-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 107 November, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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Contents:
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--They Held Their Noses
--Sham Election Shows Need for Independent Politics!
--Buchanan threatens injunction in recount
--Crackdown: When Police Wage War Against Activists
Linked stories:
*210 Volunteers Sign Up To Inspect Florida Ballots
*State Dept. Warns Americans of Ebola Risk in Uganda
*Legal War Between Bush, Gore Camps Expand
*Crisis of a house divided?
*The upside of political gridlock
*In bookstore's stacks, a clash over free speech
*Missing voting mechanism recovered
*Waco payback
*Radical Evolution: Earth First! Journal Celebrates 20 Years
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They Held Their Noses
<http://www.nypress.com/content.cfm?content_id=3080&now=11/14/2000&content_section=1>
by Alexander Cockburn
11/14/00
See what happens when they say, "Hold your nose and vote for Al Gore"?
Those elderly Jewish ladies in Palm Beach County tried to do just that.
It's tough to read a ballot properly when you're trying to squint around
the side of your hand. Try it yourself. There used to be federal guidelines
put out by the Justice Dept. on precisely the right way to grip your nose
and still see straight, but ironically Al Gore did away with the regs as
part of his Reinventing Government drive back in '94.
"Public happiness," Hannah Arendt once wrote, "is not isolating, but
shared. It is the happiness of being free among other free people, of
having one's public faith redeemed and returned." Never have I known such
intense public happiness as at what's happening in Florida. You walk down
the street and you hear "Gore" or "Bush" or "Florida" on every gleeful lip.
Now that the supposedly democratic "mandate" is being reduced to absolute
farce, Americans are having their instinctive lack of faith in the
political process rousingly vindicated. Everyone knows that what's true of
Palm Beach County, incompetent technology, human frailty, willful
obstruction of inconvenient voters, is true of probably half the counties
across the United States.
The theoretical purpose of the ballot box is to register the choice of the
voters. The actual purpose, unless the count is sufficiently lopsided to
banish all uncertainty, is to jimmy the count to match the exit polls being
called by CNN and the networks, or to consort with the wishes of whatever
political machine happens to be in charge. When asked some years ago why
his country has so many statutes, Ireland's Minister of Justice replied,
"Our laws are mainly for guidance." It's the same with American electoral
procedures. In the courtroom of Federal Judge Middlebrooks in Florida, it
was acknowledged by a Bush lawyer that voting can have a built-in error
rate of anywhere from 2 to 5 percent.
Since the polls regularly concede an error margin in their estimates of
anywhere from 4 to 6 percent, this means that the better polls are more
reliable registers of the people's choice than the machines that supposedly
record the people's conclusive judgment. Presumably absentee ballots,
filled in by hand, are more reliable, but as we await the final count of
those filled in by technical Florida residents on Israel's West Bank or in
a military base somewhere in the Empire, we should note that their
destination can be uncertain, too. CNN reported Monday that two absentee
ballots sent by a couple of overseas voters back home to the state of
Washington turned up in the mailbox of a family on the Danish island of Fyn.
Gazing at the assorted spokespeople for Gore and Bush we can exult in the
tradition of vote fraud that ennobles America's political history. Here is
William Daley, chairman of Al Gore's campaign, son of Mayor Richard Daley
who helped fix the Cook County vote in Illinois in 1960, an important
ingredient in the drive to put Jack Kennedy over the top, even as Richard
Nixon's men in southern Illinois toiled to fix the vote the other way. Here
too is James Baker, scion of the Texas oil industry that benefited so
hugely from Lyndon Johnson's first stolen election when his crucial margin
was achieved with the help of Texas citizens voting in alphabetical order.
Many an American success story stems from vote fraud. The treasurer of the
Cook County Democratic Party in 1960, when JFK needed votes in Chicago to
put him over, was a (Kentucky) colonel called Henry Crown who was also the
head of Chicago Sand and Gravel, regarded by some as a mob operation.
Crown, the money behind Daley, helped deliver the votes of dead Democrats
in the county. The following year Crown bought roughly $300 million of
General Dynamics' debentures, only to experience the mortification of seeing
General Dynamics rack up a huge loss, due to the collapse of its Convair
770 and 880 airliner program. GD had been hot to get deeper into the civil
aviation market, but its Convair flopped.
