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STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS! STOP LIVING IN FEAR !

2008-01-01T20:36:42Z

Senate bill 1959
The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com, Kathryn Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com

This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut down and their authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline and I could be arrested as a "terrorist." Jeff Rense at www.Rense.com could be labeled a "terrorist" and arrested. Byron Richards, Len Horowitz, Paul Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore could all be arrested, silenced and incarcerated. This is not an exaggeration. It is a literal reading of the law, which you can check yourself here: thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxm...955_rfs.xml

The bill states:

‘...ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs...

Note that this means the "planned use of force to promote a political or social belief" would be considered an act of terrorism. This all hinges on the definition of "force," of course. Based on the loose use of logic in Washington these days, and the slippery interpretation of the meaning of words, "force" could mean:

• A grassroots campaign to barrage Congress with faxes
• A non-violent street protest
• A letter-writing campaign that deluges the Senate with too much mail
• A sit-in protest that blocks access to a business or organization
• A grassroots e-mail campaign that overloads the e-mail servers of any government department or agency

You get the idea. "Force" could be defined as practically anything. And since the "planned use of force" would be considered a criminal act of terrorism, anyone who simply thinks about a grassroots action campaign would be engaged in terrorist acts.

If you stopped someone on the street and handed them a Bible, for example, this could be considered an act of terrorism ("...use of force to promote the individual's religious beliefs...")

If you sent a barrage of angry letters to Washington about global warming and the destruction of the environment by the U.S. military, this could also be considered an act of terrorism ("...to promote the individual's political beliefs...")

If you believe in same-sex marriage and you wrote a letter threatning a sit-in protest in front of your state's capitol building, this could also be considered an act of terrorism, even if you never carried it out! ("...planned use of force to promote a social belief...")

The United States is on the fast track to fascism, and the Congress is working right alongside this nation's traitorous leaders to criminalize any thoughts, words or speeches that disagree with current government policies regarding war, terrorism, domestic surveillance and civil liberties. Simply speaking out against the war on Iraq could soon be labeled a crime. Merely thinking thoughts against the war on Iraq could be considered a criminal act.

Must-see video: Naomi Wolf's lecture on 10 steps to fascism
There's a video lecture you simply MUST watch. It's by Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America. She covers this topic with great elegance and a deep understanding of history. See her video on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch

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Dubya Versus Clinton

2007-08-22T12:41:55Z

I was wild with excitement about Bill Clinton the first time I saw him. I was sickened by G.W.B the first time I saw him. Bill was some kind of president, that, fuck, we had some sort of crush on this man. He spoke like a president, not always authoritative or anything, but he could form sentences, complex sentences with beginnings and ends, subordinate clauses - you could hear his semicolons! He knew the answers to questions. He knew the acronyms and the names of foreign leaders, their deputies. He was heartening for America, he made the country look smart, something the USA had been lacking for too long, something they'd been without. Many times while watching him on TV, while laying on the couch, seeing Clinton talk points a and b and c, I'd think, "How does he do it?" This man is actually bright, could be brilliant. This man still reads books; encyclopedic and charming and so seemingly real - he is real, yes, certainly more real than the last few, who were too old to know - never did we know people that old so they were something else, unintelligible. At least he was smart enough to appear real, so he won both ways, in the smart department and in the real department. Hell, yeah, and so charming, I would have "done him" too!
What happened, America? You went from that to a man would can't even pronounce the letter W! How is it this dumb rat bastard is in for yet another term? How do tolerate it? If Clinton could be impeached for "that" it's certainly possibe to impeach Dubya for many, many actual crimes..............................Heck, they're too numerous to even count!

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We're gonna miss W. No really...

2007-08-15T05:20:01Z

Recent quote:

W was to meet the new president of France. A reporter asked him if he could say anything in French. W replied, "French? I can barely speak English!"

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Support the war du jour

2007-07-14T06:18:02Z

Why how else will we be able to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq, our longstanding enemy since their formation in Iraq err... uh.... 1 year after our invasion of, and occupation of Iraq, err... uh.... to save us from our other longstanding enemy Sadam err... uh.... who once was our good enemy of our enemy (making him our very good friend for a while) Iran, err... uh.... who we wish to invade, occupy and destroy next err... uh....after we are finished doing so in Iraq, err... uh.... and prior to doing so in Syria, err... uh.... and wherever else we need to kick terrorist ass err... uh....yeah I support it all! Go get em Bush!

