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Because it's a Lie
by Steve Schear 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Because it's a Lie http://annoy.com/covers/doc.html?DocumentID=100027 Sung to the tune of 'Because I Got High' by Afroman Osama bin Laden's friends dropped by to say hi By taking a few little airplanes outa the sky (La da da da da da) They totaled the twin towers and I don't know why - Saw people die [repeat 3X] George W. Bush spent the day in the sky Nowhere in sight, you coulda searched low and high (La da da da da da) Karl Rove covered the coward's tracks by telling a lie - Fucking nice try [repeat 3X] Condoleeza called the press, a tear in her eye Bin Laden is sending secrets on video she said with a sigh (La da da da da da) Don't bother with the truth when it's surely better to lie - Don't ask why [repeat 3X] The networks never stopped to really ask why They wanted blood - to make sure Afghanis would fry (La da da da da da) Now they find themselves gorging on humble pie - Selling a lie [repeat 3X] The President could no longer stand it, wanted to cry Congressmen were leaking and even though his ratings were high (La da da da da da) Ari Fleischer warned the media to watch it or bullets would fly - Don't even try [repeat 3X] Rumsfeld was overseas selling pie in the sky Back in the homeland Tommy Thompson didn't know why (La da da da da da) Anthrax was sorted while congress homeward did fly - Letting them die [repeat 3X] Attorney General Ashcroft ever cunning and sly After losing elections to opponents who die (La da da da da da) Wants to eavesdrop, snoop and detain and lie - Fuck off and die [repeat 3X] Bush signed his name to it and then he got high Cheney photographed while congress idly stood by (La da da da da da) The next election we shall bid all of them bye - Eye for an eye [repeat 3X] Confusion everywhere you look as accusations fly Tom Ridge finally hired but he doesn't know why (La da da da da da) It's amusing just sitting watching him try Reign in the FBI [repeat 3X] September 11 saw towers rising up high Attacked from jet planes hijacked out of the sky (La da da da da da) October twenty six a date forever we'll cry - Because it's a Lie [repeat 3X]

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BURGLAR WATCH-A STATE OF WIDESPREAD STINK, OPPORTUNISTIC & RAMPANT THIEVERY, PLAQUE, CHAOS, BARBARISM AND LAWLESS-A GLOBAL REPORT OF BREAK & ENTER, THEFT, TREPASS, FRAUD, FABRICATION AND COLLUSION CONSPIRED BY VANCOUVER POLICE
by postautumn＠yahoo.com 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

To All Cybercitizens, The official launching date for our global broadcast: 1 November, 2000 is supposed to be a celebration marking the completion of Global Media Network. But as you're well aware, the reported break and enter, theft and other crimes committed by the City of Vancouver police which, if unchecked, have the potential to destroy human civilization. We offer our service as an impartial, fair, unbiased media. Our media network possess the power to illuminate the far corners of the globe, not for higher profits, but for higher understanding between the people of this great planet. We are proud that our media network, as its name implies, has the ability to reach every corner of the earth. We offer our declaration of principles to the men and the women, to our every brothers and sisters in the planet whom we humbly serve. We promise to report the news without fear or favor, to be a force for good in this world, fighting injustice, crushing intolerance, battling inhumanity, striking a blow for freedom at every turn. These are the goals of Global Media Network. Join us and visit our official web site at http://www.geocities.com/movehand44 Global Media Network proudly presents REVIEW OF ONE OF THE TOP NEWS OF THIS MILLENNIUM:- BURGLAR WATCH-A STATE OF WIDESPREAD STINK, OPPORTUNISTIC & RAMPANT THIEVERY, PLAQUE, CHAOS, BARBARISM AND LAWLESS-A GLOBAL REPORT OF BREAK & ENTER, THEFT, TREPASS, FRAUD, FABRICATION AND COLLUSION CONSPIRED BY VANCOUVER POLICE ENACTMENT OF THE INCIDENTS [DETAILS PROVIDED BY THE VICTIM]: On 6 June, 94. the victim went out at 2:30 p.m. from his apartment. When he gone back at 2:37 p.m. he discovered that both his apartment and his bedroom were broken and entered. He discovered that his newly bought hi-fi components (bought at A & B Sound) and forty CDs (costed CAD$2,000) were stolen from his bedroom. When he reported the crimes to the police woman badge # 9082, who admitted the fact of surveillance two years afterwards in 1996, she behaved very arrogant. She purposely hanged up the phone several times in order to aggravate him. Being alerted of constant harassment, out of suspicion, in 21 September, 96, at 6:00 p.m., the victim confirmed with the same police woman badge # 9082 via 911 that the Vancouver police had placed the audio and video surveillance devices inside his apartment. She refused to remove them and asked him to remove them. The Vancouver police were very familiar with the environment inside the apartment. In other words, the Vancouver police specificially targeted at the victim's properties that were located at his bedroom and knew exactly when the residents inside left the apartment. When the residents left the apartment on 6 June 1994, at 2:30 p.m., the Vancouver police sneaked into his apartment, stolen his properties and left within a minutes. In July, 96, he called the Vancouver police in 320 Main Street, Vancouver, a male police who had sneaky remarks (about twenty something years old, caucasian) lied that the former chief constable Ray Canuel was in Atlanta, Georgia so that he could not handle the complaint. Afterwards, he sent a letter to Ray Canuel (deceased of cancer) in the same month without hearing any response. He then presented the complaint in person directly to the assistant to Ray Canuel. The assistant deceived him that the Vancouver police wouldl respond to his complaint three weeks later. The complaint aroused the police's revenge. Two polices without search and arrest warrant trespassed his apartment in Feb., 97. One caucasian police opened his complaint letter which was originally sealed without his consent and he was falsely arrested by the two polices. One of the police were a Chinese who were about 5"6, 160 lb., black and short hair. Another police were a caucasian who were about 6"2, gray and long hair whir covered his trim, gray-blue eyes, about 220 lb.. Both polices were thirty something years old. The latter one misrepresented and called himself as former Chief Constable Ray Canuel (deceased). The two polices committed trespass and false arrest. The fact that Vancouver police are morally corruptive makes no difference to his efforts. When the victim filed the complaint through other formal channels three years afterward, i.e. 1999, he received a fabricated letter from Sergeant Mike Bernard, Office of the Chief Constable, Internal Investigation Section, Vancouver Police Department dated 20 May, 99, falsifyinging that police badge #581 Dave Turpin, Tony Zanatta had conducted the investigations. Indeed, they never contacted him nor take any report. Given the Vancouver police are coercive that they collude with every party the victim seeks help from or affiliates with. When the victim booked an appointment with a security company, APC Security in Burnaby, B.C., to do a further sweep on his apartment, the Vancouver police colluded with the company not to show up at the appointment on 26 July, 99. Similar circumstances happened for Brian Brown & Associates INC, owner: Brian; operator: Laurie. Ph. (604) 2912121. The Vancouver police colluded with Brian and solicited him to defraud the victim debugging fees. During the appointment, Brian pretended in front of the victim that he was an outsider. Brian spent most of the time looking at the manuel. Most of all, Brian failed to provide a receipt upon request. Besides, on 6 Aug., 99, the Vancouver police called the property manager of Crosby Property Management Ltd. to follow him when he walked to the garden. The property manager purposely aggravated him and tried to fight with him. The property manager asked him to complain to the management (instead of the police complaint authorities) so that they can cover up the conspiracies.... Extreme and harsh measures must be deployed to curb these police crimes, brutalities and abuse. Getting the attention of legistative representatives is the first powerful step. The existing Canadian civil rights are not extensive enough to protect law abiding elements of the society. Additional chapters must be provided that detailly outlines whatever civil and criminal penalties that would incur to police(s) who commits crimes/ infringes rights of legal abiding citizens. Who could ask for more?! It is amazing what Vancouver tax payers will patronize. Vancouver polices are not what "civilians" meant to be. It is terribly sad to see that these people are called "law enforcement officials." The law of Canada is well established. It is, when really enforced, great! Bluntly, Vancouver polices were not even qualified as "servants", regarding them as "dogs" was done just as a courtesy. They are what can be found in garbage depot, sorry excuse for these people who are calling themselves "civil servants"! In contrast, there are several cities in North America, e.g. New York (during the 11th Sept. horror attacks), where good examples of the real "civilians" can be found. Any feedback can be addressed to Chief Constable Terry Blythe of Vancouver Police Department at vpdlmail(a)vpd.city.vancouver.bc.ca. By the way, please join our global action together with ALL media and ALL political leaders ALL over the world that have received our attention. Global Media Network 1448 Fir White Rock, V4B 4B4 info(a)globalmedianetwork.org

