The Guerrilla Campaign

Constituents, friends react to Foley's resignation September 29, 2006 The News-Press, Ft Myers, FL http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Dato=20060929&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=309290004&Ref=AR […] "It's never good when you lose a good congressman (mark foley r-FL)," said Lee County's GOP state committeewoman Jan Ganter. "I think the people lost a good servant. So, I regret it." […] Ganter said she questions the timing of the reports, given the election is 39 days away. Ganter said it's suspicious that the e-mails have popped up shortly after Republican Virginia Sen. George Allen was painted as a racist. "It's a big coincidence that all these things are happening to our fine conservative party," Ganter said. "It does make one wonder." […] Well, jan, it DOES make one wonder. What do you say, kids? Let’s just check some of the ‘ tools ’ (no pun intended). [http://tmars.iwarp.com/guerrilla_campaign/document/...

How Did We Come To This? by Phil Rockstroh 9/28/06 "True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that False Self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality ... and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." -R. D. Laing The pathology of American culture is as ubiquitous as its strip-mall ugliness. It is abundantly evident, in almost every aspect of contemporary life. From the predatory (to the point of psychopathic) practices of its morally scurvy pirates at the helm of the corporate/governmental ship of state, down to the pandemic enervation and proliferate anomie of its galley slaves languishing in their soulless cubicles -- from the genitalia-devoid mascots at Disney World to the genitalia-obsessed torturers of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo -- the soul-sickness spreads before us like George W. Bush's taunting, executioner's smirk. Ronnie Laing's profound dictum le...

9/28/06 Hi kids, Here’s the perverts who like to torture. Don’t take any candy from them. And especially, don’t accept rides from them. [http://tmars.iwarp.com/guerrilla_campaign/document/Hi_kids.pdf] Senate approves terrorism interrogation bill 9/28/06 7:01pm EDT http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060928/pl_nm/security_guantanamo_dc_13 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill setting rules for interrogations and prosecutions of foreign terrorism suspects, sending it to President George W. Bush to sign into law. Senate OKs bill for detainee trials, interrogations POSTED: 7:30 p.m. EDT, September 28, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/28/congress.terrorism.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation that Republicans intend to use on the campaign trail to assert their toughness on terrorism. The 65-34 vote means th...

September 28 1787 - Congress votes to send the Constitution to state legislatures for their approval. 2006 - Congress votes for torture and tyranny. Abandons Constitution.

By Sheila Samples 9/28/06 I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals." ~~George W. Bush My friend Bernie says a lot of folks have George Bush figured all wrong. "Sure he lies," Bernie said, "every time he opens his mouth. But -- think about it. Even when Bush is lying he ends up telling us what he's gonna do. He can't help himself -- he just blurts it out. But by the time we understand what he's saying -- he's already made a stinkin' mess and moved on to the next one." Bernie says he's sick and tired of Bush running crazily through Americans' lives, shouting at the top of his lungs -- "September the 11th! The terrorists are coming!" while bragging insanely about his carnivorous game plan for the entire universe. "What's the matter with the people in this country?" Bernie asked in frustration, "why can't they figure out this bozo?" "Look, Bernie," I said, "maybe we're re...

http://education.jlab.org/qa/meltingpoint_01.html That depends on the alloy of steel you are talking about. The term alloy is almost always used incorrectly these days, especially amongst bicyclists. They use the term to mean aluminum . What the term alloy really means is a mixture of metals, any kind of metals. Almost all metal used today is a mixture and therefore an alloy. Most steel has other metals added to tune its properties, like strength, corrosion resistance, or ease of fabrication. Steel is just the element iron that has been processed to control the amount of carbon . Iron, out of the ground, melts at around 1510 degrees C (2750°F). Steel often melts at around 1370 degrees C (2500°F). - Brian Kross, Chief Detector Engineer Jet fuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel The most common fuel worldwide is a kerosene /paraffin oil-based fuel classified as JET A-1, which is produced to an internationally standardized set of specifications. In the United States only, a version...

