How to prepare for martial law: STEP 3- Demonize Anti-War Advocates

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Simon Wiesenthal Center presents 9/11 sites alongside radical Jihadist sites to House Hearing on "Terrorism and the Internet"
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/131107Wiesenthal.htm
9/11 Blogger Tuesday November 13, 2007

On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, a House Homeland Security Subcommittee had a hearing on "Terrorism and the Internet". The hearing featured presentations from several groups, including the RAND Corporation, and Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The hearing was chaired by Democratic Rep. Jane Harman, and ranking Republican, Rep. Dave Reichert.

Toward the end of the hearing, Weitzman rolls out a PowerPoint presentation that presents a few 9/11 truth sites sandwiched in between websites that offer training in terrorist tactics, and a website that glorified the attack of 9/11. Among the websites presented under the heading "Internet: Incubator of 9/11 Conpiracies and Disinformation", are Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and other sites, such as Killtown's, who brought this Hearing to our attention.

Now, we wouldn't want anybody getting the wrong idea here. Here at 911blogger we are opposed to any and all terrorist activities, including STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM. Don't really care who the state is either. It's all bad.

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911 Truthers are terrorists?
http://911blogger.com/node/12496#comment-168858
These people need to be called (on mass) and the point made - 911 Truthers are patriots; not terrorists. People who deny 911 Truth and a new investigation are the terrorists...the traitors.

This is the thin edge of the wedge and we need to stomp it out - immediately! We cannot allow this to go un-checked and without rebuke. Call these gutless cowards and liars tomorrow and let them know their lies and distortions will not shut us up. And to the Simon Wiesenthal Center - who are the holocaust deniers now?  To deny 911 Truth is the same as saying that there is no evidence that 6 million Jews were murdered in Euroope during the Second World War. I'm sure if I were to call them tomorrow and tell them that I didn't believe the Holocaust happened, then I"m sure they would start bombarding me with emperical facts to prove the case; and they would be right, the Holocaust is a provable FACT - the "official" story of 911 is not.  Yet, for some reason, the Wiesenthal Center doesn't want to apply the same standards of Truth to the events of 911 and indeed (metaphorically speaking), they seem quite happy to side with the Holocaust deniers of 911 and tells us that the official "story" of 911 is true - unfortunately, the offical "story" is empirically, factually, and demonstratively false! The Wiesenthal Center center needs to make up its mind - does it believe in fact, selective fact or out right falsehoods and obfuscations.

Personally I want to live in a world of facts and here's two:
The Holocaust happened and 911 was an inside job!

Please take the time to call these liars and traitors, tomorrow. Tell them you know The Truth. Tell them it disgusts you that they would allow the names of good Americans (and people around the world) to get dragged through the mud and be liabled as "terrorists"; and to have it done by people such as the WC only makes it more disgusting and more un-American.  Let's light up those phone lines people - this is a big issue.

Democratic Rep. Jane Harman,
Washington, DC
2400 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225 8220
Fax: (202) 226 7290

El Segundo
2321 E. Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 3270
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: (310) 643 3636
Fax: (310) 643 6445

Wilmington
544 N. Avalon Boulevard, Suite 307
Wilmington, CA 90744
Phone: (310) 549 8282
Fax: (310) 549 8250

Republican, Rep. Dave Reichert
District Office
2737 78th Avenue, S.E.
Suite 202
Mercer Island, WA 98040
(206) 275-3438
(206) 275-3437 Fax
(877) 920-9208 Toll free

Washington, DC Office
US House of Representatives
1223 Longworth Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-7761
(202) 225-4282 Fax

The International Headquarters are based in Los Angeles, California.
1399 South Roxbury Drive
Los Angeles, California 90035
310 553.9036
800 900.9036 (toll-free from within the U.S.)
310 553.4521 (fax)
information@wiesenthal.net

This is what's on the Simon Wiesenthal Center home page, by the way:
SWC Task Force Against Hate Director Mark Weitzman (pictured) testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security's Hearing on "Using the Web as a Weapon; The Internet as a Tool for Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism". Also pictured are (L to R) Dr. Parry Aftab, Executive Director, Wired Safety Group, Rita Katz, Director, SITE Institute, Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University.

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Use of the Internet by Terrorists
http://911blogger.com/node/12496

Summary
Witnesses testified about terrorist groups using the Internet to recruit and radicalize their followers. Topics included illustrations of propaganda used on Internet sites, instructions for making bombs, the role of al-Qaeda, appealing to young people, counterterrorism through positive sites, and other solutions.

Organizer
Homeland Security - Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=202123-1

[uwaf]

These Asses are sick, guess we knew that. Why is 911 soooooooooooo TABU to talk about. I mean it's as bad as talking to your elders about sex. It's a "BIG" no no. People quickly cringe when you mention it. Most people are robots to the system/Govt. They will have no problem with them believing 911 Truthers are bad people. People are so empty they welcome drama,lies to fill the void. Very few would ever believe our own Govt would hurt us or go against us. They love Govt, they connect the selected officials with the Country in a way that you better not talk about them because it means you hate the Country. Or if you think the Genocide(war?) in Iraq is wrong, than you are against America, because of 911. You can't tell the Sheep Iraq had nothing to do with it, admittedly by our Govt. No one wants to feeeel bad. Ready to kill the messenger, especially when your not a superficiallybeautiful person.

[Dig]

Just on MSNBC's Tucker, this f**king zionazi proposed some seriously invasive stalinist police state activities.

Here is some background info on this piece of shit and MEMRI:
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Yigal Carmon
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Yigal_Carmon
From the MEMRI website:
Col. (Res.) Yigal Carmon is MEMRI's President. He served in the IDF/Intelligence Branch from 1968 to 1988. From 1977 to 1982 he was the Acting Head of Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria and the Advisor on Arab Affairs to the Civil Administration. Following Col. Carmon's retirement from the IDF he was Advisor to Premiers Shamir and Rabin for Countering Terrorism from 1988 to 1993. In 1991 and 1992 he was a senior member of the Israeli Delegation to peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington.

Memorable quote re: torture (Washington Post May 4, 1995):
"Yigal Carmon, a former terrorism adviser to Rabin and former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir…[,] Asked whether he would justify the infliction of pain to extract information, Carmon replied: "Pain is not taking life. Pain comes and goes. Pain disappears. You know, everyone experiences that. Unwillingly, of course."
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Middle East Media Research Institute
(Redirected from MEMRI)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=MEMRI
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), according to the Institute's web site, "explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East." [1]

MEMRI has several offices around the world. Americans work in D.C.; British, Spaniards, Italians, Germans, and Norwegians work in the European Union; Israelis in Israel; Japanese in Japan; Arabs also make up some of the people who work for MEMRI.

The MEMRI Web site also says, "selected subtitled clips from mainly arabic and Iranian television have been published since 2004." www.memritv.org Contents [hide]

History
According to its website, founded in February 1998 "to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization. MEMRI's headquarters is located in Washington, DC with branch offices in Berlin, London, and Jerusalem, where MEMRI also maintains its Media Center. MEMRI research is translated to English, German, Hebrew, Italian, French, Spanish, Turkish, and Russian."

MEMRI's stance is that it is opposed to Islamic fundamentalism, not Islam itself, although the integrity of this position may be questioned because of links on MEMRI's website to certain evangelical Christian organizations who take a harder line on Islam. Yigal Carmon, MEMRI's founder, is a former advisor on terrorism to the Israeli Prime Ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin, so he actually worked for both Labor and Likud governments. Praise for MEMRI should be taken with a grain of salt since it is almost always motivated by politics, not the quantity or quality of MEMRI's work.

MEMRI has gained currency with most pro-Israel writers, as well as right-wing publications. For example, New York Times writer Thomas Friedman, a influential foreign affairs columnist, has used MEMRI translations a number of times in his columns. MEMRI is cited in several publications, such as The Times, The Washington Times, The Weekly Standard, The Jerusalem Post, The National Review, The Toronto Sun, Wall Street Journal, Libertad, FrontPageMagazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Associated Press, etc. [2]

Translations
In an October 7, 2005, Nieman Watchdog article about MEMRI, published by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, Alex Kingsbury wrote:
"MEMRI monitors broadcast media an average of 16 hours per day and advertises its 'in-house capability to translate, subtitle and distribute the segments from Arab TV in real time to Western news channels across the world.'
"'Our goal is bridging the language gap between the Middle East and the West,' [said] MEMRI executive director Steven Stalinsky.
"Out of offices in Washington, Berlin, Baghdad and Jerusalem, the Institute provides translations in English, German, Hebrew, Italian, French, Spanish, Turkish, and Russian. They regularly monitor the print media in numerous countries, religious sermons, textbooks and a host of television channels including Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai), Al-'Alam TV (Iran), Iqra TV (Saudi Arabia), Syrian TV (Syria) and Al-Majd TV (UAE).
"MEMRI boasts 75,000 subscribers to its daily mailing list, including many journalists and academics, who receive regular updates about new translations. The institute also delivers briefings on Middle Eastern media to the FBI and Congress, Stalinsky [said].
"Video clips and translated transcripts are MEMRI's bread and butter. ... The institute has been the target of criticism for highlighting inflammatory statements from the vast stream of Middle Eastern media. Stalinsky [said] that while there is editorial judgment in deciding what gets translated, the Institute also covers and amplifies the voices of Middle East reformers."

Threatening Critics
In November 2004, MEMRI threatened Middle East scholar Juan Cole (Univ. of Michigan) with a SLAPP lawsuit unless he retracted some of his claims.