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Ratbags with matches light a fire under the Bushes.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

"Every year we get some ratbags who get their kicks out of this. We can't be everywhere. People should be very careful and vigilant for people acting suspiciously. "We don't care if it's someone doing something legitimate -- let us investigate that." Vehicle descriptions, registration numbers or descriptions of people acting suspiciously could be invaluable in arson investigations, Det-Insp Cooney said. An arsonist was responsible for the deadly Dandenong Ranges blazes of 1997, which claimed three lives and destroyed 41 homes. The killer has not been caught but Det-Insp Cooney said that crime might have been solved with the kind of scraps of information witnesses may have thought insignificant. Firebugs start hundreds of blazes throughout the state each summer but charges are only laid over a small fraction. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,3449387%255E1702,… Former police jailed for perjury From AAP 17dec01 TWO former NSW police officers have been jailed for lying over an incident where a group of young men were forced to run a gauntlet of police batons. Christine Gay Fish, 36, was found guilty by a jury of one count of perjury and John Gordon Swan, 52, of two counts in October after a trial in the NSW District Court. Today acting Judge Donald Stewart condemned the pair, saying that a policeman or woman committing perjury "strikes at the very heart of justice". "If this is police culture, it's disgusting and wrong and the sooner this message goes out the better," he said. "Police should not be allowed to think perjury is a minor peccadillo." Judge Stewart jailed Fish for 20 months, with a non-parole period of 12 months. Swan also was jailed for 20 months, with a non-parole period of 12 months, on each count to be served cumulatively. The court was told the charges related to court appearances involving one of a group of nine young men who in 1990 were forced to run a gauntlet of batons at Kings Cross police station following "near riot" at nearby Darlinghurst Road. The incident emerged at the royal commission into police corruption. Judge Stewart said the men were "severely assaulted in a cowardly and reprehensible manner". He said police executed "severe and summary punishment" against the men for vengeance. Swan and Fish then lied in court to protect their mates over the incident. Another officer involved in the incident, David John Langton, pleaded guilty to perjury and assault charges. He was sentenced last month to two years' jail on two perjury counts, to be served cumulatively. 16dec01 THE ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission has revealed details of an investigation into theft and drug dealing by a group of WA police officers. The case is one of a number highlighted in the ACC's annual report, released this week. It involved three detectives accused of stealing about 1000 morphine tablets from a Kalgoorlie disabled pensioner in 1998 and trying to sell the drugs. The officers had heard about the stockpile of narcotics through an informant and went to the pensioner's home. "Searching the house, the officers found the narcotics, counted them, took some and departed," the ACC report said. When the pensioner reported the theft two constables went to his home to investigate. Soon after, two of the accused detectives arrived. "They then took over, sent the constables away and kept the incomplete offence report that one of the constables had begun preparing," the ACC found. The ACC searched houses and businesses linked to the officers in several WA locations and found "unexplained sums of money, both in cash and deposited in bank accounts . . . in the possession of the officers." The ACC supplied an informant with $18,000 to buy the drugs from the allegedly corrupt police officers, but the sting operation fell apart when the informant stole most of the "buy" money. The informant was charged and received a suspended jail sentence in October last year. A brief was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, but no charges have been laid against the officers. However, Police Commissioner Barry Matthews decided to sack the detectives, saying he had lost confidence in them. Police Union president Mike Dean said the three officers maintained their innocence and were awaiting the outcome of an Industrial Relations Commission appeal against their sackings. A separate case investigated by the ACC last year involved allegations that WA police officers were involved in two murders and had been compromised by a bikie gang which had videotaped officers using drugs and having sex. The man making the allegations was registered as an informant and located to a "safe house". He signed a 22-page statement, then refused to co-operate any further and the ACC concluded that the allegations could not be substantiated. -- Subject: Arson around Police car hit in fire attack By CAMERON SMITH 29dec01 A POLICE car was damaged after it was torched in Melton early yesterday. At 2.15am, a watch-house keeper noticed an unusual glow outside of the building on one of the station's security cameras. Sgt Simon Payne said officers went outside to investigate and found one of their marked sedans engulfed in flames. "The flames on the bonnet were 2m high," he said. "Three members came out with fire extinguishers and were able to put the fire out." Police found a bucket by the car, which is thought to have contained fuel for the fire. Police are expected to view video tapes from a nearby service station in the search for clues. The police car will also undergo forensic testing.Professor rat,who lives less than an hour away on motorbike was asked to comment and denied any link to that..."exceptional piece of work"