Just about that fraught time, the U.S. Air Force was completing source
selection for a tri-service fighter project. The selection panel opted for
Boeing's proposal as the best, and this recommendation was sent up to the
Secretary of the Air Force and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. At
this point Crown decided to call in his chips. He phoned Kennedy, who
muscled McNamara into selecting General Dynamic's swing-wing F-lll design.
McNamara toed the line, and GD duly produced a famous design and
engineering catastrophe, which eventually had to be recalled but which
nonetheless retrieved the value of Crown's debentures and set General
Dynamics firmly on the road to commercial success. So America's leading
defense conglomerate today found its decisive turn of fortune in vote fraud
in Chicago in 1960.
Until Florida's voting procedures began to monopolize public attention, the
villain of the hour was Ralph Nader, whose Green vote seems at time of
writing to have been a decisive factor in Florida, New Hampshire and
Oregon. But for the votes for Nader in these states, Gore would have won.
Depending on what the Republicans do, Nader could also turn out to have
played a crucial role in Wisconsin and Iowa.
This was not lost on Democrats, some of whom left such finely crafted
messages on the Vote Nader 2000 website as: "Instead of spitting on
yourself, why not kill yourself. Save us the trouble of having to hunt you
down." "I hope to god that one of the trees that Nader saves falls on him
and kills him." "I hope someone kills you!" "May Nader die slowly in
horrible agony from some loathsome disease!" "Go to hell and die!! If I see
a car with a faggot Nader bumper sticker I'm gonna smash it with a
crowbar!!!" "An Arab can never be trusted. They will wait as long as it
takes to do you in and this is exactly what Nader has done to the country."
"Kids across the country will die because they're too frightened to tell
someone they are gay. Their blood is on your hands." "I don't ever want to
see your faggot face. You assholes handed the country to Bush. Bunch of
environmental faggots."
Such sentiments weren't confined to Democratic yahoos on the Web. Lloyd
Grove, in his Washington Post gossip column, writes that Tina Brown's
husband Harry Evans exclaimed, "I want to kill Nader!" and Hillary Clinton
replied, "That's not a bad idea!"
Talking to Nader last Thursday, I asked him what he thought of Grove's
story. "I called up Evans," Nader answered, "and he was chagrined. He said
everyone was drunk, and he apologized. But look at what Hillary Clinton
said right after. Can you imagine what would happen if the Secret Service
monitored a private citizen making a remark like that about a public
political figure?" Nader called up New York's freshly elected junior
senator, but as of Thursday she was too busy with her proposed
constitutional amendment discarding the
Electoral College to get back to him.
I asked Nader if he was disappointed at the Greens' 3 percent national
showing. "I always knew the projected Green vote would drop when people got
into the voting booth," Nader answered. "You should see some of the scare
tactics of the Gore crowd. Telling people that if they voted for me they'd
be sponsoring backstreet abortions. In part we have been the victim of
inflated expectations, with people predicting that we were heading for 8
percent. On election day I said I reckoned we'd get about 3.5 percent."
In my own view, the fact that they didn't get 5 percent should be cause for
rejoicing by all sensible Greens. A 5 (or more) percent showing would have
brought the prospect of millions in federal public money for the Greens in
the next election cycle and, like the Reform Party, they would spend the
next few years fighting over the money and getting nothing done.
I asked Nader whether he would prefer Bush or Gore in the White House and
he hemmed and hawed a bit. One can make arguments both ways, and we chewed
over the alternatives in our chat. On the one hand, a Bush victory deriving
in part from Nader taking votes away from Gore would remind Democrats that
they had better listen more carefully to Green demands in the years to
come. On the other hand, Democrats in opposition can call for unity and a
setting aside of differences in recapturing power. If Gore wins the White
House it will be far easier for Greens to organize amid ongoing Democratic
misbehavior and betrayal. You can make the case both ways, which I duly
did, with Nader agreeing with both. I don't think he's made up his mind on
the matter, which is understandable.
