There are 5 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Full congressional inquiry into the Bush's warrantless wiretapping program
From: John Perna <savefreed0m2oo3@yahoo.com>
2. Bioterror
From: "botalerts" <botalerts@yahoo.ca>
3. RE: Detention Camps a history
From: greg nixon <nxngrg@yahoo.com>
4. Re: Enroute a Muslim Holocaust
From: jf charlebois <jeanfrancoischarlebois@yahoo.ca>
5. A Model for Us All
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." <prez@usa-exile.org>
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:21:23 -0800 (PST)
From: John Perna <savefreed0m2oo3@yahoo.com>
Subject: Full congressional inquiry into the Bush's warrantless wiretapping program
Full congressional inquiry into the Bush's warrantless wiretapping program
Congresswoman Heather Wilson has defied her Republican leadership and
called for a full congressional inquiry into the wiretapping
scandal. On Tuesday Congresswoman Heather Wilson, Republican of New
Mexico, refused to give in to Karl Rove's intimidation and called for
a full congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's
warrantless wiretapping program. Because Representative Wilson chairs
the House Intelligence Subcommittee with oversight responsibility for
the National Security Agency, this call carries special weight.
When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared before the Senate
Judiciary Committee on Monday -- even though he was not compelled to
testify under oath -- he plainly failed to answer key questions about
the legality and constitutionality of this eavesdropping program. We
still don't know why the administration failed to obtain the warrants
required under law by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. We
still don't know how many Americans were spied upon, or what legal
reasoning led the administration to believe this type of activity is
somehow compatible with the Fourth Amendment to the United States
Constitution.
Bush is not above the law -- and only Congress can perform the
oversight necessary under our governmental system of checks and
balances. If laws were broken, everyone responsible must be held
accountable. If Congress fails to do so, they will be walking away
from their duties -- and performing an enormous disservice to our
nation.
Will Easton,
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:41:45 -0000
From: "botalerts" <botalerts@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Bioterror
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/02/bioterror.html
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:01:26 -0800 (PST)
From: greg nixon <nxngrg@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Detention Camps a history
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Scott Peden <scotpeden@cruzio.com> wrote:
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Would someone please get Bruce P Majors, the Cato shill outta here? For those that don’t know Cato, they claim to be libertarian but support big business and Bush all the way.
This is one of about 40 different alias’s I have collect for him.
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Book Review: 'White Gold' by Giles Milton
By Ben-Peter Terpstra - posted Tuesday, 26 October 2004
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From the bestselling author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg comes White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves. Giles Milton’s latest book is a valuable work simply because the story of slavery belongs to us all. Furthermore, this spine-tingler is also important in that it has managed to find a publisher, and therefore an audience. (In Europe, some politically sensitive history books don’t always see the light of day.)
Much is written about the slave trade, but rarely does one read a book about the likes of Thomas Pellow. Barbary corsairs captured the Cornish cabin boy and his shipmates in 1716. Sadly, such kidnappings were commonplace. Between the years 1550-1730, Algiers alone was home to around 25,000 European slaves. At times, there were around 50,000 captives. Slave markets also flourished in Tunis and Morocco where little Thomas was sent. The lad was only 11 years old.
There are many ways to read White Gold. I’ve long tried, albeit clumsily, to put my empathy cap on and think about how it would feel to struggle as a slave. This book was a great help and worked a treat. Mile’s vivid descriptions backed with thorough research make the task easier. When Thomas Pellow was entering a life of servitude, my heart sunk into my boots. Miles describes the scene:
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As the sun rose spectacularly over the city’s eastern ramparts and the men were led through the principal gate, they were tormented by jeering, hostile Moors. “We were met and surrounded by vast crowds of them,†wrote Pellow, “offering us the most vile insults.†As word of their arrival spread through the souks, more and more people flocked to the city in order to mock the hated Christians. They surged towards the frightened captives and tried to beat them with sticks and batons.
Readers will be tempted to ask, “Were Pellow’s capturers tyrannical and bloodthirsty barbarians?†The politically incorrect answer to that is, “Yesâ€.
Whatever you do, don’t read this book before meal times. Milton, unlike some historians, doesn’t shy away from awful truths.
The book’s most disturbing figure is Moulay Ismail, the sultan of Morocco. It is he who buys the young Thomas and routinely executes people whom rub him up the wrong way.
Not content with hijacking ships, the Islamic slave traders would make “home visits†to Europe’s coastal villages and kidnap family members. So popular was the demand for Christian slave labour that some rich Barbary pirates, funded by even richer Sultans, pillaged Reykjavik and returned with 400 very frightened Icelanders. Distance was obviously no barrier. Later, travelling Americans also became sitting ducks.
Does this sound uncomfortably familiar? Like some Islamic extremists of today, the Sultans laughed about holding Europe to ransom. They were rarely met with force.