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Hammer attack on ex-Intel operative.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Tim May reacts to real anarchists much like dracula does to garlic,thinking of you Timmy,you racist jerk.You die soon. http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ > From: <PhillyARA(a)aol.com> As many of you may or may not be aware, the white supremacist group, World Church of the Creator and their leader Matt Hale will be coming to the Martin Library in York, Pa on January 12th. For more info on the WCOTC please visit: http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/creator.htm The WCOTC is notorious for picking a town with a present or past racial conflict and exploiting the situation to gain new members. This time they are coming to York, Pa because of a race riot that took place in 1969 where a black woman was killed in a hail of gunfire by white youths. The mayor, who at the time was a cop, is being charged with inciting white youths to "kill niggers." Months before the Sept 11th incident, Anti Fascists across North America had noticed a distinct upswing in fascist organization and activity. After Sept 11th, many fascist groups began exploiting the attack to their own advantage and have actually had a dramatic increase in their ranks. Compared to the same time last year, the National Alliance membership has more than doubled! Here in Philly and the surrounding areas, we have seen the effects of this growth. National Alliance stickers started appearing in racially mixed, working class neighborhoods in northeast Philly. Philly Anti Racist Action tore down most of the stickers and put up ARA stickers in their place. A bonehead by the name of Keith Carney was arrested in front of a Vietnam war memorial while he, along with 10 other fascists were putting up National Alliance stickers. Over the summer, Hammer "skins" held a show in Harrisburg, PA with over 100 boneheads in attendance. In recent months, National Alliance affiliated boneheads and Hammer "skins" have been spotted at every major venue, punk show in the city. A table with anti racist literature was kicked over by boneheads at a punk show in Dillsburg, PA. A few months ago, 2 boneheads were arrested in South Jersey for breaking into a black couple's home and beating them with baseball bats while they slept. Attacks have also occurred in Baltimore outside of shows. To put it simply, shit is getting out of hand! Another alarming fact is that fascists such as the National Alliance have been able to mobilize nearly the same amount of people to their demos as Anti Fascists. In Wallingford, CT, the World Church mobilized not only people from their own ranks but klansmen, hammer "skins", and other fascist groups as well. This should be a wake up call to Anti Fascists everywhere. The fascists are crawling out of their caves and from under their stones. We must be there to greet the World Church, pick up the stones, and send them running. Matt Hale cannot be allowed to have a platform to spew his racist filth and divide the working class. Keep the fascists on the run and never let them have the streets! Join us on January 12th! Please forward this to all anti authoritarian groups. More info to follow.... So far this call to action is being endorsed by Philly ARA, Columbus ARA, Barricada Collective, and Tute Nere. If your group would like to endorse this action please contact Philly ARA. For now you can contact Philly ARA at: Email: Philly_ARA @yahoo.com Phone: 215-727-0882 box #3 Columbus ARA can be contacted at: Email: aracolumbus(a)hotmail.com Phone: 614-596-7677 Corralitos East,curt Saxon meet fellow caveman dick Cheney... "It has become crystal clear that the West in general, led by the United States, are full of hatred against Crypto-anarchy Hatred cannot be defined," It's embodied though in the dick May's and Tim Cheneys. Cheney's hiding in a cave, too--in Penn. December 20, 2001 BY DENNIS B. RODDY WAYNESBORO, Pa.--Three hours after Osama bin Laden turned the Pentagon into a disaster area, five helicopters touched down a few hundred yards from Hal Neill's house at the base of Raven Rock Mountain along the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Within minutes, a convoy of SUVs with black-tinted windows zoomed up Harbaugh Valley Road, turned left, and deposited the weight of the free world inside Site R, the inexplicably named city-in-a-mountain from which the Pentagon has operated and, from all indications Vice President Cheney has directed his office in the days since the Sept. 11 attacks. Site R, with its six-stories of underground offices, a subterranean water reservoir, and banks of mysterious antennas, dishes and massive, steel doors, has been a designated backup command center since it was hewn out of the mountain in 1951. For decades, Site R's presence was a village secret, barely acknowledged to outsiders and attracting little outside interest in turn. ''There are four entrances, but I've only ever been able to find three of them,'' said Neill, as he stood in his back yard, looking over at the guard station next to two oversize metal doors in the hillside. Six military men in sweatsuits jogged their way down the driveway and back up again. ''They weren't doing that before the attacks,'' Neill said. ''Now they're working out.'' The tidy equilibrium of rural life has been upended. ''Day and night, you hear the airplanes,'' said Bonnie Wolfe, whose model railroad shop sits below the flight path of the military jets and helicopters that intermittently pass by, usually unseen, inevitably heard.

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Mushroom clouds over Cali.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

The curt saxon of carralitos tries to keep cypherpunks in the dark and fed on BS. Buffer the overflow slayer has been called in to stake the ugly mother. http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ News from the Farm Worker Movement(www.ufw.org): For 14 years, workers at Picksweet Mushroom Farms in Ventura County north of Los Angeles have tried to negotiate a United Farm Workers contract. Picksweet has ignored its workers desires and violated a host of state labor laws. * A detailed nine-count complaint issued on June 26, 2001 by prosecutors with California's Agricultural Labor Relations Board cited Picksweet for bad faith bargaining and illegally conspiring to get rid of the union. * Pictsweet was recently fined $7,475 by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division for safety violations at its Salem plant. One of them caused Enrique Diaz Lupian, 46, to lose his right hand in an accident. Other workers in both Oregon and California have been disciplined or fired for supporting unions. * On Sept. 4, 2001, the state of California filed another complaint against Picksweet for firing Ventura, Calif. mushroom worker Fidel Andrade because he exercised his right to organize and support the UFW. Conditions at Picksweet in Ventura are cruel and dangerous. Mushroom workers labor in dark and damp rooms. Floors are slippery. They only have the lights on their helmets to guide them. Many suffer vision problems. Such conduct is why workers have called for a boycott of Picksweet mushrooms. Picksweet has lost many major customers, including Vons and Safeway supermarkets, and Pizza Hut restaurants. Picksweet workers ask consumers to help them ensure Vons and Safeway continue to keep Picksweet mushrooms off their shelves until a union contract with the Ventura, Calif. plant is signed. Email Vons and Safeway today! Go to http://www.ufw.org/ufw/e-mail.htm and send your e-mail today! For more information on the Farm Worker Movement visit our web site at http://www.ufw.org and/or subscribe to the Farm Worker Movement list serve by sending an e-mail to UFW-subscribe(a)topica.com. To unsubscribe send an e-mail to: UFW-unsubscribe(a)topica.com. AND Scotland Yard probes A-tests By CHRISTINE MIDDAP in London 29dec01 SCOTLAND Yard has launched a criminal investigation into Britain's atomic bomb tests on Christmas Island off Australia's northwest coast in the 1950s. The inquiry centres on claims from the widow of British RAF pilot Eric Denson that military chiefs ordered him to fly his plane through a mushroom cloud several times to collect radioactive samples for scientists in 1958. More than 22,000 British servicemen were involved in, or witnessed, 21 atomic bomb tests in Australia, Christmas Island and other Pacific Islands between 1952 and 1958, according to a report in British newspaper The Guardian. The police inquiry will look at whether it was legal for military chiefs to order Mr Denson to fly through the radioactive cloud. His widow, Shirley, claims the British Government knowingly and maliciously exposed her husband to deadly levels of radiation, which ultimately led to his death. Mr Denson, who developed chronic respiratory and psychological illnesses, committed suicide in 1976. He told his father that as he battled to control the plane in the powerful mushroom cloud, the Tennyson lines: "Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell," kept going through his mind. Electrical fitter Ken Sutton, now dead, said in a statement that he took recordings from the radioactively "hot" plane the day after Mr Denson's flight. He said in a statement that he was scared to death of the radiation: "You couldn't see it, you couldn't smell it, you couldn't touch it or anything, but you knew damn well it was a killer," he said. Other servicemen have told of their horror at witnessing a nuclear explosion on Christmas Island. Royal Engineers sapper Ken McGinley, then aged 20, said he and others were ordered to sit on a beach before the April 1958 explosion and jam their fists into their eyes. But when he heard the blast he opened his eyes and saw the bones of his hands light up like an X-ray. "The noise was deafening, like a thousand horses thundering towards you. The man next to me broke down and cried," he told The Guardian. The servicemen were ordered not to reveal any information about the tests, but their resolve fractured by the 1980s when they started to develop illnesses and cancers believed to have been caused by the tests The plutonium is in the post Tim.boil away.

