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November, 2007
Fwd: An Open Letter to the Government Ending All Military Obligations
Thursday, November 1, 2007 4:26 PM 		T.O.C.

From James Circello (AWOL soldier) To those Businessmen and women holding seats in Congress, To the Highest Court of America, To every Department within the U.S. government, To the President's Cabinet, To the Joint Chiefs of Staff, To the Vice President and President of the United States of America:

My name is James Circello. I am sure some of you already know who I am now that wiretaps and spying on American citizens has been approved. Or maybe you've heard of me when you saw my name on a comprehensive list of Anti-War activists. Or maybe you just know of me because I was a Sergeant in the United States Army and served as an Airborne Infantryman for six years, went to Iraq in March 2003 and served until March 2004, remained in the Army a little longer before refusing to take part in the Occupation of the Middle East and went AWOL.

I am writing you today, not asking for forgiveness for what I decided to do, but to give you an idea of what brought me to that decision to leave the Army and speak out against the Occupation. Though some will claim I left for other reasons and will try to force the discussion away from the facts and at the same time attempt to assassinate my character with half truths and out right lies, these are the facts. If later we wish to get into more of my personal life, we can do that: I have no fear of it.

I will first like to say that I am no longer a member of the United States Armed Forces. When I left the military on Easter morning, April 2007, I have officially resigned from service to that military. There are no ties between myself and an oppressive military regime set on occupying groups of impoverished indigenous people.

I am no longer a Sergeant or a paratrooper. I will not respect an organization that can and does, at its own will, change entire enlistment contracts for the purpose of extending soldiers;

Gives quarterly sexual harassment courses and still allows roughly 30% of women to be sexually assaulted in some way, shape or form;

Openly discriminates against people based on homosexuality, race, gender and ethnic background;

Allows crimes against humanity and peace to occur and covers them up with internal investigations;

Actively recruits young boys and girls from low level income high schools and communities with false promises of health care, school and job experience and fails on all accounts;

Refuses to recognize conscientious objectors (C.O.), and when individuals apply for C.O. status that are administratively "punished" by their chain of command;

I refuse to be a part of a military and Administration that continue to abuse and torture, doesn't recognize the rights of detainees and allows them to be shipped to secret detention facilities for "National Security" purposes; a military that is illegally, based on all U.S. as well as International Law, inside of Iraq; a military that is over extended, under funded in a war with no foreseeable end (because time tables give our enemy a "sense of victory", but how can the enemy have victory when "Mission Accomplished" has been declared?); a military that watches billions of government contracts given to private military outfits, while they run through the streets of Iraq unchecked, and allows soldiers to be poorly equipped and the V.A. poorly funded.; the No Child Left Behind Act and it's policy of making it mandatory for schools to send out the information of all students attending the school to military recruiters, or they are threatened with being cut off from Federal funding (I thought school was a place of learning, not a place of turning our youth into the: "(insert Arabic country name here) Veterans Against The War".

This and many other reasons are why I tell you today, I do not recognize any of the warrants that may have been placed upon me. These warrants are merely a way to silence any opposition to this criminal war. I do not support the United States foreign policy and will not be the fool that enforces it.

The United States has a history of using the poor of this country to massacre and oppress the poor of other countries and I say to everyone that is able to read this - I am no longer a member of the United States Armed Forces. I also say, this by no way makes me Un-American. I love this country and feel very strongly that it can be saved and that it must be saved. I say this without a growing ego, but my acts as of now are what the Founding Fathers envisioned and wrote about. This is what Democracy looks like. Dissent isn't Un-American, it is what Patriotism means. Patriotism is not blindly following a Flag waver, it is Direct Action.

I joined the Army after the towers of New York fell. Swept up in the fervor, I left college to enlist. My country was attacked - I, like many, wanted to defend it. But here is where a majority of Americans, as well as Politicians have made their largest mistake: Defending your country does not mean destroying other Nations out of and/or for Revenge. But the People bought into the outcry that we must kill to feel better, and the Politicians sang their songs and danced their dances, in an attempt to show who was the most Patriotic of them all!

America stayed fixed to the lies from Fox News (can it really be called "News"?) and we watched the towers fall so many thousands of times until we were all ready to go kill and die for the Eagle and Red, White and Blue. Though, I will admit, I was angry and young but it didn't take me too long to see that this wasn't about defending America, but creating an entirely new enemy.

