This wasn't the case for the room the three were staying at. It was basically a room divided up into three sections. The first being a room at the entrance. Having its own daybed, it could act as a bedroom. An unfavorable bedroom, as it was the room connected to the bathroom. The second section was a room between the entrance room and the main bedroom. Included in this room was a bed, dresser and table. Due to Quinn's loud snoring, he was gladly given this room. The main room had two beds. It doubled as a bedroom and the living. The beds were along the outer side walls with a large square coffee table in the middle. A couple of arm chairs were positioned along one wall and a huge dresser with a television sat on the other. What made the room special wasn't just the extra furniture, it was how it was decorated. All the day beds were made of old cherry wood decorated with floral fabric panels. The raised edge of the bed next to the wall was carved into an intricate scene of trees and animals. An ironic place for the decoration as it would be overlooked when sat in. The dresser in the main room had glass shelves placed on top of it. Each enclosed with a Buddhist deity. Money dangled from the hinge doors of the containers as previous guests treated it as sort of a shrine. A strange place the three had thought to place a shrine. Old golden wall scrolls hung from the wall. Every one of them displaying an myriad of scenes drawn with the greatest of detail. The room felt like a museum and nothing like a guest house room. That is, until you go into the bathroom which was a simple Western bathroom with no such decorations.

"What the hell?" Quinn sat in front of the television flipping through the channels. "Nothing but news."

Wanami and Fairfax laid on their backs and stared up at the ceiling.

"Eleven channels of news."

The other two were lost in their thoughts.

"But it's all the same news broadcast."

Quinn continued, shaking his head.

The other two had other things on their minds. Plain clothed authorities were known to walk among the people in Lhasa. A fact that was in the back of their minds and out of sight. Now it had come into full view. Something they felt first hand. Now it became a nagging question in their head.

"Do you think he was a cop?" Wanami wondered aloud, apparently asking the ceiling.

The question drew no response from anyone. Everyone had been thinking the same thing.

"From what you've told me, he sounds like one. A pretty bad one," Fairfax replied.

"Why would they check on us?"

"It's just three of us. No guide."

"But Quinn would look like the guide."

"Maybe. I don't think they were checking to make sure we had a guide."

"So..."

"I think they were trying to find out what we were planning on doing."

Wanami gave the idea some thought.

"OK, that's believable, but why the need to have the guards check our ID?"

"That one, I'm not sure of. Maybe to remind us that they're watching."

"I'm sure we have nothing to worry about." Quinn turned off the television and added his thoughts on the matter. " In fact, our sudden behavior to flee probably sparked suspicion. The more unusual we act the more we attract attention."

"So why did they approach us in the first place?"

"I'm placing my bet on what Fairfax suggested."

"I don't like this Gestapo bullshit."

"Can't do anything about it. This room is probably bugged. I mean look at it."

Their moods lightened as soon as they found themselves imagining what spying technologies were in the room. The amusing part wasn't about advance spying devices, it was about what crude devices they probably had to use. Everything from large boxing arena microphones hidden in the porcelain statues to VHS camcorders behind the mirror. The one idea that broke everyone down in crying laughter was the string and paper cup listening device labeled "Please speak secrets plans in here." Laughing and rolling around brought out the fatigue in their bodies. Sun soaked and sore from the walking, and on occasion speed walking, their beds called to them for an afternoon nap. Even more of a catalyst for their slumber was the cool air of the room. The windows were covered and faced the east. With the shifting of the sun behind the building, the air conditioning unit made the room into a delightful cooler. And off to sleep the three went.

"It's eleven!" Quinn sat up, pulling off his covers. "Wasting exploring time."

Fairfax stretched and rolled out of bed.

"What..." an uncontrollable yawn came over Fairfax, "can we do at this hour?"

"What else. Go drink."

"I don't think we'll meet any Tibetans at the bar."

"Probably not, but let's hear both sides of the story."

Fairfax sat back, "You know, that's a great idea."

The two looked at Wanami who barely had her eyes opened. Her body cried out for rest and she was obeying.

"You boys go ahead, I'm sitting this one out."

Fairfax and Quinn looked at each other, shrugged and got ready. They gave Wanami another chance, but could see she'd be a wreck even if she made it out. Checking the curfew, which was just a knock on the doorman's room, they set out onto the street. It was dark and empty. The road had a few cars, which were all taxis. Once they saw Fairfax step out, they pulled over to him. Even taxis traveling in the other direction made a daring u-turn to pull up. The other drivers sat at the ready in case the fortunate driver picking up the tourist couldn't speak English. But as soon as Fairfax spoke in Mandarin, the taxi was off, and so were the others.

China's modern Gestapo - the “6-10 office”

Formed by former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin, the “610 office” has its central office in Beijing, and branches in all the Chinese cities, villages, governmental agencies, institutions, and schools.

In 1992, Falun Gong – a new Buddhist Tai Chi-like movement – began to sweep China.

When I first visited Beijing in 1996, every open space was filled with people practising its slow exercises and meditation. By 1999 it had some 100 million adherents.

Because of its self-discipline and healthy approach – practitioners do not smoke or drink alcohol and have a rigorous moral code – it was encouraged by the authorities.

Then, in 1999, the regime became fearful that Falun Gong could become an organised force and began a ruthless crackdown, organised by the notorious "6-10" office, named after its foundation date.
I had heard that practitioners were harshly treated and that persecution by other prisoners was encouraged, but it was reports of transplants from living prisoners – a ghastly reward for their healthy lifestyle – which took me to China.

Sitting on the hotel bed in front of me was Niu Jinping, 52, and his two-year-old daughter. Niu had served two years in prison for practising Falun Gong and his wife was still in prison.
The last time he saw her, in January, her entire body was bruised from the repeated beatings she took as the torturers tried to make her denounce Falun Gong: she is now deaf.

Niu was in despair: the beatings his wife suffered lasted sometimes for 20 hours.
He told me that 30 of the Falun Gong practitioners in his prison had died through beatings.
When the crackdown began, Niu lost his work permit and had to sell his house to live.
He earns about $90-a-month guarding the cars of China's new rich.
Was there anything about Falun Gong which was seditious, or dangerous to the regime?
No, said Niu bleakly.

Falun Gong is not a membership organization and charges no fees.

In response to the crackdown, practitioners began a peaceful "truth" campaign against the regime, which has so far triggered more than 10 million resignations from the Communist Party and
its affiliations.

Volunteers produce its international Epoch Times newspaper and a TV and radio channel.

It was an Epoch Times reporter who shouted at Chinese President Hu Jintao on the White House lawn recently. According to the many diplomats, journalists and other observers I met, it is not just Falun Gong, but other Buddhists – especially Tibetans – as well as Christians and Muslims who are being persecuted.

Yet sadly, China's vast economic boom – the subject of a major new series beginning on BBC2 tonight – makes the same diplomats and visitors turn an official blind eye to the hundreds of thousands in "administrative detention".

One man who has spoken out is human-rights advocate Gao Zhisheng.

His Beijing law office took up the cases of desperate people until the authorities put him under house arrest in February: he had advised Niu Jinping.

Gao, a Christian, told me that I was the only politician in seven years to meet Falun Gong ex-prisoners in China, and he criticised Western diplomats for walking by on the other side of the street.