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Re: Western Culture,
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Brilliant post jya,Kudo's,props,major props(wtf are they,anyway?) A cypherpunk first among sequals.I salute you. The following is an extract on the pitfalls of paternalistic western racist culture and how the united snakes is going down slow.(Rome wasn't burned in a day.) Subject: The twice promised lands The sheer Machiavellian hypocrisy of the Kashmir partition is perfectly well documented. Britain, speaking through Viceroy of India Mountbatten, made a fine proclamation in 1947 : the rulers of princely states should decide about accession to India or Pakistan keeping in mind the geographical situation of their states, ethnic composition of the population and wishes of the people. People on both sides of the religious divide welcomed this principle joyfully and were counting on it in deciding where to live. Then, unexpectedly, at the intervention of Jawahar Lal Nehru (a Kashmiri pandit and a paramour of Lady Mountbatten!) Britain reversed her decision in a matter of 3 days in August 1947, and divided up the Punjab state by giving several Muslim majority districts to India. This violation gave India a border with Kashmir, an invasion route into it, and caused about half a million deaths and 16 million refugees as people scrambled to get onto the right side of the changed border. [1] Kashmir was booby-trapped by the British in 1846, not 1946, in the Treaty of Amritsar wherein England ceded this 80% Muslim land to a Hindu dynasty. Previously, the Moguls were rulers over northern India, so that a Muslim ruler often had Hindu subjects. In 1947, only three out of 562 princes who were of a different religion from their subjects were reluctant to accede to the nation their people desired. Two were Hindu states with Muslim princes, which India simply invaded and annexed with British consent. In the case of Muslim Kashmir, on the contrary, or should we say consistently with millennial Western anti-Muslim policy, Britain and India plotted an intrigue to absorb this gem and important water source into India.[2] 60,000 Muslims had returned home to Kashmir after distinguished fighting for Britain against the Germans. In gratitude, they were banned from the Kashmiri Army, which was manned instead with Hindus and Sikhs imported from India. In Summer 1947 the Hindu Maharajah of Kashmir started a provocative campaign of oppression, banning pro-Pakistani newspapers, applying onerous new taxes and burning down villages. When the inevitable insurrection started, the Maharajah, Pandit Nehru, Lord Mountbatten and Clement Attlee executed a rapid-fire, obviously prepared charade to sanctify an Indian invasion. Nehru promised the world that the attack had nothing to do with annexation, but only with maintaining law and order. Mountbatten issued a pearl of neo-imperialistic hypocritical prose which is worth study, to help recognize the genre as you unravel the ceaseless spin in todays media: As soon as law and order have been restored in Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invader, the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the people. Meanwhile action has been taken today to send troops of the Indian Army to Kashmir.[3] See the pattern? A high ideal is couched in terms of the impossible fulfillment - law and order could never be restored once the Indian invasion started, and the so-called invaders to be cleared of the soil were the sons and tillers of that very soil! Simultaneously, with words shouting louder than a revivalist preacher, acts and facts hit the ground. Britain invaded Kashmir with Indian troops. And for fifty-four years she picks her royal nose and looks on like it was none of her affair! The same sick warp pervades the UN and international opinion fora. Reuters baldly datelines stories from Srinagar, India in the revolt-racked Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir - even though India needs 700,000 troops to hold onto these Muslim provinces, which Nehru promised never to annex when he and his cuckold buddy Mountbatten invaded them. What look like olive leaves on the UN seal really come from a fig tree. UN resolution #48 from 1948 calls for Pakistan to remove irregular guerrillas BEFORE India removes its regular army - although Kashmir is Pakistani by British and International rules, and the irregulars may or may not be from outside Kashmir: they are just a convenient red herring. Such conscience-numbing mumbo-jumbo resolutions are merely a guarantee of eternal military occupation, a license for progressive ethnic cleansing and eventual complete absorption by non-Muslim invaders. Sound like the broken record we all know from Palestine? Until Arafat keeps all kids indoors, Israel may continue to occupy, annex, oppress and make refugees of the Muslim majority. Britains comment on it: What, me, worry? Our American colonies will see the wogs off the property. Britain is only playing dead. She remains the all-time master of propaganda warfare (remember the Belgian kids with their hands cut off by the Germans on the phony posters that helped get US into WWI?) It is well within her means either to take direct military action, as she did in the Falklands, or to mobilize a military and diplomatic coalition to set matters to rights in two countries she ruined, Palestine and Kashmir. The will is lacking. Why? Hmm. The West singled out the Muslim world long ago as Enemy Number One, and has made this a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are many aspects to this. In the Western subconscious, there is the memory of the Crusades and the defeat by Saladin. Further back, Christianity has a guilty conscience: it swapped monotheistic purity for power and pagan lore, only to be crushed by the fall of Rome, and eclipsed by the glory of Islamic faith, culture and science for centuries. It was a millennium later that a materialist - fundamentalist Europe picked itself up on arms and technology and avenged itself on the planet. The Islamic axis, extending from Morocco to Indonesia, lay athwart the playground of world empire, blocking the Suez and Central Asian passages to India. In 1840, when Britain fought a war to force Chinamen to remain impassive consumers of Indian opium from British ships, she also eliminated the upstart Ahmed Pasha in Egypt, who had dared to industrialize and start the process of Arab unity by joining with Syria. Then the Afghans could not be subdued, the Sudanese dervishes broke the British square, and Muslims often revealed a dangerous immunity to Western consumerism. Something scary about these Mohamedans. Enough to bury the hatchet with any enemy that goes in with us against them. Start by giving those shiftless Jews Palestine and some useful work to do by splitting the Muslim world in half: even though it took half of the 19th century for Britains skunk works to interest the Jews in the scheme - and about half a minute to get the world to forget who dreamed up the fatal idea! Give Vladimir Putsch - in a hand with genocide in Chechnya and a seat in NATO as an ally against Islam. Why not, we have an infallible precedent from the 13th century, when the Pope called Genghiz Khan brother for his services in bathing Muslim Asia in babies blood. Mah fellow fundamentalists, know today that Whoever is not with McWorld is against it. Indifference will not be tolerated, certainly not from a religion of peace! The US-UK policy has been largely successful. Muslim nations remain bitterly divided. They cant even manufacture their own weapons, by Jove. Aside from a few hysterically unstable regimes (neat label, that R-word), plutocratic neo-imperialism is the rule: you know, old boy, sort of mercantilist remote control, with some of your local figurehead Oreos on the take. Yes, the West is a thundering success by its own measures - but humanity will be a failure if those measures become universal. That is the only reason to hope: this can not be Gods plan, or Darwins, whomever you believe in. Meanwhile, though, the massed mammon worshippers have been rewarded by their deity with all the appearances of a comfortably superior position. After detailing the tale of Britains responsibility, one Pakistani writer only musters the courage to modestly propose: To rid the 1200 million humanity (India and Pakistan) of its miseries caused by a wrong act of British Indian Government, Britain should now use her influence in the world and in the Common Wealth, and support/launch initiatives in a meaningful manner for seeking a just solution of the Kashmir problem.[4] But Britain is not about to do this when she can sit and smirk by the hearth instead. Kashmiris, Palestinians and their representatives should file complaints and suits against Britain in every possible world forum, and at least wipe away that snide sneer for awhile. Deviousness is no defense in criminal cases. On the contrary. Even in England, mind you. Notes: [1]. http://www.unol.org/messages/17765.shtml [2]. http://www.klc.org.pk/klc/books/kashmir-3.htm [3]. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kasmount.htm [4]. http://www.unol.org/messages/17765.shtml Mr. John-Paul Leonard is a free-lance writer and a regular contributor to Media Monitors Network (MMN) Source: by courtesy & ) 2001 John-Paul Leonard by the same author: The Twice Promised Land http://www.mediamonitors.net/leonard1.html and More in MMN 'Perspective' @ http://www.mediamonitors.net/perspective.html