Obviously, Thomas Pellow’s experience takes place within a wider context, and Giles Milton gives us this. As a learned writer, he provides his audience with sufficient primary resources and solid secondary ones. Of particular interest, are the graphic illustrations of torture techniques and photographs of the now crumbling Meknes palace built by Christian slaves. This is not for the faint hearted.
Whereas, the tireless work of feisty born-again Christians led to the abolition of slavery in America, this was not the case in North Africa and other Islamic strongholds. Ironically, years after Pellow’s death, a descendant of his took to the seas to fight against the barbaric slave masters. Without revealing too much, the book’s amazing epilogue reads like a tribute to the actions over words principle. Giles Milton’s White Gold is a treasure, and we owe it to North Africa’s one million European white slaves to never forget. They were a stolen generation.
But this book is not just about victims. Many brave English souls who advocated for the abolition of black slavery turned their attention to the plight of European captives. Groups like the Society of Knights Liberators of the White Slaves of Africa (pdf file 684KB) were instrumental in creating awareness. So too were some Church of England churches. Yet, after marathon “talkfests†with barbarian traders, the abolitionists only made significant gains after adopting hawkish strategies. Arguably, this lesson has been lost to some of us. As a wise man once said, “If you want peace, prepare for warâ€. And, if you want a good read, consider getting your hands on a copy of White Gold.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:27:54 -0500 (EST)
From: jf charlebois <jeanfrancoischarlebois@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: Enroute a Muslim Holocaust
Historically, Muslims have been at the receiving end of
Western-Christian violence for centuries.(what a load of crap?)
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:05:58 -0500
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." <prez@usa-exile.org>
Subject: A Model for Us All
GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILE
Free Americans Reaching
Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
Via <prez@usa-exile.org>
February 10, 2006
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
These Brazilian Indians are an important model for us.
In order to protest poor health care they cost their opponents as
much money as possible by blockading a railway necessary for the export
of iron ore from the region.
Shortly before the vicious illegal Anglo-American invasion of Iraq
in 2003, ten or fifteen million people marched/paraded in cities and
towns all around the planet. But they were unable to prevent the
invasion because their behavior wasn't nearly costly enough. That is,
they were far too obedient. They hadn't heeded the example of the
anti-WTO protesters in Seattle back in '99.
Now more "Global Days of Action" have been scheduled for March
18-20--coordinated in the US by A.N.S.W.E.R., the same subservient
(though of course its language is tough, etc) coalition as in '03.
Will it finally have learned that it must "act up" rather than continue
such law-abiding marches/parades?
On its current home page [www.answercoalition.org] it proudly
states that "In 2005, Opposition to the War Became the Majority
Sentiment"--but this is meaningless till this majority gains enough
confidence in itself to discontinue its lackey-like obedience to such a
ludicrous legal system.
In fact, till these marches/parades include lots of acting-up,
they shouldn't be regarded as actions at all but rather merely as
gestures. If they remain mere gestures, they'll do slightly more harm
than good because they'll allow the Fourth Reich to maintain its ruse
that the US is a democracy: "thousands of citizens frequently take to
the streets in total freedom to protest their government's policies,"
etc.
The participants in these marches/parades must wake up and finally
notice that the same people are controlling both them and the Iraqi
Resistance--and that the latter has been successful precisely to the
degree that it has been costly. The best example of this of course are
the many attacks on the Fourth Reich's oil pipelines.
In conclusion we can say that those deciding policy for
A.N.S.W.E.R. must come to understand that the success of their
demonstrations should be measured not by the numbers of participants
but by the numbers of dollars spent or lost by the
Military-Industrial-Academic Complex to control them. Muslims
currently understand this as they move against Denmark mainly via
boycotts.
Yours for all
species,
Keith Lampe,
Ro-Non-So-Te,
Ponderosa Pine
Transition Prez
PS: A.N.S.W.E.R.'s big 2/15/03 demo in NYC was so obedient that only
one cop was necessary for every couple hundred marchers/paraders!
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Brazilian Indians
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Brazil has 700,000 Indians, mostly living in the Amazon rainforest
Members of an indigenous tribe in Brazil have released four mine
workers they had briefly taken hostage in a protest over health care.
The employees of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), the world's largest
iron ore mining company, were seized in the north-eastern state of
Maranhao.
They were well-treated during their captivity, according to CVRD.
Human right groups said the Indians blamed local health services for
the deaths of five children in the region.
The government agency which handles indigenous affairs, Funai, had
sent two officials to Maranhao to negotiate with them.
The workers were abducted when 200 native Indians occupied part of a
railway.
The line is owned by CVRD and it is used to transport iron ore to an
Atlantic port.
In a statement, the firm condemned the abduction and said the
indigenous protest was not related to its mining activities.
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