911 bush did it, hiding bee hind cheney, killing over 3,000 people, and then killing millions more innocent people

Work to Stop Nuclear Killings, via David Dees Illustration

Obama's NEW "Iraq Train and Equip Fund" to Cost US $5.6 Billion!!! Obama Continues the Killing from Bush/Cheney Nov. 7, 2014

Obama keeps the killing and blood flowing, and joins his name to the list of psycho-facsists.
Warmongers in DC working to keep US slaves to entangling alliances.

"President Barack Obama authorized the US military to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq on Friday. That would nearly double the American military presence in the country. He also requested $5.6 billion for the fight against the Islamic State"
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Obama_authorizes_1%2C500_more_troops_to_Iraq/39019/0/38/38/Y/M.html

After voting for this man once, thinking he was a good guy, I can no longer close my eyes to the fact that Obama is a liar, a tyrant, and a lunatic, joining in the war crimes and treason of bush/cheney/and the other people in David Dees' illustration.

This is a really good article about the slavery of entangling alliances.
"This is perhaps the most important reason to avoid what 18th century American revolutionaries called “entangling alliances.” As George Washington famously said in his Farewell Address:

The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest…Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests.

http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/01/03/the-danger-of-entangling-alliances/

Please Sign the Justice of Arfee Petition ASAP and Share! Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Police and City Complicit in Shooting and Killing an Innocent Dog, Leaving the Public in Danger

Please Sign the Justice of Arfee Petition : Police and the City must work for US, not for themselves.
ASAP and Share! Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Police and City Complicit in Shooting and Killing an Innocent Dog, Leaving the Public in Danger of Trigger-Happy
http://www.care2.com/news/member/381237744/3813696


            

30 Petition: Justice For Arfee! Investigate His Case And Apply A Fair Punishment To The Officer That Destroyed Him! | PetitionHub.O Petition: Justice For Arfee! Investigate His Case And Apply A Fair Punishment To The Officer That Destroyed Him! | PetitionHub.O   A police officer that destroyed a black lab inside a parked van back in July, got away with just a pay cut. Background Info: Justice for Arfee Protest: Today in Coeur d'Alene was Arfee's Day!!! http://washingtonstatespokanearea.blogspot.com/2014/09/today-in-coeur-dalene-was-arfees-day.html Coeur d'Alene Police Dept Press Lie about Cop Killing Innocent Dog July 10, 2014 http://washingtonstatespokanearea.blogspot.com/2014/07/coeur-dalene-police-dept-and-press-work.html   "Most people are afraid to post comments here and on Facebook for fear of what these CdA thugs may do. A very sad day all around. God bless those willing to stand and fight - and the witnesses willing to share their story on Facebook, knowing the CdA thugs are out there with guns itching to shoot. They are "monitoring" social media. Wouldn't it just be easier to not shoot dogs and follow the law? Lets see how the CDA Press responds... God is watching."