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Kidnap jerk and lift.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,3505834%255E2862,… ransom demand for student By ELISSA HUNT, Magistrates' Court reporter 29dec01 A WEIGHTLIFTER helped snatch a student from his home in a $1.5 million kidnapping plot, a court has heard. Robert Fernandez, 25, is accused of grabbing the 21-year-old from his suburban driveway on March 3 this year. A 10-month investigation by the tactical response squad has seen several men charged with kidnapping the student and holding him hostage for 15 days, in a bid to get $1.5 million in ransom from his widowed mother. Sen-Det Phil Gynther told Melbourne Magistrates' Court phone conversations indicated Mr Fernandez was employed to assault a Cranbourne accountant by breaking his legs in August 1999. The former bouncer was asked by another man to "sort out" a person who owed him $130,000, the court heard. Sen-Det Gynther said the kidnapping victim described one of his attackers as a big man with a ponytail. He was later taken to a weightlifting competition in St Kilda where he identified Mr Fernandez, who was a competitor. The student was shocked with an electrical device and bundled into a car by several men on March 3. The court heard he was hooded, bound with cable ties and left in a garage before being moved to a house, where he was held for a week. He was later moved from motel to motel by his kidnappers, who brought him takeaway food. The abductors made about 37 ransom demands of the student's family, first asking for $1.5 million but later dropping their price to $800,000. Police freed the student after 15 days. Businessman Alex Yang Su, 33, and Shaun Goerlitz, 29, are in custody over the kidnapping. Sen-Det Gynther said he feared Mr Fernandez, an architectural draughtsman, would try to flee the country. Sen-Det Gynther said evidence indicated Mr Fernandez's role was as part of the snatch team and he did not take part in the ransom demands. Defence lawyer Steven Pica said his client had no prior convictions and needed to be able to continue working. Magistrate Barbara Cotterell refused bail and remanded Mr Fernandez in custody to appear at the same court on March 25. Wonder if the curt Saxon of corralitos has any close relatives in the compound?

