THE HANDSTAND

SEPTEMBER 2006

DOREMUS OBSERVES : MATTERS OF INTEREST

Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis' famous book "It Can't Happen Here", at its conclusion, after imprisonment and torture escaped and "drove out, saluted by the meadow larks, and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup can never die......

education takes a dive!

Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List

By CORNELIA DEAN Published: August 24, 2006 Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.

The Republican’s War
Harring Report: The National Young Men’s Meat Grinder

"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed".

George Orwell, ‘1984’

“Whether war is a necessary factor in the evolution of mankind may be disputed, but a fact which cannot be questioned is that, from the earliest records of man to the present age, war has been his dominant preoccupation. There has never been a period in human history altogether free from war, and seldom one of more than a generation which has not witnessed a major conflict: great wars flow and ebb almost as regularly as the tides. This becomes more noticeable when a civilization ages and begins to decay, as seemingly is happening to our world-wide industrial civilization. Whereas but a generation or two back, war was accepted as an instrument of policy, it has now become policy itself.”

General J.F.C. Fuller, 1954

The Bush/Cheney Butcher’s Bill: Officially, 30 US Military Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan from 1 August 2006 - 14 August 2006- Official Total of 2,791 US dead to date (and rising) The actual total of dead American military personnel is now over 12,000and also rising and the number of seriously wounded is now ca 25,000

by Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter brianharring@yahoo.com

Mr. President, why don’t you pull out…like your father should have?

Brian Harring

Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records at the end of this piece.) Given the officially acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously wounded (and a published total of 25,000 wounded overall,), this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the current 2,000+ now being officially published. When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish the results along with the sources In addition to the evident falsification of the death rolls, at least 5,500 American military personnel have deserted, most in Ireland but more have escaped to Canada and other European countries, none of whom are inclined to cooperate with vengeful American authorities. (See TBR News of 18 February for full coverage on the mass desertions) This means that of the 158,000 U.S. military shipped to Iraq, 26,000 deserted, were killed or seriously wounded. The DoD lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate over12,000 dead, over 25,000 seriously wounded and a large number of suicides, forced hospitalization for ongoing drug usage and sales, murder of Iraqi civilians and fellow soldiers, rapes, courts martial and so on -

The government gets away with these huge lies because they claim, falsely, that only soldiers actually killed on the ground in Iraq are reported. The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported on the daily postings. Anyone who dies just as the transport takes off from the Baghdad airport is not listed and neither are those who die in the US military hospitals. Their families are certainly notified that their son, husband, brother or lover was dead and the bodies, or what is left of them (refrigeration is very bad in Iraq what with constant power outages) are shipped home, to Dover AFB. This, we note, was the overall policy until very recently. Since it became well known that many had died at Landstuhl, in Germany, the DoD began to list a very few soldiers who had died at other non-theater locations. These numbers are only for show and are pathetically small in relationship to the actual figures. You ought to realize that President Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any circumstances. He claims that this is to comfort the bereaved relatives but is designed to keep the huge number of arriving bodies secret. Any civilian, or military personnel, taking pictures will be jailed at once and prosecuted. Bush has never attended any kind of a memorial service for his dead soldiers and never will. He is terrified some parent might curse him in front of the press or, worse, attack him. As Bush is a terrible physical coward and in a constant state of denial, this is not a surprise.

