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Woodrow Wilson had no qualms about jailing people he disagreed with. His persecution of the Hutterites can attest to that. Campaigning for President of the United States in September 1912, “progressive” icon Woodrow Wilson said something that would gladden the heart of any libertarian: Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. That was two months before the election that Wilson won. He garnered...

The media are still feeling the impact of an executive order signed in 1917 that created ‘the nation’s first ministry of information’.. When the United States declared war on Germany 100 years ago, the impact on the news business was swift and dramatic. In its crusade to “make the world safe for democracy,” the Wilson administration took immediate steps at home to curtail one of the pillars of democracy – press freedom – by implementing a plan to control, manipulate and censor all news coverage, on a scale never seen in U.S. history. Following the lead of the Germans and...

In "How we advertised America", George Creel wrote the following: (Page 16/17) As a matter of fact, I was strongly opposed to the censorship bill, and delayed acceptance of office until the President had considered approvingly the written statement of my views on the subject. It was not that I denied the need of some sort of censorship, but deep in my heart was the feeling that the desired results could be obtained without paying the price that a formal law would have demanded. Aside from the physical difficulties of enforcement, the enormous cost, and the overwhelming irritation involved, I...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico is holding out hope that Latin America will get more attention during President Bush (news - web sites)'s second term and obtain changes in what a senior Cabinet minister calls "absurd" U.S. immigration policies. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and several other U.S. Cabinet members are expected to begin a two-day visit to Mexico City starting Monday. During the talks, Mexico will push for a long-awaited accord on migrants' rights — and seek to put the region back on the White House agenda. "It's absurd that (the...

Mexico has reacted furiously to a bill signed into law by the US this week that would fund a border wall and prevent illegal Mexican migrants from obtaining US driving licences. President Vicente Fox said he would lodge a diplomatic complaint, and was considering complaints to multilateral bodies if Mexico could not unable to resolve the problem bilaterally. In the US, leaders of the Mexican community threatened to strike to send a message to US employers that they could not survive without cheap Mexican labour. Santiago Creel, Mexico's interior secretary, said the “Real ID” law was “negative, inconvenient, and obstructionist”....

Andres Mauel Lopez Obrador: Yes. I know that you haven't heard from me in quite a while. After all, it is hard to keep in touch with my loyal, working class supporters when the filthy, plutocratic scum who have usurped power and are intent on keeping the "PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION" down bring their weight to bear against a proletarian hero such as myself. Many of you may have heard of Interior Minister Santiago Creel, the lackey of Coca-Cola-slurping, American stooge Vincente Fox, and his persistent attempts to suppress the "THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION"; the case broguht against me is nothing more than...

Mexico says U.S. Threat Exaggerted This week the US State department issued a travel warning for Americans for the area in Mexico across from Loredo, Texas. 27 Americans have disappeared, been kidnapped or killed since September, 2004 in that area. “Mexico is taking determined action against drug-trafficking. Mexico’s government cannot permit ANY FORIEGN GOVERNMENT TO JUDGE OR EXPRESS ITSELF REGARDING POLICY ACTIONS UNDRTAKEN TO DEAL WITH IT’S PROBLEMS” Mexican President’s Office Jan. 27, 2005 Oh, really, Mr. Fox? And yet your government is threatening to take the US and Arizona to the International court for it’s people’s passage of propostion...

DOBBS: The Mexican government has made yet another outrageous demand of the United States. Mexico is demanding the United States relax its immigration policy and standards. CASEY WIAN, CNN : It's the last scheduled meeting between U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Mexican Interior Secretary Santiago Creel before Ridge leaves office in two weeks. TOM RIDGE: I like being his amigo. SANTIAGO CREEL : The government of President Fox will continue to work with his American counterpart until we can come to an agreement. We have proposed as a government five central points. Those demands are what he calls...