Neda is shot dead by Basij gunman

“At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart.

Max Blumenthal has his video BANNED by YouTube for inappropriate content..

Feeling The Hate In Jerusalem — The Censored Video from Max Blumenthal on Vimeo.

you decide.

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I HOPE you fucking dupes who voted for CHANGE can see the PROGRESS being made here…

and yeah..I TOLD YOU SO!

before you knead your little fists in hopes of the end of American Hegemony.

Under the SCO..how would life feel in post-superpower America?

jus’ sayin.

…DISSENT = TERROR…

Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protests should be regarded as “low level terrorism.” ACLU attorneys are calling the approach “an egregious insult to constitutional values” and have sent a letter to the Department of Defense demanding that the offending materials be changed and that the DoD send corrective information to all DoD employees who received the erroneous training.

“DoD employees cannot fully protect our nation and its values unless they understand that a core American value is the constitutional right to criticize our government through protest activities,” said ACLU of Northern California attorney Ann Brick. “It is fundamentally wrong to equate activism with terrorism.”

Among the multiple-choice questions included in its Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness training course, the DoD asks the following: “Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity?” To answer correctly, the examinee must select “protests.”

The ACLU sent a letter today to Gail McGinn, Acting Under-Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, asking that the materials be corrected immediately. The ACLU points out that the misinterpretation of First Amendment freedoms is particularly disturbing when viewed in the context of a larger, long-term pattern of domestic security initiatives by the government that have attempted to treat lawful dissent as terrorism. Examples of this shameful pattern can be seen in the Pentagon’s monitoring of at least 186 anti-military protests, the FBI’s surveillance of potential protesters at the Republican National Convention, the Fresno County Sheriff Anti-Terrorism Unit’s infiltration and surveillance of Peace Fresno, a community peace and social justice organization and the covert surveillance by the Maryland State Police of local peace and anti-death penalty groups.

“Teaching employees that dissent on issues of public concern is something to be feared, rather than respected, is a dangerously counterproductive use of scarce security resources, making us less safe and less democratic,” said Michael German, ACLU National Security Policy Counsel and former FBI Special Agent, who co-signed the letter with Brick.

The Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness training course is an annual training requirement for all DoD personnel that is fulfilled through web-based instruction.

Read the ACLU’s letter to the DoD

gotcha!

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this is rich!

NYC synagogues need taxpayer money to beef up security in light of the NOW DEBUNKED “terrortainment”
threats against them!

OK..but first we are going to data-mine your congregation..like we do at mosques..

and…

if so much as ONE member is found to be “intolerant” of Palestinians..

not only will you NOT get security money..
YOU WILL HAVE YOUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY labeled “TERRORIST SUPPORTERS”

with all the accompanying pomp and circumstance.

deal?

what?
dont think this is funny?

sorry bleeding hearts..
The TRAGEDY is the hundreds of black males KILLED BY NYPD
with IMPUNITY in the past twenty years ALONE

courtesy of the new DNA database for children.

I have just one question: If elections administrators — the ultimate insiders for control of vote-counting computers and local voting lists — are in a position to create advantage for candidates or a political party, why make their jobs into patronage positions?

Chew on that for a minute. Tennessee’s going nuts plugging in the partisans:

(TN) 4/09 - COUNTY ELECTION OFFICIALS BEING DUMPED DUE TO PARTY AFFILIATION -
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Local election boards in Tennessee are claiming they can fire election administrators based on political party. The state attorney general disagrees. Nevertheless, ousted they are: Loudon County’s election official, fired. Roane County election official told “You’re out.” Six counties have already announced they are pushing out their election officials; Monroe County’s election administrator is sweating his job, and officials in Anderson, Union, Sevier, Greene, Knox, Jefferson and Cocke County are in the hot seat. Cumberland, McMinn, Hamblen, and Morgan election officials have already bit the dust.

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Many crying foul as election administrators see unprecedented turnover

Woops here’s another …
(TN) 5/09 - WEAKLEY: ELECTION DIRECTOR DUMPED IN POLITICAL ACTION; PARTISAN INSTALLED -
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CASHON OUT IN POLITICAL ACTION, CASTLEMAN IN

Hopping over to Washington State, let’s have a look at something all-too-familiar to Black Box Voting: Refusal to fork over election-related public records. At least Washington State has a remedy of sorts (fines for noncompliance). In most states you’re just out of luck.

(WA) 4/09 - KING - COUNTY TO PAY $225,000 FOR WITHHOLDING ROSSI RECORDS
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A King County election records lawsuit ended up with the county agreeing to pay a whopping penalty fine. Get this, and this is why public right to know is CRUCIAL: The records reveal that King County officials unlawfully counted hundreds of ineligible ballots in the Rossi/Gregoire gubernatorial race (a race that went to hand recount, separated by just a few votes) and the records finally released show that King County concealed this information well after the election and gubernatorial contest trial.

ACORN-style mistakes (Voter lists filled with crud) combined with mass mail-in votes under sole control of election insiders is a toxic combination for election transparency. It enables obstruction of the truth until years later, if we ever get the truth at all.

Then-King County elections official Dean Logan, now elections chief in massive 6-million-voter Los Angeles County (another mail-in voting powerhouse) was a named defendant in this lawsuit. Logan was the elections chief for nearly the entire time that the records were withheld, and he was a named defendant in Stefan Sharkansky’s records lawsuit on Rossi results. Sharkansky’s Web site, http://www.soundpolitics.com, provides conservative political commentary and has also delivered several solid election integrity investigations.

MOST AMERICANS JUST WANT FAIR TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS: The public interest (as contrasted with the partisan interest for either side) is that we want people eligible to vote voting, ineligibles off the list, all votes counted accurately, and the right to know. Without this, we deviate from the form of government originally envisioned by the founders of this nation.

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King County settles vote-records suit from 2004 governor race

(NH) 4/09 - STATE: BILL IN PLAY TO BLOCK RIGHT TO KNOW PROCESSES -
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Right to know (public right to freedom of information) is THE crucial core concept for democratic election systems. New Hampshire legislators are now working on their second attempt to erect barriers to the public right to know.

HB 349 is trying to exempt legislator’s e-mails from both right to know and court subpeonas; an earlier bill, HB 53, seeks to remove the secretary of state’s office (and other executive agencies) from right to know by redefining what a “public body” is. How the main office controlling public elections can conceivably be deemed “not public” is a question that causes some of us to shudder.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THESE BILLS PASS, THEY DON’T REMOVE THE RIGHT, because you can’t really “remove” the inalienable rights to self-govern. What these bills seek to do is to put in place a policy to REFUSE TO HONOR the right to know.

Right to know is a necessary part of our inalienable right to self-government, which is key to our right to liberty. Almost all states, and the federal government, have right to know laws, often contextualized with preambles like the following: “Government is the servant of the people, and not the master of them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. We insist on remaining informed so that we may retain control over the instruments of government we have created.”
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E-mail exempt bill goes before Senate