Wrong in, right out
In 1992, AIPAC Harry Katz phoned the President of AIPAC, David Steiner, to offer contributions. Steiner proceeded to make several claims, including negotiating with then-candidate Bill Clinton over who would be Secretary of State, and had already "cut a deal" with Baker for more aid to Israel.
Unknown to Steiner, Katz taped the phone call and gave the recording to the media, worried that AIPAC's influence had grown to dangerous levels.
Following the release of transcripts of the phone conversation, David Steiner was forced to resign the Presidency of AIPAC.
The following is a transcript of the Oct. 22, 1992 conversation with President David Steiner of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) recorded without his knowledge by New York businessman Haim (Harry) Katz. Its existence was first revealed to the Washington Times and its release triggered Steiner's resignation.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/AIPACClinton.html
[Supporting the troops.]
When Army Reservist Steve Welter was called up for active duty in Iraq last August, his wife never thought she would face her own fight to save the family's home from foreclosure.
A 65-year-old federal law, which Congress expanded last year, provides protections for activated reservists and for Guard members called up by the Pentagon.
Those protections include a 6 percent cap, under certain circumstances, on consumer and mortgage interest rate debt incurred before activation; protection from eviction or foreclosure; payment deferral for federal taxes; and a stay on civil proceedings, including divorce and bankruptcy.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050327-120417-5167r.htm
[These people are real hero’s I think. If you can’t be bothered to look after your own country, what is the point of fooling your life away trying to implement a half-assed plan to fix up some other country?]
Published in Guns & Ammo October 1995, pp. 50-51
On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud (forged ballots, secret ballot counts and intimidation by armed sheriff's deputies) by the local political boss. They got no help.
.....
The primary election was held on August 1. To intimidate voters, Mansfield brought in some 200 armed "deputies." GI poll-watchers were beaten almost at once. At about 3 p.m., Tom Gillespie, an African- American voter was told by a sheriff's deputy that he could not vote. Despite being beaten, Gillespie persisted. The enraged deputy shot him. The gunshot drew a crowd. Rumors spread that Gillespie had been shot in the back; he later recovered (C. Stephen Byrum, The Battle of Athens, Paidia Productions, Chattanooga, TN, 1987; pp. 155-57).
Other deputies detained ex-GI poll-watchers in a polling place, as that made the ballot counting "Public" A crowd gathered. Sheriff Mansfield told his deputies to disperse the crowd. When the two ex-GIs smashed a big window and escaped, the crowd surged forward. The deputies, with guns drawn, formed a tight half-circle around the front of the polling place. One deputy, "his gun raised high...shouted: 'If you sons of bitches cross this street I'll kill you!'" (Byrum, p.165).
Mansfield took the ballot boxes to the jail for counting. The deputies seemed to fear immediate attack by the "people who had just liberated Europe and the South Pacific from two of the most powerful war machines in human history" (Byrum, pp. 168-69).
Short of firearms and ammunition, the GIs scoured the county to find them. By borrowing keys to the National Guard and State Guard armories, they got three M-1 rifles, five .45 semi-automatic pistols and 24 British Enfield rifles. The armories were nearly empty after the war's end. By 8 p.m. a group of GIs and "local boys" headed for the jail but left the back door unguarded to give the jail's defenders an easy way out.
Three GIs alerting passersby to danger were fired on from the jail. Two GIs were wounded. Other GIs returned fire.
Firing subsided after 30 minutes; ammunition ran low and night had fallen. Thick brick walls shielded those inside the jail. Absent radios, the GIs' rifle fire was uncoordinated. "From the hillside fire rose and fell in disorganized cascades. More than anything else, people were simply shooting at the jail" (Byrum, p.189).
...
Those who took up arms in Athens, Tennessee, wanted honest elections, a cornerstone of our constitutional order. They had repeatedly tried to get federal or state election monitors and had used armed force so as to minimize harm to the law-breakers, showing little malice to the defeated law-breakers. They restored lawful government.
The Battle of Athens clearly shows how Americans can and should lawfully use armed force and also shows why the rule of law requires unrestricted access to firearms and how civilians with military-type firearms can beat the forces of government gone bad.
Dictators believe that public order is more important than the rule of law. However, Americans reject this idea. Brutal political repression is lethal to many. An individual criminal can harm a handful of people. Governments alone can brutalize thousands, or millions.
Law-abiding McMinn County residents won the Battle of Athens because they were not hamstrung by "gun control " They showed us when citizens can and should use armed force to support the rule of law.
http://www.jpfo.org/athens.htm
[This is not America. This is bullshit.
And I point out yet again that if the wrong people are IN jail, it means the right people are OUT of jail, free to strike again.]
In fact, that evidence, recently declassified and obtained by The Washington Post, shows that U.S. military intelligence and German law enforcement authorities had largely concluded there was no information that linked Kurnaz to al Qaeda, any other terrorist organization or terrorist activities.
