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  1. You were doing OK with the capture and kill them, and go after those who collaborated with them.......interesting that you think Horwath is a dick for his comments than.....take your medication?

    TRANSLATION:

    I love fascists, I am a fascist. I love racism and I am a racist.
    Then of course, you followed with the tired anti-Bush comments.....no need to respond to that......it speaks for itself.....

    It's called freedom of speech. Don't like it? Get the fuck out of the country.

    Of of course I "followed" with the "tired anti-bush comments" (freedom of speech once again dickwad). Why blowboy? Because Osama was trained (at the school of the Americas), supplied with weapons and funded by the CIA under Bush Sr., sheepboy and to sheer the wool off your white skin blowhard, here are the facts, cockmonger.

    Bin Laden was born the 17th of an estimated 52 children of a well-connected multimillionaire Saudi construction magnate. He studied at a Saudi university and took part in the family business, the bin Laden Group, inheriting millions when his father died in 1968.

    In 1979, bin Laden went to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets alongside the Afghan resistance fighters known as the mujahedeen.

    He used his family's connections and wealth to raise money for the Afghan resistance and provide the mujahedeen with logistical and humanitarian aid, and participated in battles in the Afghan war.

    The United States, via the CIA, poured $3 billion into the Afghan resistance during the 1980s, providing weapons and other resources for bin Laden and thousands of others who would become his most loyal, fierce supporters.

    The war, which ended with the Soviets' humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, had a profound effect on bin Laden, he later said.

    "In this jihad, the biggest benefit was the myth of the superpower was destroyed, not only in my mind, but in the minds of all Muslims," bin Laden said. Jihad, the word for struggle, is used by bin Laden to mean holy war.

    As the war drew to a close, the increasingly radical bin Laden formed al Qaeda, or "the Base" in Arabic, an organization of ex-mujahedeen and other supporters channeling fighters and funds to the Afghan resistance.

    http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/binladen/profile.html

    His code name was Timothy Osman:

    http://www.orlingrabbe.com/binladin_timosman.htm

    Don't even go there as far as the Aug 6th memo Bush conveniently ignored that discribed how Al Qaeda was going to attack and what they intended to use to conduct the attack on 9/11 because I will own you. He released the memo to the public and I can source FOX NEWS who so happened to report it, and 2 US GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS ball-licker.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,116766,00.html

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040410-5.html

    http://www.usembassy.it/file2004_04/alia/a4040910.htm

    See sperm-burper???

    Owned already!

    retard.

    Insensitive twords the mentally retarded? Dipping into Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet to "take your medication"? Take another oxycontin. Hopefully it kills you cum dumpster.

    Your idiocy speaks volumes of how much of a jackbooted sheep you are. Remarkable.

    Sucks to get owned, does it? Shut the fuck up and deal with it sheepfucker.

  2. To be serious, capture them or kill them and go after those who have collaborated with them. We know who they are. And try the Bush family for treason for collaborating with them. After all if it wasn't for Daddy Bush and his son among others in the rank and file of the US government responsible, there would not have been a Osama and would not have been an Al Qaeda.

    And speaking of answering questions, why did you duck the questions Bx was asking in another thread blowboy?

    but leave a few around to send after racist extremists such as yourself.

    PS. Grammar correction sheepboy. Always use a "?" when ending a sentence that describes a question.

  3. Igloo's kind of man. The perfect sheepboy.

    Muslims who hate us can get out, says Tory

    GERRI PEEV

    POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

    Key points

    • MP says Muslims who believe Britain is at war with Islam should leave

    • Shadow defence secretary incensed by view UK to blame for extremism

    • Muslim association calls Gerald Howarth's remarks 'naïve' and 'arrogant'

    Key quote

    "If they don't like our way of life, there is a simple remedy: go to another country, get out. There are plenty of other countries whose way of life would appear to be more conducive to what they aspire to. They would be happy and we would be happy" - Gerald Howarth, shadow defence minister.

    Story in full MUSLIMS who resent the British way of life should leave the UK, regardless of whether they are citizens or not, a senior Conservative said last night in comments that have heightened already tense community relations.

    Gerald Howarth, the shadow defence minister, last night told The Scotsman that extremist Muslims who see the Iraq war as a conflict against Islam should be considered as treacherous as Soviet sympathisers during the Cold War. His remarkable claim shatters the tri-party consensus which Michael Howard, the Tory leader, sought to make with Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, and the Liberal Democrats.

    Mr Howarth said yesterday that he is incensed by suggestions from Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, that Britain is "part of the problem" in Iraq - and said that the problem in the UK lies in fanatical Muslims living within our shores.

    He is the first mainstream UK politician to suggest that extremist British Muslims should leave for Islamic societies. The government is looking at deporting foreign-born nationals and imprisoning British Muslims who incite or glorify terrorism.

    "If they don't like our way of life, there is a simple remedy: go to another country, get out," Mr Howarth said. Asked what if these people were born in Britain, he replied: "Tough. If you don't give allegiance to this country, then leave."

    He added: "There are plenty of other countries whose way of life would appear to be more conducive to what they aspire to. They would be happy and we would be happy."

    This was the overwhelming view of people he spoke to, the Tory MP for Aldershot added.

    Mr Howarth compared those who despised British values to the traitors who spied for Russia. The shadow defence minister also criticised his colleague, Dominic Grieve, the shadow attorney general, who suggested the suicide bombings were "explicable" by the anger many British Muslims felt over the war and the state of Islam.

    Mr Howarth stressed that the majority of Muslims did adhere to British values and described how the Union Flag had been flown at a meeting he had with Muslims over the weekend. However, his remarks were condemned as "arrogant" and "naive" by the Muslim Association of Britain.

    Its spokesman, Anas Altikriti, compared the Tory defence spokesman to those who carried out the attacks on London, saying: "They bombed in order to eliminate people, while he is proposing to eliminate people by deporting them."

    He also questioned to which country Mr Howarth proposed Muslims should go, as there were no Muslim countries as such, just Muslim people.

    Mr Howarth was criticised by Sir Menzies Campbell, the Lib Dem deputy leader, who warned the outburst risked inflaming religious and ethnic tensions.

