http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gulag/ en-us Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:18:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097057/posts WASHINGTON, Oct 03, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the Mental Health Parity legislation that was approved by the House and signed into law today: "Today, the House acted in a bipartisan way to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act with the aim of addressing the challenges felt by Americans on Main Street. "Among those many challenges is the fact that almost every American family has to grapple with mental illness at some point. "By including the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act in this essential... Market Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097057/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:18:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2122785/posts We all know the potential horrors if Socialized Medicine were ever made a reality in this country, but to someone who only sees the good, and none of the bad, it is difficult for them to see the truth. In my discussion with a liberal friend I was having difficulty describing a parallel. We all can provide stories of long wait times, and lack of care experienced in other countries, but the answer always seems to be, "America will do it better". My point is that when a person has no responsibility to bear the costs of healthcare, he will... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2122785/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 21:15:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101299/posts From Hillary Clinton Forum Yesterday, 09:44 PM Maddie Kaddison New Member = <100 Posts Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 99 Poster Rank: #454 Obama's supporters scare me. Here is a comment I just read from this story (the story that Dean Reynolds of CBS wrote about Obama's "stinky" plane etc): Quote: I support Obama, but I disagree on some major issues. One is that we need to use major authoritarian measures against wingnuts and theocrats to save this country. That in particular includes deprogramming institutions and a Gitmo like camp to deal with the worst wingnuts. These people should be... hillaryclintonforum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101299/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:27:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063803/posts Denver is preparing for possible mass arrests of protesters during the Democratic Convention by turning a warehouse into a makeshift holding facility. The holding center, on city property, has cells formed from chain-link fences and barbed wire, with security cameras on the outside, station KUSA in Denver reported. Glenn Spagnuolo and other activists gathered outside the facility to protest the city’s plan to use it as a processing center for people arrested outside the convention. “We feel the city should be ashamed of this secret prison they’ve set up,” Spagnuolo said. newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063803/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:54:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057125/posts In 1949 a publication of the Soviet Academy of Sciences carried an item about a bizarre incident that occurred during excavations near the Kolyma River in the gold-mining region of northeastern Siberia. A subterranean stream was discovered, frozen long ago, containing fish and salamanders tens of thousands of years old. They were so well preserved that the men who discovered the stream broke open the ice and ate them. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died on Sunday at the age of 89, managed somehow to read that piece. The National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057125/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:25:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055893/posts 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize winner for literature who was exiled from the Soviet Union and graphically portrayed life in Soviet labour camps, was dead at age 89, the news agency Interfax reported early Monday. The agency quoted literary circles in the Russian capital. The world famous writer and historian had not been seen in public for months. He died from the aftermath of a stroke, according to unconfirmed information.' Monsters and Critics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055893/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020970/posts ON THE website of the Tennessee Republican Party is a short video in which residents of Nashville talk about the pride they feel for their country. One man, for example, mentions his esteem for the First and Second Amendments. A Vanderbilt graduate student says he was proud when Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall - "and I was prouder when it came down." A young professional woman extols the "academic and job opportunities that women have in this country." A police officer named Juan says he is proud of having immigrated to the United States,... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020970/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 09:36:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007685/posts Russia's greatest living novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, is working feverishly to complete his collected works and is writing every day despite failing health, a missing vertebra and being unable to walk, his wife, Natalia, revealed yesterday. Guardian.co.UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007685/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:13:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967295/posts NBC NEWS STATEMENT REGARDING CHELSEA CLINTON COMMENT: On Thursday's "Tucker" on MSNBC, David Shuster, who was serving as guest-host of the program, made a comment about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign that was irresponsible and inappropriate. Shuster, who apologized this morning on MSNBC and will again this evening, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology. He has also extended an apology to the Clinton family. NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks. Mediabistro.