The other ex-convict I interviewed was Cao Dong, 36, who had been in prison with seven Tiananmen Square protesters and told the same story.

With tears, he told me he saw the cadaver of his friend – a fellow Falun Gong practitioner – and the holes where the organs had been removed.

I have just heard that the secret police have used his flat key to collect his computer material
and private papers. They had already interrogated his flatmate for five days. As a result, the flatmate has gone into hiding. Cao Dong, meanwhile, has been missing since the interview.

I have demanded an urgent meeting with the Chinese ambassador to the EU.
If people in Beijing think this is the way to prepare for the Olympics, they have made the wrong call.

Details: China’s Modern Gestapo (1)- Preface

FUCK BEIJING ! - Human rights NOW!!

Sullivan points out some of the particularly chilling parallels in both language and initial policy regarding torture:

The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court. The methods, as you can see above, are indistinguishable from those described as "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the president. As you can see from the Gestapo memo, moreover, the Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charles Krauthammer, and strictly reserved for certain categories of prisoner. At least, that was the original plan.

Also: the use of hypothermia, authorized by Bush and Rumsfeld, was initially forbidden. 'Waterboarding" was forbidden too, unlike that authorized by Bush. As time went on, historians have found that all the bureaucratic restrictions were eventually broken or abridged. Once you start torturing, it has a life of its own.

Everyone in the U.S., both pro- and anti- torture, should bear that last point in mind. The supposedly moderate position in favor of allowing "enhanced interrogation" under certain circumstances and with strict limitations in terms of oversight merely obfuscates what actually happens once a state embarks on a policy of torture.

Sullivan goes on to show that John Yoo's definition of torture is the same as the Gestapo's. He then addresses the following to his inevitable critics:

Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I'm not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many have been used in the past. The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn't-somehow-torture - "enhanced interrogation techniques" - is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death.

Indeed.

Marching Off Into Tyranny

05/08/08 "ICH" -- - In last weekend’s edition of CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn updates the ongoing persecution of Sami Al-Arian by federal prosecutors. Al-Arian was a Florida university professor of computer science who was ensnared by the Bush Regime’s need to produce “terrorists” in order to keep Americans fearful and, thereby, amenable to the Bush Regime’s assault on US civil liberties.

The charges against Al-Arian were rejected by a jury, but the Bush Regime could not accept the obvious defeat. If Al-Arian was not a terrorist, then other of the Bush Regime’s fabricated cases might fall apart, too.

In open view, the US Department of Justice (sic) proceeded to trash every known ethical rule of prosecution. I don’t need to repeat the facts, as they are covered by Cockburn’s articles and in The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

Instead, I want to point out another meaning of the Al-Arian case. The Justice (sic) Department itself knows that it is persecuting a totally innocent person for reasons of a political agenda--the need to convince gullible Americans of an ongoing terrorist threat. The existence of this threat is used to justify the Bush Regime’s adoption of police state measures, such as spying on Americans without warrants, arresting them without charges, and refusing to let go of them when they are cleared by juries.

Sami Al-Arian is a fabricated terrorist created by federal prosecutors and judges in behalf of an undeclared agenda. The Al-Arian case proves that terrorists are in short supply and that the Bush Regime has had to create them out of total innocents. The “war on terror” is a hoax used to justify war crimes and the overthrow of America’s civil liberties.

The anthrax scare is one more example of the Bush Regime’s use of disinformation to advance an undeclared political agenda. As Glenn Greenwald reminded us last week in Salon, the Bush Regime used Brian Ross at ABC News to spread the lie far and wide that US government tests proved that the anthrax mailed to various Americans, including prominent US Senators, was made in Iraq by Saddam Hussein. This lie was essential for scaring Congress into passing the Bush Regime’s Gestapo laws, such as the PATRIOT Act, and for overcoming opposition to invading Iraq.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/print.html

When it leaked out that the anthrax actually came from a US government lab, the Bush Regime tried to frame a US scientist, Steven J. Hatfill, but failed. On June 28th, the Los Angeles Times reported that Hatfill, “The former Army scientist who was the prime suspect in the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings agreed Friday to take $5.82 million from the government to settle his claim that the Justice Department and the FBI invaded his privacy and ruined his career.” Indeed, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton allowed Hatfill’s attorneys two years to review all news reports and FBI evidence. Judge Walton stated: “there is not a scintilla of evidence that would indicate that Dr. Hatfill had anything to do with this.” http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-anthrax28-2008jun28,0,5742061.story

The anthrax matter was again news last week when another US government scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, “committed suicide.” Instantly, the deceased Ivins was fingered as the culprit. Overnight a man, liked and respected by his colleagues, who had worked on American biological warfare weapons for years, became a deranged homicidal maniac who decided to murder Americans at random in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 by sending them letters containing anthrax.

I don’t believe a word of it. But assume that it is true. Blaming the anthrax letters on Ivins does not resolve the issue of why the Bush Regime lied to Brian Ross and used ABC to put the blame on Saddam Hussein in order to invade an innocent country.

Wouldn’t a government that would lie about something this serious lie about other serious matters?

The Bush Regime stands against against the truth. That is why it pretends to have the power to prevent executive branch officials wanted for questioning by Congress from appearing before the people’s representatives. Nothing could make clearer the contempt that the Bush Regime has for the American people and their elected representatives than its arrogant claim that it is unanswerable to them.

Obviously, neither the President nor the Vice President respect their oaths of office. If they will betray such a serious oath, won’t they lie about everything, even 9/11 itself?

According to the discredited 9/11 Commission Report, a few Muslims hatched a multi-year plot that went undetected by the vast security agencies of the United States and its allies, and within one hour on one morning at four different locations defeated airport security, NORAD, the US Air Force, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, the Pentagon’s defenses and crashed three hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers and the heart of the US military. Muslims were able to achieve this fantastic feat operating out of caves in Afghanistan.

We now know for a fact that the “terrorist anthrax attack” had nothing whatsoever to do with Muslim terrorists. Even the US Government now blames white American citizens, employees of the federal government, for the anthrax letters that, at the time, were blamed on the “Osama bin Laden al Qaeda plot against America.”

We now know for a fact that this was intentional disinformation planted by the Bush Regime on a gullible and incompetent ABC News reporter, who is a disgrace to journalism. No one denies this.

We also know for a fact that ABC News will not say who planted on ABC the lies that committed the United States to the dishonor of an illegal invasion, war crimes, and executive branch attack on the US Constitution. How can anyone anywhere in the world rely on ABC News when it serves as a disinformation agency for a criminal regime?

One logical conclusion is that the anthrax attack was part of the same false flag operation that pulled off 9/11. The anthrax letters made the “terrorist attack” seem wider and more general. This increased the sense of peril and Americans’ fear and anger, thereby opening wider the door for the Bush Regime’s attack on Iraq and US civil liberty.

Now that the dead Ivins can be conveniently blamed for the anthrax mailings, the Bush Regime can declare the case closed, thus protecting the false flag operation from further risk of exposure.

