The Guerrilla Campaign

By John H. St. John Online Journal Contributing Writer Mar 28, 2006 http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_636.shtml In July I will be 85, if I live that long, and never in my life have I felt more like Lewis Caroll’s Alice as she stepped into the mirror and entered Wonderland. It is not just that the corporations stole an election and gave us a mental defective for a president. It is a population that, pro or con, accepts the absurd idea that we are at war in Iraq. Even the bloody battles in Korea against Chinese and North Korean tanks were called a “police action.” The bloody attack shown to the world on television and proudly called “Shock and Awe” was done without any declaration of war. The present illegal occupation of Iraq is called a war and the moronic president is assuming all of the powers, and more, of a wartime president while Congress refuses his challenge to the Constitution. There have been other illegal incursions and undeclared wars, Vietnam for example; but ...

by eriposte Tuesday :: Mar 28, 2006 Fraud and Perjury? Or at least that is what appears to be the case here. Anonymous Liberal (emphasis mine): Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. The Court will be called upon to determine--among other things--whether a provision in last year's Detainee Treatment Act ("DTA") effectively strips the Court of jurisdiction to hear Hamdan's case. The Government contends that it does and in support of this position, Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John Kyl have filed an amicus brief with the Court. This amicus brief argues that the legislative history of the DTA supports the Government's position. Specifically, the brief cites a lengthy colloquy between Senators Kyl and Graham themselves which purportly took place during a Senate floor debate just prior to passage of the bill. Sounds harmless, huh? Here's the catch: Apparently this entire 8 page colloquy--which is scripted to...

Making progress in Afghanistan too, I see. I wonder what the whacko ‘christians’ are going to feel about this. Another bush success story, or so we’re told. Just another country collaterally damaged on our way to world domination. Afghan Christian convert could face death March 19 2006 Independent Online (South Africa) http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1142776621938B212# Kabul - An Afghan man detained for converting to Christianity could face the death penalty if he refuses to become Muslim again, police and a judge said on Sunday. Abdul Rahman was detained two weeks ago after his relatives reported to the police about his conversion which is forbidden under Islamic Sharia law. "Yes that's true, a man has converted to Christianity. He's being tried in one of our courts," Supreme Court judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said, adding that his trial began early last week. He said the man could face the death penalty if he refused to revert to ...

Unleashing the military power of the United States of America on March 19, 2003, the president bush turned them to invading Iraq. I don’t think the understanding of the enormity of that crime has settled yet on America. The crime is more than mass-murder. He has destroyed a nation. He has poisoned that’s nation’s people and environment with depleted uranium ammunition. He has raped their women and children. He has destroyed their homes and towns. He has stolen their treasure. It was all accepted. After all, the bush was ‘re-elected’. Why? Perpetual war, and an improvement on Orwell’s model: they’ll never have to change the ‘enemy’. With the ‘nation at war’, cover is provided for all kinds of atrocities, and the loss of civil rights. Cowed by fear, America has accepted what would have been unthinkable, and unacceptable at the end of the twentieth century. The ‘opposition’ has become cowed by fear of being called ‘un-American’. Look how easily the country has accepted the fact of the tor...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031606S.shtml March to New Orleans to Protest Iraq War The Associated Press Tuesday 14 March 2006 Mobile, Alabama - Hurricane victims and war veterans set out Tuesday on a march to New Orleans to protest the war in Iraq and what they view as a lack of relief aid for storm victims. Paul Robinson, the local chapter president of Veterans for Peace, said the 140-mile "Walkin' to New Orleans" march is scheduled to end Saturday. He said marchers, including several victims of Hurricane Katrina, are demanding not only an end to the war but also a large increase in resources to help hurricane victims rebuild their lives. He expected about 300 marchers to join in, some walking the entire distance and other joining at the end. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who spent a month protesting outside President Bush's ranch last summer, was expected to join the marchers in New Orleans, her sister, Dede Miller, said Monday. ...

By Mike Ferner Washington, March 14 -- Last Wednesday evening, the House Appropriations Committee voted to throw another $67,000,000,000 at the murderous work in Iraq and Afghanistan. That night members of the committee, righteously indignant and nearly unanimous, gave President "Bring ‘Em On" Bush a loud slap in the face. Whoa! You mean the most powerful committee in Congress voted 62-2 to stop funding our national war crimes orgy? Of course they did…and then we all lived happily ever after. No, the killing will proceed as planned, with no congressional intervention, although chances are you heard absolutely zip about the 67 Billion Dollar Question, thanks to the Guardians of Reality who insured the news from that hearing was the Dubai Port deal, not the unimaginable sum of our money Congress voted for war, nor the voices raised against it. That news must come from places like the internet site you’re now reading, not the corporate press. And I’m here to tell you the story. ...

by Mary Pitt 3/12/06 WOW!!! That felt good, didn't it? You sent the message to Little George, loud and clear, "The security of America is NOT for sale!" At long last, the lion of the American Congress found its hind legs, stood up and roared! This, the first truly bipartisan act since the Bush cabal took over, stomped into the White House, locked the door, pulled the shades, and gave the true governing body of the people the proverbial finger, is historic and little less than heroic. For this we thank you! As a life-long Republican who cannot be comfortable in the Democratic Party, this writer felt that the early years of party loyalty were at last, in some small measure, vindicated. For just a little while there we were pleased, gratified, and elated that Congress was, at last, acting as an independent branch of government with power equal to the administrative in upholding the will of the people. Unfortunately, this euphoria was dampened with the renewal of the hated P...

