1. “Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’
http://911blogger.com/node/22951
2. “Colleen Rowley: Minders Ensured She Didn’t Say Anything About 9/11 the FBI Didn’t WANT Told, Even to Government Officials…
FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley says in a new interview that she was “minded” during her testimony to the Joint Intelligence Committee investigation of 9/11. Specifically, she said that “FBI minders” listened to her every word, to trail her and make sure that she didn’t tell government personnel with top secret clearance even higher than her own anything which the FBI did not want to be told.
While this might sound fantastic, it is nothing new.
Rowley said the same had happened to Daniel Ellsberg went to members of Congress with the Pentagon papers.
As I wrote a year ago:
9/11 Commission chair Thomas Kean points out that if “minders” had been present during the Commission’s investigation, that would have been intimidation, which would have stemmed the flow of testimony from the witnesses:
I think the commission feels unanimously that it’s some intimidation to have somebody sitting behind you all the time who you either work for or works for your agency. You might get less testimony than you would.”
http://911blogger.com/node/22952
3. “Since there is what I consider overwhelming evidence that there was a coverup of the crime perpetrated by high ranking US Government officials, I demand that these people be brought to justice. If they can ultimately get away with this, then no one is safe, anywhere on earth, from their depredations.
That’s not the kind of world I want to live in, so I fight them with every means at my disposal. There are mass murderers out there walking around free, profiting mightily from the brutality and carnage and environmental devastation, and telling us that it’s just fine that they’re doing what they’re doing.”
http://911blogger.com/node/22949
4. Good:
“Ukraine Poised to Pass Law Against Joining NATO“
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/16/ukraine-poised-to-pass-law-against-joining-nato/
5. “Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship
Like Liz Cheney, McCain and Lieberman seem to have forgotten that dictators or those who support them, rather than elected officials who are obliged to uphold the U.S. Constitution, are the only people who believe in holding people in arbitrary detention, neither as prisoners of war nor as criminal suspects, but as “illegal enemy combatants” — or in 2010’s remake, “unprivileged enemy belligerents” — who can be held indefinitely, and interrogated in conditions that, when last tried out in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, led inexorably to the torture that John McCain used to deplore. “
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1003e.asp
6. “The American dream is what has motivated generations of Americans – natives and immigrants alike – to work hard and play by the rules.
And as Michael Moore wrote in 2003, the American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption:
After fleecing the American public and destroying the American dream for most working people, how is it that, instead of being drawn and quartered and hung at dawn at the city gates, the rich got a big wet kiss from Congress … and no one says a word? How can that be?
I think it’s because we’re still addicted to the Horatio Alger fantasy drug. Despite all the damage and all the evidence to the contrary, the average American still wants to hang on to this belief that maybe, just maybe, he or she (mostly he) just might make it big after all.
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Warren Buffet said a couple of years ago:
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
Now, the OECD has found that upward mobility is lower in the U.S. than most other developed countries.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/american-dream-has-moved-abroad.html
7. “Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.”
