It's a good question, because unless you know by what standard you should measure freedom, you cannot know if you really ARE free.
Let's get personal. How do YOU rate your own freedom? And what is it that defines the freedom you think you have? How would you answer the following?
Are you able to start a business without bureaucratic overload? Are you able to cut down a tree in your own back yard? Are you able to keep the money you earn? Are you able to smoke marijuana? Are you able to read any book, or see any movie? Are you able to express your opinion without fear? Are you able to gamble at offshore online casinos? Are you able to travel without undue harassment? Are you able to buy, sell or trade whatever you like? Are you able to keep your personal information private?
The list could go on, but you get the drift.
Freedom, when it comes down to the wire, is the ability to make choices about your own life and property. Freedom is NOT about negating the same choices for other people. So, I cannot claim the freedom to steal another's property. Freedom can only be related to actions which do not impinge on someone else's freedom.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
'Culture of life' doesn't apply to Iraq
As a longtime fan of both George Bushes' eccentric grasp of English, I naturally enjoyed this gem from W.: "See, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." (Bush in Greece, N.Y., May 24, once more explaining his Social Security plan to a town hall meeting of perfectly average citizens, except they had all been pre-screened to allow only those who agree with him into the hall.)
"Catapulting the propaganda" would explain his performance at the press opportunity that same day at which he appeared surrounded by babies born from frozen embryos. He used the phrase "culture of life" at least 27 dozen times. "The use of federal dollars to destroy life is something I simply do not support," he said to the press the following day.
Meanwhile, back in Baghdad, federal dollars are being used to destroy life at a pretty good clip because Bush decided to wage an entirely elective war against a country that presented little or no threat to us. And according to the Downing Street memo, he damn well knew it, too.
"Catapulting the propaganda" would explain his performance at the press opportunity that same day at which he appeared surrounded by babies born from frozen embryos. He used the phrase "culture of life" at least 27 dozen times. "The use of federal dollars to destroy life is something I simply do not support," he said to the press the following day.
Meanwhile, back in Baghdad, federal dollars are being used to destroy life at a pretty good clip because Bush decided to wage an entirely elective war against a country that presented little or no threat to us. And according to the Downing Street memo, he damn well knew it, too.
Monday, June 06, 2005
Judge orders Pentagon to release 100 new photos of Abu Ghraib prison abuse
"The American public deserves to know what is being done in our name. Perhaps after these and other photos are forced into the light of day, the government will at long last appoint an outside special counsel to investigate the torture and abuse of detainees."
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Pentagon details mishandling of Quran
...water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guardÂ’s urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.
The radio "news" is reporting that "urine was inadvertentlyy splashed on a Quran. Excuse me? How does one "inadvertently" splash URINE on a Quran? I guess I should ask Don and his gang for the answer to that question."
The radio "news" is reporting that "urine was inadvertentlyy splashed on a Quran. Excuse me? How does one "inadvertently" splash URINE on a Quran? I guess I should ask Don and his gang for the answer to that question."
War President
Check out this picture: It's a mosaic composed of the photos of the American service men and women who have died in Iraq. No photograph is used more than three times.
“Falluja-The day After”
“Falluja-The day After” shows the total devastation of the Iraqi town, the corpses of the victims, the mass graves, the exhumation of many corpses by local rescue teams in order to try to recognize some of the victims. The last corpse shown in this video belongs to a 14 year old girl.
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Horror of USA's depleted Uranium
'Depleted' uranium is in many ways a misnomer. 'Depleted' sounds weak. The only weak thing about depleted uranium is its price. It is dirt cheap, toxic, waste from nuclear power plants and bomb production. However, uranium is one of earth's heaviest elements and DU packs a Tyson's punch, smashing through tanks, buildings and bunkers with equal ease, spontaneously catching fire as it does so, and burning people alive. 'Crispy critters' is what US servicemen call those unfortunate enough to be close. And, when John Pilger encountered children killed at a greater distance he wrote: "The children's skin had folded back, like parchment, revealing veins and burnt flesh that seeped blood, while the eyes, intact, stared straight ahead. I vomited."
US media censor uranium weapons stories
A dedication in 2120 might say: Dedicated to the memory of the Iraqi people. Many people believe Iraq was the birthplace of civilization some 5,000 years ago. Iraq was destroyed and radioactively contaminated in an early 21st Century Oil War by a fascist world power, now extinguished.
Memorial Day should be renamed Mourning Day
There are no "good" wars or "just" wars, only death and destruction that modern day bullies in the seats of power escape by sending other people's kids to kill and die for them.
French voters reject EU charter
NON, NON, NON: FRENCH OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT ILLUMINATI EUROPEAN CENTRALISED STATE
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The pipeline that will change the world
The first drops of crude will snake their way along a pipeline that traverses some of the most unstable and war-ravaged countries on earth.
A huge 11-year-long undertaking, the pipeline will transform the Caucasus and Turkey into an energy bridge between the Caspian and the rest of the world when it is fully operational six months from now.
But much of the gleam of that accomplishment was worn away over the past week by Azerbaijan when police badly beat and arrested scores of people attending a peaceful rally on Saturday as part of a wider crackdown linked to the pipeline's opening.
A huge 11-year-long undertaking, the pipeline will transform the Caucasus and Turkey into an energy bridge between the Caspian and the rest of the world when it is fully operational six months from now.