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VANGUARD: Actions Have Consequences: or, How to Advance Your Beliefs By Helping a Candidate (fwd)
by Jim Choate 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:41:15 -0800 From: "TheVanguard.org" <Vanguard(a)theVanguard.org> To: "TheVanguard.org" <Vanguard(a)theVanguard.org> Subject: VANGUARD: Actions Have Consequences: or, How to Advance Your Beliefs By Helping a Candidate [EDITOR'S NOTE: In honor of the approaching election year, we take this opportunity to distribute the following article by Rod D. Martin, founder and chairman of Vanguard PAC.] ========================== Vanguard of the Revolution http://www.theVanguard.org ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: or, How to Advance Your Beliefs By Helping a Candidate by Rod D. Martin � 27 March 2001 Conservatives forever complain about their political leaders. But they don�t do a lot about it. Liberals (or more precisely, Leftists) are quite different. Coming as they do mostly from distinct interest groups possessing activist political cultures and a sense of victimization (be they unionized workers, civil rights activists, feminists or whomever), leftists grow up on a steady diet not only of ideas, but of the strategies and tactics necessary to win. From cradle to grave, they look to the state as a sort of political savior, and they learn early how to get from it what they want. By contrast, conservatives do not and never have thought in these terms. Generally, conservatives just want to be left alone, and see government as a necessary evil, nothing more. Their lives focus elsewhere: business, church, family, civic groups, almost anywhere but politics. They see political activity not as a perpetual opportunity to gain advantages, but as an arena where (every so often) they must defend themselves from the latest government encroachment. This difference in culture is staggering, and accounts for much of the Left�s success in the 20th Century. Conservatives do not think politically; Liberals do. And while the Left hones its strategies and tactics year after year � spread across millions of individual people and thousands of institutions � conservatives wake up periodically, notice there�s an election, expend a little half-hearted effort, and go back to sleep. Because of this relative detachment, conservatives demonstrate a remarkably persistent naivet�. Not only do they rarely understand the system (or what the Left has done and continues to do to them); they also subscribe year after year to the Sir Galahad theory of politics: "our ideas will win because our hearts are pure." This foolishness costs their movement not only elections but innumerable volunteers (and donors) every year, good men and women who cannot understand why their sheer rightness has not persuaded and conquered all. Meanwhile, the Left marches on. The hard truth is, however wonderful our ideas may be, it is not those ideas but the actions they inspire which have consequences in the real world.1 And all those whiney conservatives, waiting for Trent Lott (or whomever) to effortlessly give them their hearts� desires, are getting exactly what they deserve. The concept is as old as the Bible: those who do not work, shall not eat. INFLUENCE AND POWER At times almost despite themselves, conservatives over the past generation have come to hold tremendous influence. They have also held some power. The confusion of these concepts has lead to much needless consternation. In Morton Blackwell�s words, "Power means you can make things happen. Influence means that those with power will return your telephone calls and seriously consider what you suggest. Only those with power govern." The aim of any political movement is power, power for the purpose of implementing the movement�s beliefs. All the influence in the world will not replace this power. In the 1990s, many conservatives became highly disillusioned with their leaders, who seemed to constantly compromise. They failed to understand that though Republicans held the Congress, conservatives were still a minority. They had gained tremendous influence, but only a share of the power. Having a seat at the table, they could dicker, but they could not dictate. They needed numbers. There�s only one way they will ever get those numbers: they must elect more conservatives. Not Republicans; conservatives. This is no slap at the Republican Party: it is simply a recognition that the two ideas are not synonymous, however much overlap there may be, and that if conservatives want that to change, they�ll have to work for that too. Furthermore, it�s a statement that the party primary often matters a great deal; and that � as the Left has always known � the political cycle is year-round, every year. In that never-ending fight, it is the candidates who go out to do battle, who bleed and sweat and die for your beliefs. And at the end of the day, they � and only they � will have a chance to make and execute the laws. Most people will never be candidates. At most they will only have influence (which is certainly not to be despised), and many won�t even have that. But they can give their ideas power � and exercise a measure of power themselves � by working hard for a candidate who shares their views. In fact, there is absolutely no more effective way than this by which the average person may bring about meaningful political change. SO WHAT CAN I DO? The question for many, therefore, becomes: "So what can I do? And what could I possibly offer." The answer is, "Quite a lot!" For all the talk of big money in politics, the truth is that most campaigns are run on shoestrings, with the lion�s share of what cash there might be going to television ads at the very end, leaving all the real work to be done on almost nothing. Nowhere is this more true than in a challenger race, where a (usually semi-unknown) candidate tries to make headway against everything the other party can throw at him, and often everything his own party can throw at him too (this is not a criticism: parties shouldn�t just give away their nomination, after all). This is usually your candidate (we�re trying to gain seats, after all): tired, broke and pummeled from all sides. Yes, there�s quite a lot you can do for this candidate. Even a handful of truly faithful people could change his world, and the outcome of the election. Speaking as a former (and future) candidate for the U.S. House, I submit the following items you can and should do for the standard-bearer of your choice. The list is not exhaustive, but it will keep you both busy and effective. 1. PICK A CANDIDATE. With all due respect to those wonderful men and women who yearly work in support of every candidate in sight, there remains great wisdom in Christ�s words that no one can serve two masters. The average volunteer has neither time nor mental energy for more than one race, at least not beyond a superficial level. Hence, if you don�t pick one candidate on whom to focus, you will do a bad job for everyone, and advance the cause very little. Picking a candidate is a matter of taste: who excites you, who believes most like you, who is running for an office you care about, who is running against someone you really want defeated. The issue is not whether you throw yourself wholeheartedly into a campaign for Congress or for Justice of the Peace; rather, the issue is whether you pick one and follow through. Finally, make your choice early and stick like glue. The early phases of a campaign are generally its most tenuous, with limited support, little or no money, and the most overwhelming task of all: getting noticed and breaking out of the pack. Likewise, later on, the campaign will certainly face any number of challenges, from run-away success (which often leads to complacency and defeat) to persistently low polling numbers (which are often misleading, but run away crucial support) to crippling allegations (which may or may not be true) to internal incompetence or strife among the volunteers or staff. Murphy�s Law was specifically written for political campaigns, and you need to be there through thick and thin, working like everything depended on you. When the smoke clears, and hordes of others have fallen away, it may just turn out that everything did. 2. PICK THE RIGHT CANDIDATE. Since you�re going to be working so hard and so long for this person, you really need to pick well from the start. Again, this is a matter of taste; and yet most conservatives have very specific ideological views they want their candidates to share, and insofar as possible this should be determined up front. This is not to say that the candidate owes you limitless time; neither is it to say that you have a right to treat him rudely or "examine" him like a professor. But if he�s written extensively (and some candidates have), read what he�s written. Call him on the phone or email him: some candidates respond very well to this. If he�s reasonably accessible, feel free to ask him to dinner (and buy his dinner: he�s broke. He�s giving up all his time, income and personal savings to work around the clock for you). Don�t get offended if he�s not available, either (and expect to be passed to a scheduler): he has a family, possibly a job, and literally thousands if not millions of other people also seeking his time. If worse comes to worst, you can usually speak with him at or after political meetings or speeches. But somehow, get to know him, not necessarily like you know your best friend, but well enough to determine whether you think he�s a good guy, whether you trust him, and whether you want to see him win. When the chips are down, these feelings and impressions may make the difference between victory and defeat. 3. CUT HIM SOME SLACK. Once you�ve picked him, remember that the candidate is human, just like you. You make mistakes, you sometimes fail to think before you speak, you don�t always know everything about everything, and every now and then you do something really wrong. So does your candidate. Take it for granted. Now admittedly, if the candidate turns out to be an axe-murderer, you might want to re-think your support. But short of that, it�s important to be very realistic: just as when you married, you picked this guy for better or worse, and you know on the front end he�s going to have unseen warts. Bailing at the first sign of trouble � or at the first policy disagreement � is not only bad form, it�s cowardly. And if you�re looking for a candidate who perfectly reflects your own views, go run yourself. Now of course, you may certainly seek to educate your candidate: maybe he just doesn�t understand, or hasn�t ever thought about what you believe, or is getting bad advice. Look for an opportunity to politely, concisely and effectively present your side. But don�t take it personally if you fail to convince him: you may well do so later, and even if you don�t, if you picked him in the first place, chances are that disagreements on one or two issues are nothing compared to all the things about which you agree. 