I recommend Movie "In the Valley of Elah"

I recommend Movie "In the Valley of Elah".

This movie has the potential to bring Americans back together. It is a heroic piece of work. I'm not going to say much about it except that I think everybody needs to see it.

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Asshole.

Asshole.

A beautiful, touching, tasteful, sensitive tribute to those "special" people in our lives:

http://www.filmstripinternational.com/index.php

I wouldn't be surprised if folks might see guerrilla guitarists covering this at random locations.

Kudos to http://www.tampasbackdoor.blogspot.com/

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Repugs Attack Free Speech Again

Repugs Attack Free Speech Again

As soon as I heard "Cornyn" I knew it was a goose-stepping move. He and rep. Sensenbrenner are a couple of the worst tory/toadies in the legislative branch. Remember how they used to stubbornly storm out of the room and in other ways wholly ignore appeals to reason by their fellow legislators, all the time when the Repugs were in the majority?

You know who's really selling out this country? All the kiss-asses in the Senate who are NOT DOING THEIR JOBS. They are HANDING OVER their POWER to the EXECUTIVE BRANCH. THEY ARE ACTING AS AGENTS OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. This is the destruction of the republic.

It's the way Hitler came to power.

This HAND-OFF of POWER by the legislature is TREASON.

FUCKING TRAITORS.

THIS INCLUDES many of the Democrats too.

http://www.moveon.org/
"The U.S. Senate Just told You to Sit down and Be Quiet"
http://www.moveon.org/

Sign their statement.

Send them some money.

Get with your Church, your Union, your Fellow Students. Save your Country.

Protest in the Streets.

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Student Tasered for Asking Questions

Student Tasered for Asking Questions

Tasering is Torture at the Touch of a Button.

Arresting People for asking Questions is Un-American.

John Kerry was complicit in the continuation of the Bush Regime. He Took a Dive.

The audience was clearly pleased that Andrew Meyer asked these questions. The police decided that free speech should not be tolerated.




http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/09/18/university_taser/
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video of University of Florida cops subduing 21-year-old Andrew Meyer with a Taser after the student asked Sen. John Kerry a few niggling questions (War Room has Kerry's response).
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http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/09/18/university_taser/

-- Mark Frankenberg

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DC citizens taxed but not represented

DC Citizens taxed but not represented.

http://www.tampasbackdoor.blogspot.com/
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The DC Voting Rights Act, giving the citizens of the District of Columbia a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, is being filibustered - delayed to death - by the Republican leadership.
Not since 1964 has a voting rights bill been threatened with a filibuster.
..
Bob EdgarPresident, Common Cause

...
nationwide call-in on Monday: 1.866.346.3008 (toll-free)
"
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Call the Senate and tell them to Support the DC House Voting Rights Act. Reference Bill # S-1257.

The Filibuster is Cynical, Anti-Social, and just plain WRONG.

Demand the vote for the nearly 600,000 Americans living in the nation's capital.

Nationwide Call-in on TODAY 17sept07: 1.866.346.3008 (toll-free)
http://www.dcvote.org/


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Spoiler could Cause Bathtub Drowning: Ron Paul Nader Perot

Spoiler could Cause Bathtub Drowning: Ron Paul Nader Perot

"Drown it in a Bathtub" comes to mind right off the bat.

Ron Paul's Platform sounds too good to be true: "Support the Constitution.. Undo the Police State, end the FED, nix the Income Tax, out of Iraq, No to an Attack on Iran"

If it sounds too good to be true, it's NOT True.

Under a pseudo-Ayn-Rand-ian scenario, education and healthcare and infrastructure and public safety in general would be gradually gutted and sold off to the highest bidder. The power would be completely handed off to the moneyed interests and the middle and lower classes in America would be left to rot.

Notice all the money going into this Ron Paul Effort.

Reminds me of Nader and Perot. Both of those guys said some good stuff, but because we don't have instant runoff voting in America yet, when you cast a vote for a hopeful like that, and then he doesn't win, the door is open for the worst possible choice to step in.

I don't like Romney
I don't like Guliani
I don't like McCain

I don't like Clinton
I don't find Obama especially inspiring
I don't see Edwards as much better than Bill Clinton was, but I DO like that he's been fighting corporate power..some.. and winning. He's tied in with the power structure and could be complicit in a future attack on Iran.

I DO like Kucinich.
Mike Gravel's worth Watching too.

This "Drown [the government] in a Bathtub" mentality (using the bogus notion of "corporate personhood" and then using a "libertarian" stance to stand up for the rights [including the right to bear arms] of corporate power) opens the door fully for rich crooks and puts the idea of government of, for and by the people, even further out of reach. I believe that Ron Paul probably means well, as did Nader and Perot, but I also believe that there is a LOT of cynical, anti-social, behind-the-scenes Republican Energy going into creating a fevor around Ron Paul, just so they have a shot at keeping the Democrats out of the White House in 2008.