    However, Mr Howarth's views were backed by the leading Muslim politician Mohammed Sarwar, a Glasgow MP who chairs Muslim Friends of Labour. "When it comes to extremists, for example Omar Bakri and Abu Hamza and what they are advocating, then I agree with what Mr Howarth said. There is absolutely no room for people like them in a civilised, democratic society like ours," Mr Sarwar said.

    Crimes motivated by religious hatred have rocketed by nearly 600 per cent in London since the July 7 bombings. They include verbal and physical attacks and criminal damage.

    Meanwhile in Edinburgh, police are investigating after two Asians were subjected to a racist attack by a gang of 10 men who made comments about the London bombings.

    http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1721092005

    Wow. What a dick!

  4. Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here's Why

    By Greg Mitchell

    Published: July 23, 2005 6:00 PM ET

    NEW YORK So what is shown on the 87 photographs and four videos from Abu Ghraib prison that the Pentagon, in an eleventh hour move, blocked from release this weekend? One clue: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache of unreleased images: "I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe.†They show acts "that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," he added.

    A Republican Senator suggested the same day they contained scenes of “rape and murder.†No wonder Rumsfeld commented then, "If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse."

    Yesterday, news emerged that lawyers for the Pentagon had refused to cooperate with a federal judge's order to release dozens of unseen photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by Saturday. The photos were among thousands turned over by the key “whistleblower†in the scandal, Specialist Joseph M. Darby. Just a few that were released to the press sparked the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal last year, and the video images are said to be even more shocking.

    The Pentagon lawyers said in a letter sent to the federal court in Manhattan that they would file a sealed brief explaining their reasons for not turning over the material. They had been ordered to do so by a federal judge in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU accused the government Friday of putting another legal roadblock in the way of its bid to allow the public to see the images of the prisoner abuse scandal.

    One Pentagon lawyer has argued that they should not be released because they would only add to the humiliation of the prisoners. But the ACLU has said the faces of the victims can easily be "redacted."

    [NOTE: The New York Times on Tuesday ran a somewhat confusing correction on its story about this episode: "An article on Saturday about a federal judge's order regarding photographs and videotapes related to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal misstated a deadline and the response by Defense Department lawyers. The government was given until Friday to black out some identifying details in the material, not to release it. Defense Department lawyers met that deadline, but asked the court to block the public release of the materials. They did not refuse to cooperate with an order for the materials' release."]

    To get a sense of what may be shown in these images, one has to go back to press reports from when the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal was still front page news.

    This is how CNN reported it on May 8, 2004, in a typical account that day:

    “U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealed Friday that videos and ‘a lot more pictures’ exist of the abuse of Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib prison.

    "’If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse,’ Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee. ‘I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe.’

    “The embattled defense secretary fielded sharp and skeptical questions from lawmakers as he testified about the growing prisoner abuse scandal. A military report about that abuse describes detainees being threatened, sodomized with a chemical light and forced into sexually humiliating poses.

    “Charges have been brought against seven service members, and investigations into events at the prison continue.

    “Military investigators have looked into -- or are continuing to investigate -- 35 cases of alleged abuse or deaths of prisoners in detention facilities in the Central Command theater, according to Army Secretary Les Brownlee. Two of those cases were deemed homicides, he said.

    "’The American public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience,’ Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told reporters after Rumsfeld testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. ’We're talking about rape and murder -- and some very serious charges.’

    “A report by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba on the abuse at the prison outside Baghdad says videotapes and photographs show naked detainees, and that groups of men were forced to masturbate while being photographed and videotaped. Taguba also found evidence of a ‘male MP guard having sex with a female detainee.’

    “Rumsfeld told Congress the unrevealed photos and videos contain acts 'that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman.’â€

    The military later screened some of the images for lawmakers, who said they showed, among other things, attack dogs snarling at cowed prisoners, Iraqi women forced to expose their breasts, and naked prisoners forced to have sex with each other.

    In the same period, reporter Seymour Hersh, who helped uncover the scandal, said in a speech before an ACLU convention: “Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok? Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men….The women were passing messages saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what's happened.’

    “Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.â€

    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000990590#sick

  5. Uzbekistan: U.S. Confirms End Of Air Base Agreement With Tashkent

    By Ron Synovitz

    31 July 2005 -- U.S. officials have confirmed that they have been asked to withdraw all U.S. military forces from the Karshi-Khanabad air base in southern Uzbekistan, which has served as a hub for U.S.-led coalition missions in Afghanistan since shortly after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.

    U.S. State Department spokeswoman Nancy Beck said the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent received a diplomatic note on 29 July about the presence of U.S. military forces in Uzbekistan. The note calls for the termination of the bilateral agreement between Washington and Tashkent that had allowed U.S. forces to be based at the so-called K-2 airfield since late 2001.

    Some military experts have said the development increases the strategic importance of the Bagram Air Field north of Kabul. U.S. military engineers have been building up the infrastructure at Bagram for more than three years. They say the clearing of unexploded ordnance and the expansion of runway space at Bagram during the past 18 months could allow that facility to be used more extensively when the last U.S. soldiers leave K-2.

    A report by "The Washington Post" newspaper says Uzbekistan will give the United States six months to move its aircraft, personnel, and equipment. Neither the Pentagon nor the State Department would comment on the reported timeline.

    James O'Halloran, editor of the annual publication "Jane's Land Based Air Defence" and owner of the British-based firm Research Analyst Defense, said the closure could have significant impact on the way U.S. forces conduct and support combat and reconstruction operations in neighboring Afghanistan.

    "The [K-2] airfield itself is a forward operating base [in the southern part of Uzbekistan] which, logistically, gives the U.S. a very good jumping off point into Afghanistan when it needs to move troops and logistics in that area," O'Halloran said.

    Defense Department spokesman Glenn Flood said the U.S. military is working with the State Department to determine exactly what the note means for U.S. strategic interests in Central Asia. The White House declined immediate comment.

    Flood suggested that the action could create logistical problems for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan as well as humanitarian relief workers in the region.

    Washington has signaled in the past that it considers its bases in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan as vital for operations in Afghanistan. But U.S. presence in Central Asia has caused tensions with Russia and China, which joined the five ex-Soviet Central Asian states this month to demand a deadline for leaving the bases.

    O'Halloran said Tashkent's decision does not come as a surprise.

