First there was the closing down of areas for dissent around the White House and the Capital Mall. Then there was the Patriot Acts. Then there were the no fly lists which included nuns who dared to speak out against Bush policies, domestic and foreign. Then there were arrests and detentions of foreign nationals without any judicial review. And largely unknown to the public then there were arrests of US citizens and incarcerations without noticification of kin, judicial review or even formal charges--on the basis of "national security"
Now using the new format of homeland security, intelligence agencies have begun forming "unofficial" working relationships with local police, prosecutors, right wing veterans groups and even Young Republican organizations to target dissenters and even musicians whose lyrical content is deemed to be "unacceptable" by the right wing neo-con fundamentalist Bush Administration. When intelligence informs the local police about the "unpatriotic" tendencies of Bush dissenters, their local associates visits schools, places of employment, neighbors or venues such as bars where musicians perform--attempting to portray target dissenters as "security risks" to the locals. These activities have recently crossed another line where events are staged in order to arrest the target dissenters on manufactured charges or bring violence by vigilante groups against targeted Bush dissenters with police complicity or at least tacit approval. A veteran activist who testified with John Kerry in the 1971 VVAW camp in on the DC Mall (before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee), has reported these breeches of Constitutional protections along with nuns, School of the Americas (old name) activists, anti-NAFTA marchers, etc. to the traditional civil liberties groups such as the ACLU and National Lawyers groups--without much success. The motto that what goes around,comes around seems to have been forgotten. It now seems apparent that the death squad groupings and "dirty tricks" of the School Of The Americans, which was used in times past against Mossadegh in Iran or Allende in Chile have been adapted to usage by the Mercer County Sheriff's Department in southern West Virginia.. In the face of the continuing assaults of Constitutional government by the Bush Regime and the massive voter fraud which has just occured in the Nov. election it is absolutely essential that all progressive lawyer groups be revitialized and ready for the struggles to come. We must try to re-establish the election process before it is lost to selection process forever ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