Official Casualty List for August, 2006

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Anthony E. Butterfield, 19, of Clovis, Calif., Sgt. Christian B. Williams, 27, of Winter Haven, Fla. Both Marines died July 29 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. They were assigned to 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Phillip E. Baucus, 28, of Wolf Creek, Mont., died July 29 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Jason Hanson, 21, of Forks, Wash., died July 29 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Ryan D. Jopek, 20, of Merrill, Wis., died in Tikrit, Iraq on Aug. 2 of injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy. Jopek was assigned to the Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, Waupun, Wis.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Dustin D. Laird, 23, of Martin, Tenn., died on Aug. 2 during combat operations in Rawah, Iraq. Laird was assigned to the Army National Guard 913th Engineer Company, 46th Engineer Battalion, Union City, Tenn.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Joseph A. Tomci, 21, of Stow, Ohio, died Aug. 2 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Hai Ming Hsia, 37, of New York, N.Y., died Aug. 1 during combat operations in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. Hsia was assigned to the 6th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.Lance Cpl. Kurt E. Dechen, 24, of Springfield, Vt., died Aug. 3 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, while attached to Regimental Combat Team 5, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. George M. Ulloa Jr., 23, of Austin, Texas, died Aug. 3 from wounds suffered while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Joshua A. Ford, 20, of Wayne, Neb., died on July 31 during combat operations in Al Numaniyah, Iraq. Ford was assigned to the Army National Guard 189th Transportation Company, 485th Corps Support Battalion, Norfolk, Neb.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marc A. Lee, 28, of Hood River, Ore., was killed on Aug. 2 during combat operations while on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq. Lee was an aviation ordnanceman and a member of a West Coast-based SEAL Team.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Daniel A. Suplee, 39, of Ocala, Fla., died on Aug 3 at James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, Fla., of injuries sustained on Apr 1 in Kabul, Afghanistan, when his HMMWV was involved in a traffic accident. Suplee was assigned to the National Guard 153rd Cavalry Squadron, Ocala, Fla.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on August 4, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV while conducting combat operations. Both soldiers were assigned to the 1st Calvary Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany. Killed were: Staff Sgt. Clint J. Storey, 30, of Enid, Okla,.Sgt. Bradley H. Beste, 22, of Naperville, Ill.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Leroy Segura Jr., 23, of Clovis, N.M., died on Aug 4, in Habbaniyah, Iraq, of injuries suffered from a HMMWV accident. Segura was assigned to the 362nd Engineer Company, 54th Engineer Battalion, Fort Benning, Ga.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Brian J. Kubik,20, of Harker Heights, Texas, died on Aug 5 in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries suffered on Aug 2 when his unit encountered enemy small arms fire in Baghdad, Iraq. Kubik was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers, who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in Baghdad, Iraq on Aug. 6, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV while conducting a combat operations. All soldiers were assigned to the Army's 2nd Brigade Troop Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. Killed were: Staff Sgt. Stephen A. Seale, 25, of Grafton, W.V.,Sgt. Carlton A. Clark, 22, of South Royalton, Vt. ,Spc. Jose Zamora, 24, of Sunland Park, N.M.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Tracy L. Melvin, 31, of Seattle, Wash., died of injuries sustained on Aug. 6, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. Melvin was assigned to the Army's 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers, who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Killed were: Sgt. Steven P. Mennemeyer, 26, of Granite City, Ill., Sgt. Jeffery S. Brown, 25, of Trinity Center, Calif. They were declared Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown on Aug. 8, when their UH-60 Blackhawk crashed into a lake in the vicinity of Korean Village in Rubtbah, Iraq. Their remains were recovered on Aug. 9 and 10, respectively. Both soldiers were assigned to the 82nd Medical Company (Air Ambulance), Fort Riley, Kan. This incident is under investigation

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine, who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Jeremy Z. Long, 18, of Sun Valley, Nev., died Aug. 10, while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died in Nangalam, Afghanistan on Aug. 11, when their platoon came in contact with enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire during combat operations. The soldiers were assigned to the Army 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y. Killed were: Spc. Rogelio R. Garza, Jr., 26, of Corpus Christi, Texas, Pfc. Andrew R. Small, 19, of Wiscasset, Maine , Pfc. James P. White, Jr., 19, of Huber Heights, Ohio.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers, who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq on Aug 9, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV during combat operations. The soldiers were assigned to the Army's 1st Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany. Killed were: 1st. Sgt. Aaron D. Jagger, 43, of Hillsdale, Mich., Spc. Ignacio Ramirez, 22, of Henderson, Nev.,Spc. Shane W. Woods, 23, of Palmer, Alaska

FALSE FLAG TERRORIST LINK

Aug. 12/13, 2006 -- New false flag terrorist link involving diamond trade discovered in New York. A Syrian Jew named Rimon Alkatri was indicted by a New York City grand jury for phoning a false terrorist threat to the New York City police in May. The indictment charged Alkatri with making a false terrorist threat in the first degree. Alkatri was arrested on July 31, a little over a week from the hype generated by the "great airplane liquid bombing hoax" reported by WMR (see below).