But much of the gleam of that accomplishment was worn away over the past week by Azerbaijan when police badly beat and arrested scores of people attending a peaceful rally on Saturday as part of a wider crackdown linked to the pipeline's opening.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Neoconomics in One Lesson
This essential truth should not be surprising, as it is the very nature of government to suck up the resources of the population it purports to “govern,” in times of relative peace as well as in times of war. There is absolutely no way that government can “create” anything--it can only take away or destroy. That’s all it can do. If it is “providing” something to someone, it is doing so only by the means of taking something away from someone else. To forcibly transfer something from one individual’s hands to another’s is, obviously, not really “providing,” it’s stealing, and indeed it is destroying, as the plundered individual gets absolutely nothing in exchange. The State is a parasitic leech.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Galloway v the US Senate
In quotes: the Galloway showdown
Some of the quotes from British MP George Galloway as he confronted his accusers on a US Senate sub-committee.
"Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars? The answer to that is nobody and if you had anybody who paid me a penny you would have produced them here today."
"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns."
"You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever having written to me or telephoned me, without any contact with me whatsoever and you call that justice."
"Senator [Norm Coleman, committee chairman], this is the mother of all smoke screens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth."
"You have nothing on me Senator [Coleman], except my name on lists of names in Iraq, many of which were drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Iraq."
"I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf."
"I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice."
"One of the most serious mistakes you have made in this set of documents is such a schoolboy howler it makes a fool of the efforts you have made."
"Senator [Coleman], in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies."
Some of the quotes from British MP George Galloway as he confronted his accusers on a US Senate sub-committee.
"Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars? The answer to that is nobody and if you had anybody who paid me a penny you would have produced them here today."
"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns."
"You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever having written to me or telephoned me, without any contact with me whatsoever and you call that justice."
"Senator [Norm Coleman, committee chairman], this is the mother of all smoke screens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth."
"You have nothing on me Senator [Coleman], except my name on lists of names in Iraq, many of which were drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Iraq."
"I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf."
"I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice."
"One of the most serious mistakes you have made in this set of documents is such a schoolboy howler it makes a fool of the efforts you have made."
"Senator [Coleman], in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies."
``Rods from God''
President George W. Bush is expected to issue a directive in the next few weeks giving the U.S. air force a green light for the development of space weapons, potentially triggering a new global arms race, it was reported on Wednesday.
The new weapons being studied range from hunter-killer satellites to orbiting weapons using lasers, radio waves, or even dense metal tubes dropped from space by a weapon known as ``Rods from God''** on ground targets.
**The humanoids that think this sick shit up are truly evil!
The new weapons being studied range from hunter-killer satellites to orbiting weapons using lasers, radio waves, or even dense metal tubes dropped from space by a weapon known as ``Rods from God''** on ground targets.
**The humanoids that think this sick shit up are truly evil!
The Presidential Prayer Team For Kids
"President Bush has reminded us to pray for peace..." LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
Newsweek Lied and People Died
Editorial: Damage to U.S./White House, look in the mirror
May 21, 2005
It is said by the White House that Newsweek magazine damaged U.S. standing abroad with its since-retracted, short report on Qur'an abuse at Guantánamo. Because reports of such abuse have abounded for years, and have been reconfirmed by the Red Cross, we doubt that very much. But there is something else to be said on this issue: If Newsweek's story caused damage, it is but a speck compared with the damage caused by this administration and its well-documented habit of abusing prisoners in Guantánamo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The latest, infuriating evidence comes from a confidential file of the Army's criminal investigation into abuse at the Bagram Collection Point in Afghanistan, a copy of which was obtained by the New York Times and reported on Friday:
"Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.
"The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days.
"Mr. Dilawar asked for a drink of water, and one of the two interrogators, Specialist Joshua R. Claus, 21, picked up a large plastic bottle. But first he punched a hole in the bottom, the interpreter said, so as the prisoner fumbled weakly with the cap, the water poured out over his orange prison scrubs. The soldier then grabbed the bottle back and began squirting the water forcefully into Mr. Dilawar's face.
" 'Come on, drink!' the interpreter said Specialist Claus had shouted, as the prisoner gagged on the spray. 'Drink!'
"At the interrogators' behest, a guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling.
" 'Leave him up,' one of the guards quoted Specialist Claus as saying.
"Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen."
The writer of that dramatic piece is Tim Golden. Will White House spokesman Scott McClellan now accuse him and his editors of also damaging American standing abroad?
This atrocity was committed in our name, each of us, our children and grandchildren. So was the abuse at Abu Ghraib. So was the abuse at Guantánamo. So was the fictional account of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction used to justify an unnecessary war. So were the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths that war has caused. And White House officials have the gall to accuse Newsweek of damaging the name of this beloved nation?
May 21, 2005
It is said by the White House that Newsweek magazine damaged U.S. standing abroad with its since-retracted, short report on Qur'an abuse at Guantánamo. Because reports of such abuse have abounded for years, and have been reconfirmed by the Red Cross, we doubt that very much. But there is something else to be said on this issue: If Newsweek's story caused damage, it is but a speck compared with the damage caused by this administration and its well-documented habit of abusing prisoners in Guantánamo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The latest, infuriating evidence comes from a confidential file of the Army's criminal investigation into abuse at the Bagram Collection Point in Afghanistan, a copy of which was obtained by the New York Times and reported on Friday:
"Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.
"The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days.
"Mr. Dilawar asked for a drink of water, and one of the two interrogators, Specialist Joshua R. Claus, 21, picked up a large plastic bottle. But first he punched a hole in the bottom, the interpreter said, so as the prisoner fumbled weakly with the cap, the water poured out over his orange prison scrubs. The soldier then grabbed the bottle back and began squirting the water forcefully into Mr. Dilawar's face.
