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Gte him into rehab as soon as possible. In fact have him committed into rehab if that is legal in your location. It shoudl be legal everywhere. People on drugs have no control over themselve sor their addiction(s). Once they have some time to clean up physically, then the mental and spirtual side can be worked on.

Don't give up hope. Expect relapses, it is the most painful and unfortunate part of recovery. But I'm here to tell you: recovery works!

I would expect something at a large outdoor gathering, like a football game or a parade.

Misinformation spread by our enemies....

That and hopefully Elizabeth Hurley to do his eyebrows -- meow!!

Author links Bush family to Nazis

The president of the Florida Holocaust Museum said Saturday that George W. Bush's grandfather derived a portion of his personal fortune through his affiliation with a Nazi-controlled bank.

John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department's Nazi War Crimes Unit, said his research found that Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a principal in the Union Banking Corp. in Manhattan in the late 1930s and the 1940s.

Leading Nazi industrialists secretly owned the bank at that time, Loftus said, and were moving money into it through a second bank in Holland even after the United States declared war on Germany.

The bank was liquidated in 1951, Loftus said, and Bush's grandfather and great-grandfather received $1.5 million from the bank as part of that dissolution. "That's where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich," Loftus said.

I'm sure this 20-something peacenik will be surprised to learn that his prized cell phone will be the first thing confiscated upon his arrival. Such is life in Saddam's world. Enjoy the tour!!

It's been in existence for six months now.

With the same high ethical standards no less!

Check it out for yourself:

Official Site
http://www.steveearle.com/

Unofficial Site:
http://www.steveearle.net/

IT'S A JOKE FOLKS!!!!

See DRUDGE REPORT

I guess if we gotta support the Jews in the Middle East we gotta support them in France, oui?

Le Pen Worries French Jews
Tue Apr 23, 9:14 AM ET
By PAMELA SAMPSON, Associated Press Writer

PARIS (AP) - The strong showing by far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in the presidential qualifying round came as an unwelcome shock to many French Jews in a country where authorities say anti-Semitic attacks are at their highest level since World War II.

The vast majority of Jews shunned Le Pen at the polls Sunday, when he unexpectedly placed second and advanced to a runoff against incumbent Jacques Chirac, said Emmanuel Weintraub, spokesman for the Representative Council of French Jewish Groups in Paris.

"We have always been dead against Le Pen in the Jewish community, and we are not going to change," he said.

Le Pen, who has been accused of bigotry and anti-Semitism throughout his long political career, became notorious among Jews 15 years ago when he called Nazi gas chambers "a detail in World War II history."

The Union of Jewish Student of France announced it was organizing an anti-Le Pen rally in Paris next Sunday to express opposition to the themes he is associated with, primarily "intolerance, anti-Semitism and xenophobia."

Le Pen's triumph followed a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe and particularly France, where violence against Jews has increased during 19 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting and flared further amid Israel's recent West Bank offensive.

Muslim youths from immigrant families, themselves targets of Le Pen, have been blamed for much of the violence.

Leaders of the World Jewish Congress opened an emergency meeting Monday in Brussels, Belgium to assess the troubling trend of anti-Semitic attacks across Europe.

The congress hopes to wrap up the special session Tuesday with a call to European political leaders for improved protection and stronger support for Jewish communities, officials said.

Le Pen is not expected to beat Chirac in the May 5 runoff, but his strong showing — 16.8 percent of the votes cast — stoked the ongoing debate among French Jews over whether they are safe.

"A Chirac victory against Le Pen, influenced by the xenophobic right, could leave the Jewish community trapped between Muslim extremists and a revitalized, anti-Semitic extreme right," said Shimon Samuels of the Simon Weisenthal Center in Paris.

"Under such conditions, more and more French Jews will see their future elsewhere," Samuels said.

About 1,200 Jews leave France for Israel every year, and the Jewish state recently has stepped up efforts to persuade them to come. But Weintraub said most Jews here are committed French citizens and would stay put.

Some Jews even voted for Le Pen, whose tough-on-crime platform struck a chord in a nation where violent crime shot up 10 percent last year.

"There are Jews who voted for Le Pen, and they did it on the same grounds as any other Frenchman who is afraid of being robbed, of being mugged," Weintraub said.

Among the few Jews who voted for Le Pen, Weintraub said he believes "a very small minority" did so as an expression of anger over the upsurge in attacks on Jewish sites in the past year and a half.

