[CTRL] Your Tax Dollars At Work
-Caveat Lector- Imagine Suburbia Under Siege by Laurie King-Irani* July 13, 2001 Another hot and suffocating day. You wake up in a home with only sporadic electricity. The water pressure is too low to provide a good shower or bath for you or your family. The neighboring community, armed to the teeth and keeping you and your loved ones in its gun-sights, has sunk a well to the level of the water table of your household; it's their resource now. Not much you can do to stop them--you and what army? Your children are hungry, irritable, and smelly. You try to calm them, singing them songs while heating up some left-over coffee and listening to news reports on a battery powered radio that promise your difficult life is only going to get worse. You need to get to town to buy some food and medicine. Is it safe to try today? No. From your bullet-pocked front door, you see that heavily armed soldiers have blockaded the intersection at the end of your street once again. They are forbidding anyone from going in or out. Another day of being trapped, hungry, frustrated, and anxious about your father's heart condition, your sister's troubled pregnancy. How will you get them to the hospital when the moment of illness or birth comes? In the searing heat of the afternoon, you decide to take a nap and encourage the fussy children to do the same. But no sooner do you all begin to rest and escape into a fitful sleep from the misery and humiliation of your daily lives than the grinding roar of the bulldozers starts up again. The remaing trees of your family's orchards, a key economic resource for your entire community, are being uprooted by the neighboring community, which wants to expand its considerable living space yet again at your expense--while also reminding you who is boss here. Some teenaged boys cannot take it any more--the pressure, the boredom, the uncertainty, the injustice. They are gathering to complain loudly to the soldiers at the intersection. The soldiers grow edgy and begin to position themselves for some action. One of the boys flings a rock, and the explosion hanging all day in the air as a possibility is realized: gunshots ring out, tear gas cannisters fly, shouts and screams rip through the quiet rage and despair engulfing all of you. In less than five minutes, one boy lies dead, three more are wounded. No one can get them to the hospital. Will they survive their wounds? And if they do, what sort of future awaits them in this cage? Maybe it is best to die, after all. The radio brings a report from a powerful leader of a foreign country blaming you and your children for this state of affairs, calling on you and your children to cease and desist from your violence. You have no help, no money, no basic amenities, no weapons, and little hope. You do have a sense of outrage and astonishment that the entire world cannot appreciate how unfair this situation is, how outgunned and overwhelmed you and your family are. That outrage, burning in your empty stomach, is all that sustains you through yet another endless day If this were your daily, inescapble reality, in the suburbs and cities of the USA, would you accept it? Would you expect the world to accept it? Probably not. So why should anyone in the comfort of a US city or suburb expect Palestinians under occupation to acquiecse to their oppression, strangulation, disenfranchisement, and dehumanization? The next time some talking head in the US media tells you that Palestinian violence must end, imagine yourself in their worn and tattered shoes, and don't forget: Your tax dollars are enabling this situation to continue. -- Laurie King-Irani is Freelance writer, and former Editor of Middle East Report. She can be reached it: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send ema
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Your TAX DOLLARS are paying for this! Make certain you checkout the three Buttons at the top. Visit the NEW web site of the rapist and his whore, at: http://www.afterschool.gov/kidsnteens2.html -- Bard We are a Nation of the Rule of Law; however, I, for one, will not be Ruled by the Lawless. To All Elected Officials: "Stop stealing my earnings that you use to give to those whom you know will vote for you." There's not a dime bit of difference between a DemoRat and a RepubRat, they're simply two wings of the same bird of prey which pecks at your earnings while insidiously devouring your Freedom. BUCHANAN-Reform http://gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Eternal Vigilance - The Price of Freedom! http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] "Your Tax Dollars At Work--Florida Rednecks"
-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: Your Tax Dollars At Work--Florida Rednecks - Subject: Your Tax Dollars At Work--Florida Rednecks From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ">[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abemarf) Date: Tue, 21 December 1999 06:00 AM EST Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Racist clique of guards alleged Inmates and guards say knotted cords worn by some prison officers signify those willing to "straighten out'' minorities. By ADAM C. SMITH © St. Petersburg Times, published December 16, 1999 -- -- Dangling from the pants pockets of some Florida prison officers, they look like innocuous sailor-knot key chains, the sort of thing kids might make at summer camp. But some correctional officers and inmates describe them as something more sinister: a secret symbol of solidarity for rogue officers willing to step