" 'Come on, drink!' the interpreter said Specialist Claus had shouted, as the prisoner gagged on the spray. 'Drink!'
"At the interrogators' behest, a guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling.
" 'Leave him up,' one of the guards quoted Specialist Claus as saying.
"Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen."
The writer of that dramatic piece is Tim Golden. Will White House spokesman Scott McClellan now accuse him and his editors of also damaging American standing abroad?
This atrocity was committed in our name, each of us, our children and grandchildren. So was the abuse at Abu Ghraib. So was the abuse at Guantánamo. So was the fictional account of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction used to justify an unnecessary war. So were the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths that war has caused. And White House officials have the gall to accuse Newsweek of damaging the name of this beloved nation?
Thursday, May 19, 2005
BIG COURT FIX Part 1
Here is the start of what you need to know about the Courts. This applies to primarily state and federal civil cases, in bigger communities and cities. And please note, not EVERY court case is corrupt. Maybe one out of twenty or one out of forty. But after you study this series, you might become more skilled in telling which is which..
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Blame it on Newsweek!
Weekly "news" magazine "Newsweek" published an article that stated that one of the many sins committed whilst at war was that U.S. troops allegedly threw a prisoner's Qur'an "down the toilet" at Gitmo. This morning the talk show circuit has its talking points blazing with the how dare they quote anonymous sources and how they're (Newsweek) to blame for this violence and that indiscretion. What a load of crap! It's perfectly fine to do the following: strip, fondle, sodomize (with glow sticks no less), make human pyramids with, assault with attack dogs, place underwear on heads (most probably soiled at that), beat, kick, blast with obnoxious music, drape in Israeli flags, smear with feces, stand on cartons with electrodes attached to limbs, chain up, deprive of sleep, the list goes on and on.... Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the DU - Depleted Uranium. Damn you Newsweek! Damn you!
Monday, May 16, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Your Papers Pleeeze!
This will protect us from them there terrorists. Thank you Father State! I feel safer already!
UnReal ID
UnReal ID
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Overthrow of the American Republic
A principle of reality is that great secrets are right in front of you. You go right past them, not knowing or realizing what you have been looking at.
Parents: The Anti-Recruiter
How the military persuades kids to enlist, and what you can do about it.
The Kent State Massacre's 25th Anniversary
"When they reached the top of a hill, Ohio National Guardsmen fired a fusillade at the unarmed students. Killed: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Knox Schroeder. Wounded: Alan Canfora, John Cleary, Thomas Mark Grace, Dean Kahler, Joseph Lewis, Donald MacKenzie, James Dennis Russell, Robert Stamps, and Douglas Wrentmore." Lest we forget.
Monday, May 09, 2005
The Glory of War
War is the devil's sacrament. It promises to bind us not with God but with the nation state. It grants not life but death. It provides not liberty but slavery. It lives not on truth but on lies, and these lies are themselves said to be worthy of defense. It exalts evil and puts down the good. It is promiscuous in encouraging an orgy of sin, not self-restraint and thought. It is irrational and bloody and vicious and appalling. And it claims to be the highest achievement of man.
U.S. deaths in Iraq surpass 1,600
-- Total U.S. troop casualties in the Iraq war passed 1,600 Sunday, according to a CNN count, when two soldiers were killed near Khaldiya and a third died in Samarra.
Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!
Governments Kill More People Than Wars
And, since governments perpetrate the wars, then governments do ALL the killing. All hail Caesar!
Sunday, May 08, 2005
1 in every 138 Americans is behind bars
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
Following the rights movements
You clamped on with your iron fists,
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids,
Following the rights movements
You clamped on with your iron fists,
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids,
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,
Nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated
In the prison system,
Prison system of the U.S.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system. (for you and me to live in)
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich,
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich,
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,
The percentage of Americans in the prison system
Prison system, has doubled since 1985,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system. (for you and me to live in)
For you and I, for you and I , for you and I.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
For you and me,
Oh baby, you and me.
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased,
And law enforcement decreased,
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences,
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased,
And law enforcement decreased,
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.
Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world,
Drugs are now your global policy,
Now you police the globe,
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,
Drug money is used to rig elections,
And train brutal corporate sponsored
Dictators around the world.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system. (for you and me to live in)
For you and I, for you and I , for you and I.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
For you and me,
Oh baby, you and me.
--SYSTEM OF A DOWN
They're trying to build a prison,
Following the rights movements
You clamped on with your iron fists,
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids,
Following the rights movements
You clamped on with your iron fists,
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids,
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,
Nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated
In the prison system,
Prison system of the U.S.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system. (for you and me to live in)
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich,
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich,
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,
The percentage of Americans in the prison system
Prison system, has doubled since 1985,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system. (for you and me to live in)
For you and I, for you and I , for you and I.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
For you and me,
Oh baby, you and me.
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased,
And law enforcement decreased,
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences,
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased,
And law enforcement decreased,
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.
Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world,
Drugs are now your global policy,
Now you police the globe,
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,
Drug money is used to rig elections,
And train brutal corporate sponsored
Dictators around the world.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system. (for you and me to live in)
For you and I, for you and I , for you and I.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
For you and me,
Oh baby, you and me.
--SYSTEM OF A DOWN
Friday, May 06, 2005
Project sets sights on illegal guns
"If fewer people carry guns, fewer violent crimes will happen."
Huh? It's this distorted thinking that has really screwed the world up. Seriously. In reality, just the OPPOSITE is true. If MORE people carried guns, and used them to defend themselves against crimes committed against their person, there would be fewer crimes!