Guantanamo Shame on bush/obama, Congress, Spreads to US

Our Country is Threatened by Losing Human Rights for All. We must STOP the torture and broken laws. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are Clear. DUE PROCESS FOR ALL PEOPLE!! Call OUR Government Servants and TELL THEM TO RELEASE INNOCENT PEOPLE. http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments Post via World Can't Wait "Intense world events have again eclipsed news of the Guantanamo prisoners, meaning that their situation grows worse. No wave of releases has followed Obama's promise in May 2013 to once again close it. Andy Worthington reported Friday in Guantanamo Violence: Prisoners Report Shaker Aamer "Beaten," Another Man Assaulted "For Nearly Two Hours": Clive Stafford Smith, the founder and director of the legal action charity Reprieve, described how he has “just received a series of unclassified letters from various detainees who we represent in Guantánamo Bay,” which “tell a disturbingly consistent story” — of “a new ‘standard procedure’ where the FCE team [the armored guards responsible for violently removing prisoners from their cells through 'forcible cell extractions'] is being used to abuse the prisoners with particular severity because of the on-going non-violent hunger strike protest against their unconscionable treatment.” In a most unlikely publication, The New Republic, the contrast is made between how prisoners in Guantanamo (most of whom have been "cleared" for release) are treated and how convicted war criminals are treated at The Hague: Contact with Family The Hague permits visits from family members, and even assists with travel expenses if the prisoner qualifies as “indigent.” Thanks to conjugal visits, Liberian warlord Charles Taylor fathered a child while imprisoned at The Hague in 2010. Prisoners can also make phone calls and send letters. Guantanamo: Visits and phone calls are not allowed. The International Committee of the Red Cross can deliver letters to and from family members, but communication is limited by a slow declassification process and limited visits by the ICRC to Guantánamo. Access to Lawyers The Hague: Prisoners can communicate with their legal defense team in person, over the phone, or electronically. They have a computer in their cell that is linked to a computer that is only accessible by their legal counsel. Lawyers can upload relevant documents and prisoners can instantly send back comments. Though the ICC monitors other communications, conversations between prisoners and their defense team is considered privileged communication that cannot be monitored. Guantanamo: Prisoners can only communicate with their defense counsel in person at a nearby facility (lawyers cannot visit their clients in the highly classified Camp seven). Lawyers have to travel several hours by plane to get to Guantánamo. Although attorney-client conversations are supposed to be private, defense lawyers have identified listening devices in the meeting rooms disguised to look like smoke detectors." The Navy nurse who reportedly refused, on grounds of conscience, to participate in force-feeding prisoners has been sent home, and is under investigation, which could result in a court martial or discipline. Kevin Gosztola concludes in Navy Nurse Who Refused Order to Force-Feed Hunger Striking Guantanamo Prisoners May Face Discipline: If the nurse does face a court-martial, not only will the military be penalizing the officer for conscientiously objecting but the military will also be actively defending the very abusive, cruel and degrading treatment, which represents some of the worst human rights violations engaged in by the United States government in recent decades. Months of high-level wrangling involving current and former CIA leadership, the Obama administration, the US Senate, and their attorneys have produced charges of criminal activity and Constitutional crisis. Didn't President “We don't look backward, we look forward” Obama recently say, “we tortured some folks?” But that's so last war ago. Continue reading The Nazis Had Their Law Professors Too, John Yoo... Dangerous Plans for More U.S. Bombing, Surveillance, and Troops in Iraq & Syria The Senators leading the pack of war-dogs, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, opined in The New York Times this week on the need for the U.S. to go all-out in the Middle East: We must face facts: A comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIS would require more troops, assets, resources and time. Such an undertaking should involve Congress. We have consistently advocated revising the Authorization for Use of Military Force that has provided congressional backing for counterterrorism operations since September 2001. These plans carry with them a repeat, or worse, of the mass death and destruction of society the U.S. carried out in an attempt to control Iraq. That occupation only created the ground on which ISIS and other Islamic fundamentalist responses to imperialism grew. There is ten years of evidence that the U.S. cannot do anything good militarily in the region. Download flier: NO MORE War on Iraq! Download Giant Posters: No War on Iraq Revolution shares a comment on events in Iraq & Syria: Any ideology or set of beliefs that can't stand criticism and denounces people who disagree with it as "heretics," and kills or otherwise seeks to silence those people who disagree with it, is a cowardly and bankrupt ideology and one that nobody should have anything to do with... Today the representatives of the U.S. express shock and outrage at such tactics. But fundamentally, to the USA and other imperialists, whether or not to support this kind of religious fundamentalist fascism is a matter of taste—their only criterion is whether it works for, or against, how they view their interests in any situation. Think of Saudi Arabia, where the U.S. has used massive weaponry and political support to reinforce a reactionary religious state which goes so far as to forbid women the right to drive! And, quiet as it's kept today, check out the way in which the U.S. bankrolled and gave military support to Osama bin-Laden and other forces like him in Afghanistan in the 1980s, when that suited their interests. “The Unseenery is Lovely,” above, by Dwayne Booth (Mr. Fish), an award-winning cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and on websites across the country and internationally. He is also the author of Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People, as well as a forthcoming book on art as commentary, due out this month. To see more of his work visit his website, clowncrack.com. Share this message: Stop the crimes against the planet! Humanity and the Planet Come First! Join the Climate Crisis March Sunday September 21 in NYC Details In addition to marching with the  expected tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of NYC in three weeks during yet another do-nothing UN conference on the climate crisis, World Can't Wait is hosting the following discussion at the Climate Convergence: Climate Crisis: The Roots of the Problem Speakers will examine underlying economic, political and philosophical roots of the climate crisis. The science is clear: what are the obstacles preventing action commensurate with the crisis? Speakers will address the capitalist economic and political system, theological understanding of humanity's relation to the earth and the inheritance of colonial domination and the settler mindset. Featuring: Ignacio Castuera - a graduate of the School of Theology at Claremont, the Rev. Dr. Castuera studied and wrote about the problems of violence and the patriarchal worship of a mother goddess in Mexican culture. After completing his education, Ignacio served at churches in Mexico, as well as in Hawaii and California. Erica Violet Lee - Idle No More student activist in Canada who gets her strength from other aboriginal youth and talking with elders. Orpheus Reed - writer for Revolution and its special issue “State of Emergency: The Plunder of Our Planet, the Environmental Catastrophe and the Real Revolutionary Solution.” ►More information about the march ►Sign-up for the Stop the Crimes Against the Planet contingent. Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

