The Guerrilla Campaign

7/28/05 http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/07/which-of-15-dem-sellouts-should-start.html Which of the 15 Dem Sellouts Should Start Looking For Another Job/Party? We now know who the 15 Democrats are that each undermined their party and America's middle class by casting the deciding vote for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The bill passed by one vote, meaning each of the 15 Democrats cast the deciding vote. When 27 Republicans vote against their own party leadership as they did on CAFTA, Democrats have only these 15 sellouts within their ranks - and groups like the DLC that pushed CAFTA - to blame for the fact that the Democratic Party has been relegated to permanent minority status. The 15 Democratic sellouts were: Melissa Bean (IL) Jim Cooper (TN) Henry Cuellar (TX) Norm Dicks (WA) Ruben Hinojosa (TX) William Jefferson (LA) Jim Matheson (UT) Greg Meeks (NY) Dennis Moore (KS) Jim Moran (VA) Solomon Ortiz (TX) Ike Skelton (MO) Vic Snyder (AR) John Tanner (TN) Ed Town...

Letters to the editor Published by news-press.com on July 23, 2005 http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050723/OPINION/507230386/1015 Profiling is needed I'm sure I'm going to offend some with these observations, but I have about had it with political correctness. We have multiculturalists telling us that the American culture is just one of many different cultures, but not necessarily morally superior. As I type this, both slavery and genocide are being practiced in Sudan and in other areas across Africa. I'm sorry, but that is not the moral equivalent of the American culture. Just this week there was a news story about a woman in India who was forcibly raped by her father in law. Would you like to know the punishment handed down by an Islamic court? Because she was no longer clean, she was to leave her husband who still loved her and marry the rapist because she had had sex with him. In another case, in Pakistan, a religious court held that the sister of ...

The attack on the bricklayers of Abu Ghraib For the full story by John F. Burns see The New York Times: 7/13/05:p8 There are differing accounts of what happened to the 12 men from Abu Ghrib on the road to Baghdad. The Police say that the men were involved in a roadside attack and exchanged fire with Americans and Iraqi police. The men were tracked to a Baghdad hospital where they were arrested and taken away in an armored vehicle.The men were brought to Yarmouk Hospital 14 hours after their arrest; eight were dead and four were unconscious; of the four only two survived One of the two survivors of the group, Diya Saleh, says the men were on their way to Baghdad in search of work bricklaying. Whether or not Mr Saleh is being truthful is immaterial at this point. The men were taken with and without injuries out of a hospital, possibly subjected to electrical torture in 110 degree heat and subsequently most of them were killed. A police officer at Yarmouk Hospital substantiated the story ...

The automatic and overwhelming question after an act of terrorism is why. The answer is almost as slow to appear as the act was instantaneous. I would like to suggest this approach: study the methods and motivations of ordinary political change and then apply that knowledge to the extreme elements in our society. Ordinarily all political systems are in perpetual change. This change is driven by all of the leading and minor players. Anyone who is committed to changing "the system" may participate. Most change comes from the center of the political spectrum--hereafter called the reformers. The reformers are driven to make changes by all elements of the system but most strongly by the special interests of its own party--hereafter called the radicals. The changes are rarely what the radicals had in mind but it is change all the same. Think of the system as a filter--change filters in from the outside to the radicals and on to the reformers and is finally accepted or not. Occasion...