I bid Nader to be of good cheer and not to be oppressed by vilification by
the Democrats. "I've been writing that you're our Robespierre, Ralph! With
class-action suits instead of the guillotine!" "Oh my God," he said,
laughing. "I hope no one you say that to knows any history. At least you
didn't say, 'You're our Marat.'" Nader voters didn't vote holding their
noses, so they didn't screw up their ballots.
And for that dwindling and beleaguered minority of the populace which read
books, I bring this information: George Bush and Al Gore both asserted in
the campaign that their favorite book is the Bible. Bush also confessed to
having read a biography of Dean Acheson. Absent evidence that he's read
anything else, we can put that down as W's number-two pick.
Gore put Stendhal's Le Rouge et Le Noir as his second favorite volume.
Early in October I asked Nader for his two top books and back came the
answer through his campaign manager Theresa Amato, Alfred North Whitehead,
The Aims of Education, and Harmony Ideology by Laura Nader. I must confess
I've never read Whitehead's book, but I do know the one by Ralph's sister
Laura. It's an attack on the notion of "coercive harmony," which Laura
Nader, a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley, once defined as
"basically a movement against the contentious in anything, and it has very
strange bedfellows, from people with various psychiatric therapy movements,
Christian fundamentalists, corporations sick of paying lawyers, activists
who believe we should love each other... We're talking about coercive
harmony, an ideology that says if you disagree, you should really keep your
mouth shut."
So if you want to understand what makes Nader run and why the shrieks of
the Democrats don't faze him, read his sister's (the real Dr. Laura) book.
It's pleasing to see that Palm Beach County held the country's future in
the palm of its election officers' hands. Back in 1979, down in that part
of Florida, I interviewed former President George Bush's mother Dorothy, a
charming lady living in Hobe Sound. Like many in Bush's family, she
referred to Poppy indulgently as a slightly eccentric and not particularly
promising scion who had made the truly odd decision to go and seek his
fortune in Texas. Not long thereafter I interviewed Dorothy's
daughter-in-law, Barbara Bush, one of the nastier women I have ever
encountered in the course of journalistic business. The way I read it, W as
a kid was ranged solidly with Mom, marooned in the oil patch as Poppy
galloped around the globe.
You doubt Mom was angry? Please explain why she decided to look like her
husband's mother. W is a mommy's boy. Anyway, the Bush family member I
spent some time with in those months when Poppy was trying to get the
Republican nomination was John Ellis, a George W. cousin then working for
NBC, more recently a columnist for New York Press. On election night 2000,
it was Ellis, if you believe The Washington Post of Nov. 13, who in his
capacity as a member of the Fox election team looked at the Florida numbers
and instructed the Fox network to call the state for Bush, which it duly
did at 2:16 a.m., copied by the other networks almost immediately. VNS,
which gives voting data to the networks, contrary to endless stories, never
did issue a prediction.
Now we're at the point when to deny Al Gore the victory in Florida is to
deny the Holocaust. Here's what Michael Moore posted on his site over the
weekend: "Sixty-two years ago tonight, the Holocaust began in full force on
what was called Kristallnacht. The German government sent goon squads
throughout the country to trash and burn the homes, stores and temples of
its Jewish citizens. Seven years and 6 million slaughtered lives later, the
Jewish people of Europe were virtually extinct. A few survived. I will not
allow those who survived to come here to this 'land of the free' to be
abused again. They are our fellow citizens in our great democracy, and
their voice, if I have anything to say about it, will never be snuffed out."
Are the stakes really that high? Of course they're not. That's why everyone
is having such a wonderful time. The Lewinksy scandal was good, dirty fun.
Vote Screwup 2000 is good, clean fun. It makes no difference whether Gore
or Bush is "elected," or appointed by America's tiny reserve of "wise men."
We have glorious gridlock, and the prospect of glorious gridlock for the
next four years. If Bush makes it, we'll probably get Al in four years
after Bush is retired, just as his dad was, by a recession. If Gore makes
it, we'll get W in 2004 for the same reasons, then in 2008 it will be
Hillary's turn.