In recently declassified portions of a January ruling, a federal judge criticized the military panel for ignoring the exculpatory information that dominates Kurnaz's file and for relying instead on a brief, unsupported memo filed shortly before Kurnaz's hearing by an unidentified government official.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3868-2005Mar26?language=printer
When you present documented charges of official treachery behind the greatest national security disaster in modern history and the press doesn't show, doesn't listen, doesn't write - just what in fact is really being communicated? That despite all the deaths, lies, wars, and bizarre official actions that flowed from 9/11 there's actually nothing there to be investigated at all? That addressing desperate victim families' still unanswered cries for truth is not a legitimate journalistic concern? That news will now be what the corporate media say it will be, so drink your infotainment Kool-Aid and kindly shut up?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0312/S00040.htm
IF Mr. B does not weaken, stands his ground, eventually the tormentors will give up and have him arrested on some charge. However, there is NO lawful way that they can MAKE him go into the military...because of the Constitutional prohibition against "involuntary servitude"...which is why NO ONE IS TRULY EVER "DRAFTED" AND MUST BE "SEDUCED " INTO VOLUNTEERING!
D. R. Graham Ret. Sci. Instr. & Ret. Mil. Off'r, AUS
http://100777.com/node/1154
This week, U.S. President George W. Bush melodramatically cut short one of his innumerable vacations and flew back to Washington to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo when a Florida court granted her husband's request to cut off her life support after she had spent 15 years in a vegetative state. But days before, even as the president was supporting his brother, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and congressional Republicans in "defending the culture of life" in the Schiavo case, doctors in Houston were pulling the breathing tube from the throat of an ailing infant. The boy suffocated within seconds, legally killed -- against the wishes of his anguished mother -- in accordance with a draconian law signed as a "cost-saving" measure by the state's former governor: George W. Bush.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/141069/
[When the 9/11 hijackes supposedly made their trial runs across country, on the return legs they suposedly always stopped off in Las Vegas, a most congenial spot for radical Muslim fantics I’m sure. And now we read the FBi squired 100 Saudis out of Las Vegas after 9/11. Well well.]
WASHINGTON, March 26 - The episode has been retold so many times in the last three and a half years that it has become the stuff of political legend: in the frenzied days after Sept. 11, 2001, when some flights were still grounded, dozens of well-connected Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin Laden, managed to leave the United States on specially chartered flights.
Now, newly released government records show previously undisclosed flights from Las Vegas and elsewhere and point to a more active role by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in aiding some of the Saudis in their departure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27exodus.html?hp&ex=1111986000&en=7a785c415820f14d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
[This is another case where you have to ask who benefits? What is Syria going to get from bombing these people? It doesn’t make sense to blame it on Syria.]
A bombing in a Christian suburb of east Beirut has overshadowed Easter celebrations and raised fresh fears of a slide back into Lebanon's violent past.
Lebanese security forces picked through rubble and twisted metal left by Saturday's blast, the third in eight days in the Christian heartland, where resentment against Syria runs high.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=U11HZKBXCQWGGCRBAEKSFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=696449
[I’m sure the whole family was happy to learn that mom was lying naked on a table having a cesaerean section while a bunch of American soldiers stood around gawking. I know nothing would make me happier.]
Ibrahim said the forces stormed an operating theatre where a doctor was carrying out caesarean surgery.
They initially ordered the doctor to leave, he said, but when she told them the mother's life was at risk they allowed her to carry out the surgery under guard.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/12E0AF10-A62F-4FB9-AB64-A6FA44131300.htm
The success of Central Asia's first post-Soviet revolution was starting to look distinctly shaky last night, as Kyrgyzstan's self-appointed coalition struggled to form an interim government and assert the power it had won so precipitately earlier in the week. Reports from the capital, Bishkek, said that bands of youths, some armed, roamed the streets and sporadic looting continued. Local observers spoke of a growing sense that no one was in charge.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=624029
[Maybe this is a sign that there is something wrong with what you are doing.
Now let’s look at this. This website says that in 2000 there were
“Total # citizens of US 18-25 = 26,917,473”
http://www.youthvote.org/info/factsheet.cfm
So we’ll say maybe today there are say 28M people in this age bracket.
And the below article says
“Even before the war, recruiters contacted on average of 120 people before landing an active-duty recruit, Army data showed. That number is growing, recruiters said.”
So if you divide 28M by 120, you get 233,333.
The below article also says
“The Army is seeking 101,200 new active-duty Army and Reserve soldiers this year alone to replenish the ranks in Iraq and Afghanistan, elsewhere around the world and at home.”
Or in other words, if the ONLY the ARMY wanted to recruit new people [from this preferred age range], it would have to suck up nearly half the Americans in that age range to meet its quotas.
Now this does not even account for the other branches of the military.
BUT, I have read the Pentagon wants to expand recruiting to everyone up to age 39. According to the Census 2003 estimates for ages 20-39
http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2003/NC-EST2003-01.pdf
that works out to about 81M people. Now divide that by the 120 they need to poke at to get a hit, this brings the number down to 675,000 that we can suppose will be likely to join the military if “cajoled”.
Or in other words, just for this year, the Army wants to rope in about 1/6th of all the people in the country it could possibly hope to rope in.
The other services will have to fight over the left-overs I suppose.]
