December 10, 2006: Human Rights and Impeachment Day

Excessive use of signing-statements, illegal wiretapping, misleading congress.. these are circumventions of the constitution and betrayal of the public trust. Attacking a sovereign nation and conducting long-term combat operations without a congressional declaration of war is a high crime. High Crimes, Violation of the public trust and attacks on the Constitution are what Impeachment is for.

We advocate impeachment of George W. Bush and hope to see others in his administration in court.

find an event here:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ADS/event/distributedEventSearch.jsp?distributed_event_KEY=134&t=ADSHeaderOnly.dwt

more info here:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/december10

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3469&Itemid=223

A Law against War Profiteering

Killing for profit is wrong. Get it? Wrong. Take the profit-motivator out of killing, torturing, destroying, stealing. Urge Congress to make war-profiteering illegal. Read Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" http://markfrankenberg.com/Recommended_Reading.htm Thanks, Randi.

No, We Have NOT Forgotten 9-11

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00361.htm

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FBI Ordered to Disclose Details of 9/11 bin Laden Family Evacuation
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concerning the U.S. government's evacuation of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family from the United States immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks
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Bin Laden family members and Saudi royals were subject to only cursory, pro forma questioning by the FBI prior to their evacuation from the United States
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The American people have a right to know why Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family received special treatment in the days after 9/11
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00361.htm

Join others to oppose fascism in America

World Can't Wait meetings

12-14 Oct 2006 nationwide:
http://worldcantwait.net/...

Tampa, FL Sunday 15Oct06 at 7pm
Sacred Grounds coffee house
4819 E. Busch Blvd.
Tampa, Florida 33617
near USF

World Can't Wait Website:
http://www.worldcantwait.net/

Where Left and Right Come Together: "Honor your Oath"

Remember the early 90's? Biased radio was still relatively new, and still had a little bit of sense (people still remembered the Fairness Doctrine, which Reagan had turned off). Part of the argument against Hillary Clinton back then was the argument against centralized socialism. This made sense to many because Centralized Socialism was demonstrated to be a dangerous failure in Stalinist Russia and (with a huge fascist element) in Nazi Germany. Both regimes murdered millions of their own people. Centralized power in a governing body was what Reagan was talking about when he said that "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help,'". His rhetoric here had a point.

There is a centralized-socialist bent in much of the propaganda being spewed from commercial radio and television right now (although they would be the first to scream denial of it). You can smell it whenever you hear them deriding "individuals" or "elitists" or artists or intellectuals. They are attacking those who refuse to amble along to slaughter with the rest of the herd. Beware. You can smell it the thinly-veiled, universal media messages: "don"t trust your neighbor" and "pay no attention to the [monied interests] behind the curtain".

We ALL fear an overbearing, centralized governing power.

That's why we have three branches of government and that's why it's absolutely essential to America that those three branches be equally weighted, with an un-monopolized, free press watch-dogging their every move.

On the Left, many (or most) would point out that excessive power in the executive branch, backed by monied interests, is dictatorship. FDR knew it. Andrew Jackson knew it. Even hard-core republicans like Teddy Roosevelt Knew it.

On the Right, the point can be made that mob-rule would be a disaster. Who would want a bunch of lazy, uneducated fools running things? I wouldn't.

When our system of government was in the design-phase, many populists and leftists advocated a single legislative body. Fearing mob-rule, Folks on the right (Chiefly John Adams) wanted a system of checks and balances to ensure a stable economic system. This tension between "mob-rule" and "rule by the respectable" characterizes the nature of what they came up with for a solution.

They came up with an excellent model, defined in our Constitution, including the promise of guaranteed freedoms for the people, some of which freedoms (but not all) are enumerated in the first ten amendments of the Constitution (which would not have been ratified without them). Those first ten amendments are the Bill of Rights, and this Bill of Rights is why we are called the "Land of the Free".

Everybody in the federal Government, including all the Armed Forces, Swore an Oath to their highest spiritual notion of righteousness (referred to in the oath as "God") to DEFEND our Constitution.

So. Left, Right, Whatever, we have a problem. There is something wrong. More and more of us are beginning to shudder at the presence of something that is supposed to be "here to help".

I volunteer that the solution is a unanimous effort to defend the Constitution and the system of checks and balances, and the guaranteed liberties, that it defines.

To those in this entity that is supposed to be "here to help" I charge you: HONOR YOUR OATH.

---- Mark Frankenberg.

We Are Still America, Regardless.

America is the Land of the Free. We pledge Allegiance to a republic. Every federal government official swears an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies. Those who recognize or condone the Military Commissions Act are the true enemies of America.

Anything else is just evil %*!!$#!^.

On 9-11, What Happened?

You can see "Loose Change" on this site, and there are a lot of other useful links:
http://www.fl911truth.org/

In Tampa, this group is finding answers:
http://9-11.meetup.com/260

It takes Courage to oppose evil.

The White Rose Society opposed Hitler, in Nazi Germany, during World War II.
http://www.sophieschollmovie.com/

Movie "The U.S. Versus John Lennon" now showing

Here's a map showing where the film is being screened:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478049/cinemashowtimes

The FCC is listening (a little). Tell them to stop enabling media monopolization.

Tell the FCC to Stop Big Media.

Media ownership rules have turned a previously somewhat-informed citizenry into a mob of idiotic "dittoheads". This is what happened to the Germans when Goebbels controlled the state propaganda there. It is bad for Democracy. It is dangerous to our species. It needs to stop.