    "I believe that the U.S. has expected to lose the K-2 base for some time now as political pressure has been applied through various sources to hold back the U.S. expansion, shall we say, into the former Soviet empire," he said. "A lot of people are saying that [the United States is] expanding a little too quickly now. They're over-stretching things. And I do believe it is politics which has forced the expected closure of K-2."

    O'Halloran said he also thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin put political pressure on Uzbekistan to call for the U.S. withdrawal.

    "There's no question that Moscow is involved in this and that Moscow is not comfortable with the U.S. expanding so closely to its borders and moving into the former Soviet empire," O'Halloran said. "I'm sure that Uzbekistan has accepted this from Mr. Putin, the president there, and in turn, has spoken to the U.S. about this -- and they've all agreed, politically, that this is probably a good move to make."

    U.S. relations with Uzbekistan also have been strained by the Uzbek government's bloody suppression in May of a rebellion in the eastern Uzbek town of Andijon. That crackdown has drawn criticism from the United States. [For an RFE/RL archive of coverage of events in Andijon and the aftermath, click here.]

    But O'Halloran said he does not think U.S. criticism played a significant role in Uzbekistan's decision.

    "On the world scale of things, I don't think [the U.S. reaction to the Andijon crisis] played a major part in this," he said. "I think the politics coming out of Moscow probably has more to do with it than anything else."

    "The New York Times" yesterday quoted one State Department official as saying that Uzbekistan's decision on K-2 is a response to a United Nations operation to take hundreds of Uzbek refugees from the region. Related statements have also been "highly critical of officials in Tashkent.

    More than 400 people who fled to Kyrgyzstan after the May uprising were flown Friday to a refugee camp in Romania. The Uzbek government had sought their return.

    U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters on 25 July that Tashkent and Washington still enjoy good relations.

    Rumsfeld made the remarks during a visit to neighboring Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz defense minister said the United States can keep a military presence in his country until stability returns to nearby Afghanistan.

    Tajikistan also made a similar pledge during a recent visit there by Rumsfled. The Tajik government in Dushanbe has vowed to continue supporting international forces in Afghanistan.

    Tajikistan has given U.S. planes refueling and overflight rights in conjunction with Afghanistan missions. Some 200 French air force personnel and two transport aircraft also are based at Dushanbe airport for Afghan operations.

    (with additional wire reporting)

    [For more on events in the region, see our dedicated Central Asia In Focus archive.]

    Related Stories About Uzbekistan:

    Tashkent Demands Deportation Of Andijon Refugees

    Wife Of Alleged Akramiya Founder Left To Wonder Over Husband's Fate

    Refugees Want To Return Only If Regime Changes

    Opposition Leaders Meet Outside Washington

    Leader Of Andijon Protests Speaks To RFE/RL

    Is Russia Helping Tashkent Clean Up After Andijon?

    Other Articles Written By Ron Synovitz:

    Uzbekistan: UN Urges International Probe Into What May Have Been 'Mass Killing' In Andijon

    Afghanistan: Manhunt Continues For Four Suspected Al-Qaeda Fighters

    International Community Failures Recalled At Srebrenica

    U.S. Locates Downed Helicopter

    Afghanistan: Voters Intent On Registering, Despite Fears Of Violence

    Afghanistan: U.S. Forces Continue Campaign Against Taliban Strongholds In South

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    Lebanon: Analyst Says Elections Will Have International Significance

  6. The fact that you believe this is a good thing cleary demonstrates what you are all about.......words could never do justice to the type of jerkoff you are....and once again, you proved it

    Look on the bright side iggypoo. At least your buddies still have that pretty little oil pipeline running from the capsian sea to the persian gulf, starting in Ubekistan. :)

    *Pats iggy on the head*

    Jack-booted fascist loving nazi fagbot.

    lol..everyone is a idiot, jerkoff , blah blah , minus you right ? ya fuckin sheep !..suck on this you American extremist :bigfinge:

    oh and btw

    gaydar_mens_zoom.jpg

    :laugh:

  7. Uzbekistan Terminates US Air Base Agreement

    By Barry Newhouse

    Washington

    30 July 2005

    Uzbek officials have formally terminated an agreement allowing the United States to use an air base in southeastern Uzbekistan, ending a nearly four-year-old deal under which the United States was able to provide support for U.S. operations in Afghanistan. The termination follows criticism from the United States and other countries of Uzbek President Islam Karimov over the reported killing of hundreds of civilians by Uzbek security forces in May.

    A State Department spokesman said Saturday that its embassy in Tashkent received a diplomatic note late last week from the Uzbek government, terminating the agreement to use the so-called K2 airfield. The Washington Post newspaper reports the military has 180 days to leave the Karshi-Khanabad airbase, but U.S. officials have not confirmed a timetable.

    An estimated 800 personnel now work at the K2 airbase, which since October 2001 has been a hub for military and humanitarian supplies that are flown or trucked overland into Afghanistan.

    In a news conference earlier this month, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Richard Myers said the base in Uzbekistan and one near Kyrgyzstan's capital city play an important role in regional security.

    "Central Asia is important to the United States for several reasons, not just for operations in Afghanistan," said Mr. Myers. "It's important to us for lots of reasons. Security and stability in Central Asia is an important concept and those that can bring security and stability ought to be welcome in Central Asia."

    U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Central Asia this week and won assurances from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that U.S. forces would continue to have access to facilities in their countries.

    Mr. Rumsfeld did not meet with Uzbek officials, but he said the military is prepared if Uzbekistan bars use of the K2 air base.

    Uzbek officials have tightened restrictions on the K2 base in recent months, barring night flights and limiting the use of some heavy transport aircraft.

    The moves followed strong criticism from the United States and other Western nations of President Karimov and calls for a formal inquiry into deadly clashes between Uzbek security forces and civilians in the city of Andijan in May. The United Nations has called the incident a mass killing.

    "The trigger was Uzbek anger at U.S. criticism of the Uzbek government for the Uzbek government's failure to agree to an independent international inquiry into what happened in Andijan," said Martha Brill Olcott, a central Asian expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "To say that the U.S. leadership and the Uzbek leadership don't see eye to eye with one another today is an understatement. It's probably the tensest point in U.S.-Uzbek relations any time since the existence of an independent Uzbekistan. I don't know that the Uzbek regime would have wanted the base removed if Andijan had not occurred."