By David Howard 26 September, 2006 http://www.countercurrents.org/us-howard260906.htm US Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada is facing an eight-year term in military prison for just doing his duty: serving our country and protecting the Constitution. The charges against Lieutenant Watada are conduct unbecoming an officer, missing movement, and contempt toward President Bush. But they boil down to the “crimes” of thinking, speaking and following his conscience. In June 2006, Ehren Watada refused to deploy to Iraq on the grounds that the Iraq War is illegal. The Army filed charges, held a hearing, and recommended a court martial. This impending trial will be a test of our president’s authority to wage preemptive war. Lieutenant Watada argues, on our behalf, that President Bush has abused his authority; President Bush argues that Watada is contemptuous for saying so. The architects of the Iraq War want to punish Ehren Watada for “unbecoming conduct,” but Lt. Watada has only done what any s...

Chavez, Limbaugh and Hypocrisy over Name-Calling by Jeff Cohen Published on Friday, September 22, 2006 by CommonDreams.org http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0922-35.htm […] Let me be clear: Those of us who use facts instead of rant; reason and argument instead of name-calling and personal attacks; evidence instead of intimidation and accusations of disloyalty -- we have the moral authority to tell Hugo Chavez that his comments were out of line. But the Limbaughs, Hannitys, Scarboroughs and O’Reillys are in no position to point any fingers. Nor are the executives at Disney, GE and News Corp who have made them the loudest voices in American media. Nor, for that matter, is Team Bush -- whose strategy has been to demonize and intimidate critics and other members of the “reality-based community.” […] And neither are we. Who are we to decide what someone should think, or say? Do I need to remind you who the president is? and what he’s been doing? We have allowed this little man to remain i...

The McCain "Compromise" on Bush's Torture Program By Chris Floyd Thursday, 21 September 2006 http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=856&Itemid=135 After George Bush's Rose Garden hissy fit, in which he declared that he would simply stop interrogating suspected terrorists unless he could torture them, John "I Only Flip-Flop On Matters of Deep Principle" McCain and the other so-called "Senate rebels" have capitulated to the unpopular president's petulant demands. In the universe of moral perversion in which we now live, White House National Security (sic) Adviser Stephen Hadley called the pro-torture, anti-due process agreement between these deeply cynical power-gamesters "a good day for the American people." Here's how the Gamester-in-Chief described it (from the NYT): “I’m pleased to say this agreement preserves the most single, the most potent tool we have in protecting America and foilin...

By Vladimir Bukovsky Sunday, December 18, 2005; B01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html CAMBRIDGE, England One nasty morning Comrade Stalin discovered that his favorite pipe was missing. Naturally, he called in his henchman, Lavrenti Beria, and instructed him to find the pipe. A few hours later, Stalin found it in his desk and called off the search. "But, Comrade Stalin," stammered Beria, "five suspects have already confessed to stealing it." This joke, whispered among those who trusted each other when I was a kid in Moscow in the 1950s, is perhaps the best contribution I can make to the current argument in Washington about legislation banning torture and inhumane treatment of suspected terrorists captured abroad. Now that President Bush has made a public show of endorsing Sen. John McCain's amendment, it would seem that the debate is ending. But that the debate occurred at all, and that prominent figures are will...

W. House: Not US policy to threaten Pakistan 9/22/06 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/ts_nm/bush_pakistan_dc_1 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday it was not U.S. policy to threaten Pakistan after the September 11 attacks despite Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's complaint that Washington warned it would bomb his country. The statement came as Bush and Musharraf met at the White House to discuss cooperation in the war on terrorism and efforts to prevent a resurgence of the Taliban. They were to hold a news conference at 10:10 a.m. EDT (1410 GMT). White House spokesman Tony Snow said Richard Armitage, who was deputy secretary of state at the time, had denied warning Musharraf that the United States would bomb his country if it did not cooperate with the U.S. campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Musharraf, in an interview with CBS News' magazine show "60 Minutes," to air on Sunday, said that after the September 11 attacks, Armitage had ...