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Arfee the Black Lab : The Cop Shot Heard 'Round the World



Arfee, the 2 year old Lab slaughtered by an out-of-control police officer in Coeur d'Alene.
We can call Coeur d'Alene city hall to demand justice.
We must stop the crimes of the police.
Coeur d'Alene police did not follow sop, and thus endangered not only the innocent dog, but the entire community.
Phone: 208.769.2300
8:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday
We can also ask that the new Coeur d'Alene dog park be named for Alfee and his bravery in trying to defend his owner's vehicle against a gun-wielding assailant.
Telephone: Parks & Cemetery Information - (208) 769-2252
Urban Forestry - (208) 769-2266
Office Hours:
Monday thru Friday
8 A.M. to 5 P.M.
E-Mail: parks@cdaid.org

 Dog park dedication at 9:15 a.m. by Kootenai County Dog Park Association. Includes free photos with your dog.
[Hopefully none of the dogs or humans will be shot]
http://www.kcdogpark.com/contact
Story by Spokesman-Review
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jul/11/arfee-dog-shot-by-cda-officer-was-a-labrador-not/
 

UPDATE POLL OPPORTUNITY Wednesday, July 16, 2014
http://www.cdapress.com/
If you ahbor the killing of this innocent dog and the continuing cover up by the Coeur d'Alene Police Chief, please go to the poll at http://www.cdapress.com/
Please answer the poll question
Are you satisfied with Coeur d'Alene's handling of the dog shooting?

Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Coeur d'Alene "Dog Shooter on Desk Duty."
Mayor Steve Widmyer
Police Chief Ron Clark
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_fecbb94c-0ca6-11e4-8e83-001a4bcf887a.html#user-comment-area


From the Beginning Days of the Tragedy:
"Coeur d'Alene police have not yet responded to a Mail Online request for comment."Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2688154/Pit-bull-shot-dead-van-police-actually-beloved-pet-Labrador-waiting-owner-return-coffee-shop.html#ixzz37De5eWQL
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Thursday, July 10, 2014 the British news outlet Daily Mail covers the story of the beloved dog, waiting in a vehicle, shot by Coeur d'Alene police.

"'Pit bull' shot dead in van by police was actually a beloved pet Labrador waiting for me to return, says devastated owner." By Jessica Jerreat

Published: 19:35 EST, 10 July 2014 | Updated: 03:17 EST, 11 July 2014

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2688154/Pit-bull-shot-dead-van-police-actually-beloved-pet-Labrador-waiting-owner-return-coffee-shop.html#ixzz37DdN9Bvl
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2688154/Pit-bull-shot-dead-van-police-actually-beloved-pet-Labrador-waiting-owner-return-coffee-shop.html


Thursday, July 10, 2013

Jeers and dishonor to the CDAP, the Coeur d'Alene Press and their masters, the CDA Police, who are still working to cover up the truth about the officer-involved shooting of a frightened Lab, Arfie.
(May Arfie rest in peace. Apparently, he was barking and correct that the officer was a danger.)