Huh? It's this distorted thinking that has really screwed the world up. Seriously. In reality, just the OPPOSITE is true. If MORE people carried guns, and used them to defend themselves against crimes committed against their person, there would be fewer crimes!
OPS: Other People's Stuff
Everything in our world is covered with a thick, gooey atmosphere of Other People's Stuff. Everything needed for survival is included in OPS, and most people choose to stay there for their entire lives. It is comfortable in OPS, because the essential work of life—thinking—is taken care of by other people.
Thursday, May 05, 2005
US State Department identifies nations sponsoring terrorism
"The U.S. State Department has listed the countries it says are still engaging in state-sponsored terrorism. Cuba , North Korea , Syria , and, in particular, Iran are named in the department's ‘Country Reports on Terrorism’ released on Wednesday (April 27)." Why aren’t the US , Israel , and Britain on the list?
The Tribal Gene of Love and War
The source of evil--which starts within the heart and mind of a single human individual--is the desire to FORCE another human to do one's will.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
9/11 - ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!
Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more.
Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.
Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Bid to sue over LSD rejected
A federal judge has tentatively ordered dismissal of a $12 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, filed by a former deputy marshal who said he was unknowingly drugged with LSD as part of a CIA mind-control program before trying to hold up a San Francisco bar nearly a half century ago.
In earlier rulings, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel rejected the government's attempts to dismiss Wayne Ritchie's suit and said he had shown that a CIA mind-control experiment code-named MKULTRA was operating in San Francisco in December 1957, when Ritchie says he was drugged.
During the program, which lasted at least a decade at the height of the Cold War, hundreds of unwitting Americans were given LSD and other drugs to study their possible use in behavioral control.
In earlier rulings, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel rejected the government's attempts to dismiss Wayne Ritchie's suit and said he had shown that a CIA mind-control experiment code-named MKULTRA was operating in San Francisco in December 1957, when Ritchie says he was drugged.
During the program, which lasted at least a decade at the height of the Cold War, hundreds of unwitting Americans were given LSD and other drugs to study their possible use in behavioral control.
LOOK FOR THE MEDIA LABELS
By Ted Rall
Tue Apr 12, 7:58 PM ET
An Examination of the Propaganda of Nomenclature
NEW YORK--If you read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch television, you know that the media has assigned Muqtada al-Sadr a peculiar job title: radical cleric. "Gunmen fired on supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday," reports the Associated Press wire service. National Public Radio routinely refers to "radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr." "The protesters were largely supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr," says CNN. Even Agence France-Press refers to him the same way: "Followers of a radical Shiite cleric marched in Baghdad."
I wonder: Does he answer his phone with a chipper "Muqtada al-Sadr, radical cleric!"? Does it say "radical cleric" on his business card?
It's a safe bet that neither al-Sadr nor his Iraqi supporters considers him particularly "radical." And, if you stop to think about it, there's nothing inherently extreme about wanting foreign troops to leave your country. Radical is a highly subjective word that gets thrown around without much reflection. What's more radical, invading another nation without a good excuse or trying to stop someone from doing so? But that's the problem: the media has become so accustomed to absorbing and regurgitating official government propaganda that they never stop to think.
A Google News search of the terms "Muqtada al-Sadr" and "radical cleric" brought up 616 news and opinion stories, the latter derived from the former. Despite the prime minister's obvious status as an American-appointed puppet, "Iyad Allawi" and "collaborationist" yielded zero results. The message is clear: al-Sadr, and by extension Iraqis who oppose the U.S. occupation, are marginal wackos. Those who support it are referred to by questionable legitimatizing honorifics--prime minister, in Allawi's case--because the U.S. government called a press conference to announce him as such.
Repetition is key to successful advertising. The American media uses repeated arbitrary labeling in its supposedly impartial coverage in a deliberate campaign to alter public perception. Americans were meant to feel less sympathy for an kidnapped Italian woman shot by U.S. soldiers manning a checkpoint in Iraq after the talking heads repeatedly referred to her as a "communist journalist." A Fox News reporter in the same story would never have been dubbed a "neofascist journalist." John McCain (R-AZ) might become president someday but "maverick senator John McCain" probably won't. Ralph Nader's name rarely appears in print without the unappealing word "gadfly" or a form of "crusading." Why not describe figures in the news using terms that aim for neutrality, like "Italian reporter" or "former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader"?
Tue Apr 12, 7:58 PM ET
An Examination of the Propaganda of Nomenclature
NEW YORK--If you read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch television, you know that the media has assigned Muqtada al-Sadr a peculiar job title: radical cleric. "Gunmen fired on supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday," reports the Associated Press wire service. National Public Radio routinely refers to "radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr." "The protesters were largely supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr," says CNN. Even Agence France-Press refers to him the same way: "Followers of a radical Shiite cleric marched in Baghdad."
I wonder: Does he answer his phone with a chipper "Muqtada al-Sadr, radical cleric!"? Does it say "radical cleric" on his business card?
It's a safe bet that neither al-Sadr nor his Iraqi supporters considers him particularly "radical." And, if you stop to think about it, there's nothing inherently extreme about wanting foreign troops to leave your country. Radical is a highly subjective word that gets thrown around without much reflection. What's more radical, invading another nation without a good excuse or trying to stop someone from doing so? But that's the problem: the media has become so accustomed to absorbing and regurgitating official government propaganda that they never stop to think.