The Army's recruiters are being challenged with one of the hardest selling jobs the military has asked of them in American history, and many say the demands are taking a toll.
A recruiter in New York said pressure from the Army to meet his recruiting goals during a time of war has given him stomach problems and searing back pain. Suffering from bouts of depression, he said he has considered suicide. Another, in Texas, said he had volunteered many times to go to Iraq rather than face ridicule, rejection and the Army's wrath.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/nyregion/27recruit.html?ex=1112504400&en=f323348dc1a02f8e&ei=5070
[As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Can anyone honestly say they are proud to be associated with this kind of behavior?]
The Stockholm operation came to light after Paul Forrell, a police inspector on duty at the airport, gave a detailed account to the Swedish media. When the Swedish ambassador tracked the two men down to a Cairo jail five weeks later, they claimed they had been tortured. Al-Zery was eventually released. Agiza was sentenced to 25 years for membership of a radical Egyptian organisation.
The US Congress has uncovered many other cases. Mr Bush has, for the first time, admitted sending terrorist suspects abroad for interrogation, and authorities in Sweden, Italy and Germany are investigating alleged CIA kidnappings on their own soil.
Khalid el-Masri, a German national whose story is confirmed by German officials, says he was arrested on the Macedonian border on New Year's Eve, 2003. After being held for three weeks by Macedonian officials who pressed him to admit that he was an al- Qaeda member, he was driven to Skopje airport, beaten, stripped, shackled and flown to Baghdad, and then to Kabul.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gderg.htm
There is also another aspect to the interplanetary circuitry affecting Mars. The greatest storm on Mars (2001) occurred when the planet was nearing perihelion AND was the closest it had been to Earth in about 12 years. At that time it was also being "tickled" by the Earth's plasma sheath, or magnetosphere, establishing a temporary electrical connection between Earth and Mars for the transfer of charge. It seems that Mars responded with an outburst of atmospheric discharges, these taking the form of monstrous dust devils -- or more accurately, electrical TORNADOES. See --
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050322dustdevils.htm
http://www.rense.com/general63/elel.htm
However, the US economy welcomes illegal immigrants even as politicians rant against them. Low-wage illegal immigrants are the backbone of many companies. In some cases, crackdowns on illegal workers have been opposed by companies wishing to protect their bottom line. Border Patrol agents constantly arrest illegals and push them back over the border. On the Mexican side, police provide advice on how to cross without danger.
http://www.rense.com/general63/rund.htm
[What’s the matter with Canada?]
A vast armada of trawlers will fan out among the ice floes off eastern Canada tomorrow as hunters embark on the final phase of the largest seal cull for half a century. By first light on Tuesday the huge ice shelves of the Gulf of St Lawrence will be stained crimson. Permission has been granted by the Canadian authorities for at least 319,500 harp seals to be shot or clubbed to death over the next month. About 95 per cent of these will be less than three months old. Images of young harp seals being bludgeoned to death around Quebec's Isles de la Madeleine in the Gulf will be beamed around the world. This year tensions over the hunt are running higher than ever. Activists have organised a boycott against Canada's seafood products.
http://www.rense.com/general63/blod.htm
"Individuals of Octopus marginatus (from Indonesia) and Octopus (Abdopus) aculeatus (from Australia) move bipedally along sand using a rolling gait," they added.
http://www.rense.com/general63/pct.htm
[GWB is turning America into the same kind of utopia he made of Texas. Wait til Arnold gets a crack it.]
Texas law allows hospitals can discontinue life sustaining care, even if patient family members disagree. A doctor's recommendation must be approved by a hospital's ethics committee, and the family must be given 10 days from written notice of the decision to try and locate another facility for the patient.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3084934
Inaction, however, may no longer be an option. Businesses throughout the United States have grown thoroughly dependent on—and accustomed to—hiring Mexican laborers. But along the nearly 3,000-kilometer border between the two countries, tensions are rising to dangerous levels. Tit-for-tat vendettas between rival drug gangs have transformed border towns like Matamoros into virtual war zones and left more than 250 people dead. On the eve of the summit a gun battle erupted on the streets of Nuevo Laredo, a seven-hour drive from the site of the meeting, which killed two and wounded seven. Migrant smugglers, known as coyotes, sometimes get mixed up in the drug trade as well, while on the American side of the border, vigilante groups are taking it upon themselves to stem the tide of migration. "The risk of violence is very real," warns U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent Charles Griffin.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7305528/site/newsweek
[I took one of these tests when I was hired at a certain office supply store way back when. It was on paper back then and riddled with errors of spelling and grammar, as well as containing completely nonsensical phrases and others where the wrong word had been used, but you could tell what the correct word was supposed to be.
I actually corrected the test itself before I handed it back with my answers.
Why do you need to be in a good mood to wash dishes? You put the dishes in the machine. When it is done you take them out and stack them up. Technically I don’t think you even need to be human to do the job.]
Even before the candidates had stepped through the door for the group interview, their fate had been largely determined by a computer. They had taken a 50-minute online test that asked them to rate to what degree they agreed or disagreed with statements such as, "It's maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free," "You don't worry about making a good impression" and "You could describe yourself as 'tidy'."