Many Americans lack the mental and emotional strength to confront the facts. The facts are too unsettling and many are relieved when the “mainstream media” spins the facts away. Many Americans find it too appalling that any part of “their” government, even a rogue operation, could possibly have been involved in any way in the 9/11 or anthrax attacks. No evidence--not even full confessions--could convince them otherwise. Many Americans have welcomed their brainwashing by the neoconservatives: America is pure; her shining virtue causes evil men to attack her; they hate us because we are good and they are evil.

For the sake of argument, let’s accept this make-believe. It does not explain why, in order to protect us from evil men, the US Constitution needs to be dismantled and civil liberties set aside. Our Founding Fathers said that dismantling the Constitution and setting aside civil liberties are precisely what would make us unsafe in the extreme. The Bush Regime has never explained how the civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution interfere with any legitimate response to terrorism.

The fact still remains that the Bush Regime responded to 9/11 and anthrax letters with a comprehensive assault on US civil liberty. The Bush Regime’s assault on America has been much more successful than its assault on “terrorism.” Who remembers the promise of a “six weeks war”? Americans have been mired for 6 years in two wars without end which the neoconned Bush Regime, in alliance with Israeli zionists, seeks to expand to Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and Lebanon. The Republican candidate for president has given his commitment to a 100-year “war against terrorism.” Many Americans will vote for this candidate who wants to fight against a hoax for 100 years.

In The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America, Jennifer Van Bergen explains the constitutional and legal principles on which American liberty is based and the Bush Regime’s intense assault on these principles. Part I of her book sets out the Constitutional principles that are under attack. Part II details the systematic attack on the US Constitution that is the heart and soul of the Republican neoconservative Bush Regime--and a Regime it is as it asserts that it is above the law and unanswerable to law, Congress, the federal courts, and the Constitution that it is sworn to uphold

Jennifer Van Bergan likens Bush and his brownshirt supporters to Julius Caesar in motives, though not in courage. She cites the poet Lucan who in his work Pharsalia described Caesar as he flouted the law of the Roman Republic and crossed the Rubicon with his army: “When Caesar crossed and trod beneath his feet the soil of Italy’s forbidden fields, ‘here,’ spake he, ‘peace, here broken laws be left; Farewell to treaties. Fortune, lead me on; War is our judge.’”

Anyone who believes that the Bush Regime’s “war on terror” is about terrorism, oil, getting even with those who attacked us, bringing freedom and democracy to Muslims--whatever rationale makes the gratuitous war crimes committed by the Bush Regime acceptable to gullible Americans--needs to read Jennifer Van Bergan’s Bush Plan for America. Nothing less than American liberty is at stake.

The hour is late. Gullible Americans are being marched off into tyranny as the promised land of safety.

Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is a former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, a 16-year columnist for Business Week, and a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and Creator’s Syndicate in Los Angeles. He has held numerous university professorships, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by the President of France and the US Treasury’s Silver Medal for “outstanding contributions to the formulation of US economic policy.”

Close to half of America's voters are already clapping.

Missed by most media outlets, and completely ignored by Big Media, Barack Obama last month, during a speech in Colorado Springs on July 2, proposed a "civilian national security force" that would be on par with our military.

In the midst of a speech that was, on the surface at least, about volunteerism and duty toward one's country, Obama inserted these lines:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

The mainstream media seem to have avoided this issue completely, but a handful of conservative and independent bloggers and Web sites noticed. However, the Obama camp remains mum on the issue, evidently hoping it will go away, like so many other "difficulties" surrounding the Obama candidacy.

Notably, the lines were not included in official transcripts of the speech.

This tells me two things: One, Obama must have practiced those lines in rehearsing for the speech, because when he doesn't have a script, Obama is no more articulate than President Bush on a bender. Two, some adviser struck those lines from the transcript out of some concern that they wouldn't sell to voters, but Obama felt them important enough to keep in his presentation.

Here's what Obama said right before he called for his civilian national security force:

We'll send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. We'll call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods. We'll enlist veterans to help other vets find jobs and support, and to be there for our military families. And we'll also grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.

The picture Obama paints is disturbing, indeed. While each point on its own sounds vapidly fuzzy, put together with the statement about a civilian national security force, it seems to raise the specter of an American Gestapo.

Take, for the moment, a skeptical view of each point:

• College grads to mentor the young: Sounds innocent on one level. But are we talking about some sort of indoctrination program, of the "be part of the in crowd" sort?
• Call on Americans: Volunteer or draft? In other parts of the same speech, Obama talked about requiring service of students, and seemed to imply the possibility of a military draft, so this is a fair question.
• Join an Energy Corps to conduct ... projects in their neighborhoods: Is this going to be on the level of a Boy Scout paper drive to raise money for a campout? Not likely. Underscore the word "conduct." Obama's speech seems to pin a lot on this "Energy Corps" concept, and he seems to imply that it will have some sort of legal authority. Here in California, we already have seen bans on smoking, fast-food restaurants, trans-fat and plastic bags, and attempts to ban foie gras, fireplaces, driving at certain times, and independently-controlled thermostats -- all under the pretense of environmentalism/animal "rights." Now imagine what legally empowered independent neighborhood energy posses could do. ...
• Enlist vets to help other vets find jobs: "Enlist"? And what sort of jobs? With the Energy Corps?
• Open consulates that have been shuttered: Where? Iran? Cuba? North Korea?
• Double the size of the Peace Corps ... to renew our diplomacy: What the? ... Did I miss something? Since when does the Peace Corps handle American diplomacy? School projects, setting up computer labs, building farms, etc. But diplomacy is for the State Department. Unless Obama has a plan to combine them. ...

Then consider again those two lines:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Evidently, this "Energy Corps" is key, in Obama's mind, to national security, and it needs to be "just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as our multitrillion-dollar military.

There were other disturbing aspects to Obama's speech.

Obama, the candidate who supposedly wants to reduce the military, actually called for an increase in the military:

"We need to ease the burden on our troops while meeting the challenges of the 21st century. And that's why I will call on a new generation of Americans to join our military and complete the effort to increase our ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines."

He also said he would expand Americorps to 250,000 slots and use volunteers as his "vehicle" to meet his goals in -- I kid you not -- health care and education, "saving the planet," and restoring U.S. "standing" in the world.

He also said that "people of all ages, stations and skills will be asked to serve," and he discussed using a federally created computer program to track service hours and work.

It gets even more interesting: "I will launch a new social investment fund network. Its time to get the grass roots, the foundations, the faith-based organizations and the government at the same table," Obama said. So, the government will have more control over private organizations?

He went on to talk about the "need to teach young Americans to take citizenship seriously." He looked like he was choking on the words, but he talked about "strengthening civic education." Part of the plan includes requiring 50 hours of "service" per year for high school students, 100 hours for college students, and making school funding conditional upon districts developing approved service plans.

Then he slipped in a line about enlisting kids who are "out of school and out of work" in the Energy Corps.

Taken altogether, Obama's speech was deeply troubling for the unbelievers like me who are prepared for the worst from the Obamessiah.

I could be wrong. Obviously, I don't know what's in Obama's heart. But I do know he is a man of exceedingly radical bent, who counts racists, unrepentant terrorists and Christian-slaughtering Kenyan warlords among his friends. I also know that his political views, when he's not hiding them from the audience he's addressing at the time, are extremely radical. I also know that he is an unqualified nobody plucked out of obscurity by behind-the-scenes moneyed manipulators like former Nazi collaborator George Soros at the 2004 Democratic convention.

