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Among them were Barbara Olson, a TV commentator and wife of the Solicitor General. (09/12/01) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14365-2001Sep11.html Survivors call for help from beneath rubble ---------- As survivors buried under the rubble of New York City's World Trade Center use cell phones to call for help, rescue workers struggle to reach the living and pull them to safety. The death toll is unknown at this time. (09/12/01) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34249,00.html Flag and gun sales skyrocketing ---------- Gun and flag sales peaked across Central Florida as defiant, fearful residents rushed to arm themselves Tuesday and display their patriotism. "It's a concentrated Y2K situation that started since we opened up this morning," said Khaled Akkawe, who sold more than 100 assault rifles and shotguns through his two Shoot Straight gun stores. (09/12/01) http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-locguns12091201sep12.story ?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines Feds use attack to push Carnivore ---------- Just hours after what some commentators have dubbed a second Pearl Harbor, federal police reportedly increased internet surveillance. ISPs are reportedly quietly complying with FBI requests to monitor electronic communications. (09/12/01) http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46747,00.html Arab-Americans and Muslims fear backlash in wake of attacks ---------- Fearing blind anger in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Muslim- and Arab-American leaders pleaded with the American public not to take out its anger on their communities. (09/12/01) http://www.dallasnews.com/national/468938_12backlash.html President Bush vows justice for the attacks ---------- In the wake of the bloodiest terrorist attack in history, President Bush vowed that U.S. authorities will find those responsible for the attacks. He warned that the U.S. won't distinguish between those who committed the acts and those who protect them. (09/12/01) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34227,00.html Early evidence points to Bin Laden ---------- While the people behind the bloody attack on the United States have yet to be positively identified, the prime suspect is billionaire terrorist Osama bin Laden. U.S. intelligence intercepted communications between his supporters which acknowledged "a couple of targets were hit." (09/12/01) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34181,00.html Bin Laden happy over deadly strikes, but denies involvement ---------- According to a Palestinian journalist who spoke with Osama bin Laden, the billionaire terrorist congratulated the people who carried out the deadly terrorist strikes in the United States, but denied that he was involved. (09/12/01) http://www.dallasnews.com/attack_on_america/stories/468958_binladen0912e .html World braces for terror as U.S. attacks cast global chill ---------- With the United States reeling from the deadly attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, people around the world more accustomed to terrorism, though not on this scale, stepped up security and wondered whether their cities might be next. (09/12/01) http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010912_455.html Congressman investigates NBC's election night coverage ---------- Rep. Henry Waxman has raised First Amendment hackles by investigating NBC's coverage of last year's presidential election, and demanding company video tapes of internal deliberations. The role of the head of NBC's parent company appears to be of special interest to the Congressman. (09/12/01) http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14856 GOP targets law muzzling churches at election time ---------- Republican lawmakers vowed to reverse an Internal Revenue Service ban on tax-exempt churches' involvement in election politics. The legal muzzle pushed through Congress in 1954 to shore up Lyndon Johnson's Senate seat, and is seen as a bludgeon used mostly against conservatives. (09/12/01) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010912-19202076.htm America's dilemma: drug control or privacy ---------- "The conservative movement, long a cheerleader for the 'war on drugs,' is having second thoughts because the cure includes police-state tactics that may be worse than the disease." (09/11/01) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/10/193245.shtml Bill would let police demand photo IDs ---------- A Pennsylvania legislator proposes legislation that would allow police officers to demand photo identification before issuing citations. Violators could be detained, fingerprinted and photographed if they failed to produce ID. The measure has been derided as "totalitarian." (09/12/01) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/09/12/local_news/PID12.htm N.J. voter registration laws violate rights of minor parties ---------- A New Jersey appeals court ruled that the state's voter- registration laws violate the constitutional rights of minor parties by not offering categories other than Democrat, Republican or Independent. (09/12/01) http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14857 New Hampshire town eyes secession ---------- Residents of