A score in the "green" range for customer service gave an applicant an 83 percent chance of getting hired, "yellow" a 16 percent chance and "red" a 1 percent chance.
...
As the candidates sat in the waiting room, a recruiter began to review printouts of their assessment results. Some who came in that day looked like they might work out -- others less so. One candidate who wanted to be a dishwasher rated 35 for customer service and 47 for dependability. A rating of "yellow." This person was less likely "to maintain a good mood," the computer cautioned. Another was applying to be a theater attendant and had strong previous experience but scored 10 for customer service, 13 for dependability. A "red" rating. This person might "be quiet or even unfriendly" and might tend to "waste time."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4010-2005Mar26?language=printer
[Look att his headline and then look at the first sentence of the actual story.]
Thousands Protest In Taiwan
China 'Can't Tell Us What to Do'
By Tim Culpan
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, March 27, 2005; Page A19
TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 26 -- Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese marched through Taipei on Saturday to voice their opposition to an anti-secession law recently passed by China that authorizes the use of force against the island if it moves toward formal independence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3945-2005Mar26?language=printer
Fact Sheet: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
"In a rapidly changing world, we must develop new avenues of cooperation that will make our open societies safer and more secure, our businesses more competitive, and our economies more resilient."
Joint Statement by President Bush, Prime Minister Martin, and President Fox, March 23, 2005
Today, President Bush, Prime Minister Martin of Canada, and President Fox of Mexico announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-4.html
Secretary General Kofi Annan commissioned the report from Prince Zeid Raad al Hussein, Jordan's ambassador to the United Nations, after evidence emerged that blue helmeted peacekeepers and civilian staff members had had sex with women and girls in Congo in exchange for food and money, and, in some cases, had committed rape. The report also recommended that the United Nations make counseling and medical care available to victims and provide assistance for "peacekeeper babies" left behind when the troops rotate back to their own countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/politics/25nations.html?ex=1269406800&en=333c298514bf620f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
Russia's Sukhoi to develop 5th generation fighter jet
03/23/2005 18:47
The new fighter jet will be a fundamentally new machine, not just a modernized version of an old pursuit plane
The competition of world's biggest superpowers to develop the fifth generation of pursuit planes still continues. Russian specialists intend to build such a jet, or an aviation complex, as engineers say, in five or seven years. Technical details of such developments are being kept top secret, although Russian aircraft designers decided to expose several solutions of theirs.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/15161_sukhoi.html
[This sounds a bit similar to the Stakeknife case in Northern Ireland.
I have some info about that here, but I see it doesn’t show up correctly.
http://www.geocities.com/sunyatsen3030/stakeknife.html]
A confidential informant, who allegedly had attained high standing within the Juarez organization, played a critical role in snaring Santillan.
The informant’s name is Jesus Contreras, who is also known by the nickname “Lalo.”
Narco News published a major exposé in late April of last year (called The House of Death) that revealed Contreras, as part of his role in infiltrating the Santillan organization, was implicated in a series of murders in Ciudad Juárez -- located just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, about a dozen people were tortured, murdered and then buried in the yard of a house in the Mexican border town. Contreras, according to sources, participated in many of those murders.
The informant’s handlers, agents and supervisors with the El Paso office of ICE, were allegedly fully aware of the Contreras’ complicity in the murders, yet did nothing to stop the killing for fear of jeopardizing the Santillan case and a separate cigarette-smuggling case that they were trying to make with the informant’s help.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/3/23/23412/6076
n the California lawsuit, mainland consultancy and services firm Grace and Digital Information Technology accuse Zhang of having accepted one million dollars in bribes from American supplier Alltel Information Services.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050325/bs_afp/chinabankingccb_050325060617
So what else is new? The top general in a state national guard has been accused of having an affair with a female enlisted person under his command.
We thought this was one of the “perks” of the job, as so many adjutant generals regularly “exercise” their perquisite to enjoy a girlfriend or two on the side, knowing full well, in most cases they will get away with it.
But a “sexy e-mail” sent Maj. Gen. William Cugno, one-time “boss” of the Connecticut National Guard, by his alleged “gal pal” led to his undoing, informed sources say.
RETIREMENT WITHOUT LOSS OF RANK OR PENSION?
http://www.militarycorruption.com/cugno.htm
In 1997, after so many showings of sensitivity on the part of the armed actors towards the civilian population had led to the displacement of thirty-two rural families in the Apartadó area, of which eleven were still nearby without anywhere else to go, a “peace community” was formed in a small hamlet known as San José de Apartadó, where those eleven communities came together. At the time, they had the support of the Catholic Church and various international organizations. The idea was to group together in a humanitarian territory, where the residents would not allow the presence of any of the armed actors, and where no member of the community would need to be armed. In other words, to maintain themselves at the margin of the war, in order to be able to live in PEACE.
Of course, none of the parties in conflict were pleased with this initiative. So much so that, since the peace community was founded, more than 146 of its members have been assassinated, including several leaders. And despite the complaints, the state has never responded. There were no indications of a desire for JUSTICE, so to speak. It must be because it is “impossible to find a perfect equation between justice and peace.” Don’t you think so, Mr. President?”
http://www.narconews.com/Issue36/article1239.html
Unknown to Steiner, Katz taped the phone call and gave the recording to the media, worried that AIPAC's influence had grown to dangerous levels.