In short, there is nothing I'm aware of that commends Obama for the presidency, and many things that should, in a sane world, disqualify him.

But this is not a sane world, sadly.

Could Obama's "Energy Corps" become a reality? In the current political world that has abandoned logic and embraced global warming, it's a certainty, doubly so with a Demoratic president and Democratic Congress.

Could the "Energy Corps" become the American Gestapo? Obama's not talking.

Ah... Chine, Chine, Chine... Le don de faire les bonnes actions au bon moment. Alors qu'il ne reste à peine que 4 jours avant les Jeux Olympiques, la Chine a le don de faire parler d'elle... en mal sur un des réseaux qui vont diffuser ces Jeux. En effet, la flamme olympique passait dans la région du Sichuan où il y eut les tremblements de terre en mai dernier. Or, certains parents sont atterrés et frustrés de la construction médiocre des écoles qui se sont écrasées sur leurs enfants. Ainsi, certains voulaient afficher leur peine et leur colère face au gouvernement. Une mère a bien voulu parler à Michel Cormier, correspondant à Radio-Canada. Sauf que son téléphone était sur écoute (vive la Gestapo chinoise !), ils ont su le lieu de rendez-vous et la police a empêché le journaliste de filmer et de faire l'entrevue. Sans compter qu'ils ont forcés à résidence la mère en question et, je crois, qu'ils ont arrêté son interprète un certain temps. Même chose qui est arrivée à des journalistes de NBC, je crois, qui ont voulu filmer sur la Grande Muraille de Chine avec un intervenant et on les a empêché de tourner. Et tout ça à 4 jours des Jeux... Bravo ! Qu'est-ce que la Chine croyait ? Que l'Occident ne diffuserait pas les images de ces tentatives de brimer le travail journalistique ? Allô ! Encore plus malin, c'est que ce sont des journalistes qui proviennent de diffuseurs officiels des Jeux... NBC est le diffuseur officiel des Jeux aux États-Unis et la SRC, diffuseur officiel ici. Pensez-vous qu'ils vont avoir de bons mots pour le pays après ça ? Hum... Pourquoi sens-je que les mots seront doux-amers. Ils ne pourront être très critiques pour ne pas être sanctionnés par le CIO, mais... Je sens qu'il y aura quelques sous-entendus bien placés (je le souhaite). Bien hâte de voir si ces images de la SRC ne vont pas se retrouver dans la première émission de "À l'heure de la Chine" lundi prochain...

Vous savez, une des phrases clichés des gens qui reviennent d'un voyage en Chine, c'est : "On a l'impression, quand on arrive là, de débarquer sur une autre planète !" Ils ont raison, c'est une autre planète. Une planète où la logique et l'intelligence n'ont pas rejailli fort fort...

Pour mon point de vue sur les Jeux, il sera diffusé jeudi matin. Bien que j'en aie déjà parlé à 2 reprises, je mettrai les choses aux claires une fois pour toutes.

Hello Alice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think she's my biggest reader at the moment and she should encourage other people to become regular readers.

I also have to give a big high five to Tom (not the myspace one) for the encouaging feedback he has given me, unlike some other readers that just read and move on. A fatwa (some type of bad Islam thing) on readers that do this!

Now I can give all of you what you came here for; naked pictures of me! No unfortunately this website prohibits me from including any pictures that are deemed to be 'inapropriate'. Sorry ladies (and to the select group of male readers, i'm flattered but not into that type of thing). Maybe I should set up a website in which to exhibit these 'artworks'. Anyway, this week has rocked the very essense of who I am. Na not really, it's been pretty boring the last couple of days with very little happening. The only significant thing being that I scored a day off from school because my sports uniform was wet and I managed to convince the Big Cheese (mum) that Grammar is not unlike the Gestapo when it comes to correct uniform policy. It also had the added bonus of people classing me as extra smart because it was on the day of the UMAT. There's only a four days of school this week as well dues to another 'development day'. The only development the teachers are doing on these days involves a slab or two and a couple dozen goon bags.

I'll try and deliver another edition sometime this week. I will be sure to include many tales of wonder, intrigue and sexual encounters.

Gotta go, Dexter's on

You can apply for it here.

In recent days, the American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) carried out a shameful crackdown against non-conformist Palestinian intellectuals, journalists as well as civic and religious leaders all over the West Bank.

PA security agencies have also violently suppressed peaceful rallies by the pan-Islamic Liberation party commemorating the downfall of the Ottoman Caliphate. Eyewitnesses said undisciplined policemen beat participants using plastic truncheons.

In Beit Jala, PA men beat four camera men who were filming police cars. And in Hebron, a Reuter cameraman, Yosri al Jamal, was assaulted and his camera broken.

The latest acts of violence took place under the watchful eyes of the Israeli occupation army without whose consent the PA can hardly function.

In Nablus and neighboring towns and villages,  US-trained security personnel  raided private homes, municipal buildings and public institutions,  elected mayors, public figures, college professors, student leaders and prominent religious figures.

One of the people arrested was Professor Abdul al Sattar Qassem, a well-known author and political activist.

A former presidential candidate,  Qassem is not affiliated with Hamas or any other political organization, but his daring writings seem to have proven too unbearable for a self-proclaimed “national” authority that claims to represent Palestinian aspirations for freedom and liberation.

In Dura, near Hebron in the southern West Bank,  PA security forces arrested Awadh Rajoub, the West Bank correspondent of the Arabic service of al-Jazeera.net  after raiding and thoroughly searching his press office and confiscating his PC.

Rajoub is still being detained at the Preventive Security headquarters in Hebron where he has been interrogated in connection with  a  report he had written on the mistreatment of prisoners in PA jails and lockups.

Four other journalists have also been arrested by the PA police recently, including Muhammed Halayka and Alaa  al Titi of Hebron, Ausayd Amareneh of Bethlehem and Mustafa Sabri of Qalqilya.

PA spokespeople  claim that the arrests are carried out in accordance with the rule of law.

However, it is amply clear that such claims carry very little weight if only because  the “rule of law” doesn’t  really exist in a police state (without a state),  whose very existence and survival depend almost completely  on the extent to which this  entity meets the needs, obey the instructions and  serves the interests  of the Israeli occupation.

These are conspicuous facts that every Palestinian man, woman and child is aware of. Hence, it would be foolhardy to try to hide the obvious from  one of the most politicized people on earth.

Interestingly, the stepped-up clampdown on freedom of expression by the PA  coincides with the ghoulish escalation of Israeli criminality and ethnic cleansing throughout the West Bank.

During the past few days, trigger-happy Israeli soldiers murdered in cold blood two Palestinian minors, including a 10-year-old boy who was taking part in a peaceful protest against Israeli schemes to grab more Palestinian land under the pretext of building the so-called “separation wall.”  (the Israeli Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi this week admitted that the route of the wall was decided by political, rather than  security considerations as Israeli officials have been claiming)

Similarly,  Israel has been demolishing Arab homes, including a multi-story building  in East Jerusalem as  Nazi-like Jewish settlers are given a free rein to take over Arab property and  terrorize and savage Palestinian children in the southern Hebron hills  for the purpose of driving their families away form their homes.

