College Campus Freedoms in USA Revoked? I was handing out Ron Paul info at the local community college today and met resistance from the administrators and police. One of the top administrators conceded that it was ok to do so outside, but not in the buildings. It seems common for the local entities to be pro-active in limiting liberties of citizens, which is very disconcerting for me, even more so is that people willfully accept the loss of once cherished rights (Free speech & press). It's bad enough (and completely unacceptable) that Virginia eliminates citizens' 2nd amdt rights on college campuses, that was probably the gateway to allow total suppression of the other rights as well? Some say college students are irresponsible and would mix guns and dinking or other dangerous behavior that would lead to more and severe endemic problems. I don't accept this, especially since inappropriate behavior in general is already illegal and should be the focus of correction, (not the tools used for it). Some people are so scared to see people expressing their rights. These cowards are supporting the slide towards a fascist police state dictatorship. Wasn't the Constitution written to prevent that though? To ensure tyranny by the masses didn't occur (as it did in Germany)? Isn't there supposed to be an American political Revolution every ten or so years to help maintain liberty? Many agree that we're due for a good and thorough political revolution and I think stripping the system down to the bare bones constitutional republic that was originally set up is a very goo start.
The JFK Pipeline "Plot": Another "Chilling" Example of Political and Media Hyperbole
There was no set plan. There was no financing. They didn't have any explosives -- and yet government officials were quoted calling the amorphous plot "one of the most chilling plots imaginable" that almost "resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths, and destruction." And people wonder why the public has become cynical about how the war on terror is being used for political purposes.
Then we have fear-mongering presidential candidates like Rudy Giuliani wasting no time laying the JFK plot and the Fort Dix plot at the feet of "Islamic terrorists" -- raising the specter of Osama bin Laden.
Michael Bloomberg, Giuliani's replacement as mayor of New York, took a rightly dismissive approach to the JFK plot hype: "You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life. You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist."
Republican presidential candidates back nuclear strike against Iran
Nine of ten candidates for the Republican presidential nomination explicitly or tacitly supported a US attack on Iran using nuclear weapons, in response to a question at Tuesday night’s nationally televised debate in New Hampshire.
Blitzer: Congressman Paul, what’s the most pressing moral issue in the United States right now?
Paul: I think it is the acceptance just recently that we now promote preemptive war. I do not believe that’s part of the American tradition... And now, tonight, we hear that we’re not even willing to remove from the table a preemptive nuclear strike against a country that has done no harm to us directly and is no threat to our national security!”
The rest of the mainstream press did not even report this endorsement of an unprovoked US nuclear attack on Iran. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News Service, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News all said nothing.
Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election?
The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website – which gave the world the presidential election results – was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s firing of eight federal prosecutors.
Public vote counts on private, partisan servers and secret proprietary software have no place in a democracy.
71 Employees in Bush's Office Owe $660,000 in Back Taxes http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807M.shtml As the 2006 tax season approaches, the federal government is still trying to recover nearly $3 billion from its own employees who failed to file income tax returns for 2005. Seventy-one employees in the Executive Office of the President, which includes the White House, owe $664,527 in taxes for 2005. About 20 of those employees have entered into an IRS payment plan, bringing the EOP balance down to $455,881 owed by 50 employees.
David Swanson | Impeach Disney and General Electric http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807O.shtml David Swanson argues that by any serious standard of journalism, impeachment should be in the news right now. This illustrates the worst problem with our media. It's not how they cover stories. It's how they do not cover stories. A Newsweek poll a while back said that 51 percent of Americans want Bush impeached and 44 percent do not. That's about double the support there was for impeaching Clinton when it was in the news every single day.
Video Interview | Ehren Watada's Parents Speak Out http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707A.shtml Truthout's Geoffrey Millard interviews Lieutenant Ehren Watada's parents on the eve of his court-martial. They spoke about their son and his courage as he faces the fight of his life.
Fw: Tennessee Senate Race May Reach Beyond Election
David Swanson | Rumsfeld and Hussein: Partners in Crime http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606E.shtml "In the course of making the world less safe for democracy, Donald Rumsfeld has overseen the slaughter of 650,000 Iraqis and 3,000 Americans. He has targeted civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances. He has used white phosphorous as a weapon on civilian families. He has used depleted uranium and a new form of napalm. (When did melting the skin off children become a family value?) He has approved the hiding of prisoners from the Red Cross, the detention of Americans and non-Americans without charge or counsel, and the use of torture. Acceptable torture techniques were posted on the wall at Abu Ghraib in the form of a memo from Rumsfeld," writes David Swanson.
FOCUS | Bush Cites Oil As Reason to Stay in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110506Z.shtml During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and his aides sternly dismissed suggestions that the war was all about oil. Now, 3 1/2 years later, as he barnstorms across the country campaigning for Republican candidates in Tuesday's elections, Bush has been citing oil as a reason to stay in Iraq.
Florida E-Voting Machines Already Flipping Votes http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103006B.shtml After a week of early voting, a handful of glitches with electronic voting machines have drawn the ire of voters, reassurances from elections supervisors - and a caution against the careless casting of ballots. Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen - the final voting step.
VIDEO | Iraq and Afghan War Veterans Campaign for Congress A Report by Geoffrey Millard, Scott Galindez, and Paul Hubbard http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103006L.shtml With the war in Iraq as a central focus in the upcoming elections, a number of veterans of the war are running for Congress. Truthout spent time with three of the candidates: Andrew Duck, Patrick Murphy, and Joseph Sestak. We also caught up with Senator John Kerry, who was campaigning for Murphy and Sestak.
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Progressiveness must overcome this Fascist movement that's thrown US back towards civil war era thinking and acting.
I am very honest, this is both good and bad, hopefully it'll make it easier and faster for you to decide if you like me. The meek shall inherit the earth. I'm constantly learning and trying to be better and help those around me better. I try not to be materialistic and egotistical. (But..) I'm self-sufficient, own my own house and car, and have my first BS degree. I'm very resourceful and adaptive. I'm very progressive. I wish everyone could be open-minded.
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