As of 11:30 pm, well after the CDAP knew that the dog was a Lab, the headlines, or head lies, still report the cover-up "Officer Kills Pitt Bull."
"While investigating the van, as the officer approached along the driver's side, a vicious pit bull lunged from the open driver's side window toward the officer's face, according to a Coeur d'Alene Police press release."

As the story has gone viral, it's painfully clear that:
A, the dog was a lab, not a pit bull
B. the dog couldn't "lunge" at the officer, as the dog was in the car.
The bullet hole went through the car window.

With thoughts going to the Lab, just trying to bark and protect his master's van, thoughts also go to the pathetic liars in the Coeur d'Alene police force and in the Coeur d'Alene Press.
There are many good police officers and journalists in Coeur d'Alene.
But today, the lying bullies are shooting off their mouths, and at least one gun.
The officer who shot the dog had not even checked to see if there were other people, especially children, in the vehicle.

There are calls to boycott Coeur d'Alene, especially after a caller asking about how to keep her dog safe was told not to bring the dog to Coeur d'Alene. Then, people and tourists will take themselves, their family, their dog, and their MONEY to another town.

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_bfdf5718-6f6a-515a-9a69-3fe6a39735cf.html
From the comment section
"In plain terms if the police are willing to miss state the facts when there are no witnesses for fear of public backlash and it involves a dog, what happens when the same set of circumstances occur and its a human being? .... the story reported by the officers involved was not accidental that should make everyone nervous"

Everyone PLEASE keep calling 208-769-2320.
That is central dispatch for the CdA police

Most people are afraid to post comments here and on Facebook for fear of what these CdA thugs may do. A very sad day all around.
God bless those willing to stand and fight - and the witnesses willing to share their story on Facebook, knowing the CdA thugs are out there with guns itching to shoot.
They are "monitoring" social media. Wouldn't it just be easier to not shoot dogs and follow the law?
Lets see how the CDA Press responds... God is watching.

I've been calling the police station and city hall all day - dispatch finally got tired of talking to me and said, "The officer was in fear of his life, he has a right to defend himself".
When I called back and asked what I can do, as a resident, to ensure my dogs don't put "fear into an officer", she said, QUOTE: "Don't bring your dogs to CdA then".

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_bfdf5718-6f6a-515a-9a69-3fe6a39735cf.html


"When Arfie sensed the officer approaching, he jumped up against the window and started barking. The officer claimed he thought the lab was a “vicious” pit bull, and shot off a round of gunshots. Arfie later died from his injuries."
Read more at http://blog.petflow.com/cop-kills-vicious-pit-bull-that-turned-out-to-be-a-2-year-old-lab-puppy/#Ftt0zvTsXhWCK9Mp.99
http://blog.petflow.com/cop-kills-vicious-pit-bull-that-turned-out-to-be-a-2-year-old-lab-puppy/

"I would imagine that the police are lying about the circumstances, they said the dog was hanging out of the window, so why is there a bullet hole through the glass then?? "
https://www.facebook.com/CopBlock/posts/10152524741533189

"This cop left a hole in both that can't be fixed," Jones wrote on Facebook. "If it wasn't for my desire to face him in court and strip him of his badge, I would probably be at the bottom of the lake."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/idaho-shoots-kills-adorable-black-lab-named-arfee-article-1.1862334#ixzz378jzmI4D
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/idaho-shoots-kills-adorable-black-lab-named-arfee-article-1.1862334

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/idaho-dog-shot-in-parked-van/


City of Coeur d'Alene
710 E. Mullan Ave
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
Phone: 208.769.2300
8:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday
UPDATE:
Coeur d'Alene Press FINALLY adjusted their original head lie, to rewrite the story of a CDA police officer deviating from SOP and shooting a dog in cold blood. But the stubborn pride of the CDA police again interferes with truth, justice, and the American way. The dog-killer cop is still working for the CDA, and we consider him armed and dangerous.
Since the CDA police are hiding the officer's identify, though he is still working today, it's been up to citizens to begin this petition to release the officer's name. This is not to harass him, or his family, but to follow procedure.
https://www.change.org/petitions/coeur-d-alene-police-department-release-the-name-of-the-officer-involved-in-shooting-arfie

From the Comments:
"SCOTUS has ruled that a “tip” does not constitute reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Therefore, the officers actions to even “check out” the van in a manner with his gun drawn was illegal."
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_263e02aa-23a0-5bbd-8115-4c51a938d72f.html