Nature of the charges pace Cole:
"Colonel Carmon's letter makes three charges: 1) that I alleged that MEMRI receives $60 million a year for its operations. 2) That I alleged that MEMRI cherry-picks the vast Arab press for articles that make the Arabs look bad. 3) That I said that MEMRI was affiliated with the Likud Party."

Cole replies:
I think he would find that in democratic countries, in any case, a dispute over an organization's level of funding would be laughed out of court as a basis for a libel action. In fact, I am giggling as I write this.
"I continue to maintain that MEMRI is selective and biased against the Arab press, and that it highlights pieces that cast Arabs, especially committed Muslims, in a negative light."
"I did not allege that MEMRI or Colonel Carmon are "affiliated" with the Likud Party. What I said was that MEMRI functions as a PR campaign for Likud Party goals."

Source: MEMRI tries a SLAPP.
Issues of reliability and veracity
MEMRI is operated by a group closely associated with the Israeli intelligence organizations. Now, in an article in Haaretz, we find that the Israeli Army has sought to plant stories about "terrorism" in the press, and "Psychological warfare officers were in touch with Israeli journalists covering the Arab world, gave them translated articles from Arab papers (which were planted by the IDF) and pressed the Israeli reporters to publish the same news here." --Amos Harel, IDF reviving psychological warfare unit, Haaretz, January 25, 2005.

This should raise a question or two about the reliability and veracity of the stories peddled by MEMRI.

This is what Prof. Juan Cole had to say about this:
"So is MEMRI, which translates articles from the Arabic press into English for thousands of US subscribers, in any way involved in all this? Its director formerly served in… Israeli military intelligence. How much of what we "know" from "Arab sources" about "Hizbullah terrorism" was simply made up by this fantasy factory in Tel Aviv?
As someone who reads the Arabic press quite a lot, this sort of revelation is extremely disturbing.
I also saw an allegation that British military intelligence had planted stories in the US press about Saddam's Iraq.
You begin to wonder how much of what you think you know is just propaganda manufactured by some bored colonel. No wonder post-Baath Iraq looks nothing like what we were led to to expect by the press, including the Arab press!" [3]

Another assessment:
If you rely on MEMRI for your knowledge of Arab discourse, you are really not informed. Arab public opinion, based on MEMRI's releases, is reduced or caricatured to either Bin Laden fans or Bush fans, while Arab public opinion is mosty a fan of neither people. --As'ad AbuKhalil [4]
Although widely used in the mainstream media as a source of information on the Arab world, it is as trustworthy as Julius Streicher's Der Sturmer was on the Jewish world. --Norman Finkelstein

Wafa Sultan
Los Angeles based Syrian/American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan appeared on an al-Jazeera television show opposite Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouly, a lecturer at Cairo's Al-Azhar University. Memri offered a heavily edited version of the show, and mistranslated several of the exchanges, making it appear that al-Khouly had issued a death fatwa against Sultan. Wafa Sultan became known as someone who had her life threatened because of her "Clash of Civilizations" point of view.

It turns out that Sultan had appeared on a daytime al Jazeera show, roughly equivalent to Jerry Springer, that Western Educated Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouly had not issued a fatwa, and as he is not a recognized Mufti, had he issued a fatwa, it would not be considered in any way, authoritarian.

A secularist blog covering topics broadly related to MENA, named Aqoul, took a tape of the whole show, and translated it, making it available in a PDF file: Transcript Translation: al-Jazeera - The Opposite Direction (26/02/2006). Posts on Aqoul, as well as one on the Winds of Change blog offer a great deal of insight into the distortions:
Fatwas and Wafa Sultan, Aqoul, March 15, 2006
On MEMRI & Translations: Winds of Change, a Thread Reply, Aqoul, March 29, 2006
How to be a Muslim reformer, Aqoul, March 13, 2006
MEMRI Mendacity, brief thoughts, Aqoul, October 14, 2006
A Fine Illustration of MEMRI Mendacity, Aqoul, October 14, 2006
Wafa Sultan: A tale of two transcripts, Winds of Change, March 30, 2006

Funding
According to the National Review, 250 donors—foundations and individuals—fund MEMRI's activities. Among these private donors is the right-wing Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation , which gave MEMRI $100,000 from 1999 to 2000. In 2001, the Randolph Foundation gave MEMRI $100,000, and in 2004 the John M. Olin Foundation gave $5,000, according to Media Transparency .

Founders
MEMRI was co-founded by Meyrav Wurmser and Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, "both of whom were early critics of the Oslo accords." [6]

Staff
In its original website of 1998, MEMRI listed 6 staff members: its President and cofounder Israeli Colonel Yigal Carmon, cofounder Dr. Meyrav Wurmser (Executive Director), Aaron Mannes (Director of Research), Yotam Feldner (Director of Media Analysis), Stacey Lakind (Research Associate), and Aluma Solnick (Research Associate). Stacey Lakind left in late 1998, and Aaron Mannes in early 2001; the others were still MEMRI staff as of October 5, 2001, when MEMRI stopped listing its employees on its website. Dr. Meyrav Wurmser left in early 2002 to join the Hudson Institute; she was replaced as Executive Director by Steven Stalinsky. [7]

Aluma Solnick appears to have changed her name to Aluma Dankowitz, in which case she is now Director of MEMRI's Reform Project. [8]

As of January 17, 2002, MEMRI had a much larger number of employees [9] and had "over 30" in August 2002, with the current number unknown). Citing bomb threats, it provides no information on their identities beyond stating that they are "of different nationalities" and different religions. These include or have included:
B. Chernitsky/Tchernitzky (Research Fellow, 2003) [10]
Allan Polak (Director of Communications, 2002) [11]
Jan Cleaver (2002) [12]
Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli (Chief Analyst, joined 2001; Iraqi-born Israeli, former World Bank employee) [13]
Ayelet Savyon (Director of Iranian Media Project, 2001) [14]
Ronen Sebag (Research Associate, 2001)[15]
Eli Carmeli (Research Associate, 2000) [16]
Miriam Posner was Associate Director of Communications and Special Projects until recently[17], having since moved on to PANIM, "the Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values".
Jess Sadick claims to have helped found the organization, but to have left in 1998. [18]
Adam Pashut (supposedly Research Fellow, 2004) has a name meaning "simple person" in Hebrew, and is presumably a pseudonym. [19])
The Berlin branch's Director is Dr. Jochen M? (2004) [20]
Richard Wachtel, spokesman for the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) (2007) [21]
Other members or ex-members include Goetz Nordbruch, Research Fellow, 2001 [22]; Director, 2002 [23] and German domain name contact; and Mirjam Gl䳥r (2003). [24]

The Jerusalem branch includes: Yael Yehoshua (Research Fellow, 2003) [25] Ezra Dalumi (2004) [26] Angi Jacobs (2002) [27] Menahem Milson (Lt. Col. (ret.), Academic Advisor) Yotam Feldner and Aluma Solnick are also now based there. [28]. The domain names contacts for its site are Shmuel Segev and Noga Feldner of Amutat Yesodot Shalom (Organization for the Foundations of Peace); the former may be the author and Maariv journalist.

External Links
MEMRI Watch
How MEMRI Doctored Norman Finkelstein's Interview to Present him as a "Holocaust Denier"
MEMRI, Wikipedia. This article has a list of most of the MEMRI staff, from which the above is taken.
David Tell, "The Baby Face of Hate -- MEMRI releases an astonishing example of the "true Muslim" faith", The Daily Standard, June 12, 2002.
Brian Whitaker , Selective Memri, Guardian Unlimited, August 12, 2002. "Investigates whether the 'independent' media institute that translates the Arabic newspapers is quite what it seems."
Brian Whitaker and Yigal Carmon, "Email debate: Yigal Carmon and Brian Whitaker", Guardian, Jan 23 2004.
"The truth about MEMRI" from Palestine Media Watch, August 13, 2002.
Sarah Maserati, "Terror TV / MEMRI brings English-speakers the world of Arab hate", National Review Online, November 14, 2002.
Craig Cox, "Making a MEMRI", Utne Web Watch, Archives.
Leah Harris, "A Note on MEMRI & Translations", CounterPunch, January 15, 2003.
Ori Nir, "Arab Envoys Planning Translation Service / Information Ministers Hope To Counter Success of Memri", Forward, January 24, 2003.
Mohammed El Oifi, "Gained in translation: Why the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is a source of English versions of Arabic texts that are designed to mislead and disinform", Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2005.
"Fake Saddam Interview Put Out By Israel Lobby Catspaw, Endorsed by Neo-Cons Pet Cassandra, Now Wiping Egg From Face," CounterPunch, March 29, 2006.
MEMRI Right Web, International Relations center, August 31,2006.

