Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
Obama's NEW "Iraq Train and Equip Fund" to Cost US $5.6 Billion!!! Obama Continues the Killing from Bush/Cheney Nov. 7, 2014
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/
Saturday, October 18, 2014
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
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
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." |
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Guantanamo Shame on bush/obama, Congress, Spreads to US
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Saturday, July 12, 2014
Arfee the Black Lab : The Cop Shot Heard 'Round the World
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.
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
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."
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/ |
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
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!!!!
Eye witness account,
https://m.facebook.com/
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."
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
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: |
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Outrageous: Torture Lawyer John Yoo Given Endowed Chair by UC Berkeley Law SchoolCaricature 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 WarCrimina 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 |
Friday, July 4, 2014
Happy Independence Day! July 4, 2014
Obama is again using a revered national dave/event to try to insert more dissention amongst US.
Our founders warned US to stay out of foreign wars. Why are people called "heroes" when they are fighing in another country, with the accompanying killing of innocent infants, babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers, kids, tweens, teens, young adults, adults, seniors? This is a day to focus on the Declaration of Independence!
A proper president would use this day to celebrate the Declaration of Independence with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for All People. A proper president would wish all Americans and the world well, wish them a wonderful Independence day, for a safe and happy holiday.
A proper president would celebrate All Americans.
From George Washington's Farewell Speech:
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop."
http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/democrac/49.htm
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Happy Independence Day!
Our founders warned US to stay out of foreign wars. Why are people called "heroes" when they are fighing in another country, with the accompanying killing of innocent infants, babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers, kids, tweens, teens, young adults, adults, seniors? This is a day to focus on the Declaration of Independence!
A proper president would use this day to celebrate the Declaration of Independence with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for All People. A proper president would wish all Americans and the world well, wish them a wonderful Independence day, for a safe and happy holiday.
A proper president would celebrate All Americans.
From George Washington's Farewell Speech:
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop."
http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/democrac/49.htm
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Georgia: Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton Column 2 North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Column 4 Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean Column 5 New York: William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark Column 6 New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton |
Happy Independence Day!
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Happy Patriot's Day: The Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the "Shotjavascript:void(0); Heard 'Round the World."
Happy Patriots Day
Saturday, April 19th, 2014
Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first battles of the American Revolutionary War
"The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
http://www.rockwell-center.org/exploring-illustration/the-nation-makers/
"While Pyle illustrated many different types of stories, his personal favorite were those on the colonial past and the war for independence. One of his students quoted him as saying,
“Colonial life appeals so strongly to me that to come across things that have been handed down from that time fills me with a feeling akin to homesickness . . . and my friends tell me that my pictures look as tho’ I had lived in that time.”*"
September 11, 2009
By Joyce K. Schiller, Curator, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies
Norman Rockwell Museum
"This is a rare and extraordinary powder horn dating to 1775, just prior to the Revolutionary War. Features a stunning scrimshaw map of Boston, Massachusetts, noting Bunker’s Hill (Bunker Hill), Breeds Hill, Morton’s Point, Charlestown, Mill Pond, Hancock’s Warf, Long Warf, The South Battery, and Fox Hill. A legend to the left of the map reads, “A Pox on Rebels in ther CrYmes.” "Resources:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1775_Scrimshaw_Map_of_Boston_Carved_on_Revolutionary_War_Powder_Horn_-_Geographicus_-_BostonPowderHorn-1775.jpg
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Will US Continue to Let Psychopaths in US Terrorize, Maim, Kill, Murder Everyone?
World War Threat from Senile Senator Kerry:
"Did US Secretary of State John Kerry ask you before he delivered an all or nothing ultimatum to Russia? ...Congress? ...the countries of western and eastern Europe...Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico, South America, Africa, China, Central Asia, all of whom would be adversely affected by a world war provoked by the crazed criminals in Washington?"
No.
Do You Want at World War? Do You Want You and Your Family, Friends to Die?
If Not, Better Kickstart OUR Congress. The Government is OUR Servant.
http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/
Why We the People of the World Must Mothball Nukes: Good thing the torpedo wasn't loaded...
"Military chiefs have launched a major investigation after a Royal Navy warship accidentally fired a torpedo at a nuclear dockyard...during a training drill...Workers watched in disbelief ...The torpedo ...merely thudded into the metal container and did not explode"
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Navy_warship_accidentally_fires_torpedo_at_nuclear_dockyard/33688/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Obama Joins Bush in Keeping Gitmo Open, Torture On-Going Feb 9, 2014
Ob ama joins bush co in war crimes, keeping innocent people in Gitmo under tortureous conditions.
News from Sunday, February 9, 2014 Lawsuit against Toshiba, Hitachi, and General Electric for Fukushima nuclear disaster.
News from Sunday, February 9, 2014 Lawsuit against Toshiba, Hitachi, and General Electric for Fukushima nuclear disaster.
