tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54399332011-04-21T18:32:17.856-04:00Liberty Activist BlogBlog for the <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laotw">Liberty Action News </a> digest edited by Mary Lou Seymour.Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.comBlogger1921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1157937856322101242006-09-10T21:23:00.000-04:002006-09-10T21:24:16.340-04:00LAND: The week in review September 3-9Source: Liberty Action New DigestIn news this week, in Mexico, the Court installs Calderon as Prez but the crisis continues, a group in the UK calls for the gov't to censor ... suicide, the owner of DataUSA Inc. a polling service which counted Prez Bush and Sorry Joe Lieberman among its customers, pleads guilty to fraud for altering poll data (big surprise isMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1155442340934036462006-08-13T00:11:00.000-04:002006-08-13T00:12:20.960-04:00LAND: The week in review August 6- August 12Liberty Action News DigestIn police state news this week, in the USA, Connecticut Teen's worm sales squished by gov't thugs, Arrest of 'zombies' in Minnesota sparks criticism, spy cameras in South Dakota, and a federal judge rules that it'sOK to ban protests of prez, while in the UK, Reid says 'Civil liberties "made for another age'. On the bright side,Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1154832014637006712006-08-05T22:39:00.000-04:002006-08-05T22:40:14.650-04:00LAND: The week in review July 30-August 5Liberty Action News DigestIn police state news this week, the white House, wary of possible war crimes charges,is drafting legislation to protect U.S. personnel from certain war crimes prosecutions. and, wants to 'formalize the police state' by expandomg the reach and authority of special military 'courts' (take action on the military courts issue: Stop Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1154313285254652712006-07-30T22:33:00.000-04:002006-07-30T22:34:45.263-04:00LAND: The week in review July 23-July 29Source: Liberty Action News DigestIn police state news here in the US, Intelligence chiefs urge easing of spy rules, innocent people are placed on watch list to meet quota and the 'lickspittle, lock-step' U.S. Congress' scurries to 'not only confirm Bush's unrestrained, unconstitutional one-man rule -- it would augment it'and the ' Writing's on the wall forMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1151890354184088962006-07-02T21:32:00.000-04:002006-07-02T21:32:34.200-04:00LAND: The week in review June 26-July 1Source: Liberty Action News DigestIn police state news this week .... California Governor's office tracking political, anti-war groups, Net neutrality amendment dies, House continues war on patients and shoots down states rights, voting to continue to allow federal prosecution of those who smoke marijuana for medical purposes in states with laws that permit Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1151286985361784372006-06-25T21:55:00.000-04:002006-06-25T21:56:25.373-04:00LAND: The week in review June 18-25Source: Liberty Action News DigestIn police state news this week, the US gets access to worldwide banking data, the 'Flag amendment' is one vote from passage in the Senate, and civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart (convicted of aiding terrorists last year ... the terrorist was her client) wants to know if the gov't eavesdropped on her; a student learns the high Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1150651151838259872006-06-18T13:18:00.000-04:002006-06-18T13:19:11.850-04:00LAND: The week in review June 11- June 17Liberty Action News DigestIn police state news this week, SCOTUS guts the Fourth Amendment, the Pentagon sets its sights on social networking and kicks the press out of Gitmo, the Senate rejects Iraq withdrawal 93-6, and 40 activists are arrested at urban garden eviction. On the bright side, the SAF and NRA win suit to overturn San Francisco gun ban (the Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1150054580353790002006-06-11T15:35:00.000-04:002006-06-11T15:36:20.366-04:00The week in review June 4-June 10Liberty Activist News DigestIn police state news this week, as the steady dismantling of our repulic continues, the gov't admits that "Emergency centers" could be used for "immigration" roundups [just don't call 'em concentration camps'] the House passes telecom bill, but leaves out 'net beutrality'.... High hopes for drone in LA skies [not for surveillance of Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1149448680852478372006-06-04T15:17:00.000-04:002006-06-04T15:18:58.983-04:00LAND: The week in review May 27-June 3Liberty Action News DigestIn police state news this week, from abroad, the UK govgoons 'silence the peace protestor of Parliament Square', Moscow flaunts its homophobic policy, and China marks Tiananmen Square anniversary by attacking protestors, while here in the US Bush signs ban on speech, assembly (goodbye, First Amendment), the SCOTUS sides with the Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1148917049741713562006-05-29T11:37:00.000-04:002006-05-29T11:37:29.756-04:00LAND: The week in review May 21-27Liberty Action News DigestAaron Russo's new film 'Freedom to Fascism' gets an ovation in Cannes, military funeral protestor ban heads to Bush's desk ('Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act') with truly draconian penalties .... in the UK, the police 'overreact' and rough up anti-war protestors ... and steal their banners and placards. The FCC announces it won't Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1147022137396135752006-05-07T13:15:00.000-04:002006-05-07T13:15:37.413-04:00LAND: The week in review April 30-May 6Liberty Action News DigestTop activist news this week, the May Day immigrant protests draw over a million to the streets ... while the much smaller anti-war protests (on 'Mission Accomplished Day') get little press. Several commentaries contrasting the two marches and movements, a horrid new anti-immigrant video game (Over the (border) line) and a new way toMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1146430314932874972006-04-30T16:51:00.000-04:002006-04-30T16:55:10.816-04:00LAND: The week in review April 23-29Liberty Action News DigestAnti-war protests this weekend draw tens of thousands in the Big Apple, while immigrant activists prepare for May Day actions on Monday and protestors in Nepal topple the gov't and force the King to 'deal' ... a Judge in New York aquits the 'Granny Peace Brigade' and 'graying peaceniks' in Florida find themselves on the Pentagon's 'Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1145843757784593242006-04-23T21:55:00.000-04:002006-04-23T21:55:57.786-04:00LAND: The week in review April 16-22Liberty Action News DigestImmigrant protests continue in the news this week, as well as chilling stories of lockdowns at schools in California (to prevent students from joining protests and walkouts) which forced elementary school students to use buckets for toilets, as bathrooms were 'off limits'. (Anyone STILL think our publik schools aren't prisons?) Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1145843637532021422006-04-23T21:53:00.000-04:002006-04-23T21:53:57.543-04:00LAND: The week in review April 16-22Liberty Action News DigestImmigrant protests continue in the news this week, as well as chilling stories of lockdowns at schools in California (to prevent students from joining protests and walkouts) which forced elementary school students to use buckets for toilets, as bathrooms were 'off limits'. (Anyone STILL think our publik schools aren't prisons?) Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1145236473623702992006-04-16T21:13:00.000-04:002006-04-16T21:14:33.636-04:00LAND: The week in review April 10-15Liberty Action News DigestImmigration protests in the news again, huge marches continue and activists start planning for a MayDay 'boycott' ... death row inmate challenges lethal injection as 'cruel and usual punishment' ... RAF doctor who refused to serve in Iraq because he believed the war to be illegal jailed for eight months ..... gay and lesbian parents Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1144627135928844282006-04-09T19:58:00.000-04:002006-04-09T19:58:55.953-04:00LAND: The week in review April 2-9Liberty Action News DigestSorry about the sketchy coverage this week, I was out of town trying to help a very ill relative escape the medical bureaucracy; returned late Thursday night and tried to catch up for y'all...After a 'Week of walkouts' at schools to support the immigrant protests, and more demonstrations, the US Senate decided to shelve the immigration Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1143923429140153202006-04-01T15:29:00.000-05:002006-04-01T15:30:29.153-05:00LAND: The week in review March 26-April 1Liberty Action News DigestThis week's digest is a day early, as I have a relative in hospital out of state and wanted to get this out before I left.The week's top activism story in the US continues to be the explosion of the immigration issue, as 'the sleeping giant awakens' ... the largest street protests since the Vietnam War era, students walking out ofMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1143413886724209772006-03-26T17:57:00.000-05:002006-03-26T17:58:06.736-05:00LAND: The week in review March 19-25Liberty Action News DigestBiggest activism news this week, thousands protest the Sensenbrenner anti-immigration bill in cities across America, and in Georgia also protest a state anti-immigrant bill with an economic boycott on Friday's 'Day of Dignity'. (For those who don't understand the significance of the draconian Sensenbrenner bill, see the commentary 'Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1142802350814773782006-03-19T16:05:00.000-05:002006-03-19T16:05:50.826-05:00LAND: The week in review March 12-18Liberty Action News DigestBiggest activism news this week, the worldwide protests 'commemorating' the 3rd anniversary of the invasion of Iraq ... the war that should never have negun, the war that has dragged on for 3 years, with scores of soldiers and civilians dead, Iraq in shambles and in civil war (oh come on, is there anyone with a brain that believes thatMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1142183150229158992006-03-12T12:05:00.000-05:002006-03-12T12:05:50.240-05:00LAND: The week in review March 5-March 11Liberty Action News DigestTop story this week, medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby is free! In other good news, the Colorado teacher who was placed on leave after comparing President Bush’s State of the Union address to speeches by Adolf Hitler has been reinstated (but not before his family got death threats from Bushevik symps.), the Pentagon admits 'Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1141607329689512132006-03-05T20:08:00.000-05:002006-03-05T20:08:49.700-05:00LAND: The week in review Feb.26-March 5Source: Liberty Activist News DigestThe top story this week is the untimely death of libertarian activist and former Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, Harry Browne ... freedom lovers everywhere mourn his passing.More sad news, medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby loses 25 pounds in three weeks ...In expected but horrible news this week, the US Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1140982264864052282006-02-26T14:30:00.000-05:002006-02-26T14:31:04.876-05:00LAND: The week in review Feb.20-25Liberty Activist News DigestIn good news this week, Doctors in California delay a state sponsored murder by walking out, as lethal injection as a method of execution appears to be on shaky ground ... in Georgia, A federal appeals court has ruled that Georgia's obscenity law unconstitutionally limits the free-speech rights of businesses to advertise, and the US Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1140400947349408632006-02-19T21:01:00.000-05:002006-02-19T21:02:27.363-05:00LAND: The week in review Feb.13-19Source: Liberty Activist News DigestIn bad news this week ... the idiot Houston Police Chief wants surveillance cameras in private homes, the US terror suspect list rises to 325,000, More worries about Google Desktop 3, China defends "right to police" Net, Feingold drops effort to block Patriot Act, Brits lose Round one to Blair on ID cards, RFID chips are Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1139786884074767932006-02-12T18:27:00.000-05:002006-02-12T18:28:04.093-05:00LAND: The week in review Feb.06-Feb.12Liberty Action NewsIn good news this week, a 93-year-old tenant wins eminent domain case, Privacy concerns may delay two air security programs, a Lawsuit challenges "e-annoyance" law. In bad news this week, in the US, NC Protesters say police invading privacy, Educators face blowback