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967295/posts#comment Fri, 8 Feb 2008 21:09:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1931388/posts The United Nations’ “Terrorism: Dimensions, Threats and Countermeasures” conference in Tunis concluded that Islam should not be blamed for terror carried out in its name. “The UN did not blame communism for the Soviet gulags or the genocide in Cambodia,” observed conference chairman Abdullah al-Ibi of Saudi Arabia. “Yet, one can find language in the sacred manifestos written by its founder that could be interpreted as granting license for murder and mayhem. If communism gets a pass, so must Islam.” Ibi suggested that “attempts to point the finger of blame will be self-defeating” and that the West “would be better... AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1931388/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:58:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909681/posts The day Saigon fell -- April 30, 1975 -- Lt. Col. Lam Tran gathered his stunned and despondent soldiers and distributed his little money among them. "My heart broke down," says Tran, who now lives in the Twin Cities. "I told them, 'Go home to your families. Now we must all fend for ourselves.'" Minutes later, a bone-shattering explosion shook a nearby house. Twenty of his men had detonated their grenades inside and blown themselves to oblivion. "They were so ashamed," recalls Tran. "They knew it didn't have to be this way." Tran, who led airborne assaults in jungle fighting,... Minneapolis Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909681/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:06:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906833/posts Construction workers have stumbled upon 34 skeletons in a cellar a few hundred meters from the Kremlin, in what may be proof of a Soviet secret police execution site in the center of Moscow. The remains of 34 bodies and a rusty pistol were found in the basement of 8 Nikolskaya Ulitsa on Wednesday, said Vladimir Korobkov, a spokesman for the city police. "The shots were fired point blank," an unidentified law enforcement source said, Interfax reported. "The nature of the wounds and the positioning of the bodies suggest that the workers have found an execution chamber." moscow times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906833/posts#comment Fri, 5 Oct 2007 03:59:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1901597/posts The Russian Natural Resources Ministry says samples of earth taken from where their navy planted a flag on the seabed below the North Pole show beyond doubt that the Arctic is Russian. “Extensive testing has shown that these soils are thoroughly permeated with the DNA of Russian prisoners who perished in the Gulags,” said Josef Zhukovsky, spokesman for the Ministry. “It is incontrovertible that Russians got there first. This precedence proves our claim to this land.” Apparently, the thousands of corpses thrown into the northerly flowing rivers that ran past the numerous concentration camps that served to house opponents of... AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1901597/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:10:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1890582/posts In a speech in Tipton, Iowa yesterday, Senator John Edwards described his health care program "It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK. *** Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental... Leibowitz's Canticle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1890582/posts#comment Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:48:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889790/posts It wasn’t long ago that most conspiracy theories came from conservatives. The right, after all gave our country the John Birch Society. But these days, liberals have a virtual monopoly on loony ideas -- and they seem to be getting crazier all the time. For example, in case you haven’t noticed, the United States is sliding into fascism. Well, not sliding, actually. We’re being driven into fascism. By you-know-who. “Beneath our very noses, George Bush and his administration are using time-tested tactics to close down an open society,” Naomi Wolf wrote this year in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “There is essentially... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889790/posts#comment Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:47:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870249/posts The unassuming international champion of universal health care, Michael Moore, was asked (New York Sun, June 29) whether, while filming "Sicko," he inquired about the condition of Cuban journalist Normando Gonzalez, a political prisoner since 2003. He has contracted severe chronic illnesses while in a Castro gulag. Moore answered that he asked only about Cuba's health care system while he was there. Among other suffering prisoners in Cuban cells who would have added further dimension to "Sicko" are independent librarians, put away for more than 20-year sentences for the crime of giving Cubans access to books and other publications forbidden... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870249/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:55:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868539/posts Bush is no rocket scientist by any stretch, but if there was ever a doubt why Kerry didn't get elected it is moments like this. Wow. BreitBart TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868539/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858815/posts To say the amnesty bill was an emotional issue is an understatement. The Capitol Hill phones rang non-stop, causing some members to simply unplug them and turn off their answering machines. They were hearing from their constituents that they don’t want this amnesty bill to pass and they were ignoring these pleas. But to have a citizen arrested because they disagree is beyond the pale and begs the question, why do they care more about illegal aliens than they do their own constituents? Homeless activist, Ted Hayes, was on Capitol Hill, like thousands of other citizens who make unscheduled visits... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858815/posts#comment Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:48:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857889/posts Guantanamo Bay is a humane place for enemy combatants that is worth keeping IT is disappointing that so many people embrace a contrived image of Guantanamo Bay. Reality for Guantanamo Bay is the daily professionalism of its staff, the humanity of its detention centres and the fair and transparent nature of the military commissions charged with trying alleged war criminals. It is a reality that has been all but ignored or forgotten. Today, most of the detainees are housed in new buildings modelled on US civilian prisons in Indiana and Michigan. Detainees receive three culturally appropriate meals a day. Each... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857889/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:58:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854480/posts For the first 22 years of his life Shin Dong Hyok's home address was Political Prison Camp No 14, Gaechon County, South Pyeongan Province, North Korea. He grew up in unimaginable hardship in one of North Korea'skwanli-so, the gulag system built by Kim Il Sung in 1972 to work prisoners until they died. His "crime" was to have been born to parents categorised by the regime as from the "hostile classes" - the 27 per cent of the population considered national enemies, impure elements and reactionaries. Under Kim Jong Il's "three generation" policy, the family members of anyone who commits... Belfast Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854480/posts#comment Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:30:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851693/posts Remembering Communism’s Victims By Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com June 15, 2007 Washington D.C. -- Holocaust victims have one. So do the fallen of World War II and Vietnam. But what of the estimated 100 million who perished at the hands of the last century’s greatest tragedy, communist totalitarianism? Until recently, these silenced masses -- victims of Soviet gulags, Vietnamese concentration camps, Cambodia‘s killing fields, the East German, Cuban and North Korean police states -- had no fitting memorial to remind the world of their unjust, and often inhuman, fate, let alone of the ideology that abbreviated so many lives. That changed... Front PageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851693/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:35:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849707/posts Washington June 8, 2007 - CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reported this evening that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Peter Pace's departure from that post may be linked to his recent comments regarding lesbian and gay military personnel. According to Starr's report, Pace's comments, along with his role in planning the war in Iraq and his support for convicted Vice Presidential advisor I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, played key roles in Congressional opposition to Pace's re-nomination. "His recent statements that he believed homosexual statements are immoral" presented a "significant problem" for Pace according to Starr. "Congressional leaders, in warning Secretary... Seawaves Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849707/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:03:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845413/posts Wilson says 'good riddance' to Scooter Libby, Cheney should be next. Former Ambassador Joe Wilson, whose wife Valerie Plame was at the heart of the Lewis "Scooter" Libby case, showed no mercy following the announcement of Libby's jail sentence. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000 for lying to federal investigators about his role in the outing of former CIA operative Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife. Here's the Wilson statement in full: “As Americans, both Valerie and I are grateful that justice has been served, reconfirming that our country remains a nation of laws. We are also... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845413/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:36:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844895/posts Handing out anti-gay fliers is apparently a risky act in Crystal Lake, Illinois. A 16-year-old girl who did so was charged with a felony hate crime and held without bail at a juvenile detention center for more than two weeks. Then the judge relented and let her go home. But the girl is being treated like a dangerous mafia chieftain: she was brought to court in leg shackles, she wears an electronic ankle device, and her phone calls and Internet use are being monitored. Her trial starts on Tuesday, June 5. One of her friends, also 16, will be tried... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844895/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jun 2007 01:31:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830920/posts Less than fifteen years after the last Soviet troops pulled out of the Baltic States, a new survey has shown that young Swedes are still in the dark about the fate of its neighbours behind the Iron Curtain. A poll carried out by Demoskop on behalf of the Organization for Information on Communism (Föreningen för upplysning om kommunismen - UOK) found that 90 percent of Swedes between the ages of 15 and 20 had never heard of the Gulag. This can be contrasted with the 95 percent who knew of Auschwitz. "Unfortunately we were not at all surprised by the... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830920/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2007 20:25:37 GMT