    On Friday, the United Nations said some 440 Uzbek refugees who had fled to Kyrgyzstan following the Andijan violence had been flown to Romania. Uzbekistan says the refugees are criminals who should be repatriated.

    http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-30-voa31.cfm

  8. Create your own right wing spin here.

    Here is mine:

    Fellow Christians,

    We know you love your gun and your SUV. We know you share the same concerns as all god-fearing and white Americans. You want to be out shooting terrorists just like the rest of us. You will support anything we tell you to and want what's best for the country, like we do.

    This war on terror is the only goddamn way we know how to think, and we know you'll support it with all your heart, no matter how long it takes, or how much it costs, because you are a mindless idiot.

    The only way out of this situation is to shoot us up some brown people so that businesses can create new jobs for white men. But the Christ-killing Democrats are trying to take your hard-earned money and give it to lazy pregnant crack addict mothers instead of putting it in our pockets where it belongs.

    If you're a patriot and hate homos like we do you'll help us kill queers and commies here and abroad to help get our country back on its feet and keep us all safe.

    Remember, if you want our country to be competitive and not be bombed by godless brown turbanheads, put the House and Senate back into the hands of the people who are white, God-fearing Christians like you, who look like white, God-fearing Christians like you, and who want to give you guns and as many guns and bullets as you can buy instead of feeding illegal weird-lookin' immigrants who are smarter than your children.

    Remember friends, to save the good 'ol U.S. of A., vote the way I told you, you little pansy, in the next election!

  9. :lol3:

    Fucking dumb anti-american maggot. Even Ann Coulter, your favorite right wing sex goddess cum dumpster who swings on Sean Hannitys dick hates Judge Roberts!!

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/foolmeeighttimesshameonme;_ylt=AvxqnkLanBiGgKsWsc4B9Jslr7sF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

    My points proven. Thanks for your approval. :)

    Moron. Take your anti-american reich wing vomit and bring it and yourself back to Italy where dumb anti american maggots like yourself belong.

    Fucking pasta head.

  10. ^^That's very good news..

    Here's another one for ya Iggy.

    Muslim Support for Bin Laden Falls, Poll Says

    Thursday, July 14, 2005

    WASHINGTON — People in several heavily Muslim countries have lost some of their enthusiasm for Usama bin Laden (search) and for violent acts like terror bombings, especially in countries where there have been recent terrorist acts, international polling found.

    Surveys conducted for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press looked at attitudes of people living in Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey, all countries with Muslim majorities, as part of an international survey of 17 countries done this spring.

    In Lebanon (search), the number of people who think the use of bombings and other forms of violence is justified in defense of Islam (search) has dropped from 73 percent in the summer of 2002 to 39 percent now. A decrease in this number also was seen in Morocco, which fell from 40 percent a year ago to 13 percent now, and in Pakistan and Indonesia. In Jordan, the number of people who feel such violence is justified has grown slightly; the number in Turkey remains very low.

    Since March 2004, the sentiment for bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq dropped from 70 percent to 49 percent in Jordan, which neighbors Iraq, and dropped by smaller margins in Pakistan, Turkey and Morocco.

    The polling was done before the terrorist bombings in London last week.

    Public confidence in bin Laden has dipped sharply since May 2003 in Indonesia, Morocco, Lebanon and Turkey — all countries that have experienced recent terrorist bombings. In Pakistan and Jordan, a majority of people continue to say they have at least some confidence in bin Laden, the Saudi who leads Al Qaeda.

    "Support for Usama bin Laden is waning, but there are still people who admire him and view him as a hero," said Ulil Abshor Abdala, chairman of the Islamic Liberal Network, a non-governmental organization in Indonesia that supports religious moderation and interfaith harmony.

    "For some youth Usama Bin Laden is like Che Guevera, it does not matter what you say, he is a hero to them. Our challenge is how to limit the extent of this heroic admiration among the youth," Abdala said.

    The United States remains broadly unpopular in those heavily Muslim countries. Solid majorities of the people in Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey, Jordan and Indonesia have an unfavorable view of the United States, while Moroccans are split. Young people in Morocco, Lebanon, Pakistan and Turkey view America more favorably than the overall populations in those countries, the polling found.

    Reasons for Islamic extremism varied from one majority-Muslim country to the next. Poverty and a lack of jobs were mentioned most often in some countries, while U.S. policies and influence were mentioned in others. Lack of education, immorality and lawlessness also were cited.

    "The concern about the causes of extremism are varied," said Wendy Sherman, who was counselor for the State Department in the Clinton administration. "When the U.S. government looks at our counterterrorism efforts, we clearly have to use a variety of approaches."

    The surveys found that public acceptance is growing in some majority-Muslim countries that democracy is not strictly a Western way of doing things but could work in their countries. In Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco and Indonesia, increasing numbers of people feel that democracy can work there.

    The Pew survey found some conflicting feelings about Islam in majority-Muslim countries.

    In all of those countries except Jordan, people were more likely to say Islam is playing a greater role in their countries than it did a few years ago. The increasing role of Islam was overwhelmingly seen as a positive development in all those countries except Turkey. Respondents said growing immorality, government corruption and concerns about Western influence were among their reasons for turning to Islam.

    A majority of people in Morocco and Pakistan say Islamic extremism greatly threatens their country, and almost half in Indonesia and Turkey said it poses a great threat. Few people in Lebanon and Jordan felt that way.

    Muslims in Turkey, Pakistan, Jordan and Morocco say they think of themselves first as Muslims, then as citizens of their country. Muslims in Lebanon and Indonesia were divided on how they think of themselves first.

    The polls were taken in various countries from late April to the end of May with samples of about 1,000 in most countries and slightly fewer than 1,000 in the European countries. The margin of sampling error ranged from 2 percentage points to 4 percentage points, depending on the sample size.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162563,00.html

  11. On Roberts:

    Women’s Rights

    Immediately after President Bush announced his selection of Roberts, Operation Rescue, an organization founded to terrorize women, obstruct reproductive freedom, and shut down health clinics, issued a press release saying, “Operation Rescue supports this selection. Roberts has shown strong conservative credentials with indications that he will not uphold Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that decriminalized abortion.†He also weighed in on behalf of Operation Rescue, a violent anti-abortion group, in a federal case.