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Anti King Bush Anti Iraq War Art Now Illegal!!!!

2007-07-12T03:48:28Z

Hello Tribe Members

I joined tribe to network, learn, share and grow. As an Artist I am involved in many project over time. Last fall I spent the time to create a controversial piece of poignant Anti Bush Anti War Art. This art is now illegal for me to advertise, display in the context of my other works, or sell in 4 US States and will be illegal in my home State of Texas on September 1st.

If they take away the activists and artists, then how many will remain to speak of truths and uncover injustices.

My art can be seen at bushliedtheydied.com In this site there is a FREE public domain version of my art for downloading, printing, and mass copying. Please distribute far and wide.

Sincerely
Vincent D K Greene

The Illegal War Art of
Vincent D K Greene
bushliedtheydied.com

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Fuck that motherfucker

2006-03-17T10:06:38Z

what up ya, I just wanna say if I ever ran into that punk ass I'd box his bitch ass back to honky house!

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Ports For Sale! Whats Ur Take???

2006-02-27T03:08:20Z

Government oil conspiracey or anything else?????

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Cut off the money for war...

2005-12-12T14:01:27Z

Cut off the money for war...

finance.yahoo.com .. if you type in the symbol for
a Wall St. group, when it comes up go to 'major holders'
and see that Vanguard, Fidelity, Barclay's, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs,
etc. are invested in war profiteering, earth devastation, and animal
suffering.

Boycott those who advertise on warjock radio.. or warjock tv

Senator Feinstein is a major war profiteer through her husband Blum's
military spending contracts with URS

PENNSYLVANIA:

Arlen Specter.. has he ever asked forgiveness for the 41? year
lie (as author of the single bullet theory of the JFK murder)

Santorum: another 'prolife' baby bomber

CALIFORNIA
CALPERS is invested in many earth destroying corporations, such
as Tyson's, which is now the world's biggest butcher of cows, pigs
and chickens.

vote out Feinstein

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new to la from nyc! anyone heard of greene dragon?

2005-03-14T17:51:58Z

i jsut moved here from nyc and was a founding member of a group there called greene dragon. (www.greenedragon.org --it can be hard to explain). but basically, we're some sort of political, satirical, spontaneous street theatre group with a 1776 bent. i was wondering if there's any group like that around here, and if not, WHO WANTS TO START ONE??? I'd love nothing more than to carry the greene dragon spirit over to LA and bring awareness to the streets in a friendly, likeable way. greene dragon was the brainchild of nyc burner jonny america. political burners are just the people who're up for this. if anyone wants to get together and bat around ideas of events, things we could do at the street level, i'm chomping at the bit to get something started. LET'S GO!!!

you can contact me directly (i don't check tribe as often as i should), at trishahanudel@yahoo.com

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From CANADA w/LOVE

2005-01-25T04:58:08Z

TIE A BLACK RIBBON ROUND THE OL' OAK TREE........

for Bush Protest
POSTED
Friday, November 26 2004 @ 11:12 AM MST

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ELIZABETH MAY, leader of the SIERRA CLUB
MAY'S PROPOSAL
RE: FORTHCOMING BUSH VISIT TO CANADA:

Present Canada as a country in deep mourning -- in mourning for Margaret Hassan, for the innocent dead of Iraq, for the poor, for the environment he plans to butcher...for democracy, human rights and a respect for the dignity of each human being and life form on this sacred orb... Bush represents Death. We greet him by tying black crepe ribbons to everything in sight -- our front porches, our trees, our lamp posts... We can all wear black arm bands....

-- what do you think?
in solidarity
Elizabeth May, November 2004

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That was November - This is Now
I think this is most FAbulous ! and suits a dual purpose even for American artists & people in general, and our mourning for the darkness and ignorance that covereth this country in pathetic patheticness...