Alkatri, who owns the El Castillo de Oro jewelry store on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn and who arrived in the United States in 1996, was arrested by police while he was leaving his apartment in a Syrian Jewish neighborhood on East 9th Street. In May, Alkatri, using the alias Jose Rodriguez, and claiming to be from Israel, said he overheard five Syrian employees of his store use the phrase "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and that they were plotting to hide explosives in hollowed-out jewelry and perpetrate a suicide bombing in the New York subway system on the Fourth of July. In the ten or so days before police became suspicious of Alktari, there were no moves by the Transportation Security Administration to ban the wearing of jewelry by passengers on aircraft.

Police soon became suspicious of "Jose Rodriguez's" account. The Israeli connection promoted police to alert Israeli authorities and a New York City detective stationed in Jerusalem to pursue the case. Police later discovered that the five Syrian "conspirators" identified by Alkatri were not even Muslims, but Christians and Jews.

Alkatri was not the first person associated with the international diamond business to have been involved in a terrorist threat. In 2003, Yehuda Abraham, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, global diamond dealer, and native of Afghanistan, was charged with money laundering for an Indian weapons smuggler named Hemant Lakhani who was attempting to purchase Russian portable missile launchers to bring down American passenger planes in the United States. Abraham was later convicted in the scheme that also involved a Malaysian bag man associated with the Southeast Asian Al Qaeda off-shoot Jemaah Islamiya. One of Abraham's chief diamond businesses was in Bangkok. Osama Bin Laden used an Algerian, who dressed as a Hasidic and used the name "Cyril Jacob," to sell West African blood diamonds in Hatton Garden, the Jewish diamond district of London. The editor's book, "Jaded Tasks," has a chapter on the connections between the diamond trade and terrorist financing.

The NationMaster.com facts may change your perception

American has the world's fourth largest population and is:

1st. for military expenditures - More than five times as much as 2nd - China

1st. for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction per capita
1st. for the number of rapes
1st. for teenage pregnancies
1st. for total number of divorces
1st. for CO2 emissions

1st. for CO2 emissions from fossil fuels 2000 (per capita)
1st. for electricity consumption

1st. for nuclear energy consumption

1st. for oil imports

1st. for total energy usage per person

1st. for municipal waste per capita

1st. for nuclear waste pollution

1st. for the number of threatened species

1st. the largest debtor in the world (This listing needs updating)
1st. for firearm discharge

1st. the highest divorce rate

1st. for total crimes committed

1st. when it comes to adults prosecuted for crimes

1st. when it comes to the numbers of their population in prison - Over two million! 34%
more than China which has 241% more people

1st. when it comes to the number of criminal record holders

1st. for plastic surgery procedures and

1st. for the amount of money spent on healthcare

46th. for life expectancy and there are estimated to be about 45 million Americans that do not have any health insurance

2nd. for the number of abortions

2nd. for heart attacks and

2nd. for asthma sufferers

America is not even in the top 30 for public spending on public education so it's not surprising that it's ...

14th. for duration of education and...

47th. for total education spending and

14th. for school life expectancy and

68th. for the percentage 'literacy' level of the population

11th. for unemployment

6th. in the world for the total number of murders

3rd. for the total number executions along with our democratic 'friends' in China, Congo and Iran

13th. for social security expenditure as % of GDP

98th. for GDP real growth rate

1st. for soft drink consumption

1st. for the number of television hours watched

Admit it! "You are a little surprised aren't you?" It gives you an idea why the rest of the world is not interested in us spreading our freedom and democracy all over their part of the globe, they know that the American dream is no longer a dream.

