[CTRL] Bush Administration Quarantines Dissent
http://www.amconmag.com/12_15_03/feature.html December 15, 2003 issue Copyright  2003 The American Conservative âFree-Speech Zoneâ The administration quarantines dissent. By James Bovard On Dec. 6, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft informed the Senate Judiciary Committee, âTo those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty â your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and â give ammunition to Americaâs enemies.â Some commentators feared that Ashcroftâs statement, which was vetted beforehand by top lawyers at the Justice Department, signaled that this White House would take a far more hostile view towards opponents than did recent presidents. And indeed, some Bush administration policies indicate that Ashcroftâs comment was not a mere throwaway line. When Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up âfree speech zonesâ or âprotest zonesâ where people opposed to Bush policies (and sometimes sign-carrying supporters) are quarantined. These zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event. When Bush came to the Pittsburgh area on Labor Day 2002, 65-year-old retired steel worker Bill Neel was there to greet him with a sign proclaiming, âThe Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us.â The local police, at the Secret Serviceâs behest, set up a âdesignated free-speech zoneâ on a baseball field surrounded by a chain-link fence a third of a mile from the location of Bushâs speech. The police cleared the path of the motorcade of all critical signs, though folks with pro-Bush signs were permitted to line the presidentâs path. Neel refused to go to the designated area and was arrested for disorderly conduct; the police also confiscated his sign. Neel later commented, âAs far as Iâm concerned, the whole country is a free speech zone. If the Bush administration has its way, anyone who criticizes them will be out of sight and out of mind.â At Neelâs trial, police detective John Ianachione testified that the Secret Service told local police to confine âpeople that were there making a statement pretty much against the president and his viewsâ in a so-called free speech area. Paul Wolf, one of the top officials in the Allegheny County Police Department, told Salon that the Secret Service âcome in and do a site survey, and say, âHereâs a place where the people can be, and weâd like to have any protesters put in a place that is able to be secured.ââ Pennsylvania district judge Shirley Rowe Trkula threw out the disorderly conduct charge against Neel, declaring, âI believe this is America. Whatever happened to âI donât agree with you, but Iâll defend to the death your right to say itâ?â Similar suppressions have occurred during Bush visits to Florida. A recent St. Petersburg Times editorial noted, âAt a Bush rally at Legends Field in 2001, three demonstratorsâtwo of whom were grandmothersâwere arrested for holding up small handwritten protest signs outside the designated zone. And last year, seven protesters were arrested when Bush came to a rally at the USF Sun Dome. They had refused to be cordoned off into a protest zone hundreds of yards from the entrance to the Dome.â One of the arrested protesters was a 62-year-old man holding up a sign, âWar is good business. Invest your sons.â The seven were charged with trespassing, âobstructing without violence and disorderly conduct.â Police have repressed protesters during several Bush visits to the St. Louis area as well. When Bush visited on Jan. 22, 2003, 150 people carrying signs were shunted far away from the main action and effectively quarantined. Denise Lieberman of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri commented, âNo one could see them from the street. In addition, the media were not allowed to talk to them. The police would not allow any media inside the protest area and wouldnât allow any of the protesters out of the protest zone to talk to the media.â When Bush stopped by a Boeing plant to talk to workers, Christine Mains and her five-year-old daughter disobeyed orders to move to a small protest area far from the action. Police arrested Mains and took her and her crying daughter away in separate squad cars. The Justice Department is now prosecuting Brett Bursey, who was arrested for holding a âNo War for Oilâ sign at a Bush visit to Columbia, S.C. Local police, acting under Secret Service orders, established a âfree speech zoneâ half a mile from where Bush would speak. Bursey was standing amid hundreds of people carrying signs praising the president. Police told Bursey to remove himself to the âfree speech zone.â Bursey refused and was arrested. Bursey said that he asked the policeman if âit was the content of my sign, and he said, âYes, sir, itâs the content of your sign thatâs the problem.ââ Bursey stated that he had already moved 200 yards from w
