Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

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26.09.2006 X 1 Former Army Lieutenant and candidate for Congress in Vermont, Dennis
Morrisseau, today called for the arrest of President Bush and Vice President
Cheney by the American military "if necessary" to prevent an unauthorized
attack upon the nation of Iran
28.09.2006 Uruknet 1 Losing a War, Winning a Police State - The downward spiral of the Iraq War and the
worsening worldwide terrorism threat are negatives only if one assumes that creating
a more peaceful and secure world was the original goal
28.09.2006 Guardian 1 John Ashcroft could be called to testify in a lawsuit that claims a student was
wrongly imprisoned in a computer terrorism case, a federal judge ... rejected
Ashcroft's argument to toss out the lawsuit because he was entitled to
28.09.2006 Globe and
Mail
absolute immunity
1 The US Coast Guard has started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine
guns mounted on their vessels and is conducting live-ammunition training
drills to prepare officers to combat terrorists flooding across the border from
Canada by boat
30.09.2006 BAZ 1 Der US-Senat hat der Erweiterung des Zauns entlang der mexikanischen
Grenze um 1'000 Kilometer zugestimmt, um die illegale Einwanderung weiter
zu erschweren {Big Brother isolates himself}
30.09.2006 Prisonplanet 1 the torture bill contains a definition of "wrongfully aiding the enemy" which
labels all American citizens who breach their "allegiance" to President Bush
and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest,
torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal
30.09.2006 Boston Globe 1 New military trial rules for terrorism suspects that Bush endorsed and
Congress approved will draw vigorous court challenges and could be struck
down for violating rights guaranteed under the US Constitution
30.09.2006 Raw Story 1 Diebold corp. officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia‘s
electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, two
whistleblowers are now asserting
01.10.2006 The Nation 1 These are grim days for the Constitution ... the bill still strips detainees of the
right to appeal, broadens the President's unilateral powers to decide who is
an enemy and which interrogation methods violate the Geneva Conventions,
and fatally undermines the War Crimes Act
01.10.2006 Hindu 1 The Bush adm. faced a raft of legal challenges ... The question is, with the
current composition of the Supreme Court, will these challenges actually get
heard, and if they do, what kinds of ruling can we expect?
01.10.2006 Daily Kos 1 Colin Powell has stated in his new book that he was FIRED by President
Bush. The call came from Andy Card .. right after Bush's re-election
02.10.2006 X 1 Supreme Court decisions that are "so clearly at variance with the national will" should
be overridden by the other branches of gov., Newt Gingrich says
02.10.2006 X 1 Under the War Crimes Act, violations of the Geneva Conventions are felonies, in
some cases punishable by death. When the Supreme Court ruled that the Geneva
Convention applied to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees, President Bush & Co. were
suddenly in big trouble ... If the Democrats get control of the House in November this
kind of legislation probably wouldn't pass
02.10.2006 Fox 1 Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a
sheriff's deputy, killing the suspect - 110 rounds. 68 hits. It's not only overkill
(so to speak) for a man who is a suspect (and who was not actually seen to
fire a shot), but it's damned lousy shooting
02.10.2006 Raw Story 1 I cannot view the current debate about the Bush Adm.‘s latest attempt to
remove all checks on its power without thinking about how my German and
Austrian grandparents must have watched with disbelief as Europe sank into
the madness of fascism
03.10.2006 Truthout 1 ... giving the president and his agents the power to capture, torture and imprison
forever anyone - American citizens included - whom they arbitrarily decide is an
"enemy combatant." This also includes those who merely give "terrorism" some kind
of "support," defined so vaguely that many experts say it could encompass legal
advice, innocent gifts to charities or even political opposition to US gov. policy within
its draconian strictures
05.10.2006 X 1 Democrats are within striking distance of taking control of the U.S. Senate on
Election Day - ignoring the Diebold factor, of course
05.10.2006 X 1 Awaiting the Rebellion - When will mutiny begin among the troops in Iraq?
05.10.2006 Congress 1 Legal definition of "terrorist" starts to expand - this particular legislation allows
the gov to declare someone a terrorist if they expose inhumane treatment of
animals, thereby resulting in financial loss to the abuser