So, as if Zionist ethnic cleansing were not enough, the PA is finding it necessary to  complement Israeli criminality by arresting, humiliating  and tormenting  patriotic Palestinians for criticizing the Ramallah regime for compromising Palestinian national interests and for throwing itself squarely into the lap of the Bush administration which itself is at Israel’s beck and call.

It is really difficult to make any sense of what is happening except that the PA is effectively becoming another layer of the Israeli occupation.

Otherwise, one is prompted to ask what national purpose does this  wave of repression of Palestinians by Palestinians serve?

Does it strengthen Palestinian steadfastness in the face of the Israeli occupation?

Does it enhance the Palestinian ability to liberate the usurped homeland from the criminal Zionist hands?

There is no doubt that in light of its shameful behavior against the Palestinian people, the PA has effectively become a serious liability undermining the enduring Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.

Indeed, a situation where Palestinians have to keep guessing  if their children will be abducted by “the (Palestinian) authority” or “the (Israeli occupation) authorities” is unbearable, to say the least.

It is a stigma of shame that  a time has come when Palestinian homes have to be   raided in the quiet hours before dawn by Palestinian policemen in order to arrest young Palestinians activists.

Today, the PA has proven itself  a moral, political, economic and security disaster for the Palestinians and their enduring just cause.

The Palestinian people had been dreaming of a “free authority” that would heal their wounds, sooth their afflictions and strengthen their steadfastness in the face of the Nazis of our time.

They never dreamt of a ‘Judenrat’ of quislings and collaborators that would arrest, torment, torture and  even murder Palestinians in order to receive a certificate of good conduct from the occupiers of our country and their guardian-allies in Washington.

Hence, it is paramount, for the sake of our future and  the future of our children that this outrageous  PA apparatus,  where  pseudo-nationalists,  money-grabbing careerists,  hangers-on,  opportunists and probably foreign agents as well  hold sway, be dismantled as soon as possible.

In fact, one can go as far as saying that the dissolution of the PA is now a sine qua non for a successful Palestinian struggle for freedom from diabolical Zionism.

The British Labouring-Party wants socialism: its credentials are fine in that regard, for they scoop money from poor-people via "tax-ation", to be used by themselves. It is after all what socialists are for, and what they have always been for. Just look at the murdering pig Castro, and the other modern murderer Saddam Hussein. Hitler and Stalin were no different. No were the pigs Pol Pot and some robot called "ho chi Mhinh", nor Mao and Brzhezhniev.

But now it's faced with a real "di"-"lemma". (Two problems at once.) It wants to stay in power, so it must get rid of Gordon Brown, or esle its Gauleiters in Westmonster will be out of their jobs at the next election, with nowhere to go since they are institutionally-unemployable. Or, if they wait till then, they'll go down as a crowd who put in two (or more?) PMs without an election.

Their problem is their lack of Terror-Police. Now, I grant you, they've tried hard to instil the terror-factor in the present lot of Fuzz, but in a still-functioning liberal democracy it's hard to make the Met look quite like the Gestapo or the KGB, even when their squads get to shoot blameless Brazilian electricians and be paid for it.

Labour can't get out of this jam, for they have not got round, early enough as Lenin and Mao and Castro their friends did, to fixing the opposition via police terror early enough after 1997. They did try but it was too little and too late. Perhaps they thought we were all asleep and it would not be necessary (mostly true I'm afraid.)

They either have to dump an (admittedly inadequate) unlected PM and put in another (unelcted one), which ought to trigger an election which they will lose, or else they have to go on with ths one, who will lose the next election anyway (barring serious accidents.)

What a sad, sad pass for poor socialists, so right as they are, so moral and caring as they are, so correct and so messianically-driven for the common good as they are - to come to.

They are going to get thrown out, again, in a fair fight - as always is the case when one is offered. It's tru: when people are offered socialism in a free and fair set of choices, they always reject it. So there's hope, but the big battalions of PR firepower are still on the enemy's side. 

ITEM:

I can't blog as much in future. Never mind, for others will take my place, I am working on that matter. Libertarian blogging sadly comes between me and my family, not just in time matters but opinion ones also. It's called "saving the f*****g world."

I shall continue to blog when people are not looking. Posts may not be every day.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity.  According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now one million names on the “terrorist” watch list.

One of them is that of former Assistant US Attorney General Jim Robinson, whose top security clearances are current.  Every time Mr.Robinson flies away on business, he is delayed by a totally incompetent “terrorist” protection racket that cannot tell a person named Jim Robinson, who served in the highest echelons of the US government, from a Muslim terrorist.

What confidence can we have in a regime that is incapable of differentiating an Assistant US Attorney General from a terrorist?

Mr. Robinson said: “If I were convinced that America is a safer place because I get hassled at the airport, I might put up with it, but I doubt it.  I expect my story is similar to hundreds of thousands of people who are on this list and find themselves inconvenienced.”

“Hundreds of thousands of people” on a watch list that they have no business being on?

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Do chickens really come home to roost?

Two AM--working on the last blog post of the day, I am jarred by a pounding on the front door.

I straighten up my pajamas, push back from the keyboard, and lumber off in the direction of the foyer.

As I consider what is about to happen, adrenalin spurts in my veins and my body tightens-- I reach for the loaded .357 on the foyer lamp stand.

"Yeah...who is it?"

Over the sound of scuffling boots just outside my door rises a not unfamiliar voice, "It's the Obama Secret--I mean--it's the Obama Civilian Police. We're rounding up conservative bloggers and we've got a warrant for your arrest...please open the door!"

To be continued!

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Jedwabne 10 lipca 1941

Łomżyńskie
Łomżyńskie z Jedwabnym było terenem dwu narodowym. W miastach mieszkali Polacy i Żydzi. Wsie w 100% był Polskie, połowę mieszkańców wsi stanowiła szlachta zagrodowa (mająca taki sam status ekonomiczny jak włościanie ale mająca silną świadomość narodową). Sowiecka propaganda (głoszona często ustami żydowskich agitatorów) była prowokacyjna i niedorzeczna (nie było Ukraińców i Białorusinów do wyzwalania). Silna świadomość narodowa spowodowała żywiołowy rozwój polskiego podziemia w okupowanym przez sowietów Łomżyńskim.

17 września 1939
W dyskusji o Jedwabnym Gross i jego epigoni przemilczeli udział próżniejszych żydowskich ofiar w sowieckim aparacie terroru po 17 września 1939. Żydzi w 1939 roku w Jedwabnym entuzjastycznie witali Armie Czerwoną. Entuzjazm żydów był owocem uwielbienia żydów dla ZSRR i nienawiści do Polski (nie jest prawdą teza o strachu żydów przed Niemcami, Niemcy byli sojusznikami ZSRR, żydzi na terenach okupacji niemieckiej usiłowali witać Niemców, Niemcy jednak nie życzyli sobie entuzjazmu żydów). Żydzi w Jedwabnym natychmiast włączyli się w sowiecki aparat terroru którego jedyną ofiara byli w Jedwabnym Polacy. Żydzi w sowieckim aparacie terroru stosowali wobec prześladowanych Polaków; aresztowania, rekwizycje, więzienie. Żydzi tworzyli dla NKWD listy Polaków przeznaczonych do likwidacji (bezpośredniej i za pomocą deportacji), odzierali z dobytku i ubrań deportowanych Polaków, przejmowali miejsca pracy deportowanych Polaków. Żydzi zajmowali się rabunkiem i rekwizycją na rzecz sowietów (Żydzi stanowili w czasie pierwszej okupacji 70% sowieckich biurokratów gospodarczych), szerzeniem sowieckiej propagandy i agitacji. Pod sowiecką okupacją żydzi nieustannie manifestowali swój tymf nad Polakami i entuzjazm dla okupanta, obelżywie traktowali Polaków, donosili na Polaków do NKWD.

