Monday, December 15, 2003

Citizens For Legitimate Government FEATURED ARTICLES - Saddam Hussein captured alive - New Tribunal Might Be Option for Hussein - E-voting: Yes or no? - Diebold e-mail discusses price gouging Maryland - Karl Rove: The King of Dirt QUOTE OF THE DAY "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - - John Maynard Keynes KNOW YOUR HISTORY - DECEMBER 15th 1890 -- Hunkpapa Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) murdered, South Dakota, as he stepped from his cabin to submit to arrest as the alleged "power" behind the outlawed Ghost Dance Movement -- a Messianic religion which preached that all Indians would soon be free. 1923 -- President Calvin Coolidge releases 31 WWI conscientious objectors still imprisoned 5 years after the end of the war. 1968 -- Grace Slick, performing with the Jefferson Airplane on the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," appears in blackface & raises a black-leather glove in the black power salute at the conclusion of "Crown of Creation." The incident is one of several which leads to the TV show's cancellation the following season. 1970 -- US President Nixon signs the Taos Land Bill. 48,000 acres of land are returned to the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, the first U.S. legislation ever to return a sizable amount of federal land to the Native Americans from whom it was stolen. RHINO HERE: The Rhino calls your attention to a worthy organization called, Citizens For Legitimate Government (CLG), a multi-partisan activist group established to expose the Bush coup d'etat, and to oppose the Bush occupation in all of its manifestations. CLG works to make Bush utterly ineffectual by opposing his cabinet choices when appropriate (i.e., in all cases), making spectacular political announcements that remind the public that our president was not elected, supporting and contributing to the efforts to investigate fraudulent voting and non-counting practices,and maintaining a website with copious amounts of up to date information on the havoc being wreaked by the shrub gang. I urge you to check out their web site and consider supporting their very fine work in behalf of true democracy. http://legitgov.org Today's blog offerings are selections from the CLG web page. Saddam Hussein captured alive - Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been captured alive by coalition forces after a manhunt of more than eight months, US civil administrator Paul Bremer said in Baghdad on Sunday. [None of this changes the fact that Bush is a war criminal who needs to be tried, convicted, and sentenced for war crimes.] From MSN: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/World/story_51882.asp New Tribunal Might Be Option for Hussein - U.S. officials said they still haven't decided what to do with Saddam Hussein now that he's been captured, but one option is putting him before a special tribunal established just days ago. A member of Iraq's Governing Council said Hussein would face public trial. [Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove need to be tried in a military tribunal, as well.] From Associated Press: Tribunal E-voting: Yes or no? The U.S. presidential s-election is less than a year away, but some tech experts have lingering and deep-rooted concerns about the way electronic voting is being handled. From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/12/10/hln.wired.voting.machines/index.html Diebold e-mail discusses price gouging Maryland - An e-mail found in a collection of files stolen from Diebold Elections Systems' internal database recommends charging Maryland "out the yin-yang," if the state requires Diebold to add paper printouts to the $73 million 'voting' system it purchased. From The Gazette (Maryland): http://www.gazette.net/200350/princegeorgescty/state/192070-1.html Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is a piece that appeared on the CLG website as follows: Karl Rove: The King of Dirt - The Turd Blossom's Chickens May Come To Roost --by Wayne Madsen "Was it a coincidence that former Vice President Al Gore (the de jure President of the United States) was subjected twice to special baggage searches at airports during a campaign swing to Wisconsin? No, that was again [Karl ] Rove at work. Just like when Rove and ex-Orkin exterminator Tom DeLay misused Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration, and FBI personnel in a search for absent members of the Texas House of Representatives..." The piece was authored by Wayne Madsen, is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author, syndicated columnist, and a long-time advocate for privacy and civil liberties. 8:43:55 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Karl Rove: The King of Dirt KARL ROVE: THE KING OF DIRT The Turd Blossom's Chickens May Come To Roost By Wayne Madsen, Special to From The Wilderness, 12/5/03 After many years as a privacy advocate and author of privacy books, I now reluctantly believe that there's one citizen of the United States who is not entitled to any privacy or solitude, but should be subjected to a relentless campaign of intimidation, harassment, and knavery. In other words, patriotic Americans who believe in fair play should -- within the bounds of the law -- make this person's life a living hell. The target for such a campaign is Karl Rove, George W. Bush's political Svengali, and the chief instigator of character assassination campaigns against those who challenge the policies of the Bush administration. Democrats, progressives and the liberally inclined must learn to fight fire with fire, Rove tactics against Rove tactics. This evil practitioner of political chicanery earned his stripes first as an apprentice of Richard Nixon's dirty trickster, Donald Segretti. Rove then went on to hone and refine his duplicitous craft under Republican National Committee chairmen George H. W. Bush, Lee Atwater, and, finally, George W. Bush (who affectionately and alternately calls Rove his "boy genius" and "turd blossom"). After trashing the personal character of former Texas Democratic Governors Mark White and Ann Richards, Texas Democratic Representative Lloyd Doggett, and Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, Rove now uses his Felix the Cat-like bag of dirty tricks to assassinate the characters of noble and non-political men and women. It is clearly time to take action against Rove, and give this maniac a taste of his own bitter medicine... THE REST IS AT: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120503_rove.html "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:48:06 AM    comment

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