The perception of America by other, non-US peoples has changed dramatically over the last five years. According to numerous polls done in non-US countries, the vast majority of people outside the USA now see American politicians as lying, greedy, arrogant, conceited, bullying warmongers hell-bent on needless destruction to protect their special interests.

Based on US actions over the past decade, how could any knowledgeable person (who doesn't work for the US war machine) disagree with that!

Thankfully, in the Pew poll for example, the "attitudes about the United States focused on the Bush administration, not on the American people themselves."

Non-US people on the street still think that the average American is a good guy but their opinion of the people running our country is a whole different ballgame.

Andrew Kohut, the director of the Pew Center stated that: "Perhaps one of the most striking findings in the survey is that China now has a better image among the publics -- European publics -- than does the United States," he said.

Now that has to come as a surprise...

Written by Charlie McCormack* who is ex-Special Forces now happily 'retired' in Costa Rica.* Pen name.

Threats to the US Polity

From Thomas Smith

In comparing the attitudes of Abraham Lincoln to civil liberties during wartime with those of the Bush Administration, Eric Foner overlooks the fact that the United States is not currently at war in the sense that it was during the 1860s (LRB, 23 October). Lincoln led a US that was fighting for its own survival. In contrast, current Islamist terrorism does not itself represent a serious threat to the US polity; there is no prospect of an Islamist regime in Washington. The current threat to the Constitutional order of the US comes from the Administration's own actions.

Overseas adventures such as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq do not usually, and need not, lead to widespread suspension of civil liberties at home. By declaring an open-ended 'war on terror', Bush pulled off the semantic trick of making it possible to justify permanent repressive administrative measures and legislation by disguising these as the requirements of a 'wartime' emergency. At the same time he endorsed the perpetrators' own crazy perceptions that they were leading a religious 'war'. There is no reason for the rest of us to accept either al-Qaida's or the US Administration's self-serving and inflammatory misdefinitions of what is going on.

By the standards of other countries in the mid-19th century, Lincoln's regime appears to have been quite liberal, despite the serious threat that it faced. In contrast, the Bush Administration is a striking example of how repressive policies can be justified by exaggerating threats. Many other regimes, facing violent insurgencies, more dangerous to them than al-Qaida is to the US, are encouraged to persist with their human rights violations when they see the US casually erasing the values that it so frequently trumpets.

Thomas Smith
Basle http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n23/letters.html

White House Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 2, 2006; A04

A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal.

The plan, which would replace a military trial system ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June, would also allow the secretary of defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's jurisdiction. The two provisions would be likely to put more individuals than previously expected before military juries, officials and independent experts said.

The draft proposed legislation, set to be discussed at two Senate hearings today, is controversial inside and outside the administration because defendants would be denied many protections guaranteed by the civilian and traditional military criminal justice systems.

Under the proposed procedures, defendants would lack rights to confront accusers, exclude hearsay accusations, or bar evidence obtained through rough or coercive interrogations. They would not be guaranteed a public or speedy trial and would lack the right to choose their military counsel, who in turn would not be guaranteed equal access to evidence held by prosecutors.

Detainees would also not be guaranteed the right to be present at their own trials, if their absence is deemed necessary to protect national security or individuals.

An early draft of the new measure prepared by civilian political appointees and leaked to the media last week has been modified in response to criticism from uniformed military lawyers. But the provisions allowing a future expansion of the courts to cover new crimes and more prisoners were retained, according to government officials familiar with the deliberations.

The military lawyers received the draft after the rest of the government had agreed on it. They have argued in recent days for retaining some routine protections for defendants that the political appointees sought to jettison, an administration official said.

They objected in particular to the provision allowing defendants to be tried in absentia, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to describe the deliberations. Another source in contact with top military lawyers said, "Their initial impression is that the draft was unacceptable and sloppy." The source added that "it did not have enough due-process rights" and could further tarnish America's image.

The military lawyers nonetheless supported extending the jurisdiction of the commissions to cover those accused of joining or associating with terrorist groups engaged in anti-U.S. hostilities, and of committing or aiding hostile acts by such groups, whether or not they are part of al-Qaeda, two U.S. officials said.