A Google News search of the terms "Muqtada al-Sadr" and "radical cleric" brought up 616 news and opinion stories, the latter derived from the former. Despite the prime minister's obvious status as an American-appointed puppet, "Iyad Allawi" and "collaborationist" yielded zero results. The message is clear: al-Sadr, and by extension Iraqis who oppose the U.S. occupation, are marginal wackos. Those who support it are referred to by questionable legitimatizing honorifics--prime minister, in Allawi's case--because the U.S. government called a press conference to announce him as such.
Repetition is key to successful advertising. The American media uses repeated arbitrary labeling in its supposedly impartial coverage in a deliberate campaign to alter public perception. Americans were meant to feel less sympathy for an kidnapped Italian woman shot by U.S. soldiers manning a checkpoint in Iraq after the talking heads repeatedly referred to her as a "communist journalist." A Fox News reporter in the same story would never have been dubbed a "neofascist journalist." John McCain (R-AZ) might become president someday but "maverick senator John McCain" probably won't. Ralph Nader's name rarely appears in print without the unappealing word "gadfly" or a form of "crusading." Why not describe figures in the news using terms that aim for neutrality, like "Italian reporter" or "former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader"?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Orwell Rolls In His Grave
Controlled perceptions - the ulitmate power. A film about "The Ministry of Truth."
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Friday, April 15, 2005
The Time to Oppose the Draft is Now
In February, the Army missed its recruiting goal for the first time in nearly five years. The Army missed its March goal by 32 percent while the need for soldiers is on the rise. The United States Armed Services have announced a new plan to solve their recruiting problems--convincing parents to get their children to enlist. At the same time, parents are organizing to ensure the military draft does not return. The battle lines for the bodies of America's youth are beginning to take shape.
Monday, April 11, 2005
Iraqis protest American invasion
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Chanting “Death to America” and burning effigies of President Bush and Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Iraqis flooded central Baghdad on Saturday in what police called the largest anti-American protest since the fall of Baghdad, the capital, exactly two years ago.
Well, ya'll have done a SUPER job of "winning the hearts and minds"! What's wrong with these people? Can't they see that all the killing and maiming and depleted uranium was/is to LIBERATE them!?!?
Well, ya'll have done a SUPER job of "winning the hearts and minds"! What's wrong with these people? Can't they see that all the killing and maiming and depleted uranium was/is to LIBERATE them!?!?
Who would Jesus torture?
How many prisoners would Jesus torture?
How many innocents would Jesus bomb?
When would Jesus break his sworn oath?
How often would Jesus slaughter innocents by the cityful?
How often would Jesus have employed his disciples as torturers, so he could say his hands were clean?
How often would Jesus have hidden the guilty, that their crimes would not be known to the world?
Please, all of you good Christian friends, family, neighbors and co-workers, answer these questions.
How many innocents would Jesus bomb?
When would Jesus break his sworn oath?
How often would Jesus slaughter innocents by the cityful?
How often would Jesus have employed his disciples as torturers, so he could say his hands were clean?
How often would Jesus have hidden the guilty, that their crimes would not be known to the world?
Please, all of you good Christian friends, family, neighbors and co-workers, answer these questions.
Friday, April 08, 2005
Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills
Soon, we'll all be cuffed/arrested for using ANY Federal Reserve Notes because soon it will be a requirement to be microchipped so all you'll do is scan your chip to make your purchase.
The Invisible Hand (of the U.S. Government) in Financial Markets
Summary: The U.S. government is manipulating all major U.S. financial markets—stocks, treasuries, currencies. This article shows how it is possible and how it is done, why it is done, who specifically is doing it, when they do it, and where they get the money to do it.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Homeland Security: 'We're still looking for Gannon credentialing'
"While I remain deeply disappointed that the President and White House continue to stonewall Congress and the American people by not providing any details on the nature of their relationship with this disgraced, discredited 'reporter,' I am pleased to see the Department of Homeland Security complying with our request for more information," said Rep. Slaughter. She continued, "Maybe now we will finally get to the bottom of this disgusting display of media manipulation."
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Make Love, Not Strangelove
Atomic weapons are the perfect symbol for the modern state. Homicidal, genocidal, all around the enemy of civilization and despoiler of social norms of discourse and harmonious relationships. Surely it isn’t a coincidence that the “counter-culture” and a more self-indulgent and irresponsible social ethos pervaded American society at the same time that MAD –Mutually Assured Destruction- was enthroned as a rational doctrine for the defense of civilization.
Even more insane is that after the horrors of the Second World War, so-called “peace-loving, democratic” States are still allowed by their subjects to plot and prepare to rain down death upon any who challenge its existence or merely seek to frustrate its aims.
Even more insane is that after the horrors of the Second World War, so-called “peace-loving, democratic” States are still allowed by their subjects to plot and prepare to rain down death upon any who challenge its existence or merely seek to frustrate its aims.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Diving Into Falluja
To Hell and Back with documentary-Maker Mark Manning. For the past two years, Manning has been making a documentary, American Voices, crisscrossing the United States and asking hundreds of Americans if they could explain why, exactly, the U.S. is at war with Iraq. He was profoundly disheartened, he said, by the lack of facts and accurate information out there. Very few of the people he interviewed could back up their opinions with facts. Even worse, he realized, neither could he. That’s when he decided he had to see what life was like on the receiving end of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Any idea how long I'm going to have to remain vigilant?
Any idea if this "Jimbo" dude is part of the problem or part of the solution? Yuck-Yuck-Yuck-ain't gonna lit dem tirrirsts win! Gimme annuder cana Bud!
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Monday, March 28, 2005
From Sex to Blackmail to Elite Mind Control - Can we solve this "Mystery"?
Homosexuality, Gay Prostitution, Child Sex-rings, Pedophilia, George H. W. Bush, The White House, 911, Gosch/Guckert/Gannon, Hunter S. Thompson, Gary Webb, Mind Control, MK-Ultra, OSS, CIA, NSA, NASA, Secret Societies, the Illuminati, Blackmail & "Sex Magik". When will we tie all these things together?
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Representative Cynthia McKinney Grills Rumsfeld On Dyncorp Sex Rings, Missing Pentagon Trillions & 9/11 Wargames
Rumseld and Myers forced to shuffle uncomfortably and fumble for words as McKinney gets in their face about three issues seldom mentioned in official circles,
Friday, March 25, 2005
Road spy cameras will track criminals (and you too!)
(Coming soon to the U.K. and a traffic lamp mounted camera near you as well.)
A new national network of mobile cameras is to track criminals on the roads.
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras - linked to an extensive database - will pinpoint vehicles police want to trace.
The system led to a dramatic increase in arrests when it was tested by 23 forces between June 2003 and June last year, police say.
The cameras, mounted in vans, scan number plates and check them against a police database containing more than 8.5 million registrations.
It takes less than a second, allowing police at checkpoints to stop "wanted" vehicles immediately and question the occupants.
(Stop 'em, question 'em, charge 'em, get 'em into the system, tax 'em, fee 'em, spit 'em out, then drug 'em, scoop 'em back up again and chew on 'em some more! A real YUM-YUM of a system!)
A new national network of mobile cameras is to track criminals on the roads.
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras - linked to an extensive database - will pinpoint vehicles police want to trace.
The system led to a dramatic increase in arrests when it was tested by 23 forces between June 2003 and June last year, police say.
The cameras, mounted in vans, scan number plates and check them against a police database containing more than 8.5 million registrations.
It takes less than a second, allowing police at checkpoints to stop "wanted" vehicles immediately and question the occupants.
(Stop 'em, question 'em, charge 'em, get 'em into the system, tax 'em, fee 'em, spit 'em out, then drug 'em, scoop 'em back up again and chew on 'em some more! A real YUM-YUM of a system!)
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Terri Schiavo
Now, suddenly, made public are Affidavits of nurses who have cared for her in the past:
'When Is That Bitch (Terri Schiavo) Going To Die?'
by CARLA SAUER IYER, R.N.
Second, Third Nurse Accuse Michael Schiavo
There's so much about this case that is not being told. It's just a sad, sick, and sorry story.
But, I feel so much better about all of it now that friggin' BARNEY FRANK has weighed in on it!
'When Is That Bitch (Terri Schiavo) Going To Die?'
by CARLA SAUER IYER, R.N.
Second, Third Nurse Accuse Michael Schiavo
There's so much about this case that is not being told. It's just a sad, sick, and sorry story.
But, I feel so much better about all of it now that friggin' BARNEY FRANK has weighed in on it!
Hiding Our War Dead
Of course they're going to "hide the war dead." Being honest about the dead and wounded would hamper their recruiting effort!
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
The Last Great Act of Defiance
"In drawing up legislation directed specifically at one family, the persistently meddling Statists have outdone themselves once again. Trumpeting obsequiously for an audience of those who presume to tell us not only how long, but simply how, to live, Congress voted for the “culture of life,” near to the very day, two years previous, our culture commenced raining flaming death upon another for no good reason. Some lives are more sanctified than others."
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Martial Law 9-11: Rise Of The Police State Review
Martial Law 9-11: Rise Of The Police State
Sunday March 20, 2005
I received my copy of Alex Jones’s new documentary, “Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State” on Friday. It is one of Alex’s best documentaries yet! In two and a half hours he covers the Republican National Convention in New York, interviewing a diverse number of people to show their opinions. He documents the virtual lock-down of the city, the sound wave weapons at the ready, the corporate sponsored surveillance blimp and more. Alex goes on to show a side of the events of September 11, 2001 left out of the fairytale version as told to us by the mainstream media. He waits outside a restaurant while Michael Moore shoves his face full of tacos to ask him why he didn’t cover the real hard-core issues of 9-11, and while waiting nails the Michael Moore illusion. Then Alex hits a home run with an impromptu interview of multi-presidential advisor/insider David Gergen. Alex, that was one of your finest moments caught on film! He then wraps up the film with a brief history of Nazism, showing the Bush family ties, some of the symbolism used, Bohemian Grove and the Republican’s love-fest with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(A side note: for a real treat keep an eye of the Gov-a-nat-or’s Cal-ee-for-nee-ah website:http://www.governor.ca.gov/state/govsite/gov_homepage.jsp where he documents such fun meetings as that of his recent hosting of Bavarian Prime Minister Dr. Edmund Stoiber, no doubt a meeting of great importance to Cal-ee-for-nee-ans.)
Yesterday I got to witness the Police State in full swing right here in my own town. My family found that the new requirement for entrance into our County Fair is to have all bags searched by a Law Enforcement Officer. Even little, tiny teenage girl’s purses hardly large enough to hold a tube of lipstick had to be placed on the table to be prodded, groped and fondled by the Law Enforcement Officer. What kind of contraband were they looking for I wondered? And what is next? Since none of the men had handbags they weren’t being searched, but they could have easily concealed something in their pant legs. Next it’ll be everyone up against the wall, spread-eagle for a pre-fair frisk! We are truly in a Police State and if Alex’s documentary doesn’t wake you up to this fact, your next unprovoked search from a Law Enforcement Officer will!
Thank you Alex for your tireless work in exposing the agenda of the globalists!