Users of MEMRI materials (alpha order)
Thomas Friedman – New York Times columnist.
"The role that MEMRI is playing in bringing the voices of the Arab and Muslim Reform – from Arabic into English, to the world – has been absolutely invaluable for everyone who cares about this process and wants to follow it."- Thomas Friedman, May 6, 2003 [29]
Kevin Myers – writes for the Irish Times and The Telegraph. He writes:
I receive an invaluable service from the Middle East Media Research Institute, which translates material from the region. What is impossible to appreciate without such translations is the sheer scale of genocidal anti-Semitism which infuses Palestinian Authority propaganda.[30]
Stephen Schwartz – Tech Central Station. In the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the ultraextreme sect of Wahhabism is the state religion, various sermons and other declamations were heard, alleging that Allah punished the Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, and non-Wahhabi Muslims of the South Asian countries for their failure to accept Islam, above all in its Saudi form (as recorded and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute).[31]  United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 2003 Report on Saudi Arabia (pdf) Eight endnotes credit material to MEMRI or Stalinski. Numerous articles and commentary in the Saudi press are openly anti-Jewish, offensive, and discriminatory: the "Zionist movement" is labeled as evil; blood libel accusations are made; hatred toward Jews is encouraged; Jews are said to be trying to take over the world; and the existence of the Holocaust is denied.[60]See multiple translated articles with anti-Semitic and discriminatory language from the Saudi press at the Middle East Media Research Institute ( MEMRI ) Web site: [followed by four links] Elie Wiesel – Professional Holocaust survivor (as Uri Avnery refers to him), member of the Irgun Zvei Leumi [32], and professional moralist.  "I hope you receive MEMRI's publications. I do. I find its material – translations and analyses of poisonous articles, hate-filled statements and slanderous accusations – vitally needed for the fight against antisemitism in the Arab world. Policy makers, legislators, teachers, and news commentators greatly benefit from its efforts to use truth in the service of peace."
- Elie Wiesel, May 22, 2003[33]  James Woolsey – former CIA director
"… the excellent Middle East Media Research Institute" -Former CIA director James Woolsey, June 10, 2002 [34]

Contact MEMRI PO Box 27837 Washington, DC 20038-7837 Phone: (202) 955-9070 Fax: (202) 955-9077 Email: memri AT memri.org Web: www.memri.org
Physical Address: 1819 L Street, 5th Floor Washington, DC 20036
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About MEMRI Watch http://memriwatch.org/about/
We are a small collective of translators and analysts who are bothered by the output of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) for various reasons. Because MEMRI select and translate things from the Arab and Persian media, the articles inevitably touch on numerous areas of discussion and debate. However, our aim here is not to engage in detailed discussion on these matters, or to defend those who are attacked (as they may or may not deserve a defence). Our primary concern will be to highlight instances of mistranslation and doctoring, as well as address the wider strategy of MEMRI, which is in line with its unwritten agenda. Thus we aim to balance the discussion, rather than engaging in a full and balanced discussion on these pages. By no means are we the first to raise concerns about this Institute, so we begin by compiling some of what has been written by other commentators. We invite your suggestions and input, which can be given by e-mailing the Administrator: memriwatch@gmail.com
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OK so here are the comments [i am summarizing] that Tucker agreed with:

• terrorists are using the internet to plan operations that will steal freedom from Americans

they are based in America[/li]
[li]the government should not deal with it because there is too much beaurocracy.[/li]
[li]NGOs [like AEI/PNAC/CFR] should be responsible for all internet monitoring of all suspected terrorist activities on the internet and we can shut it all down very quickly. [/li][/list]

Guys this is a serious f**king mayday call I am putting out.  all sovereignty and freedom is "wiped of the map" with this f**kers statements. I will post the video whenever it gets to youtube.  anyone with tivo, it was just on msnbc.[/b][/color]

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House Subcommittee Presentation Equates 9/11 Truth With Terrorism-Represents the internet, sites such as myspace and youtube as a virtual terror training camps        
http://infowars.net/articles/november2007/131107terror.htm
Steve Watson & Paul Watson Infowars.net Tuesday, Nov 13, 2007      


A House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on "Terrorism and the Internet" held last week, and broadcast on C-Span, featured a panel of "experts", including representatives formerly of the RAND Corporation and the Simon Wiesenthal Center who presented 9/11 truth websites sites alongside sites that celebrate the attacks and offer training in terrorist tactics.  The hearing was chaired by Democratic Rep. Jane Harman, and ranking Republican, Rep. Dave Reichert. It was supposed to focus on the use of the internet by "home grown terrorist recruiters" yet in a shocking move it blatantly related the 9/11 truth movement with so called radical "jihadists".  In a very poorly prepared and delivered PowerPoint splurge, Mark Weitzman (pictured far right) stated:

"Some of these are conspiracy theories that present a closed view of the world, such as blaming 9/11 as an "outside job"(?) or blaming outside groups such as the U.S. government, or er the Jews etc, some of these are pro-Iraqi insurgency videos, some of them are media portals that people can enter into, ones that you saw earlier with the flags, the U.S. flags show that thy were based on U.S. servers..."

Under the heading "Internet: Incubator of 9/11 Conspiracies and Disinformation" Weiztman threw in video of WTC building 7 collapsing on 9/11 as posted on various 9/11 truth affiliated websites, along with screen shots of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth site and other sites, such as Killtown's, who raised awareness of this.  "We need to be aware of the empowering effect of the internet upon extremists, we must have researchers and responders for both the technical and and linguistic skills to keep us informed and to be able to respond to what is online. We must make users aware of the misinformation and of the techniques used by extremists." Weitzman continued. The entire hearing can be viewed online at http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=202123-1

[Sasha]

They are setting up the stage for their own version of a night-of-the-long-knives/crystal-nacht to go after the potential and actual dissent within this country.  Of course they must follow their scripts, but watching a "Weiztman" advocate the use of nazi mentality and punishment of thought crimes was a bit much for the "official" paradigm to take.  That was as sad a display of liberty grabbing and fear mongering as I can remember seeing.  I'll guess I'll see worse when they come a knocking.

[Biggs]

the Simon Wiesenthal center are just B'nai B'rith - Jewish freemasonry, except the term jewish is not really accurate as any decent Jew who speaks up for what is right is hounded out of their ranks and blackballed and harrassed for the rest of their lives.

As for MEMRI, the ones who invented the "Wipe Israel off the face of the earth" quote from Ahmadinejad (actually he said "the Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem should disappear from the pages of time" - i.e. he called for regime change not genocide, just like most people I know want regime change in Israel)

anyway, I did not know that MEMRi was co-founded by Meyrav Wurmser, I knew she was involved but not so deeply, a quite sickening pair he and her traitor of a husband really are.

A quite disgusting organisation.

[Damascus]

They have to plug the Internet hole. Its a seriously big damper on their plans. Too much information is being leaked and they have to stop it one way or another. Also look into the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and its amendments. That could badly hurt the truth movement. So you are either a "terrorist" or a "law breaking" copy right infringer.

[Dig]

they have 5 internet regulating bills on terror prevention and another 5 on child molestation prevention.

our black ops regulate over 90% of both heinous acts.

[Biggs]

They have to plug the Internet hole. Its a seriously big damper on their plans. Too much information is being leaked and they have to stop it one way or another. Also look into the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and its amendments. That could badly hurt the truth movement. So you are either a "terrorist" or a "law breaking" copy right infringer.

or as B'nai B'rith tried to do to Kurt Nimmo - a hate criminal because as any decent mind controlled bot knows - anti-Israeli zionist imperialism means dangerous anti-semite, and such hate crime is now outlawed (or  such law is pending implementation - this in basically the entire western world now carrying or soon to carrying such 'hate' laws on the statute)

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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
http://www.juancole.com/2004/11/intimidation-by-israeli-linked.html
Intimidation by Israeli-Linked Organization Aimed at US Academic MEMRI tries a SLAPP

I just checked my campus mail and found a letter in it from Colonel Yigal Carmon, late of Israeli military intelligence, now an official at the Middle East Media Research Organization, or MEMRI. He threatened me with a lawsuit over blog comments I made here at Informed Comment, reprinted at anti-war.com. This technique of the SLAPP or Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation had already been pioneered by polluting industries against environmental activists, and now the pro-Likud lobby in the US has apparently decided to try it out against people like me.  I urge all readers to send messages of protest to memri@memri.org. Please be polite, and simply urge MEMRI, which has a major Web presence, to withdraw the lawsuit threat and to respect the spirit of the free sharing of ideas that makes the internet possible.

Here is the letter:
_______________________________
' November 8, 2004

Professor Juan Cole
University of Michigan History Department
1029 Tisch Hall
435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Dear Professor Cole,

I write in response to your article "Osama Threatening Red States?" published on November 3, 2004 on antiwar.com. The article included several statements about MEMRI which go beyond what could be considered legitimate criticism, and which in fact qualify as slander and libel. While we respect your right to argue the veracity of our translations, you certainly may not fabricate information about our organization. You make several claims that are patently false:

Trying to paint MEMRI in a conspiratorial manner by portraying us as a rich, sinister group, you write that "MEMRI is funded to the tune of $60 million a year." This is completely false.

You also write that MEMRI is an "anti-Arab propaganda machine" that "cherry-picks the vast Arabic press." If you have any level of familiarity with MEMRI, you should be aware of our Reform Project, which is one of the most important of MEMRI's projects, and which receives much of our energy and resources. The Reform Project (www.memri.org/reform.html) is devoted solely to finding and amplifying the progressive voices in the Arab world. It is especially disappointing that these charges do not come from an overzealous journalist, but from a member of the academic community, from whom one should be able to expect at least the minimum amount of research and corroboration.

In addition, you write that "MEMRI is one of a number of public relations campaigns essentially on behalf of the far right-wing Likud Party in Israel." This, too, is completely false. MEMRI is totally unaffiliated with any government, and receives no government funding. While I was formerly an Israeli official (and retired more than a decade ago), I have never been affiliated with the Likud Party, or any other party.

As such, we demand that you retract the false statements you have made about MEMRI. If you will not do so, we will be forced to pursue legal action against you personally and against the University of Michigan, which the article identifies you as an employee of. We hope this will not be necessary.

