Maybe the fact... that their stupidity might get us all killed... would be enough to spur you to action:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0806-25.htm
"
[Robert McNamara, Former President John F. Kennedy's defense secretary] regards "current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary and dreadfully dangerous", creating "unacceptable risks to other nations and to our own", both the risk of "accidental or inadvertent nuclear launch", which is "unacceptably high", and of nuclear attack by terrorists. McNamara endorses the judgment of William Perry, President Bill Clinton's defense secretary, that "there is a greater than 50 per cent probability of a nuclear strike on US targets within a decade".
-- Noam Chomsky
"
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0806-25.htm

Intelligence Community to "investigate itself" regarding new evidence of Pre-9/11 Indifference

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5200975,00.html
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U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law enforcement.
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the men were identified in 1999 by a classified military intelligence unit known as ``Able Danger.''
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``The 9/11 commission did not learn of any U.S. government knowledge prior to 9/11 of surveillance of Mohammed Atta or of his cell,''
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mistakes that allowed the hijackers to succeed. Among them was a failure to share intelligence
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Able Danger identified Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hazmi as members of a cell the unit code-named ``Brooklyn''
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in September 2000 Able Danger recommended that its information on the hijackers be given to the FBI ``so they could bring that cell in and take out the terrorists.'' However, Weldon said Pentagon lawyers rejected the recommendation
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The prohibition against sharing intelligence on ``U.S. persons'' should not have applied since they were in the country on visas
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Rumsfeld said he was unaware
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Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the 9/11 Commission looked into the matter during its investigation into government missteps leading to the attacks and chose not to include it in the final report.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5200975,00.html

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1123650549811B226&set_id=
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2004 final report examining the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington contained no information suggesting that the US government knew the hijackers were operating inside the United States as early as 2000.
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[Lee Hamilton, the commission's former vice chairman] insists he personally told September 11 commission staff members about Atta in Afghanistan, and offered to supply them with documents upon his return to the United States, only to be rebuffed.
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panel's former staff [will] review internal memos and other documents to make sure information about Atta was not overlooked.
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"We will know by the end of the week whether we missed something," Felzenberg said.
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"Able Danger", now disbanded, was a small classified military operation engaged in data-mining analysis of "open source" information, including media reports and public records through the use of massively powerful computer systems.
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government lawyers advised the military's Special Operations Command, which oversaw "Able Danger", not to forward the information apparently because the four were in the United States legally on visas
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Weldon said he may ask for a formal inquiry into the issue after Congress returns from its August recess
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1123650549811B226&set_id=

Things to Do: encourage Congress to look into this Pre-9/11 indifference, along with ROVE/PLAME/TRAITORGATE and along with the DOWNING STREET MEMO.

Watergate was NOTHING compared to this.

This is our town. How is yours?

St. Petersburg, Florida is becoming a focal point regarding free speech and public spaces. As more and more people are taking to the streets, the city government is hindering the efforts of war-protesters (for the benefit of the Sembler Company, a shopping-center corporation) by using barricades to disrupt anti-war protests and to arrest citizens who step around the barricades. The first amendment guarantees Americans the right to peacably assemble in order to petition our government (which begins with All Other Americans, in our "Government Of the People {Abraham Lincoln}") for redress of grievances. It also specifically prohibits government from reducing (abridging) our freedom of speech. Thomas Jefferson said, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism".

More info on the protest-restriction events in St. Petersburg HERE.

If the St. Petersburg Police are honestly concerned about pedestrian safety in this issue, then maybe they should consider closing Second Ave. N. on the block south of Baywalk between First street and Second street to automobile traffic on Saturday nights. A band or two in the street would actually bolster the business being done in the Baywalk too. There are those who consider the protesters an attraction and point of interest, if only for the Americanistic "authenticity" they lend the place. Many tourists from Europe and elsewhere visit the area as well.

Across the country, more and more people are realizing that it's up to YOU to tell your neighbor of the danger we're in. No one else is going to do it for you. Go make a sign.

What's happening in YOUR town?

The best man we could find in the whole world, for the job:

Aren't you proud?

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002261.html&ei=J3T3Qsn3B5fO4QHa2M2JDg

Lotta Class there.. Buddy..

Bob Novak didn't much want to stick around and answer questions about ROVE/PLAME/TRAITORGATE:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200508040004

"...for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy..."

I'm not prepared to accept the idea that a bunch of greedy morons are a gift from the all-knowing; and any attempt to profess that they do the work of the Diety is downright disgusting. Nonetheless, they Could get us all incinerated and are apparently planning to attempt to do just that:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=RAI20050802&articleId=790

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[According to] intelligence analyst Philip Giraldi:
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The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons.
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As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States.
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no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=RAI20050802&articleId=790


Isn't it about time you wrote that letter to congress and the newspapers, and made a sign for the next protest?

Your Choice: Peace and Security or Orwellian Nightmare

"...we escape from the trap that the terrorists have set us...Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war. We must, of course, protect our security; but we must also correct the grievances on which terrorism feeds....Crime requires police work, not military action." -- George Soros

What I sent to the newspapers today:

Placing Party before Country.

When scraping for justification to go to war with Iraq, the Bush Administration used a phony story alleging that Iraq attempted to obtain Nuclear Materials from Niger. They used forged documents (one of which was on 20-year-old letterhead but dated October 2000, and even had the "signature" of an official who hadn't been in office for 14 years). The former U.S. Ambassador to Niger, Joe Wilson, went to Niger to investigate, then "blew the whistle" on this scam.

In retaliation, and possibly to put a smokescreen around the issue, Karl Rove in another one of his classic devious acts, leaked the identity of "Wilson's Wife", (Valerie Plame), an undercover CIA agent, to the Press. This disclosure, which is in direct violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, put Valerie Plame and any and all of her contacts in danger, it wasted 20-odd years of intelligence-network development around a covert agent, it blew countless sums of our taxpayer money, and it betrayed the National Security interests of the United States.

(Acting) President Bush, Anxious to go to war and gain "Political Capital" (Bush said in 1999, "My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it... If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed...) ignored the warnings of his advisors not to use the flawed "Niger Uranium" story in his State of the Union Address, and lied to Congress and to the People of the United States of America on January 28, 2003, saying, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Someone seems to have forgotten that we pay these people to serve the United States of America, NOT just the Corporatist, Federalist "Republican" Party.

All eyes of the nation should be squarely on Washington. Why have none of the goose-stepping, complicit "Republicans" in our legislative branch demanded that the acting President be held accountable for the treasonous acts he committed in order to get us into a war for his own political purposes? This is outright dereliction of duty on the part of all those legislators.

Also, why has the acting President AGAIN not kept his word and fired Karl Rove for leaking the identity of Valerie Plame, as he said in June, 2004 that he would fire anyone involved in leaking her name?

And YOU. You in the Press. WHY DO YOU KEEP BURYING THESE STORIES? Have you forgotten the crucial responsibility the Press bears in a democracy? Are you as cowardly as the filthy people in Washington who are bent on destroying our republic? I CHALLENGE YOU to do the right thing: to establish your place on the list of those who will be remembered as the ones who SAVED AMERICA at the beginning of the new millennium. HOLD THESE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE!

Stop Karl Rove Cover Up

Hold the acting President to his word. He said he'd fire whoever leaked Plame's identity. Now we know who did.
Sign the petition:
http://www.stopthecoverup.com/

It's Time for YOU to Join the ACLU

"I Refuse to Surrender My Freedom"

Learn and act Downing Street Memo Sat 23 July 05

These things work. Look what we did with Fox News. Notice they don't call their propaganda "Fair and Balanced" anymore. Now wer'e going to flank those who would hide the facts about the Downing Street Memo. Find out how to participate here:
http://johnconyers.com/

Like Sellout.. like Sellout

"Wal-Mart hires Justice Scalia's son for whistle-blower suits"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/10/MNGHADLKRV1.DTL

Nine Thousand (9,000) Dead?

http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10554
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U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted.
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only soldiers actually killed on the ground in Iraq are reported. The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported
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Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any circumstances
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Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany
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already seen over 24,000 wounded
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http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10554

Rove Outed Valerie Plame?

It's beginning to look like it (sure smells like it):
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000972841

When scraping for justification for going to war with Iraq, the Bush Administration used a phony story about Iraq getting Nuclear Materials from Niger. Our former ambassador to Niger, Joseph Wilson, publicly accused the Administration of using this fake Niger "Yellowcake Forgery".

Then, for some odd reason, Wilson's wife's identity as a covert CIA agent was mysteriously leaked to the press (kind of like mysteriously having your office bugged with fresh batteries so you can accuse your political opponents of doing it... uh... ahem ...). This leak sure smells like retaliation, it put Valerie Plame in Danger, and it betrayed the National Security interests of the United States.

Someone seems to have forgotten that we pay these guys to serve the United States of America, NOT just the corporate aristocrats who have hijacked the Republican Party.

Text of the Downing Street Memo

View the Text of the Downing Street Memo at:
http://www.AmericanWisdom.org/docs/downingstreet.htm

Tell your Legislators to demand answers regarding Downing Street Memo

Here's what I sent MY congressman:

Dear Sir.

The High Crimes and Treason defined by actions such as lying to congress and to the American people in order to illegally invade a sovereign country constitute a threat to our republic.

I encourage you to DO YOUR JOB and Demand that those responsible be held accountable. Call on the President to explain the Downing Street Memo.

Contact your representatives.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121.
Ask for your congressperson or senator and talk with their staff.

Contact your Senator
Senate Toll-Free Number: (877) SOB-USOB [yes, this is right]
http://www.senate.gov

Lean about and contact your legislators ref. Downing Street Memo

This site provides background information and a contact conduit for legislators regarding the Donwing Street Evidence:
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

Send a letter to President Bush asking for answers:
http://johnconyers.com/downingstreetminutes

Dictator for Life?

These zealots want to repeal the Constitutional amendment limiting a standing president to two terms!
Read Here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.J.RES.24.IH:
or Here:
http://www.americanwisdom.org/docs/hjr24.htm

Lying to Congress and the American People to Justify and then carry out an Illegal Invasion of a Sovereign Country

This warrants impeachment and trial for treason and war-crimes for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and possibly others. More information about the Downing Street Memo can be found in this video clip:
http://www.iwilltryit.com/downingstreet1.htm

Beware, Winston Smith