"Yeah, this story is being picked up world wide not only for the shear idiocy of the violence but the cover up fiasco and the total mismanagement of the purpose of the original call.  Good work guys - you've spit on your own badges and tarnished this community............. AGAIN!"
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_263e02aa-23a0-5bbd-8115-4c51a938d72f.html

"The CDA Resort is promoting it self as dog friendly. They better tell their guests to leave the dogs in the room, locked up, and stay away from away from downtown."
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_263e02aa-23a0-5bbd-8115-4c51a938d72f.html

"God bless you Craig Jones. RIP Arfee. Let me be the first to apologize to you on behalf of the residents of CdA....
FOR THE REST OF US - leave your dogs at home! Do not come to CdA! Dog killer is STILL ON THE LOOSE.
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_263e02aa-23a0-5bbd-8115-4c51a938d72f.html

What we have is yet another shoot-em-up wild west show where the facts given to the public are twisted into a Green Beret tale of police heroism and the investigation is finger nail deep and totally hidden. And the local newspaper is little more than a megaphone for all of these lies. What a travesty. What a joke.
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_263e02aa-23a0-5bbd-8115-4c51a938d72f.html

"Hey Coeur d'Alene police department thanks for ruining the rest of the tourist season by making national headlines with this. "
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_263e02aa-23a0-5bbd-8115-4c51a938d72f.html

Eyewitness Account:
http://www.krem.com/news/Lab-shot-by-Coeur-dAlene-police-officer--266679891.html

· Spokane, Washington

PLEASE READ THIS!! Boycott Java On Sherman!!
Eye witness account,
https://m.facebook.com/story.php...  (pulled?)

Kim Mitchell Gustafson
If you go to Java on Sherman, please read this.

Let me tell yeah...this happened right in front of my house and the police AND the owners and workers at Java On Sherman tried to do what I would call a nice little "cover up" on this one. First off, after the cop shot the dog THROUGH the glass on the van (which means the dog was NOT hanging out the window as the cop tried to say) other officers arrived in a few other cara. They called animal control and all walked up to the van, opened the door and loaded the BLACK LAB into the animal control vehicle and then that vehicle left. My roomie was outside questioning and VERY upset at what happened and stated this clearly to one of the officers who CLEARLY, a...fter KNOWING it was a BLACK LAB still claimed it was a "vicious pit bull"!!!!! ALL LIES AND HE KNEW IT! After the officer heard enough of my roomie giving him a piece of his mind the officer returned to his "partners" and the owners and a couple of workers from Java. They talked for maybe two min and the workers went inside and ALL officers left. Now please note that we were shocked because the owner of the vehicle wasnt outside anywhere. Meaning...HELLO...since his van was parked IN THE PARKING LOT OF JAVA ON SHERMAN he is most likely inside, right? So I sat and waited 5 min before a man walked out of the establishment and towards the van. He didnt seen upsey of distraught so I was thinking he must not know. I crossed the street and walked up to him and asked if it was his van. He looked at it and then me and looked puzzled and said "Yes...why"??? My heart dropped as clearly NO ONE....not the owner, no workers, nor the police has bothered to go inside and inform him that his dog was just shot and killed by Cda Police officer through his van window and had been removed and taken away within a twenty or so min period. At this point I had no option but to point to his window to the bullet hole. Needless to say he panicked and asked where his dog was as he ran to the van. Im sure you can imagine the rest. ---- Now this is where it gets even better...ten min later as he is upset and the owners of the property and business are both outside watching from a distance a tow truck pulls up. The owner of the property tells the owner of the van that that it is there for HiS van. The guy pleads to not have this van towed for NO REASON. Mind you...a paying customer of Java simply Inside having breakfast and comes out to this. The owner of the property had the tow truck leave and instructed the owner of the van to leave the property right away. Weird, right? The guy pleads with the owner of the property and explains his dogs blood and brains are inside the van and he doesnt want to leave right away. He also explained he had a couple of beers inside and didn't want to drive. The man said he didnt care and he needed to leave IMMEDIATELY!!!!! The owner than turned to me and pleaded with me to drive him safely to where he was going so I asked the owner of the property to please give me ten min to get the guy and his van out of there. He told me NO WAY....he needed to leave NOW!!!! This is when I lost it and got lippy because of the sheer unjustice of the situation and the way this man was being treated FOR NO REASON!!! I told the man to have a heart and not make this customer sit in his van in the blood and such and also drive after drinking (at this point...not in these words...I was pissed) He grabbed his phone and threatened to call the cops and told us to both get off the property right away! At this point the driver of the van got in and drove away and I crossed the street to my house and shouted to him how cruel and cold hearted he was. --- Now again...why did no one locate him Inside and tell him? They all just removed his dead dog they had shot and killed and then left. And the owners tried to have the van towed right away? REALLY? They didnt want media attention apparently. Well screw that!!!! Please EVERYONE share, share, share this!!!!! Let the TRUTH speak to help prevent this from happening as if it is all okay!!!!