Sincerely,

[signed]
Yigal Carmon


Colonel Carmon's letter makes three charges: 1) that I alleged that MEMRI receives $60 million a year for its operations. 2) That I alleged that MEMRI cherry-picks the vast Arab press for articles that make the Arabs look bad. 3) That I said that MEMRI was affiliated with the Likud Party.

This is how I would reply:
1) I am glad to publish the annual funding of MEMRI, and its sources, as provided by Colonel Carmon, if he will tell us what the figure is, which he has not. As a historian, I have no desire to have anything but the facts in evidence. MEMRI obviously a well-funded operation, as any familiarity with its scope and activities would make clear. In the meantime, I am glad to acknowledge that the figure I gave has been disputed by Colonel Carmon. I think he would find that in democratic countries, in any case, a dispute over an organization's level of funding would be laughed out of court as a basis for a libel action. In fact, I am giggling as I write this.

2) I continue to maintain that MEMRI is selective and biased against the Arab press, and that it highlights pieces that cast Arabs, especially committed Muslims, in a negative light. That it also rewards secular Arabs for being secularists is entirely beside the point (and this is the function of the "reform" site). On more than one occasion I have seen, say, a bigotted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when I went to the source on the Web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance. These latter were not translated.

3) I did not allege that MEMRI or Colonel Carmon are "affiliated" with the Likud Party. What I said was that MEMRI functions as a PR campaign for Likud Party goals. Colonel Carmon and Meyrav Wurmser, who run MEMRI, were both die-hard opponents of the Oslo peace process, and so ipso facto were identified with the Likud rejectionists on that central issue.

Colonel Carmon was not a formal member of the Likud party while serving in Israeli military intelligence because active-duty military are not usually involved in civilian political parties. Since he retired to the US, he did not have the occasion to join the Likud, but there seems little question that if he were living in Israel he would vote for Likud rather than Labor, given his public stances. So, the charge, that I claimed an "affiliation" of MEMRI with Likud, isn't true in the first place, and there is nothing to retract. That issue almost certainly generated the entire letter. MEMRI is a 501 (c) 3 organization, which is tax exempt in US law, and therefore cannot engage in (much) directly political activity without endangering its exemption. I don't think MEMRI does so directly intervene in politics as to make its 501 (c) 3 status questionable. But it is obvious that 501 (c) 3 is widely abused by rightwing think tanks.

More discussion on MEMRI on the Web can be found here.

I've said all I am going to say to Colonel Carmon just now. Israeli military intelligence is used to being able to censor the Israeli press and to intimidate journalists, and it is a bit shocking that Carmon should imagine that such intimidation would work in a free society. I will add another criticism of MEMRI, which is that it systematically violates the intellectual property of Arab writers by appropriating their content without paying for it and storing them on its servers, and then claiming copyright in their work as translated. This is a shameful way of proceeding. Where the source articles are published in a country that is signatory to the major international copyright agreements, it may be illegal. All sites dealing in other languages do quote or translate from time to time, which falls under fair use. But MEMRI has a much more systematic set of appropriations going. MEMRI has begun taking out blog ads. Since it can hardly go about threatening bloggers with lawsuits without violating the essential spirit of open discourse on the Web, it has forfeited any claim on our eyeballs. I urge all bloggers to decline advertisements from MEMRI until such time as Colonel Carmon withdraws his outrageous threat. posted by Juan Cole @ 11/23/2004 07:19:00 PM
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Hey MEMRI - your goal is to end the USA and all sovereign lands as you depopulate the Earth.  You are a f**king war criminal, please write me a letter, please, please, please

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911 Truthers are terrorists?
http://911blogger.com/node/12496#comment-168858
These people need to be called (on mass) and the point made - 911 Truthers are patriots; not terrorists. People who deny 911 Truth and a new investigation are the terrorists...the traitors.

This is the thin edge of the wedge and we need to stomp it out - immediately! We cannot allow this to go un-checked and without rebuke...

It wouldn't hurt for people to contact their State Representatives about this, even if they weren't at the hearing. The more we get the word out that we object strongly to their inference that 911 Truth is a terrorist training ground, the better.

You can easily find your representative here and contact info--
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

My email to to Congressman Dave Reichert:

Dear Congressman Reichert,

Regarding your November 6, 2007, a House Homeland Security Subcommittee Hearing on "Terrorism and the Internet".
From 911blogger.com: "Toward the end of the hearing, Weitzman rolls out a PowerPoint presentation that presents a few 9/11 truth sites sandwiched in between websites that offer training in terrorist tactics.."

Congressman Reichert, 911 Truth is not a form of terrorism, it is a search for the truth of what really happened on that day when our country was attacked.

I look forward to your response.

Most Sincerely,

...

[profane1]

I just checked the Glenn Beck site and they have a poll for who will win the GOP nomination. Of course Ron Paul's name does not appear. I clicked around the site a little and found an e-mail address where you can send in "mistakes" you find on the web site. I saw this as a HUGE mistake and promptly sent an email. You should too. Here's the address. cbrady@glennbeck.com.

-Profanes wife

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Judging by the following clip, I doubt that Glenn Beck will ever put RP's name on his poll.  Glen Beck is a CFR shill used to define Republicans as crazy war mongerers who are sexist and have no morals.

Ron Paul = Terrorism ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFJt5Aa-om4

[Biggs]

the sad fact is that as a jewish organisation is pushing this line, if it is used on a wider scale it will be the case that truthers are to be smeared as anti-smites. They have been doing this for sometime to those that shout about the evils of Israeli imperialism and ethnic cleansing by stealth of Palestine.

They have also been doing it to those that question the power of AIPAC and other such groups in US politicis, when AIPAC and others are used by the elite to further NWO goals of war with Islam - create the chaos from which the order is to follow. They push all the time for an attack on Iran and have many top politicians in their pockets.

So the truth movement is to be smeared with being anti-semitic and inciting hatred of Jews in that some truthers will be turned into anti-semites and will assist terror organisations.

The dancing Israelis prove that mossad elements were in on the hit so the fact that people point this out will be used to label truthers as anti-semite.

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Open Letter to CNN and Glenn Beck: Ron Paul Supporters are Not Terrorists
Posted November 15th, 2007 by manystrom
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/7601
Dear Sirs,

CNN and Glenn Beck recently aired an inflammatory and misleading piece comparing Ron Paul supporters to terrorists. Mr. Beck’s irresponsible association has already led to impassioned responses from the large, peaceful and growing Ron Paul community, including a call to boycott CNN’s sponsors, and an eloquent response from a former US Marine.

I was heartened by the Marine’s response. I fully support and encourage the boycott efforts. With this letter, I am also urging everyone within the Ron Paul community to write directly to CNN, requesting that your network and Glenn Beck issue a retraction, clarification and an apologyto Ron Paul and the peaceful Ron Paul community for your wrongful and damaging characterization.

On November 5th, nearly 40,000 hard working Americans donated an average of $98 to Ron Paul’s campaign for president, resulting in one of the biggest one-day online political fundraising events ever. We did it because we are tired of mainstream networks such as yours ignoring us. We did it with the intention of making a news splash so large that you could no longer pretend we do not exist. Our efforts succeeded beyond our wildest expectations, but Mr. Beck’s recent piece has revealed your true colors.

You did something shameful. You chose to portray 40,000 upstanding Americans as terrorists. I find it tragically ironic that Glenn Beck chose a segment called, “A Nation Divided” to compare the peaceful actions of fellow American citizens to terrorists. Mr. Beck’s actions only contribute to the division in this country. Calling this large group of peaceful Americans terrorists is an absolute disgrace, especially in a post-911 America when the Military Commissions Act allows the president, at his sole discretion, to name any American an “enemy combatant.” Your network and Glenn Beck may think it is funny to play fast and loose with this kind of language, but I take this very, very seriously. Nothing could be more divisive than to call fellow law-abiding Americans “terrorists.” Is this how far your network has sunk in its desperate grab for ratings? Shame on you. Shame on you and your editors, for selling out the foundations of our country so readily and so cheaply.

In his piece Mr. Beck erroneously stated that Dr. Paul’s November 5th fundraising was done “to commemorate Guy Fawkes.” What is your source for this statement? This statement is factually incorrect, and I hereby request that you produce your source, or retract it. With this single incorrect fact, Beck goes on to spin an entire piece that only amplifies and distorts his disinformation. Later in the piece, CNN’s guest, David Horowitz, speaking of Ron Paul, says: “I think it is very significant that he chose Guy Fawkes as an image.” This so clearly misinformed that it would be laughable if not for its seriousness. Is it your network's standing policy to allow such woefully misinformed guests on all of your “news” shows? How can you expect informed citizens to believe any of your future program guests if you allow such egregious errors go unchecked and uncorrected? Ron Paul and his official campaign had nothing to do with the organization of this day, so it is impossible that Ron Paul was the one to “choose Guy Fawkes as an image.” Please do not assume that all Americans are complete idiots, nor that we will stand by passively as you broadcast such lies.

Your poorly researched, factually incorrect, sensationalist opinion is exactly what is dividing America and driving citizens from networks such as yours to the unimpeachable honesty and integrity exemplified by Dr. Ron Paul and his peaceful campaign for president. I hereby request that you issue a retraction, clarification and apology to Dr. Paul and his grassroots supporters. Without it, your network will continue its accelerating slide towards the realm of complete irrelevance in the minds of informed Americans.

Sincerely,
Michael Nystrom
Editor
www.dailypaul.com

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Readers, please contact CNN directly using this form for the Glenn Beck show. Be polite, but firmly ask for an apology, clarification and a retraction. This is too serious to let stand. I will have more on why this is so serious in the next few days. Thank you all for your support.