[CTRL] Stand Up to Sharon
http://www.amconmag.com/12_15_03/buchanan.html December 15, 2003 issue Copyright  2003 The American Conservative Stand Up to Sharon by Pat Buchanan Israel is a âthunderously failed realityâ that ârests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice.â Were these words spoken by an American leader, he would be denounced as an anti-Semite. But these are the words of a former speaker of the Israeli Knesset who cries for his country. âThe countdown to the end of Israeli society has begun,â writes Avraham Burg, âthe end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep.â âIsrael, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism.â Burg implores âDiaspora Jewsâ to âspeak out.â To little avail. Why? Why, when a Knesset member is unintimidated, are we so silent? Why, when Ariel Sharon is dragging Americaâs good name through the mud and blood of Ramallah and Jenin, are we so tongue-tied? Did not Burke instruct us, âTo sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of menâ? Israelis are speaking truth to power. Army Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon has told Israelâs press it was Sharon who undermined Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Twenty-seven Israeli Air Force pilots have refused to obey âimmoral ordersâ for air strikes on âpopulated civilian centers.â Five hundred Israeli soldiers have refused to take part in the repression. Four ex-chiefs of Shin BeitâAmi Ayalon, Carmi Gillon, Yaakov Peri, Avraham Shalomâhave charged Sharon with leading Israel to ruin. âWe are heading downhill toward near-catastrophe,â says Peri, âIf we go on living by the sword, we will continue to wallow in the mud and destroy ourselves.â Ayalon and Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibeh have issued a declaration of principles calling for Israelâs withdrawal to her 1967 borders. Ex-Justice minister Yossi Beilin has negotiated a detailed accord with a former Palestinian minister. Colin Powell wrote a letter of support. Where is George W. Bush? Why is he silent when Sharon has led us into a cul-de-sac from which he cannot find an exit? Why is our president letting Sharon ravage what is left of our reputation in the Arab world? Sharon promised peace and security. He has delivered war and hatred. Over 700 Israelis are dead. Some 2,500 Palestinians have died, including hundreds of children. Scores of thousands have been wounded. Homes and olive groves have been destroyed. Yet still Sharon approves new settlements without a peep of protest from President Bush. When Howard Dean suggested that U.S. Mideast policy needed to be more âeven-handed,â he was warned by Democratic bosses never to use that term again. Why are our politicians so craven, so terrified of an Israeli lobby that does not speak for Israel, let alone for America? Israel is in an existential crisis. Its options for survival are narrowing by the month. It can push all the Palestinians into Jordan, a monstrous crime of ethnic cleansing some on the Israeli Right are advocating. It can wall off Israel and Jerusalem and leave the Palestinians in a truncated, tiny state that will become an eternal spawning pool of terror, as Sharon is now doing. Or it can give the Palestinians what Oslo, Camp David, Taba, the Saudi Plan, and âroad mapâ promised: a homeland. If Israel is to remain democratic and Jewish, she must either let the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem goâor annex them all and grant Palestinians full rights as citizens in a binational state. Are Israeli Jews willing to practice in their country what American Jews preach in ours, equality and multiculturalism? Israel is free to choose her course. But America needs a Middle East policy Made in the USA, not in Tel Avivâor at AIPAC or AEI. President Bush should restate U.S. support for the survival of Israel but also register Americaâs disgust with Sharonâs duplicitous policy of creeping annexationism and repression, while talking of peace. Sharon should be told to vacate every settlement and outpost put up since Bush took office and to tear down any part of his new wall that encroaches on the land of the coming nation of Palestine. Else, American aid stops. If this undermines Sharon, so much the better. If we are to preach democracy to the Arabs, let us also preach it to the regime that claims to be the only democracy in the region as it holds three million persecuted Palestinians in human bondage. As Israelâs benefactor and guardian, we have a right to demand that our values be respected in her treatment of the Palestinians, that our vital interests always be kept in mind, as they have rarely been in 50 years. If Mr. Burg can stand up to Sharon, why cannot Mr. Bush?