4. GIVE MONEY, EVEN IF IT�S ONLY A LITTLE. No matter what you can or cannot give, this matters, more than you know. And the earlier you give, the more it matters. Everyone knows that campaigns run on money; what they don�t always grasp is that a successful candidate must spend at least half his time just raising that cash. Challengers have a special problem, in that the people who can most help them judge their viability by how much they raise early, and from how many different donors they raise it. Your $25 check is a vital part of building the support your candidate needs from so-called "major donors", from the party committees in Washington, from potential endorsers, and from the media. It will also buy about 167 desperately-needed bulk-rate stamps. Obviously, it is essential that you give as much as you can. Far fewer people are giving than you think, and your candidate is spending enormous time (and money) reaching them. Your early help will make his work easier, more effective, and more concentrated on actual campaigning. Oh, and one other thing: if a candidate tells you he�s in a financial crisis, don�t just assume it�s a sales pitch. It�s almost always true. 5. LET THE CAMPAIGN KNOW YOU�RE AVAILABLE, AND FIND OUT WHAT IT NEEDS. As important as money is, nothing you can give is so valuable as your time; and the campaign could never pay enough people to replace its better volunteers. Be one. How do you do this? Call the campaign and let them know you want to help. Below I will give some specific ideas which you should offer (the campaign does not always know what it needs, since it�s almost always understaffed and under-funded); however, you should also make yourself generally available, and be open to the specific requests the campaign may make. Who do I mean when I say "the campaign"? There�s no one answer. It could be a campaign manager, a volunteer coordinator, a scheduler, the candidate himself, or any number of other people. And it may well shift from week to week. Don�t let this daunt you. Just go with the flow, and be patient. If you�ve offered yourself and the campaign hasn�t gotten back with you, politely offer again, and again: chances are, you�ve gotten lost in an almost impossible shuffle (and if you have time and organization ability, this may be your cue to volunteer as an office manager). Don�t be foolishly offended by the chaos that characterizes every campaign. Instead, view it as an opportunity to make a desperately needed difference. 6. HOST AN EVENT. More than anything else, candidates need exposure and money. Kill two birds with one stone and host a coffee (or something bigger). Nothing is as important as these events, whereby you bring your candidate and your friends together. The friends will come for your sake; the candidate will gain credibility with them because of you; and if you pass the plate, you�ll raise some money, all for the cost of some Folger�s. Many successful candidates learn to book three to five of these a day, which should tell you how vital they are, and which should also tell you how many people are going to have to agree to host them. Don�t wait to be asked: volunteer early, and often. 7. MAKE PHONE CALLS. Phone banks cost a lot of money, but are a phenomenally effective tool, for polling, fundraising, getting out the vote and a thousand other things. You can save the campaign tons of cash by being a phone volunteer. It�s not the most pleasant work you�ll ever do, but it can be very rewarding, and is vital to the effort. Make sure the campaign provides you a script, and practice it a few times before you start your calls. Separately, you can and should use your phone to help the campaign in a very obvious and simple way: talk to your friends about how wonderful your candidate is, and how proud of him you are. This sort of casual, day-in-day-out effort � no different from talking about how excited you are about your favorite team � is the stuff of great victories. When people start talking like this, a certain "win psychology" develops, and real momentum builds: momentum money could never buy. 8. USE EMAIL EFFECTIVELY. At least as powerful as personal phone calls, personal emails to friends are taking a greater and greater role in campaigns. Spread the word to your friends, by forwarding campaign emails, news stories, and your own personal thoughts to your personal address book. You send all those people lame jokes: why not the good news about your candidate (and your worldview)? Moreover, it may be that you are specially talented with email or the web and wish to help in a more formal way. Most campaigns need quality people who can create and maintain an online presence, be it a website, an email list, a chat room, or a prayer team (and just for the record, no one has used the internet more effectively than Pat Buchanan�s Linda Muller, with Jesse Ventura�s team running a close second). If you�d like to help this way, you�re needed. 9. WRITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Everyone talks about this, but no one does it. No one except winning campaigns, that is. The truth is, everyone reads the letters to the editor, and much of the word-of-mouth side of the campaign develops there. What�s more, this is absolutely free media, and being from "regular" people, it is far more persuasive than a campaign news release (which few ever see anyway). A smart campaign will organize a large number of people to regularly write letters to the editor, and mail them to all the local papers. Don�t wait to be contacted: call the campaign yourself, preferably the press secretary. If possible, write about the message the campaign is focused on that week. And if you�re a good writer, find some of your friends who would be willing to sign a letter but are afraid to actually write one, and draft letters for them as well (be sure to collect them and mail them too: people promise, but often forget). 10. STUFF ENVELOPES! No part of the campaign is so important, especially in an under-funded race where most or all of the direct mail has to be done in-house. At the same time, stuffing and addressing envelopes is some of the most tedious work you can do, and people hate it. It�s not sexy, and it�s not fun. Volunteers tend to flee. You can not only make an enormous difference but prove your value and loyalty as well by always being available for this duty. You can often save the campaign hundreds or thousands of dollars through your work, and candidates remember their envelope stuffers more fondly than anyone else (very important later when you want to "educate" them on the issues). 11. HELP WITH THE SIGN EFFORT. Obviously a crucial part of the campaign�s advertising, the need is not so much for you to put up a sign in your own yard (which of course you should do), but to help put signs up all over your candidate�s district. Ideally, your candidate will want to put a sign in every available yard, all on the same night. Anything you can do to find willing property owners or physically put up signs will make a huge difference. 12. GET OUT THE VOTE. Conservative candidates have an alarming tendency to run winning campaigns, only to lose on election day. This is because the Left is extremely effective at getting out their voters, while we generally are not. One reason for that effectiveness is that Left-leaning labor unions teach and encourage get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts. Conservatives have no similar resource. Talk to the campaign about what you can do. Hopefully, they will have a carefully laid out plan, which will probably include early canvassing, an absentee ballot effort, poll watching, phone banks, and any number of other things. Be flexible and pitch in. If you don�t, you may throw away a couple years� work. 13. PRAY FOR AND ENCOURAGE THE CANDIDATE. As noted at the outset of the article, conservatives complain a lot, and never more than in a campaign. But campaigns run on morale, and complaints are among the most self-destructive things under Heaven. And it�s not just the other campaign workers and volunteers who need a lift: it�s the candidate himself. The candidate � if he�s worth supporting � is killing himself. You may at times think he�s arrogant, and sometimes he may be; but he runs on adrenaline and supports himself with brave words that rarely resemble his fears, and from early in the morning till late at night, he has to sell a million skeptics � from CEOs to coffee shop clerks � on himself as a person and his ideas as a program. He is the ultimate "man in the arena", facing every manner of outrageous attack and betrayal every day, working himself to the bone, trying to juggle finances and family and every aspect of this small industry the product of which is himself, all in pursuit of a goal far greater than he. The smallest word of encouragement at the right moment can be that one thing which allows him to go on. In point of fact, it often is. Likewise, no one needs your prayers more than your candidate and his family. The Bible clearly commands prayer for our leaders, but most people forget to do it. You mustn�t. He needs you. And more than anything, he needs the grace of God. 14. UNDERSTAND THAT WINNING ISN�T EVERYTHING. Finally, it�s well worth remembering that most candidates lose, and often lose several times, before they win. This dispirits lots of volunteers (and even more candidates), but it shouldn�t: it�s just the way of the world. The early races are often learning experiences and opportunities to build an organization and the candidate�s name ID. This is a good thing, no matter how much more fun it might be to win every time. The wise volunteer will work as though victory is just a matter of doing that one additional thing within his power; but he�ll also know when to take his co-workers and his candidate aside, place his hand on their shoulder, and tell them it�s all going to be okay, we�ll get �em next time. That wise volunteer will also follow through on his words, and stay the course for round two. Few decent candidates come out of a well-fought but losing race weaker; most are in a better position than they�ve ever been in their life, if they�ll learn from their mistakes and move on. You can be the person who gives them the strength to do it. And in so doing, you will advance your cause concretely, genuinely doing the hard work of freedom. --------------------------- NOTE 1. Needless to say for those who have actually read him, Richard Weaver � whose Ideas Have Consequences has in its title lead many astray at this point � understood this perfectly; and his short but powerful book remains one of the truly essential works of conservatism. PURCHASE RICHARD WEAVER'S EXTRAORDINARY "IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0226876802/vanguardoftherev/ --------------------------- -- Rod D. Martin is Founder and Chairman of Vanguard PAC. A former policy director to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, he is an attorney and writer from Little Rock, Arkansas, and a past candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. ================================================================ To subscribe to "Vanguard of the Revolution", send the message "Subscribe Vanguard", or the message "Unsubscribe Vanguard" to unsubscribe, to listadmin(a)theVanguard.org. Contact listowner(a)theVanguard.org if you have questions. ================================================================ http://www.theVanguard.org Vanguard(a)theVanguard.org Vanguard PAC P. O. Box 250038 Little Rock, AR 72225 ================================================================