Following the release of transcripts of the phone conversation, David Steiner was forced to resign the Presidency of AIPAC.
The following is a transcript of the Oct. 22, 1992 conversation with President David Steiner of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) recorded without his knowledge by New York businessman Haim (Harry) Katz. Its existence was first revealed to the Washington Times and its release triggered Steiner's resignation.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/AIPACClinton.html
[Supporting the troops.]
When Army Reservist Steve Welter was called up for active duty in Iraq last August, his wife never thought she would face her own fight to save the family's home from foreclosure.
A 65-year-old federal law, which Congress expanded last year, provides protections for activated reservists and for Guard members called up by the Pentagon.
Those protections include a 6 percent cap, under certain circumstances, on consumer and mortgage interest rate debt incurred before activation; protection from eviction or foreclosure; payment deferral for federal taxes; and a stay on civil proceedings, including divorce and bankruptcy.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050327-120417-5167r.htm
[These people are real hero’s I think. If you can’t be bothered to look after your own country, what is the point of fooling your life away trying to implement a half-assed plan to fix up some other country?]
Published in Guns & Ammo October 1995, pp. 50-51
On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud (forged ballots, secret ballot counts and intimidation by armed sheriff's deputies) by the local political boss. They got no help.
.....
The primary election was held on August 1. To intimidate voters, Mansfield brought in some 200 armed "deputies." GI poll-watchers were beaten almost at once. At about 3 p.m., Tom Gillespie, an African- American voter was told by a sheriff's deputy that he could not vote. Despite being beaten, Gillespie persisted. The enraged deputy shot him. The gunshot drew a crowd. Rumors spread that Gillespie had been shot in the back; he later recovered (C. Stephen Byrum, The Battle of Athens, Paidia Productions, Chattanooga, TN, 1987; pp. 155-57).
Other deputies detained ex-GI poll-watchers in a polling place, as that made the ballot counting "Public" A crowd gathered. Sheriff Mansfield told his deputies to disperse the crowd. When the two ex-GIs smashed a big window and escaped, the crowd surged forward. The deputies, with guns drawn, formed a tight half-circle around the front of the polling place. One deputy, "his gun raised high...shouted: 'If you sons of bitches cross this street I'll kill you!'" (Byrum, p.165).
Mansfield took the ballot boxes to the jail for counting. The deputies seemed to fear immediate attack by the "people who had just liberated Europe and the South Pacific from two of the most powerful war machines in human history" (Byrum, pp. 168-69).
Short of firearms and ammunition, the GIs scoured the county to find them. By borrowing keys to the National Guard and State Guard armories, they got three M-1 rifles, five .45 semi-automatic pistols and 24 British Enfield rifles. The armories were nearly empty after the war's end. By 8 p.m. a group of GIs and "local boys" headed for the jail but left the back door unguarded to give the jail's defenders an easy way out.
Three GIs alerting passersby to danger were fired on from the jail. Two GIs were wounded. Other GIs returned fire.
Firing subsided after 30 minutes; ammunition ran low and night had fallen. Thick brick walls shielded those inside the jail. Absent radios, the GIs' rifle fire was uncoordinated. "From the hillside fire rose and fell in disorganized cascades. More than anything else, people were simply shooting at the jail" (Byrum, p.189).
...
Those who took up arms in Athens, Tennessee, wanted honest elections, a cornerstone of our constitutional order. They had repeatedly tried to get federal or state election monitors and had used armed force so as to minimize harm to the law-breakers, showing little malice to the defeated law-breakers. They restored lawful government.
The Battle of Athens clearly shows how Americans can and should lawfully use armed force and also shows why the rule of law requires unrestricted access to firearms and how civilians with military-type firearms can beat the forces of government gone bad.
Dictators believe that public order is more important than the rule of law. However, Americans reject this idea. Brutal political repression is lethal to many. An individual criminal can harm a handful of people. Governments alone can brutalize thousands, or millions.
Law-abiding McMinn County residents won the Battle of Athens because they were not hamstrung by "gun control " They showed us when citizens can and should use armed force to support the rule of law.
http://www.jpfo.org/athens.htm
[This is not America. This is bullshit.
And I point out yet again that if the wrong people are IN jail, it means the right people are OUT of jail, free to strike again.]
In fact, that evidence, recently declassified and obtained by The Washington Post, shows that U.S. military intelligence and German law enforcement authorities had largely concluded there was no information that linked Kurnaz to al Qaeda, any other terrorist organization or terrorist activities.