UPDATE
2014-1214 Arfee the Black Lab
Saturday, July 12, 2014 UPDATE the Java owner’s side
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_6d926fa9-1900-50eb-b07e-56694cde7d0b.html?mode=print
Java owners discuss incident
KEITH COUSINS/kcousins@cdapress.com | Posted: Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:00 am
"The officer took my name, my birthday and my phone number and then instructed me to call the tow company if I wanted the car to be removed," David said. "He did not mention that they had discharged a weapon, killed a dog, and removed a dog from the vehicle. They did not mention that this is not the van that they were looking for. They just said that they were packing up and leaving, and basically let me deal with the ramifications of what would happen afterward."

From the comments

Dang it! My animal loving children will never let me have a Bowl of Soul again..... Anybody have the recipe?

“The cops killed a dog and a business with one shot. Sounds like two lawsuits.”

"... the police think they are the military, they think the public is the 'enemy', and whatever town they are in is the 'theater'. Rather than 'protect and serve' they now think their role is to keep us (the enemy) in line through intimidation fear. More and more people are realizing this, but we didn't all realize it at the same time."

World Can't Wait News July 9, 2014

News from World Can't Wait July 9, 2014 Please share A hearty "thank you" to Courage to Resist, which just issued a call to "all U.S. military personnel to resist any effort to pursue a new military attack on Iraq via troops, bombs, drones or any other means.  In keeping with our Mission Statement, we affirm that, just as there was never any legitimate reason for the United States to send military forces to Iraq in the past, there is not now any reason for the United States to participate militarily in the affairs of the people of Iraq." It is absolutely essential to put before the US public the need for visible resistance to US re-escalation and occupation of Iraq. Jason Ditz writes on Antiwar.com that 750 US Special Forces are in Iraq and weapons are pouring in. "300 Hellfires the US already sent were burned through weeks ago, and the Maliki government is requesting another 1,400." Ditz also reported, "All signs point to the US 'advisers' getting ready for direct combat operations in both Iraq and Kurdistan, with the Pentagon shipping Apache attack helicopters to Baghdad to 'protect American interests' in the capital, and deploying combat troops to fly them." Drone Memo Concentrates What's Not Legit about US Targeted Killing by Debra Sweet "Now, drones have been deployed by the U.S. in Iraq, as part of what Foreign Policy magazine warns of as 'mission creep.' Going over ten years of the Pakistan campaign, it points out that the drone strikes were at first said to be used only on 'senior level al Qaeda' who posed an immediate threat to the U.S. homeland.  But, 'the CIA's estimated 372 drone strikes in Pakistan, which killed some 2,800 people, a vast majority were not an effort to eliminate senior al Qaeda members who pose a threat to the U.S. homeland -- which was the very reason armed drones were sent there in the first place. "It warns that in Iraq, 'in addition to the 300 U.S. military and intelligence advisors that President Obama sent in June, there are roughly 1,000-1,700 additional private security contractors in Iraq, according to advisors to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Thus, U.S. armed drones could be providing force protection for up to 2,000 people over an area of hundreds of square miles,' and that there is 'sustained confusion' over what mission these drones could be deployed in." When ICE buses tried to drop children off at a US detention center in Murrietta, CA, last week, a crowd of anti-immigrant "go home" protesters blocked the buses.  The sight recalled nothing so much as the White Citizens Councils greeting Freedom Riders in the South, or racist crowds demanding segregation of schools. In a most bizarre twist, the Dean of Morgan State University's Journalism school suggested sending the children to Guantanamo because there's a lot of empty space there. NO! Close that torture camp now. But on July 4, and since, immigration rights supporters showed up in equal and larger numbers.  Revolution reported "People came to the immigration detention center in Murrieta from all over Southern California and beyond on the 4th of July to insist that the children with and without parents flooding across the border in Texas be treated humanely, with care and concern, and not as animals or criminals. And they came to challenge and confront the reactionaries whose ugly anti-immigrant xenophobia and pro-USA chauvinism has been given center stage in the national—and international—news all week... "A high school student, dressed in white, told Revolution she had set up an event page on Facebook calling on friends to come dressed in white, and to march silently from the Wal-Mart a half mile away to the detention center. Though she was only familiar with a couple of her new 'virtual' friends, 30 people showed up for the July 4th march! "A number of people from Murrieta came to oppose the racists. Two sisters from Murrieta—one in high school, the other in college with a young daughter—came together, carrying two handmade signs that each said: 'Our Land Is Your Land. Bienvenidos!' over a rippling American flag. They had first come to the detention center on Tuesday after hearing that anti-immigrant forces were out there." A few photos capture a little of the chaotic and very political scene, which has continued for days. A very popular Tweet:	Share this message: World Can't Wait Conversation Tomorrow evening: Thursday, July 10 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific Topics for discussion: Iraq. Immigration, Gaza, and recent Supreme Court decisions and the hot summer coming. Register for dial-in info. More courageous resistance: We encourage World Can't Wait supporters to donate to the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride that wil head to Texas in August. Over the next 19 days they are raising $25,000.  Want to sponsor youth and others on the tour? DONATE HERE via Indiegogo. ABORTION RIGHTS FREEDOM RIDE
Outrageous: Torture Lawyer John Yoo Given Endowed Chair by UC Berkeley Law School Caricature credit: DonkeyHotey Curt Wechsler writes on FireJohnYoo.net The selection of John Yoo to fill an endowed faculty chair at Boalt Hall has raised righteous indignation across the board, from academics to un-credentialed people of conscience. The appointment represents a huge leap in institutional complicity in war crimes. Where neglect in enforcement of ethical conduct was excused by platitudes of powerlessness from the former dean, the current administration (new Dean, new Chancellor) appears to embrace the politics of exceptionalism: that international law may be selectively employed. Indeed, promotion of John Yoo's hyperbole has helped to normalize illegal government policy on what might be better labelled a "war of terror." Since Yoo returned to the University of California Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law to teach, there have been years of protest about his authorship of specific White House memos providing legal justication for "enhanced interrogation."  That memo's contents were put to use within hours to waterboard prisoners in Guantanamo in 2002. Criticism from within the law school has been private and muted, as he's been a key part of the post 9/11 adoption of torture and indefinite detention, and even though the torture camp remains populated by a majority of "cleared for release" prisoners without hope after 12.5 years. Yoo's public role continues to grow as he promotes expanded Presidential powers, increased state surveillance, and targeted killing, and everything else that is favored by the neocons and effectively executed by the Democrats. He is a heavily featured speaker on the state security lecture circuit. Although World Can't Wait's projects FireJohnYoo.net and WarCriminalsWatch.org already document Yoo's political activities and although we continue to organize protests whenever possible, we see the response to this appointment as a potential turning point in public opinion among alumni, faculty, and in the wider community.  This fall is the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement that erupted at Berkeley in 1964 and opened up resistance to arbitrary authority across the country and for a generation.  Will the university be allowed to co-opt that movement, or will we challenge everyone to reject the university model of supporting the status quo? We seek your thoughts as to how we might mount an effective public campaign sanctioning U.C. for its complicity and, at a minimum, deplorable lack of ethical judgment evident in this appointment, while at the same time parlay such a campaign into an effective condemnation of the so-called "legal" justification for the use of torture and for Guantanamo's legitimacy. Write me with your rants, proposals, poems, articles.  And please share this news with anyone you know who has a connection to UC Berkeley or the UC system.
Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait