It is sorely disturbing when you can be hauled off for asking a question. It is also disturbing that a memeber of our legislature didn't have the power to stop it from happening. Cheers.
Student Tasered at campus forum for Kerry
GAINESVILLE, Florida (AP) -- A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.
Student Andrew Meyer is surrounded by university police in Gainesville, Florida, on Monday. ( Read more... )
An Army of Christian Right Lawyers Is Waging War on the Constitution
By Sarah Posner, The Washington Spectator. Posted April 6, 2007.
A look at the Christian Right's legal muscle leading the fight to end the separation of church and state.
On a dismal, rainy afternoon, over tea and Pepsi and a plate of fries at the Bob Evans restaurant in Cannonsburg, Kentucky, Bill Scaggs, a retired government and public-relations executive of ARMCO Steel, told me why he thinks that homosexuality is the greatest threat to America. "AIDS kills," was his circa 1984 answer, "and the most common way to pass that on of course is from homosexual contact." His voice cracking with indignation, Scaggs added that he refuses to use the word gay. "It's homosexual, or worse," he says. "Gay is in our Kentucky song! They took it away and trampled on it. We want it back." ( The rest of the story below )
Published on Saturday, March 3, 2007 by the the Los Angeles Times I Am Not a State Secret Having just lost in court, a CIA kidnap victim asks why the U.S. won't admit its error. by Khaled El-Masri
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months. ( Read more... )
The wacky thing is not that this video shows how the USA elections have been rigged, but that only 8,140 people have viewed it since it was uploaded on March 2nd. Be the 8,141st to view it and then forward this sumbitch to everyone you know. Meanwhile, H.R. 550, a bill that has the support of nearly every Democrat in the House, would restore the integrity of our elections and maybe our democracy.
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