worshipped and feared even the great patriarchs never dreamed of for themselves. In fact, that kind of worship and fear they demand is reserved to God Alone. Who do they think they are? The western counterpart of the Iranian mullahs and the Wahabbi/Taliban-types has got to be the people who knew Usama was behind 911 and the let his people go... and the dog waggers who equate criticism of the Israeli to anti-Semitism. The bastards! It ain't about the Jews (or religion); the Palestinian problem is about oppression and U.S. sanctioned land-grab at the hands of the Jews. Still on subject: Ever notice there is no pope-like figure in Islam? What the Wahabbi/Taliban-types are doing is fulfilling one of the prophecies of the Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, wherein he said before it was over there would be "seventy-seven" Islams. Anyhow, the plane trips of the bin-Laden family connect to the Carlyle Group that connects to the Bush Family and so on... there was a White House connection to the bin Laden family and special treatment they received - that in the hours after 911, when all other planes were grounded, the bin Ladens were gathered up from all over the country and given safe passage out of the U.S. - our friend wrote: "You know, I heard that story about the airplanes taking bin Laden's family away, but I have been absolutely unable to independently verify the story. I think it needs digging into." So, we began doing some digging... Re: bin Laden Flying Circus - a first rough draft... Two different questions: 1. Why don't we look at the connections between the Bush family and Saudi Arabia, why this country will not really go after where the money probably came from? 2. Why did this country allow the bin Laden jet? Claim: Two days after September 11 -- while all other planes were grounded -- a secret flight arranged by George W. Bush flew Osama bin Laden's relatives out of the USA. Status: False. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002] Buncombe, Andrew "Fears of Reprisal Force Bin Laden Family to Flee Homes in US" The [London] Independent. 26 September 2001 (p. 3). Cullen, Kevin "Bin Laden Kin Flown Back to Saudi Arabia" The Boston Globe. 20 September 2001 (p. A29). Cullen, Kevin "Saudi Diplomat: IDs Were Stolen" The Boston Globe. 29 September 2001 (p. A6). D'Amato, Al and Alan Colmes "Hannity & Colmes: Interview with Michael Moore." FOX News Network. 2 January 2002 (p. A29). Tyler, Patrick E. "Fearing Harm, Bin Laden Kin Fled from U.S." The New York Times. 30 September 2001 (p. A1). From the Republican apologist mentality: "Some folks play fast and loose with the facts when they've an axe to grind, however, and in Moore's case his axe is "the dastardly Republicans and how they're responsible for every ill ever visited upon the USA." In this case, inventing a bin Laden jet that secretly flew out of the country while the rest of us were barred from the skies, and peopling it with folks who were spirited out of the FBI's grasp by a U.S. president intent upon paying back some unnamed (but darkly hinted at) favor, is a handy way of reinforcing the stereotype of Republicans as callous and greedy politicians whose paramount values involve money, not people." Again, just as Palestine isn't about the Jews but about oppression at the hands of the Jews, this facet of the bin Laden story isn't about Republicans but about preferential treatment given by the Bush White House to their friends; in this case, and via the bin Laden family, The Carlyle Group, business partners of George WH Bush. Oliver Stone was criticized for weaving into JFK (the movie) the "story" about the "doctored" Lee Harvey Oswald photo. Stone's entire movie was discredited by the likes of Cokie Roberts, whose father sat on the Warren Commission, and who mysteriously died in a plane crash after he had misgivings about the "Oswald as Lone Assassin" or "Lone Nut" theory. Now Michael Moore's "theory" that George W is a wrong-doer is being tossed just because of the "Why did this country allow the bin Laden jet?" slip up... speaking of babies being thrown out onto the floor in Kuwaiti health clinics as Iraqi soldiers looted incubators for their own Iraqi children? Yeaah. Michael "still ok in my book" Moore is guilty as charged. Me too. Now can we get back to the al-Sa'ud (family) connection to 911 connected to the bin Laden (family) connected to Carlyle connected to the Bush (family) story? Also see: The Cost of War (based on lies in the first place), and Other hidden costs, as explained by Bill Moyers. And see: Who Pays for War? and More Hidden Taxpayers and No Blood for Oil. Also see: Who Profits from War? 1. The Israel / U.S. Connection 2. The Carlyle Group - Halliburton - Bush White House Connection(s) Also see: The Un-answered questions re: Central Asian oil, Enron and the Afghanistan pipelines and/or US preparing for a war with Afghanistan before 9/11, increasing control of Asia before and since and/or Incompetence, bad luck, and/or obstruction of justice and/or Suggestions of advanced knowledge that an attack would take place on or around 9/11 and/or Cover-up, lies, contradictions and obscure facts and/or Israeli "art student" spy ring, Israeli foreknowledge evidence and/or Anthrax attacks and microbiologist deaths and/or Pakistani ISI and/or opium drug connections and/or bin Laden family, Saudi Arabia corruption and support of terrorists, connections to Bush. Although the "Death of Microbiologists" story is TWO stories, for every 100 "conspiracy" versions there is also a "coincidence" version... But like the bin Laden Family Flown out of the Country story, that as of this moment seems to be more or less settled, to the same degree the "Israeli art student spy ring" as evidence in connection with "Israeli foreknowledge of 911" is still very unsettled and unsettling... There are only two sides of the Islam v. Infidel issue as articulated by Dan Pipes, a well known Muslim-hater, and now a relative newcomer to the unreasonably pro-Isreal and pro-Pipes scene, scare-monger David Kupelian, author of The Invisible Jihad, originally published by WorldNetDaily, and the opposing view as stated by Usama bin Laden in his recent Letter to America. At the end of the day, what makes more sense for the world? A continuation of the post-Crusades, post-Inquisition, post-Balfour Declaration and post-Cold War and revisionist history status quo, or the post-Islamic (1979-Iran) Revolution, where the life issues for the future were originally articulated by Imam Khomeini, and are now outlined (again) as a to-do check-list by Usama bin Laden? If what Usama is demanding of the west is unreasonable, then certainly the western world should fight to the last man, woman and child to continue on with business as usual. But if an honorable peace that may be attained between all parties is refused based on the backwards thinking of Muslim-haters personified by Dan Pipes, David Kupelian, Franklin Graham and Salman Rushdie, then we (in the west) need to ask ourselves, what kind of madmen do we have occupying our world capitols that we would let them lead us into an un-winable and unjust war? Moore, uh, more later, no doubt... 07DEC2002 Second known victim of Bush-Ashcroft SS - More than outrageous! PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL The new police powers introduced by the USA-PATRIOT act, in the name of fighting terrorism, are frightening in their apparent potential for abuse. It suggests that a wide range of activities which might be considered "suspicious" could be suddenly labeled a prelude to terrorism, and be grounds for arrest. A denver photographer's "suspicious activities" were deemed by a beat cop to be a threat to national security. The photographer was threatened with being charged as a terrorist under the USA-PATRIOT act. A Secret Service (SS) agent tried to make the photographer admit that he was taking the photographs to analyze weaknesses in the Vice President's security entourage and "cause terror and mayhem." When the photographer refused to admit to being any sort of terrorist, the Secret Service agent called him a "raghead collaborator" and a "dirty pinko faggot." While the profiling and/or name-calling is water off a duck's back, the incident became a serious matter when the photographer was actually arrested. After snapping about 30 pictures of the Adams Mark Hotel and the surrounding area - which included Denver police, Army rangers, and rooftop snipers, and as he was putting his camera away, the photographer was confronted by a Denver police officer who demanded that he hand over his film and camera. When he refused to give up his Nikon F2, the officer pushed him to the ground, put him under arrest and took him to a police station interrogation room downtown. It was two hours after the "arrest" before the Secret Service agent arrived. After approximately an hour of interrogation, the photographer was allowed to make a telephone call. Rather than contacting a lawyer, the photographer called a Denver newspaper. Overheard by the desk sergeant, the line was disconnected the photographer was put in a holding cell. After three more hours, the photographer was released with no explanation. He received no copy of an arrest report, and no receipt for his confiscated possessions. He was told that he would probably not get his camera back, as it was being held as evidence. The Denver Police Department has denied having encountered the photographer or anyone matching his description or ever having had any such a person in custody. [MORE] Ed. note: Within a six hour period, we received three different alerts to this story from three unrelated sources. Declan is keeping up with this story and several other privacy/censorship issues, so SUBSCRIBE to the Politech list now if you're not already a subscriber. Ed. note: 11DEC2002 - The PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL story is apparently a hoax. Are we talking about a mischievous prank, deliberate misinformation or planted disinformation??? For our having floated the story without having checked it out first, now we are saddled with having to track down where the false story originated and why and all that. Ed. note: 18DEC2002 - 2600 News is standing by their Denver Photographer Arrested story. |
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