That language gives the commissions broader reach than anticipated in a November 2001 executive order from President Bush that focused only on members of al-Qaeda, those who commit international terrorist acts and those who harbor such individuals.

Some independent experts say the new procedures diverge inappropriately from existing criminal procedures and provide no more protections than the ones struck down by the Supreme Court as inadequate. John D. Hutson, the Navy's top uniformed lawyer from 1997 to 2000, said the rules would evidently allow the government to tell a prisoner: "We know you're guilty. We can't tell you why, but there's a guy, we can't tell you who, who told us something. We can't tell you what, but you're guilty."

Bruce Fein, an associate deputy attorney general during the Reagan administration, said after reviewing the leaked draft that "the theme of the government seems to be 'They are guilty anyway, and therefore due process can be slighted.' " With these procedures, Fein said, "there is a real danger of getting a wrong verdict" that would let a lower-echelon detainee "rot for 30 years" at Guantanamo Bay because of evidence contrived by personal enemies.

But Kris Kobach, a senior Justice Department lawyer in Bush's first term who now teaches at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, said he believes that the draft strikes an appropriate balance between "a fundamentally fair trial" and "the ability to protect the effectiveness of U.S. military and intelligence assets."

Administration officials have said that the exceptional trial procedures are warranted because the fight against terrorism requires heavy reliance on classified information or on evidence obtained from a defendant's collaborators, which cannot be shared with the accused. The draft legislation cites the goal of ensuring fair treatment without unduly diverting military personnel from wartime assignments to present evidence in trials.

The provisions are closely modeled on earlier plans for military commissions, which the Supreme Court ruled illegal two months ago in a case brought by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni imprisoned in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "It is not evident why the danger posed by international terrorism, considerable though it is, should require, in the case of Hamdan, any variance from the courts-martial rules," the court's majority decision held.

No one at Guantanamo has been tried to date, though some prisoners have been there since early 2002.

John Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer who helped draft the earlier plan, said Bush administration officials essentially "took DOD regulations" for the trials "and turned them into a statute for Congress to pass." He said the drafters were obviously "trying to return the law to where it was before Hamdan " by writing language into the draft that challenges key aspects of the court's decision.

"Basically, this is trying to overrule the Hamdan case," said Neal K. Katyal, a Georgetown University law professor who was Hamdan's lead attorney.
The plan calls for commissions of five military officers appointed by the defense secretary to try defendants for any of 25 listed crimes. It gives the secretary the unilateral right to "specify other violations of the laws of war that may be tried by military commission." The secretary would be empowered to prescribe detailed procedures for carrying out the trials, including "modes of proof" and the use of hearsay evidence.

Unlike the international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the commissions could rely on hearsay as the basis for a conviction. Unlike routine military courts-martial, in which prosecutors must overcome several hurdles to use such evidence, the draft legislation would put the burden on the defense team to block its use.

The admission of hearsay is a serious problem, said Tom Malinowski, director of the Washington office of Human Rights Watch, because defendants might not know if it was gained through torture and would have difficulty challenging it on that basis. Nothing in the draft law prohibits using evidence obtained through cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment that falls short of torture, Malinowski said.

The U.S. official countered that a military judge "would look hard" at the origins of such evidence and that defendants would have to count on "the trustworthiness of the system."

To secure a death penalty under the draft legislation, at least five jurors must agree, two fewer than under the administration's earlier plan. Courts-martial and federal civilian trials require that 12 jurors agree.

Judge Halts NSA Snooping:

By Ryan Singel|
11:30 AM Aug, 17, 2006

The Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping on Amercians' telephone and internet communications is unconstitutional and must stop immediately, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

The ruling is the first court order barring the National Security Agency's ambitious domestic surveillance activities, which have spurred a string of lawsuits against the government and telecommunications companies around the country. It also marks a serious blow to the administration's sweeping interpretation of executive authority under the Constitution, a stance that's riled politicians and legal scholars alike.

