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Are_grits_groceries's JournalThe Preemptive Prosecution of the NATO 5
Two men were charged with terrorism-related charges on May 20, bringing the number of men who have been accused of planning “terrorism” against the NATO summit up to five people. The authorities claim their cases have no connection to the first three men, who were charged with plotting terrorism on May 19. However, attorneys for the men, who are the first to be charged with terrorism under Illinois state law, consider them to be connected because there were two individual infiltrators involved – “Mo” and “Gloves,” who helped the FBI, Secret Service and Chicago police ultimately make arrests of these people.
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The involvement of infiltrators has led the attorneys to suspect that the FBI, Secret Service and Chicago police department were all involved in an entrapment scheme. Michael Deutsch, lawyer for Church, believes the infiltrators met up with Betterly, Chase, and Church at the May Day demonstration in Chicago. He believes these infiltrators then went about trying to convince the three men to engage in a terror plot against the NATO summit. When they failed, the infiltrators planted materials for the authorities to find when they raided the apartment, making this case “worse than entrapment.”
The alleged plot hangs on the fact that Betterly, Chase and Church allegedly went to a BP gas station for gasoline that could be used in the production of “Molotov cocktails.” However, the attorneys for the three men have been shown no evidence of any “Molotov cocktails.” Instead, it appears the FBI, Secret Service and Chicago police want to claim a home-brewing beer kit could have been used to produce “Molotov cocktails” and, therefore, these men are “terrorists.”
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The reality is that once the State gets a person and attaches a terrorist indictment to their name there is little chance that person will have be able to go about their business as a normal person again. There is little chance that person won’t do some time or be convicted of some charge, whether it be a lesser charge like a misdemeanor. That person is guaranteed to move on after the fact with a criminal record that is all a result of being involved in a movement that promotes ideals that are deemed despicable by the State.
Long but good food for thought: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/05/21/the-preemptive-prosecution-of-the-nato-5/
Grains of salt....
With their nebulous definitions of terrorist and anarchist, the PTB could probably twist what people post into some charge if they were caught protesting.
Even with a squeaky clean record, you could be disappeared for who knows how long. And make no mistake about it, if you are kept awake and hammered long enough, you would confess to kidnapping Judge Crater.
Dissent in this country now equals anti-American in many minds.
Well, they can BITE ME! The Founding Fathers are spinning fast enough in their graves to launch themselves out of the ground. Zombie Founding Fathers. It may come to that in this surreal land.
Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
It was not a theoretical question: Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret “nominations” process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. He had vowed to align the fight against Al Qaeda with American values; the chart, introducing people whose deaths he might soon be asked to order, underscored just what a moral and legal conundrum this could be.
Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding “kill list,” poring over terrorist suspects’ biographies on what one official calls the macabre “baseball cards” of an unconventional war. When a rare opportunity for a drone strike at a top terrorist arises — but his family is with him — it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation.
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They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing.While he was adamant about narrowing the fight and improving relations with the Muslim world, he has followed the metastasizing enemy into new and dangerous lands. When he applies his lawyering skills to counterterrorism, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al Qaeda — even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was “an easy one.”
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The day before the executive orders were issued, the C.I.A.’s top lawyer, John A. Rizzo, had called the White House in a panic. The order prohibited the agency from operating detention facilities, closing once and for all the secret overseas “black sites” where interrogators had brutalized terrorist suspects.
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Mr. Craig assured him that the new president had no intention of ending rendition — only its abuse, which could lead to American complicity in torture abroad. So a new definition of “detention facility” was inserted, excluding places used to hold people “on a short-term, transitory basis.” Problem solved — and no messy public explanation damped Mr. Obama’s celebration.
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A very long and worthwhile article to read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&
If a GOP president was revealed to be doing this, DU would explode.
Yes, Al Qaeda was and is? a problem. However, how many enemies are we making with our 'precise' drone strikes? How many complicatons are we creating in areas around the world when we kill innocent people even though we are oh so sorry?
President Obama never has and never will like the messy business of dealing with Congress. While it's true this group on Capitol Hill is a loathsome meshegas, he isn't the only President who has faced intractable idiots.
Bush began using 'signing statements' that were issued many times after laws were passed. They were signed to supersede parts of those laws through an extremely dubious process. Trying to check this power is difficult because what is really in those signings is hard to find out.
President Obama has continued to use them. He is leading a defacto drone war against gawd knows who in gawd knows where. He has in effect made himself judge, jury, and executioner. It troubles me that he is using information from our intelligence agencies that has proven to be fallible over and over. They have their own agendas that do not necessarily align with what the US is espousing.