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Former Marine Responds to Glenn Beck
Posted November 15th, 2007 by Jane Aitken in Glenn Beck, Marine, Response, Ron Paul
http://dailypaul.com/node/7514
With permission I am posting this letter to Glenn Beck from a former Marine in response to his conspiratorial tirade against Dr. Paul which aired on the November 12th segment of his show. David Horowitz also chimes in with some pretty outrageous and wacky stuff.

Dear Mr. Beck,

The image you have so carelessly planted in the minds of your viewers, that regular, honest, hardworking American supporters of Dr. Ron Paul are a bunch of terrorists is not only inaccurate, but grossly negligent sir! And I take extreme umbrage with you assertions. I am a former Marine, decorated with a Good Conduct Medal, a Navy Unit Commendation, and an Overseas Deployment ribbon for my service to these United States from 1982 to 1986. Seeing as we are both forty three I think its safe to say that while I was serving my country, you were much more busy becoming a drug addict and practicing to become an alcoholic, correct?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck

You see, unlike you sir, I have taken the time to gather some facts to support my position. I love this country and its people more than life itself, and would at a moments notice put my life on the line once again in her defense. I took an oath to uphold our Constitution, and I take this oath very seriously.

You sir have done a grave disservice to me personally by implying that I am a terrorist because I support Dr. Ron Paul. Over my forty three years of life's trials and tribulations I have developed pretty thick skin, and am not easily bothered by someone's words. But when I heard you imply that Ron Paul supporters are "akin to terrorists" for choosing the fifth of November as the day for our fund raising donation, I have to admit that I was a highly upset! I sincerely believe you have a right to your opinion, as do we all. But where you enjoy an assumed position of authority in Television and Radio with the potential to influence millions of viewers and listeners alike comes an even greater obligation to ensure that the opinions you espouse are well founded, and responsible ones. Is that a fair statement sir? I work very hard to introduce my friends and family to the issues that Dr. Ron Paul supports, and believe with great sincerity that our Country is in very serious trouble and we need to elect someone to the highest office who exemplifies the kind of qualities of a Dr. Ron Paul.

I was with my wife and 18 year-old daughter when we watched you're 'Ron Paul supporters may be domestic terrorists' piece. My family knows how strongly I feel about Dr. Paul's views and I got a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach upon hearing your comments. Especially in front of my family, who trusts my decision making process in order that I provide a stable, moral example for them to follow. It was an awkward moment to say the least, I was at a loss for words. I simply gritted my teeth and supported your right to your views regardless. Mr Beck, your implication that Ron Paul supporters, like myself, are terrorists, is so far beyond the pale of reasoning that I fail to understand how you could formulate this opinion. Now I'm not naive, I know this was not some spontaneous thoughts you were sharing with your audience. I realize this was something you ran by your staff and bosses alike. You had to book the guests that would be sympathetic to your views in order to project the desired effect for your viewers. Plain and simple sir, this was a tongue in cheek political hit piece directed at Dr. Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign by casting his supporters as domestic terrorists. I find this type of guerrilla journalism very distasteful and a betrayal of America and our ideals of the sanctity of a free press that is suppose to inform its body politic, not to deceive its people as you have chosen to do. As I stated earlier, I am not naive sir, and I realize you could care less how I feel or what my opinions of you are, and that's just fine by me. But what you are doing is just plain wrong, and you will have to atone for your actions at some point in time. But until then you have lost a faithful viewer.

I know it is of little consequence to you but as a matter of principle I can no longer support a network that supplies you a platform from which you so carelessly use as a tool to spew your hate and rhetoric. I will also be boycotting all of your sponsors products until they pull their support by way of advertising dollars that go to pay you're salary. Here is the list of people and companies I will be contacting.

http://www.lilly.com/contact.html
http://www.ustrust.com/contact/
http://newscenter.verizon.com/media-contacts/#business
http://www.geico.com/newsite/about_geico/contact_us/
http://automobiles.honda.com/information/customer-relations.aspx
http://www.lunesta.com/contact/contact.html
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us/support/supportcontacts
http://www.schwabbank.com/contactUs.do
http://www.josbank.com/customer_service_main.tem
https://secure.bayer.com/bayer/contact.aspx?lang=en
http://www10.americanexpress.com/sif/cda/page/0,1641,24679,00.asp
http://www.llbean.com/customerService/index.html
http://www.tdameritrade.com/contact.html
https://www.progressive.com/contact-us.aspx
http://www.americaspower.org/Contact-Us
http://www.lincoln.com/help/contact_us.asp
http://www.farmers.com/FarmComm/WebSite/html/common/contact_us.html
http://www.glassdoctor.com/contact.htm
http://www.walgreens.com/contactus/forms.jsp

I know people have temporary lapses in judgment, and will leave some of my personal information to assure you that I am a real person and not a "spambot" just in case you would like to reply to this e-mail, but, ummm, I'm not holding my breath though.

Respectfully Submitted,
Stephen Dupont
New Bedford, Massachusetts 02745

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http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fireglennbeck/signatures-35.html

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CNN
CNN describes Beck's show on Headline News as "an unconventional look at the news of the day featuring Beck's unique and often amusing perspective on top stories from world events and politics to pop culture and everyday hassles. Like Beck's radio program, the show will be centered on current events and the opinions of Beck, all delivered in Beck's humorous, self-deprecating style." [2] On January 17, 2006, Variety's Michael Learmonth wrote: "CNN's Headline News has signed conservative radio host Glenn Beck for an hourlong talkshow in hopes of building on the ratings momentum generated by a revamped primetime lineup anchored by Nancy Grace. The signing of Beck, expected to be announced today, will add a fourth show to HLN's primetime in addition to Grace, Showbiz Tonight and Prime News Tonight. "'Glenn Beck is the next piece of the puzzle,' said HLN prexy Ken Jautz. 'Glenn's style is self-deprecating, cordial; he says he'd like to be able to disagree with guests and part as friends. It's conversational, not confrontational'," Learmonth wrote.

Profiles
"Beck's radio career started at age 13 when he won a local radio contest to be a disc jockey for an hour. Soon after, Beck juggled three different radio jobs at a Christian station, a rock station and a country music station but was fired from all three on the same day at age 14," his CNN profile states. [3] "After high school graduation, Beck pursued a career as a Top 40 disc jockey, landing a job in Corpus Christi, Texas, as the youngest morning host in the United States at 18-years-old. His career took him to Top 40 morning shows in Baltimore, Houston, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Conn. "After a bout with alcoholism and drug addiction, Beck became a Mormon and embarked on a new career in talk radio. He joined WFLA-AM in Tampa, Fla., where he took over a program ranked 18th in the market and took it to No. 1 within his first year. The Glenn Beck Radio Program launched into national syndication soon after Sept. 11, 2001, gaining 47 affiliates by January 2002. The Glenn Beck Program airs weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon (ET)." [4] "Beck suffers from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), so his radio show is always fast-paced. Fans describe him as quick-witted, well-informed, an independent thinker, and a good Christian. His mantra, he says, is to begin and end each day on his knees, praying for the troops and the president. A Mormon with self-described libertarian leanings, Beck is big on conservative politics and traditional family values, and his radio program is syndicated on more than 200 US stations. He also has an hour-long TV show that runs three times nightly on CNN Headline News," NNDB.com reports. "Beck is also the founder and editor of Fusion, a magazine of right-wing political perspective, where a regular feature is the magazine's humorous 'future obituaries' of prominent liberals, celebrities, and terrorists. In its September 2006 issue, Fusion solemnly commemorated the fifth anniversary of September 11 with a cover drawing of Beck standing in front of World Trade Center's twin towers," NNDB.com wrote.

Controversy & Commentary
"Over at CNN Headline News, rising star and assclown-to-a-lesser-degree (and, lest we forget, Famous Mormon) Glenn Beck may not be the one-note windbag his TV and radio shows make him out to be: In a surprisingly candid interview with RadarOnline.com [on January 9, 2007], Beck admits he's a 'recovering alcoholic rodeo clown with limited education, who’s conservative,' then goes onto say 'impartial journalists' like Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann should just 'fess up: 'I'd like to throw both of them under the bus, quite frankly. Anybody who tells you that they're objective and non-biased and this is the straight truth, period, is bullcrap'," Bill Frost wrote January 11, 2007, in Frost Bites for Salt Lake City Weekly. "In the build-up to America's 2003 war on Iraq, Beck countered anti-war protests by using his radio show to organize dozens of pro-war rallies across the nation, and he has promised he will never question the cause, 'no matter how unpopular this war gets.' He has described Jimmy Carter as 'a waste of skin', Cindy Sheehan as 'a pretty big prostitute', and fantasized on the air about strangling to death Michael Moore," NNDB.com reports.