From Voice of Russia
"As two Japanese anti-nuclear groups successfully filed last month the "Reactor Suppliers Lawsuit" against Toshiba Corp., Hitachi Ltd., and General Electric Co., in order to make the manufacturers of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant take responsibility for the nuclear disaster on a par with the government and power plant operator, Seungkoo Choi, Secretary General of the Reactor Suppliers Lawsuit Plaintiff Team, told in an interview to the Voice of Russia why he believes the tech giants must be held accountable and what will happen in case the plaintiffs win the case."
http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_02_08/Fukushima-reactors-makers-responsible-for-nuke-disaster-class-action-lawsuit-plaintiff-4313/
From Voice of Russia
"As two Japanese anti-nuclear groups successfully filed last month the "Reactor Suppliers Lawsuit" against Toshiba Corp., Hitachi Ltd., and General Electric Co., in order to make the manufacturers of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant take responsibility for the nuclear disaster on a par with the government and power plant operator, Seungkoo Choi, Secretary General of the Reactor Suppliers Lawsuit Plaintiff Team, told in an interview to the Voice of Russia why he believes the tech giants must be held accountable and what will happen in case the plaintiffs win the case."
http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_02_08/Fukushima-reactors-makers-responsible-for-nuke-disaster-class-action-lawsuit-plaintiff-4313/
Monday, February 3, 2014
Super Bowl Security Theatre Curtain Pulled Open by 911 Truther February 2, 3014
"Prior to the big game, authorities boasted of their lavish preparations for Super Bowl 2014 – bomb sniffing dogs, 700 extra troopers, a 24-hour FBI command center, a vast network of surveillance cameras, the ‘See Something, Say Something’ snitch program in full force, TSA agents, snipers, no fly zones, helicopter patrols.
The bill for all this – which ran into tens of millions of dollars – was paid for by taxpayers despite the NFL already getting a sales tax break at a further cost of $8 million to residents of New Jersey. Also remember that the NFL is tax exempt and pays no federal income tax on its vast profits.
However, 30-year-old Matthew Mills made a mockery of all this when he crashed a post-game press conference to tell the viewing millions that the 9/11 attacks were, “perpetrated by people in our own government,” urging them to “investigate 9/11,” before being dragged away."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/super-bowl-hijack-proves-government-cannot-protect-you.html
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Pen Phone Calls to Congress : Constitution and Bill of Rights Trump nsa mass surveillance
Constitution and Bill of Rights Trump nsa mass surveillance
Here's a communication from PEN
Dear Friends and Activists,
Notwithstanding the couple thousand valiant activists who submitted
our last action page on this, perhaps everyone missed that we also
just opened up a page on the new People Lobby resource to protest by
phone to members of Congress and the related committees about NSA
mass data collection.
Stop NSA Mass Surveillance with The People Lobby:
http://www.peoplelobby.org/?i= pnum1152
PLEASE pick up a phone and make a couple toll-free calls to tell our
legislators to save the 4th Amendment. If you have not already gotten
set up on the new site, anyone who has can tell you how easy it is.
Using this new tool we can make a public record of what our members
of Congress are saying in response to our phone advocacy. We have
already had a real impact using it in the Trans Pacific Partnership
struggle.
And if you can't make any phone calls yourself, at least make sure
you have submitted our regular easy action page on this.
Stop NSA Mass Surveillance Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/ action/pnum1152.php
We are still sending out our beautiful new "Don't Spy On Us" bumper
stickers to anyone who requests one, and there is no contribution
required, not even shipping. Of course, if you can make a donation of
any amount, this is what makes it possible for us to send free
stickers to anyone who cannot afford to make a contribution right
now.
Don't Spy On Us bumper stickers:
http://www.peaceteam.net/all_ bumper_stickers.php
It is appalling to us some of the email we have received on this
issue. There are actually people who say, "I'm not a terrorist, why
should I worry?"
Well, we'll tell you why. The FBI spent years spying on Martin Luther
King, and then actually tried to blackmail him over his non-criminal
marital indiscretions. When government seizes this kind of power it
ALWAYS ends up being used for POLITICAL purposes.
Now they are spying like that on EVERYONE. If Paul Revere were alive
today, he would be on his horse right now, "The NSA is coming, the
NSA is coming!" Except, they are here already.
We were astonished when the RNC came out the other day with a
statement in opposition to the NSA gross abuses. So where are the
voices of most of the liberals and progressives in this country? If
Dick Cheney were president today, and doing exactly what we know is
going on now, you all would be screaming at the top of your lungs.
And you know it.
It is a lie that they are not listening to our phone calls. They are
doing worse than that. They are recording and storing everything. The
new 2 billion dollar data center in Utah is conservatively estimated
to have a capacity of 12 exabytes ALREADY. That's 12 million 1
terabyte hard drives, which if they were stacked atop one another
would reach 189 miles into space, almost to the orbit of the
international space station.
That represents 50 years of the recorded content of every phone call
made in the US. The metadata is just the tip of the iceberg. There is
no excuse for developing this kind of storage capacity for any other
reason except the mass collection of all electronic data.
We actually got one email from someone today naive enough to think
that we can work on other issues, not bothering with this one. If the
government has the power to target and persecute people on a
political basis, all real possibilities of progressive policy change
are foreclosed. Without decisive action on this there is no other
issue.
And the worst part of it is that none of this is making us safer in
any way. The government just admitted in Court that not a single
terrorist plot as been foiled by all this mass surveillance. If
anything, it results in real threats been missed in the mammoth
haystack if irrelevant data. It makes the totalitarians safer, from
accountability, NOT the American people.
Whether you speak out in protest or not, they are still listening.
They are still recording and storing everything. So you might as well
speak out affirmatively. And whether or not you personally trust the
smiley president of the moment, despite all the compelling evidence
that you cannot, a slight shift of the political winds puts us all in
the crosshairs of the most authoritarian dictator you can imagine.
This is no joke. For crying out loud, even the RNC is starting to get
it. We'll ask it again, what is wrong with the rest of us?
You may forward this message to any friends who would find it
important.
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Here's a communication from PEN
Dear Friends and Activists,
Notwithstanding the couple thousand valiant activists who submitted
our last action page on this, perhaps everyone missed that we also
just opened up a page on the new People Lobby resource to protest by
phone to members of Congress and the related committees about NSA
mass data collection.
Stop NSA Mass Surveillance with The People Lobby:
http://www.peoplelobby.org/?i=
PLEASE pick up a phone and make a couple toll-free calls to tell our
legislators to save the 4th Amendment. If you have not already gotten
set up on the new site, anyone who has can tell you how easy it is.
Using this new tool we can make a public record of what our members
of Congress are saying in response to our phone advocacy. We have
already had a real impact using it in the Trans Pacific Partnership
struggle.
And if you can't make any phone calls yourself, at least make sure
you have submitted our regular easy action page on this.
Stop NSA Mass Surveillance Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/
We are still sending out our beautiful new "Don't Spy On Us" bumper
stickers to anyone who requests one, and there is no contribution
required, not even shipping. Of course, if you can make a donation of
any amount, this is what makes it possible for us to send free
stickers to anyone who cannot afford to make a contribution right
now.
Don't Spy On Us bumper stickers:
http://www.peaceteam.net/all_
It is appalling to us some of the email we have received on this
issue. There are actually people who say, "I'm not a terrorist, why
should I worry?"
Well, we'll tell you why. The FBI spent years spying on Martin Luther
King, and then actually tried to blackmail him over his non-criminal
marital indiscretions. When government seizes this kind of power it
ALWAYS ends up being used for POLITICAL purposes.
Now they are spying like that on EVERYONE. If Paul Revere were alive
today, he would be on his horse right now, "The NSA is coming, the
NSA is coming!" Except, they are here already.
We were astonished when the RNC came out the other day with a
statement in opposition to the NSA gross abuses. So where are the
voices of most of the liberals and progressives in this country? If
Dick Cheney were president today, and doing exactly what we know is
going on now, you all would be screaming at the top of your lungs.
And you know it.
It is a lie that they are not listening to our phone calls. They are
doing worse than that. They are recording and storing everything. The
new 2 billion dollar data center in Utah is conservatively estimated
to have a capacity of 12 exabytes ALREADY. That's 12 million 1
terabyte hard drives, which if they were stacked atop one another
would reach 189 miles into space, almost to the orbit of the
international space station.
That represents 50 years of the recorded content of every phone call
made in the US. The metadata is just the tip of the iceberg. There is
no excuse for developing this kind of storage capacity for any other
reason except the mass collection of all electronic data.
We actually got one email from someone today naive enough to think
that we can work on other issues, not bothering with this one. If the
government has the power to target and persecute people on a
political basis, all real possibilities of progressive policy change
are foreclosed. Without decisive action on this there is no other
issue.
And the worst part of it is that none of this is making us safer in
any way. The government just admitted in Court that not a single
terrorist plot as been foiled by all this mass surveillance. If
anything, it results in real threats been missed in the mammoth
haystack if irrelevant data. It makes the totalitarians safer, from
accountability, NOT the American people.
Whether you speak out in protest or not, they are still listening.
They are still recording and storing everything. So you might as well
speak out affirmatively. And whether or not you personally trust the
smiley president of the moment, despite all the compelling evidence
that you cannot, a slight shift of the political winds puts us all in
the crosshairs of the most authoritarian dictator you can imagine.
This is no joke. For crying out loud, even the RNC is starting to get
it. We'll ask it again, what is wrong with the rest of us?
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