Detroit U.S. District Court judge Anna Diggs Taylor, presiding over an ACLU challenge to the so-called "Terrorist Surveillance Program", rejected(.pdf) the government's assertion that the state secrets privilege prevents any review of the NSA surveillance.

In the past, the privilege has allowed the government to put an immediate stop to judicial proceedings that it says might reveal top national security secrets.

But in this case, "the court is persuaded that Plaintiffs are able to establish a prima facie case based solely on Defendants' public admissions" regarding the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of Americans.

The wiretapping "violates the Separation of Powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Title III (of the Constitution)," according to Taylor's injunction.

"Today’s ruling is a landmark victory against the abuse of power that has become the hallmark of the Bush administration," said ACLU Director Anthony D. Romero in a written statement. "Government spying on innocent Americans without any kind of warrant and without Congressional approval runs counter to the very foundations of our democracy."

Governors Oppose President's Control of Guard During Crises
From the Associated Press

August 6, 2006

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The nation's governors are closing ranks in opposition to a proposal in Congress that would let the president take control of the National Guard in emergencies without gubernatorial consent.

The idea, spurred by the chaos after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, is part of a House-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act. The Senate has not passed it.

The provision would remove the required consent of governors for the federalization of the Guard, which is shared between the individual states and the federal government.

Republican Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said "a whole bunch of governors" were opposed to the idea after the proposed change was brought up in a private lunch at the summer meeting of the National Governors Assn.

About two dozen governors met here for three days of discussions. The association sent a letter of opposition to House leaders last week.

The language in the measure would let the president take control in the case of "a serious natural or man-made disaster, accident or catastrophe," according to the association.

"The idea of federalizing yet another function of government in America is A, the wrong direction, and B, counterproductive," Sanford said.

"The system has worked quite well, notwithstanding what went wrong with Katrina."

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross."
- Sinclair Lewis
I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.
-- George W. Bush, quoted in George Magazine, September, 2000

“I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany.”
-- Adolf Hitler
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider to be God-fearing and pious."
-- Aristotle, 343 B.C.

Guess What Foxman? American's Don't Give a Damn!

By Curt Maynard

I for one am not at all surprised to read that eighty-percent of Americans still hold Mel Gibson in high regard, and that a mere six percent say they’ll never see a Gibson film again, I’ve been saying it all along, the vast majority of Americans don’t give a damn that Gibson made some anti-Semitic remarks, they don’t care about Jews anymore than anyone else.[1] You wouldn’t know it though, not if one were to rely on the coverage of the mainstream kosher media, you know the very media that claims to represent the American people, they’ve had nothing but condemnation for Mel from the very beginning. Fox News, the alleged “conservative,” and “fair and balanced” network has been working Mr. Gibson over pretty good, bringing on Jew after Jew and their pathetic Shabbas Goy hacks like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, who claim to really like Gibson, but never forget to properly condemn him first, for his “scurrilous,” and “unfair,” remarks in regards to the poor persecuted Jew.

A recent Fox News poll, albeit a poll not even once mentioned over the airwaves, i.e television, revealed the following:

“The latest FOX News poll finds that 6 percent of Americans say they "definitely" will not go to see Gibson’s movies in the future and another 10 percent say they "probably" won’t go, while eight out of 10 people say his arrest and negative comments about Jewish people will not make a difference to them… Men (83 percent) are slightly more likely than women (77 percent), and Republicans (83 percent) are a bit more likely than Democrats (75 percent) to say the incident will not make a difference in their decision to see Gibson’s movies.”[2]

Then there’s CNN, who has thoroughly covered the “Gibson incident,” never forgetting to remind the viewer about Mel’s bad dad, you know, the “holocaust denier.[3]” MSNBC has jumped on the bandwagon too with Tucker Carlson adding his useless and philo-Semitic fare. The funny thing is – despite the media’s greatest efforts; and Mel’s pathetic conduct in relation to apology, Americans still like Gibson and intend to see his movies. It’s the funniest thing – the media is starting to seriously lose it’s credibility and it’s losing it over some remarks made by a relatively forgettable and unremarkable person, after all, in the end, all Gibson is, is just an actor, director and producer.