Contact Information
Website: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/glenn.beck/
Website: http://www.premrad.com/shows/view/glenn_beck.html
Website: http://www.glennbeck.com/

External Links
Profiles
Profile: Glenn Beck, NNDB.com.
Profile ("Anchors & Reporters"): Glenn Beck, CNN.com.
Profile: Glenn Beck at Glennpedia.com.
Glenn Beck and Glenn Beck Program in the Wikipedia and Glenn Beck at Wikiquote.
Video/Audio Transcripts & Media Segments
Glenn Beck on YouTube.
Transcripts Main Page for "Glenn Beck" Show, CNN.
Transcript: Interview: Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, with Glenn Beck of The Glenn Beck Show, U.S. Department of State, November 2, 2006.
2002
The Glenn Beck Program broadcast on America's Voices in Israel from Jerusalem Post studio, September and October 2002 (various dates).
2004
Archived articles by Media Matters for America from May 17, 2004, through August 8, 2006.
2005
"Glenn Beck called hurricane survivors in New Orleans 'scumbags,' said he 'hates' 9-11 families," Media Matters for America, September 9, 2005.
2006
"Glenn Beck joins CNN Headline News," CNN, January 17, 2006.
Michael Learmonth, "CNN names new headliner. Beck is net's new newsie," Variety, January 17, 2006.
"CNN reportedly hires radio host Glenn Beck," Media Matters for America, January 17, 2006.
"CNN's 'Cordial' Hire. Headline News picks would-be killer Glenn Beck as host," FAIR, January 18, 2006.
"Glenn Beck: Moron, menace or both?" Hughes for America Blog, May 10, 2006.
"Beck: Bush alone fighting 'World War III,' while Gore worries that '[ t]he ice is starting to melt in Greenland'," Media Matters for America, July 13, 2006. re Al Gore and global warming
"Beck hosted 'political analyst' Steve Gill for wholesale Dem-bashing, didn't note Gill is a Republican," Media Matters for America, July 20, 2006.
"Beck: 'We went into Iraq three years ago to prevent World War III'," Media Matters for America, July 25, 2006. re war in Iraq
Bill Virgin, "On Radio: Glenn Beck plays everywhere but where he got his start," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 10, 2006.
"Beck has a warning for Muslims 'who have sat on [their] frickin' hands' and have not 'lin[ed] up to shoot the bad Muslims in the head'," Media Matters for America, August 10, 2006.
"Beck on Iranian President Ahmadinejad: 'This guy is Howard frickin' Dean'," Media Matters for America, August 14, 2006.
"On CNN Headline News show, Beck repeated comparison of Dean and Ahmadinejad, again mocked Muslim names," Media Matters for America, August 15, 2006. re Howard Dean
Greg Sargent, "CT-SEN: Lieberman And Right-Wing Host Agree: We're In World War III," TPMCafe Blogspot, August 22, 2006.
"Beck, Carlson noted that apocalyptic August 22 predictions were wrong; Beck still foresees a 'world war of biblical proportions'," Media Matters for America, August 23, 2006.
"CNN's Beck on the blind: 'Just to piss them off, I'm going to put in Braille on the coffee pot ... 'Pot is hot.' Ow!'" Media Matters for America, August 25, 2006.
"Noting that Beck was 'making fun of blind people,' Carlson handed Beck 'award' for 'maybe the most outrageous thing said recently on TV'," Media Matters for America, August 29, 2006.
"Beck again warned that if Muslims don't 'act now' by 'step[ ping] to the plate' to condemn terrorism, they 'will be looking through a razor wire fence at the West'," Media Matters for America, September 7, 2006.
"Beck: 'The Middle East is being overrun by 10th-century barbarians' and '[ i]f they take over ... we're going to have to nuke the whole place'," Media Matters for America, September 13, 2006.
"Beck cited debunked scientists to back his doubts that 'we're the ones causing' global warming," Media Matters for America, September 22, 2006. re climate change skeptics
"Beck to Mexico: 'We're taking rapists out of your country ... and you're shipping killers to us'," Media Matters for America, September 27, 2006.
"Beck on Foley: 'Is he going to get away with -- is he going to pull a Cynthia McKinney on us?'" Media Matters for America, October 4, 2006. re Mark Foley page scandal
"Beck declared, 'I like our enemies' thinking' Bush 'might just push a button,' while his guest proclaimed '[ w]e need a little more Kim Jong Il in the White House," Media Matters for America, October 11, 2006.
"Beck used a slew of misleading figures to claim that 'half of the real news is being intentionally withheld from you'," Media Matters for America, October 13, 2006.
"Supposedly nonpartisan Beck: 'If Democrats are elected, we are in for two years of investigation, God forbid, impeachments, while the world is set on fire'," Media Matters for America, October 18, 2006.
"Beck hosted Rosenberg to discuss briefing of White House, 'a number of congressional leaders and Homeland Security, Pentagon [officials]' about 'end of days scenarios'," Media Matters for America, October 19, 2006.
"Beck claimed Europe's 'political correctness' could lead to 'a global religious civil war'," Media Matters for America, October 24, 2006.
"Self-identified non-partisan Beck: Democrats taking control of Congress 'sounds scary'," Media Matters for America, October 27, 2006. re 110th Congress
"CNN's Beck, Fox's Angle misleadingly claimed Bush 'was the first president to ever actually give federal funding to stem cell research'," Media Matters for America, October 30, 2007. re stem cell research
"Beck, Mowbray tag-teamed to bash Pelosi; Beck compared Santorum to Churchill," Media Matters for America, October 31, 2006. re Nancy Pelosi and Rick Santorum
"Intent on propping up liberal-media myth, Hume, O'Reilly, and Beck complained about coverage of Kerry flap," Media Matters for America, November 3, 2006. re John Kerry
"Beck cherry-picked ballot initiatives to baselessly claim 'the majority of Americans seem in favor of classically Republican points of view'," Media Matters for America, November 9, 2006. re Bush administration approval ratings
Dave Eberhart, "Glenn Beck: 'Islamic Extremism' Greatest Threat to U.S.," NewsMax, November 15, 2006.
"Beck juxtaposed Hitler's 'decree permitting euthanasia' with Clinton's plan for health care," Media Matters for America, November 15, 2006.
"CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman: '[ W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies'," Media Matters for America, November 15, 2006.
jesselee, "Glenn Beck," The Stakeholder/DCCC, November 16, 2006.
"Olbermann awarded Beck 'Worst Person' for saying he 'feel[ s]' like asking first Muslim congressman to 'prove to me that you are not working with our enemies'," Media Matters for America, November 16, 2006. re Keith Ellison See Keith Olbermann, "'Worst Person in the World': Glenn Beck," Countdown/MSNBC, November 16, 2006.
"Beck characterized letter criticizing Al Qaeda as 'surprising,' because 'the man who wrote it is a Muslim'," Media Matters for America, November 16, 2006.
"Pledging '[ t]his isn't sour grapes,' Beck falsely claimed sixth-year election losses have 'plagued every president, Republican and Democrat alike, since Ulysses S. Grant'," Media Matters for America, November 17, 2006.
"Beck & O'Reilly: boot Vermont out of the union for electing 'socialist' Sanders to Senate," Media Matters for America, November 17, 2006. re Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Sanders
SilentPatriot, "The Daily Show on Troop Levels and Glenn Beck," Crooks and Liars, January 18, 2006.
"Glenn Beck," Lawyer$, Gun$ and Money Blog, November 19, 2006.
"Beck gives thumbs down to penguin movie Happy Feet -- 'an animated version of An Inconvenient Truth'," Media Matters for America, November 21, 2006. re An Inconvenient Truth
Lynn Arave, "Glenn Beck not household name — yet. He performs 'stand-up comedy with a message'," deseretnews.com, November 26, 2006.
"Good Morning America welcomed 'talk-radio host' Glenn Beck to discuss Islam, didn't mention Beck's history of smears," Media Matters for America, November 28, 2006.
"More from Glenn Beck's America," Huges for America Blog, November 29, 2006.
"Conservatives attack animated penguin movie as global-warming propaganda," Media Matters for America, November 30, 2006.
Announcement: "Glenn Beck", Twenty-Second Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner, Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, December 1, 2006.
Noam Cohen, "With Brash Hosts, Headline News Finds More Viewers in Prime Time," New York Times, December 4, 2006.
"Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News. Host Glenn Beck threatens Muslims with concentration camps," FAIR, December 5, 2006.
"Conservatives attack Iraq Study Group report as 'surrender,' 'not a serious document'," Media Matters for America, December 8, 2006. re Iraq Study Group
"Why is Glenn Beck back on Good Morning America?" Media Matters for America, December 15, 2006.
"Beck on Iran's 'Holocaust conference': 'Gee, the only one that wasn't there was Jimmy Carter'," Media Matters for America, December 15, 2006. re Iran and Jimmy Carter
"CNN's Beck likened outrage against Tancredo to 're-education' policies of Soviet Union," Media Matters for America, December 19, 2006. re Tom Tancredo
"Most outrageous comments of 2006," Media Matters for America, December 22, 2006.
Timothy V. Gatto, "Neocon Talk Show Hosts, the Double Standard and Liberals," OpEdNews.com, December 28, 2006.
Mike Taibbi, "Keep on Hatin'. At the year's end, a look back on the birth of the hate era," Rolling Stone, December 28, 2006.
2007
Joseph Hughes, "More Katrina victim bashing," TPMCafe Blog, January 3, 2007. re Hurricane Katrina
Chris Achorn, "CNN Host Glenn Beck Says 20-25 Foot Storm Surge In NYC 'Might Not Be Bad'," My Two Sense Blog, January 4, 2007.
John Amato, "Glenn Beck, the Wanker King," Crooks and Liars, January 4, 2007.
"Appearing on Beck, Time's Allen called McCain 'authentic,' said Romney 'looks like a president'," Media Matters for America, January 5, 2007. re John McCain and Mitt Romney
Gustav Wynn, "Deconstructing the media manipulation that infects America's core," OpEdNews.com, January 6, 2007.
Michael Bouldin, "Why does Glenn Beck still have a job? culturekitchen Blog, January 6, 2006.
"HLN's Beck To Contribute to Good Morning America," Broadcasting & Cable, January 9, 2007.
John Cook, "Doom at 11. CNN 'Blowhard' Glenn Beck has a winning formula: prophesying WWIII with a smile," Radar Online, January 9, 2007.
"Good Morning America turns blind eye to Beck's smears, hires him as regular commentator," Media Matters for America, January 9, 2007.
Brendan Nyhan, "GMA's Glenn Beck hire latest pander to right," Brendan Nyhan Blog, January 10, 2007.
Melissa McEwan, "What America wants. US media execs still seem to believe that right-wing extremism is the key to winning an audience," comment is free.../The Guardian (UK), January 10, 2007.
"Beck allowed misinformation on minimum wage hike," Media Matters for America, January 10, 2007.
Scott D. Pierce, "Beck is in a Catch-22," deseretnews.com, January 11, 2007.
Bill Frost "News Clowns," Frost Bites/Salt Lake City Weekly (Utah), January 11, 2007.
"GMA hire Glenn Beck: 'Ted [Kennedy] is lying to you'," Media Matters for America, January 12, 2007. re Ted Kennedy
"Beck's world: Puerto Rican-born politician an 'immigrant' to the U.S.," Media Matters for America, January 12, 2007. re illegal immigration
Chris Achorn, "On MLK Day, CNN Host Glenn Beck Calls Duke Rape Case 'Lynching'," My Two Sense Blog, January 15, 2007. See Transcript: "Glenn Beck," CNN, January 15, 2007.
Nico Pitney, "CNN’s Glenn Beck Describes Himself As 'Mr. Oreo Cookie' On Martin Luther King Day," Think Progress, January 16, 2007.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., "For the Last, Stubborn Holdouts on Global Warming," The Huffington Post, January 16, 2007.
Eric Boehlert, "Spocko, Glenn Beck, and ABC," Media Matters for America, January 16, 2007.
Joseph Hughes, "Glenn Beck's common senselessness," TPMCafe Blog, January 17, 2007.
Alan Scholl, "Another Global Warming Apostate Emerges," JBS News Feed/John Birch Society, January 18, 2007.
"Time's Allen suggested Obama's stated faith and pro-choice views are incompatible," Media Matters for America, January 18, 2007.
Rude One, "Why Glenn Beck Needs To Be Repeatedly Cock-Punched," The Rude Pundit Blogspot, January 18, 2007. WARNING: May contain language offensive to some.
"Beck calls Hagel '100 percent clear and consistent' in opposing war he voted for," Media Matters for America, January 19, 2007. re Chuck Hagel
Salena Zito, "Glenn Beck on the edge," Pittsburgh Tribune, January 21, 2007.
Chris Achorn, "Glenn Beck uses anti-gay slur 'faggot' on show, unbleeped," My Two Sense Blogspot, January 22, 2007. See Transcript: "Glenn Beck," CNN, January 22, 2007.
Howie Klein, "Washington Post Useless Idiot du Jour: Glenn Beck," DownWithTyranny! Blogspot, January 26, 2007.
Chris Achorn, "Glenn Beck Boycott FAQ," My Two Sense Blogspot, January 27, 2007.
"Beck: Obama is 'colorless ... he might as well be white'," Media Matters for America, February 13, 2007. re Barack Obama
mcjoan, "Glenn Beck: All Godwin All the Time," Daily Kos, May 1, 2007.
Media Matters for America, "Beck's global warming special dominated by industry-funded 'experts,' serial misinformers," May 3, 2007.