And our greatest president? Ford of course, a man who never received any
popular mandate in the voting booth to enter the White House. New evidence,
just in from a report by the House Budget Committee, Democratic minority
staff:
Growth of Non-defense Appropriations by Presidency. Average annual percent
change in real outlays, adjusted for timing shifts.
Ford 1973-1977 7.2%
Nixon 1969-1973 4.3%
Bush 1989-1993 3.8%
Johnson 1965-1969 2.7%
Carter 1977-1981 2.2%
Clinton 1993-2001 2.0%
Reagan 1981-1989 -1.3%
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Buchanan threatens injunction in recount
Says Palm Beach officials failed to notify him of county's action
By Jon E. Dougherty
WorldNetDaily.com
An attorney for Reform Party presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan has
warned Theresa LePore, Palm Beach County elections board supervisor, to halt
any further manual recounts of the 425,000 ballots cast on Election Day
because she failed to notify the Buchanan campaign of the county's action.
According to a letter sent to LePore by Thomas Buchanan, the Reform
candidate's brother -- of the Winston & Strawn law office in Washington, D.C.
-- LePore has not notified the Buchanan campaign officially that a manual
recount of some of his votes is taking place.
Florida state law, under § 102.166(4)(c), says that when a county canvassing
board authorizes a manual recount, "the county canvassing board shall make a
reasonable effort to notify each candidate whose race is being recounted at
the time and place of such recount."
"It is clear that this statutory provision requires you, or your
representatives, to notify Mr. Buchanan of the manual recount taking place in
your county," the letter to LePore stated.
Tom Buchanan, in his letter, said the statute was "obviously designed to
provide Mr. Buchanan and the other presidential candidates timely notice of
the recount, so that they can effectively participate in the process."
However, the letter said, "neither the canvassing board of Palm Beach ... nor
your office, nor any other agency or department of the state, has made any
effort to notify Mr. Buchanan, formally or informally, of this recount.
"Considering that Mr. Buchanan's campaign address is on file in Palm Beach
County and is easily accessible," the letter continued, "there is no excuse
for not notifying him of the decision to initiate a manual recount."
Also, Tom Buchanan wrote, "subsection 7(a) of Fla. State. Ann. § 102.166
provides that the county canvassing board must include, when possible,
members of at least two political parties in the manual recount process."
Though Republican and Democratic representatives are in Palm Beach to oversee
the recounts, Buchanan, in his letter, said his Reform Party brother's
ballots "are at issue."
"By not notifying him of the manual recount he was precluded from even
attempting to have a representative from his party present during the
recount. ..."
The letter, he said, was sent to request "a cessation of the recount in your
county until [Patrick Buchanan] receives proper notification and the
opportunity to be heard as to why a representative from the Reform Party
should not be present during the manual recount."
The letter said if LePore refused to stop recounting ballots "and allow Mr.
Buchanan or a member from the Reform Party to participate in the process, we
will have no choice but to seek injunctive or other relief to stop the
process in its tracks."
The Buchanan campaign requested "a prompt response," or threatened to seek
remedy in a court of law.
Tom Buchanan told WorldNetDaily that the Palm Beach letter had also been sent
to Volusia and Broward counties, and that he was considering sending one to
Dade County as well.
"The state statute requires us to be notified" when manual recounts occur,
Buchanan said. "They never notified us or allowed us to participate in any
decision as to which parties should be present" during the recounts.
As of last night, Buchanan said he had not received any response in writing
from any of the counties.
Some analysts said the Buchanan letter may have been responsible for the
abrupt announcement by Palm Beach county election officials early yesterday
to stop the manual recount that had already gotten underway.
WorldNetDaily could not confirm that analysis with Palm Beach officials or
with officials with the Buchanan campaign before press time.
Other officials connected with the Buchanan action suggested that it was
likely county election officials also failed to contact Libertarian Harry
Brown and Green Party nominee Ralph Nader, but they could not confirm that.
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Sham Election Shows Need for Independent Politics!
November 2000 of the People's Tribune/Tribuno del Pueblo
"Elections are the democratic mask that hides the reality of class
dictatorship in America. This mask was ripped to shreds in the
November election. It showed that elections, criminal injustice, mob
control of politicians, and corporate control of all of it is but one
large can of worms."
"The ruling class picks two of its representatives and gives you the
privilege of voting for one of them. It would be simpler if the
various corporations just announced their candidates. Then we would
know who to hold responsible. Fraud, plus deceit and bribery -- and a
disgusted America stayed home and watched television."
"The eight-year Democratic administration did almost everything the
Republican "opposition" demanded. At best the differences between the
Democrats and Republicans are and have been in degree rather than
kind. The reason for the almost 50/50 vote is the people see precious
little difference between the candidates."
"Both sides have called for increased "bipartisanship." If the
parties are to unite after the election, why did we have the
election? Small wonder the people went fishing."
"Both of these candidates are committed to the ongoing globalization
of the economy with all its consequences. No matter who finally
prevails, the attack on our standard of living will continue and
increase. The courts and government will continue to erode our
rights. The number one job of the next president will be to force the
American worker either to be more competitive with the workers of the
so-called third world, or see jobs continue to flow out of the
country."
"There has to be and is a motion away from the "evils" and toward
independent political activity. There is no better time to take that
step than now. A clear line must be drawn between the needs of the
people and the needs of the corporations. This can only be done by
stabilizing and broadening the Labor Party of America. We believe
that path is now open."
"Elections are only one aspect of politics, and not the most
important one. More important are the daily struggles of the people.
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Crackdown: When Police Wage War Against Activists
by Naomi Klein
Published on Wednesday, November 15, 2000 in the Toronto Globe & Mail
On Oct 20, University of Toronto student Derek Laventure attended a
protest outside the Ontario Tory convention. He saw a police officer
drag away a fellow activist and he was heard to say, "That's not
right." Next, witnesses say, he was brutally assaulted by several
police officers, thrown against a barricade headfirst (his eye was so
bruised, it swelled shut), and arrested.
His crime? Allegedly carrying a weapon and using it to assault a
police officer. The "weapon" was a black flag.
On the night Mr. Laventure was arrested, Elan Ohayon, a U of T PhD
student, was sleeping in Toronto's Allan Gardens. He had camped there
every Friday for more than a year as part of a protest against
inadequate public housing and police harassment of homeless people.
The next morning, Mr. Ohayon woke up surrounded by police officers.
They arrested him and, he alleges, assaulted him. Like Mr. Laventure,
Mr. Ohayon was charged with assaulting police. He was told to sign
bail conditions that barred him from returning to Allan Gardens. He
refused. That meant abandoning the vigil to which he had committed
himself as an activist.
Last week, after spending 20 nights in jail, a judge struck down the
conditions placed on Mr. Ohayon's release. A few hours later, he was
once again camped out at Allan Gardens.
It isn't the first time in recent months that a judge has questioned
bail conditions that restrict the right to engage in political
protest. After an anti-poverty protest at Queen's Park turned violent
last June, several of the key organizers of the Ontario Coalition
Against Poverty were charged with inciting or participating in a riot.
Though they had not been convicted of any crime, their bail conditions
explicitly barred them from continuing to be part of OCAP: They
weren't allowed to communicate with anyone in the organization, to go
to any demonstrations, to go near Allan Gardens or to Queen's Park.
For OCAP organizer Stefen Pilipa, who had to leave the group and take
a job at a factory after his arrest, the net effect was that "we were
fired -- by legal means -- from the job that we do."
Only as it turns out, the police, in their efforts to hobble OCAP,
violated the protesters' rights. In September, a higher court
overturned most of the bail conditions on the grounds that they
restricted "peaceful and lawful protest."
In Montreal, two days after Mr. Ohayon's arrest, another activist was
facing allegations that participating in a protest is a criminal
offence. After the G20 summit in Montreal, Jaggi Singh was arrested
and held for 48 hours, though he did nothing more than hand out
leaflets and give a speech. In court, a police officer testified that
Mr. Singh's speech "incited a riot" (he was not charged with this
offence in the end).
What did Mr. Singh say? He asked some difficult questions about the
real cost of the economic policies pursued by the politicians at the
summit. What is violence, he asked -- a broken window at a
demonstration, or the violence of homelessness, social exclusion, and
police brutality?
What links the crackdowns on activism in Quebec and Ontario is that,
increasingly, people such as Mr. Singh and Mr. Ohayon are facing the
same kind of exclusion and criminalization they are agitating against:
In trying to fight the problem, they are getting a taste of it
firsthand. The fear that a protest might turn violent is being used to
justify staffing demos with more cops than protesters; photographing
activists; arresting leaders off the street; and demanding bail
conditions that make activism illegal. As well, says Bob Kellerman,
lawyer for several of the protesters, "when police use excessive
force, they have to justify it by accusing people of such things as
assaulting police."
The net effect is that some of the most effective organizers in the
country are spending precious time trying to keep themselves from
being convicted of crimes they should never have been charged with in
the first place.
Mr. Kellerman says minor charges such as trespass are routinely being
inflated to criminal charges, "to provide a legal basis for arrests
and restrictive bail conditions they would not otherwise be able to
justify. The police view each demonstration as trouble rather than as
a sign of a healthy democracy."
No wonder, then, that there is a widespread perception among activists
that police are waging a war against them. Two weeks ago, Quebec
Public Security Minister Serge Ménard gave a preview of his plans for
containing protests during the Summit of the Americas, to be held in
Quebec City in April. "If you want peace," he said, "prepare for war."
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210 Volunteers Sign Up To Inspect Florida Ballots
<http://www.friendsofliberty.com/00448_00.htm>
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch is mobilizing an army of volunteers, now
over 210, to inspect ballots in all 67 Florida counties. The events of the
last several days have demonstrated the intense partisanship in thwarting
the will of the American people. In addition, without an independent
inspection of the disputed ballots, the next President will lack any real
legitimacy to lead this nation.
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State Dept. Warns Americans of Ebola Risk in Uganda
<http://www.friendsofliberty.com/00447_00.htm>
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday warned Americans away
from funerals in Uganda after 150 people were feared infected by deadly
Ebola virus while mourning a woman struck down in an epidemic of the
disease.
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Legal War Between Bush, Gore Camps Expand
<http://www.friendsofliberty.com/00442_00.htm>
WASHINGTON (Nov. 15) XINHUA - The legal war between the camps of U.S.
Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush and his Democratic rival Al
Gore expanded on Wednesday as the two sides moved to the state supreme court
and federal court.
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Crisis of a house divided?
<http://www.foxnews.com/election_night/111300/divided_park.sml>
As tensions over the outcome of the presidential race escalate,
some experts see a real possibility that the underlying
divisions among Americans could break the country apart.
(11/15/00)
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The upside of political gridlock
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40200,00.html>
Swimming upstream against the frenzy of fretting over the election,
many fans of small government are publicly applauding the
prospect of federal institutions that are effectively paralyzed.
(11/16/00)
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In bookstore's stacks, a clash over free speech
<http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/11/16/fp1s2-csm.shtml>
By trying to shakedown a Denver bookstore for the name of a
customer who purchased a book on manufacturing illegal drugs,
police set the stage for a very public battle over the right to
read without Big Brother peeking over your shoulder. (11/16/00)
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Missing voting mechanism recovered
<http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/florida_votamatic_001115.html>
Police forced a Democratic official in Palm Beach County, Florida,
to surrender a device of the type used to mark ballots in the
disputed presidential election. (11/16/00)
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Waco payback
<http://civilliberty.about.com/library/weekly/aa111500a.htm>
Now that investigators have officially opined that federal agents
committed no important transgression at Waco in 1993, and the
matter is off the news radar across the country, it's time for
payback against a whistleblower. (11/16/00)
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Radical Evolution: Earth First! Journal Celebrates 20 Years
<http://www.eugeneweekly.com/11_02_00/coverstory.html>
by Orna Izakson, Eugene Weekly
-- In 1993, the outspoken Earth First! journal relocated from Tucson to
Eugene, Oregon, drawn by the college town's active environmentalist
community and creative culture. Now as the publication is moving back to
Tucson, Eugene Weekly's Orna Izakson tells the story of Earth First!,
exploring how geography inspires a social movement and vice versa.
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