Many people find this writer strange, I frequently ask people I’ve never met before, sometimes in impromptu and inappropriate settings and situations, like at the mall or library, how they feel about various issues, i.e. “do you believe the ‘official government version,’ of 9-11,” or “how do you really feel about illegal immigration,” but as a result of engaging in this rather odd and often invasive approach, I long ago figured out that the media is generally full of shit and that nothing reported by it can be trusted.

Consider this – many of us know that more than eighty percent of the American public disapproves of illegal immigration and does not want the twenty million illegal aliens, illegally residing in this country at present to receive amnesty. Despite being a true bipartisan issue, these criminals will receive amnesty, not because the American people want them to, but because our traitorous government officials and the Jewish media want them to. The media will never stop emphasizing the alleged positive aspects of illegal immigrants, sure they’ll pay the idea of deporting them some lip service, but only for the fool’s benefit, when it comes right down to it, the media will always bring on immigrant advocates and present them in a positive light, whereas they’ll bring on the least articulate anti-illegal-immigrant spokespersons and portray them in a negative light, insinuating that they’re somehow racists, and/or thanks to the traitor George Bush, vigilantes, as if that were such a terrible thing. By doing this the media hopes to have its cake and eat it too – ultimately it wants more and more immigrants to enter the United States of America, it divides the population, and prevents citizens from developing a consensus on any issue, leaving our current government and the media in absolute and total command, machiavellian tactics at their finest.

The media will never “get a clue,” and come around to the true American point of view and/or what the public wants. It doesn’t have to; it knows it can make the public do as it likes. In 1940 fully eighty percent of the American people were strongly opposed to becoming involved in Europe’s war, it was a European problem, not an American concern. However, thanks to the media and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the American people eventually “came around,” to the point of view of Roosevelt and the media. What the media never mentioned was that Roosevelt engaged in a foreign policy approach that virtually guaranteed that Japan would attack the United States, Roosevelt’s policies left them no choice whatsoever, he was strangling them economically by placing embargoes on vital raw materials, oil included. Because the typical American was unaware of what Roosevelt was really doing to the Japanese in the Pacific, they were outraged when Japan “cowardly” attacked the United States on December 7, 1941, and they fully supported their President when he declared war on Japan, and Germany soon after. Of course Germany was the real target, but no matter, America would come around to his point of view in the end.

In the same manner the media misinforms the American people about the occupation of Iraq and the fiasco in Afghanistan. It reports what it likes, and suppresses the rest. Mel Gibson is really nothing more than a titillating story designed to do two things, draw the publics attention away from important issues, like Bush’s failed experiment in the Middle east and the public’s growing suspicion that he and the Israel’s may have had something to do with 9-11, and to teach the public a lesson about what happens when someone dares to mention the word “Jew,” in relation to anything but the most altruistic and benevolent of causes.

Wake up America, you’re being taken for a ride.

[1] http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=541287
[2] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208025,00.html
[3] Holocaust skepticism is another issue the Mainstream Media would love to convince the American public is an unacceptable thing to do, but like the Gibson incident, most Americans couldn’t give a damn if someone questions details associated with the so-called holocaust. http://pcapostate.blogspot.com/2006/08/guess-what-foxman-americans-dont-give.html

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Another Spy Story Suppressed to Save Israel

By Curt Maynard

Well guess what reader, the United States government has done it again, they’ve hidden another Jewish spy from the American public, but this time the cats out of the bag, someone leaked the details and now we find that another Jewish American, this time a Navy Petty Officer by the name of Ariel J. Weinmann has been arrested for passing along Top Secret information related to National Security to the Israeli government.

