Posted on 09/22/2003 7:27:55 AM PDT by johnny7
The DNC's new tool to kick Bush has a list of links that any marxist/socialist American would drool over. Take Emma Goldman's blogspot for instance. Titled, Notes on the Atrocities: One Person's Bid to Get Her Own Fair and Balanced FBI File, Ms Goldmans bio is a gem in itself.;
Your Host, Emma Goldman was born in 1968, the year the U.S. elected Richard Nixon. The span of Emma's life has coincided with a new age of conservatism: each year since 1968, the country has shifted a little further right. Emma lives in Portland, Oregon, known to Republican administrations as "Little Beirut." With her little community of liberal idealists and periodic pints of very good beer, Emma has so far managed to stay off Prozac. Emma Goldman is not her real name. This gives you a good idea of what we're dealing with here. Below is her most recently posted comment and it deals with the accused Islamic Army Chaplin being detained in Cuba.
-Saturday, September 20, 2003 You don't want to jump to conclusions, but this doesn't seem good:
A Muslim chaplain at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo who counseled suspected terrorists and taught fellow troops about Islam is the first known U.S. soldier to be detained in the U.S.-led war on terror. Yee, of Chinese descent and reportedly from New Jersey, converted to Islam from Christianity in 1991 after his military studies at West Point. He left the Army for Syria, where he received religious training. He returned to the U.S. military soon after. As an Arabic-speaker, Yee counseled the detainees, advised them on religious matters and made sure all of their dietary needs were met at the base in eastern Cuba. (Those paragraphs have been rearranged for clarity.) -the writers words.
This comes after two moderate Canadian Muslims were not allowed to enter Florida because, according to one border agent "You've chosen to fly on the wrong day." (It was September 11.) These are exactly the kinds of situations that raise some of the most pronounced debates between the pro-control and the pro-liberty camps (which don't divide along liberal/conservative lines). There are legal issues here, certainly. Given that we don't know the details in these cases, it's pointless to speculate about whether they were legal actions. But I can tell you what really chafes from the card-carrying ACLU member perspective: it's that the current government actually wants two things: it want to remove liberties and it wants to remain secretive about it. This Army chaplain, like all the people in Cuba, are being detained without charge. That's two layers of secrecy--the accused doesn't know of what, and we as citizens have no way to get access to the case or find anything out about it. This amounts to bad faith. If the federal government seeks to remove our rights, it better be transparent about it. If it would rather try to navigate in the waters of very strict regulation and remain secret, that's something else. But I'm reminded when I hear these cases that they're doing both--functioning without sufficient oversight, and subjecting people to legal methods loosened to evade Constitutional requirements. So I don't know what the story is with this chaplain. But because the Ashcroft Justice Department is so secretive and abusive of citizen rights. I now suspect foul play.
Joe Conason also has a blog on this “Kicking Ass” list but he his the only name you will probably recognize. The “Ass” sites comments are mostly anti-Bush spew with no point or reason. The few that try to give facts, albeit lame, are the Dean supporters.
With “Ashley Wilkes” Clark the leader in the recent NewsWeek poll, it makes this conservative wonder how long the DNC can keep HILLARY! chained!
How I wish!
It's a doppler thing. The country isn't moving left as fast as she is. From her point of view it looks like a 'right shift'.
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