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Criminal Charges Under Patriot Act

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:05:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: America under attack by government, again. Who is perpetrating the terror here? State sponsored terrorism is real and far more sinister. See historical examples.

Clip Source: www.informationclearinghouse.info

RNC 8 Charged as Terrorists Under State Patriot Act

" -- - Ramsey County Charges RNC 8 Under State Patriot Act, Alleges Acts of Terrorism

In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism. Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald, and Max Spector, face up to 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty.

Based on past abuses of such informants by law enforcement, the National Lawyers Guild is concerned that such police informants have incentives to lie and exaggerate threats of violence and to also act as provacateurs in raising and urging support for acts of violence.

FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged, But A Rove Appointee Said No

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:30:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cont....

Note the language used by Eid in dismissing the gravity of the case: the case isn't serious because they were "more aspirational, perhaps, than operational"? Well, when it was the Liberty Seven -- black Muslim men who were described by the FBI as "aspirational rather than operational" -- there was no hesitation by the Justice Department in bringing charges.

Another funny thing: When a black man in prison sent a threatening letter containing baby powder to John McCain, Troy Eid brought down the full force of the law, complete with press conferences and public declarations that "We won't stand for threats of this kind in Colorado."

But when it’s a claque of white men with rifles, disguises, and all the accoutrement of a conspiracy – as well as open admissions to it – Troy Eid isn’t worried. After all, they just a bunch of harmless, tweakers, right? … Just like little Timmy McVeigh.

Clip Source: dneiwert.blogspot.com

We noticed last week that it was awfully peculiar that Colorado’s U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid, had so airily dismissed conspiracy charges against the three white-supremacist tweakers who were caught planning to assassinate Barack Obama at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Now it turns out that those suspicions were fully warranted:

The plot is similar to that in the 1992 movie "The Bodyguard" starring actors Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. In the movie, Costner stops an assassination attempt against Houston by spotting a weapon hidden inside a gutted-out TV camera.

Based on the evidence, FBI special agent Robert Sawyer believed there was probable cause to charge the men with conspiracy to kill Senator Obama. However, US Attorney Troy Eid last week said there is insufficient evidence to indicate a true threat, plot or conspiracy against the senator.

Tags: obama, plot, assasination, fbi, crime, justice, rove

McCain acceptance speech: I WAS A POW

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:57:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "And I have the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not." How would he help poor people? "I will keep taxes low...My opponent will raise them." And then bemoans "partisan rancor." And the crowd breaks into a chant of "Drill, baby, drill!"
This is a snow job if ever one has been foisted upon America. Give 'em answers that do nothing and make 'em feel patriotic about entropy.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

McCain Uses His Big Speech to Give Us a Tour of His Vietnamese Prison Cell

Number of sentences in John McCain's acceptance speech about his experience as a POW in Vietnam: 43.

Number of sentences about his 25 years in the House and Senate: 8.

The convention ended as it began: a commemoration of McCain's hellish years in a Hanoi prison cell four decades ago. The political equation was a simple one: POW equals patriotic hero equals a fighting president. Before McCain walked down the long runway at St. Paul's Xcel Center, a baritone voice declared over the P.A., "When you've lived in a box .... you put your people first." Case closed.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

And for McCain, it was on to the final battle, the old soldier, faith-tested and faith-proved, accompanied by a stylish hockey mom representing small-town goodness -- against those whose mettle have not been tested, whose love of country has not been tested, whose America is rather different from the America of the Republican convention.

Tags: mccain

Abramoff asks for Mercy

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:52:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here's your true face of the Rethuglicans...corruption, and mewling beggars for mercy when caught!

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Jack Abramoff, once a top GOP lobbyist, is asking a federal judge to show mercy when she sentences him Thursday.

Jack Abramoff, once a top Republican lobbyist on K Street, is asking a federal judge to show mercy when she sentences him Thursday in an epic corruption case that continues to rock Capitol Hill and the GOP establishment.

Abramoff, who is already serving a 70-month sentence stemming from his fraudulent purchase of a Florida casino-cruise ship company, will go before District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle to be sentenced in a scandal that resulted in a prison term for one former member of Congress, a dozen other guilty pleas by former Republican aides and officials, and new ethics legislation enacted at the start of the 110th Congress.

In an e-mail letter to Huvelle that was released on Wednesday, Abramoff told the judge that he was "not a bad man (although to read all the news articles one would think I was Osama Bin Laden), but I did many bad things.