[CTRL] Saddam's Magic Beard
-Caveat Lector- Saddam's Magic Beard Alex Jones The fastest a beard can possibly grow is 3/4 of an inch a month. Here is Saddam with 5-6 inches of growth -- and a month after the occupation began we supposedly saw new videos of saddam outside with crowds with no facial hair otherr than his mustache. This looks like the real Saddam Hussein, whereas the image of Saddam with glasses had a different facial structure. Has someone been holding Saddam Captive until and opportune moment to roll him out? http://www.infowars.com/ FLASHBACK: U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood predicted imminent Saddam capture 10 days ago: A member of The Pantagraph editorial board -- not really expecting an answer -- asked LaHood for more details, saying, "Do you know something we don't?" "Yes I do," repllied LaHood. http://www.infowars.com/ The controlled left-right media is lying to you. Hussein isn't the only one with his head buried in the sand. Be Americans, Pull your heads out of the spider hole and take a look around. http://www.infowars.com/ Saddam's US-CIA ties. http://www.infowars.com/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Stanching the EU 'brain drain'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031215/02 December 15, 2003 Stanching the EU 'brain drain' EC to propose scientific visa for travel to and within EU | By Charles Q Choi NEW YORKTo attract researchers to Europe and keep talented scientists from leaving the continent, EU policy developers Thursday (December 11) outlined near- and long-term initiatives that enhance career development and ease of working anywhere in Europe. In January 2004, the European Commission (EC) plans to propose a scientific visa for the European Union. Within the next year and a half, if all goes well, then Europe will be open to non-European researchers, Sieglinde Gruber, policy developer for the EC's research directorate-general, told The Scientist. Such a visa for scientists, already found in the United Kingdom, France, and Ireland, would enable researchers to move within the European Unionsay, for conferencesinstead of having to obtain visas for each country. Also, by March 2004, 350 to 400 mobility centers will open all throughout Europe, dedicated to helping both European and foreign researchers and their families move to and around Europe. Mobility is difficultyour partner has to leave their job, children have to go to school, said EC Research Directorate-General Policy Developer Jimmy Jamar. The mobility centers will help with visa access, entry requirements, access to job markets, social security, taxation, housing, day care, access to language courses, and introduction to local culture. These efforts and other plans were part of a New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) conference on the trans-Atlantic mobility of researchers sponsored by the EC Thursday. They are meant to help ameliorate what Europe has fretted for the recent decade or more, of 'brain drain' to here in the US, said Ellis Rubenstein, chief executive officer of NYAS. Such measures are especially important in light of the EU's objective to increase its overall research and development spending to 3% of the gross domestic product by 2010, a plan that will require 700,000 additional researchers by the end of the decade, explained EC Ambassador to the United Nations John Richardson. The European Union will boost funding for human resources and mobility schemes for researchers to $1.8 billion by 2006, a 60% increase over pre-2002 levels. Funds will go to programs such as the Marie Curie Actions and the Erasmus Mundus initiative starting in 2004, both of which supply fellowships and grants to European and non-European scientists to study or work on the continent, or research elsewhere to bring knowledge back. Europe also plans to make careers in research more attractive. By 2010, Gruber said all institutions for higher education in the European Union will allow transfer of credits among each other. The EC is also working on transfer of pension rights among countries in the European Union, so researchers do not lose everything upon moves in Europe, said Raffaele Liberali, director of the EC research directorate-general's human factor, mobility, and Marie Curie Actions section. The goal, he explained, is to prevent fragmentation of career development in Europe. By the end of 2004, Liberali added, the EC will recommend a code of conduct for more transparent recruitment policies, so scientists can compare salaries and contracts across institutions. To help researchers find all the funding opportunities available throughout Europe, the Pan-European Researcher's Mobility Portal was launched in July. In October, Gruber said the Web site was visited by 147,000 individuals. Finally, the European Union will promote the importance of research and researchers among the general public. Probably for 2005 or 2006, we will launch a European Researcher Year, just to create better sensitization for society about these professions and what you are doing for them, Liberali said. Such action hopefully will help att
[CTRL] Fw: Burma Shave