In Weinmann’s case, one can bet the information he stole was of a highly classified nature, you see Weinmann was stationed on an American nuclear submarine, the USS Albuquerque. Despite this, Kate Wiltrout, of theVirginian-Pilot reports:

The Navy originally refused to release basic information about the Weinmann case - including the dates of his Article 32, or preliminary hearing - but reversed course after The Virginian-Pilot revealed Weinmann's confinement, and the secrecy with which it was being handled.[1]

Many people reading this will automatically assume that the Navy was keeping the case mum so as not to let the Israeli’s know they had caught Weinmann, but this isn’t the case, the Israeli’s probably knew before the Navy that Weinmann had been arrested, the Navy was keeping the case quiet in an effort to keep the American people in the dark, just as the United States government did with more than one hundred and fifty Israeli’s after they had been arrested for espionage just after 9-11, and the five Israeli’s that were arrested on 9-11 as a result of being witnessed by several people laughing while filming the impact of the airliners into the twin towers and clapping one another on the back in a congratulatory manner. The Navy buried Weimann’s case in the hope that the American people would never find out about him and what he did, just as the government did with Asher Karni, an Israeli Jew arrested at Denver International Airport on January 2, 2004 for having sold [past tense] more than sixty nuclear weapon detonators to Pakistan, a country populated by more than three hundred million Muslims, who generally don’t like the United States and where the name “Osama,” is the most popular name for a newborn male child. There are dozens of cases just like these; that have occurred in this country recently, the common denominator is that they all involve ethnic Jews. Another case is that of American citizen, Yehuda Abraham, a New York City Jeweler and Orthodox Jew, who was arrested in 2003 for having sold FBI agents posing as Al Qeada operatives Russian made, shoulder launched, surface to air missiles, with the understanding that they’d be used against Americans on domestic flights. Ever heard of any of these people? Surprise, the fact that you haven’t doesn’t mean they aren’t real people and they weren’t arrested for the above crimes, they are all quite real and they are all quite guilty.

The other day I emailed an article about Weinmann to an acquaintance who replied that the case probably wasn’t that big of a deal based upon the fact that the media wasn’t reporting it. Besides, the fool wrote back, how much classified information would a Petty Officer have access to? I then quickly typed up another missive and sent it back to the miscreant, pointing out that there was a case involving an Army Specialist a few years ago in which the young man was arrested and tried for treason after he had passed along completely useless and antiquated information on the M1 Abrams battle tank. The information he passed along was information that could have been gathered on the Internet, this is not to mitigate what he did, he passed this information on to FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda operatives, thus he committed treason and I’d be the first to say he should be held responsible. His name is Ryan G. Anderson and he sits in a Military prison today with a life sentence – just where a traitor should be. Anderson was a Specialist, a glorified private really, who did not have access to anything spectacular – Weinmann was a Petty Officer stationed on a ballistic missile submarine that stole classified information that was directly related to American national security – do you see the difference?

When Anderson was arrested the entire media apparatus went immediately to work – before the end of the day his face had been splashed across every television screen in America a dozen times, every newspaper had his face on the front page the next day – in short – nobody was trying to cover up Anderson’s crime, not like they are with Weinmann. What’s the difference?

Another common denominator associated with people arrested for spying on behalf of Israel is that Israel is almost never mentioned by name; it is always referred to as a “foreign government.” The media does this so as to report whatever story may be in the works but at the same time to protect that little Middle Eastern provocateur from exposure – how can you convince Americans in the hundreds of millions that their hard earned tax dollars should be sent overseas to bolster the Zionist state if everyone knows that Israel is an enemy, not an ally. As an example of the media predilection, please note the following Associated Press blurb from an article entitled “Sailor Faces Spy Charges”:

Officials accuse Weinmann of passing classified information to a foreign government representative in Austria and again in Mexico.[2]

The reason the government attempted to cover up Weinmann’s arrest and the media attempts to suppress the fact that the “foreign government representative,” was an Israeli are the same – to prevent Americans from learning the extent of the Jewish nation’s intrigues against the United States and to keep the money rolling into Israel as if everything were A-okay.

Awake America, they are lying to you!

[1] http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=109137&ran=12893
[2] http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2006/082006/08132006/213605 http://pcapostate.blogspot.com/2006/08/another-spy-story-suppressed-to-save.html