John McCain Needs to Lay Off the POW Talk

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:13:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The fact is, John McCain's service during Vietnam was honorable and he sacrificed a great deal. But his service to the country carries no more weight than that of any other POW. Likewise, while McCain has given so much to his country, thousands of veterans--past and present--have given as much or more. In this war alone, thousands of troops have lost limbs, been paralyzed, and been burned beyond recognition. So to see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience. And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our experiences in war. He turns the horrific incidents we've all seen, touched, smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it dishonors us all.

And while Spencer Ackerman is not a veteran himself, I think he sums up what many combat vets are feeling today after hearing the campaign's statement:

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: Brandon Friedman

Thu Aug 21, 2008

When John McCain revealed that he didn't know how many houses he and his wife currently own (they have at least eight properties), the Obama campaign pounced. They accused him of being elitist and disconnected and launched an ad within hours. The McCain campaign--realizing this was trouble--retorted the only way they knew how: With a truly stupefying response from McCain spokesman Brian Rogers:

"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison," referring to the prisoner of war camp that McCain was in during the Vietnam War.

Yes, you read that right. McCain justified not knowing how many houses he has by saying he was a POW in Vietnam, four decades ago. I have some things to say about this:

1. Being a POW is not an excuse for everything.

The bottom line is that we're sick of hearing about this as a justification for everything John McCain does or doesn't do. This instance is only the latest example, as others have noted.

Tags: mccain, pow, status

Detroit Mayor Guilty

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:38:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This will have far reaching consequences for the Dems. What a pity. Glad it was not Chicago

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Detroit mayor pleads guilty, to leave office

DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty on Thursday to obstruction of justice in a plea agreement that forces him from office and caps a scandal that had threatened to spill over into the U.S. presidential campaign in a key battleground state.

The guilty plea to two felony charges stems from Kilpatrick's role in the city's $8.4-million settlement of a whistle-blower lawsuit brought by two fired police officers.

Kilpatrick, 38 and once a rising star in the Democratic Party, had faced up to 15 years in prison and loss of his office if convicted of felony charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct.

Dubbed the "hip-hop" mayor when he took office in 2002, Kilpatrick had remained defiant in the face of his mounting legal troubles, claiming that the charges against him were racially motivated.

The End Of The World and what you can do before its to LATE!!

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:19:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thesun.co.uk

The atom smasher ... the 17-mile-long machine that some fear will destroy our planet

WITH just nine days to go until the end of the world, here’s what you could get up to before it’s too late ...

1. Eat 27 Big Mac meals. Who’s counting the calories?

2. Visit all seven continents.

3. Try out all 64 Kama Sutra positions.

4. Watch the entire box sets of Lost, Heroes and Prison Break.

5. Cruise the River Nile.

6. Drive to Switzerland for a ringside seat of doomsday.

7. Complete Super Mario: The Lost Levels.

8. Catch England’s World Cup qualifiers against Andorra on Saturday and – if we’re still alive – England v Croatia on September 10 If we lose, it’ll feel like the end of the world anyway!

9. Cancel the milk and papers.

NEW ORLEANS MOTHERS NATURE PRISON BITCH !

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:01:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: living in Florida I can feel your pain,you already know that your on your own right ? Bush will be hiding until it's over and if you think he didn't care before he short timing it now .

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

New Orleans declares storm curfew

Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans has put the US city under curfew from sunset to dawn as Hurricane Gustav approaches.

New Orleans residents have been fleeing in their thousands after the mayor ordered the evacuation ahead of the storm's expected landfall on Monday.

Mayor Ray Nagin warned residents that trailer homes may 'become projectiles'

Roads out of the Louisiana port have been crammed with traffic.

How to get thrown into a Chinese prison

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:11:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: don't do it.

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

How to get thrown into a Chinese prison

Powderly was among the would-be protesters detained in China without being charged of a crime.

What worked and what didn't go forward?
Powderly: None of them worked. We did nothing. We were arrested and detained in China...for doing nothing except for thinking about it.

While being detained, Powderly snapped this shot of a dozing interrogator.

They told some of my collaborators they were gonna shoot us. They really didn't know what we were doing or who we were...At about the 26th hour, they gave up. So they filed us all in vans...and started driving us way on the outskirts of town... Before long we see this ominous spectre of a giant building surrounded by barbed wire. That was Chongwen detention center.

