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Monday, May 5, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."
- - James Madison
MAY 5th IN HISTORY:
1981 -- Ireland: Bobby Sands (1954-1981), Irish political prisoner & member of Parliament, dies, in Maze Prison near Belfast, after 66-day hunger strike asking the British government to grant political prisoner status to Irish Nationalist inmates, instead of treating them as common criminals. http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/diary.html
http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html
RHINO HERE:
For those that caught the debate in South Carolina this last weekend, I'd love to read a a bit of your impressions on the candidates. I was glad to see several of them looking & sounding clear and strong, and a few who at first glance, seemed like they were making sense but looking deeper, I got the impression they were just so many layers of beltway bull shit. Send me some short responses I can post to the blog.
Howard Dean is coming on scrapping in several directions.In the debate he was getting into it with John Kerry over who's courageous & who's fit to lead. On his website, Governor Dean is calling for Rick Santorum to be removed from his leadership position in the Senate. This for his remarks last week in which he compared homosexuality to child molestation, bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery. Check out Dean's petition at:
Petition For The Removal Of Senator Santorum; A Declaration Of Equal Rights
http://www.deanforamerica.com/petition.cfm
THE BOTTOM LINE today is a letter by Peter Coyote appealing to progressives to put their money where their politics are & write some campaign checks for the candidates best suited to take the government back from bush & co. But first, 2 articles on getting to the bottom of what really occurred 9/11/03, how & why, preceded by a report on a new kind of blog. There are many political blogs in the blogosphere, but Wired Magazine reports that Gary Hart has become the first politician blogger. "Is he running?" ya say?
Why Gary Hart Wants to Blog
By Patrick Di Justo, Wired 5/2/03
Maverick politician Gary Hart is trying to muster some political clout by blogging his way into visibility.
The former Colorado senator and 1988 Democratic front-runner for the presidential nomination is not officially a candidate, but his blog on Garyhartnews.com is testing the waters. It promises regular political musings from the man himself and a place for readers to comment. Political analysts agree that it's the first true weblog to be put up by a politician....
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58469,00.html
GARY HART'S BLOG IS AT:
http://www.garyhartnews.com
The Secrets of September 11 - The White House is battling to keep a report on the terror attacks secret. Does the 2004 election have anything to do with it?
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE, April 30 - Even as White House political aides plot a 2004 campaign plan designed to capitalize on the emotions and issues raised by the September 11 terror attacks, administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the attacks. AT THE CENTER of the dispute is a more-than-800-page secret report prepared by a joint congressional inquiry detailing the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that preceded the attacks-including provocative, if unheeded warnings, given President Bush and his top advisers during the
summer of 2001...
Secrets of September 11
The Crime Of The Century:
A Never-Ending "War Against Terrorism"
by Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org, 4/30/03
During this lull in the fighting between the 2002 election cycle Iraq conflict and the soon-to-come 2004 election cycle conflict, it's a good time to (anonymously) sit in a library or bookstore and browse "The Turner Diaries" and Gore Vidal's "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace."
The former was the inspiration for Timothy McVeigh; the latter includes his self-written eulogy. Together, they show how terrorist McVeigh choose the wrong administration - and terrorist Osama bin Laden, by luck of the draw, chose the right one - to harm American democracy.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0430-08.htm.
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Letter From Peter Coyote
Dear Friends,
Last night I was the mc at an event featuring Governor Howard Dean for President. He gave a phenomenal speech calling for the "taking back" of the Democratic party, and outlined a "New Deal" like program to create a national health system, invest in schools, roads, infra-structure. Furthermore he called for the immediate repeal of the Bush Doctrine and support the for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. I urge you all to familiarize yourselves with his programs at: www.deanforamerica.com
At the event, I was accosted by a Dean supporter who was upset that I was supporting Dennis Kucinich as well and that I had sent a fund-raising letter around for him. I'd like to explain that and do the same for Howard Dean.
Compromise is inevitable. The measure of a man is that he does not compromise before he has to. I was disturbed that several Democratic "heavy-hitters", while admitting that Dean was the smartest, most able candidate, were putting their money on John Kerry on the grounds that he was "electable". I observed that that was a self-fulfilling prophecy--that if no money flows to the best candidates, obviously they will never get elected. So these people are beginning with a compromise: voting for a candidate who voted for the War Powers Act, who voted for the No Child Left Behind Act (and then speaks badly about it), in other words, the same Democratic Party nonsense which has brought us to the present pass.
I support both Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich because they are both good men and both have policies I can support. I disagree vehemently with Howard Dean about the death penalty, but this is not a single-issue race: this is about taking the process of government back from some very arrogant, selfish, and unconscious men. Friends can disagree, but should not undercut one another. The political process itself will weed out one or the other or both of these men. In that case, I would vote for a Democratic child-molestor to stop this administration. Now the math:
If everyone who receives this letter would send $25.00 to Howard Dean (I've already sent one for Dennis) and get three people to committ to do the same and to committ to get three people to do the same etc., in ONE MONTH a billion dollars would be raised and either or both of these men would be the leading candidate. Committ to change. Write a check that we can all afford, and get three people to do the same. Regime change starts at home.
Peter Coyote
DEAN FOR AMERICA WEBSITE AT:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/
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