It was all there. It was almost too perfect. They are of different color. They speak a different language. They are a people that have been made to be poor - not a people that are poor; there is a difference.

They follow a strange religion that Americans don't understand! A religion so very similar to Christianity, that - get this - it recognizes almost the same individuals as being Prophets that the Bible does.

They "hate us (you) for our (your) freedom".

They will come here and kill our women and children if we do not go there (and kill their women and children first).

The Administration and all of Its men and women sold it and Americans bought it.

How many people got chills when the American flag was placed there at Ground Zero? Remember when there were so many flags outside of houses, and flag stores ran out of them?

So I went to Iraq and I saw their faces. People that I thought wanted to kill me, and hated me because I was free, brought me into their homes, offered me food and something to drink. Was the food poisoned? No. Was it a poor family that could barely afford the food they were offering, but offered it to me without charge or regret? You bet.

I was quickly disillusioned by the military. Senators and Representatives from Congress would come to visit us - and we would be told to get everything clean for the Dog and Pony Show.

We would up the security levels, to make everything look ship-shape. When it was time for the questions and answers portion, we would never be without a question, because the chain of command was always there for us - and thankfully they had come up with the questions we were allowed to ask our Representatives. This is what happens every time someone from D.C. came for a little sight seeing visit. I can only imagine what kinds of shows they put on now.

Long story short, I left Iraq feeling really uncomfortable with America's position in this entire conflict. It didn't feel right. It didn't look right. And after much soul searching and researching, I discovered that it plain out just wasn't right.

It took me a while to finally decide to leave. I wanted to leave prior to invading Iraq, while witnessing the illegal "Shock and Awe" that killed so many innocent people and destroying the infrastructure of the country that we hadn't destroyed from the first bombings in the Gulf War and what wasn't antiquated and useless from the illegal sanctions held over the heads of the every day Iraqi citizen.

I fell for the trap of "don't let your buddies down". And what a well spun web it is. I can not control the conscience of another man. I can only follow mine. And after deciding what I believe in is not consistent with the United States military and learning that "don't let your buddies down" is just a form of domination through guilt, I left my post in Italy to return to America. I began speaking out against this Occupation. I do not fear arrest. I do not stay hidden. I go to all national events and travel the country at my own leisure.

I say this to you Congressional Democrats: you have failed us. I delayed my going AWOL, because when I learned both Houses of the Congress were controlled by Democrats I was confident that the war was finally over. You ran on the platform of ending the war. I told all of my friends to just hang on, it will be over very soon. You funded the war and you continue to fund it. By no means is my hostility solely directed towards the Republican bench of the government. You lied to the American people, and more so, you failed the American people. We are finally awake and more and more are realizing that we don't have a two party system in America, we have a single party that is not representing the will of the People.

Realize this Congressional Democrats, that when you agreed to continue funding the Occupation, this was no longer the President's war against the Arabs. You helped buy this Occupation and now you own it as well. And I will remind you every time that I see your faces.

The People say end the war. Stop funding the Occupation. The Soldiers want to come home. The insane idea of we must stay in Iraq and Afghanistan so that these thousands of soldiers will not have died in vain should never be said again! We tried saying that in Vietnam! The Iraqi people are strong and can defend themselves. They also want us out.

It took years for a G.I. Resistance to begin within the Military during Vietnam, but I am telling you right now - the feeling of resentment is there. The feeling that Politicians and Businesses are profiting off of this Occupation while we suffer through extended tours and battle Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depleted uranium, losing friends and family and losing our lives and limbs through wounds.

We come home and barely have time to adjust to being home before we begin training to leave again. Families are falling apart. Iraqis are dying. For what? A red, white and blue flag that says, "I'm a Patriot"?

Dissent is Patriotic.

Open discussion is Patriotic (this to Speaker of the House Pelosi who refuses to have an open forum with the people of her district. I believe it is going on just over 2 Years now.)

And I say to you dissent is filling the ranks of the military and it doesn't even need a charismatic figurehead to come forth and say "Dissent; Desert!". They are doing it and will keep doing it. And the military's attempt to censor free speech will not contain it. Blogs, Youtube, Myspace: these sights, and others, weren't blocked for any reason other than these are the most popular places to find out that the G.I. Resistance Movement is growing daily.

So proud Patriots of America, I ask you today for nothing. You are my Employee, never forget that. My tax dollars pay your salary, never forget that. I do however have demands for you:

-End the Occupation Now. Not tomorrow.

-Bring home all American troops. Replace them with a true international coalition designed specifically for peace keeping operations, NOT military operations.

-Remove all U.S. contractors from the Middle East that continue to benefit off of the death of the Iraqi and Afghan people and the destruction of their countries.

-Allow the Afghan and Iraq governments the freedom to decide what kind of country they want to be in, not what kind of country we want them to have.

-Allow the Afghan and Iraq governments freedom to choose who is given reconstruction contracts - which none should be American companies, for obvious reasons.

-Fund in full all reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq: We destroyed their countries, by International Law we must pay. By Moral virtue we must pay.

-Support the Troops means take care of them when they come home, not blindly fund their continued existence in a war zone - Completely fund the V.A. Department!

-Fund the Levees; Do NOT allow another Hurricane Katrina or Rita.

-Oversight on Gulf Region reconstruction (where is it?) - I was just in New Orleans, it is still a disaster area two years later. Fix it now.

-Open Diplomatic negotiations with Iran - Do not allow another war to take place. We have Diplomats that are paid by taxpayers to do just that: to Talk and Discuss. Use Diplomats not Depleted Uranium and Cruise Missiles.

I also want to say this before I close, I wrote it in a letter, just yesterday, to the people of Italy that stand up and actively oppose more U.S. military bases in their country. And it says:

The Iraq war is a War of Aggression, led by a cry of "We Will Never Forget"; the famous quote from September 11, 2001. Well, I have something to say for the people of the World and to the People of this Administration, as well as to the members of the U.S. Congress.

We WILL never forget.

We will never forget that the men who hijacked those aircraft on September 11, 2001 were not Iraqi.

We will never forget that Iraq had no Weapons of Mass Destruction (W.M.D) when we invaded.

We will never forget that the W.M.D's that Iraq did have years before, were sold to them by the U.S. Government.

We will never forget the millions of Iraqi men, women and children who have suffered through the Dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, The Iraq-Iran War, The Gulf War, Depleted Uranium, Years of Illegal Sanctions, Shock and Awe, "Liberation" from a Tyrant only to find a new Tyrant take his place.

We will never forget the 2 million of Iraqi men, women and children who are now displaced refugees within their own country.

We will never forget the 1.5 million refugees in Syria, the 775,000 refugees in Jordan and the nearly 200,000 refugees in Egypt.

We will never forget the 1 million dead Iraqi men, women and children since March 2003.

We will never forget that nearly 100,000 Iraqis flee the country each month since 2003.

We will never forget the widows, widowers and orphans of those dead.

We will never forget the effects of depleted uranium in American ammunition that litters the countries of the Middle East.

We will never forget the increased infant mortality rate. The sewage on the streets. The sectarian violence that was never in the streets of Iraq until we installed a Pro-U.S. Government.

We will never forget the destruction of Shock and Awe that destroyed Iraq's entire infrastructure.

We will never forget Abu Ghraib.

We will never forget the Lost men and women of Guantanamo Bay and other Secret U.S. Detention facilities.

We will never forget the every day Iraqi that is gunned down at a Traffic Control Point by a tired American teenager.

We will never forget the sounds of Improvised Explosive Devices (I.E.D) directed not at the American soldier, but at American Policy.

We will never forget the Women and Children gunned down at random after an I.E.D. explodes, because they were working the vegetable fields and were frightened and began to run.

We will never forget that War is, in fact, Terrorism. And America is the largest State Sponsor of Terrorism.

We will never forget that the Men, Women and Children of the Middle East may be of the same color as Saddam Hussein, but they do not have his face. They are not him. They do not deserve what they have been made to endure.

And we will never forget that corporations are profiting off of the death and destruction.

We will never forget that Blackwater and other private armies, which are in themselves illegal, are running around the Middle East killing at will - and are left unchecked.

We will never forget amazing photo opportunities with the soldiers, whether its walking through a market in Iraq with security all around you and Apaches in the air, or sitting on the deck of a ship under a "Mission Accomplished" banner.

We will never forget that a majority of the American population want the Occupations to end and we will keep repeating it until you do what you are paid to do - and that is, Listen to the People.

The People are United and I know that attempts will be made to have me appear a fool and soon you will have my grade school photographs, my coloring books, a list of every library book I have ever checked out, and whatever other records these incredibly large and over-funded Secret Agencies compile on Activists in America, but I do not fear you.

You have no moral authority over me. Or any authority at all. I do not fear you. Any of you.

We The People, United within The Struggle, James Circello; Iraq Veterans Against The War

Cherie Eichholz Veterans For Peace National Office 
veteransforpeace.org ~ (314) 725-6005

maybe a better IVAW link
Thursday, November 1, 2007 4:37 PM 		T.O.C.


See the members of Iraq Veterans Against the War...
http://www.ivaw.org/view/profiles

Cheers -

Mark


Authority and You
Sunday, November 4, 2007 10:16 AM 		T.O.C.


There are now over 200 professional architects and engineers, along with over 500 students at ae911truth.org, supporting the hypothesis of explosives and controlled demolition of the World Trade Center towers and building number 7.

Patriotsquestion911.com is as big as ever, which adds 150 senior government, military and intelligence professionals, 60 pilots, 160 professors, and 190 survivors of family members.

OpEd news is rebroadcasting regarding the group of CIA veterans openly denouncing the (sad) 9/11 Commission report… http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__071103_former_high_level_of.htm

The official sources have been severely outnumbered, for anyone who stops assuming that “experts” have dispensed with investigative needs. The official sources haven’t got nearly this kind of personnel. Do you think they do?

Government employees are not in positions to publicly discuss many things. Did you know that?

I am going to tell you about my experiments with people who attack 9/11 Truthers, or who have doubts about the 9/11 truth. It has recently come to my attention (for the 100th time) that some people are just going to find the 9/11 truth impossible to believe. They lack conviction on the matter – they’re not “turned”.

And then, there are the people who face off with the people listed at the top of this document, by conducting attacks upon my character. These individuals make themselves very clear by conducting attacks upon me, personally, when I present a statement of theory or of fact on the matter. They speak with authority, and call me a “liberal” (in a nasty sort of way), or a “conspiracy theorist” (in a nasty sort of way), or a “Bush hater” or a “Jew hater”, all in a very authoritarian and nasty sort of way. And I’m going to tell you what the topic is: Conviction.

These people have the advantage of a conviction based upon assumed experts, and assumed checks and balances. That’s not my problem. I get arguments that I am sure will never end, saying that if this and that government agencies says something is true, then it has to be true.

Face to face and in person, when I have taken the time to do so, I have shown such individuals my conviction, and they have backed away.

This is a message for “9/11 Truthers”, and perhaps people trying to sit out of the way. I appreciate all the work that is being done, but there’s talk again and again about what to do about the people along the way that conduct endless barrages of authoritarian stances and personal character attacks. These people have as much hot air and conviction as they do believe they portray.

Conviction can come from truth in a constitutionally based society, culturally founded on things like truth and justice, always ready to call upon.

It’s quite simple. When you see conviction, you’ll know it, and you’ll likely back down if you are not so able or inclined to match it. It also means staying true, and sticking to the facts. It may also mean being comfortable with ones own position on the matter. You have to put faith in what you believe.

When engaged with opposition, I don’t stop until the person at least in an authoritarian sense calms the fuck down. You can see it when the thoughtless asshole starts shaking. Exchanging facts or agreeing to back away is a calmer way.

You see, these people get themselves up into a perceived authority-representing tizzy, and they come down on people, and it’s a polarized landscape, and they’re highly charged when they do it, and nice people (like you) are probably petrified of being a potential target of these maniacal canons.

I’ve studied the materials. I have paid my dues, I did not base myself upon assumptions, and I have some facts if that’s what you want to talk about. Don’t pull that character bashing bullshit on me.

You can’t stop the authority-based people, because the government says that there was no conspiracy. This is going to fall strongly on republicans, since they are the party where the leading corruption has occurred, but also because they stand for the republic. You have to provide large amounts of in-depth material to sufficiently illustrate government corruption on an agency by agency basis. That’s very time consuming.

For example, I once became engaged with hardcore righties on the matter of market activities from Sept. 6th to 10th, 2001, in the days just before 9/11. They’re well enough documented, and show levels of puts (betting stocks will go down) on two airlines, their insurance companies, and a few others. Those hardcore righties responded something like this… “"Exhaustive investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, and other agencies have uncovered no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited through securities transactions.” There’s $2.5 million in unclaimed options earnings yet to be picked up (no one has), and the market activity is radically out of the norm during that period. You don’t just tell me that the SEC and the FBI conducted a complete investigation, and then have nothing else to say. I’m staring at a lot of unusual market activity. And if that’s not bad enough, the SEC deputized hundreds of executives from the private sector to conduct that investigation. Here’s a quote from a fellow by the name of Michael Ruppert (gets lot’s of personal attacks)… “What happens when you deputize someone in a national security or criminal investigation is that you make it illegal for them to disclose publicly what they know. Smart move. In effect, they become government agents and are controlled by government regulations rather than their own conscience. In fact, they can be thrown in jail without a hearing if they talk publicly. I have seen this implied threat time and again with federal investigations, intelligence agents, and even members of the United States Congress who are bound so tightly by secrecy oaths and agreements that they are not even able to disclose criminal activities inside the government for fear of incarceration.” I think the market activity is bad enough without opening new cans of worms. Those are irrefutable facts from the 6th to the 10th of September, 2001. http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/stockputs.html

Calling me nuts is the only remaining option when facing off with facts, which is why the “ad hominem”, or personal character attack is so widely used, and which is why I am so inclined to consider using a shotgun to dispense with the matter. I say the towers blew up, and the person responds by calling me a conspiracy theorist. Like that’s all he or she needed to say. Either that, or it is to say that I am a member of a group of nutcases. Hell of a group to call nutcases, when it’s got more real clout than any other on the matter.

It’s not easy telling the authorities or the people who stand with them to be hanged by the neck until dead for treason. Playing the part of a truther I would think would mean riots in the streets. The honest truth is that 9/11 Truthers, from what I have seen, have not conducted riots, which would probably help their cause.

But I think what is also true is that we have adjusted to 200 years of civil society, or a society that functions in a stable and civil manner. We expect civil solutions.

Now, however hard someone wants to come on to me, they can also remember that this is how hard they overran the nice, civil nature of our hard-earned society. Meanwhile, for as long as people can believe in a civil path toward a new 9/11 investigation, there will not be riots in the streets. There will be a new investigation, because we believe in a civil society, or there will be riots in the streets.

Cheers –

Mark


Food for Thought: Cronies and Nepos
Thursday, November 8, 2007 8:39 AM 		T.O.C.


I don't know how to say "nepotistee", so I went with "nepos", but really, the thought here is cronyism and nepotism.

Nepotism: Giving the inside job to family 
Cronyism: Giving the inside job to friends

And I suppose despotism (a dictator) gets thrown in there with the other two at least half the time when they're happening.

I was wondering about how this great country of ours could go wrong. What are the support structures for going down the right and wrong paths? It seems to me that when representatives by law are plucked from the general population, there is a power mix-up, and fairness is being systematically introduced into the system, but that when representatives are plucked from family and friends, or from those moreso inside than outside of somebodies inner circle, the general population is removed from the appointing formula.

It all sounds so simple.

It is! Our whole society is structured this way. Don't ever guess a job in the job market to not be personal! Employers have to identify with you - it's a thing also known as institutionalized racism.

We play favorites. We find people who agree. We say that we make sense. Short of a general concensus, we are "three sheets to the wind" as far as the people of the world are concerned, but that's Ok, because we're doing our own thing, so we have to call the shots.

We create everything that's out there. We have to get along with the people that we work with - we're all working towards a common goal.

We flock together. We flock for work, for play, and for political agendas. We have to think along similar lines to really be effective - to really get things done.

We have all the internal elements we need to corrupt, it seems, just about any existing system, by way of not only family and friends, but by social or political circle, or class. Are you inside the circle?

Of course, one of the funniest things about society today, and I've tried to play on it along the way, is how inside information can appear so readily. Sometimes with emails I send, you are one of only a few million to see it, and it can very likely be something that will not be seen by the population at large. I think that's an interesting phenomenon.

Cronyism, nepotism, and even despotism highlight systems-level problems, because they don't by definition answer to the (needs of) the general population. If they're nestled in, all they need to do with the population at large is to pacify it and feed it propaganda. Kind of like a chia pet, I guess, but mechanically so, because the population at large is also not in an ulterior manner organized, so it doesn't have an organizational head to oppose whatever powers there are in its own way, i.e. democratically, or through popular opinion.

This is a really great sampling... "Bush's talent for cronyism: foxes guarding the henhouse" http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushco/cronyism.htm

That was fun! Thanks for letting me share.

Cheers -

Mark


Ron Paul heats up
Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:16 AM 		T.O.C.


I found an article showing Ron Paul moving into third place, according to Ireland's PaddyPower.com (gambling site). Here's the page: http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-111007B.html

"... On November 10, he came in with 5/1 odds.

