--- Sponsor's Message -------------------------------------- **WIN A TRIP to HAWAII** Every time you send a FREE ZingCard through July 26, you are automatically entered in our drawing for a Hawaiian Summer get-away. Start Sending Now! http://click.topica.com/aaaaqibz8SnrbAjwjxa/ZingAd2 ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________________________________ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 4 July 2000 Vol. 4, Number 55 (#438) __________________________________________________________________________ Action Alerts: American Atheists to Picket Promise Keepers Rally -- 8 Jul Web Sites of Interest: Publius Censorship Resistant Publishing System Reminders of Far-Right Violence Pending U.S. Legislation: Karen Mathews Act of 2000 Rober Lederman, "[Introduction to the AP "FBI/Holocaust" aticle]," 2 July 00 Michael J. Sniffen (AP), "FBI Trains New Agents on Holocaust," 30 June 00 Rightwing Quote of the Week: "Tina Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Beware of Membership Groups," 29 June 00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT: 8 Jul -- Dallas Texas American Atheists to Picket Promise Keepers Rally The Promise Keepers -- "God's Mighty Men" who see themselves as the foot soldiers in a spiritually energized political army -- will be holding a huge stadium revival this coming Saturday, July 8 at the Dallas Reunion Arena. American Atheists and supporters will be onsite to defend the wall of separation between church and state against the theocratic PK agenda, which calls for America to be governed by Biblical rule. American Atheists has spoken out against the Promise Keepers movement since its inception, and we will continue to do so in Dallas. We do not contest the right of Promise Keepers -- or any other group -- to hold a peaceable assembly. We DO, however, feel that all of the segments of society demonized by these self-appointed "Godly men" -- women, gays, secularists/atheists, civil libertarians and others -- have a comparable right to speak out in defense of First Amendment separation and free expression. Join us this coming Saturday, July 8, 2000 in Dallas! Gather in front of the Reunion Arena located at 777 Sports Street (across from the Hyatt Regency Hotel) in downtown Dallas. It gets hot early at this time of year -- so we'll rendezvous at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, July 8. Appropriate picket signs and banners will be provided, and American Atheists State Director Dick Hogan is bringing his famous RV as a break center. If you live in the Ft. Worth Metroplex area, Randall Gorman will be heading for the demonstration at about 5:45 a.m. For more information on this peaceful protest... Randall Gorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dick Hogan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office of the American Atheists State Director (Texas) http://www.atheists.org/tx/ Metroplex Atheists http://www.star-telegram.com/homes/metroatheists For more information and background on Promise Keepers... * "Godly Men With A Dominionist Agenda" (http://www.americanatheist.org/spr97/T2/pk2.html) "God's Mighty Men: The Promise Keepers Rise Up" (http://www.americanatheist.org/spr97/T2/pk.html) * "Why is American Atheists Picketing The Promise Keepers?" (http://www.atheists.org/action/pkflyer.html) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB SITES OF INTEREST: Publius Censorship Resistant Publishing System <http://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius/> "Publius is a Web publishing system that is highly resistant to censorship and provides publishers with a high degree of anonymity. Publius was the pen name used by the authors of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. This collection of 85 articles, published pseudonymously in New York State newspapers form October 1787 through May 1788, was influential in convincing New York voters to ratify the proposed United States constitution. "Why this is important "The publication of written words has long been a tool for spreading new (and sometimes controversial) ideas, often with the goal of bringing about social change. Thus the printing press, and more recently, the World Wide Web, are powerful revolutionary tools. But those who seek to suppress revolutions possess powerful tools of their own. These tools give them the ability to stop publication, destroy published materials, or prevent the distribution of publications. And even if they cannot successfully censor the publication, they may intimidate and physically or financially harm the author or publisher in order to send a message to other would-be- revolutionaries that they would be well advised to consider an alternative occupation. Even without a threat of personal harm, authors may wish to publish their works anonymously or pseudonymously because they believe they will be more readily accepted if not associated with a person of their gender, race, ethnic background, or other characteristics. "How it works "Our system consists of publishers who post Publius content to the web, servers who host random-looking content, and retrievers who browse Publius content on the web. At present the system supports any static content such as HTML pages, images, and other files such as postscript, pdf, etc. Javascript also works. We assume that there is a static, system-wide list of available servers. Publius content is encrypted by the publisher and spread over some of the web servers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMINDERS OF FAR-RIGHT VIOLENCE Pending U.S. Legislation: Karen Mathews Act of 2000 Presently pending in a House committee is HR 4166, introduced on April 4, 2000 by Rep Gary Condit (Calif - Dem), who gave it the short title of the Karen Mathews Act of 2000. Karen Mathews is the county recorder in Modesto, Calif, who was threatened, stalked, and finally ambushed, beaten and raped by a member of the Christian Juris Society because she refused his demands to delete an IRS lien against his property or insert his own homebrew lien against an IRS agent's property in the county deed file. The people responsible for the crime have all been sent to the slammer but they persist in harassing her by filing lawsuits (in Washington, DC) and otherwise trying to interfere with her life. HR 4166 itself is very brief. Sec. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Karen Mathews Act of 2000." Sec. 2: Penalties for harassment of victims of federal offenses. Section 1513 of Title 18, United States Code [namely "Retaliating against a witness"], is amended by inserting after subsection (b) the following: (c)(1) Whoever, being convicted of a Federal offense, harasses the victim of that offense shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (2) As used in this subsection, the term "harass" includes the malicious or repeated frivolous filing of legal process or liens against the person or property of the victim. - - - - - [Introduction to the AP "FBI/Holocaust" aticle] Rober Lederman 2 July 00 Apply this excerpted article to NYC under the daily constitutional violations of the Giuliani administration and you'll understand why he is called Adolf Giuliani and why his administration is called a police state- - - - - - FBI Trains New Agents on Holocaust Michael J. Sniffen (AP) 30 June 00 WASHINGTON D.C. -- The FBI has begun teaching its new agents how a failure by police to protect citizen rights helped produce the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews, as well as other minorities and political dissidents were murdered by the Nazis. The training segment for agents-to-be at the FBI Academy began last month and was announced Friday by FBI Director Louis J. Freeh; Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "We do this early on in their training ... to remind them of the horror and evil which can result from not just a government, but particularly law enforcement, abandoning its mission to protect people and becoming the engine of oppression," Freeh said. The trainees are given a guided tour of the Holocaust Museum here and instruction about Adolf Hitler's use of the police in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s to round up Jews, political opponents and other targeted groups.... Bloomfield, the museum director, said, "Much of the Holocaust was perpetrated or supported by trained professionals who were 'doing their job.' The museum's program with the FBI challenges law enforcement agents to examine the moral dimensions of their professions." The topic of police complicity in the Holocaust has been a concern of Freeh's for some time. In 1994, over objections from the State Department and the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Freeh visited the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during a European trip and gave a speech at Jagellonian University in nearby Krakow, Poland, on the police role in Hitler's oppression. Freeh researched and wrote the speech himself with help from Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIGHTWING QUOTE OF THE WEEK: For those who believe that fascism is only a thing of the past Beware of Membership Groups "Tina Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29 June 00 The time for membership groups with membership cards, dues, meetings -- the whole shot is OVER. One need only look at the unfortunate lawsuits that certain Klan groups are going through, and the trouble that Matt Hale and WCOTC are having to know that it is time to change strategy and tactics, because these lawsuits will continue for organized groups. * * * * * In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. __________________________________________________________________________ FASCISM: We have no ethical right to forgive, no historical right to forget. 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