Lisa makes a good comment in today's LUV News, about what I at times refer to as Bi Partisan Hero's, my party good yours bad, it is necessary or at lest I'll remain quiet when my guys does it but scream bloody murder if the 'opposition' party does the same. The Corporate Mains Stream Media sells this as your only political choices. So we all need to cut the drama, vote for the people of this nation and the world, or vote Corporate and the Police State that protects them from the people. -Scott
"Though I'm glad to see Robert Scheer writing stuff like this, I can't forget that he was one of the ones banging the drum the loudest for the re-election of Obama. He ignored the fact that Obama has not only continued, but expanded, the worst abuses of the Bush administration. Scheer was as blinkered and benighted as the hordes of voters who could chant only one mantra: "Democrats good, Republicans bad!" (Or the reverse; both mantras are equally stunted.)..." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY* * * [image: Julian Assange] *One year*<http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/06/22/statement-by-julian-assange-after-one-year-in-ecuadorian-embassy/>. That's how long Julian Assange has spent holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, thanks to the paranoid power-mongering of the US and UK. Fact: *if Assange had been active during the Bush administration, every single so-called liberal out there would be defending him right now. But because his revelations came during the Obama administration, those same people have done an about-face and are screaming for his blood. * *Don't shoot the messenger. Fess up. And change. Quit trying to defend the indefensible.* Meanwhile, Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong for Moscow<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-leaves-hong-kong-moscow>. Our country, hounding down and chasing away good people to beat the band. -LS ------------------------------ *I KEEP TELLING YOU GUYS YOU'RE ALL TERRORISTS* [image: Warning: In Case of Terrorist attack, do not discard bra]<http://landofthefreeish.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/warning-in-case-of-terrorist-attack.png> "We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously," said Sherwin Smith, deputy director of TDEC's Division of Water Resources, according to audio recorded by attendees. *"But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there's no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism."* *No, I am not making this up.<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/21/official-says-water-complaints-act-of-terrorism/2445071/> *-LS ------------------------------ * * *GUANTANAMO DOC & NURSES THINK TORTURE IS OK* **I've said it before and I'll say it again: force-feeding is torture. Force-feeding is torture. If you don't believe it, not only haven't you been keeping up with the past, oh, few hundred years, you obviously don't remember *this <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw>*, from our own history. It's torture. Yet it continues at Guantanamo<http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/guantanamo_doctors_untroubled_by_force-feeding_prisoners_20130621/?ln> . Some day, there will be a reckoning. For those of you in the DC area, protest demonstration at the White House this coming Wednesday, June 26th, at 12 Noon, sponsored by several groups from around the country, including Veterans for Peace. Info *here*<http://closegitmo.net> . ------------------------------ *R.I.P., FRANCA RAME* ** [image: dario-fo-e-franca-rame]<http://www.fascioemartello.it/images/stories/2013/05/dario-fo-e-franca-rame.jpg> I found out about the death of this great artist two weeks ago after I had already sent out LUV News, so I couldn't do a tribute to her then. Therefore, I'm doing it now. I had the honor of seeing *Franca Rame* and her equally phenomenal artist husband *Dario Fo* perform 30 years ago. And I've never forgotten them. How could I? How can you forget that kind of beauty, power, humor, insight, and talent? How can you forget being moved to the core of your being? How can you forget that there are still a few people in the world who stand up for what they believe in, for justice, for truth, for what is right? Who do it no matter the consequences? And who even make art out of it? That was *Franca Rame*<http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/theater/franca-rame-italian-actress-and-playwright-dies-at-83.html?pagewanted=all>. That is Dario Fo. They were and are world treasures. -LS * * ** ------------------------------ Though I'm glad to see Robert Scheer writing stuff like this, I can't forget that he was one of the ones banging the drum the loudest for the re-election of Obama. He ignored the fact that Obama has not only continued, but expanded, the worst abuses of the Bush administration. Scheer was as blinkered and benighted as the hordes of voters who could chant only one mantra: "Democrats good, Republicans bad!" (Or the reverse; both mantras are equally stunted.) Let's remember who has prosecuted and persecuted Bradley Manning: Barack Obama. Scheer is only hinting at that in this column, but at least he calls attention to what's going on at Fort Meade. -Lisa Simeone The Shameful Exploitation of Bradley Manning<http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_shameful_exploitation_of_bradley_manning_20121214/> by Robert Scheer *Keep an American soldier locked up naked in a cage and driven half mad while deprived of all basic rights, and you will be instantly condemned as a barbaric terrorist. Unless the jailer is an authorized agent of the U.S. government, in which case even treatment approaching torture will go largely unnoticed.