for protesting Iraq war in schools, a VA Nurse's letter prompts sedition Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1139190734346917592006-02-05T20:51:00.000-05:002006-02-05T20:52:14.363-05:00LAND: The week in review Jan.30- Feb.05Source: Liberty Action News DigestWe mourn the passing of two quite different activists this week ... Coretta Scott King [1927-2006] and Stew Albert [1939-2006]...free at last.In other news, NH residents reject the 'Lost Liberty Hotel', anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is arrested at Bush's State of the Union address ... for the terrible crime of wearing a Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1138577835648659862006-01-29T18:36:00.000-05:002006-01-29T18:38:25.570-05:00LAND: The week in review Jan.23-29Source: Liberty Action News DigestLOTS of news this week ... bad and good ... from the dark side, 'Drug thugs kidnap Kubby on plane to avoid protesters' (Yes, Steve Kubby has returned to the US after exhausting all Canadian appeals to face a 120-day jail sentence for a [false] drug conviction in 2000 ... and the incarceration may kill him without access to Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1137974601691459472006-01-22T19:02:00.000-05:002006-01-22T19:05:04.216-05:00LAND: The week in review Jan.17-22Liberty Action News DigestActivists in NH 'seek to evict Souter, while gov't flunkies complain 'Most people here see this as an act of revenge and an improper attack on the judicial system," [State Rep] Kurk said. "You don't go after a judge personally because you disagree with his judgments." (Oh really? Why not?) On the NID front, DHS speculates on using 'Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1137457494718954102006-01-16T19:23:00.000-05:002006-01-16T19:24:54.730-05:00LIBERTY ACTION NEWS DIGESTThe week in review Jan.9-16Plenty of news this week as the police state begins to kick in to high gear ... on privacy and the domestic spy scandal,as pols from both boots of the BOYN Party try to convince us that spying on Aunt Minne is necessary for the nations security, and the foxes prepare to investiogate the henhouse; on the National ID and the states realizing Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1136771903319098162006-01-08T20:57:00.000-05:002006-01-08T20:58:23.340-05:00LAND: The week in review Jan.2-8Source: Liberty Activist NewsFrom the dark side, the US plans Afghan jail for terror suspects, and shuts down soldiers blogs, gov't web sites are tracking visitors (in violation of the gov't rules) and the Wyoming Supreme Court upholds random searches; a jailed Turkish Cyber-dissident's hunger strike enters second week as the Turkish gov't speech suppression moves Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1136224040066593422006-01-02T12:46:00.000-05:002006-01-02T12:47:20.080-05:00LAND: The week in review Dec.26-Jan.1Source: Liberty Action News DigestAh, the final week of 2005 .... From the dark side, the UK gov't announces you can now be arrested for ANY crime, a Kansas man is fined for anti-war sighs in his own yard ... but in the UK and in Austria, hackers and activists fight back against gov't 'spy cams, in the UK Thousands turn out to defy hunting ban, in Guantanamo Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1135651999915287002005-12-26T21:52:00.000-05:002005-12-26T21:53:19.926-05:00Liberty Action News: The week in review Dec.19-25A day late this week, just got back from a trip to visit relatives in North Carolina ... hope you all had a great Christmas!In news of the weird ... the 'Little red Book' story that had us all aghast turned out to be ... a hoax? as the student recanted the entire story ... so, which was the lie? Hm.And the beat goes on ... as Dubya and Gonzales andMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1134936598677104452005-12-18T15:09:00.000-05:002005-12-18T15:09:58.693-05:00LAND: The week in review Dec.11-18Source: Liberty Action News DigestAnd what a week it was ..... civil liberty 'Groups urge 11th hour rally against Patriot Act renewal', stories surfaced about the 'FBI files on peaceful protesters', NBC Nightly News broke the story of gov't spying and 'blacklisting' anti-war activists throughout Americam after obtaining a 400-page Department of Defense document Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1134344065138991062005-12-11T18:33:00.000-05:002005-12-11T18:34:25.150-05:00LAND: The week in review Dec.4-Dec.10Source: Liberty Action News DigestIn China, police gun down protestors in a Chinese village, and a 'major protest' in Hong Kong. In the UK, anti-war protestors in 3 different cases stand trial. In America, Deb Davis' ID protest case (refusal to show ID to ride a bus) is dismissed on a technicality, Thousands mistakenly end up on terrorist watch list, Johh Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1133747444855993622005-12-04T20:49:00.000-05:002005-12-04T20:50:44.866-05:00The week in review Nov.28-Dec.4The Mayor of Boston hits a new low as he vows to snatch the infamous smitchin' T-shirts from store shelves, thus violating 'at least 3 amendments to the Constitution' .... the 1,000th gov't sanctioned prison murder since 1977 brings protestors to North Carolina .... a student in Georgia is suspended for removing a spy cam from the restroom .... property owners in Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1133118313098777412005-11-27T14:04:00.000-05:002005-11-27T14:07:18.353-05:00LAND: The week in review Nov.21-27Source: Liberty Action News DigestThe 'is America a police state yet' story of the week: Meet Deborah Davis, who was asked for her 'papers please' on a public BUS in Denver ... and refused. Her arraignment in Federal Court is scheduled December 9. Spread the word. In other news, Rhode Island schools are 'reminded' by the ACLU of their responsibility to give Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1132538904913714442005-11-20T21:07:00.000-05:002005-11-20T21:08:24.926-05:00LAND: The week in review Nov.14-20 The best news this week ... despite the machinations of the Bushies and their buddies, the Patriot Act reauthorization was ' blocked Friday by an odd-bedfellows coalition of liberals and conservatives who protested that it did too little to protect Americans' civil liberties'. ... for the moment, at least, giving us one last chance to tell our senators and reps Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1131932846538879292005-11-13T20:46:00.000-05:002005-11-13T20:47:26.560-05:00LAND: The week in review Nov.7-12,2005 Source: Liberty Action News DigestAbroad: Protests in the UK over a visit from the Chinese president, the riots in France begin to ebb as citizens take action to guard their own neighborhoods, activists in Singapore plead for the life of a man arrested for heroin, a parents' rights group in the UK is accused of a plot to blackout TV, and anti-US protests in Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1131294901776069922005-11-06T11:34:00.000-05:002005-11-06T11:37:08.346-05:00LAND: The week in review Oct.31-Nov.6 In anti war activity this week, Military recruiters under attack from parents, a student walk out organized in Seattle, in the UK Angry families threaten remembrance service boycott, 2,000 Antiwar protesters march on Boston CommonIn other news, the Chinese govgoons shut down pro-democracy writer Wang Yi’s blog 'days after it was nominated for the 'freedom of Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1130725249923597682005-10-30T21:19:00.000-05:002005-10-30T21:20:49.936-05:00LAND: The week in review Oct.23-30 Top story this week, the passing of inadvertent activist extraordinaire, Rosa Parks, who changed America forever by her one simple act of defiance ... rest in peace, Ms. Parks. In other news, the "Grim milestone' of 2,000 dead American soldiers in Iraq ... marked by protests and vigils nationwide. Cindy Sheehan exhorts us all to follow the example of ' the greatMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1130084792873035742005-10-23T12:25:00.000-04:002005-10-23T12:26:32.880-04:00The week in review: Oct.16-22New actions this week ... a cool new project to place Bill of Rights displays throughout America ... 'beginning with those sites where displays of the Ten Commandments are currently found' (so folks can see the REAL basis of the 'law of the land'); petition Congress to pay for Katrina relief by cutting funding for the WOD; and help win the battle for reader privacy ( Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1129479146398432632005-10-16T12:11:00.000-04:002005-10-16T12:12:26.406-04:00The week in review: Oct.9-16In the news this week, the ACLU joins with business groups to protect attorney client privilege, 'one of the bedrock principles of our legal system' ... Vivian Malone Jones ' one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace's infamous 'stand in the schoolhouse door' in 1963' dies at age 63, protests in Colorado over Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1128813734566147052005-10-08T19:21:00.000-04:002005-10-08T19:22:14.573-04:00The week in review October 2-October 8Four new actions this week ... Stop the 'new draconian drug war bill' (the Meth Epidemic Elimination Act); stop the RIAA from 'locking up the airwaves', Request Your Secure Flight Files and help EFF uncover how TSA will treat your private information when Secure Flight is fully implemented, and Petition George Mason University to Drop charges against Tariq Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1128303992086282012005-10-02T21:45:00.000-04:002005-10-02T21:46:32.096-04:00LAND: The week in review Sept.25-Oct.1 In good news this week ... the St. Pat's Four are aquitted of conspiracy charges, some states 'reject expanded eminent domain practices', and, ' Bush plea for cash to rebuild Iraq raises $600', while 'anti-war fervor' fills the streets in DC as hundreds of thousdands including new 'converts to activism' turn out ... the anti-war movement's 'Big week in Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1127605258925329852005-09-24T19:40:00.000-04:002005-09-24T19:40:58.950-04:00The week in review (September 18-24)LIBERTY ACTION NEWS DIGESTThe latest opportunities for freedom activistsPublished weeklySupported by (non-tax-deductible) reader contributionsFor daily news stories and commentaries, or to donate, visit:http://www.rationalreview.com/land/Our news feed for daily updates is now working!! Daily updates now athttp://www.rationalreview.com/land/====================Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126996944473367422005-09-17T18:40:00.000-04:002005-09-17T18:42:24.480-04:00The week in review, Sept.11-Sept.17The 'aftermath of Katrina' continues ... more horror stories of the police state mentality surface ... police blocking evacuees, barbed wire in Mississippi to 'protect' residents, reporters told 'no stories, no photos' and physically assaulted, clueless politicians telling children at a shelter 'isn't this fun' ... and more stories of the indefagitable human Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126841866029003352005-09-15T23:35:00.000-04:002005-09-15T23:37:46.036-04:00Mississippi: Toeing the line Source: Sun Herald" Since Katrina departed, some residents have been faced with confusion and frustration. To compound the confusion, residents were shocked Friday to see a work crew laying out double coil rows of razor wire, also called concertina wire. Lynn Bauer, who is living with her mother after her MIlls Avenue home was damaged, said she also was stopped from Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126747888169040202005-09-14T21:30:00.000-04:002005-09-14T21:31:28.173-04:00Back inside New Orleans Source: CounterPunchAuthor: Jordan Flaherty"I spent yesterday inside the city of New Orleans, speaking to a few of the last holdouts in the 9th ward/ bywater neighborhood. Their stories paint a very different picture from what we've heard in the media. Instead of stories of gangs of criminals and police and soldiers keeping order, there were stories of collective action, Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126747809006458352005-09-14T21:27:00.000-04:002005-09-14T21:33:31.323-04:00Great News!! The Liberty Activist News site news feed is back online with the daily updates (divided into news, commentaries and events).I will continue to mirror here for awhile.Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126662689294967072005-09-13T21:48:00.000-04:002005-09-13T21:51:29.296-04:00Nietzsche, New Orleans, and 'NamSource: Unknown NewsAuthor: Herb Ruhs"Granted the horror of New Orleans is grand even by battlefield standards, but something like this is happening in the world, somewhere, nearly all the time. For much of the world it is relatively normal. What is unusual is that these are Americans, and many of us identify with them very strongly, and the fear touches our heartsMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126662506440545122005-09-13T21:46:00.000-04:002005-09-13T21:48:26.443-04:00Quotes from Katrina ....