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Domestic Terrorism Inside-Out

This is domestic terrorism, but the wrong way around:  Utah Ravers were treated to the NeoCon way of doing business.

Here is the video:  http://undergroundclips.com/video/UtahRaveRaid.mov

You'd think they'd go after Osama bin Laden, or all the embedded terrorists here in the US before they'd bother bringing their assault rifles down on teenagers.

Who can tell the difference between the Police and Military in this video? If it is the police doing the raid, why are they using assault rifles and all dressed up and playing army?

Here's a few links:  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/22/13030/7546
                                    http://www.music-versus-guns.org/

John Stewart Recapitulates The Rove Leak

The John Stewart Show's "WayBack Machine" on Karl Rove.

This is the best recapitulation of the story of Karl Rove's leak.

Wow. This is the way news ought to be.

The Day the Enlightenment Went Out: Garry Wills on our Benighted Electorate

Gary Wills, adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University, has a very sobering piece today on what happened to the Enlightenment values in the NY Times today, Nov. 4th, 2004--"critical intelligence, tolerance, respect for evidence, a regard for the secular sciences" that the founders of our nation shared.

"Where else do we find fundamentalist zeal, a rage at secularity, religious intolerance, fear of and hatred for modernity? Not in France or Britain or Germany or Italy or Spain. We find it in the Muslim world, in Al Qaeda, in Saddam Hussein's Sunni loyalists. Americans wonder that the rest of the world thinks us so dangerous, so single-minded, so impervious to international appeals. They fear jihad, no matter whose zeal is being expressed.

"It is often observed that enemies come to resemble each other. We torture the torturers, we call our God better than theirs - as one American general put it, in words that the president has not repudiated."

Here is my letter to him:

Thanks so much for your Op-Ed piece in the NY Times on the 4th of Nov.  Although of little comfort, your analysis is spot on.

Your bravery in stating what the news media will never say:  that there is an equivalence between the fundamentalism of our current American Electorate and that of the fundamentalist Muslims, should be applauded.  Our nation, under the misleadership of Bush, has indeed come to resemble what we take to be our enemy.

Being a firmly planted bi-coastal academic, I know that I probably won't be able to fully understand the tens of millions of benighted people who voted against their economic and, frankly, even their moral interests. How can an unjust war in Iraq possibly be moral? How can they accept the blood of possibly 100,000 Iraqi's on our hands? Why would Catholic Bishops tell their parishes that voting for Kerry would be a sin, whereas killing innocent people is not?  But, as you point out, it is not about reason, it is about passion.

My friends all tell me that this will last a generation or more.  I do not agree. The universe doesn't run on faith, and we can not understand it's workings with faith, eventually, if decisions are continually made on the basis of faith, they will fail, as surely as praying for the sun not to rise can not stop it. The 'moral zealots' will push away from enlightenment, but it is force that only gets stronger the further from it you go.  Neither the economy nor a war can be run on faith, just as surely as faith alone will not cure disease.  The only question is how long we'll have to wait for this powerful force to make it's way known again to many of our nation.

Thanks, and good luck to us all over the next 4 years.  I for one, will be doing everything I can to understand how to bring America, however much it might kick and scream at the reality principle, back from the brink of a fundamentalist theocracy.

--Alex Cohen

Would you believe....The Re-election of Bush?

Well, looks like it's over, Kerry has apparently conceded and he lost Ohio without any chaos, thankfully. In the end Bush's minions apparently gave up the ghost and barely challenged anyone, perhaps it was the first ruling which took the mickey out of them....

What surprises me most, though, is the sheer chutzpa of the Bush campaign, they are going to think this is a mandate to run the country any way they see fit, much like they've been doing all along, but without the restraint that Bush wanted to get re-elected.

Remember what Cheney said...."It's our Due" Now that they control the country completely and utterly, what will this mean? Only time will tell...

Now with reasonable majorities in the House and the Senate, they can run roughshod over us and loot the economy with glee.

Update on Voter Scandal in Ohio

Rebuffing G.O.P., 2 Judges Bar Challengers at Polls in Ohio

Finally, the Republican efforts at suppressing the vote have been declared flatly unconstitutional, in a ruling today by United States District Judge Susan J. Dlott in Cincinnati (appointed by President Bill Clinton) "found that the application of Ohio's statute allowing challengers at polling places was unconstitutional and that allowing any candidates other than election judges and other electors into the polling place would place "an undue burden upon voters" and impede their right to vote."

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