Certainly you can't mean the same Patriot Act passed by the Senate 98-1 (the 1 just got canned) and reinstated by a democrat congress TWICE, 89-10.
The one with warrantless wiretaps that Obama voted fto EXPAND, and is now ramping up the yin yang. I mean, no way democrats would support such a thing so OVERWHELMINGLY. Must be another one On Nov 4, 12:18 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Might Is RightBy Paul Craig RobertsNovember 03, 2010 "Information Clearing > House"-- In mylast column, Who Has The Crystal Ball, I questioned the > existence of “the liberal media,” and I remarked that it would be interesting > to know the manufacturer of the full body scanners and the company’s > relationship to the US and Israeli governments. > Conservative readers wrote to me saying that, as I had not mentioned National > Public Radio, I had hidden “the liberal media” under the table. Another > reader, well informed on the subject, told me about the full body scanner > company and its relationship to the US and Israeli governments. > Let’s begin with the latter. > The full body scanners are manufactured by Rapiscan Systems, a firm > represented by the Chertoff Group. The Chertoff Group is Michael Chertoff, a > dual Israeli/US citizen appointed Secretary of Homeland Security in 2005 by > Puppet President George W. Bush. The Transportation Security Administration > (TSA) used Obama’s economic stimulus, the American Recovery and Reinvestment > Act, to purchase 150 Rapiscan machines. Much larger purchases are in the > works. > Chertoff has been a federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Third > Circuit and a federal prosecutor who convicted and destroyed the Arthur > Andersen accounting firm, apparently illegally as the conviction was > overturned by the US Supreme Court. But, of course, the firm and the careers > of its employees were already destroyed by Chertoff. > Chertoff was also appointed Assistant Attorney General of the Department of > Justice by George W. Bush. Chertoff supervised the 9/11 investigation or > non-investigation. > Chertoff is also the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act, a piece of fascist > legislation that destroys American civil liberties. > Today Chertoff is using his government credentials to push full body scanners > into American airports. A rights group, FlyersRights.org, has criticized > Chertoff for abusing “the trust the public has placed in him as a former > public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body > scanners.”http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion/ > Chertoff’s mother, Livia, was an El Al Airlines hostess and according to some > a Mossad agent (see, for > example,http://www.bollyn.com/michael-chertoffs-childhood-in-israel ). > Now let’s have a look at National Public Radio. Once upon a time NPR was an > alternative voice. That voice was discarded during the Bush administration > when Republican fundraiser Gay Hart Gaines was appointed by Dubya as vice > chair for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cheryl Feldman Halpern was > appointed chair of the Corporation by Dubya, and Elizabeth Sembler was > appointed by Dubya to the board of the corporation. > These women are certainly not liberals. Gaines is affiliated with right-wing > and neoconservative organizations, such as the American Enterprise Institute, > the Heritage Foundation and the National Review Institute. According to > Common Cause, Gaines was “an ardent fundraiser for Newt > Gingrich.” http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gay_Hart_Gaines > Halpern is a Republican donor and a critic of NPR. Halpern has accused NPR of > anti-Israel bias and said that public broadcasting journalists should be > penalized for biased programs. Biased programs are those that don’t fit > Republican and AIPAC agendas. Halpern accompanied President George W. Bush to > Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Israeli state in > May 2008. Halpern is a board member of the Washington Institute for Near East > Policy, a spin-off organization from AIPAC tasked with focusing primarily on > influencing the US executive branch while AIPAC focuses on Congress. At her > confirmation hearing, Halpern expressed her opinion that Public Broadcasting > System’s Bill Moyers was not objective and regretted that as chair of the > corporation she lacked the authority to “remove physically somebody who had > engaged in editorialization of the > news.”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071402099.html > Sembler is director of Jewish Studies at the Jewish Day School in Clearwater, > Florida. Her husband is CEO of the Sembler Company, a shopping center > development firm. > The Corporation for Public Broadcasting board distributes federal funds to > noncommercial radio and TV stations. It became clear to NPR that their > funding was in question, and NPR deserted truth for money. > The Republican takeover was completed by an infusion of corporate money into > NPR. Today the station has as many advertisements for corporate donors as a > commercial station. It still pretends to be financed by listeners, but NPR is > now part of the corporate media and sounds like the voice of Israel. > On November 2, NPR’s news broadcast showed its new colors. Reporting on the > 40-year sentence handed to Omar Khadr by a Gestapo military tribunal for “war > crimes,” NPR provided commentary from a widow of a US soldier killed in the > firefight that captured the wounded 15-year old Khadr and by a retired US > military officer. NPR did not provide any commentary by legal experts who > have shown the “trial” to be a travesty of law. > Khadr was captured in wounded condition following a four-hour firefight in > the Afghan village of Ayub Kheyl, which came under US attack. He was accused > of throwing a hand grenade that fatally wounded a US soldier. It is > impossible to know who threw a grenade during a firefight. Moreover, the use > of lethal force in military encounters does not constitute a war crime. > Khadr was held for seven years in Guantanamo where he was tortured into > confession. At his trial, his confession became a plea bargain. > What Khadr’s trial was about is establishing that “enemy combatants” who > resist US aggression are war criminals. The assumption is that only > “terrorists” resist American invasion of their countries. > None of this information was revealed by the NPR report. Instead America’s > “alternative voice” was thoroughly neoconservative. NPR presented its > listeners with the self-righteous celebration of the US soldier’s widow, who, > the Guardian reported (Nov. 2) “pumped her fist and cheered ‘yes.’ The widow > said that now, finally, that justice was done she could get on with her life. > NPR followed up with a retired US military officer, who said that Khadr’s > sentence was equivalent to freeing a murderer. > Khadr’s prosecutor, Jeffrey Groharing, declared that Khadr’s sentence “will > send a message to Al-Qaeda and others whose aims and goals are to kill and > cause chaos around the world.” The irony in this assertion escaped the tamed > NPR. The deaths that can be attributed to Al Qaeda are tiny in number > compared to the deaths inflicted by gratuitous US and Israeli naked > aggression against Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, > Pakistan, Yeman, and Somalia. Groharing declared the 15-year old Khadr to > have been “an accomplished terrorist” who committed the offense of resisting > American aggression. > Now, really, what kind of idiot would interpret NPR’s report as “the liberal > media.” > What message did Khadr’s sentence send? To insouciant Americans only that > finally a terrorist got his comeuppance despite the liberal media. To the > rest of the world the message is: the US is a morally bankrupt, > self-righteous country that believes that might is right. The American claim > to world leadership is discredited.Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary > of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny > of Good Intentions.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26740.htm -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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