Further proof the 60’s are…
Bob Morris @ Dec 22nd 2002 22:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for December 22nd, 2002
Iraq to CIA, go ahead,…
Bob Morris @ Dec 22nd 2002 18:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
Iraq to CIA, go ahead, search us
US agents invited to search for weapons.
However, quickly in response came
Proof the FBI is NOT…
Bob Morris @ Dec 22nd 2002 11:24 - Category: Unfiled ;
Proof the FBI is NOT infiltrating the peace movement!
FBI warns corporate leaders of possible attacks by antiwar activists
“An email advisory from “the FBI’s Awareness of National Security Issues and Response (ANSIR) program” Dec, 4 sent to ” thousands of ‘corporate security professionals,’ warns that “a loose network of antiwar groups” opposed “to possible U.S. military action against Iraq, are advocating ‘explicit and direct attack upon the war machine.’”
According to the advisory, the week of December 15-21 has been set aside as a “week of action against warmongering.”
Damn and here I am, a council member of the Green Party of L.A. County and a volunteer at NION and ANSWER (major antiwar coalitions), and I’ve heard not a peep about this “week of action”. Nor have any of my peacenik pals.
So, either the FBI is either demonstrating spectacular incompetence by alerting corporate America to a nonexistent threat or this is - put on your conspiracy caps kids - a devious plot to cast suspicion upon peace activists. I go with the former, remembering the wise words of “Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity”.
And what triggered this FBI email warning? The article explains that it was a single posting on Infoshop, an anarchist site. That was the entire threat. One posting. With no corroboration from anyplace else. And these people are supposed to make us safe from terrorists?
All of which proves FBI could not possibly be infiltrating the peace movement. Why? Because if they’d been at NION and ANSWER meetings or surfing antiwar websites or subscribing to antiwar listservs, they’d know that a random post by one person does not a week of action make. Lordy, they can’t even figure out what the peace movement is doing, and we post everything in plain sight on the Internet. And people are expecting them to infiltrate the deeply underground Al Qaeda? Don’t hold your breath.
Actually, there IS a week of (nonviolent) resistance being planned, but that’ll be in January… We are deviously planning it in plain sight so the FBI won’t find out…
ANSWERing Bush’s biggest myths about…
Bob Morris @ Dec 22nd 2002 00:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
ANSWERing Bush’s biggest myths about Iraq
This excellent factsheet, which can be freely distributed, methodically and logically disarms ten myths about an Iraq War.
An example:
“Myth # 1: The United States has the right to wage preemptive war against Iraq.
Preemptive war is war of aggression. Under international law, a preemptive war may be justified as an act of self defense only where there exists a genuine and imminent threat of physical attack. Bush’s preemptive war against Iraq doesn’t even purport to preempt a physical attack. It purports to preempt a threat that is neither issued nor posed.” Much more
And what radical said this?
Bob Morris @ Dec 22nd 2002 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
And what radical said this?
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government. …For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.â€
Martin Luther King Jr.
Have a coke and a…
Bob Morris @ Dec 22nd 2002 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Have a coke and a smile
Coca in the Cola: The soft drink of Atlanta and the coca leaf of the Andes
“This week, Bolivia’s undersecretary of Social Defense, Ernesto Justiniano, reported that his office had authorized the exportation of 350,000 bricks (about 159 tons) of coca leaf to the United States “for the manufacturing of the soft drink, Coca-Cola.†More
German TV airs documentary charging…
Bob Morris @ Dec 22nd 2002 00:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
German TV airs documentary charging American war crimes in Afghanistan
“The US State Department has reacted angrily to the showing of a documentary on German television alleging that US soldiers were involved in war crimes in Afghanistan.
A preliminary version of the film was shown to selected audiences in Europe in June of this year, as part of an effort by Doran to prevent evidence of the massacre from being destroyed and build support for an independent war crimes inquiry. Now Doran has incorporated his original footage into a full-length documentary that presents compelling evidence of US involvement in the massacre of thousands of alleged Al Qaeda prisoners, in contravention of all international laws and standards governing the treatment of POWs.”
Germany is definitely going its own way and - rather cheerfully it seems to me - is not paying much attention to the U.S. The German Foreign Minister, their equivalent of the U.S. Sec. of State, is a Green and the most popular politician in the country. He and the Prime Minister are dead set opposed to Iraq war.