Atak armii niemieckiej na ZSRR był dla Polaków wyzwoleniem od śmierci i tortur z rąk sowietów i ich żydowskich kolaborantów. Polacy mieli powody by czuć ulgę i radość z powodu końca sowieckich wywózek, mordów i prześladowań.

10 lipca 1941
Akcją likwidacji Żydów w Jedwabnym (a także w Radziłowie i Tykocinie) kierował komisarz kryminalny Hauptsurmfuhrer Hermann Schaper. Schaper jak wielu innych zbrodniarzy nazistowskich po wojnie pozostał bezkarny (z braku wystarczających dowodów). Sprawą jego odpowiedzialności za zbrodnie podczas II wś w Łomżyńskim zajmowała się niemiecka prokuratura w 1964 i 1965 oraz sądy w 1974 (w oparciu o dokumenty SS z archiwum MSW w Warszawie) i 1976. Odpowiedzialność Schepera za eksterminacje Żydów w Łomżyńskim ustaliło Centrum Dokumentacji Zbrodni Nazistowskich w Ludwigsburgu koło Stuttgartu na podstawie ustaleń z 1963 z biura śledczego do ścigania zbrodni nazistowskich przy sztabie policji izraelskiej. Żydzi z Radziołowa na zdjęciach rozpoznali Schapera.

10 lipca 1941 roku (dwa tygodnie po wkroczeniu Niemców i rozpoczęciu niemieckiej okupacji) do Jedwabnego (według świadków) przybyło 69 gestapowców i wielokroć więcej żandarmów niemieckich (zeznająca w procesie Polaka dostała polecenie od Niemców przygotowania 69 porcji obiadowych dla gestapowców). Było to Einsatzkomando SS Zichenau Schrottersburg (Einsatzkommando Urzędu Policji Państwowej Ciechanów Płock). Była to jedna z wielu akcji likwidacji Żydów  (podobne miały miejsce w końcu czerwca w Wiznie, 5 lipca w Wąsoczy, 7 lipca w Radziłowie leżącym 15 km od Jedwabnego, 10 lipca w Jedwabnym, w sierpniu w Łomży leżącej 18 km od jedwabnego, 22 sierpnia w Tykocinie leżącym 30 km od Jedwabnego, 4 września w Rutkach leżących 20 km od Jedwabnego, Zambrowie leżącym 35 km od Jedwabnego, wielu z tych miast Niemcy palili Żydów w stodołach). Ten sam schemat SS wykorzystywało w likwidacjach Żydów od Morza Bałtyckiego do Morza Czarnego (na Litwie, Białorusi, Ukrainie i Mołdawii). W pogromach Niemcy starali się wykorzystać lokalny margines społeczny i antysemitów.

W Jedwabnym Niemcy spalili mniej niż 250 Żydów (około 150) w stodole (innych miejsc egzekucji nie znaleziono). By Żydzi nie uciekali z płonącej stodoły Niemcy strzelali do Żydów (świadczy o tym 100 łusek znalezionych przez IPN w maju 2001 w ruinach spalonej stodoły). Łuski po amunicji znalezione w Jedwabnym były łuskami do niemieckich karabinów Mauser z 1938 i niemieckich pistoletów Walter używanych przez niemieckich oficerów. Jedwabne nie było podczas II wś terenem walk jednostek niemieckich łuski więc najprawdopodobniej pochodziły z masowego mordu. Wbrew polskiemu prawu nie przeprowadzono ekshumacji (ówczesnym ministrem sprawiedliwości był Lech Kaczyński) bo przeciw ekshumacji protestował Związek Gmin Żydowskich w Polsce (pomimo że we wszystkich miejscach zbrodni na żydach ekshumacje przeprowadzono). Żołnierzom niemieckim w pogromie pomagali cywilni przedstawiciele niemieckich władz lokalnych Jedwabnego przywiezionych do Jedwabnego przez Niemców. Niemcy nie dopuszczali na terenach przez siebie okupowanych do aktywnej działalności tubylców nawet takiej jak pogromy.

Niemcy usiłowali biciem i bronią palną zagonić Polaków do pilnowania żydów na rynku w Jedwabnym (wielu Polaków pomimo grożącej śmierci z rąk Niemców uciekało z miasta by nie pomagać Niemcom) część jednak pod przymusem pilnowała Żydów. Polacy jednak nie byli świadomi celów Niemców. Z rynku Niemcy zapędzili Żydów do stodoły i ich tam spalili
Polacy pomimo grożącej im i ich rodzinie karze śmierci (tylko w okupowanej Polsce Niemcy zabijali za pomoc żydom) pomagali Żydom i ukrywali Żydów przed Niemcami.

Proces
Podczas procesu oskarżeni o mord w Jedwabnym twierdzili że podczas śledztwa byli torturowani. Torturami wymuszono na nich przyznanie się do winny i obciążenie innych odpowiedzialnością za mord. Sąd 10 z pośród 22 oskarżonych uniewinnił, wydał 1 wyrok śmierci (niewykonany), 11 osób skazał na kilkunastoletnie wyroki choć uznano że byli terrorem przez Niemców zmuszeni do pilnowania Żydów. Wymuszone przez UB zeznania były tak niewiarygodne że komunistyczny sąd uznał je za niewystarczający dowód. Sąd apelacyjny z pośród 12 skazanych 2 uniewinnił. Niewątpliwymi zbrodniarzami byli przywiezieni przez Niemców polskojęzyczni kolaboranci Marian Karolak (komisaryczny burmistrz z nadania niemieckiego okupanta) i Karol Bardoń (niemiecki żandarm, volkddeutsch, funkcjonariusz niemieckiej policji pomocniczej zajmującej się aresztowaniem Polaków).

Jan Bodakowski
Bibliografia
„Jedwabne spór historyków wokół książki Jana T. Grossa 'Sąsiedzi'”

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THE SPIES OF WARSAW
Alan Furst
Random House 2008

Alan Furst is a well-known writer of the literary espionage thriller and his newest installment, The Spies of Warsaw, is true to the genre. An anthropologist by training, Furst’s attention to the detail of life and place of his characters pays off in unforgettable descriptions of the Easter European country, particularly its capital city in the years shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. But the book is missing something, quite possibly a good plot, which, after all, is the heart of all espionage thrillers, and the missing element leaves the reader ultimately unsatisfied.

The story begins with the arrival of a German engineer who comes to Warsaw to meet with his French handler Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier and hand over plans for a German tank. But on the way back, the engineer suffers from intense anxiety. Soon enough he comes to the attention of the Gestapo, which then takes aim at the French Colonel himself in a deluded plot to kill him. This hint of mortal danger is just enough to carry the reader through the book, but it is ultimately not strong enough to create a compelling reading.

