thats wot folks get for voting for Kerry

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i first saw this yesterday morn as a blurb on the morning news.

all they said was " a man disrupted Kerry's speech in Florida, and was hauled

off and arrested by police after being tassered. he was charged with assualt and

disorderly conduct. the little bit of footage they showed was just as the police

were arresting him, then cut to him on the ground....

no mention of the book

no mention of iran

no mention of voter fraud

 

and the Washington Post described it as " a mysterious yellow book " , tho he quite

clearly identifies the book and its author during his time at the mike

i guess that would be a kin to " little red book " in the '50's

 

gawd bless amerikkka

September 19, 2007

 

Why Did Senator John Kerry Stand Idly By?

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should watch the

video filmed by students at a John Kerry speech September 17,

Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

 

At the conclusion of Kerry's speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year old

journalism student was selected by Senator Kerry to ask a question.

Meyer held up a copy of BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast's book,

Armed Madhouse, and asked if Kerry was aware that Palast's

investigations determined that Kerry had actually won the election.

Why, Meyer asked, had Kerry conceded the election so quickly when

there were so many obvious examples of vote fraud? Why, Meyer, went

on to ask, was Kerry refusing to consider Bush's impeachment when Bush

was about to initiate another act of military aggression, this time

against Iran?

 

At this point the public's protectors-the police-decided that Meyer

had said too much. They grabbed Meyer and began dragging him off.

Meyer said repeatedly, " I have done nothing wrong, " which under our

laws he had not. He threatened no one and assaulted no one.

 

But the police decided that Meyer, an American citizen, had no right

to free speech and no constitutional protection. They threw him to

the floor and tasered him right in front of Senator Kerry and the

large student audience, who captured on video the unquestionable act

of police brutality. Meyer was carted off and jailed on a phony

charge of " disrupting a public event. "

 

The question we should all ask is why did a United States Senator just

stand there while Gestapo goons violated the constitutional rights of

a student participating in a public event, brutalized him in full view

of everyone, and then took him off to jail on phony charges?

 

Kerry's meekness not only in the face of electoral fraud, not only in

the face of Bush's wars that are crimes under the Nuremberg standard,

but also in the face of police goons trampling the constitutional

rights of American citizens makes it completely clear that he was not

fit to be president, and he is not fit to be a US senator.

 

Usually when police violate constitutional rights and commit acts of

police brutality they do it when they believe no one is watching, not

in front of a large audience. Clearly, the police have become more

audacious in their abuse of rights and citizens. What explains the

new fearlessness of police to violate rights and brutalize citizens

without cause?

 

The answer is that police, most of whom have authoritarian

personalities, have seen that constitutional rights are no longer

protected. President Bush does not protect our constitutional

rights. Neither does Vice President Cheney, nor the Attorney General,

nor the US Congress. Just as Kerry allowed Meyer's rights to be

tasered out of him, Congress has enabled Bush to strip people,

including American citizens, of constitutional protection and

incarcerate them without presenting evidence.

 

How long before Kerry himself or some other senator will be dragged

from his podium and tasered?

 

The Bush Republicans with complicit Democrats have essentially brought

government accountability to an end in the US. The US government has

80,000 people, including ordinary American citizens, on its " no-fly

list. " No one knows why they are on the list, and no one on the list

can find out how to get off it. An unaccountable act by the Bush

administration put them there.

 

Airport Security harasses and abuses people who do not fit any known

definition of terrorist. Nalini Ghuman, a British-born citizen and

music professor at Mills College in California was met on her return

from a trip to England by armed guards at the airplane door and

escorted away. A Gestapo goon squad tore up her US visa, defaced her

British passport, body searched her, and told her she could leave

immediately for England or be sent to a detention center.

 

Professor Ghuman, an Oxford University graduate with a Ph.D. from the

University of California at Berkeley, says she feels like the

character in Kafka's book, The Trial. " I don't know why it's

happened, what I'm accused of. There's no opportunity to defend

myself. One is just completely powerless. " Over one year later there

is still no answer.

 

The Bush Republicans and their Democratic toadies have, in the name of

" security, " made all of us powerless. While Senator John Kerry and

his Democratic colleagues stand silently, the Bush administration has

stolen our country from us and turned us into subjects.

 

*The video of Andrew's Mayer's arrest may be found at

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?filmID=601

 

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the

Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street

Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He

is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:

PaulCraigRoberts

 

 

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Global warming, radio-active sites

Imperialistic wrongs and animal rights! No!

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Why help with an 'am' when there's always a 'could'?

Let the whales worry about the poisons in the sea

Outside of California, it's foreign policy

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Your dilemmas are my distractions

I never looked around, never second-guessed

Then I read some Howard Zinn now I'm always depressed

And now I can't sleep from years of apathy

All because I read a little Noam Chomsky

I'm eating vegetation, 'cause of Fast Food Nation

I'm wearing uncomfortable shoes 'cause of globalization

I'm watching Michael Moore expose the awful truth

I'm listening to Public Enemy and Reagan Youth

I see no world peace 'cause of zealous armed forces

I eat no breath-mints 'cause they're from de-hoofed horses