over the line when using force on inmates, especially black inmates. The significance of the cords is said to be a well-kept secret. "I've heard them called "Nr Knots.' Only certain people get them, and if you're in that group, they'll protect you, whatever you get into," said Capt. Willie Hogan, a 21-year veteran officer from Lancaster Correctional Institution west of Gainesville. Hogan, who is black, declined to comment further, saying the Department of Corrections frowns on officers talking to the media. The knotted cords, one of which was given to the Times, are relatively common, especially in North Florida prisons. But inmates and officers say their significance is a well-kept secret. Three officers and three inmates confirmed that the cords represent a secret clique of guards. The Times contacted the Corrections Department about the knotted cords Tuesday afternoon, and department Secretary Michael Moore immediately ordered an investigation. A dozen investigators dispatched to Lancaster on Wednesday began interviewing all employees there and inspecting key chains. Department spokesman C.J. Drake said that 200 of the prison's 359 employees were interviewed by Wednesday evening and that 30 people on annual leave were ordered back for interviews. "We take the allegations seriously and encourage employees to report allegations of this kind of conduct to the (department's) inspector general's office," Drake said. "We're going to get to the bottom of whatever allegations have been made. If the allegations are substantiated, then we'll take appropriate action." Drake said an FBI agent in June interviewed Capt. Hogan about charges with "racial overtones" and could not substantiate the allegations. Drake did not know if those allegations specifically related to the knotted cords. The agent who interviewed Hogan declined to comment, and the FBI office in Jacksonville did not return phone calls Wednesday. James E. Wiggins, a burly former captain at Cross City Correctional Institution, said he used to have his own knotted cord key chain until he retired in 1995. He suggested that proving the meaning of the cords will be difficult at best. "Certain officers have them, but they're not issued by the department. You ask people, and they'll tell you, "Oh, this is just a key chain. It's nothing,"' said a chuckling Wiggins, a 15-year veteran of the prison system. Wiggins, who is white, said guards know that if they see a fellow officer with a knotted cord that person will back them up if they want to "straighten out" an inmate. He cheerfully demonstrated on a reporter how the cords, though usually only about 6 inches long, can make an effective tool for inflicting pain. One way is to wrap them around one or two of the inmate's fingers and then bend his hand backward against his chest. Another method is to stand behind an inmate and, with both hands, pull the cord hard up against the bottom of the inmate's nose until the pain forces him into submission. "They usually have keys on them so they can also make a good slap-jack, if you have to have one," Wiggins said. "Ingenuity, my friend, ingenuity." Several inmates told the Times that they think the cords signify officers who belong to a racist hate group, an allegation repeated by two current correctional officers who refused to be publicly identified. "They call them "two nrs in a knot," said 20-year-old Chester Hart, a former gang member who has done time in several of Florida's correctional facilities for burglary and grand theft. "You see those things all throughout the prison system. I saw them at Sumter, South Florida, (Lake) Butler and Indian River. In all the institutions I went to I saw officers carry those knots, and it was always the racist ones, the ones always picking on the black guys, never the white guys," said Hart, who was released from Lancaster a year ago and now lives in Pinellas County. Hart said that once in 1998, he was ordered into an officer's room at Lancaster where several sergeants and
[CTRL] Your Tax Dollars At Work
-Caveat Lector- Your tax dollars at work (or how my impeachment "bombed.") flw World Telegraph ISSUE 1322 Thursday 7 January 1999 UN agencies tell of wayward missiles By Alan Philps, Middle East Correspondent LAST month's British and American air strikes against Iraq destroyed an agricultural college and a grain silo containing 2,600 tons of rice, cut off water supplies for 300,000 people in the capital, Baghdad, and damaged a dozen schools and hospitals, United Nations agencies have said. In Baghdad, the agencies reported that explosions near a maternity hospital and the Saddam Medical City, a hospital complex across the road from the old defence ministry building, which was extensively targeted during the raids, left windows and doors shattered, and ceiling tiles displaced. Parts of the Health Ministry were damaged, while the gatehouse of the Labour and Social Affairs ministry took a direct hit, injuring two guards. The two agencies - the UN Children's Fund, Unicef, and the World Food Programme - are involved in implementing the oil-for-food scheme, under which the proceeds of Iraqi oil sales are used to buy food and medicine and upgrade schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. Unicef has asked the UN sanctions committee in New York to allow Iraq to import water treatment material. It said a stray cruise missile hit the Karrada district of Baghdad, rupturing a water main. In the southern city of Basra 10 schools suffered damage to windows, doors and electrical systems. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