WANNA Do IT?!!!
with love from U. S. A. At Ya,
K-McKoy

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What is wrong with US

2004-12-17T15:03:39Z

Ok, I am curious. What do you think is wrong with this country and/or its political system. What would you change, if you could, AND NO, PREZ BUSH IS NOT AN ANSWER. I’ll start:

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Looks like we're going to see an increase

2004-11-18T19:02:34Z

Due to the petition thats goteveryone all riled up. It looks like the word of BB is getting out a little more. Personally I'm happy, I'd like to see a few more heads out there. Hope I can still recklessley endanger my life tho....

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Sermon: Living Under Fascism

2004-11-18T17:34:58Z

Living Under Fascism

Davidson Loehr
7 November 2004
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
512-452-6168 • www.austinuu.org

SERMON: Living Under Fascism

You may wonder why anyone would try to use the word
“fascism”
in a serious discussion of where America is today. It sounds like cheap
name-calling, or melodramatic allusion to a slew of old war movies. But
I am serious. I don’t mean it as name-calling at all. I mean to
persuade you that the style of governing into which America has slid is
most accurately described as fascism, and that the necessary
implications of this fact are rightly regarded as terrifying. That’s
what I am about here. And even if I don’t persuade you, I hope to raise
the level of your thinking about who and where we are now, to add some
nuance and perhaps some useful insights.

The word comes from the Latin word “Fasces,” denoting a
bundle of sticks tied together. The individual sticks represented
citizens, and the bundle represented the state. The message of this
metaphor was that it was the bundle that was significant, not the
individual sticks. If it sounds un-American, it’s worth knowing that
the Roman Fasces appear on the wall behind the Speaker’s podium in the
chamber of the US House of Representatives.

Still, it’s an unlikely word. When most people hear the word
"fascism" they may think of the racism and anti-Semitism of Mussolini
and Hitler. It is true that the use of force and the scapegoating of
fringe groups are part of every fascism. But there was also an economic
dimension of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as
"corporatism," which was an essential ingredient of Mussolini’s and
Hitler’s tyrannies. So-called corporatism was adopted in Italy and
Germany during the 1930s and was held up as a model by quite a few
intellectuals and policy makers in the United States and Europe.

As I mentioned a few weeks ago (in “The Corporation Will Eat
Your Soul”), Fortune magazine ran a cover story on Mussolini in 1934,
praising his fascism for its ability to break worker unions, disempower
workers and transfer huge sums of money to those who controlled the
money rather than those who earned it.

Few Americans are aware of or can recall how so many Americans and
Europeans viewed economic fascism as the wave of the future during the
1930s. Yet reviewing our past may help shed light on our present, and
point the way to a better future. So I want to begin by looking back to
the last time fascism posed a serious threat to America.

In Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here," a
conservative southern politician is helped to the presidency by a
nationally syndicated radio talk show host. The politician - Buzz
Windrip - runs his campaign on family values, the flag, and patriotism.
Windrip and the talk show host portray advocates of traditional
American democracy — those concerned with individual rights and
freedoms — as anti-American. That was 69 years ago.

One of the most outspoken American fascists from the 1930s
was economist Lawrence Dennis. In his 1936 book, The Coming American
Fascism — a coming which he anticipated and cheered — Dennis declared
that defenders of “18th-century Americanism” were sure to become "the
laughing stock of their own countrymen." The big stumbling block to the
development of economic fascism, Dennis bemoaned, was "liberal norms of
law or constitutional guarantees of private rights."

So it is important for us to recognize that, as an economic
system, fascism was widely accepted in the 1920s and '30s, and nearly
worshiped by some powerful American industrialists. And fascism has
always, and explicitly, been opposed to liberalism of all kinds.

Mussolini, who helped create modern fascism, viewed liberal
ideas as the enemy. "The Fascist conception of life," he wrote,
"stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only
in so far as his interests coincide with the State. It is opposed to
classical liberalism [which] denied the State in the name of the
individual; Fascism reasserts the rights of the State as expressing the
real essence of the individual." (In 1932 Mussolini wrote, with the
help of Giovanni Gentile, an entry for the Italian Encyclopedia on the
definition of fascism. You can read the whole entry at
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html)

Mussolini thought it was unnatural for a government to
protect individual rights: The essence of fascism, he believed, is that
government should be the master, not the servant, of the people.

