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Foreknowledge and Failure
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"Was it culpable negligence — or something much worse — behind the federal government’s failure to prevent the Black Tuesday atrocity? This question is now on the minds of millions of Americans following a stream of outrageous disclosures concerning prior knowledge of the attack. But a version of it had become office banter among agents in the FBI’s Minneapolis office in the weeks before 9-11." |
Homeland Security Plan Details Emerge
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"Details began emerging Saturday of how President Bush's staff devised his plan to revamp the nation's domestic security apparatus, including word that aides considered much more expansive moves than the White House eventually proposed."
"the president asked Congress in his Saturday radio address to complete work this year on the new terrorism-fighting Cabinet-level agency. House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt said approval should come by Sept. 11." |
Afghanistan: Despite disarmament order, Guns Still Everywhere
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"though far fewer weapons are on the streets than five months ago, guns are still everywhere — big guns, automatic guns, battered, dented guns that look like they've already been used to kill people..."
"The country should have been disarmed first," says Tajwar Kokar, the deputy minister of women's affairs in the interim government. Her office, too, is guarded by northern alliance soldiers with guns." |
Detection Machines Unreliable, U.S. Government Buying them anyway
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"One of the two brands of explosive detection machines being installed at airports often breaks down, but federal officials say the company is fixing the problems."
"The Transportation Security Administration on Friday awarded a $508 million contract to a division of the Boeing Co. to install explosive detection machines at airports. The company will buy the machines from both suppliers." |
Homeland Insecurity ... Measures for the Celebration of our "Freedom"
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"Frankly, if we get through Independence Day without a 'terrorist' incident, it'll be a miracle. Until then, the newest threat warning from the guys who are currently responsible for our safety (the FBI) is of a potential nerve gas attack against American subway systems. And you'll be pleased to know just how much more possible we've made this nightmare, and how much safer you can feel..." |
Northcom Raises Legal, Constitutional Questions
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"The danger, today, stems from the possibility that, under this new arrangement, the Pentagon might become a tool of Attorney General John Ashcroft. LaRouche pointed to the doctrine of law encompassed by the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act which "may be properly viewed as the U.S. government's recognition of the danger of allowing the circumstances under which corrupt elements of the Federal government might act to establish a military dictatorship in the U.S.A." |
Is a Cabinet-level Homeland Security Department Necessary?
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Bush has called on Congress to reorganize the nation's security agencies, combining 22 units into 1.
YES - "We need such sweeping transformations to efficiently and effectively win our war against terror."
NO - "...this hasty reshuffling of agencies creates duplication, overlap and excessive government expansion."
VOTE.COM will send your vote to President Bush and your congressional representative and senators. |
GiveMeLiberty: Personal Message & Plan from Schulz
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"Later this week, Bob Schulz will release a personal message and a plan of action to this nation. Bob will commit himself fully to these ends, and challenge all Americans to come together and work in unison with others in the We The People Congress to secure our objectives using the strongest, peaceful methods available." |
Airport Searches - Biggest Show in Town
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"We have heard the news reports of airport security searching little old ladies - well, I recently experienced it first hand. And much more! The last few weeks I have been through several airports -- from Los Angeles to Australia, and back to the states to Phoenix, Arizona, then to Memphis, Tennessee. I purposely scrutinized the new federal employees in their white starched shirts with the federal emblems on their sleeves..." |
CA: Public criticism mounting over cow shooting incident
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"As public criticism mounted over the California Highway Patrol's shooting of six cows near Highway 1 at Division Road Sunday night, the agency in San Luis Obispo is refusing to provide information on the incident."
"They were shot in a lettuce field. Cattle owner Albert Silva of Santa Maria said it appeared some of the cattle were lying down when shot. They were at least 50 yards from the highway, he said." |
Post Columnist Backs Armed Pilots -- Will President Bush?
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"Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, today commended Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen for his endorsement yesterday of armed pilots."
"Cohen is an advocate of strict gun control, but argues that like armed police officers, "armed pilots would also be a deterrent" to terrorists."
"It is high time President Bush stopped letting an anti-gun former Congressman like Norm Mineta make policy based on his personal prejudices," said Pratt. |
Designing Dependence
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"...Through Social Security, Medicare, public education, and the rest, the sphere of autonomous individual action grows ever smaller, despite widespread understanding that personal responsibility is essential to self-respect and therefore necessary to individuals’ pursuit of happiness. In the modern redistributive state, we are no longer free to choose in many fundamental areas of our lives..." |
Political Courage
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"Minneapolis Special Agent Coleen Rowley raised the issue of political correctness in her now famous memo to the FBI director when she suggested that the reason a warrant was not issued to search the computer hard drive of Moussaoui was because FBI Headquarters managers were worried about "racial profiling." In the crafting and distribution of her memo, Special Agent Rowley found the courage to say what a lot of others were already thinking." |
South Africa: Military Options Of Farmers
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"Clearly the white and black expectations that the USA would intervene in Zimbabwe are nothing more than wishful thinking. The USA is quite paralysed when it comes to acting against a black nation and so is the rest of the world. Whereas putting sanctions on white people and whipping them into line was no problem when whites ruled colonial Africa, the subsequent black rulers have no such threat facing them. So Mugabe is quite safe." |
TX: Relatives sue over slaying by police during drug raid
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"family of Pedro Oregon Navarro -- shot to death by Houston police during a drug raid in 1998 -- filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in state court Friday."
"Oregon, 22, was slain ... after six officers stormed his brother's apartment looking for drugs. The officers did not have a search or arrest warrant."
"The officers said three of them fired at Oregon, striking him 12 times, after he pointed a gun at them. A gun found near Oregon's body had not been fired and no drugs were found." |
TX: Selena murder weapon to be destroyed (update)
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"The gun used to kill Tejano star Selena will be smashed with a sledgehammer and shredded, and the pieces will be thrown into Corpus Christi Bay on orders of a state judge."
"It's time to finally bring closure to such tragedy," said state District Judge Jose Longoria. Several groups opposed the destruction, calling the revolver an important part of history." |
Lawmakers say Bush plan for police state will pass quickly
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"Congressional leaders predicted Friday that President Bush's plan for a behemoth Department of Homeland Security will be modified and then approved within three months. This despite concerns that the proposed agency may fail to rectify the intelligence-sharing failures that have plagued the government."
"the most ambitious government reshuffling in 50 years: a 169,000-person homeland security superagency ... with a combined budget of more than $37 billion a year." |
OK: Ammunition triggers evacuation of police
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EDMOND -- "The police department was evacuated Thursday when a man brought in some old ammunition to be destroyed."
"[Sgt. Scott] Fees [of the department's bomb squad] noticed that some of the rounds were live and called for the evacuation of the building."
"[Glynda Chu, police spokeswoman] said she encourages residents who think they might have an explosive to call the police department ... and someone will come and pick it up." |
9-11 and the Public Safety: Seeking Answers and Accountability
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Reflecting on the results the results of past investigations will, I believe, stimulate a strong desire for a source of unbiased, fearlessly truthful reporting. My nomination for one of the best, if not the best, grouping of reporters dedicated to truth is this site.
Who will watch the watchers(?), other than those who understand the response-ability of living in a constitutional republic. |
Propaganda and Plan Colombia
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--The unparalled duplicity of the drug war, in it's relationship to Colombia, follows the same brutal path it has done in every country that suffers under the yoke of the shadow goverment that so deftly juggles the press and the "low intensity" conflicts mentioned here.
"US strategists recognized that military victory is no longer the primary objective ... The new objective is the political delegitimization of the enemy and the management of public opinion within both international and national contexts." |
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