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Glenn Beck
http://www.nndb.com/people/809/000049662/
Born: 10-Feb-1964
Birthplace: Seattle, WA

Gender: Male
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Radio Personality
Party Affiliation: See Note [1]

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Conservative radio talk-show host

Glenn Beck grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington, a small town about a hundred miles from Seattle. He started on radio by winning an hour of air time in a contest on one of the town's two radio stations. While still in high school, he worked as a late-night and weekend disc jockey at a different station about forty miles from Seattle, until he was fired for missing scheduled shifts. He went straight from high school to full-time radio work, and by his mid-20s he was a successful radio DJ. With his early success, though, Beck became an alcoholic and daily drug user. His first marriage ended in divorce, and then he kicked his addictions with help from Alcoholics Anonymous. Now clean and sober for years, Beck says he still suffers back pain from an injury incurred when, intoxicated or high, he tumbled through a window.

Beck suffers from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), so his radio show is always fast-paced. Fans describe him as quick-witted, well-informed, an independent thinker, and a good Christian. His mantra, he says, is to begin and end each day on his knees, praying for the troops and the president. A Mormon with self-described libertarian leanings, Beck is big on conservative politics and traditional family values, and his radio program is syndicated on more than 200 US stations. He also has an hour-long TV show that runs three times nightly on CNN Headline News.

In the build-up to America's 2003 war on Iraq, Beck countered anti-war protests by using his radio show to organize dozens of pro-war rallies across the nation, and he has promised he will never question the cause, “no matter how unpopular this war gets." He has described Jimmy Carter as "a waste of skin", Cindy Sheehan as "a pretty big prostitute", and fantasized on the air about strangling to death Michael Moore.

Beck is also the founder and editor of Fusion, a magazine of right-wing political perspective, where a regular feature is the magazine's humorous "future obituaries" of prominent liberals, celebrities, and terrorists. In its September 2006 issue, Fusion solemnly commemorated the fifth anniversary of September 11 with a cover drawing of Beck standing in front of World Trade Center's twin towers.


[1] "I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat. I'm a commonsense-thinking conservative." CNN (22-May-2007)

Mother: Mary (d. suicide)
Wife: (divorced, two daughters)
Daughter: Mary (has cerebral palsy, b. with first wife)
Daughter: Hannah (b. 1991 with first wife)
Wife: Tania (two children)
Son: Raphe (adopted 2004 with Tania)
Daughter: Cheyenne Grace Beck (b. 30-Apr-2006 with Tania)

    University: Yale University (dropped out) [Skull and Bones Connections!]

    CNN
    Alcoholics Anonymous
    Converted to Mormonism
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Marijuana, Cocaine

Official Website:
http://www.glennbeck.com/

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Glenn Beck is going down everyone help out!!! TAKE ACTION!!!
Posted November 14th, 2007 by RP 2008
http://dailypaul.com/node/7467
I UPDATED THE CONTACT INFORMATION BELOW thanks to previous posters who have provided more details. Glenn Beck is NEVER going to work again. Hahaha…

On last night's show 11/12/2007, Glenn Back implied that any person who supports Ron Paul is a terrorist. Yes...that's bullshit, but this just means we are now in the attack phase of the campaign, and we'll see a ton more crap like this just because we are a real threat now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8M2JBIoqo

Adding insult to injury Glenn Beck just posted an online poll that excludes Ron Paul:

http://www.glennbeck.com/home/index.shtml

LETS ALL VOTE FOR Tom Tancredo WHAT YOU SAY

The best way to deal with this is not to attack Beck or CNN...we all know they are just trolling for attention. Beck's show has been sliding in the ratings, and its time to put the final nail in the coffin. Take 5 minutes out of your day, and contact any of the following companies...and tell them you'll boycott their products until they pull their advertisement from Beck's program.

We need to make an example out of Beck, for all future talking heads that will dare call Americans terrorists just because they are supporting Ron Paul.

Here is a list of advertisers who advertise on his program:
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Walgreens Media Relations
Mary Shultz, Walgreens Manager, Broadcast Media: 847-914-2961
200 Wilmot Road
Deerfield, IL 60015
(847) 914-2500
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Lexmark x2 859-232-2221
Director of Corporate Communications – Lexmark
Tim Fitzpatrick
tfitzpat@lexmark.com
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Liberty Mutual 617-357-9500
John Cusolito, Vice President, Corporate Communications – Liberty Mutual
Phone: 617-574-5512
Email: john.cusolito@libertymutual.com
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Yellowbook 1-800-YB-YELLOW
http://www.yellowbook.com/contactus/
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Lazyboy
http://www.la-z-boy.com/contactus/
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Lending Tree 800-555-8733
Allison Vail - Manager of Corporate Communications – Lending Tree
704-943-8339
allison.vail@lendingtree.com
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Edward Jones 314-515-3269
John Boul, Manager of Global Media Relations of Edward Jones
(314) 515-3265
E-mail: john.boul@edwardjones.com
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Hyundai 800-633-5151
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Direct Buy 800-988-6049
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AARP 800-852-0879
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Schwab Bank 866-855-9102
415-636-5454 Speak to Glen Mathison or Greg Gable
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Legalzoom 323-962-8600 or 800-773-0888
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Joesph A Bank Clothiers (JoB Clothiers) x2 1-800-999-7472
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American Express x3 877-890-2639
212-640-5951 Speak to Mike O’Neal
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Cialis (Lilly Corp) x2 1-877-242-5471
317-276-2000
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Honda 800-999-1009, 310-783-2000
Ann Hartl, person in charge of advertising
“she wants to hear from us”
E-mail: ann_hartl@ahm.honda.com
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Volvo
Marriot
U.S. Trust (part of Bank of America)
Verizon
Geico
Lunesta
Garmin
Bayer
American Express
LL Bean
TD Ameritrade
Progressive
Americaspower.org (some Coal lobbyist group)
Lincoln
Farmer's
Glass Doctor

And then go to http://www.teaparty07.com and sign the pledge to give $100 to Ron Paul on December 16th.