Still, fascism is a word that is completely foreign to most
of us. We need to know what it is, and how we can know it when we see
it.

In an essay coyly titled “Fascism Anyone?,” Dr. Lawrence
Britt, a political scientist, identifies social and political agendas
common to fascist regimes. His comparisons of Hitler, Mussolini,
Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet yielded this list of 14 “identifying
characteristics of fascism.” (The following article is from Free
Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 2. Read it at
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm) See how
familiar they sound.

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans,
symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as
are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in
fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in
certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way
or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long
incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need
to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or
religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists,
etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military

Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given
a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic
agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism

The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively
male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are
made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and
anti-gay legislation and national policy.
6. Controlled Mass Media

Sometimes the media are directly controlled by the government, but in
other cases, the media are indirectly controlled by government
regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives.
Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security

Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined

Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in
the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric
and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major
tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's
policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected

The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are
the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually
beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed

Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a
fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are
severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher
education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other
academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts
is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to
enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses
and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is
often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist
nations
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and
associates who appoint each other to government positions and use
governmental power and authority to protect their friends from
accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national
resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen
by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections

Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times
elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even
assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control
voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of
the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to
manipulate or control elections.

This list will be familiar to students of political science.
But it should be familiar to students of religion as well, for much of
it mirrors the social and political agenda of religious fundamentalisms
worldwide. It is both accurate and helpful for us to understand
fundamentalism as religious fascism, and fascism as political
fundamentalism. They both come from very primitive parts of us that
have always been the default setting of our species: amity toward our
in-group, enmity toward out-groups, hierarchical deference to alpha
male figures, a powerful identification with our territory, and so
forth. It is that brutal default setting that all civilizations have
tried to raise us above, but it is always a fragile thing,
civilization, and has to be achieved over and over and over again.

But, again, this is not America’s first encounter with
fascism.

In early 1944, the New York Times asked Vice President Henry
Wallace to, as Wallace noted, “write a piece answering the following
questions: What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous
are they?”

Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was
published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the
war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. See how much you
think his statements apply to our society today.

“The really dangerous American fascist,” Wallace wrote, “…
is
the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what
Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would
prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of
public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to
present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive
the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more
power.”

In his strongest indictment of the tide of fascism he saw
rising in America, Wallace added, “They claim to be super-patriots, but
they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They
demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested
interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is
directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the
state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the
common man in eternal subjection.” By these standards, a few of today’s
weapons for keeping the common people in eternal subjection include
NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, union-busting, cutting worker
benefits while increasing CEO pay, elimination of worker benefits,
security and pensions, rapacious credit card interest, and outsourcing
of jobs — not to mention the largest prison system in the world.

The Perfect Storm

Our current descent into fascism came about through a kind
of
“Perfect Storm,” a confluence of three unrelated but mutually
supportive schools of thought.

1. The first stream of thought was the imperialistic dream
of
the Project for the New American Century. I don’t believe anyone can
understand the past four years without reading the Project for the New
American Century, published in September 2000 and authored by many who
have been prominent players in the Bush administrations, including
Cheney, Rumsfleid, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Donald Kagan to name
only a few. This report saw the fall of Communism as a call for America
to become the military rulers of the world, to establish a new
worldwide empire. They spelled out the military enhancements we would
need, then noted, sadly, that these wonderful plans would take a long
time, unless there could be a catastrophic and catalyzing event like a
new Pearl Harbor that would let the leaders turn America into a
military and militarist country. There was no clear interest in
religion in this report, and no clear concern with local economic
policies.

2. A second powerful stream must be credited to Pat
Robertson
and his Christian Reconstructionists, or Dominionists. Long dismissed
by most of us as a screwball, the Dominionist style of Christianity
which he has been preaching since the early 1980s is now the most
powerful religious voice in the Bush administration.