Jewish leaders say disaffected youths from the France's large immigrant Muslim population are largely to blame, and those few Jewish votes that Le Pen got could be a way of lashing back, Weintraub said.

Le Pen is a virulent opponent of immigration, particularly from the Muslim countries in North Africa, and he blames immigrants for the soaring crime rate.

"This push, this constant foreign immigration will — if a barrier is not erected — eventually submerge our country, making it disappear," Le Pen said Monday.

In comments to reporters, Le Pen described himself as the "candidate of the French people" and said they had voted for him to overturn the political system.

As thousands of protesters took to the streets across France to denounce his success, Le Pen appealed for calm. "Change must be carried out peacefully," he said.

Steven Colbern

FUGITIVE TO FACE CHARGES IN CALIF. BIOCHEMIST NOT INVOLVED IN BOMBING, LAWYER SAYS

Published on Saturday, May 27, 1995
© 1995 The Arizona Republic
Byline: By Eun-Kyung Kim, The Associated Press

Steven Colbern, the fugitive gun enthusiast who got caught up in the Oklahoma City bombing dragnet, has been ordered to return to California to face a weapons charge.

The 35-year-old biochemist on Friday waived his right to an identity hearing in federal court in Phoenix.

Wearing beige prison garb, Colbern spoke up only to answer U.S. Magistrate Morton Sitver with an occasional ''yes, sir.''

Officials did not know when Colbern would be transferred to the Central District of the U.S. District Court in California.

Colbern has been held without bond in a federal facility in Phoenix since his arrest May 12 in the old mining town of Oatman, where he lived for about four months.

John Hannah, Colbern's attorney, said he does not believe his client is connected with the bombing.

After the hearing, Hannah chided reporters about recent speculation over a possible bargain between Colbern and federal authorities that would include Colbern's assistance in providing information about bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh during his stay in Kingman.

''That kind of speculation endangers his safety in the prison system,'' Hannah said. ''I wish you guys would stop that.''

Colbern has submitted to only one interview with authorities to ''clear himself with Oklahoma City,'' Hannah said.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has refused to comment on any possible link between Colbern's arrest and the Oklahoma City terrorist attack.

Once Colbern is transferred to California, he will face charges stemming from a warrant issued last year when he skipped a federal court hearing on a charge of possessing an unregistered weapon, a silencer.

When an officer attempted to arrest him, Colbern put up such a struggle that five other officers were needed to subdue him, according to court records.

In Colbern's car, officers found a chrome silencer, a Jennings .22-caliber pistol, a Sig Sauer P-226 9mm pistol, order lists for gun parts and a mechanism used to convert a semiautomatic rifle to full automatic, which would make the weapon illegal.

In a compartment covered by carpet in the rear of the car, officers found an SKS assault rifle, several boxes of ammunition and a videotape of a Browning M2 .50-caliber machine gun on the floor of a living room, according to court records.

Colbern also faces two charges lodged in Arizona after his Oatman arrest and scuffle with U.S. marshals: resisting arrest and being a fugitive in possession of a firearm.

''Arizona charges are still pending, so the answer is yeah, he may well (return),'' Hannah said.

Third suspect identified in Oklahoma bombing

By Dan Thomasson and Peter Copeland
Scripps Howard News Service
[Printed on page A1 of the May 12, 1995 _Houston Chronicle_]

A third man wanted in the Oklahoma City bombing has been identified as Steven Colbern, a fugitive from a previous firearms charge.

Colbern, aged 35 or 36, is described as 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds with green eyes, which roughly matches the description of John Doe II.

Law enforcement sources said Thursday night that Colbern was identified through his brown pickup. It was captured, by chance on video taken from the state trooper's car that stopped Timothy McVeigh for speeding only 80 minutes after the blast.

"That trooper had a hell of a day," a federal investigator said.

An automatic camera in the car of Trooper Charles Hanger was taping the arrest of McVeigh. In the background was the image of the pickup, which also pulled over while McVeigh was being questioned.

Sophisticated enhancement techniques were used to improve the video until investigators could read the license plate number.

The truck, registered to Colbern, contained traces of ammonium nitrate, believed to be the main explosive ingredient used in the bombing.

Colbern's age is uncertain. His address is unknown, but he shared a mail drop with McVeigh in Kingman, Ariz., sources said. The truck was found parked outside an abandoned mobile home in Kingman.

Colbern already was wanted on a federal firearms charge, officials said. He was arrested last summer in San Bernadino, Calif., for carrying a gun with a silencer. He was allowed to post bail but skipped.