In recently declassified portions of a January ruling, a federal judge criticized the military panel for ignoring the exculpatory information that dominates Kurnaz's file and for relying instead on a brief, unsupported memo filed shortly before Kurnaz's hearing by an unidentified government official.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3868-2005Mar26?language=printer
When you present documented charges of official treachery behind the greatest national security disaster in modern history and the press doesn't show, doesn't listen, doesn't write - just what in fact is really being communicated? That despite all the deaths, lies, wars, and bizarre official actions that flowed from 9/11 there's actually nothing there to be investigated at all? That addressing desperate victim families' still unanswered cries for truth is not a legitimate journalistic concern? That news will now be what the corporate media say it will be, so drink your infotainment Kool-Aid and kindly shut up?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0312/S00040.htm
IF Mr. B does not weaken, stands his ground, eventually the tormentors will give up and have him arrested on some charge. However, there is NO lawful way that they can MAKE him go into the military...because of the Constitutional prohibition against "involuntary servitude"...which is why NO ONE IS TRULY EVER "DRAFTED" AND MUST BE "SEDUCED " INTO VOLUNTEERING!
D. R. Graham Ret. Sci. Instr. & Ret. Mil. Off'r, AUS
http://100777.com/node/1154
This week, U.S. President George W. Bush melodramatically cut short one of his innumerable vacations and flew back to Washington to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo when a Florida court granted her husband's request to cut off her life support after she had spent 15 years in a vegetative state. But days before, even as the president was supporting his brother, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and congressional Republicans in "defending the culture of life" in the Schiavo case, doctors in Houston were pulling the breathing tube from the throat of an ailing infant. The boy suffocated within seconds, legally killed -- against the wishes of his anguished mother -- in accordance with a draconian law signed as a "cost-saving" measure by the state's former governor: George W. Bush.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/141069/
[When the 9/11 hijackes supposedly made their trial runs across country, on the return legs they suposedly always stopped off in Las Vegas, a most congenial spot for radical Muslim fantics I’m sure. And now we read the FBi squired 100 Saudis out of Las Vegas after 9/11. Well well.]
WASHINGTON, March 26 - The episode has been retold so many times in the last three and a half years that it has become the stuff of political legend: in the frenzied days after Sept. 11, 2001, when some flights were still grounded, dozens of well-connected Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin Laden, managed to leave the United States on specially chartered flights.
Now, newly released government records show previously undisclosed flights from Las Vegas and elsewhere and point to a more active role by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in aiding some of the Saudis in their departure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27exodus.html?hp&ex=1111986000&en=7a785c415820f14d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
[This is another case where you have to ask who benefits? What is Syria going to get from bombing these people? It doesn’t make sense to blame it on Syria.]
A bombing in a Christian suburb of east Beirut has overshadowed Easter celebrations and raised fresh fears of a slide back into Lebanon's violent past.
Lebanese security forces picked through rubble and twisted metal left by Saturday's blast, the third in eight days in the Christian heartland, where resentment against Syria runs high.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=U11HZKBXCQWGGCRBAEKSFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=696449
[I’m sure the whole family was happy to learn that mom was lying naked on a table having a cesaerean section while a bunch of American soldiers stood around gawking. I know nothing would make me happier.]
Ibrahim said the forces stormed an operating theatre where a doctor was carrying out caesarean surgery.
They initially ordered the doctor to leave, he said, but when she told them the mother's life was at risk they allowed her to carry out the surgery under guard.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/12E0AF10-A62F-4FB9-AB64-A6FA44131300.htm
The success of Central Asia's first post-Soviet revolution was starting to look distinctly shaky last night, as Kyrgyzstan's self-appointed coalition struggled to form an interim government and assert the power it had won so precipitately earlier in the week. Reports from the capital, Bishkek, said that bands of youths, some armed, roamed the streets and sporadic looting continued. Local observers spoke of a growing sense that no one was in charge.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=624029
[Maybe this is a sign that there is something wrong with what you are doing.
Now let’s look at this. This website says that in 2000 there were
“Total # citizens of US 18-25 = 26,917,473”
http://www.youthvote.org/info/factsheet.cfm
So we’ll say maybe today there are say 28M people in this age bracket.
And the below article says
“Even before the war, recruiters contacted on average of 120 people before landing an active-duty recruit, Army data showed. That number is growing, recruiters said.”
So if you divide 28M by 120, you get 233,333.
The below article also says
“The Army is seeking 101,200 new active-duty Army and Reserve soldiers this year alone to replenish the ranks in Iraq and Afghanistan, elsewhere around the world and at home.”
Or in other words, if the ONLY the ARMY wanted to recruit new people [from this preferred age range], it would have to suck up nearly half the Americans in that age range to meet its quotas.
Now this does not even account for the other branches of the military.
BUT, I have read the Pentagon wants to expand recruiting to everyone up to age 39. According to the Census 2003 estimates for ages 20-39
http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2003/NC-EST2003-01.pdf
that works out to about 81M people. Now divide that by the 120 they need to poke at to get a hit, this brings the number down to 675,000 that we can suppose will be likely to join the military if “cajoled”.
Or in other words, just for this year, the Army wants to rope in about 1/6th of all the people in the country it could possibly hope to rope in.
The other services will have to fight over the left-overs I suppose.]
The Army's recruiters are being challenged with one of the hardest selling jobs the military has asked of them in American history, and many say the demands are taking a toll.