Where are the checks and balances? Who sits and advocates for those on those 'macabre terrorists cards' and provides a voice of skepticism? If you only listen to warriors and hardliners, you will only get war and Oh So Sorry Deaths.
President Obama is winding down the war we see and hear about albeit in small and circumscribed doses. He is trying to end the deaths that require knocks on some doors by those bearing the unbearable news of loss. However, he is winding up the war we rarely hear about. That war increases the unbearable losses for people in how many places?
This is not how this country should be run by anybody. It is wrong on multiple levels. I do not pretend that there are no enemies and that they must be engaged. However, this is being done in our names and in black hole secrecy.
Who speaks for us about these actions? Who is in that black hole with some light to at least provide enough clarity so that what is ultimately done can be seen by those there?
AND rendition is rendition. It is by its nature abuse. You can't moderate the abuse of abuse.
We have gone down the rabbit hole after following a Black Rabbit with a watch shouting 'Too late, too late!' Will we ever return?
A Picture Book Without Pictures
Daylight Magazine
They have the power to steal your breath, provoke tears. They might overwhelm and inspire you, bring you to your knees, even.
But they won’t. These moments passed into oblivion, unfixed by the camera — snapshots that went unsnapped. Now, they’re in a book: a photography book without pictures.
The collection, "Photographs Not Taken,” edited by Will Steacy, features the testimonies of 60 photographers who recount the moments that slipped from their photographic grip, either because they couldn’t take the picture, or wouldn’t.
The notion of photographer as globe-trotting adventurer, at the scene of historic events recording every important moment, is reassessed in this collection. If anything, these photographers lament that their task prevents them from fully engaging with the present. As Lyle Rexer wrote in his introduction, it’s a dilemma of to be or to shoot.
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more: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/a-picture-book-without-pictures/#/1/
These essays should be interesting among other things.
French Teenager Cares For Graves OF American Soldiers Killed In WWII
Three people from France, Stow and Chicago find ties to pilot buried along Normandy beach
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The Army Air Force pilot is 1st Lt. Robert N. Weyrick. The teen is 16-year old Clemence Moalli of Brest, Brittany, in France.
Lt. Weyrick graduated from Stow High School in 1941. After a short stint at B.F. Goodrich, he joined the Army and was assigned to the 87th Squadron, 438th Troop Carrier Group. By the end of the war, he had participated in every African and European invasion and had been awarded eight Bronze Stars.
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But while he survived the war, he did not make it home. A month after victory in Europe, Weyrick, 22, was injured in a train accident. He died on June 9, 1945, in England, and was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery at
Colleville-sur-Mer France.
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She joined Flowers of Memory, a volunteer group of young people who become “godmothers” to the graves of American soldiers.
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Much more to story: http://www.ohio.com/news/local/three-people-from-france-stow-and-chicago-find-ties-to-pilot-buried-along-normandy-beach-1.310065
Thank you Clemence Moalli!
Juanita Jean voices her opinion of the JOP who jailed the honor student for absences:
Do Like Mitt Said. If You Don’t Have $20,000 to Start Your Business, Borrow It From Your Dad
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The Honorable Republican Judge Lanny Moriarty wanted to make an example of Diane.
“If you let one run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest of ‘em?,” said Judge Lanny Moriarty. “Let them go too? A little stay in the jail for one night is not a death sentence.”
Lanny, Dude, she is not running loose. Lanny, Dude, this baby girl needs help, not punishment. Open your damn Republican wallet with a sledgehammer, Lanny, and give this child a couple bucks. Hold one of those golf tournaments you Republicans love and let this baby girl sleep in the locker room while you Christian boys drink some beer and slap each others hineys.
The wise Judge Moriarty also gave Diane a $100 fine. Lanny, Dude, that’s not helping the situation.
Republicans just don’t get it. They really don’t. He made her an example, okay. He did. He made her an example of the cruelty and meanness the Republican Party brings to the American arena.
You can contact the good Republican Judge on Tuesday being your usual kind selves and ask if you can send a couple of bucks to him to help pay Diane’s fine. But you want some kind of proof that it went toward her fine and not his wallet with the chain and double lock around it.
Site with info on how to contact this jackass: http://www.mctx.org/courts/justices_of_the_peace/justice_of_the_peace_pct_1/index.html
Lanny better pray he can take his money with him and that Sweet Jesus takes bribes because that’s the only way he’s gonna get to heaven.
http://juanitajean.com/
Heh!