    The anti-choice homophobe Gary Bauer promptly issued a statement hailing Roberts as "a refreshing nominee who possesses an outstanding record of judicial accomplishment as well as a commitment to judicial restraint long missing from so many activist courts."

    Roberts’ record makes it clear why he has gathered such enthusiasm from far-right religious fundamentalists.

    As Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts filed an amicus curiae brief in the National Organization of Women’s (NOW) case against Operation Rescue — in support of Operation Rescue, and in support of individuals who illegally blocked access to clinics.

    As Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts argued in a brief before the Supreme Court that "we continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled. The Court’s conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion...finds no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution."

    As a Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts co-wrote a Supreme Court brief in Rust v. Sullivan, which argued that the government could prohibit doctors in federally funded family planning programs from discussing abortions with their patients.

    Workers Rights

    Roberts was lead counsel for Toyota in Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Ky, Inc. v. Williams. This case involved a woman who was fired after she asked Toyota for accommodations to do her job after being diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. The court ruled that while this condition impaired her ability to work, it did not impair her ability to perform major life activities.

    The Geneva Conventions

    Roberts was part of the three-judge panel that last week upheld President Bush's military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, supporting the Bush Administrations assertion that the Geneva Conventions and other international law did not apply to detainees held there. Neal K. Katyal, a lead lawyer for one of the plaintiffs in this case and a Georgetown University law professor, called the decision "contrary to 200 years of constitutional law."

    Civil Rights

    After a Supreme Court decision effectively nullified certain sections of the Voting Rights Act, Roberts was involved in the Reagan administration's effort to prevent Congress from overturning the Supreme Court's action.

    Roberts also filed an amicus brief in Adarand v. Mineta in Oct. 2001, supporting a challenge to federal affirmative action programs.

    The Environment

    As a member of the Solicitor General's office, Mr. Roberts was the lead counsel for the United States in the Supreme Court case Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation, in which the government argued that private citizens could not sue the federal government for violations of environmental regulations.

    In his private practice, Roberts has also represented numerous large corporate interests opposing environmental controls. He submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the National Mining Association in the recent case Bragg v. West Virginia Coal Association.

    Church & State

    While working with the Solicitor General's office, Roberts co-wrote an amicus brief on behalf of the Bush administration, in which he argued that public high schools can include religious ceremonies in their graduation programs.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Roberts_Jr.

    Roberts was also a member of the Federalist Society and is on the list of the 1997-98 leadership directory though he claims he has no memory of being a member which of course is a lie in his part. Now, he's busted.

    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8683445/

    Do your research Siceone!

  12. Hanoi Jane takes on Iraq war with US bus tour

    Hollywood star accused of using stance to boost book sales, but applauded by some veterans groups

    Jamie Wilson in Washington

    Tuesday July 26, 2005

    The Guardian

    Hollywood star and activist Jane Fonda is planning to take a bus tour across America to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq in a move that has already drawn sharp reactions from both the pro- and anti-war camps.

    Ms Fonda, who earned the nickname Hanoi Jane after she was photographed sitting on a north Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun at the height of the Vietnam war, said she would be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter on the tour.

    "I've decided I'm coming out," she told a cheering audience during an appearance in New Mexico to promote her autobiography, explaining that Iraq veterans had encouraged her to break her silence.

    "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam," she added. "I carry a lot of baggage from that."

    Ms Fonda said her anti-war tour in March would use a bus that runs on vegetable oil.

    "I can't go into any detail except to say that it's going to be pretty exciting," she said.

    Ms Fonda is still reviled by many Vietnam veterans for her stance and actions during the Vietnam war. In her autobiography, My Life So Far, she said she was not thinking about what she was doing when she sat on the aircraft gun, and the impression it gave that she was the enemy of American soldiers and veterans was something she still carried "heavy in my heart".

    But Ted Sampley, vice president of Rolling Thunder, one of the largest Vietnam Veterans organisations, said it was a case of deja vu. "She has no credibility; she is going to make a lot of people mad, me being one of them," he said.

    Jim Phillips, a Middle East analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing Washington think-tank, said: "Her book sales are not going too well so I guess she has latched on to the Iraq war as a way of staying in the news.

    "She is irrelevant, and I just see her the same as Tom Cruise, spouting off about things they know nothing about."

    But anti-war groups were generally supportive of the Hollywood star. Wes Hamilton, 57, a former Vietnam soldier and a member of United States Veterans for Peace, said: "I'm excited about it frankly and I really applaud her for what she is doing. It is critical to keep the war in the public attention.

    "I was just back from Vietnam when she made her controversial journey. There was a tremendous division in the US ... I was still in the Marines or recently discharged and my point was that whatever it takes to get the conversation in the media is important."

    "The people from my generation are the ones who did stand up and bring the Vietnam war to its conclusion. If it means bringing that generation back together again and getting a new generation to stand up to stop this war then so be it."

    Judy Linehan, a spokeswoman for Military Families Speak Out, said: "She was maligned and there was an over-reaction to what she did. She is a mature woman and has evolved in her politics but is the same passionate woman who believes in justice and I hope that is what comes across."

    Mrs Linehan, whose son, Colin, served as a doctor in Iraq between November 2003 and October 2004, said the main problem for Ms Fonda would be the American press.

    "The danger will be that they just pick up on the surface layer, but I would hope people will welcome anybody who can stir a discussion on Iraq and draws attention to the real issues."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1536158,00.html

  13. When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman

    by J. Orlin Grabbe

    The two men headed to the Hilton Hotel in Sherman Oaks, California in the late Spring of 1986 were on their way to meet representatives of the mujahadeen, the Afghan fighters resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

    One of the two, Ted Gunderson, had had a distinguished career in the FBI, serving as some sort of supervisor over Special Agents in the early 60s, as head of the Dallas field office from 1973-75, and as head of the Los Angeles field office from 1977-1979. He retired to become an investigator for, among others, well-known attorney F. Lee Bailey. And all along the way, Gunderson, whether or not actually a CIA contract agent, had been around to provide services to various CIA and National Security Council operations, as he was doing now.

    In more recent years Gunderson was to become controversial for his investigations into child prostitution rings, after he became convinced of the innocence of an Army medical doctor named Jeffrey McDonald, who had been convicted of the murder of his wife and three young children in the 1970s. This has led to various attempts by the patrons and operators of the child prostitution industry to smear Gunderson's reputation.

