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1 posted on 02/23/2004 4:47:15 AM PST by harpu
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Viet was confirmed to his prior post in the Justice Dept. by a Senate vote of 99-1. Want to guess who the "1" was? Hint - he also worked on the Whitewater investigation.
2 posted on 02/23/2004 5:03:24 AM PST by Dilbert56
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a material witness warrant isn't a charge but what's a little sloppy terminology among friends
3 posted on 02/23/2004 5:16:53 AM PST by drlevy88
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BTW, I failed to mention that do some consulting work for the UTA (where Professor Cornehls runs his mouth) and it's common knowledge throughout the university that "the best way to get PAID speaking engagements" is talk down any and everything about Bush and this administration.

Unfortunately, for Cornehls, he got caught with expressing opinion over fact and got himself 'bitch slapped' (deservedly so) by the outgoing UTA (Interim) President for bending the truth.

4 posted on 02/23/2004 5:31:22 AM PST by harpu
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Does anyone know why they chose to call it "The Patriot Act"? It sounds kind of spooky, as if the name says that anyone who critisises it must be unpatriotic - very 1984. On further investigation it isn't spooky at all, just the standard emergency powers legislation that pretty much any country brings in as a response to a terrorist attack. As this is the case, why the funny name? Why not "Emergency powers legislation" or "Counter Terrorism Act" or something that sounds less like it came from either a 1930s communist propaganda film or a distopian science fiction novel.
5 posted on 02/23/2004 7:01:46 AM PST by ScudEast
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I envision a bunch of dirty hippies, sitting around a campbong, telling their favorite

Patriot Act Ghost Stories
starring the head boogieman - John Ashcroft.

The phrase "Patriot Act" has become the "Voldemort" of the Left.

By the way, anyone see the dirty hippie episode on King of the Hill last night?
Hillarious - Hank & Bobby scared them off by telling them they would teach them how, through hard work, they could be self reliant.
One hippy used the epithet "Rumsfeld."

6 posted on 02/23/2004 7:11:26 AM PST by MrB
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....any chance you can help me refute this low lifes arguement against the Bush and the Patriot Act? She reports something in our local weekly every week against Bush and or the Republicans.

Report From The Badlands
kwoods@pinnaclenews.com

Protest: Buy Pickles in Small Jars

Did you know that if President Bush were to visit Hollister or Gilroy or Morgan Hill, and if you were to hold up a sign protesting the Iraq war, you probably would be thrown in jail?
Folks, this Patriot Act thing just gets better and better. I mean, Ashcroft and his ilk have this thing down to a slippery, sloping science. And I predicted its success!
First, they canned our right to a fair and speedy trial, representation by an attorney and due process. That’s not for just foreigners. It’s for American citizens, too. And with that edict came the first hit on our privacy: the feds can monitor your e-mails, the library books you check out and eavesdrop on your phone conversations.
But what are Gilroy’s city council and planning commission excited about? Soon, they will get to buy gallon-sized jars of pickles at the Wal-Mart Superstore. That’s freedom! That’s free enterprise!
(Dear Mr. Bark Flappa: Actually, I think it might be a violation of the Anti-Trust Act, enacted after the turn of the century to ensure fair market enterprise.)
But back to the murder of the First Amendment. My mom Jane tore up her library card. She had carried a card in her purse for 65 years.
“Bush and Ashcroft can put this where the sun don’t shine,” she offered the day they announced the enactment of Patriot Act I.
And here it comes ….a little drum roll, please…Ta-da! Under the guise of protecting America from terrorists, Ashcroft and company now have instructed the Secret Service to instruct local law enforcement in all the cities which ‘Lil Bush visits, to set aside – get a load of this – “free speech zones.” The free speech zones are usually several miles away from where Bush is scheduled to speak and blocks away from his motorcade route.
RIMSHOT. Some punchline, huh?
BUT…the same rules do not apply to people carrying signs denigrating the protesters or adulating the President. If you have a sign critical of the Bush monarchy and you step outside of the free speech zone, you get arrested. It happened to a retired steel worker named Bill Neel in Pittsburgh, Penn., who held up a sign saying, “The Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us,” when Bush paid a visit to the city. Neel didn’t go to the designated free speech zone – a baseball field surrounded by cyclone fencing – so the cops, on orders from the Secret Service, arrested the oldster for disorderly conduct.
Since when are certain areas of this nation the only places where you can exert free speech? Would a real terrorist with dynamite strapped around him be stupid enough to hold up a sign criticizing Bush, before doing a suicide swan dive atop his limo?
Every Friday in Hollister, since just before Bush launched the war on Iraq, the Hollister in Black people have protested in silence on a busy downtown corner. On an opposite corner are the red, white and blue waving pro-war supporters who heckle and chide the silent protesters. Guess who would be thrown in jail for disorderly conduct if Bush were to come into town, and guess who would get to line the route of his motorcade?
I can understand how Karl Rove and all of ‘Lil Bush’s puppeteers would want to shield the maroon from those awful people carrying signs with big long words on them that he doesn’t understand. But I think the real purpose here is to keep the media from reporting on protesters.
And now Bush wants to change the U.S. Constitution to make sure it never really does guarantee equality for all people regardless of race, creed, color or sex. He wants to amend it to prohibit same sex marriages, essentially turning the Constitution into a tool for discrimination. If anyone standing in the long line to the city clerk-recorder’s office in San Francisco is reading this, I urge you to do one thing: Eat pickles from small jars. Not pickles from a WalMart Superstore. Wave your small pickle jars in protest of the Bush Era. Juggle pickles while you wait in line. Wave your pickle into the news cameras, and yell, “To hell with your fascism, Bush!”
Remember, in the words of our great former (Republican) Vice President Dan Quayle, “A very positive message.” He said that after listening to a sermon in which a Georgia minister condemned homosexuality as “satanic.” (Newsweek, 11/92). He really said that.

Can anyone help me with a counter attack on this woman who rants like this weekly.

Thanks, all comments are welcome. Of course a few letters to the GAY EDITOR"S of this RAG would help also!!!!

8 posted on 02/23/2004 7:26:00 AM PST by GrandMoM (....for the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart {Matthew 12:34})
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The primary threat to American liberty and our way of life comes from al Qaeda and its international terrorist network, not the brave men and women who risk their lives every day here and abroad to protect the security of America and the safety of its people. Their job is hard enough without baseless questions about their motives.

It's hard to take the author seriously when he resorts to such dishonest rhetoric. He knows perfectly well that the politicians in power, not the ordinary cops on the beat, are the people whose motivations are in question.

9 posted on 02/23/2004 7:29:38 AM PST by steve-b
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Sorry, I forgot to post the URL to the newspaper, here it ishttp://www.pinnaclenews.com/index.php
10 posted on 02/23/2004 7:33:57 AM PST by GrandMoM (....for the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart {Matthew 12:34})
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