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Las Vegas spore hub
by Anonymous 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

Members of the 11Sept2001 sleeper cells visited Las Vegas. Among the many interesting points about Las Vegas are the large numbers of tourists that stay in a very small number of facilities. Anthrax or some other biological warfare (BW) agent delivered to the casino/hotel systems (through air circulation systems, HVAC) would expose tens of thousands at a time; most of those individuals would enter the mass transportation systems (airports, aircraft, trains, buses), spreading the infectious agent/infection, and arriving back at their home destinations before common incubation periods would become an issue. Yes, the CDC is prepared to deliver 'push-packages' to cities in the U.S., but could it handle tens of thousands of possible cases throughout the entire U.S. and the world? Could airports and aircraft be decontaminated effectively? The 'test cases' of anthrax through the U.S. postal system expose the frightening potential of BW agents--the spores persist, travel, and are a trickier problem than thought. Even with few fatalities, the mass transportation systems of the U.S. would come to a crashing halt.] http://www.metatempo.com/analysis-alqaida-tradecraft.html

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Tim May;Anarcho-phony,cheap fraud and despicable coward.RIP.
by mattd 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

In simplest terms, anarchism stands against not just government, but all forms of domination and exploitation. This includes government, but also capitalism, landlordism, interest, and profit. In addition, anarchism stands for decentralized direct democracy, free association, the replacement of capitalist private property "rights" with possession/use rights, direct worker ownership and control of the means of production, direct action instead of political action, delegation instead of representation, and total freedom (which is inherently limited by the "other person's nose"). Anarchism is a variant of socialism, because it is for workers' control of the means of production, but is a form of libertarian socialism rather than state socialism. Unlike the various sorts of state socialism, anarchism is for not only workers' control of the means of production, but direct democratic control of all aspects of life (instead of by some self-appointed "party" or legislature which supposedly knows and acts in the interests of the people). Those things which are difficult to control at a small level where immediate direct democracy can be practiced are controlled through delegation, which is different from representation because the delegates are not only chosen by the rank and file, but are also given mandates that they must and must only carry out by the rank and file, and can be recalled at any time for any reason (all of these are done in a directly democratic fashion). Anarchism stands against capitalism, because capitalism is inherently authoritarian. Those who say that capitalism is freedom, forget to say that it is just freedom for only those who are in the ruling class. As for the workers, who make up the vast majority of the population, the only freedom they have under it is to choose who exploits them. They have no real control over the means of production. They do not receive the fruits of their labor; all they get is their paycheck, which they need to survive (which is why most people really don't have the freedom to not be employed by anyone, unlike what supporters of capitalism say). There is no real democracy in capitalism; the workplace is run in a thoroughly authoritarian fashion by a hierarchy of bosses and managers, ending up at the top with the executives and big shareholders. Anarchism also stands against state socialism and "Communism," because those also aren't freedom in any respect. First thing, most forms of "state socialism" and "Communism" are really state capitalism, which is similar to private capitalism except that the government replaces the company as the unit of competition, the ruling class is composed of the Party apparatchiks and or the politicians and bureaucrats which make up the government, and that one doesn't have the choice of what/who they are exploited by. "Communism" is really like the "cradle-to-grave" capitalism, where one not only works in company factories, but also in company houses in company towns, etc. On the other hand, anarchists tend to prefer state socialism over private capitalism, because there at least is some social support structure rather than none at all (this does not mean that they advocate or are willing to settle with state socialism, though). At the same time, anarchists often treat Communists (especially Stalinists) in the same fashion as fascists and such (even to the point of armed conflict). Anarchism is a very often misunderstood political theory (not ideology, because ideology means a fixed set of prescribed ideas that are automatically correct as a block), which forms a real alternative to both capitalism and state socialism, both republican ("democratic") and autocratic/totalitarian. It is for both freedom and social justice, rather than just for social justice or "freedom" (capitalism claims to be for freedom, but really isn't for that at all). It is against impersonal "representation," where a body of elected politicians from an elite make decisions for the rank and file without their input, and replaces that with making decisions directly and democratically, and carrying out in the same exact fashion. It empowers the people directly, rather than empowering some elite to act in their name. Luckily, anarchism today has very significantly replaced state socialism on the far left, and is further expanding, but anarchism still has a very far way to go until there will be any real revolutionary change.

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