News Voices for Creative Nonviolence: WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT campaign March 8, 2006 For Immediate Release Contact: Jeff Leys -773-573-5380 Antiwar Activists Arrested At House Appropriations Committee Hearing Washington, D.C. - March 8 - Two activists were arrested tonight after disrupting the hearing of the House Appropriations Committee. The Committee is considering approving nearly $65 billion in supplemental spending to fund the war in Iraq. The two were arrested as they read the names of Iraqi citizens and U.S. soldiers who have died in this war. The action was part of the "Winter of Our Discontent" campaign organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Waiting outside the doors were supporting members from Voices for Creative Nonviolence and the general public who could not gain access to the full Committee because the hearing room was packed by House members and their staff. "We act today to stop the death and suffering this war is causing in Iraq, and to urge ...

by Mary Pitt 3/6/06 Senator Pat Roberts, (R-KS), has announced that he is working on a bill that. if passed, will criminalize the publication of any "classified" information by the media. This would make the reporter who writes, and the news media for whom they work, equally liable under the anti-spy regulations with any whistle-blower who dares to try to get the truth out regarding the misfeasance and malfeasance of this administration. However, the very suggestion of the revocation of the First Amendment may be the one thing that will wake up our sleeping media to the truth of what has been and is being done to our democracy. Now the test for publish-ability will not be truth and verifiability but permission from the White House on pain of spending a long vacation in Halliburton's new Camp Northwoods. For much too long the media, like most of the citizenry, have viewed the ultimate takeover of our nation by the Neo-Cons as "just politics", a simple little game...

Congress, Shape the Hell Up or Get the Hell Out! By Chuck Wilson The media is reporting that lawmakers are still angry about the Dubai port deal. Both Republicans and Democratics balked when they learned last month that the Bushies approved a $6.8 billion deal for a company in the United Arab Emirates to take over six of our ports with no investigation and without telling Congress about it. It was a "done deal." It's still a done deal because after their little circus acts for public consumption, we're now hearing that our elected officials are feeling "powerless to prevent the sale from going forward, and their only hope is an 11th-hour intervention by Bush Hey -- you spineless wonders! You make the laws! We're not paying you to cringe in the corner and hope that George Bush will take pity on you! This is not Bush's country -- it's not your country, even though both of you are feverishly trying to sell it off to the highest bidder. It's our count...

15 Arrested At White House Protesting US Torture Practices By Mike Ferner March 2, 2006 Washington – Fifteen people were arrested yesterday in front of the White House after winding their way for two hours through the streets of the nation’s capital, demanding the U.S. stop torturing detainees in military prisons. Members of Witness Against Torture began their protest at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, continuing to the Capitol and the Department of Justice, and ending at the White House where U.S. Park Police carried out the arrests. Speakers called on officials in each of the buildings to cease planning and executing policies that have injured and killed people in prisons such as Guantanamo Bay, Bagram in Afghanistan, and Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Arrested were Art Laffin, of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, Amanda and Matt Dalaisio, and Tania Theriault of the Catholic Worker’s Mary House in New York, Susan Crane from Jonah House in Baltimore, Matt Vogel, Mark Col...

Anti-war activists planning to 'take over' White House Online announcement asks protesters to 'storm' executive mansion March 15 by Ron Strom February 28 2006 World Net Daily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49026 A leading anti-Iraq war group is advertising a plan to storm the White House next month and "take it over" until the Bush administration vacates the premises. United for Peace and Justice, which claims to represent 1,300 local and national anti-war organizations, has a page on its site advertising the March 15 action. "We are taking over the White House until they leave," the announcement says. The press release is entitled "Take the White House by Storm" – though elsewhere on the site a statement calls the storming "a peaceful event." "It is our duty and the duty of the United Nations to rescue the people of the world from the U.S. dictators," states the release. "Murder for occupa...

Seven Arrested At White House Protest Against Iraq War By Mike Ferner February 28, 2006 Washington – Holding a banner that read, “GOD FORGIVE AMERICA,” seven peace activists were arrested yesterday in front of the White House, in a civil disobedience protest against the war in Iraq. Arrested by U.S. Park Police were Brian Terrell, Ed Bloomer, and Elton Davis, all from Catholic Worker communities in the Des Moines, Iowa area, David Goodner, University of Iowa student, Eileen Hansen, a Catholic Worker from the Winona, Minnesota, Jeff Leys, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV), and Bernie Meyer, a retired social services worker from Olympia, Washington. The seven were charged with the federal misdemeanor of demonstrating without a permit, fined seventy-five dollars, and released yesterday evening. The action was part of VCNV’s “ Winter of our Discontent ” demonstratons in the month leading up to the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 20. Terrell ...

