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Norfolk-based sailor uses Web to channel opposition to war By LOUIS HANSEN, The Virginian-Pilot © November 5, 2006 NORFOLK - Jonathan Hutto graduated from Howard University with a degree in political science and a résumé of social activism. He worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International after college. He whipped up grass-roots protests against police departments and college administrators. One day in 2003, broke and seeking direction, Hutto enlisted in the Navy. The Navy couldn't have known it then, but they know it now: They had signed up a sailor strongly opposed to the Iraq war. Seaman...

From baynews9.com: Hearing both sidesSunday, July 16, 2006For the past year, the former president of Tampa Bay Veterans for Peace, Dwight Lawton, has been trying to spread a message to Pinellas County high school students."For students, it is that they have equal access to information so that they can make decision based on understanding the pros and cons of going in the service," Lawton said.Lawton, 75, was drafted into the Navy and fought in the Korean War. He says although he had no choice in serving in the military, kids today do. He's pushing for the Pinellas County school board...

TOMORROW IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE BUSH REGIME Call Toll-Free 1-866-973-4463 or E-Mail info@worldcantwait.org to contact World Can't Wait | Drive Out the Bush Regime Nov 2 is looking very good. All indications are there will be lot of people. Jane Fonda and Bianca Jagger recently endorsed the call for Nov 2nd and Bianca will be speaking at the Westwood Federal building. Here is the latest schedule for L.A. You can send it around and let othere know. Nov. 2 - 12 NOON! Tell everyone! - ACTIONS ALL ALONG WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Figueroa and Wilshire at NOON :...

D.C. Chapter STOPS the Crawford "Peace" Bus in its tracks, after it parked illegally for over an hour blocking traffic Friday night at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Rescue & fire trucks had to change lanes to avoid the hippy bus. Metro Police was called three times but failed to respond, so the DC Chapter took a "citizen's action". See the movie: PLEASE BE ADVISED MY SERVER MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ADEQUATELY HANDLE ALL THE DOWNLOADING OF THE VIDEO TRAFFIC THAT THIS POST WILL GENERATE. So if you can't get it, try again at a later time. Video of...

If this email is legit, the Veterans For Peace admit that as of the 27th of last month they had yet to spend one red cent on Katrina aid, despite raising at least a half million dollars purportedly for that purpose.(Patrick Tate is the head of the VFP's #116 local chapter, who are the folks running this Katrina scam. He also owns the "Impeachment Bus.") From: "Patrick Tate" <pjtate@...> Date: Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:01 pm Subject: Re: [VFP-116] VfP-116 Meeting Notes 050926 at FB VetsHall pjtate56 Offline Send Email Just so everyone is aware. Due to the need to...

Some more on the Veterans For Peace and their Katrina relief grift. Here they spell out how money donated to help hurricane victims has been spent on buses for their campaign to overthrow our elected government.These are emails collected by one of our indefatigable researchers: Cindy Sheehan and friend pose in front of the VFP’s Impeachment Tour busFrom: "Margaret E. Hayes" <mehayestranslations@...> Date: Mon Oct 3, 2005 3:54 pm Subject: Re: [campcaseyalumni] Re: Donations for hurricane victims-BUS IDEA alegria78704 Offline Send Email Dear Gordon, If we find the right bus, and it meets these criteria, what is the best next...

Mother Sheehan fans will recall that as hurricane Katrina threatened to remove her grieving visage from the front page of the nation's newspapers, Cindy got together with her pals, the Veterans For Peace, to start a Katrina relief effort. The self-designated worthy being, Michael Moore, began vouching and shilling for the VFP's Katrina relief program.As discussed previously, the VFP asked for donations that they claimed would be used to "support" the Red Cross. The VFP later falsely claimed that the Red Cross had designated them "the best shelter" doing Katrina relief. (The VFP never opened any kind of shelter.)Meanwhile, the...

The lefty blog, The Right LEFT Story, has put the kibosh on promoting the Veterans For Peace's seemingly fraudulent Katrina relief efforts: Monday, September 19, 2005The Right LEFT Story Puts Hold on Veterans for Peace Updates In LA After repeated requests made by many people as to what percentage of their donations were going to assist Katrina Survivors they have not responded. We cannot blindly support a relief fund without this information. Although I believe their cause for peace to be worthwhile and certainly worth some donations their presence in LA increased their bank account tremendously. After reading about Pat...