And some of the nods I see the Ron Paul camp giving toward the racists, the religious wackos and those just looking for scapegoats, should be cause for alarm too. Don't be a sucker for hatred and fear.

Time for a history lesson:
Republicans represent the monied interests (I.E. Rich Crooks).
Democrats are supposed to represent working people (I.E. Me and You).
The Democratic Party is in large part whoring itself out to the monied interests as a result of the largely successful attacks from the monied interests (Red Scare, Cold War, Union-Busting, etc.)

What do I make of all this mess?

Support Kucinich or Mike Gravel for the White House in '08. Put Ron Paul in all the debates (a' la Perot '92).

If Edwards wins the primary I'll back him but I'd rather see Kucinich or Gravel.

And make Instant-Runoff Voting a campaign issue.

-- Mark Frankenberg

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Guerrilla Guitars

Guerrilla Guitars

Lunchtime in front of the Bank of America Building was a great success. Many passers-by indicated their advocacy of the protest-songs I was bellowing out, with my guitar and my "Peaceful Victory Against Fascism" T-shirt draped over the music-stand that held my song-texts.

Sometime between the song about the IMF taking away the lifeblood of innocents all over the world, and the one about poor folks going to fight in wars that benefit the rich, or the one where I described all these wars and atrocities that soldiers had been asked to go commit, and how they more and more are refusing to do it, a security-uniformed person came by and asked me to take my things and go away.

We discussed briefly how the public sidewalk I was standing on did NOT belong to the bank he had just come out of, did NOT belong to the security company he was working for, but DID IN FACT belong to me, and the rest of the citizens of St. Petersburg, Florida. And it was a beautiful day. The kind of day that just makes you want to go and stand in front of the tallest building in town and serenade your neighbors.

So he went away.

Shame that some lemming goose-stepper thought that my songs of freedom were a nuisance, out there in front of the "temple of the money-changers".

If things were right in this world, the president of that bank would have come down and thanked me personally for gracing the sidewalk near his building with such PLAINLY AMERICAN music.

While things continue NOT to be right in this world, don't be surprised when you see me, or another guerrilla guitarist, pop up just about anywhere and start bellowing out Woodie Guthrie, among others.

-- Peace. Now.

-- Mark Frankenberg

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Alex Jones Arrested

Alex Jones Arrested

First of all, in order to save your country, you need to be ACTIVELY DEMONSTRATING IN PUBLIC OFTEN. NOTHING ELSE WILL SUBSTITUTE.

Call your congressmen and senators while you're out there with your sign. And the News Outlets.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/alex/alex_jones_arrested_nyc.htm
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News Flash: Alex Jones Arrested by NYPD

Infowars.com | September 8, 2007

NEW YORK - Media activist Alex Jones was arrested by New York Police Department officers while filming a documentary about the sixth anniversary of September 11th and joining the protest against the official version of what happened on 9/11.

According to Infowars sources Jones was singled out by police from the head of a crowd of about 400 9/11 Truth Activists and protesters. He was verbally accosted and forced by the police officers to present identification which he was not carrying at the time.

NYPD officers arrested Jones for "unspecified charges" and removed from the protest crowd to be taken to the nearest police precinct where he currently remains.

Rob Jacobson, camera operator on Jones' documentary production crew indicated that a large portion of the protest crowd has moved to the precinct where Jones is being held to ensure his fair treatment and safe release.

More news as it develops...

"
http://www.infowars.com/articles/alex/alex_jones_arrested_nyc.htm

-- Mark Frankenberg

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Watch the Movie, "Zeitgeist"

Watch the Movie, "Zeitgeist"

http://www.calgary911truth.org/my_weblog/2007/06/zeitgeist_the_m_1.html
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What do Christianity, 9/11 and The Federal Reserve have in common? This is the full Zeitgeist production. Please note the opening 3 minutes has no video - just audio.
"
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-- Mark Frankenberg

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First they Came for the Gays

First they Came for the Gays

Here's the Niemoller Poem first: (Niemoller was a German U-Boat Officer, and a Preacher, and a Concentration-Camp Inmate after he spoke out against the Nazi Regime)

First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me. by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

Okay, now with this in mind, I think this "gay-bashing" thing on mainstream TV is indicative of a society that is clearly headed down the wrong path:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200708300006
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I've been bothered in men's rooms." Carlson continued, "I've been bothered in Georgetown Park," in Washington, D.C., "when I was in high school." When Abrams asked how Carlson responded to being "bothered," as Abrams and Scarborough laughed, Carlson asserted, "I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the -- you know, and grabbed him, and ... hit him against the stall with his head, actually." The laughter continued.
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200708300006

There's more information about this Carlson Broadcast Here.

There's an action link HERE.

The implication here is clearly that it's supposed to be okay to physically attack someone if they make a suggestion you don't like.

This is encouragement of Anti Social Behavior. Keep "Anti Social" in mind. It is a primary characteristic of the Right Wing.

-- Mark Frankenberg

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