While Furst does create unforgettable portrayals of the people and places of interwar Warsaw, he does not go deep enough into the lives of his characters to create an organic sense of purpose and relevance to their struggles. This is, perhaps, due to the fact that Furst takes as his protagonist a man who is merely passing through the doomed nation, playing with a certain level of emotional detachment the espionage games between France and Germany. Another reason must have to do with the gray nature of espionage itself and the shifting alliances, the venal characters, and the lack of moral certainties in the Europe of the era. Whatever it is, in the end it detracts from readers interest.

Kidding? Nope. 

A preview of things to come? Or an overzealous Husseiniac at Google?  

Looks like OGestapo's politics of Change are nothing but Communism with a touch of race-baiting.

More: Publius Forum, NoQuarter

The title, Five Chimneys, stems from the five crematorium chimneys at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

It isn't enough that she witnessed the horrendous atrocities, but she also lost her family there. They all were exterminated in the gas chambers...her husband, two children and her parents. Her husband was under orders to be deported to Auschwitz. Olga Lengyel was determined, and went to the authorities insisting that she and her children be deported with him, as she assumed that he would be put to work in a hospital, as he was a medical doctor. She did not believe any of the stories she was told, about the actual situtation, and thought they were exaggerations. Her parents decided to go with her and the children, and the entire family went together. Little did she know it would result in the death of everyone, but her.

Her memoir is often harsh and brutal, but so were the conditions she had to live under. Her writing is well-articulated, filled with extremely clear descriptives that make our skin crawl. She doesn't seek sympathy, but rather wanted the realities and truth to be told. Olga Lengyel writes as if she is a reporter, with an unbiased-like mindset. As a survivor and a witness, she reports what she, herself, experienced, and what she saw. The facts and truth of the events are what motivated her to stay alive, when everyone she loved had been murdered. What Olga Lengyel witnessed and went through in Auschwitz, nobody should ever have to be a witness to, or have to endure.

From watching the crematorium workers load several bodies into the large ovens at once, to having to pile dead bodies atop one another...herself, to standing naked for hours in the freezing cold while waiting for roll call, to the beatings, to lack of food, and having to eliminate in a bucket...the same one used to eat in, and to the unbelievably horrific events that pregnant women went through, etc., the book is intense testimony to the brutality and inhumanity of man. It is also a testament to Olga Lengyel's strength and courage during the extreme circumstances she endured (that is putting it mildly). Her motivation for survival was the necessity to bear witness to the atrocious inhumanity of the Nazi Germans.

Albert Einstein, himself, read Five Chimneys, and actually wrote a letter to Olga Lengyl. Part of that letter is included in the book.

<c>"...Thank you for your very frank, very well written book. You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now silent and most forgotten speak...

With best regards and wishes,

A. Einstein</c>

The infusion of such atrocities, in great numbers, into one memoir is beyond belief, as Olga Lengyel manages to describe with graphic clarity the most minute detail of daily existence (if you can call it that) in the Women's camp at Auschwitz. She leaves nothing to the imagination, and each atrocious act is written boldly, powerfully, concise and to the point, no stone left unturned. Five Chimneys is heart wrenching, horrific, and overwhelming. It is not for the weak of heart or weak of stomach. Olga Lengyel's Five Chimneys describes the essence of man's inhumanity, and is a memoir that should be read with that in mind, as her overpowering documentation of the nighmares she experienced and witnessed is not coated over, in any fashion. The book is extremely haunting.

Olag Lengyel died at the age of 90, in 2001. Olga Lengyel's spirit and strength will survive through time, within the pages of her extraordinary memoir, Five Chimneys.

We must never forget the events of the Holocaust...

I personally own and have read this book.

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Our president is thrilled with the new measure. The overhaul on the government’s wiretapping powers provides what amounts to legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants after the Sept. 11 attacks. President Bush has been pushing for this immunity for some time which allows significant legal precedence and shuts down any pending lawsuits. The law also immunizes President Bush any possible or future calls against his cowboy intelligence measures.

The media is reporting that many loopholes are being repaired in the old laws. However, based on the new law, the government will be allowed to use broad warrants to eavesdrop on large groups of foreign targets at once. As far as targeting and wiretapping Americans, the administration would have to get individual court orders from the intelligence court, but in urgent or emergency circumstances it would be able to go ahead for at least seven days without a court order if it asserted that “intelligence important to the national security of the United States may be lost.” This is still tantamount to a free pass for checking any citizen out for any cause during what the administration considers "an emergency" without even a legislative acid test. What remains is essentially a potential direct violation of privacy while placating the public on the surface.

White House officials said that the new emergency provisions applied only to foreign wiretapping, but Democratic officials said they interpreted the proposal to apply to domestic surveillance operations as well. So goes the politics and political interpretation of federal law. On these terms, the new law is more invasive than any previous law without any repercussions whatever and mere window dressing for unregulated privacy violation for any reason for the short-term.

Further, the question of immunity is of no value when legal authority granted by law requires the judicial system to grant immunity. The government can keep the international or domestic communications of innocent Americans in the U.S. with no connection to suspected terrorists, with very few safeguards to protect against abuse of this power.

The new law also requires the creation of a new court set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to approve any effort to spy on Americans. If the newly created court determined that intelligence would be lost, U.S. authorities could act for up to seven days before seeking a warrant -- more than twice the three-day emergency period under the current law. This creation of what is essentially a new branch of government allows a complete circumvention of previous law during a seven day test period for unlimited collection of information. This smacks somewhat of Nazi Gestapo power in the name of homeland security. Tied in to the existing intelligence power structure of America, there is virtually no limit to intelligence-gathering abilities of the new intelligence community. The electronic and computer age has made gathering intelligence easy.

Pyydämme keskusrikospoliisia tutkimaan, täyttääkö osoitteessa http://mikkoellila.thinkertothinker.com oleva artikkeli ”Yhteiskunta koostuu ihmisistä” rikoslain kiihottaminen kansanryhmää vastaan rikoksen tunnusmerkistön. Lisäksi pyydämme ryhtymään toimenpiteisiin, jotta teksti saataisiin pois internetistä.

Lisäksi pyydämme ryhtymään toimenpiteisiin, jotta teksti saataisiin pois internetistä.

Ihan itse ja ilman oikeuden päätöstä asiasta. Hienoa...

Samaa asiaa sivuten, pyydän arvoisaa - nykyistä apulaisoikeuskansleria - tutustumaan tämän oikeudenkäynnin pöytäkirjoihin:

Ennakkosensuuria yrittänyt poliisi sai sakkoja

Helsinkiläispoliisi sai sakkoja tutkintailmoituksen kiikuttamisesta 7 päivää -lehden toimitukseen.

Helsingin hovioikeuden mukaan poliisi syyllistyi virka-aseman väärinkäyttämiseen toimittaessaan lehdelle ilmoituksen, jossa lehtijutun kohteet paheksuivat heistä kertovan pian ilmestyvän jutun julkaisua.

Poliisi vei paperin kuitattavaksi lehden päätoimittajalle ja vastaavalle päätoimittajalle. Hän selitti toimineensa ilmoituksen tekijöiden pyynnöstä. Poliisi ei ollut kieltänyt lehteä julkaisemasta juttua.