It would appear Cindy Sheehan's Veterans For Peace, have terminated the services of their lawyers, Buddy and Annie Spell. Better days: Buddy Spell, Mother Sheehan, and (faux Vietnam combat veteran, but real crackpot) Ward Reilly, New Orleans, June 18, 2005 The following was posted at the modern-day Bedlam, Democrats Underground. It has since been disappeared, which only further validates its authenticity: Spells terminated / failed to provide reliefSpells no Longer involved in Disaster Relief / Fail to provide serviceDear Ms. Arata-Spell and Mr. Spell,I am writing to request the following be delivered to Monica Hampton at The Green Room, tomorrow,...

After weeks of suspense, we now finally have documentary proof of the existence of the fabled Camp Casey III, thanks to the Veterans For Peace Katrina relief website: Very impressive, is it not? Mind you, the VFP have been collecting more than $120,000 a day for their Katrina relief effort. And this is the only photograph we have of Camp Casey III.The VFP's fundraising pleas have been promulgated on a thousand leftwing websites and media organs. Cindy Sheehan has of course championed them. They're her team, after all.Michael Moore personally vouched for them and made his site a weeks long...

The Santa Barbara Veterans for Peace have agreed to remove the name of Capt. Derek Argel from its Arlington West memorial, after the fallen soldier's mother complained that the display was an insult to her son's memory. The Lompoc Air Force special tactics officer was killed Memorial Day in a plane crash in Iraq, and his name became one of the more than 1,800 represented on the rows of crosses displayed each weekend at West Beach. The decision to take down the marker came after the group heard that Debbie Argel Bastian, his mother, and Wendy Argel, his widow, wanted...

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Thousands of war protesters have come and gone since a grieving mother started camping off the road leading to President Bush's ranch three weeks ago, from business executives to young parents and their children spending a few hours or days for the cause. But for more than a dozen people, their home for much of the sweltering month has been the makeshift campsite of tents and portable toilets in ditches and anti-war banners hanging from trees. "It's staggering what's happened," said camp leader Ann Wright, who resigned her post as a senior diplomat at the U.S....

At Cindy Sheehan's side since Aug. 6 when she began her anti-war protest outside President Bush's Texas ranch have been three groups that openly support the Iraqi insurgency against U.S. troops: Code Pink-Women For Peace, United for Peace & Justice, and Veterans For Peace. Those organizations were represented at a mock ''war crimes'' trial in Istanbul that on June 27 produced a joint declaration backing the insurgency. Based on the United Nations Charter, it said ''the popular national resistance to the occupation is legitimate and justified. It deserves the support of people everywhere who care for justice and freedom.'' The...

Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan who is camped in Crawford, Texas demanding a meeting with President Bush over the death of son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, in combat in Iraq has surrounded herself with groups that have endorsed the so-called Iraqi resistance.Last June, groups opposed to the American-led war to depose the regime of Saddam Hussein gathered in Istanbul to hear testimony before a 'jury of conscience' on charges of war crimes and violations of international law by the United States.Endorsers of the statement issued by the World Tribunal on Iraq at the end of the conference include Code Pink Women...

As she continues her anti-war protest, Cindy Sheehan is labeling President Bush a "maniac" and a "lying bastard," and she's vowing not to pay her federal income tax. "My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004," Sheehan told an audience of Veterans for Peace. "You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny. ... You give my son back and I'll pay my taxes. Come after me [for back taxes] and we'll put this war on trial."

The America-hating left has a new heroine; Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier who volunteered for and served with the US Army. Specialist Casey Sheehan died in combat in Iraq. Ms. Sheehan has for weeks now been camping out a few miles from President Bush's Crawford, TX, ranch, staging a protest that has received goo-goo attention from the same media that brought you President Bush’s National Guard “desertion” fiction and Karl Rove’s “treasonous” outing of the identity of a CIA worker who was as covert as Howard Dean at a DNC rally. Ms. Sheehan is demanding a meeting with President...

Cindy Sheehan, who is protesting the Iraq war by staging a vigil in Crawford, Texas demanding to have a meeting with President Bush to have him explain why her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed in the war last year is reported to have made recent pronouncements that she is refusing to pay her taxes because of her son's death in the war.In a Providence Journal article about an appearance by Sheehan at a Rhode Island church published July 27, 2005, reporter Elizabeth Gudrais wrote:For one thing, Sheehan said, she has stopped paying her taxes. "I didn't pay my...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20050715/tc_cmp/165702500 UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses Aoife White Thu Jul 14, 9:38 PM ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)--A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate. The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops. In a report released Thursday, the U.N. panel outlined four possible options for the future of Internet governance for world leaders to consider at a November "Information...

Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA