Bob Morris @ May 23rd 2003 11:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
I’m gone (again)
I’m off to Joshua Tree National Park this weekend. I’ll be back Sun afternoon.
Mormons who went looking for a place to call home thought Joshua Trees looked like the prophet Joshua with his arms outspread. I think they may have been in the sun far too long.
Joshua Tree is a wonderful place. Yes, we Californians LIKE to 
go camping in deserts!
Bob Morris @ May 23rd 2003 09:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
Blix casts doubt on WMDs
“The chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said he was starting to suspect Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction in advance of the war on Iraq, a German newspaper reported today.
“I am obviously very interested in the question of whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction, and I am beginning to suspect there possibly were none,” Mr Blix told the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel.”
Bob Morris @ May 23rd 2003 09:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Stop the FCC
“We are barraged with advertising. Journalism has become dumbed-down entertainment. The range of news analysis and debate is shrinking along with the diversity of media ownership, placing an extraordinary degree of economic and social power in a very few hands.”
And now the FCC is poised to allow even more media consolidation. If you haven’t already contacted your representatives, use this site to do so. It’s one of dozens of websites with campaigns against the FCC vote on June 2 to permit further media consolidation.
Other sites with action campaigns include:
Common Cause
Communication Workers of America
Move On
Bob Morris @ May 23rd 2003 08:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
Howard Dean video site
“All Dean, All The Time. Howard Dean’s strategists “are hoping their all-video site will provide just the fix political news junkies crave,” Wired reports. The site is “a low-budget version of a dedicated television channel.” Meanwhile, the AP notes Dean is the first presidential candidate to raise $1 million over the Internet”
Bob Morris @ May 23rd 2003 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Whoops, sorry we scared you to death
Alberta Spruill, 57, was peacefully in her Harlem apartment on May 16. Police raided the apartment with a no-knock warrant, detonated a flash grenade, handcuffed her - and Alberta died of a heart attack.
It was the wrong apartment. The police raid was based on a phony tip from an informer. And now a completely blameless woman is dead.
“The informant who led police to burst into an innocent woman’s home in Harlem was due to be dropped from the confidential informant program because his earlier tips hadn’t panned out, a law enforcement source said yesterday.”
Let’s see if I have this correct. Police, using info from an informer they knew to be unreliable, did no further investigation, then smashed down a door, threw in a grenade, and scared someone to death. I was in NYC as this was being reported. Her neighbors said if the cops had asked neighbors about her, everyone would have said she wasn’t involved in drugs.
The type of warrant used here is truly noxious, as it allows police to break into a home without identifying themselves and without doing prior surveillance. Warrants like these are routinely approved by judges. They shouldn’t be. Warrants like this should not be allowed to exist.
Al Sharpton is calling for a serious investigation… But you figured that out already, right? You also know with Sharpton involved, this case isn’t going away any time soon either.
Bob Morris @ May 23rd 2003 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
Peaceniks, terrorists, they’re all the same to me.
A California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC) spokesperson, Mike Van Winkle, has said peace protestors arguably are engaging in terrorists acts. I am not making this up. The State of California is actually paying this paranoid loon to make comments like this.
“You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that’s being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that (protest),” said Van Winkle, of the state Justice Department. “You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act.” <I would argue that Van Winkle be allowed to sleep for 100 years so he can do no further damage to basic civil liberties>.
In fact, CATIC — touted as a national model for intelligence sharing and a centerpiece of Gov. Gray Davis and Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s 2002 re-election bids — has quietly gathered and analyzed information on activists of various stripes almost since its creation.
“They’ve done it since Day One,” said a Bay Area counterterrorism official.
Golly, that means they probably have a file on me. Imagine my excitement.
Bob Morris @ May 23rd 2003 00:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
What Bush did on 9/11
This site has an exhaustive, fully documented report on what Bush did on 9/11. They conclude with.
“There are many questions that deserve answers. So many pieces of the puzzle do not fit. Simply by reading the mainstream media reports, we can see that mere incompetence doesn’t explain what happened to Bush on that day. For instance, it makes no sense that Bush would listen to a story about a goat long after being told the US was under attack, and even after the Secret Service decided to immediately evacuate him from the school. It defies explanation that Air Force One’s fighter escort took two hours to appear. And it is mind-boggling that there are seven different versions of how Bush learned about the first crash.”
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