*"I must say, this storm is much bigger than anyone expected." -- FEMA Director Michael Brown, on CNN, Aug. 31.*"Excuse me, senator, I'm sorry for interrupting . . . for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126662362502933072005-09-13T21:45:00.000-04:002005-09-13T21:46:02.503-04:00Reporters without Borders: Police violence against journalists in New Orleans Source: Halifax Live"Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about police violence against journalists covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, especially about the attacks on reporters and photographers that took place on September 1. .... Reporter Tim Harper and photographer Lucas Oleniuk of Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126662300134154122005-09-13T21:44:00.000-04:002005-09-13T21:45:00.136-04:00Louisiana nursing home operators charged in deaths Source: Yahoo News"The owners of a nursing home where 34 people were found dead after Hurricane Katrina have been arrested and charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide for not evacuating those patients, the Louisiana attorney general's office said on Tuesday. Mable Mangano and her husband, Salvador Mangano Sr., surrendered to Medicaid fraud Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126662237805071422005-09-13T21:42:00.000-04:002005-09-13T21:43:57.813-04:00Blame me for Katrina shambles, says Bush as ratings hit new low Source: Times Online [UK]"As the official death toll from Hurricane Katrina rose above 600, President Bush took personal responsibility yesterday for the failures in the US Government’s response to the disaster. He said that serious questions had been raised about America’s ability to deal with a terrorist attack. With Mr Bush’s Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126568269888946212005-09-12T19:37:00.000-04:002005-09-12T19:37:49.890-04:00Algiers Point militia guards neighborhood Source: The Statesman"The Algiers Point militia put away its weapons Friday as Army soldiers patrolled the historic neighborhood across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter. But the band of neighbors who survived Hurricane Katrina and then fought off looters has not disarmed. "Pit Bull Will Attack. We Are Here and Have Gun and Will Shoot," said Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126568233353668172005-09-12T19:36:00.000-04:002005-09-12T19:37:13.356-04:00Bay Area journalist jailed in HaitiCommon DreamsLeisa Faulkner"Reporter Kevin Pina opened his family home to me last month in Port au Prince, Haiti when violence closed the orphanage where I usually stay to do human rights work. Tonight, Kevin sleeps in a jail cell like those I visited in Cap Haitian just weeks ago. He has become part of the story he risks his life daily to tell. He was arrested Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126568200228538052005-09-12T19:35:00.000-04:002005-09-12T19:36:40.233-04:00Twenty three freedomsThe Libertarian EnterpriseL. Neil Smith"Busheviks speak of freedoms that we Americans seem to enjoy almost uniquely on this otherwise benighted, squalid, and pestilence-ridden planet, freedoms that the rest of the world hates and resents us for so much that they're willing to steal gigantic aircraft from innocent, helpless, and very nearly bankrupt corporations, and smash Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126568764788947652005-09-12T19:30:00.000-04:002005-09-12T19:46:04.790-04:00Hurricane Katrina - Labor Day 2005 LoneStar Military Vehicle Preservation Associationby John"My name is John and I live in Central Texas. I have served in three different military components totaling 25 years of service and I am recording this story for posterity. All opinions are the author's and if you disagree with them, that's really too bad." [The saga of one man's trip to deliver aid to Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126490679844319682005-09-11T22:02:00.000-04:002005-09-11T22:04:39.843-04:00Boston in 1774, New Orleans in 2005Cartoon by Scott Bieserhttp://thetimesink.blogspot.com/2005/09/tshtf.htmlMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126490288227673062005-09-11T21:57:00.000-04:002005-09-11T21:58:08.233-04:00Australia: Visiting US peace activist arrested as 'security threat'The Age [Australia]"An American environmentalist and peace activist, in Australia to talk about non-violent methods of protest, has been arrested as a security threat. History teacher Scott Parkin, 35, was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in Melbourne on Saturday as he travelled to a workshop he was conducting on the US Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126483117948720742005-09-11T19:55:00.000-04:002005-09-11T19:58:37.956-04:00A moment of epiphanyThe Libertarian EnterpriseL. Neil Smith"From the beginning—four days late, as many another observer has pointed out—there was something foul-smelling about the "rescue" of the Crescent City under the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, starting with heavily-armed and armored troops prowling the flooded streets, machineguns and grenade launchers ready,Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126466703419690432005-09-11T15:24:00.000-04:002005-09-11T15:27:52.220-04:00The week in Review September 3-September 10The story of the week ... the aftermath of Katrina ... government totally fails not only to 'protect' the citizens and provide 'security' and rescue, but actively obstructs private charities and citizens, and ends the week by forcibly (but supposedly gently) evacuating residents from undamaged homes ... and confiscating guns. Yes, here in America. Look Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126463364254861602005-09-09T14:28:00.000-04:002005-09-11T14:29:24.260-04:00New Orleans gun confiscation video Source: WOLFESBLOGFootage from ABC News (approximately 7.2 megs, AVI format) of New Orleans gun confiscation (compliments of Claire Wolfe's blog) http://www.clairewolfe.com/wolfesblog/NewOrleansGunConfiscationSmall.avi-----New Orleans begins victim disarmament Source: New York Times"Waters were receding across this flood-beaten city today as police officers Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126231456376325582005-09-08T22:03:00.000-04:002005-09-08T22:04:16.390-04:00Defining anarchyStrike the RootMark Davis"Anarchy is a functioning society free of government controls. That is individual persons operating together in harmony based on freely reached agreements concluded between individual members and groups of a society. Anarchy is simply a free society. Anarchy is not the result of a statist-government failure; that would be chaos. The chaos in New Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126201165945726622005-09-08T13:38:00.000-04:002005-09-08T13:39:25.950-04:00I protest Liberty Unboundby Rycke Brown"A street protest has two main purposes: informing the public about a cause, and demonstrating support or disapproval. Obviously, before you can get the masses out, you have to reach 'em and teach 'em. And you have to reduce the fear level: when people lose their fear of talking about a subject, they find that they are not alone in their beliefs, that they Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126149073051106092005-09-07T23:09:00.000-04:002005-09-07T23:11:13.056-04:00Efforts to save documents stymiedTimes-Picayune"Specialists working for the New Orleans Notorial Archives have been stymied in trying to return downtown to rescue some of the most historic documents in the city’s history, from original land grants to slave sale records and title records. Federal troops have refused to let them through checkpoints into the city. The Notorial Archives hired MuntersMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1126059983319250332005-09-06T22:24:00.000-04:002005-09-06T22:26:23.333-04:00Samaritan evacuates 82 to S.D.Sign on San Diego "A local businessman's concern for victims of Hurricane Katrina compelled him to charter a passenger jet and bring to San Diego 82 people who had lost everything in the disaster. David Perez, 42, said he was so disturbed by images of ineffective disaster relief that he spent about $250,000 to hire the Boeing 737 and fly the evacuees from Baton RougeMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125969833434358302005-09-05T21:19:00.000-04:002005-09-05T21:23:53.443-04:00Louisiana: With guns and generators, a few homeowners stand guard over neighbourhoods Source: Canada.com"When night falls, Charlie Hackett climbs the steps to his boarded-up window, takes down the plywood, grabs his 12-gauge shotgun and waits. He is waiting for looters and troublemakers, for anyone thinking his neighbourhood has been abandoned like so many others across the city. Two doors down, Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125891837645126162005-09-04T23:42:00.000-04:002005-09-04T23:43:57.653-04:00French Quarter holdouts create 'tribes'Yahoo! News"In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor. As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim.While moldMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125880819609426212005-09-04T20:39:00.000-04:002005-09-04T20:40:19.616-04:00Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?Red Cross Frequently Asked Questions"Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders. The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New OrleansMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125854759195574792005-09-04T13:25:00.000-04:002005-09-04T13:54:28.083-04:00Camp Casey, Same Camp Different Ditch Where did the food go? What about the Medical supplies? How about all the water that was never sucked up in the 109 degree heat of Camp Casey? It got loaded up by the team and members of the Veterans For Peace Chapter 116, Mendocino County, www.vfproadtrips.org and hauled out with Annie and Buddy Spell of the Louisiana Activist Network,Commanding the way to Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125853728754659812005-09-04T13:08:00.000-04:002005-09-04T13:08:48.760-04:00Censored: NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief" LA TimesRobert Hilburn"As we enter the celebrity telethon phase of the Katrina tragedy, NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief" stands as a blueprint for its own kind of institutional failure.By censoring Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West's remarks critical of President Bush during its West Coast feed of the program Friday night, the network violatedMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125845687278817712005-09-04T10:53:00.000-04:002005-09-04T11:54:08.346-04:00Katrina Relief effortsFood Not Bombshttp://www.foodnotbombs.net/Peace and anti-poverty group Food Not Bombs is asking for clothes, food, volunteer cooks and money for their Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Yes, they take Paypal. These people have been reliably doing good work for twenty-five years, have an essentially anti-statist message and really know how to stretch a dollar. Brad Spangler isMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125777203849648412005-09-03T15:51:00.000-04:002005-09-03T15:53:23.856-04:00The week in review August 28-September 3The story of the week is, of course, the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina ... and our government ... on the residents of the Gulf Coast, particularly New Orleans. Throughout the week, the usually heavily censored news media has sent a stream of reports out of the disaster zone that revealed to the entire world the tragedy of the welfare state, the Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125772912927383512005-09-03T14:40:00.000-04:002005-09-03T14:41:52.936-04:00Notes from inside New OrleansLeft TurnJordan Flaherty"I just left New Orleans a couple hours ago. I traveled from the apartment I was staying in by boat to a helicopter to a refugee camp. If anyone wants to examine the attitude of federal and state officials towards the victims of hurricane Katrina, I advise you to visit one of the refugee camps. In the refugee camp I just left, on the I-10 Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125674818153196372005-09-02T11:23:00.000-04:002005-09-02T11:26:58.160-04:00S IT TIME TO BRING THE NATIONAL GUARD HOME FROM IRAQ?After 5 years of laughing off or suppressing sound policy advice, the criminal neglect of our REAL homeland security by the Bush administration has now resulted in the total loss of a major American city. And where is our National Guard and all their equipment that are supposed to be here to protect and save us? They are being ground up in Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125631824385079052005-09-01T23:28:00.000-04:002005-09-01T23:30:24.393-04:00The Cindy spark: Mainstream America stirsCounterPunchLynn Gonzales"What strikes me most about Camp Casey and its inhabitants is how very centrist, mainstream and organic this movement is. One would not be hard pressed to call it divine intervention. The euphoria and unity among Democrats, disenfranchised Republicans, people of faith, previously a-political military families, rural heartland Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125621078486067812005-09-01T20:30:00.000-04:002005-09-01T20:31:35.596-04:00Homes for Katrina victimsPurpose: Find safe temporary housing for those displaced by Hurricane KatrinaConnect local organizations trying to help these efforts Protect those that need or offer help. What you can do: If you have room - register below and enter a comment that you would be interested in providing room. A local organization will be in contact with you to make sure that you can offer aMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125531037918370852005-08-31T19:29:00.000-04:002005-08-31T19:30:37.923-04:00Anti-war mom glad she didn't meet with BushMSNBC" A woman who led an anti-war protest for nearly a month near President Bush's ranch said Tuesday that she's glad Bush never showed up to discuss her son's death in Iraq, saying the president's absence "galvanized the peace movement." Cindy Sheehan's comments came as war protesters packed up their campsite near the ranch and prepared to leave Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125524825253456542005-08-31T17:43:00.000-04:002005-08-31T17:47:05.260-04:00Camp Casey goes to Washington Source: Salon"On Wednesday, Sheehan decamps from Crawford and heads to Austin. She will hold a rally at City Hall to kick off her bus tour that will end in Washington at a major antiwar demonstration planned for Sept. 24. Since she first camped out alone on the side of the road on Aug. 6 at what became known as Camp Casey I, thousands of Americans have also made the Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125449364367398762005-08-30T20:47:00.000-04:002005-08-30T20:49:24.376-04:00ACLU: FBI labeled peace action group "terrorist" Source: The Raw Story"The American Civil Liberties Union today released an FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an affirmative action advocacy group as potentially 'involved in terrorist activities.' ... The file was obtained through an ongoing nationwide ACLU effort seeking information on the FBI's use of Joint Terrorism Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125363569688364202005-08-29T20:58:00.000-04:002005-08-29T20:59:29.696-04:00More pro-war hyprocrisyStrike the Rootby Lee Shelton"Over the last four years, the message sent by neoconservatives to the rest of the nation has been clear: Get behind the Bush administration's "war on terror" or be prepared to face the consequences. But when the grieving mother of a fallen U.S. soldier tops the neoconservative most wanted list of treasonous, terrorist-sympathizing, Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125288204938397492005-08-29T00:02:00.000-04:002005-08-29T00:03:24.946-04:00Across the tracks at Crawford, Texas, a divided nation bares its pain and furyIndependent [UK]Andrew GumbelThere could have been no starker symbol of the political divisions vexing George Bush's America this weekend than the railroad track running right through the heart of Crawford, home to the president's summer holiday ranch in the scorched plains of central Texas. On one side of the tracks Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125268941058813312005-08-28T18:41:00.000-04:002005-08-28T18:42:21.066-04:00The Presidency and other dinosaursThe Libertarian EnterpriseJonathan David Morris"Let me tell you something. I've heard a lot of dumb questions in my time. Hell, I've asked a lot of dumb questions in my time. But, by far, the dumbest question I've heard all summer—and maybe all year—is this: Should George Bush meet with Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother of a slain Iraq war vet who's set up camp Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125162917087200502005-08-27T13:12:00.000-04:002005-08-27T19:11:47.353-04:00The week in review (August 20-27)For yet another week, the Cindy Sheehan 'peaceful siege' dominates activism news ... and now,she's planning an 'anti-war bus tour'! The venomous sputterings and fuming from the war party supporters (on the left AND right) have died down, as it became apparent they actually gave more impetus to the story and made the Busheviks appear even more mean-spirited and Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125106175515901512005-08-26T21:27:00.000-04:002005-08-26T21:29:35.520-04:00Urgent Action Needed on Patriot ActACLU"Though we cannot say more because of an FBI gag order, the ACLU recently disclosed the existence of a sealed suit on behalf of a member of the American Library Association challenging the constitutionality of “national security letter” authority, which was expanded by the Patriot Act. Our client, which maintains records about books borrowed by library Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125102832561698122005-08-26T20:31:00.000-04:002005-08-26T20:33:52.570-04:00Sheehan plans anti-war bus tour Source: Detroit Free Press“A fallen soldier’s mother said Thursday that the anti-war vigil she started nearly three weeks ago near President Bush’s ranch won’t end when she and other protesters pack up their camp next week. Cindy Sheehan said the day after she leaves Aug. 31, she will embark on a bus tour ending up in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24. Then the group Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1125019133315117902005-08-25T21:17:00.000-04:002005-08-25T21:18:53.323-04:00The big lie: they're fighting for our freedomStrike the RootRobert L. Johnson"Listening to Bush supporters who have come out to oppose Camp Casey and its creator, Cindy Sheehan, it becomes painfully obvious how well a big lie really works on the minds of millions. Some of them have lost family members in the unnecessary war in Iraq that the neocons and Bush started. They can’t bring themselves toMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124927717057015142005-08-24T19:53:00.000-04:002005-08-24T20:30:02.330-04:00Manpower meltdownThe American Prospectby Matthew Yglesias"Cindy Sheehan's protest outside the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, raises many questions, but perhaps none so fundamental as the issue of whether anyone can, in good faith, argue to today's young people that volunteering for a form of military service is a good idea. Judging by the members of the stay-the-course school of thought I know --Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124844571152538362005-08-23T20:47:00.000-04:002005-08-23T20:49:31.160-04:00The Lost Liberty Hotel: Liberty controls the high groundThe Libertarian Enterpriseby Alan R. Weiss"Logan Darrow Clements, a participant in the Free State Project and CEO of Freestar Media, is shining a laser-light on eminant domain, the nature of the so-called guardians of our rights (the Supreme Court). In doing so, he has courted the wrath of libertarians. Some would say, "see here, Mr. Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124799885853707312005-08-23T08:23:00.000-04:002005-08-23T22:48:17.726-04:00Bush defending his Iraq war policyYahoo News"President Bush, defending his Iraq war policy in the face of anti-war opposition and slumping approval ratings, says pulling out before the mission is complete would dishonor the memory of all the Americans who fought and died in pursuit of freedom. .... Bush noted the U.S. military death toll — more than 2,000 killed in the Afghanistanand Iraq wars. "Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124717390602929542005-08-22T09:27:00.000-04:002005-08-22T09:29:50.610-04:00The wages of CindyThe American Prospectby Terence Samuel"It's hot in Texas these days, but judging by the guy who ran over Cindy Sheehan's crosses outside the Crawford White House or the guy who fired off his shotgun nearby, the thing to worry about is not the heat -- it's the stupidity. The president needs Sheehan like he needs another pretzel in his throat. If she comes back soon, the trouble Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124677235583897292005-08-22T00:11:00.000-04:002005-08-21T22:20:35.593-04:00Antiwar landscape may shift come SeptemberPhiladelphia Inquirerby Larry Eichel"In August, it's hard to know.Hard to know the significance of what happened Wednesday night, when tens of thousands of Americans conducted quiet and peaceful protest vigils against the war in Iraq.Did Aug. 17 mark the beginnings of a mass Vietnam-style antiwar movement with the potential to undermine the already Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124588470954384652005-08-21T09:40:00.000-04:002005-08-21T09:59:27.186-04:00Mother tips the balance against BushGuardian [UK]by Paul Harris"Candles were lit all across America last week in one of the largest single anti-war protests in recent US history. At more than 1,600 vigils tens of thousands of protesters gathered in solidarity with the woman who has been the catalyst for the rebirth of the anti-war movement: Cindy Sheehan. Her remarkable one-woman stand outside Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124567317845045802005-08-20T15:46:00.000-04:002005-08-20T15:54:00.676-04:00The week in review (August 14-19)Cindy Sheehan's vigil continued this week, gaining more national media coverage,commentaries, and sparking candlelight vigils in solidarity with her protest around the country. Truly an inspring week for activists! At week's end, Cindy had to leave the peace camp, due to her mother's illness, but "Whatever happens, Cindy Sheehan will not be moved", as the Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124560688959689732005-08-20T13:50:00.000-04:002005-08-20T13:58:08.960-04:00Hypocrites and liarsCommon Dreamsby Cindy Sheehan"The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Now I am Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124560627611359592005-08-19T22:55:00.000-04:002005-08-20T13:57:07.623-04:00Cindy Sheehan's symbolismSeattle Timesby staff"The daily image of a grieving mother protesting the death of her soldier son by standing in the withering sun outside President Bush's Texas ranch is a poignant symbol. Bush would do well to pay attention to the image and the woman behind it. .... Until this one mother's protest, the public lobby against the war was displayed largely through yard Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124411133192519262005-08-18T20:22:00.000-04:002005-08-18T20:25:33.203-04:00'Peace Mom', her mother ill, leaves campYahoo News"The grieving woman who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch nearly two weeks ago left the camp Thursday after learning her mother had had a stroke, but she told supporters the protest would go on. Cindy Sheehan told reporters she had just received the phone call and was leaving immediately to be with her 74-year-old Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124387453149501022005-08-18T13:48:00.000-04:002005-08-18T13:50:53.156-04:00Vigils calling for end to Iraq war beginCincinnati Enquirer"Hundreds of candlelight vigils calling for an end to the war in Iraq lit up the night Wednesday, part of a national effort spurred by one mother's anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch. The vigils were urged by Cindy Sheehan, who has become the icon of the anti-war movement since she started a protest Aug. 6 in memory of herMary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124329375770809002005-08-17T21:42:00.000-04:002005-08-17T21:42:55.780-04:00Blaming the antiwar messengersCommon Dreamsby Norman Solomon"The Bush administration’s top officials must be counting the days until the end of the presidential vacation brings to a close the Crawford standoff between Camp Casey and Camp Carnage. But media assaults on Cindy Sheehan are just in early stages. While the president mouths respectful platitudes about the grieving mother, his henchmen Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439933.post-1124200364974942852005-08-16T09:51:00.000-04:002005-08-16T21:48:20.396-04:00Amazing Grace and CindyCounterPunchby David Krieger"Cindy Sheehan's courage should help restore our faith in the power of individuals to speak truth to power and make a difference. Her protest is in the best traditions of this country, those of Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez. She has showered us all with her Amazing Grace." (08/16/05)http://www.counterpunch.org/Mary Louhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957639047607929355noreply@blogger.com0