    Michael Riconosciuto was there to discuss assisting the mujahadeen with MANPADs—Man Portable Air Defense Systems. Stinger missiles were one possibility. If the U.S. would permit their export, Riconosciuto could modify the Stinger's electronics, so the guided missile would still be effective against Soviet aircraft, but would not be a threat to U.S. or NATO forces.

    But Riconosciuto had another idea. Through his connections with the Chinese industrial and military group Norinco, he could obtain the basic components for the unassembled Chinese 107 MM rocket system. These could be reconfigured into a man-portable, shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft guided missile sytem, and produced in Pakistan at a facility called the Pakistan Ordinance Works. The mujahadeen would then have a lethal weapon against Soviet helicopter, observation, and transport aircraft.

    Riconosciuto was more than just an expert on missile electronics; he was also an expert on electronic computers and associated subjects such as cryptology (see my "Michael Riconosciuto on Encryption").

    Riconosciuto was a prodigy who had grown up in the spook community. The Riconosciuto family had once run Hercules, California, as a company town. In the early days (1861) a company called California Powder Works had been established in Santa Cruz, CA. It later purchased land on San Pablo Bay, and in 1881 started producing dynamite, locating buildings in gullies and ravines for safety purposes. A particularly potent type of black powder was named "Hercules Powder", which gave the name to the town of Hercules, formally incorporated in 1900. In World War I, Hercules became the largest producer of TNT in the U.S. Hercules, however, had gotten out of the explosives business by 1940 when an anhydrous ammonia plant was constructed. In 1959 Hercules began a new manufacturing facility to produce methanol, formaldehyde, and urea formaldehyde. In 1966 the plant was sold to Valley Nitrogen Producers. Labor problems led to a plant closure in 1977. In 1979 the plant and site was purchased by a group of investors calling themselves Hercules Properties, Ltd.

    However, Michael and his father Marshall Riconosciuto, a friend of Richard Nixon, continued to run the Hercules Research Corporation. In the early 1980s Michael also served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians in Indio, California. Riconosciuto's talents were much in demand. He had created the a-neutronic bomb (or "Electro-Hydrodynamic Gaseous Fuel Device"), which sank the ground level of the Nevada test site by 30 feet when a prototype was tested. Samuel Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb, said of Riconosciuto: "I've spoken to Michael Riconosciuto (the inventor of the a-neutronic bomb) and he's an extraordinarily bright guy. I also have a hunch, which I can't prove, that they both (Riconosciuto and Lavos, his partner) indirectly work for the CIA."

    Riconosciuto's bomb made suitcase nukes obsolete, because it achieved near-atomic explosive yields, but could be more easily minaturized. You could have a suitcase a-neutronic bomb, or a briefcase a-neutronic bomb, or simply a lady's purse a-neutronic bomb. Or just pull out your wallet for identification and —. The Meridian Arms Corporation, as well as the Universities of California and Chicago owned a piece of the technology.

    But there was more than explosives in the portfolios of the CIA agents who surrounded Riconosciuto like moths around a candle. Both Robert Booth Nichols, the shady head of Meridian Arms Corporation (with both CIA and organized crime conections), and Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the manager of the Cabazon reservation, were involved in bio-warfare work—the first in trying to sell bio-warfare products to the army through Wackenhut, the second in giving tribal permission for research to take place at Cabazon. According to Riconosciuto, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was in charge of the classified contracts for biological warfare research. Riconosciuto would later testify under oath that Stormont Laboratories was involved in the DARPA-Wackenhut-Cabazon project. Jonathan Littman, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle would relate: "Cabazons and Wackenhut appeared to be acting as middlemen between the Pentagon's DARPA and Stormont Laboratories, a small facility in Woodland near Sacramento."

    The Race Weapon

    Riconosciuto would make additional claims about Bio-Rad corporation, a medical supplier which had gradually taken over Hercules, California. They were also, Riconosciuto would say, covertly engaged in bio-warfare research—producing some of the deadliest toxins known to man. The focus of Bio-Rad's research was said to be bio-active elements that could be tailored to attack those with certain types of DNA. Weapons could thus be produced that were specifically designed to wipe out specific races or genetic classes of human beings. (Alternatively, particular DNA types could be immunized against a deadly biological agent; the agent could then be released, and everyone else would die.)

    A couple of years later, Meridian International Logistics, the parent company of Meridian Arms, was to farm similar research out to the Japanese. This included (according to minutes of a corporate meeting dated Aug. 26, 1988) methods for "induction and activation of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes". Associated with Meridian's Robert Booth Nichols in a Middle Eastern operation called FIDCO, a company that ran arms into and heroin out of Lebanon's Beqaa (Bekaa) Valley, was Harold Okimoto, a high-ranking member of the Yakuza. Okimoto had longed worked under Frank Carlucci (who served as Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the CIA before becoming Chairman of The Carlyle Group). Okimoto owned food concessions in casinos around the world—Las Vega, Reno, Macao, and the Middle East. (Free drinks and anthrax while you play blackjack, anyone?)

    Meeting Riconosciuto and Gunderson at the hotel were two representatives of the mujahadeen, waiting to discuss their armament needs. One of the two was named "Ralph Olberg." The other one was called Tim Osman (or Ossman).

    "Ralph Olberg" was an American businesman who was leading the procurement of American weapons and technology on behalf of the Afghan rebels. He worked through the Afghan desk at the U.S. State Department, as well as through Senator Hubert Humphrey's office. Olberg looked after the Afghanis through a curious front called MSH—Management Sciences for Health.

    The other man, dressed in Docker's clothing, was not a native Afghan any more than Olberg was. He was a 27-year-old Saudi. Tim Osman (Ossman) has recently become better known as Osama Bin Ladin. "Tim Osman" was the name assigned to him by the CIA for his tour of the U.S. and U.S. military bases, in search of political support and armaments.

    Gunderson and Riconosciuto were not on an altruistic mission. They had some conditions for their help. And they had some bad news to deliver. The mujahadeen needed to be willing to test new weapons in the field and to return a research report, complete with photos.