-Caveat Lector- Those were good memories and good signs For those of you who never saw the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1930s and 1940s. Before the Interstates, when everyone drove the old 2-lane roads, Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countrysidein farmers' fields. They were small red signs with white letters.Five signs, about 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet ...and the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream. DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD TO GAIN A MINUTE YOU NEED YOUR HEAD YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT DROVE TOO LONG DRIVER SNOOZING WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS NOT AMUSING BROTHER SPEEDER, LET'S REHEARSE; ALL TOGETHER,GOOD MORNING NURSE CAUTIOUS RIDER TO HER RECKLESS DEAR LET'S HAVE LESS BULL AND LOTS MORE STEER SPEED WAS HIGH WEATHER WAS NOT TIRES WERE THIN X MARKS THE SPOT THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL FOR BEER LED HIM TO A WARMER HEMISPHERE AROUND THE CURVE LICKETY-SPLIT IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NEW CAR WASN'T IT? NO MATTER THE PRICE NO MATTER HOW NEW THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE IN THE CAR IS YOU A GUY WHO DRIVES A CAR WIDE OPEN IS NOT THINKIN' HE'S JUST HOPIN' AT INTERSECTIONS LOOK EACH WAY A HARP SOUNDS NICE BUT ITS HARD TO PLAY BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL EYES ON THE ROAD THAT'S THE SKILLFUL DRIVER'S CODE THE ONE WHO DRIVES WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING DEPENDS ON YOUTO DO HIS THINKING CAR IN DITCH DRIVER IN TREE THE MOON WAS FULL AND SO WAS HE. And my all time favorite PASSING SCHOOL ZONE TAKE IT SLOW LET OUR LITTLE SHAVERS GROW John & Louise www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsemen
[CTRL] Loftus on memory, Malvo abused
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news articles "Elizabeth Loftus, Sara Polonsky, and Mindy Fullilove (1994) reported that 54% of women in an outpatient substance abuse treatment group reported a history of childhood sexual abuse; of these, 19% reported that they had forgotten the abuse for a period of time and that later the memory returned. An additional 12% reported a period of partial forgetting. Thus 31% of the participants in this study reported some disruption in their memories for the sexual abuse." p. 40, "Betrayal Trauma, The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse" - Jennifer J. Freyd, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA , 1996 this describes severe abuse fwd from L Moss Sharman Malvo's Mother Defends Strict Parenting, Beatings By Serge F. Kovaleski Washington Post Staff Writer 12/14/03 "CHESAPEAKE, Va. - "Una James says that whenever she would "flog" her son, Lee Boyd Malvo, with a leather belt to keep him in line, she felt little regret because corporal punishment is a way of life in her country." "The defense claims that his mother's beatings caused Malvo to emotionally disavow her, leaving him with no adult role model since he was already estranged from his father. Forlorn and longing for a parental figure, Malvo was ripe to be indoctrinated by Muhammad, a charismatic ex-soldier who eventually manipulated him into taking part in last fall's sniper shootings, the defense contends."The three psychiatrists and one psychologist who assessed Malvo in the months leading up to the trial told jurors that James hit the teenager with belts and broomsticks for seemingly minor matters, such as Malvo's cat soiling the bed. After that, for about the next six years, Malvo used a slingshot and marbles to kill stray cats several times a week. He even killed his own cat. "Killing of cats is certainly a sign of some significant emotional disturbance in childhood," forensic psychiatrist Neil Blumberg testified. When Malvo was 12, James gave him a beating after finding out that he had prepared to commit suicide by hanging himself with a sheet tied to a tree limb, according to court testimony. Malvo told his mother that he was sad about her leaving him all the time and that he no longer wanted to spend weekends alone at a boardinghouse. "She talked him down and was nice to him for about a day and then beat him again and left," forensic psychiatrist Diane H. Schetky testified." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [JBirch] humor: EARTHQUAKE STRIKES MEXICO CITY AREA (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- "I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all." visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 08:21:42 -0800 From: Paul Blumstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; Subject: [JBirch] humor: EARTHQUAKE STRIKES MEXICO CITY AREA MEXICO CITY, December 13, 2003 (AP) --A major earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale has hit Mexico City. The epicenter has been located only fifty miles east of the Mexican capitol. Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are injured. The country's infrastructure and general economy are ruined and the Mexican government has sent out appeals to all countries which can provide assistance in her rebuilding efforts. The rest of the world is in shock, but responding in a positive way. Canada is sending troopers to help the Mexican army control the riots. The European community, save for France, is sending food and money. The United States, not to be outdone, is sending two million replacement Mexicans. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/A0NplB/TM -~-> The opinions expressed on this forum are those of the authors of the articles posted. The John Birch Society has no responsibility for anything that is posted on this forum. The OFFICIAL John Birch Society web page is a www.jbs.org "Look alike" clone pages, run by others, violate JBS policy. Visit The New American at www.thenewamerican.com "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 1729-1797 "Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords." To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get FAST unlimited reliable uncensored internet service for $9.95 per month No Setup Fees. No Contracts. No limit on email groups. 5 email accounts at no additional cost. Fastest Dialup Connection available. Click here now http://www.getmysmartisp.net Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Maltreatment of foreign correspondents/journalists by the US-...