Helsingin käräjäoikeus hylkäsi syytteet. Sen mukaan poliisin toiminta ei aiheuttanut vahinkoa, sillä lehti julkaisi juttunsa hänen käynnistään huolimatta. Ei myöskään ollut näyttöä siitä, että käynnillä olisi tavoiteltu hyötyä.

Hovioikeus muutti tuomion ja määräsi syytetyn maksamaan 30 päiväsakkoa eli 780 euroa. Sen mukaan poliisimies pyrki toiminnallaan estämään artikkelin julkaisua ja käytti virka-asemaansa painostuskeinona.

Oikeus muistuttaa, että laki kieltää ennakkosensuurin. Poliisilla ei olisi oikeutta estää ennakkoon lehtijutun julkaisua, vaikka se olisi rikollistakin.

Vai muutetaanko tätä tuomiota Mika Illmanin väitöskirjaan perustuvan laintulkinnan perusteella?

Lähteet: STT, Iltalehti, kiitokset Adelphille

I also see the media's fixation on the two presidential candidates who will offer more of the same to the fine people of Gestapolis. I don't see coverage on the candidates who want to fix the things I am seeing. As long as there are no tanks roaming the streets of Gestapolis, the sheeple are happy.

Amplasata in inima orasului, in coltul Pietei Unirii, vizavi de fosta Librarie a Universitatii (astazi Diverta), cladirea care a apartinut lantului hotelier international Continental pana in 2005 are toate ingredientele pentru a iesi in evidenta. Pasionat de istorie fiind, am descoperit ca ea a fost construita in 1894 , pe amplasamentul unui fost hotel cu un etaj, in spatiul sau functionand ulterior tot un hotel , cu una dintre cele mai vestite cafenele literare, Hotel New York. Un alt aspect interesant este faptul ca in 1944, in acest hotel si-a avut sediul vestitul Gestapo, care in doar cateva luni , pana in octombrie cand trupele romane si sovietice au eliberat Clujul, au deportat in lagarele de concentrare de la Auschwitz, peste 16.000 de clujeni evrei.

Astazi cladirea apartine omului de afaceri Dorel Tamas (proprietarul Sc. Ardeleana Sa. Alba-Iulia), care o scoate acum la vanzare pentru o suma vehiculata de aproximativ 20 milioane de euro. De procesul de tranzactionare se va ocupa agentia imobiliara Grup de Lux, care trebuie sa gaseasca pana la finele anului un cumparator. Care va fi totusi noul destin al cladirii? Desi , personal, o vedeam continuand traditia de hotel, cladirea din centrul Clujului se va transforma intr-un complex comercial , intitulat Galeriile New York.

Iata ca in Cluj pe langa cele 4 malluri, si complexul Central extins, vor intra in circuitul de consum al clujenilor si Galeriile New York , cu bucuria ca macar cladirea isi va pastra vechea arhitectura.

Hoy al salir a la calle, me encuentro con una forma de protesta silenciosa, inteligente y que cumple sus funciones básicas (Generar interés en la opinión pública, anunciar la presencia de movimientos actívos de oposición, burla, etc) de hecho, actividades así, propiciadas por movimientos como Otpor (Resistencia), fueron detonantes para cambios de gobiernos y verdaderas revoluciones como el Mayo Francés, La Revolución Naranja y la caída de Slobodan Milosevic en Yugoslavia. En fín, como les comentaba, mientras me acercaba más a la ciudad, me daba cuenta que algún movimiento de verdad se había esmerado y lograron colocar en casi todas las avenidas importantes de Caracas, unos sapos de anime con una boina roja rojita en sus cabezas. Esto, refiriéndose a la ley que trataron de imponer en un madrugonzado los sectores oficialistas y que se denomina Ley de Inteligencia y Contrainteligencia bla bla bla, que adoptó nombres como la Ley Sapo y la Ley Gestapo.

Ahora bien, tanto alboroto por una fulana ley que te invade la privacidad, que te obliga a someter a escarnio público cualquier información que tengas, etc, etc... No tuve que pensar mucho sobre ésto cuando llegué a la conclusión de que ya tenemos en cada una de nuestras computadoras y apoderándose de nuestras vidas a algo que es mucho peor!!! El Facebook!

• Quieres saber a donde va tu vecina? revisa a los eventos a los que planea ir
• Quieres saber que almorzó el chamo al que le decían "El Portu" en el colegio (obviamente no lo ves desde que su Mamá lo sacó del colegio en 5to grado, pero lo tienes en el Facebook) Pues revisa la aplicación de Favorite Foods
• Quieres saber el estado de ánimo de alguien? Más fácil!!! Checa su Status y listo!!!

A dónde fueron mis "panas" ayer que andaban con un misterio?? Pues en un par de días podrás verlos taggeados a todos en Sawú con 4 culos cada uno y a ti te lo sacaron! Es como para ponerlos en limited profile verdad?????

Así bien pues, si todos hemos sufrido con alguna aplicación, foto coleada, status malinterpretado o relationship status, porqué no protestamos contra el facebook? Una sola voz por una Venezuela libre de chisme y vagatela! Marchémos todos juntos hasta la sede CANTV para que prohíba la entrada desde cualquier IP venezolano a éste maldito y malhabido portal, obra del imperio yankee, financiado por la CIA y que lo que quiere es impregnarnos de sus ideologías consumistas, en fin el American Dream!

El Facebook es un mal necesario, si no lo tienes, estás relegado en las conversaciones sobre lo último que pasa en el mundo. No te enteras de los eventos más importantes, cumpleaños, bonches, parrandas, pandemoniums y partuzas convocadas a través del FB. Si quieres bucearte a alguien, simplemente revisa sus fotos a en alguna la encontrarás en la playa, sino, recurre a sus amigas que seguro alguna de ellas si la tienen!

Por si todo ésto no fuera poco, además pueden husmear tus "conversaciones" gracias al Wall, que a la mejor manera de un grafitti, allí expresan y comentan, compran y venden, insultan y perdonan y hasta algunos sacan su mejor lado homosexual para representarlo allí. Muchos tienen sus teléfonos, direcciones y en muchos casos puedes enterarte de sus posiciones sexuales favoritas, tragos preferidos y qué personaje sería si hubiera actuado en Volver al Futuro III.

Ojo!!! yo soy un fiel usuario, pero como una buena droga, Sé que está mal, pero sin embargo sigo usándola!.

Volviendo al tema de la fulana Ley, hay que ver que los oficialistas son realmente unos brutos y pendejos!!, muy fácilmente pueden enterarse de todo lo que quieran si se meten en tu Facebook! vamos, sabes que si te llega un request de Hugo Chavez (yo tengo 2), Rodriguez Chacín, Lina Ron o Pepeto López (A quién muchos tenemos) los agregarás sin chistar y con una sonrisa en los labios pensando "quién será el jodedor que creó el FB de éstas personas?. Así que Chavistas brutos, comemierdas y lambuseos: si quieren entrar en la vida de las personas, sigan el ejemplo de Mark Zuckerberg y creen una red social arrechísima o empiecen a buscarse amigos en FB!

Les dejo un videito en honor al Facebook.

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