    The bad news was that some factions of the CIA didn't feel that Oldberg and Osman's group were the real representatives of the Afghans. Upon hearing this both Tim and Ralph were indignant. They wanted to mount a full-court press. Round up other members of their group and do a congressional and White House lobbying effort in Washington, D.C.

    "Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."

    —The Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil

    Did the lobbying effort take place? I don't know. There is some evidence that Tim Osman and Ralph Oldberg visited the White House. There is certainty that Tim Osman toured some U.S. military bases, even receiving special demonstrations of the latest equipment. Why hasn't this been reported in the major media?

    One week after giving an affidavit to Inslaw regarding the PROMIS software in 1991, Riconosciuto was arrested on trumped-up drug charges. The Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the case attempted to cover up Riconosciuto's intelligence background by claiming to the jury he was "delusional." A TV station came and pointed a camera out at the desert at Cabazon and said, "Riconosciuto says he modified the PROMIS software here." Of course Riconosciuto didn't modify the software out between the cacti and yucca. Sand isn't good for computers. He did the modifications in offices in nearby Indio, California. The AUSA told reporters Riconosciuto had been diagnosed with a mental condition, the implication being "he's making all this stuff up". Yes, there had been a mental evaluation of Riconosciuto. I have a copy of the report. The diagnosis? Here it is: NO MENTAL DISORDER. The Department of Justice consistently and maliciously lied to the jury, just as had been threatened by Justice Department official Peter Viednicks if Riconosciuto cooperated with the congressional investigation of PROMIS.

    If the war against Osama Bin Ladin (Tim Osman) is not a total fraud, then what is Michael Riconosciuto doing in prison? Why doesn't he have an office next to Colin Powell so he can give realistic advice on Bin Ladin's thinking? And where is Ralph Olberg?

    Thirty-four days before the East African embassy bombings of August 7, 1998, Riconosciuto notified the FBI in Miami that the bombings were going to take place. Two days prior to the bombings he requested of BOP (Bureau of Prisons) officials at the Federal Corrections Institution (FCI) in Coleman, FL., that he be allowed to call ECOMOG security headquarters to warn African officials. The BOP denied the request. Riconosciuto was mystified at being ignored by the relevant government authorities. I'm not mystified. I suspect the reason Riconosciuto was ignored was that the relevant parties, including especially the Miami FBI office, knew all along the bombings would take place. And they wanted them to happen.

    The same is true with respect to the recent plane bombings of the WTC. It wasn't an intelligence "failure". The terrorist acts were deliberately allowed to happen. The actors may have been foreign. But the stage directors appear to have been all along here in the U.S. Cui bono?

    Isn't it time to let Michael Riconosciuto out of prison, and wipe the slate clean of the trumped up drug charges, and let him be a national security advisor—at least with respect to the government's pursuit of Osama Bin Ladin? Isn't it time to quit pretending Osama Bin Ladin came out of nowhere?

    This is not an academic argument. Sources say three dozen MANPADs have been imported into Quebec, Canada, from Colombia (where they arrived from Eastern Europe). The missile shipments followed the "northern" drug route—from Colombia into Canada. The missiles involved are Russian Strellas and Iglas. These will serve just fine to take down commercial airline flights. Just like TWA 800. Which group of terrorists has the missiles? Meanwhile, how many biological warfare agents are in the hands of organized crime? Maybe you should ask Riconosciuto about all this.

    Michael Riconosciuto is now incarcerated at the FCI Allenwood, PA. You know where to find him.

    Note: Michael Riconosciuto has just been moved to Springfield, MO. His address is:

    Michael J. Riconosciuto

    21309-086 Box 4000

    U.S. Medical Center

    Springfield, MO

    65801-4000

    J. Orlin Grabbe's homepage is located at http://orlingrabbe.com.

    -30-

    from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 5, No 46, November 12, 2001

  14. Flag Amendment and the Assault on Political Dissent

    by Gregory “Joey†Johnson

    Revolution #009, July 24, 2005, posted at revcom.us

    I am Gregory “Joey†Johnson. I was the defendant in the 1989 Supreme Court flag-burning case, Texas v. Johnson. I am still unrepentant about the burning of the American flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention as Ronald Reagan was being nominated for a second term as president. And I still see the American flag as a symbol of empire, oppression, international plunder and murder.

    Today, powerful forces in the U.S. ruling elite—Republicans and Democrats—are again pushing for a constitutional amendment that would make burning the American flag in protest a crime. The proposed amendment— “The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United Statesâ€â€”has passed the House of Representatives. In the Senate, the amendment is being sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch (R- Utah) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and is given a better chance of passing than ever before. If it passes Congress, it will require approval in the legislatures of three-quarters of the states.

    Why is the amendment coming to the fore again right now? The U.S. government is engaged in a global war for empire with wild ambitions of restructuring international relations so that the world is more completely under U.S. domination. Even as they get into deeper trouble in Iraq, they discuss what countries should be next on their hit list. Bush justifies all this as a “war on terror†and points to September 11. But, increasingly, the justifications have turned out to be lies. People see the daily horrors in Iraq and ask, "What is it all for?’

    The flag amendment is an attempt, by broad sections of the ruling class, to unite the nation behind a jingoistic and belligerent “my country right or wrong†patriotism. They need the flag as a symbol of national unity. “This amendment is necessary.[to] maintaining the traditions and symbols that have helped to bind us together in all our diversity for over 200 years,†Orrin Hatch said as he introduced the amendment in the Senate in April.

    For those who would speak out and act against the system and its crimes, the amendment would create an atmosphere of intimidation backed up by police, courts, and jail. A wide range of political protest and even artistic expression would face prosecution and punishment.

    The U.S government has a long and shameful history of political repression. But this amendment would change the fundamental law around political speech and dissent, giving the government new legal tools to take this repression to another level. Just how far is it from saying people can’t criticize or express contempt for the symbol of the government to saying people can’t criticize the government at all? Look around you, already journalists are being harassed and jailed; university professors investigated and purged, and even a U.S. senator who merely questioned torture was quickly denounced for “weakening the war effort.†These are all ominous developments that concern tens of millions of people, far beyond those who might ever burn a flag.

    I’m not just a flag-burner. I am a proletarian internationalist and a revolutionary communist. I dare to dream of— and fight to bring into being—a world of freely cooperating and freely associating human beings, without borders, without exploitation and oppression—a society that people would want to live in. We should talk and debate about what is the way forward for humanity.

    I’m calling on people who see the dangers in what the rulers are trying to enforce through this amendment to be part of a massive movement to DRIVE THE BUSH REGIME FROM POWER! I support the call for a day of massive resistance on November 2, the anniversary of Bush’s re-election. As the Call for Action on November 2 states, “We need more than fighting Bush’s outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime’s program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.â€

    Joey Johnson can be contacted via email: joeyjohnson4688@yahoo.com

  15. 63% oppose flag-burning amendment, new survey shows

    News release

    By the First Amendment Center

    06.10.05 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The number of Americans who oppose a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to punish flag-burning as protest is up sharply from 2004, according to a survey released today by the First Amendment Center.

    The “State of the First Amendment 2005†survey, conducted in May, shows:

    63% of those sampled said the U.S. Constitution “should not be amended to prohibit burning or desecrating the American flag,†up from 53% in 2004 and the highest number against the proposed amendment since the annual survey began in 1997.

    <li>35% said the Constitution “should be amended†— down from 45% in 2004. “This issue involves one of the nation’s most fundamental First Amendment guarantees, the right of free speech; and what many consider the most-venerated symbol of our nation, honored each year on Flag Day, June 14,†said Gene Policinski, executive director of the First Amendment Center.

    “I have no doubt that most Americans want the flag to be protected and respected, but clearly more Americans seem to be having second thoughts about using a constitutional amendment to deal with the issue of flag desecration, and about the impact such a dramatic move would have on free speech,†he said.

    Public support for an anti-flag desecration amendment has shifted up and down each year since a 49-49% split in 1997, but the 2005 survey’s 63-35% result is the widest division of opinion yet recorded in the center’s annual polling.

    Attempts have been made to punish flag desecration at local, state and national levels since the Civil War. But since the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court has held in several cases (see Texas v. Johnson (1989) and United States v. Eichman (1990)) that burning the flag as a form of political or social protest is protected speech.

    Five proposals to amend the Constitution to punish flag desecration have been adopted by the House since 1995, but all have faltered in the Senate — most recently, failing in 2003 by just two votes.

    On May 25, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.J.R. 10, a constitutional amendment to ban the physical desecration of the U.S. flag, setting the stage for a full vote in the House, where it will need a two-thirds majority to be approved. No date for a vote has yet been set.

    If ratified, the current proposal would become the 28th Amendment. Following House and Senate approval, the proposed amendment would be submitted to the states, where three-fourths — 38 states — are needed for approval. All 50 state legislatures have at one time or another adopted resolutions in support of an anti-flag-desecration amendment.

    The First Amendment Center commissioned New England Survey Research Associates to conduct a general public survey of attitudes about the First Amendment. The survey was conducted by telephone between May 13 and May 23, 2005. The sampling error for 1,003 national interviews is +/- 3.1% at the 95% level of confidence. The sample error is larger for sub-groups.

    (See the questions on flag desecration included in the “State of the First Amendment 2005†survey.)

    The First Amendment Center works to preserve and protect First Amendment freedoms through information and education. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, the right to assemble and petition the government. The First Amendment Center, with offices at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and Arlington, Va., is an operating program of the Freedom Forum and is associated with the Newseum.

    # # # For information about the “State of the First Amendment 2005†survey methodology or the questions related to flag desecration, contact Professor Ken Dautrich (860/778-4195; e-mail: dautrichkj@yahoo.com) or Professor David Yalof (860/508-2756; david.yalof@cox.net), University of Connecticut.

    Media contact

    Jenny Atkinson

    615/727-1325 or jatkinson@fac.org

    Related

    House again passes flag-burning amendment

    Opponents say amending Constitution unnecessary, noting flag-burning incidents are few and far between. 06.22.05

    Flag amendment may lack votes to pass Senate

    Associated Press finds 35 senators on record as opposing constitutional amendment to let Congress outlaw flag desecration — one more than number needed to defeat it. 06.23.05

    First Amendment 2005 survey touches headline issues

    Questions gauge public's view on public-property Ten Commandments displays, flag-burning amendment, library records access. Full survey 07.11.05

    Flag-desecration questions: State of the First Amendment 2005

    Flag-burning overview

    Flag-burning horizon

    News summary page

    View the latest news stories throughout the First Amendment Center Online.

    http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=15418

  16. Life is all about balance. We need individuals like him.

    Exactly. He thinks I hate America because I oppose Bush. To him anyone who questions him hates America. This is how reich wing asshats like himself stifle free speech and the free exchange of ideas.

    To him, Hating America is hating Bush, in other words... Fascism. With that said, he admitted to being a fascist because to him (like Gobbels)... Bush is America. America is Bush. Hitler is Germany. Germany is Hitler. Accurate comparison. He is no different than the Nazis.

    To him, democracy is a crime. He prefers dictatorship because the thrill of OBEY allures him. Typical fascist loving jack-booted Nazi. Predictable. hahahahahahahaha!!

    His post translates to the following:

    I have no arguement to offer since I know I have no way of defending it. Personal attacks is all I have left.

    Typical right wing douchebag. His ignorance as well as the ignorance of his clones is the reason why we're hated worldwide.

    Attitudes like his is what encourages terrorists to do the destructive things they do. As long as he acts this way, the terrorists will win.

    I hope they catch the ones who undertook the attacks in London.

    _______________________________________________

    Supporting terrorists now Got Milk?? Attitudes like yours is what encourages terrorists to do the destructive things they do. As long as you acts this way, the terrorists will win. You are playing right into their hands.

    Man!! You're ugly looking for a retard, BTW. And what about that mullet "do" you sport. That is sooooo 1980s. Fast foreward into the 21st century and get a hair cut and get rid of that Nintendo 8 bit. That is soooo 1980s as much as that Mario Brothers game on your piece of shit sony. And that girly pink shirt you're wearing, girlyboy? Get rid of it. It's an eyesore. Where did you get it from, Wet Seal or Provincetown???

    Oh...

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    And grow the fuck up GotMilk. Next time, come back with an intelligent arguement unless that is too stressful for your brain (or lack of) to handle.

    Hmmmmmmmm.... Girlyboy. I think that's a better name for you. I shall call you that until you finally get a brain. GotMilk sounds too gay.

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