Newington, who believe they are being asked to pay too much for education, supported seceding from New Hampshire in a town hearing called for the purpose of examining that option. New Hampshire's constitution provides for a "right to revolt" against an oppressive state government. (09/11/01) http://www.unionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=5197 Norway's Labor Party punished over high taxes ---------- Norway's Labor Party suffered its worst election result since 1924, after an election campaign dominated by anger at high taxes. Conservative and right-wing parties were the main beneficiaries of the voter revolt. (09/11/01) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1536000/1536377.stm For more News Reports see: http://www.free-market.net/directorybycategory/news/ Battle cry ---------- by Deroy Murdock "American leaders and voters alike should be very careful about embracing measures today that will leave citizens less free in the long run in an effort to catch criminals in the here and now. The Bill of Rights must not collapse with the Twin Towers ... but they should feel no such restraint about retaliating against whatever group or nation perpetrated these acts of war." (09/11/01) http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock091101.shtml Resisting hysteria ---------- by Jesse Walker "This is a time for expert police work. It is a time when the intelligence community can try to make up for its disastrous failure to foresee this assault, by finding the people who did it and bringing them to rapid justice. It is not a time for unfocused ... hysteria." (09/12/01) http://www.reason.com/hod/jw091201.html The price of empire ---------- by Alan Bock Americans fail to understand just how deeply hated the United States is in many parts of the world -- and hated by people ready and able to take desperate and ruthless actions. (09/12/01) http://www.antiwar.com/bock/b091201.html Reaping the whirlwind ---------- by Gene Callahan "Today's events should bring home a simple, clear message: It is time to stop the madness. It is time to refuse to lend any support to the ravaging of innocent lives in the world- domination games of the power-mad." (09/12/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan54.html Wake up America! ---------- by Richard Rieben "People are not their governments. But they are wrong to think that they will not bear the consequences for their governments' actions." (09/11/01) http://www.tbns.net/kelly/articles/art24.html Level-headed response to terrorism ---------- by Steve Farrell "In the wake of the most terrible terrorist attack in this nation's history, every American would do well to insist that our nation's leaders prepare a strong response, and yet an intelligent one, one that punishes our enemies but protects our liberties." (09/12/01) http://www.newsmax.com/commentmax/articles/Steve_Farrell.shtml Imperial paralysis ---------- by Justin Raimondo The hawks are out beating the drums for war -- against somebody, anybody -- to avenge yesterday's tragedy. But, "the only way we can 'win' such a battle is to lose the very values that we want to defend in the first place." (09/12/01) http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j091201.html When will we learn? ---------- by Harry Browne "Our foreign policy has been insane for decades. It was only a matter of time until Americans would have to suffer personally for it. It is a terrible tragedy of life that the innocent so often have to suffer for the sins of the guilty. When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?" (09/12/01) http://www.antiwar.com/orig/browne2.html The unknown enemy ---------- by Joseph Sobran "Foreigners aren't quite real to Americans, and most Americans are unaware of how profoundly their government antagonizes much of the human race. We are easy-going people who generally have no idea how bullying we seem to foreigners. Until now we have had no experience of what the U.S. government has so often inflicted on others. Now, at least, we have an inkling of what it feels like." (09/11/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/sobran/sobran195.html The unending war comes home ---------- by Ryan McMaken "We now have a choice between two options. We can escalate the current low intensity war that the United States is waging against nations of the world from Columbia to Iraq. Or we can pause and re-examine our current imperial adventures around the world and recognize that terrorism against the United States is the natural consequence of trying to tell the rest of the world how to live." (09/11/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken48.html A tribute to trade ---------- by Lew Rockwell "The sight of New York City's twin World Trade Center towers falling to the ground, the result of an act of deliberate aggression, seems to symbolize two points that seem entirely forgotten today: the magnificent contribution that commerce makes to civilization and just how vulnerable it is to its enemies." (09/11/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/tradetribute.html Apocalypse by deed ---------- by Charles Paul Freund The scale of potential terror meets the scope of available media. (09/11/01) http://www.reason.com/hod/cf091101.html ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