They stripped us and took photos of us naked. They put us in little red shorts and red shirts, prison clothes, and marched us into general population prison cells...At that point we were in a position no or very few Americans had been before.

Tags: china

"MOVIN ON UP TO THE EASTSIDE TO A DELUX APT IN THE SKY

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:56:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Luxury housing or Meat warehouse ?

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Titan jails 'could be dangerous'

The proposed giant Titan jails could be dangerous and ministers have failed to explain why they would save money, a prisons watchdog has said.

The council criticised the government's consultation on the plan, describing it as a "fait accompli".

The Ministry of Justice is searching for sites of at least 50 acres for jails of four or five storeys, costing an estimated £350m each.

The current jail-building programme has a target of a total of 96,000 prison places by 2014.

SHERIFF GOES TO JAIL STUPID WILL HE COME OUT THE SAME WAY ?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:13:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This isn't going to work . I know, I've do a lot of time in my time not bragging just facts and this won't work because everyone knows the purpose plus he's not in on charges how do you think his treatment there is going to be especially with the prisoners, they're going to treat him good,they know it will all be over in a week and I'll bet they bring him real coffee too!

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Sheriff goes to jail for an education

CHICAGO (Reuters) - There's a new sheriff in jail.

Sheriff Mark Curran of Lake County, Illinois, walked into his own jail on Wednesday to spend a week as a prisoner, saying he was divinely inspired to learn what it was like to be confined and to sample jail programs designed to reduce recidivism.

Illinois "has historically had one of the worst-run prison systems in the nation ... treating inmates like caged animals only to see them released back into their communities angrier and more bitter than they originally were," he said.

He will sit in on high school equivalency classes, and spend a night in the high-security unit and in the medical unit.

good movie for you

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:21:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://www.tvokay.com welcome every one. there are thousands of free movies for you stream and download!Have a nice day!thanks every baby support!

Clip Source: tvokay.com

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Free streaming and downloading. If we don't have it , no one has it!

Clip Source: tvokay.com

Synopsis: Ex-con Jensen Ames (Statham) is forced by the warden of a notorious prison (Allen) to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.
Starring: Jason Statham, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen, Robin Shou, Natalie Martinez, Janaya Stephens, Jacob Vargas
Running Time: 67 minutes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Tags: free streaming and download, tvokay.com

Buy stuff with your P.O.W. service record

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:34:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Apparently, you can cash in your heroism to dodge answering embarrassing questions.

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

POW as Crutch

Tell me how McCain's response here is in any way relevant to the question:

JAY LENO: Welcome back, Sen. McCain, for one million dollars, how many houses do you have? (Laughter)

JOHN MCCAIN: You know, could I just mention to you, Jay, and a moment of seriousness. I spent five and a half years in a prison cell, without—I didn’t have a house, I didn’t have a kitchen table, I didn’t have a table, I didn’t have a chair

Tags: mccain

UNC grad gets up to 33 years for plowing SUV into campus crowd in bid to 'avenge Muslim deaths'

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:04:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.startribune.com

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - A former student was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison Tuesday for plowing his sport utility vehicle into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim deaths overseas.

Mohammed Taheri-Azar, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this month to nine counts of attempted murder for the March 2006 attack at a popular outdoor gathering spot known as The Pit.

Former history professor Michael Allsep, whose wrist and tailbone were broken, said he feared for his life.

"This man not only tried to kill me and my students, he tried to kill the best of our future. He failed only through poor execution," Allsep wrote in a statement read by his mother.

Afterward, he waited in his vehicle for police for about 15 minutes and told them he was the man they were looking for. Police found a letter in his apartment that he had written them because he thought he would be killed during the attack.

Tags: muslims, islam, college, violence

China Detains Catholic Bishop

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:08:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.time.com

Security agents detained an elderly bishop of an underground Catholic church in northern China hours before the closing of the Olympic Games, a U.S.-based group said Monday.

Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, 73, of Zhengding, a city in northern Hebei province, was taken by six government officials from his cathedral on Sunday morning, the Cardinal Kung Foundation said in a statement.

"We will not easily arrest people if they don't break any law," Zhang said.

The foundation said Jia has been detained a dozen times since January 2004. The most recent detention was in August last year.

China faces routine criticism for human rights violations and repression of religious freedom. Religious practice is heavily regulated by the Communist Party, with worship allowed only in party-controlled churches, temples and mosques, while those gathering outside risk harassment, arrest and terms in labor camps or prison.

Tags: china, religion, freedom, catholic, bishop