Sunday March 20, 2005
I received my copy of Alex Jones’s new documentary, “Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State” on Friday. It is one of Alex’s best documentaries yet! In two and a half hours he covers the Republican National Convention in New York, interviewing a diverse number of people to show their opinions. He documents the virtual lock-down of the city, the sound wave weapons at the ready, the corporate sponsored surveillance blimp and more. Alex goes on to show a side of the events of September 11, 2001 left out of the fairytale version as told to us by the mainstream media. He waits outside a restaurant while Michael Moore shoves his face full of tacos to ask him why he didn’t cover the real hard-core issues of 9-11, and while waiting nails the Michael Moore illusion. Then Alex hits a home run with an impromptu interview of multi-presidential advisor/insider David Gergen. Alex, that was one of your finest moments caught on film! He then wraps up the film with a brief history of Nazism, showing the Bush family ties, some of the symbolism used, Bohemian Grove and the Republican’s love-fest with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(A side note: for a real treat keep an eye of the Gov-a-nat-or’s Cal-ee-for-nee-ah website:http://www.governor.ca.gov/state/govsite/gov_homepage.jsp where he documents such fun meetings as that of his recent hosting of Bavarian Prime Minister Dr. Edmund Stoiber, no doubt a meeting of great importance to Cal-ee-for-nee-ans.)
Yesterday I got to witness the Police State in full swing right here in my own town. My family found that the new requirement for entrance into our County Fair is to have all bags searched by a Law Enforcement Officer. Even little, tiny teenage girl’s purses hardly large enough to hold a tube of lipstick had to be placed on the table to be prodded, groped and fondled by the Law Enforcement Officer. What kind of contraband were they looking for I wondered? And what is next? Since none of the men had handbags they weren’t being searched, but they could have easily concealed something in their pant legs. Next it’ll be everyone up against the wall, spread-eagle for a pre-fair frisk! We are truly in a Police State and if Alex’s documentary doesn’t wake you up to this fact, your next unprovoked search from a Law Enforcement Officer will!
Thank you Alex for your tireless work in exposing the agenda of the globalists!
Friday, March 18, 2005
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
AN “INVISIBLE ARMY” FIGHTS THE MEDIA LIES ABOUT 9/11
Fighting against the secrecy of the government and the disinformation of the corporate media, an invisible army of citizens is fighting to expose the lies about 9/11.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Our Preferred Poison
Let’s start with a straightforward fact: Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous. A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal. A single drop in a large lake can make all the fish in it unsafe to eat.
So then let's put it in vaccines as a 'perservative' and inject it, repeatedly, into our babies.
So then let's put it in vaccines as a 'perservative' and inject it, repeatedly, into our babies.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Evil Is As Evil Does
Our children are being kidnapped and forced into servicing the elites and their minions in order to quell their twisted sexual appetites and simultaneously advance their New World Order agenda through blackmail and espionage. It's not hyperbole. The elite, who truly control, really do consider 'US', including our babies, their chattel and cattle!
History has already proven that elites mercilessly use our children for cannon fodder, for example, in their bogus wars. Why ? So they can line their pockets with more blood money and power. Power is to the elite what heroine is to a street addict. And we all know that addicts will do just about ANYTHING to feed their habit.
The elites poison our children with contaminated vaccinations that can severely compromise their immune system. And our children are forced to attend schools, which are nothing more than social engineering and government/corporate indoctrination centers. So, our children essentially serve a minimum 12 year prison sentence. When they are finally released, most spend the rest of their lives in a sort of parole or house arrest state of mind. In other words, mental prisoners for life. Their spirits are squelched, their souls are stultified, and their intellects are shaped into instruments to be used by their masters, not by their souls.
Why? So they can effectively serve as a cog in the wheel of an elite designed and owned social and economic system. The children who strive to serve their inner truth, their soul felt dreams and deep aspirations, are eventually forced by economics, emotional needs, and peer pressure to fall in line with the crowd or be marginalized from the mainstream the rest of their lives. Sorry to break your bubble, but America is not a land that values and nurtures individuals. It is a land of mass social conformity, rampant materialism, and media induced consumerism and group think.
History has already proven that elites mercilessly use our children for cannon fodder, for example, in their bogus wars. Why ? So they can line their pockets with more blood money and power. Power is to the elite what heroine is to a street addict. And we all know that addicts will do just about ANYTHING to feed their habit.
The elites poison our children with contaminated vaccinations that can severely compromise their immune system. And our children are forced to attend schools, which are nothing more than social engineering and government/corporate indoctrination centers. So, our children essentially serve a minimum 12 year prison sentence. When they are finally released, most spend the rest of their lives in a sort of parole or house arrest state of mind. In other words, mental prisoners for life. Their spirits are squelched, their souls are stultified, and their intellects are shaped into instruments to be used by their masters, not by their souls.
Why? So they can effectively serve as a cog in the wheel of an elite designed and owned social and economic system. The children who strive to serve their inner truth, their soul felt dreams and deep aspirations, are eventually forced by economics, emotional needs, and peer pressure to fall in line with the crowd or be marginalized from the mainstream the rest of their lives. Sorry to break your bubble, but America is not a land that values and nurtures individuals. It is a land of mass social conformity, rampant materialism, and media induced consumerism and group think.
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Bell Calls 911 Skeptics 'Wingnuts'
Last night's program was a doozy. Art Bell sent a clear message to his faithful listeners, and it wasn't a nice one: if you don't buy the government's line on 9-11, you're a loony. Out of your mind. And that he and his show would be better off without your listenership, so if you want to quit listening, leave. He's better off without you.
So, oblige him. Quit listening. Listen to George Noory during the week, who respects other people's opinions and searches for the truth, and boycott Bell.
