From Swami Uptown Samuel Alito: This is all you need to know: In Doe v. Groody, Alito argued that police officers didn’t violate the constitutional rights of a mother and her ten-year-old daughter when they strip-searched these females while carrying out a search warrant that only authorized the search of a man and his home. I also had to snag this: Traveling in a comfortable car Down a rainy road in the country We saw a ragged fellow at nightfall…
Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre Wikipedia has some links and information about the documentary film, which argues that the US is guilty of war crimes in Fallujah. Among other human rights abuses, it shows our use of chemical weapons of mass destruction. An English version is downloadable at http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video.asp. The film documents the use of chemical weapons based on white phosphorus and other substances similar to napalm, such as Mark-77, by American forces. Interviews with ex American military personnel who were…
Marion “Pat” Robertson – what a christian! I hope you can hear my sarcastic tone. Why does anyone believe anything this man says? All you have to do is look at litany of his previous statements to know that he isn’t even a christian: calling for the assassination of Chavez, suggesting that the state department be blown up with a nuclear device, on and on it goes. Perhaps he’s a little busy with his power-obsession, his mining operations and other…
Found a great site Theocracy Watch. I was particularly interested in a 2004 article by Chris Hedges, The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism. Here is an excerpt from the end, but the article is full of interesting (and somewhat frightening) background. All debates with the Christian Right are useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue. It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion. It is not mollified because John Kerry prays or…
Perhaps this is why our “energy bill” looks like it does, why even after the Enron scandal those meetings remained a secret, why the oil companies are raking in profits over the last quarter that dwarf budgets of many countries, why we rushed into war, and why Libby lied. From “President Cheney’s Goose Is Cooked,” Trey Ellis, 10.28.2005, The Huffington Post: So once in office Cheney looks around the world and what does he see? Does he want to beat…
Cut Taxes for the Rich? – action.pfaw.org Congress is moving forward with plans to cut critical health, nutrition, and educations programs for working families to pay for additional tax cuts for the wealthy. Budget reconciliation bills are coming to the House and Senate floors for votes this fall that cut programs such as Medicaid, Food Stamps, student loans. House Republican leadership actually favors an increase in the size of these cuts, and wants to add to the chopping block programs…