By Chuck Wilson Remember the song, "Found a Peanut?" Well, sing along with this... Propaganda, Propaganda -- nothing but Propaganda! Oh, Rummy -- you're such a dummy. And you're mighty crummy to fill our tummy With nothing but Propaganda! Bite me! As an outspoken critic of the evil elite who try to enslave us to do their bidding, I was particularly alarmed when Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that people who publicly oppose allowing the United Arab Emirates company, Dubai Ports World, to take over management of some U.S. ports "could be threatening national security." England said, "The terrorists want our nation to become distrustful. They want us to become paranoid and isolationist, and my view is we cannot allow this to happen. It needs to be just the opposite." So, let me get this straight. After three years of mind-numbing repetitive speeches by Bush designed to make us distrustful...

Cheney - Never mind America's teenaged military enduring horrors in Iraq, Dick Cheney had the worst day of his life by August Keso, February 15th, 2006 http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/commentary.php?id=993 It is rather fortunate for Republicans like Dick Cheney that, the Party has its very own propaganda "news" network. That way, whenever a sociopath like Cheney invades a country based on false intelligence, or shoots his hunting partner, he has somewhere to turn knowing they won't ask the tough questions. Also, having FOX in the Republican Party provides people like Cheney an opportunity to make themselves out to be the victim of their own folly. It wasn't pathetic enough that Dick Cheney tried to make himself the victim after having shot his buddy Whittington, but his excuse was borderline outrageous. While fielding typical FOX Republican News softball questions, Cheney said, "The image of him falling is somethi...

We will never know the damage that the bush has done to the United States and the world. By the time the final tally is in, we’re going to be dead. Our children’s grandchildren will still be paying the price. The tax cuts bush has been pushing, and his other policies, guarantee that the children of the elite won’t be paying it. And, by allowing roberts and alito seats on the Supreme Court, the Senate has guaranteed that none of the bushistas will pay for their crimes. You do know, of course, that any problems, convictions, impeachments, and the like, that they may face is going to end up in front of that same Supreme Court. One that is even more beholden to our little georgie than the one that anointed him in the first place on December 12, 2000. (Now there’s a date that should live in infamy.) And then, no doubt, we’ll see them turn up in jeb’s administration. Just as daddy bush’s assorted felons ended up in little bush’s. What a legacy to leave the kids. The bushistas are in too deep...

By Joe Baker, Senior Editor http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=12347 The Rock River Times Rockford, IL A source inside the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation told Insider magazine that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has ordered the shredding of documents and public records, a clear violation of Florida law. The department has oversight and approval of state gaming licensees, slot machines, dog and horse tracks, and jai-alai games. The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said the governor also has brought in personnel from Texas to replace key members of his staff in Tallahassee. The Texans are overseeing the destruction of state documents, according to the source. A source in the FBI confirmed that public records are being destroyed on orders of Jeb Bush. The source said the governor may have taken that action in response to the continuing criminal probe of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the federal investigation of the 2001 ...

The Alito Betrayal by Bob Fertik on January 30, 2006 - 5:18pm.Sam Alito http://www.democrats.com/alito-betrayal We, the voters who elect Democrats in every election, were utterly and completely betrayed today by 17 Democratic Senators that we elected. Akaka (HI), Baucus (MT), Bingaman (NM), Byrd (WV), Cantwell (WA), Carper (DE), Dorgan (ND), Inouye (HI), Johnson (SD), Kohl (WI), Landrieu (LA), Lieberman (CT), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Rockefeller (WV), Salazar (CO) You do know that bush would’ve just appointed him anyway at the next recess. -TM

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0127-28.htm Editorial Published on Friday, January 27, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune When Human Rights Watch, a respected organization that has been monitoring the world's behavior since 1978, focuses its annual review on America's use of torture and inhumane treatment, every American should feel a sense of shame. And everyone who has believed in the United States as the staunchest protector of human rights in history should be worried. Many nations - Belarus, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Cuba, Sudan and China to name only some of the worst - routinely trample on human rights in a way that neither the United States nor any of its allies would ever countenance. But the United States wrote the book on human rights; it defined the alternative to tyranny and injustice. So when the vice president of the United States actually lobbies against a bill that bans "cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment," Human Rights Watch is ju...

Sen Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito Unclear if Massachusetts Democrat has votes needed to block nominee Thursday, January 26, 2006; Posted: 4:23 p.m. EST (21:23 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/26/alito/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN's Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday. Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said. He announced his decision Wednesday to a group of Democratic senators, urging they join him, Henry said. Kerry also has the support of his fellow Massachusetts senator, Democrat Edward Kennedy. Some senior Democrats said they are worried that the move could backfire. Republicans need 60 votes to overturn a filibuster. Senior White House officials said the move makes the Democrats look bad, and Republicans already have enough votes t...