A recruiter in New York said pressure from the Army to meet his recruiting goals during a time of war has given him stomach problems and searing back pain. Suffering from bouts of depression, he said he has considered suicide. Another, in Texas, said he had volunteered many times to go to Iraq rather than face ridicule, rejection and the Army's wrath.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/nyregion/27recruit.html?ex=1112504400&en=f323348dc1a02f8e&ei=5070
[As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Can anyone honestly say they are proud to be associated with this kind of behavior?]
The Stockholm operation came to light after Paul Forrell, a police inspector on duty at the airport, gave a detailed account to the Swedish media. When the Swedish ambassador tracked the two men down to a Cairo jail five weeks later, they claimed they had been tortured. Al-Zery was eventually released. Agiza was sentenced to 25 years for membership of a radical Egyptian organisation.
The US Congress has uncovered many other cases. Mr Bush has, for the first time, admitted sending terrorist suspects abroad for interrogation, and authorities in Sweden, Italy and Germany are investigating alleged CIA kidnappings on their own soil.
Khalid el-Masri, a German national whose story is confirmed by German officials, says he was arrested on the Macedonian border on New Year's Eve, 2003. After being held for three weeks by Macedonian officials who pressed him to admit that he was an al- Qaeda member, he was driven to Skopje airport, beaten, stripped, shackled and flown to Baghdad, and then to Kabul.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gderg.htm
There is also another aspect to the interplanetary circuitry affecting Mars. The greatest storm on Mars (2001) occurred when the planet was nearing perihelion AND was the closest it had been to Earth in about 12 years. At that time it was also being "tickled" by the Earth's plasma sheath, or magnetosphere, establishing a temporary electrical connection between Earth and Mars for the transfer of charge. It seems that Mars responded with an outburst of atmospheric discharges, these taking the form of monstrous dust devils -- or more accurately, electrical TORNADOES. See --
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050322dustdevils.htm
http://www.rense.com/general63/elel.htm
However, the US economy welcomes illegal immigrants even as politicians rant against them. Low-wage illegal immigrants are the backbone of many companies. In some cases, crackdowns on illegal workers have been opposed by companies wishing to protect their bottom line. Border Patrol agents constantly arrest illegals and push them back over the border. On the Mexican side, police provide advice on how to cross without danger.
http://www.rense.com/general63/rund.htm
[What’s the matter with Canada?]
A vast armada of trawlers will fan out among the ice floes off eastern Canada tomorrow as hunters embark on the final phase of the largest seal cull for half a century. By first light on Tuesday the huge ice shelves of the Gulf of St Lawrence will be stained crimson. Permission has been granted by the Canadian authorities for at least 319,500 harp seals to be shot or clubbed to death over the next month. About 95 per cent of these will be less than three months old. Images of young harp seals being bludgeoned to death around Quebec's Isles de la Madeleine in the Gulf will be beamed around the world. This year tensions over the hunt are running higher than ever. Activists have organised a boycott against Canada's seafood products.
http://www.rense.com/general63/blod.htm
"Individuals of Octopus marginatus (from Indonesia) and Octopus (Abdopus) aculeatus (from Australia) move bipedally along sand using a rolling gait," they added.
http://www.rense.com/general63/pct.htm
[GWB is turning America into the same kind of utopia he made of Texas. Wait til Arnold gets a crack it.]
Texas law allows hospitals can discontinue life sustaining care, even if patient family members disagree. A doctor's recommendation must be approved by a hospital's ethics committee, and the family must be given 10 days from written notice of the decision to try and locate another facility for the patient.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3084934
Inaction, however, may no longer be an option. Businesses throughout the United States have grown thoroughly dependent on—and accustomed to—hiring Mexican laborers. But along the nearly 3,000-kilometer border between the two countries, tensions are rising to dangerous levels. Tit-for-tat vendettas between rival drug gangs have transformed border towns like Matamoros into virtual war zones and left more than 250 people dead. On the eve of the summit a gun battle erupted on the streets of Nuevo Laredo, a seven-hour drive from the site of the meeting, which killed two and wounded seven. Migrant smugglers, known as coyotes, sometimes get mixed up in the drug trade as well, while on the American side of the border, vigilante groups are taking it upon themselves to stem the tide of migration. "The risk of violence is very real," warns U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent Charles Griffin.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7305528/site/newsweek
[I took one of these tests when I was hired at a certain office supply store way back when. It was on paper back then and riddled with errors of spelling and grammar, as well as containing completely nonsensical phrases and others where the wrong word had been used, but you could tell what the correct word was supposed to be.
I actually corrected the test itself before I handed it back with my answers.
Why do you need to be in a good mood to wash dishes? You put the dishes in the machine. When it is done you take them out and stack them up. Technically I don’t think you even need to be human to do the job.]
Even before the candidates had stepped through the door for the group interview, their fate had been largely determined by a computer. They had taken a 50-minute online test that asked them to rate to what degree they agreed or disagreed with statements such as, "It's maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free," "You don't worry about making a good impression" and "You could describe yourself as 'tidy'."
A score in the "green" range for customer service gave an applicant an 83 percent chance of getting hired, "yellow" a 16 percent chance and "red" a 1 percent chance.
...
As the candidates sat in the waiting room, a recruiter began to review printouts of their assessment results. Some who came in that day looked like they might work out -- others less so. One candidate who wanted to be a dishwasher rated 35 for customer service and 47 for dependability. A rating of "yellow." This person was less likely "to maintain a good mood," the computer cautioned. Another was applying to be a theater attendant and had strong previous experience but scored 10 for customer service, 13 for dependability. A "red" rating. This person might "be quiet or even unfriendly" and might tend to "waste time."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4010-2005Mar26?language=printer
[Look att his headline and then look at the first sentence of the actual story.]
Thousands Protest In Taiwan
China 'Can't Tell Us What to Do'
By Tim Culpan
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, March 27, 2005; Page A19
TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 26 -- Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese marched through Taipei on Saturday to voice their opposition to an anti-secession law recently passed by China that authorizes the use of force against the island if it moves toward formal independence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3945-2005Mar26?language=printer
Fact Sheet: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
"In a rapidly changing world, we must develop new avenues of cooperation that will make our open societies safer and more secure, our businesses more competitive, and our economies more resilient."
Joint Statement by President Bush, Prime Minister Martin, and President Fox, March 23, 2005
Today, President Bush, Prime Minister Martin of Canada, and President Fox of Mexico announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-4.html
Secretary General Kofi Annan commissioned the report from Prince Zeid Raad al Hussein, Jordan's ambassador to the United Nations, after evidence emerged that blue helmeted peacekeepers and civilian staff members had had sex with women and girls in Congo in exchange for food and money, and, in some cases, had committed rape. The report also recommended that the United Nations make counseling and medical care available to victims and provide assistance for "peacekeeper babies" left behind when the troops rotate back to their own countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/politics/25nations.html?ex=1269406800&en=333c298514bf620f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
Russia's Sukhoi to develop 5th generation fighter jet
03/23/2005 18:47
The new fighter jet will be a fundamentally new machine, not just a modernized version of an old pursuit plane
The competition of world's biggest superpowers to develop the fifth generation of pursuit planes still continues. Russian specialists intend to build such a jet, or an aviation complex, as engineers say, in five or seven years. Technical details of such developments are being kept top secret, although Russian aircraft designers decided to expose several solutions of theirs.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/15161_sukhoi.html
[This sounds a bit similar to the Stakeknife case in Northern Ireland.
I have some info about that here, but I see it doesn’t show up correctly.
http://www.geocities.com/sunyatsen3030/stakeknife.html]
A confidential informant, who allegedly had attained high standing within the Juarez organization, played a critical role in snaring Santillan.
The informant’s name is Jesus Contreras, who is also known by the nickname “Lalo.”
Narco News published a major exposé in late April of last year (called The House of Death) that revealed Contreras, as part of his role in infiltrating the Santillan organization, was implicated in a series of murders in Ciudad Juárez -- located just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, about a dozen people were tortured, murdered and then buried in the yard of a house in the Mexican border town. Contreras, according to sources, participated in many of those murders.
The informant’s handlers, agents and supervisors with the El Paso office of ICE, were allegedly fully aware of the Contreras’ complicity in the murders, yet did nothing to stop the killing for fear of jeopardizing the Santillan case and a separate cigarette-smuggling case that they were trying to make with the informant’s help.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/3/23/23412/6076
n the California lawsuit, mainland consultancy and services firm Grace and Digital Information Technology accuse Zhang of having accepted one million dollars in bribes from American supplier Alltel Information Services.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050325/bs_afp/chinabankingccb_050325060617
So what else is new? The top general in a state national guard has been accused of having an affair with a female enlisted person under his command.
We thought this was one of the “perks” of the job, as so many adjutant generals regularly “exercise” their perquisite to enjoy a girlfriend or two on the side, knowing full well, in most cases they will get away with it.
But a “sexy e-mail” sent Maj. Gen. William Cugno, one-time “boss” of the Connecticut National Guard, by his alleged “gal pal” led to his undoing, informed sources say.
RETIREMENT WITHOUT LOSS OF RANK OR PENSION?
http://www.militarycorruption.com/cugno.htm
In 1997, after so many showings of sensitivity on the part of the armed actors towards the civilian population had led to the displacement of thirty-two rural families in the Apartadó area, of which eleven were still nearby without anywhere else to go, a “peace community” was formed in a small hamlet known as San José de Apartadó, where those eleven communities came together. At the time, they had the support of the Catholic Church and various international organizations. The idea was to group together in a humanitarian territory, where the residents would not allow the presence of any of the armed actors, and where no member of the community would need to be armed. In other words, to maintain themselves at the margin of the war, in order to be able to live in PEACE.
Of course, none of the parties in conflict were pleased with this initiative. So much so that, since the peace community was founded, more than 146 of its members have been assassinated, including several leaders. And despite the complaints, the state has never responded. There were no indications of a desire for JUSTICE, so to speak. It must be because it is “impossible to find a perfect equation between justice and peace.” Don’t you think so, Mr. President?”
http://www.narconews.com/Issue36/article1239.html
posted by abu nakba at 3/28/2005 07:39:00 PM
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