By BRIAN KNOWLTON, International Herald Tribune September 21, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/washington/21cnd-detain.html WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — President Bush and three Republican senators said this afternoon that they had reached an agreement on legislation to clarify which interrogation techniques can be used against terror suspects and to establish trial procedures for those in military custody. “We did our duty,” said Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, one of the three. He noted that the legislation would still need close study by both houses of Congress. Mr. Warner and the other two rebellious Republicans, Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, met at the White House with Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, who stood behind Mr. Warner’s shoulder as the senator announced the agreement. “It is good news and a good day for the American people,” Mr. Hadley said. Mr. McCain said the agreeme...

Ga. Republican says he supports "methods necessary" for detainees Sep. 20, 2006 Republican, of course. […] Pressed on whether that means he supports torture, he said, "What's torture? Torture is many things to many people ... people have different breaking points." Asked whether he would support using electric shocks, he said, "Electric shocks are given to people during initiations to different clubs ... Is that torture? I don't know." […] http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/15566134.htm Georgia congressman lynn westmoreland. He’s really some piece of work, ain’t he? He didn’t take me up on my offer to demonstrate a few of these techniques to him in the shed out back. I’m thinking he’s just another one of them tough talking little chicken shits that seem to populate our national political and media scene these days. I don’t really know how to put this, I’ll try to be tactful. To pass ANY legislation allowing for any sort of torture is...

Corporate Monkeys In Our National House Of Mirrors By Phil Rockstroh “On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts’ desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.'' -- H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun, 1920 As Americans waddled into the new century, overweight, overworked, and as self aware as a cloister of sea slugs -- so too arrived, affecting his bandy-legged, fake cowboy swagger, George W. Bush, to usher in this era of unquenchable, consumer craving and perpetual, martial emergency. Currently, we watch as Bush vacillates between chest-puffing belligerence and jaw-gyrating fecklessness. Due to his hapless response to overwhelming events, some commentators have made comparisons to Jimmy Carter. Not true: Carter, as beset by tumult and contretemps as his administration was during the late 1970s, never resembled, as Bush does, a tweaked-out methhead in the throes of a full-blown Methamphetamine-induced psychosis. Ther...

The bush says the Geneva Conventions on degrading and humiliating treatment are vague. So apparently does congress. And so now we have the spectacle for the world to see, the president and the congress of the United States of America, debating what degree of torture is acceptable. Well. Let me give all you fuckers a clue. If you are in control of another person, and what you are about to do to them you would not want done to you, then that's your answer. What the fuck is the problem? If you don't mind being locked up forever, no communication with a lawyer or family, no charges, no evidence, while being slapped around and forced into stress positions, with no sleep for days at a time in a little cell that's too cold because you're naked with people making comments about your sexuality, and being raped, then, by all means, go for it. I got a shed out back. One last message to bush, his administration, congress, the media, and anybody else who thinks its necessary. THERE ...

A Monument To My Comfort Zone by Phil Rockstroh September 17, 2006 "Mrs. O'Kelly, do you believe in fairies?" "No, I don't -- but they're there." -- Irish aphorism There is something missing in The Oakdale Estates subdivision. Oak Trees. Years ago, they were cut down to clear the property for development. Is it possible the gated walls of Oakdale Estates are fitted with impenetrable irony shields? There is something missing, as well, here in The United States of America -- Land of The Free. Freedom. Where are our much-vaunted freedoms in the present day United States? Are they, perhaps, hidden among the phantom oaks of Oakdale Estates? Sadly, it appears, for a depressingly large percent of our citizenry, the loss of our rights and liberties are missed and remembered to the same extent as the felled trees of Oakdale Estates. At morning, during their commute to work, the residents of Oakdale Estates sit, stranded in traffic, on ever more congest...