"Only Mitt Romney (with 9/4 odds) and Rudy Giuliani (11/10 odds) are listed higher. Romney would pay $9 for every $4 bet while Giuliani would pay out $11 for every $10 bet.

"Ron Paul has officially surpassed John McCain among Republicans where oddsmakers are concerned, even around the world," announced Payton O'Brien, Senior Editor of Gambling911.com See Payton O'Brien quoted in Chief Executive Magazine Here "He's now favored over Fred Thompson as well, who is listed with 6/1 odds at PaddyPower." ..."

From a non-betting site... "Paul Passes Thompson and McCain in GOP Primary" 
US News link

The Paul campaign of 2008 is reminding me of the Dean campaign of 2004. Paul is this year's "internet darling". Well, from looking around I can see that Ron Paul suporters appear to be having some fun with it. Good! Paul has two months unti the Iowa primaries are underway for using his money and his smarts and getting his message out, and for anyone who wants to gets their yah-yahs out along the way.

I would also have to say last week I caught a recording of Paul on the Leno show. They talked for 8 minutes, and Paul spoke well, and I think he was received well. I was glad to see it! Paul's campaign is taking off in its own right, considering the media seem to have made an effort to avoid him. In fact, Jay Leno may have been persuaded by Ron Paul supporters asking for an interview written across the side of a truck... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1pYkkB1anY
 (which includes a comment asking people to contact the tonight show)

Here's a mini article from MSNBC, which was made possible by local Ron Paul supporters... "RON PAUL IS EVERYWHERE" http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/10/459754.aspx
 "From NBC's Mark Murray AUSTIN, TX -- Want more proof that Ron Paul supporters are everywhere? Outside the University of Texas football stadium here -- just an hour before kickoff -- is a plane flying with a banner that reads: "Ron Paul for President...Everyone wins." We're not kidding. "

Cheers -

Mark


Ron Paul - will be spending in days to come
Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:19 PM 		T.O.C.


I hope this mixes things up nicely, getting the Ron Paul message out there. There's millions of ad dollars, and millions more will come over the next couple of months.

"Ron Paul to Hit Iowa Airwaves Next Week" http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/11/ron_paul_hits_iowa_airwaves_ne.html

There is a sample 30 second ad there, but YouTube videos of Ron Paul have experienced some technical difficulties, as well as the voting on videos not tallying up, but I think that may be fixed. In any event, it looks like the YouTube people do not like Ron Paul. ;-) Media is our trusted representative - YouTube, too!

But, as I say, there'll be millions of dollars worth of Ron Paul ads coming up in NH and Iowa. I'm sure I'll enjoy every one of them. I'm not sure what will be happening with nationwide advertising, but people are recommending it.

Giuliani is poised to take the republican primary, and if he does, then the republicans cannot possibly win against Hillary. Giuliani is old, and so he won't be alive on November 7th, 2008.

Cheers -

Mark


The 2008 Vote: 50 States Now Being Sued
Monday, November 12, 2007 12:02 PM 		T.O.C.


...To block computerized voting.

This is an interesting organization, called the "We The People Foundation". I read somewhere that the guy running it shows people how to not pay their taxes, and when people stop paying their taxes, they get arrested.

In any event, they have the people they need to work each of 50 states in law suits, with the following claims...

"The lawsuit, called the NCEL, National Clean Elections Lawsuit, follows documented vote machine failures during August's Iowa Straw Poll, persisting claims questioning the integrity of the 2004 presidential election, and the official de-certification in August of virtually every major electronic voting system by the California Secretary of State based upon several comprehensive academic studies documenting the systems' significant vulnerabilities to software "hacking" and vote fraud. "

http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2007-11-06.htm

There is a desire to make a clean voting system for the 2008 election. Frankly, I don't see how anyone is going to beat Hillary. And if anyone does, then it will be Rudy Giuliani, in which case the sky will darken and the seas will boil.

But you never know. Ron Paul might win too!

Cheers -

Mark


Fwd: BBC To Apologize For 9/11 Truth Hit Piece?
Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:08 AM 		T.O.C.


From the article, you gotta love this paragraph... 
"The BBC were embroiled in a similar spat later that same month when footage emerged of one of their correspondents reporting the collapse of WTC Building 7 on 9/11 over 20 minutes before it actually fell, leading to claims that the broadcaster was, either wittingly or unwittingly, being fed a script as events unfolded on the day. At the very least, the saga painfully illustrated why the establishment media cannot be trusted when major news events occur because they simply act as a feedback loop for whatever the authorities tell them, no matter how dubious the facts of the matter are."

