How to Keep Military Recruiters Out of Your High School
Pat Elder serves on the Coordinating Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth, NNOMY, http://www.nnomy.org. Well known in the national peace and justice scene, Pat has been organizing resistance to the Bush administration’s wars since 2001. Based in the DC area, Pat works with a wide range of groups, attempting to confront the militarization of the nation’s high schools. Pat will be speaking live this evening, April 16th, and taking your questions, between 8 and 9 p.m. ET. Go to: http://thepeoplespeakradio.net to learn more. Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live. You'll find instructions there to enter a paltalk chat room where you can post questions. You can also phone in and ask Pat your questions on the air. Call in tollfree from anywhere in the United States or Canada at 888-228-4494 or anywhere else in the world at 877-489-6350. Following the show, the audio file will be posted at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/audio/2008 and you can find there now the recordings of numerous shows with amazing guests. To support The People Speak Radio please donate at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/donate
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Torture Planning In White House By Jeff Morris- DeJaVu57
Torture Planning Inside The White House?
There's no doubt that these torture planning admissions go right to the top of the Team Bush food chain, criminally implicating Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice..... The President has admitted planning the War Crimes himself!!! Just when you think the Bush administration couldn't possibly be any more lawless and corrupt than it already is, a new even worse scandal emerges proving "Yes" They Can!
What a shameful and disgusting path these War Criminals have taken America down over the past seven years! In 2001, if someone had told me what was going to happen in America over the next seven years, I never would have believed it possible. The Patriot Act, NSA warrant less spying on innocent Americans, Military Commissions Act, Suspension of Habeas Corpus, Guantanamo Bay, Pres signing statements, Executive Branch abuses of power, citing Executive privilege to cover up their own possible law breaking.....just to name a few!
Will Congress ignore THIS also, and do nothing about it again? How much more law breaking and Constitution shredding is this Congress willing to turn a blind eye to. This is about WAR CRIMES being PLANNED inside the WHITE HOUSE!!! Will the enablers/accomplice Republicans in Congress put loyalty to the party above loyalty to the Constitution and rule of law again? Will the timid/spineless Democrats in Congress play their same role and again do nothing? Will their lack of courage prevail in the end again? When will the members of both parties see the necessity of upholding their sworn oath To Defend The Constitution?
I remember back in High School learning about WW II and Nazi Germany. I always wondered how could a nation so advanced as Germany was then, follow such mad men? How could it be possible? The way the always Loyal To The Party Republicans of today excuse and defend all the criminal acts of this Bush administration, combined with a spineless slim Democrat majority Congress, has unfortunately given me the answer to that.
The Democratic (slim majority) Congress seems to have adopted a play it safe strategy for both the 06 mid term and 08 Pres elections concerning calling this administration out on all of its shenanigans. I think it's the wrong strategy. If they wanted to, with a little help from the media, they could make the Republican accomplices and enablers of this administration defend these criminal acts under the National spotlight, as I'm sure they would try to. I'd love to see McConnell, Boehner, and maybe even McBu$hCo himself defend torture (a War Crime) being planned at the highest level inside the White House itself!
The Democrats want to win back the White House in 08. Any House or Senate Republican who defends Bush and torture will likely be defeated in their next re election attempt, provided there's ample media coverage. A great way for the Democrats to widen both their House and Senate majorities! If only they had the Courage to Lead.
Back during Watergate, the Republicans in the House and Senate understood the importance of loyalty to your Country, above loyalty to your political party. Even the Republicans were prepared to Impeach. Nixon resigned instead, to avoid himself the embarrassment. I'm not sure if these new Republicans of today will ever do the right thing. Supporting spying on innocent Americans, torture, suspension of Habeas Corpus, The Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act, Guantanamo Bay...The magnitude of the Executive Branch abuse of power and crimes committed by the Bush administration, have far exceeded those of the Nixon administration. The Bush administration makes Nixon and his crew look like choir boys by comparison.
Why is our MSM more concerned with Brittany, Paris, Hillary's tax returns, Obama's bowling scores.... than something this big? There should be much more news coverage about this and Congress should take its thumb out of its rear end and DO something about this for a "Real Change"! We send a terrible message to the rest of the World by not holding these thugs in the White House accountable for something of this magnitude. We have now become as bad as the old USSR here in America in the worlds eyes. Where the hell are you Congress and our media on this?
Jeff Morris-Saugerties, N.Y.- DeJaVu57