48 hours until Julian Assange's extradtion verdict will be handed down
M Cetera (@m_cetera)
5/28/12 3:27 AM
Only 48hrs until Julian #Assange's verdict is handed down. Take action now
#WikiLeaks #ProtectAssange #Rally4JA
The UK Supreme Court will decide whether or not Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden on May 30, at 9:15AM. The proceedings will be open to the public and will also be live-streamed via the Sky website. The judgment is expected to last around 10 minutes.
If the court rules to extradite Mr Assange, he will be sent to Sweden within 10 days. He can appeal further to the European Court of Human Rights, though this will not stop his extradition.
Julian Assange has not been charged with any crime in any country, yet he will have spent 540 days detained—10 in solitary confinement, and 530 under house arrest—by the time the verdict is handed down. Sweden is trying to extradite him for the purpose of questioning, but they have refused all offers to question him via telephone or video call, despite it being a completely legal method under Swedish law.
If extradited to Sweden, Mr Assange will be immediately placed in prison, incommunicado. He will be held in solitary confinement, which the UN Rapporteur on Torture stated amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in excess of 15 days. Since Sweden does not have a bail system, he will be held for an indefinite period of time. If charged, the following trial would be held in secret.
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http://wlcentral.org/action-items
Bastids......
Hernandez confessed to NJ prayer group decades ago that he killed Etan Patz, but no one reported it
Hernandez confessed to NJ prayer group decades ago that he killed Etan Patz, but no one reported it to authorities
Pedro Hernandez confessed decades ago to his church prayer group that he had strangled a boy — but no one, including his relatives and a spiritual leader, reported it to authorities.
His sister, Milagros Hernandez, 45, of Camden, N.J., revealed the family secret to the Daily News on Sunday — and on behalf of the 12 Hernandez brothers and sisters apologized to the parents of the 6-year-old boy he says he killed, Etan Patz.
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The New York Times reported Sunday that Hernandez made his startling confession at St. Anthony of Padua, a Catholic church in Camden, N.J.
“He confessed to the group,” Thomas Rivera, who led the parish’s prayer meetings at the time, told the paper.
Rivera, 76, who was questioned by NYPD detectives last week and asked to keep quiet, said he did not contact police “because (Hernandez) did not confess to me” in a one-on-one setting, the paper reported.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pedro-hernandez-confessed-jersey-prayer-group-decades-killed-etan-patz-reported-authorities-article-1.1085512?localLinksEnabled=false
I don't think any of them can do enough penance for the agony they have caused.
If his relatives felt some filial duty, there were some people who had none. I'm sure they have rationalized their actions somehow, but their are no excuses for their inaction.
Well the Pope and his minions have arrested
ONE more person than they have for molesting children.
They probably have spent more time and effort on ferreting their mole out than protecting the innocent.
They can take their cloven-footed selves and go to hell.
If I am ever carried away in the middle of the night,
I won't be sent to some secret site or sent overseas somewhere.
I am sure I will be sent to Bob Jones University. You don't know 'religion' like they know religion.
I fully believe they only have the Old Testament in their version of the Bible. They have probably even redacted parts of that they consider too lenient.
If I do disappear, my brother will mobilize a motley crew ranging from relatives to miscreants of all kinds. They will be gathering from areas of SC that a GPS won't register. They will also probably be armed with gawd knows what.
If you wonder why they would rescue a communiss like me, they dislike guvment more than they dislike me. In addition, even with my heresy, I am considered one of their own. I was born in that area, and that supercedes all else.
If anyone has a right to relocate me, they consider it their duty and not some outsider's. Their actions are not entirely benevolent. I would rather take my chances with them than with those zealots in their kingdom. BJUers think think that the ladder to heaven is located exclusively on their campus.
If you hear of some kerfuffle at BJU, it might be my rescuers in action. Wish them well!
An amazing and touching story about the search for a WWII pilot killed in a Japanese prison camp:
World War II Pilot's Death at Japanese Camp Captivates Family, Historian
Marcy Hannigan traveled to the jungles of Rabaul in New Guinea to find out what truly happened to her uncle, Lt. Mike Zanger.
A pilot during WWII, he collided with another plane in mid-air and became a prisoner of war, dying at the hands of the Japanese military.
The mystery of his fate brought together historian Henry Sakada and Zanger's family.
A great story in time for Memorial Day. Video here:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/World-War-II-Pilots-Death-at-Japanese-Camp-Captivates-Family--Historian/154284405
RIP Lt.Zanger. Your family never forgot you, and neither should we.
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