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Double standard ~ Bump!
I have the feeling MoveOn is a PAC. Are the no-fraternizing rules the same?
Their own website requires donors to certify the following:
[as of April 2004, MoveOn's] first quarter fund raising showed nearly half its $6.98 million came from Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corporation, a Cleveland insurance company, and billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Lewis has donated $2 million to the group and Soros has given more than $1 million, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.
If Kerry fired this dude, then the Kerry campaign would have to find some other method for coordination with moron.org.
What's in it for Kerry?
What was the point of this "aren't they barbaric!" story?
At least the Afghani people in Marc Manson's story have the guts to be honest with themselves about their justice system.
What's worse: cutting off someone's hand for a petty theft, or locking someone up for decades for a crime they did not commit, or for something that no rational person would consider a crime? In our enlightened country we have tens of thousands of people in jail with sentences of 10 years or more for drug crimes they didn't commit, or for things like possession of pot, which clearly does not deserve jail time whether it's a crime or not.
For details on this one great source is Frontline's web site 'Snitch': http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/ They do a great job of explaining how our drug laws put people in jail for the drug crimes of others, while letting off the people who actually committed the crime.
Our justice system is just as public and inhumane as the one described in Carl's post. If we are more enlightened than those Afghanis, what good does it do if it doesn't cause us to even try to stop our own barbaric human rights abuses?
Another angle on this would be to look at the Gulf War as a form of justice. We punished the Iraqi people for the invasion of Kuwait. We bombed the land where "an eye for an eye" was invented, but we took that principal much further. For invading a country of 250,000 people (extremely rich people, most of whom were on vacation) we killed 500,000 Iraqis--mostly soldiers during the war.
Then, we continued to punish the people, and by established estimates a million or so people, mostly children, have died as a result of the sanctions which for a while didn't even let medicine, like penicillin, into the devastated country.
Isn't that justice more barbaric than anything the Taliban have done? A million and a half lives for the crime of invading a country of 50,000. --Especially considering that we committed the same crime by invading Panama only a couple years earlier.
Well, this may seem all a bit out of line. But perhaps people will think it is something worthy of discussing. The left these days is very obsessed with the crimes of other countries like China, and Afghanistan. And it just seems a shame that there is so little energy in comparison, these days, going into stopping the worst human rights abuser: ourselves (i.e. America).
-Zack
"MoveOn" is funded by George Soros, the evil Serb-hater and looter of the Balkans, and New World Order financial manipulator!!!!
Stop Kerry, the MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE!!!!
How many of you Freepers have sent this to the FEC???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197461/posts
HILL TO HEAD KERRY 'TRUTH SQUAD' (Kerry Cries for Hillary's Help)
Yahoo News/ New York Post Opt/ED | Aug 23, 2004 | Fredric U. Dicker
Posted on 08/23/2004 8:39:49 AM PDT by Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok
By FREDRIC U. DICKER
JOHN KERRY'S presidential campaign, which slighted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) during the Democratic convention last month, now wants the former first lady to lead its "truth squad" at next week's GOP convention, The Post has learned.
Party insiders said that aides to Clinton were engaged in "intensive talks" over the weekend with Kerry's representatives about the role she is expected to play.
"It will be high profile; she will be one of the responders at the convention, probably focusing on homeland security issues," said a source familiar with the talks. "I think it's fair to say the Kerry people realize Mrs. Clinton could be very effective."
Another insider said, "It's ironic that after they snubbed her in Boston, they now want to use her in New York." ...(Snip)
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of course, it's up to the FEC to decide, and they're about the most useless organization since the UN.
there's no doubt that Kerry knew all about Exley's background when he hired him.I'd expect the 527 hearings conducted in 2005 and beyond by the Democrat majorities in both houses and endorsed by President John Kerry will get to the bottom of it.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Let's call a schmuk a schmuk. John Kerry is a schmuk!
GF
Senator sKerry is the #1 Hypocrite !!