Katherine Yurica, who transcribed over 1300 pages of
interviews from Pat Robertson’s “700 Club” shows in the 1980s, has
shown how Robertson and his chosen guests consistently, openly and
passionately argued that America must become a theocracy under the
control of Christian Dominionists. Robertson is on record saying
democracy is a terrible form of government unless it is run by his kind
of Christians. He also rails constantly against taxing the rich,
against public education, social programs and welfare — and prefers
Deuteronomy 28 over the teachings of Jesus. He is clear that women must
remain homebound as obedient servants of men, and that abortions, like
homosexuals, should not be allowed. Robertson has also been clear that
other kinds of Christians, including Episcopalians and Presbyterians,
are enemies of Christ. (The Yurica Report. Search under this name, or
for “Despoiling America” by Katherine Yurica on the internet.)

3. The third major component of this Perfect Storm has been
the desire of very wealthy Americans and corporate CEOs for a
plutocracy that will favor profits by the very rich and disempowerment
of the vast majority of American workers, the destruction of workers’
unions, and the alliance of government to help achieve these greedy
goals. It is a condition some have called socialism for the rich,
capitalism for the poor, and which others recognize as a reincarnation
of Social Darwinism. This strain of thought has been present throughout
American history. Seventy years ago, they tried to finance a military
coup to replace Franlkin Delano Roosevelt and establish General Smedley
Butler as a fascist dictator in 1934. Fortunately, the picked a general
who really was a patriot; he refused, reported the scheme, and spoke
and wrote about it. As Canadian law professor Joel Bakan wrote in the
book and movie “The Corporation,” they have now achieved their coup
without firing a shot.

Our plutocrats have had no particular interest in religion.
Their global interests are with an imperialist empire, and their
domestic goals are in undoing all the New Deal reforms of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt that enabled the rise of America’s middle class after
WWII.

Another ill wind in this Perfect Storm is more important
than
its crudity might suggest: it was President Clinton’s sleazy sex with a
young but eager intern in the White House. This incident, and Clinton’s
equally sleazy lying about it, focused the certainties of conservatives
on the fact that “liberals” had neither moral compass nor moral
concern, and therefore represented a dangerous threat to the moral
fiber of America. While the effects of this may be hard to quantify, I
think they were profound.

These “storm” components have no necessary connection, and
come from different groups of thinkers, many of whom wouldn’t even like
one another. But together, they form a nearly complete web of command
and control, which has finally gained control of America and, they
hope, of the world.

What’s coming

When all fascisms exhibit the same social and political
agendas (the 14 points listed by Britt), then it is not hard to predict
where a new fascist uprising will lead. And it is not hard. The actions
of fascists and the social and political effects of fascism and
fundamentalism are clear and sobering. Here is some of what’s coming,
what will be happening in our country in the next few years:

* The theft of all social security funds, to be transferred to
those who control money, and the increasing destitution of all those
dependent on social security and social welfare programs.
* Rising numbers of uninsured people in this country that already
has the highest percentage of citizens without health insurance in the
developed world.
* Increased loss of funding for public education combined with
increased support for vouchers, urging Americans to entrust their
children’s education to Christian schools.
* More restrictions on civil liberties as America is turned into
the police state necessary for fascism to work
* Withdrawal of virtually all funding for National Public Radio
and
the Public Broadcasting System. At their best, these media sometimes
encourage critical questioning, so they are correctly seen as enemies
of the state’s official stories.
* The reinstatement of a draft, from which the children of
privileged parents will again be mostly exempt, leaving our poorest
children to fight and die in wars of imperialism and greed that could
never benefit them anyway. (That was my one-sentence Veterans’ Day
sermon for this year.)
* More imperialistic invasions: of Iran and others, and the
construction of a huge permanent embassy in Iraq.
* More restrictions on speech, under the flag of national
security.
* Control of the internet to remove or cripple it as an instrument
of free communication that is exempt from government control. This will
be presented as a necessary anti-terrorist measure.
* Efforts to remove the tax-exempt status of churches like this
one, and to characterize them as anti-American.
* Tighter control of the editorial bias of almost all media, and
demonization of the few media they are unable to control – the New York
Times, for instance.
* Continued outsourcing of jobs, including more white-collar jobs,
to produce greater profits for those who control the money and direct
the society, while simultaneously reducing America’s workers to a more
desperate and powerless status.
* Moves in the banking industry to make it impossible for an
increasing number of Americans to own their homes. As they did in the
1930s, those who control the money know that it is to their advantage
and profit to keep others renting rather than owning.
* Criminalization of those who protest, as un-American, with
arrests, detentions and harassment increasing. We already have a higher
percentage of our citizens in prison than any other country in the
world. That percentage will increase.
* In the near future, it will be illegal or at least dangerous to
say the things I have said here this morning. In the fascist story,
these things are un-American. In the real history of a democratic
America, they were seen as profoundly patriotic, as the kind of
critical questions that kept the American spirit alive — the kind of
questions, incidentally, that our media were supposed to be pressing.

Can these schemes work? I don’t think so. I think they are
murderous, rapacious and insane. But I don’t know. Maybe they can.
Similar schemes have worked in countries like Chile, where a democracy
in which over 90% voted has been reduced to one in which only about 20%
vote because they say, as Americans are learning to say, that it no
longer matters who you vote for.

Hope

In the meantime, is there any hope, or do we just band
together like lemmings and dive off a cliff? Yes, there is always hope,
though at times it is more hidden, as it is now.

As some critics are now saying, and as I have been preaching
and writing for almost twenty years, America’s liberals need to grow
beyond political liberalism, with its often self-absorbed focus on
individual rights to the exclusion of individual responsibilities to
the larger society. Liberals will have to construct a more complete
vision with moral and religious grounding. That does not mean
confessional Christianity. It means the legitimate heir to
Christianity. Such a legitimate heir need not be a religion, though it
must have clear moral power, and be able to attract the minds and
hearts of a voting majority of Americans.

And the new liberal vision must be larger than that of the
conservative religious vision that will be appointing judges, writing
laws and bending the cultural norms toward hatred and exclusion for the
foreseeable future. The conservatives deserve a lot of admiration. They
have spent the last thirty years studying American politics, forming
their vision and learning how to gain control in the political system.
And it worked; they have won. Even if liberals can develop a bigger
vision, they still have all that time-consuming work to do. It won’t be
fast. It isn’t even clear that liberals will be willing to do it; they
may instead prefer to go down with the ship they’re used to.

One man who has been tireless in his investigations and
critiques of America’s slide into fascism is Michael C. Ruppert, whose
postings usually read as though he is wound way too tight. But he
offers four pieces of advice about what we can do now, and they seem
reality-based enough to pass on to you. This is America; they’re all
about money:

* First, he says you should get out of debt.
* Second is to spend your money and time on things that give you
energy and provide you with useful information.
* Third is to stop spending a penny with major banks, news media
and corporations that feed you lies and leave you angry and exhausted.
* And fourth is to learn how money works and use it like a
(political) weapon — as he predicts the rest of the world will be doing
against us. (from
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110504_snap_out.shtml)

That’s advice written this week. Another bit of advice comes
from sixty years ago, from Roosevelt’s Vice President, Henry Wallace.
Wallace said, “Democracy, to crush fascism internally, must...develop
the ability to keep people fully employed and at the same time balance
the budget. It must put human beings first and dollars second. It must
appeal to reason and decency and not to violence and deceit. We must
not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form
of monopolies and cartels.”

Still another way to understand fascism is as a kind of
colonization. A simple definition of “colonization” is that it takes
people’s stories away, and assigns them supportive roles in stories
that empower others at their expense. When you are taxed to support a
government that uses you as a means to serve the ends of others, you
are — ironically — in a state of taxation without representation.
That’s where this country started, and it’s where we are now.

I don’t know the next step. I’m not a political activist;
I’m
only a preacher. But whatever you do, whatever we do, I hope that we
can remember some very basic things that I think of as eternally true.
One is that the vast majority of people are good decent people who mean
and do as well as they know how. Very few people are evil, though some
are. But we all live in families where some of our blood relatives
support things we hate. I believe they mean well, and the way to
rebuild broken bridges is through greater understanding, compassion,
and a reality-based story that is more inclusive and empowering for the
vast majority of us.

Those who want to live in a reality-based story rather than
as serfs in an ideology designed to transfer power, possibility and
hope to a small ruling elite have much long and hard work to do,
individually and collectively. It will not be either easy or quick.

But we will do it. We will go forward in hope and in
courage.
Let us seek that better path, and find the courage to take it — step,
by step, by step.

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Our last hope...

2004-11-06T23:59:50Z

I want to share this with everyone...because it may be our last hope and only recourse:

http://www.ronanhiggins.com/northamerica.html

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Just when I though it was over...

2004-11-04T19:41:31Z

So I thought (hoped really) that this tribe might be obsolete, but I guess I was wrong...and we are still fucked...

Even with all of the campaigning that was done that drove us to "record turn-outs" of voters...we still couldn't get the man out...it does seem that America "has spoken" (atleast the 51% that seem to be the nieve and delusional)...and we are in for four more years of the blite of Bush that is offlicting this nation and the world. And my guess is that Cheney is up to run the country next...Offically atleast.

That said...I am now going to try to reinvigorate this tribe...

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Need immediate volunters for "social-political" experiment

2004-10-28T05:23:10Z

Internet-Political-Social Experiment

Having just finished Rupert Sheldrake's "Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home" I was quite intrigued by the theory of Morphogenic Fields and created a small software program that I feel would make a great experiment in Morphogenic Fields with this upcoming election.

In layman terms, the study of morphogenic fields is an ttempt to scientifically document and describe how the human consciousness is shared. One of the best examples is "The Hundredth Monkey" By Ken Keyes Jr. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet
potatoes dropped in the sand. While the monkeys liked the sweet potatoes, they hated the taste of the sand. One monkey found she could wash the potato in a stream. Soon other monkeys on the same island learned this behavior from her.

But then this washing habit began occurring with other monkeys on other islands. So theory goes, that when a certain number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. Hence the title, the "100th Monkey".

After the first debate, which polls show that Kerry won by a wide margin, his rating numbers surged tremendously! Part of me wondered if perhaps the "100th Human" began to see John Kerry in a much more positive light. So I created the software program "MakeWish" to run my own little "Morphogenic Fields" experiment using the Presidential Election.

Once the software is installed it will come up on the user's screen at 10am, 1pm, 4pm. All that comes up is a reminder window with a picture of Kerry & Edwards, the total number of users running the software, and a simple text reminder to take a moment and think a positive thought abut Kerry winning this election. At all other times the software does nothing. Please note that it installs no other software packages other than itself, comes with a full install, and records nothing about the user or computer. The software is free, and no registration is required.

On my end I will be monitoring the number of users along with the freshest poll number's that I can find, which I will then report via the software or via my website AFTER the election.

For those John Kerry supporters out there, and those who are curious about Morphogenic Fields, please accept my invitation and join me in this "social" experiment. You can download the software, as well as get more information about it, at www.WarpTV.com/MakeWish.html .

Thank You,

Sergio D. Caplan
www.WarpTV.com

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GOTV Flyers!!

2004-10-27T18:51:52Z

It's all a ground game now, folks. I've stocked the top of the agitptops.org page with GOTV flyers, most with the 866-OUR-VOTE number on it. They fit four to a page and look good in color or B&W.

The links below let you download ready-to-print Word docs directly from the site. Go to agitprops.org to view all the flyers and LOTS of other downloadable full-page posters: http://agitprops.org

http://agitprops.org/kerrylandslidepage.doc
http://agitprops.org/voteforpage.doc
http://agitprops.org/honorsacrificepage.doc
http://agitprops.org/fightpage.doc
http://agitprops.org/bringitonpage.doc

Please forward these links to activist pals in swing states. (Especially folks who can print stuff out at work!)

PRINT YOUR DISSENT!
http://agitprops.org

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date palms do not lie

2004-08-20T14:43:04Z

An email has been going around the Internet saying that the photo we saw of Saddam Hussein's spider hole being opened on the 15th of December actually had to have been taken months before that.

You see, there's a date tree in the background — complete with dates in the yellow stage of early ripening. But dates start to ripen in August and early September. After that, they turn brown. AND BY DECEMBER, THE DATE TREES ARE BARE!
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/announce/ann_spiderhole.htm

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go to http://jibjab.com/

2004-08-12T05:04:30Z

funny stuff...

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Had a Blast

2004-07-06T20:35:16Z

heh heh,

Just wanted to express the good times I had and all the wonderful people I met. I'm really excited about the tree that I burned and can't wait to buil and burn the big one. This time with more stuff.

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fahrenheit 9/11

2004-06-26T21:13:06Z

check out this trailor. http://www.fahrenheit911.com/trailer/

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Burning Bush Poetry at Center Camp

2004-06-12T06:59:54Z

please keep your eyes peeled for the performance of the STATE of the Union Address Bush2 SHOULD have given; written and performed by Pol Pothead of the Frank Zappatistas at the center Camp Cafe spoken word stage Black Rock City 2004!
Welcome home!

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Outsider's Opinions and Questions

2004-05-13T21:22:34Z

Once again we in Canuckistan will watch the partisan rhetoric of our southern neighbours with a smug sense of "well at least we are not them". We too will choose, from a pool of millions upon millions of potential candidates, between rich, overstuffed, politicos who line up to identify with the common man.
If american politics didnt seem so offensive perhaps we could take a more earnest look at our own follies. But we live next to the most influential and powerful country on earth. One cannot avoid both laughing and crying as the nation that determines our prosperity or destructions debates the war record, the disposal of ribbons or medals etc. of the various candidates while its troops die on foreign soil sent their on false pretences, which even true, would not support an unilateral invasion.
To be honest the difference between Democrat and Republican on the politcal spectrum seems so infinitesimal to the rest of the world. Yet we are treated to furious debates as to how left or how right one party is over another. Whoever inherits the Whitehouse will assume the same corporate infrastructure, corruption and indebtedness. Except for a functioning libido and a penchance for Jazz how could one tell that Clinton was a Democrat?

I have so many questions about the American system but given this forum I'll ask for your opinions.
Given that both parties enjoy large numbers of lifetime members what would it take for Kerry not to get elected?
I mean can Bush really win?
(I mean what does a president have to do to get ousted besides screw an interm)
Will Democrats be able to get re-elected once the 'anyone but Bush' fervour dies down?

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State of the Union

2004-04-30T13:58:21Z

Shouldn't have watched it last night, it was painful. What was up with all the cheek kissing and hand shaking for the first 15 minutes? Is that would focus groups found more effective than filling up that time with buzz words?

Anyone else tune in?

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OK, Whoz Vote'n?!?!

2004-04-30T13:40:24Z

Ok, I must confess that I don't normally vote...infact I don't think that I have voted since Dukakis ran. But I am feeling it this term. On that note...who's in; who's out...why?

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The Few, The Proud...

2004-01-20T05:17:49Z

Yes. I'll admit it: I'm one of the few and the proud who can give a flying f**k about who runs this country. The way I see it is that the Government is like a crappy, sputtering old heap of a car that hardly runs. So what matter who drives it? What's needed is a newer, more fuel-efficient automobile, or...

...a new form of government. Not a constant re-feeding of the one that already exists and barely functions from the original intent of "by the people, for the people". Now the credo of this Government is "by the wealthy, for the wealthy". You still wanna keep feeding that?

I remember when I was excited about the Clinton election. 8 years later, when I saw this man lose his idealism, get constantly harangued, ad nauseum, until he became a sad figure and a little, little man, I began to envision the political system as something akin to a blender: before anything goes into it's in one piece. After it goes through processing it's just frappe.

It's written in the Constitution (and Americans seem to forget this point) that if you're unhappy with the way the government is running, you have the right to dismantle it and begin anew. I notice that no one's trying that. (Probably because of utter fear, since any monicker that suggests 'unpatriotic' these days, will most likely get you into trouble. Scary, huh?) Yet the politically active amongst us give me shit for not voting--as if I'm somehow morally wrong.

(There, Chris. I posted.)

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Bad Parallel?

2004-01-20T05:01:52Z

Hmmm...I was just thinking that in the biblical tale, the 'burning bush' was none other than Him Himself. So, by calling this Tribe "burning bush" are you implying that Bush is Divine in nature...

...wait...I GET IT! Not *President Bush* but the euphemism "bush" which refers to a feminine erogenous zone which is indeed, divine! So a burning bush would be a hot, (fill in blank here with your the first image that comes to your mind.)

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Need immediate volunters for "social-political" experiment

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date palms do not lie

go to http://jibjab.com/

Had a Blast

fahrenheit 9/11

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State of the Union

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