* Certainly if a likable constitutional law professor happens to be president, all such assaults on human dignity will easily pass muster. After being interned like some wild animal in that cage in Kuwait, Pfc. Bradley Manning was transferred to the Quantico, Va., Marine base and further subjected to conditions that his lawyer termed criminal. Not all that far from the White House, and yet our ever-enlightened president seems not to have noticed that this soldier, whose alleged criminal offense is that he attempted to inform the public of crimes committed in its name, has been *held in an environment clearly created to destroy his very sense of self. * As Mannings lawyer, David Coombs, a lieutenant colonel in the Army reserves and a veteran of 12 years of active duty, put it: *Brads treatment at Quantico will forever be etched into our nations history as a disgraceful moment in time. Coombs warned that the most serious charge facing his client, aiding the enemy, is a scary proposition designed to silence a lot of critics of our government.* Who is that enemy other than the public that came to be informed about the true nature of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by news reports based on a trove of documents allegedly made available to the WikiLeaks website by Manning? The documents were labeled secret, but as the many important news reports based on them revealed, they contained information that an enlightened public had a need and right to know. *Yet for too many in the mainstream media, led by the example of the editors of The New York Times, the recent military courtroom proceedings where Mannings lawyer finally got to document the governments attempt to destroy his client were largely a non-event.* *Conveniently so, given that the Times and other major news outlets that were thrilled to exploit the information that Manning uncovered are deeply afraid of being associated with the brave whistle-blower himself.* Not all, however. The British Guardianwhich features Glenn Greenwald, todays most compelling writer on civil libertieshas taken seriously the plight of the man alleged to be one of the papers sources. But why havent others? As Margaret Sullivan, the public editor of The New York Times, asked: *Why did readers of The Times have to turn to Ed Pilkington of The Guardian, or to one of the great number of other news organizations that sent reporters, to hear Private Manning tell of the Mordor into which he had been drawnwhere he had to stand naked, in chains, in the maximum custody brig at Quantico, Va., imploring his prison guards for something as simple as toilet paper, or, earlier, in a cage in Kuwait?* While the Times is to be applauded for running Sullivans devastating critique, *the replies from individual editors responsible were lame.*Asked why the paper didnt send a reporter to cover this rare opportunity to learn Mannings side of the story, Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt said, Weve covered him and will continue to do so. But as with any other legal case, we wont cover every single proceeding. *Really? This is hardly just another legal case, for it goes to the heart of the First Amendment freedoms on which the Times has relied so heavily during its storied history. * If the public had a right to know the information that Manning allegedly revealed, *as the Times demonstrated by publishing important stories featuring it*, then the source should be honored rather than scorned. As Sullivan wrote: The Times published article after article based on the very information that Private Manning provided to WikiLeaks, just as it had published the Pentagon Papers that Mr. [Daniel] Ellsberg leaked during the Vietnam War. *Manning is in the same position as was Ellsberg, who 40 years ago leaked to The New York Times details of government lies and crimes in Vietnam. Both men had access to material classified as secret, but both believed they had an obligation to puncture the veil of government secrecy when it was employed to deceive the public.* What is protected in the First Amendment is not the right of commercial enterprises to exploit the news for profit, but rather of citizens to become informed. That requires the courage of heroic sources, including Bradley Manning. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_shameful_exploitation_of_bradley_manning_20121214/ *P.S. If you can't attend the trial at Fort Meade, please support Bradley Manning by calling the U.S. Department of Defense at 703-571-3343, then click 5, to leave a public comment. 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