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/comment.php

While they trumpeted a sex scandal up front, they took away the right of people to face their accuser, behind the scenes

The MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT is unconstitutional. Fight it. It also contains language that will, in effect, pardon high-level officials for authorizing torture.


http://www.ccr-ny.org/...
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Last week, Congress voted to have the United States join the ranks of the nations of the world that have authorized indefinite detention without trial and torture without accountability. For over two hundred years, our Constitution has guaranteed that we would not sacrifice our democratic principles even in times of crisis. In this first challenge to the MCA, we demand that the Administration uphold the Constitution which has, and should continue to be, the pillar of living in a democratic society.
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http://www.ccr-ny.org/...

Support the Center for Constitutional Rights
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp

Send them Money:
https://secure.democracyinaction.org/...

Resist Fascism Here at Home October 5th, 2006

Join your fellow citizens on october 5th to protest the onset of fascism in the United States. Some events on 5 October are listed at http://www.worldcantwait.net/. If you don't see one in your area, CALL THREE FRIENDS. It doesn't have to be a rally or a picnic. All you need is four people and something to make signs with, and a busy public place like a road - intersection. USE the FIRST AMENDMENT or LOSE IT.

WAR IS OVER (if you want it).

John Lennon spoke out against an un-just war.
A government run by militarist corporatists worked to silence him.

There's a new movie ("The US vs. John Lennon") about it opening this month (September, 2006).

http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/site/trailer.html

Military Leaders push for Weapons-Testing on American Civilians

http://www.syracuse.com/...

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Official touts nonlethal weapons for use

9/12/2006, 5:46 p.m. ET By LOLITA C. BALDOR The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Secretary Michael Wynne.

"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."

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The Air Force has funded research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service isn't likely to spend more money on development until injury issues are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.

Nonlethal weapons generally can weaken people if they are hit with the beam. Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also can be effective in disabling some electronic devices.

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http://www.syracuse.com/...

The Five Characteristics of Fascism:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0905-22.htm
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1. Nationalist aggression.
2. Fusing of the state with corporate interests.
3. Single party rule.
4. Suppression of civil liberties.
5. Pervasive propaganda.

]
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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0905-22.htm

Hear New Song by Mark Frankenberg: "Don't be a Sucker (for Hatred and Fear)"

I know people generally don't have time to read a novel such as "Just Say NO to Fascism: a Fable" available HERE. It takes a couple hours to read it, after all.

We DO have time for a 3-minute, 22-second song, however, so I wrote "Don't Be a Sucker". I encourage you do download it, put it in your I-pod, blast it in front of the Wal-Mart (but don't go in there), and generally tell your fellow Americans, "Don't be a Sucker".

Get "Don't Be a Sucker" (for FREE) HERE.

ABC DISNEY DOUBLETHINK regarding 911

The Public Airwaves are being used to betray the Public Trust.

Regarding 9-11, Where's the Pennsylvania Plane? Why was the hole in the Pentagon so little? Where's the plane that supposedly hit it? What about Building 7? Why did they demolish it on that day? And What's with all the military excercises that were conducted that morning.. and why did they then tell the public that no-one had even thought of using planes as weapons?

And why did George W. Bush sit there in a Classroom, immoble, behaving, reading "My Pet Goat", after being told that the country placed in his charge was under attack?

And why did George W. Bush then allow all of Bin Laden's relatives to flee the country without even being questioned by the authorities?

Why does the 911 Commission Report stink of whitewash as much as the Warren Commission report did, regarding the Kennedy Assassination?

Orwell defined the term "Doublethink" thus:
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.'

Doublethink is a symptom of an ailing society. It is the duty of the Press, in a Democratic Republic such as our Constitution defines, to combat such things. Any company that contributes to the destruction of critical, logical thought should have their charter revoked to make room on the airwaves for information sources of integrity.

ABC/Disney, who have become another arm of the corporatist propaganda machine, like Fox News, is about to release a Goebbels wet-dream that has sold-out anti-American fascist shills like Rush Limbaugh bubbling with enthusiasm.

There is ample evidence that 9-11 and the wars in Afganistan and Iraq are tools of a modern-day fascist regime that has seized power in the United States.

There is a big player that has the ability to oppose this fascist power (that misleadingly uses the name "Republican" for their title, just as the Nazi Party used "National Socialist" for theirs). This big player has problems of its own and it needs your guidance, but they are doing something good regarding this latest stunt by the corporatists:

Join them in showing ABC/Disney that you don't approve of this assault on the truth. Send this letter:

Thru this website:
http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/pathto911/ftdwdf
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Mr. Iger,

"The Path to 9/11" mocks the truth and dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims to serve a cheap, callous political agenda. It irresponsibly misrepresents the facts and completely distorts the truth.

This film is a conservative attempt to rewrite the history of September 11 to blame Democrats, just in time for the election. You should honor the trust the public has given you with our public airwaves by keeping this propaganda off the air.

Sincerely,
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http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/pathto911/ftdwdf

Let them know that you refuse to be a Sucker for Hatred and Fear.

Doublethink, DoubleSpeak, and Fascism

In Case you haven't noticed it by now, whenever the "Radicons" who have seized power in our former democratic republic accuse, they are describing that which they themselves are doing and/or being. Case in point: Fascism (My summary HERE

You know you're on to something when they start hammering the word.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0901-01.htm

Americans Died as "Conservatives" looked on:

Caution: these are pictured of dead American civilians:
http:www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/385

What Really Happened on 9-11?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00015.htm
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Victims' Relatives to Challenge Credibility of 9/11 Report
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00015.htm


Don't Think you're in Denial? Look at This:
http://www.reopen911.org/