So, oblige him. Quit listening. Listen to George Noory during the week, who respects other people's opinions and searches for the truth, and boycott Bell.
Tyranny Comes To Amerika
The "suicide" deaths of Hunter Thompson, Gary Webb and J.H. Hatfield show that reporters who expose the criminal activities of our political elite risk their lives.
They are on the front line of freedom. When they are killed, it means very bad things are in store for us.
They are on the front line of freedom. When they are killed, it means very bad things are in store for us.
Monday, March 07, 2005
Popular Mechanics Attacks
The Hearst-owned Popular Mechanics magazine takes aim at the 9/11 Truth Movement (without ever acknowledging it by that name) with a cover story in its March 2005 edition. Sandwiched between ads and features for monster trucks, NASCAR paraphernalia, and off-road racing are twelve dense and brilliantly designed pages purporting to debunk the myths of 9/11.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
"Do you agree that a corporation is a person?"
My jury duty questionnaire: "Do you agree that a corporation is a person?"
It was time for me to serve on jury duty again. It's easy to get out of jury duty but frankly I think the jury system is the backbone of America. Serving on a jury is the most patriotic thing I can do -- aside from protesting election fraud.
So there I was in the courtroom. Jury selection. "This trial is a civil trial. A corporation is suing a corporation. Does anybody have trouble with the belief that a corporation is a person?" There were 58 people in that jury pool. Not one of them raised their hand. Except for me. I went OFF on that poor sweet judge.
"What do you MEAN that a corporation is a person!!!! A table is not a person. A chair is not a person. And a corporation is not a person either!" Me and that guy on "Law and Order". I was on a roll.
"Your Honor!" I expounded. "In 1886, in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, a lowly LAW CLERK by the name of J.C. Bancroft Davis -- a former employee of a railroad, mind you -- SNUCK a headnote into a decision, saying that a corporation is as good as a person. That headnote was not legally binding! And for the last 118 YEARS, America has been PRETENDING that corporations were living, breathing persons! Your Honor! That's just wrong."
I paused for breath. The judge paused for the bailiff. The Plaintiff looked worried and the Defendant looked worried too -- but by golly I was going to have my day in court! "No judge has ever ruled on this issue. You can't even cite case law on this. Can a corporation die? Can a corporation father a child?" And can a corporation receive welfare? Don't answer that.
I find it very hard to believe that every day, across this great nation of ours, thousands -- if not hundreds of thousands -- of perspective jurors are being asked this very same question and yet the whole nation-wide jury pool hasn't stood up in open rebellion when asked this stupid, cheesy question. "Does anybody have trouble with the belief that a corporation is a person?" What are we? A nation of sheep?
Needless to say, I was excused from jury duty. A corporation, however, did not step up to take my place. Why? Because a corporation is not allowed to serve on juries. Why not? Because at least someone somewhere has the good sense to realize that A CORPORATION IS NOT A PERSON!
It was time for me to serve on jury duty again. It's easy to get out of jury duty but frankly I think the jury system is the backbone of America. Serving on a jury is the most patriotic thing I can do -- aside from protesting election fraud.
So there I was in the courtroom. Jury selection. "This trial is a civil trial. A corporation is suing a corporation. Does anybody have trouble with the belief that a corporation is a person?" There were 58 people in that jury pool. Not one of them raised their hand. Except for me. I went OFF on that poor sweet judge.
"What do you MEAN that a corporation is a person!!!! A table is not a person. A chair is not a person. And a corporation is not a person either!" Me and that guy on "Law and Order". I was on a roll.
"Your Honor!" I expounded. "In 1886, in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, a lowly LAW CLERK by the name of J.C. Bancroft Davis -- a former employee of a railroad, mind you -- SNUCK a headnote into a decision, saying that a corporation is as good as a person. That headnote was not legally binding! And for the last 118 YEARS, America has been PRETENDING that corporations were living, breathing persons! Your Honor! That's just wrong."
I paused for breath. The judge paused for the bailiff. The Plaintiff looked worried and the Defendant looked worried too -- but by golly I was going to have my day in court! "No judge has ever ruled on this issue. You can't even cite case law on this. Can a corporation die? Can a corporation father a child?" And can a corporation receive welfare? Don't answer that.
I find it very hard to believe that every day, across this great nation of ours, thousands -- if not hundreds of thousands -- of perspective jurors are being asked this very same question and yet the whole nation-wide jury pool hasn't stood up in open rebellion when asked this stupid, cheesy question. "Does anybody have trouble with the belief that a corporation is a person?" What are we? A nation of sheep?
Needless to say, I was excused from jury duty. A corporation, however, did not step up to take my place. Why? Because a corporation is not allowed to serve on juries. Why not? Because at least someone somewhere has the good sense to realize that A CORPORATION IS NOT A PERSON!
Hostage recalls 'hail of gunfire'
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena has described how she came under a "hail of gunfire" moments after being released from her Iraqi abductors in Baghdad.
What does Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena know and why did the U.S. want to kill her?
Ever since the kidnappings and beheadings of non-military personnel in Iraq began nearly 2 years ago, many observers, readers and analysts have asked why the Iraqi resistance would commit these crimes, knowing they would turn world opinion against them. Many ask the same questions about the mass killings of Shiites with bombs. The Iraqi resistance has nothing to gain from these atrocities and the invader/occupiers have everything to gain in the propaganda war. We know that the CIA and Mossad have been very busy in Iraq but what kind of "work" are they doing? Many readers write to us with their suspicions that these killings and kidnappings are the work of Black Ops in Iraq.
Friday, March 04, 2005
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