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Physical Intimidation Of Online Anti-War Crusader

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:39:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: According to Whitney, “The well-dressed man told Tom’s wife that he knew where her son lived, what line of work he was in, and how many children he had.”

Subsequently, two men in a parked car a block from Tom’s mother’s house were spotted using laptops and sped off when they were approached by Tom’s son.

Clip Source: www.prisonplanet.com

The operator of a leading alternative news and strongly anti-war website has become the target of nefarious thugs apparently in the employ of the U.S. government who have continually harassed him and ordered him to shut down his website.

Tom Feeley, owner and editor of InformationClearingHouse.info, has endured public harassment, home invasions, death threats and threats to his family simply for running a website.

Counterpunch writer Mike Whitney has circulated an e mail describing what happened to Feeley in an attempt to draw attention to the matter.

Whitney writes that earlier this week Feeley’s wife was startled to suddenly discover three well dressed men standing in her kitchen who told her that Tom must “Stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!”

To emphasize the point, the thug pulled back his jacket to reveal a gun while barking out the warning.

Tom’s wife was hysterical and refuses to go back to the house. She contacted the FBI but was told there was nothing they could do.

Ticketed McCain protester pleads not guilty

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:31:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Shades of a "military state"
Constitution??????

Clip Source: www.google.com

By Felisa Cardona / Denver Post

Carol Kreck, who was cited for trespassing while holding a sign outside Sen. John McCain's town-hall meeting in Denver on July 7, pleaded not guilty today in Denver County Court.

The librarian and former Denver Post reporter was removed from the galleria at the Denver Performing Arts Complex while holding a sign handed to her by a protest group that read "McCain = Bush."

The area that Kreck was standing in is not a public space and that is why she was cited for trespassing.

A videotape of the incident shows a security guard telling Kreck to leave and saying that the U.S. Secret Service had asked him to remove her.

Later, a spokeswoman for the complex said the security guard was mistaken, that the Secret Service had nothing to do with it; McCain's campaign staff had asked that people holding signs be removed from the galleria.

Tags: protest, freedom of speech, mccain

Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie July 13

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:18:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Arlo Guthrie, his son, has done an admirable job of memorializing his Dad.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

born in Oklahoma in 1912, and spent the rest of his life fighting the good fight, usually for those who really needed it. His guitar said it all: "This Machine Kills Fascists." And while it wasn't totally accurate on that score -- there's still plenty fascism to go around these days -- it gave its all in service to the cause.

Guthrie was also an copyfight pioneer

he wrote on a songbook. "Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."

Without Woody Guthrie, there would be no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds. There would be no "This Land is Your Land," "If I Had a Hammer," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads. The trajectory of American folk music would be forever thrown off its established vector. The poor, oppressed and otherwise dispossessed would be without an acoustic champion.

Tags: woody guthrie, copyrights

Even the Judges can't judge

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:43:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And the media access wars continue.