Additional article... "STJ911 Scientist to Sue BBC for Public Deception" http://www.rinf.com/alt-news/911-truth/st911-scientist-to-sue-bbc-for-public-deception/776/

Thanks!

I knew the BBC was going the way of the media giants when I saw them waste 5 or 10 minutes hailing the great David Bowie for no particular reason. That's a media-of-late tactic to raise news-hour dollars. ;-) That's too bad, because I used to like the BBC.

Cheers -

Mark

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/121107_bbc_apologize.htm

Internet: Incubator of Conpiracies and Disinformation
Thursday, November 22, 2007 1:47 PM 		T.O.C.


And then there's what they're really talking about...

Like anything else out of Washington, we have the "Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment".

These guys are talking about the people on the internet who are Jihadists and 9/11 Truthers, who were put up in a presentation side by side. From the hearing on "Terrorism and the Internet"...

"Toward the end of the hearing, Weitzman rolls out a PowerPoint presentation that presents a few 9/11 truth sites sandwiched in between websites that offer training in terrorist tactics, and a website that glorified the attack of 9/11. Among the websites presented under the heading "Internet: Incubator of 9/11 Conpiracies and Disinformation", are Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth , and other sites, such as Killtown's, who brought this Hearing to our attention . "

From 911blogger... 
http://www.911blogger.com/node/12505

So there's the other side, without which there would not be two sides. There's information, and then there is disinformation. Did you ever wonder if this was possible? I mean, where the way information is presented in a public hearing is so culpable? Follow the links - the hearing is available on C-SPAN. It's a blatant presentation, but I can't help but thinking that the audience must also has sensibilities of its own.

To drive them to truth, I think you have to drive them out into the light of day. Kind of like vampires.

You can't compare someone who wants a new investigation with an Islamic Jihadist, but you also can't stop certain people in high places from keeping themselves busy.

Cheers -

Mark


Fwd: Fw: Euro Official Language
Friday, November 23, 2007 2:13 PM 		T.O.C.


Definitely clever stuff! Very good, thanks.

- Mark

This is very clever. No offense intended, just clever reading.
 
 

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.


As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".


In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.


The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.


There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.


In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.



Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.


Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.



By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

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During ze fifz yer, ze une sesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.


Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.


Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.


If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

 

The 911 Truth Movement Appears to be Colliding with Washington, DC
Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:58 AM 		T.O.C.


... And it's looking like something out of the Poseidon Adventure.

On October 23rd, House Resolution 1955, "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007", has received, out of 435 house reps, 404 Ayes, and only 6 nays, and it has passed the house. Now all it needs to do is go through the senate. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1955

This is another way of saying that 911 Truthers are being lumped in as people growing terrorism against the US right here at home. It's a bit blatant (as per my other, recent email). Calling the organization "Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth" Jihadists or homegrown terrorists isn't going to fly well, in my humble opinion.

Dennis Kucinich's wife, Elizabeth, has now publicly stated, "a Kucinich administration would re-open 9/11". http://www.911blogger.com/node/12646

In my earlier guestimations and predictions, it would require the end of the existing administration to establish a political environment out of which a new 9/11 investigation could come about. That would mean the '08 election would be the time. What is now HR 799, the resolution to impeach Dick Cheney, also led by Dennis Kucinich, is guessed to not be able to make the needed 2/3rds congressional majority to actually happen. Nice list of crimes, but it's not looking like a gainer in Washington - there are too many bought and paid for politicians. Democratic majority leader Nancy Pelosi, who has stated she won't support the impeachment of Cheney, is looking that way.

The Ron Paul campaign is probably by our laws something we could detain in top secret CIA prisons abroad at this point. There's such a rediculous divergence between what you can do by today's laws. If I understand the matter correctly, it is illegal to oppose the Iraq war, and now it's becoming illegal to question the official 9/11 story as well. We'll see what the senate has to say about it, and then we'll see how seriously these assholes take themselves to follow.

I also think the people in Washington are nuts, and that can cause miscalculations.

No matter what happens, this may turn out to be a very festive and colorful presidential race. All of the candidates will be around for a couple months more (like busy little bees), and maybe a few will last until spring, and then it will be down to I believe the last two.

Happy Holidays -

Mark


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