-Caveat Lector- This treatment is not so bad as that of journalists overseas. We shoot at those. Sometimes we kill them. Journalists have to go to bed with our military of course. It's getting like Hollywood and the casting couch. I figure it's because our own media are totally under control, and they don't want to risk someone telling us anything they don't want us to know. It's going to take a while for everyone involved in any way with the United States to take in the newly formed third-world-nation we have become. It's been happening comparatively slowly here so that our citizens do not bolt, but it is totally alien to what people of other countries are used to when dealing with us. They'll learn to have their papers in order when they hit our shores, won't they? Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5371.htm A repressive embarrassment 12/13/03: (The Toledo Blade) Anyone who thinks the administration and its law enforcement chief, Attorney General John Ashcroft, aren't out to impede a free press need only hear how the federal government is treating foreign journalists coming to this country on assignment. Without notification to foreign media outlets, the immigration and customs people are arresting, detaining, and deporting journalists arriving here without special visas. This is so even when they come from nations whose citizens can stay for up to 90 days without a visa if they are arriving as tourists or on business. If that threatening form of registration is not enough, members of the press arriving without the visas, which no one told them they needed, are treated like criminals, handcuffed as they're marched through airports, photographed, fingerprinted, and their DNA taken. Peter Krobath, chief editor for the Austrian movie magazine Skip, was held overnight in a cold room with 45 others who arrived without the visa. The room had two open toilets, a metal bench, and a concrete bench. He was here to interview movie star Ben Affleck and see the movie Paycheck. Thomas Sjoerup, a photographer for the Danish paper Ekstra Bladet, was deported after a few hours during which a mugshot, fingerprints, and DNA sample were taken. A French journalist said he and five others from his country were marched across the airport in handcuffs, without belts or laces. The International Press Institute in Vienna, a media freedom group, has complained not only about Mr. Korbath's treatment but also, and indeed more important, the fact that only foreign journalists need special visas. The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists is about to launch a global campaign against the absurd and repressive rule that casts suspicion on working journalists who come to this country on business as valid as any other traveler's. A U.S. embassy official in Vienna said visas have always been required. If that requirement existed, it was more honored in its breach and ought to be rescinded. It should not take a world media outcry to address this problem. It's a policy that puts these United States in the ranks of Third World dictatorships. Members of Congress, regardless of party, who understand the absurdity of it all, even in these troubled times, should demand an end to this repressive embarrassment. It's not likely President Bush ever will. C 2003 The Blade. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/TySplB/TM -~-> -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--
Re: [CTRL] What's next for the troops?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/2003 8:44:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mission accomplished, so whatâs next? Any student of history knows all too well that the U.S. involvement into Iraq will not be temporary or that the boys wonât be coming home anytime soon. Since tribal allegiences were all that Saddam had left (the constant reference to Sunni as being his supporters is nuts), his capture means nothing except a few photo ops. Our troops will be in Iraq and under attack forever. Immediately after our invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi really thought we had come to free them. It was a short time later when our troops started disciplining them for minor protesting, that they began to have doubts and finally they began to have experiences that required them to seek vengence. The blood feud is alive and well and living throughout the nations of the Middle East. Now that we have adopted the Israeli methods there will be no end to it. Our troops will likely be sent there with short trips back to the States until they are dead or injured so badly they are of no further use to the military. Of course it will be just fine, since all the comfortably ensconced conservatives will be here or in Qattar "supporting" them. The Israeli will be very pleased to share the actions of the various "terrorists" with us. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] A sad day
-Caveat Lector- The only thing sad about Saddam's capture is that he's not giving the answers the CIA and the neo-cons want to hear (uncooperative is the word I'm seeing), but just wait. I'm sure someone (probably Israel) will be able to plant some evidence somewhere. I'm beginning to think there are more Mossad in Iraq than in Israel. After all, Israel has tons of nuclear materials. I'm sure they'll find a way. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Wolfowitz Beggars Belief And Country
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/15/2003 12:04:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not often someone writes a snotty five-page memo that ends up indirectly costing his nation upwards of $8.3 billion, but Paul Wolfowitz likely now has that distinction. The U.S. deputy defense secretary's edict to ban Russia, France, Canada and Germany from participating in U.S.-funded Iraqi reconstruction is a marvel of grasping small-mindedness. Considering where Wolfowitz's loyalty lies, this was a very successful act. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