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http://www.truthnews.us/?p=824

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As the Ron Paul movement grew, it was inevitable that the neocons would turn from demeaning to smearing. One clownish and sinister example was Glenn Beck’s CNN show last night.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016852.html
Beck actually said that the US military may have to be used against the growing threat of domestic terrorism: Ron Paul donors. Why? Because there is a “rising tide of disenfranchisement” (sic) and Ron’s volunteers raised $4.3 million in one day “to commemorate Guy Fawkes” in a “money bomb.” Of course, no American knows anything about the English Catholic rebel of four centuries ago. The donors were referencing the movie and graphic novel, V for Vendetta.

Then Beck says he a libertarian in his heart and it’s OK to raise money anyway you want, so long as you are not “blowing people up.” This from a guy who advocates blowing people up every day, so long as they're Arabs

Then comes a plummy Brit who I think is one of Bertie Wooster’s friends from the Drones Club. Then Beck gets to the real point: we are a right-wing peace movement. And being for peace means you want to kill people, whereas being for war means you want peace, if I may distill the agitprop.

Indeed, we are seeing Murray Rothbard’s dream come true; the Old Right, the pre-neocon, pre-Buckley right is back: for freedom and peace, sound money and keeping the fruits of your labor.

Next David Horowitz decries the “strain of isolationism and anarchism” in America, especially as represented by “libertarian websites like LewRockwell.com,” which are “totally in bed with the Islamofascists and have turned against this country.” By country, of course, he means the imperial presidency’s war-spying-torturing-taxing-planning apparatus.

Beck then asks his viewers to vote on whether he is right about the “danger” represented by the Ron Paul revolution. I know I did.

IMPORTANT

If you want to respond to Mr. Horowitz, a donation to LRC would be much appreciated!

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The Neocon Reaction to Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/phillips3.html
by Eric Phillips

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

As I was listening to neocon Glenn Beck’s radio show on Wednesday, I tried to figure out how he made the jump from step 2 to step 3 so quickly.

Following the first Republican Presidential Debate, Beck was contented with dismissing Dr. Ron Paul as "crazy" and wondering "How did this guy get on stage?" He didn’t seem too threatened – not enough at least to fear that anyone important would notice his blatant and no doubt intentional misrepresentation of Paul’s response to a question posed by a reader of Politico.com. "As president you need to make critical decisions," the reader wrote, "What critical decisions have you made in your career that have affected many people?" Beck carefully selected a portion of Paul’s response:

I guess, in medicine, I made a lot of critical decisions. I mean, you're called upon all the time to make critical, life-saving decisions. But I can't think of any one particular event where I made a critical decision that affected a lot of other people.

Doing his best to make Paul out to be a bumbling fool, Beck responded:

That`s got to be one of the worst answers I've ever heard to the question, "Have you ever made a critical decision? Tell us how you made a critical decision where it affected a lot of people." The guy's been in Congress now for how many years. Every decision he makes affects 300 million people, and that was his answer?

No, Mr. Beck that was only a part of his answer that you selected. In the first part of the answer (MSNBC transcript), Paul stated:

I wonder if he's referring to a political decision like running for office, or something like that. (Laughter) I guess, in medicine, I made a lot of critical decisions. I mean, you're called upon all the time to make critical, life-saving decisions. But I can't think of any one particular event where I made a critical decision that affected a lot of other people.

With the added context, we can see that Paul was trying to figure out how to answer this extremely vague and overly broad question posed by an amateur by dividing his response into decisions he made in private life and later, those made in public life. Now that we know he only dealt with one patient at a time in his medical practice (the horror, Mr. Beck, the horror), we can now turn to what Paul said about his political career.

But I think all our decisions we make in politics are critical. My major decision, political decision, which was a constitutional decision, was to urge for (inaudible) years that this country not go to war in Iraq.

There you go, Mr. Beck. He said exactly what you said he should have a full three seconds after you blasted him for not saying it. That has got to one of the worst attempts to smear someone I’ve ever seen.

But the day after the Paul-Giuliani exchange during the second Republican debate, things turned more serious. Beck was no longer engaged in mere dismissal and misrepresentation. He launched into a shrill diatribe against Paul, a tirade worthy of the most hate-filled leftists. Calling Paul a "dope," he declared, "If Republicans start thinking like this, WE’RE DEAD."

For Beck, leaders in the Middle East use the Western World, and the United States in particular, as a scapegoat to distract their populations from the misery they are facing domestically. While this may be superficially true, can any rational thinker honestly deny that the United States government’s interventionist foreign policy has been instrumental in the popularity and growth of organizations like al-Qaeda – exactly what the CIA, the 9/11 Commission, and Osama bin Laden himself tell us?

No. And the public is realizing this because it’s not too hard to consider the perspective of our enemy. As Dr. Paul himself argued, "It would be like if the Chinese had their navy in the Gulf of Mexico and bases in New Hampshire and in Texas and they think we wouldn’t pull out our guns and do some shooting?"

Sean Hannity, not surprisingly, was even more obtuse in the aftermath of the debate the night before. He demanded to know what America did to cause 9/11. Paul responded,

Americans didn't do anything to cause it, but policies over many years caused and elicited hatred toward us [so much so that] somebody was willing to commit suicide [to fight us]. For instance, the occupation with our military troops on their holy land in Saudi Arabia; bombing a Muslim country for 10 years; putting on sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of people – that caused the anger.

Not having any intelligent response on hand, Hannity shifted focus and demanded to know,

Are you saying then that the world has no moral obligation, like in the first Gulf War, when an innocent country's being pillaged, and people are being raped and murdered and slaughtered, or in the case of Saddam, he's gassing his own people, are you suggesting we have no moral obligation there? Do you stand by and let that immorality happen?

He then compared a non-interventionist foreign policy to standing by and doing nothing while a woman was being raped. I wonder then Sean, why it was okay in 1998 when you opposed Clinton’s purely "humanitarian" intervention in Kosovo?

The fact is that it is not humanitarian when the intervention costs tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. (See here for info on the debate over the numbers of dead in Iraq.)

Plus, this isn’t even counting the indirect effects (see the writings of Christopher Preble for an overview). Besides inciting hatred that can lead to further conflict and terrorism, the United State’s hegemonic role as "world policeman" leads to the diminishment of local centers of security. Foreigners start to think, if the U.S. is going to invade our enemies, why should we even bother with our own defense?

For whatever reason – perhaps out of fear or power lust – neocons have abandoned conservative skepticism of government in favor of a blind ideology of American exceptionalism. Beck, Hannity, and Giuliani have jumped on Dr. Paul relentlessly because they are beginning to realize that many conservative voters are dissatisfied with the spendthrift, Wilsonian mainstream of the Republican Party. As the base shrinks and moderates start voting Democratic, they know and fear that true conservatives who believe in the ideals of the Old Right might wake up from their post-9/11 slumber and leave the neocons as well. In their attempt to hold their floundering movement together, they have resorted to shouting down and ostracizing the "crazed dope" Ron Paul, hoping to push him "way out" of the presidential race. Dr. Paul and his supporters must be doing something right to raise such fear and ire from the neocons; let us keep it up.

May 19, 2007

Eric Phillips [send him mail] is a disaffected inhabitant of Washington, DC.

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Glenn Beck:Ron Paul supporters terrorists. Horowitz: Ron Paul connection with Islamofascists
Posted by Gary Shumway under Libertarian , Media Bias , Utahns , Ron Paul , Politics , Individuals , Glenn Beck
 

I have posted regarding the demagogue Glenn Beck numerous times on Red Pills and his latest stunt is just another example of his say anything for ratings, money, and recognition. He is truly a sick, sick person. He has edged past the twisted freak category. The more I know and hear of him the more disgusted I become with him, his personality, his diatribes, his producer Stu, his shows, and the those that lower themselves to be on his shows. You truly have to be brain off to get into his tripe.

To me, one of the more deplorable things about Beck is that he keeps referring to himself as a libertarian (then calls Ron Paul loony), when Beck is anything but libertarian. I think he does this in part to demean Libertarianism, much like the leftists have usurped the word liberal, when they are anything but liberal.

Now to specifics.

If you have listened to any of Beck’s diatribes you will know that he feeds off sensationalism. In fact, his position on issues change, at least verbally, to suit the subject at hand. Beck led into the Ron Paul segment stating that our political leaders are not listening to us and that there is a feeling of disenfranchisement amongst the citizens in the country. He opines that some in the Ron Paul movement are taking Ron Paul’s slogan ‘Revolution’ too seriously (without producing any facts). Beck, I hate to point out to you that the ‘Ron Paul Revolution’ slogan looks like this:
 

Do you not find it odd that Beck never mentions the word within revolution. Why confuse them with the facts, eh, Beck?The other slogan which has been with the campaign since near it’s inception is the following:



Hope for America. Now that sounds scary Beck. Such radical ideas Beck. But of course you will not mention the truth as that gets in the way of your BS.

Continuing on regarding Beck’s TV show of November 12th (see youtube below), Beck inferred since the Ron Paul money donation days are called ‘money bombs’ (which by the way is not Ron Paul’s nor Ron Paul campaign ’s term) that that was a metaphor for an actual bomb. Beck opines again (with out facts, as there are none) that some Ron Paul supporters may be taking the ‘bomb’ term too literally. Beck also brought up the fact that the money bomb day was in commemoration of (what Beck calls ‘British terrorist’) Guy Fawkes day in Great Britain, November 5th, in the 1600s. Of course it completely escaped Beck that November 5th was the third money bomb and that another one was conducted on Veterans Day. Further there is no mention that the idea for a ‘money bomb’ came up on www.ronpaulforums.com about 4-5 weeks prior to November 5th. But again, do not confuse the public with the facts.

What was funny was when Brit Jonathan Sandys (a guest on the show) was asked about Guy Fawkes, he said that Guy Fawkes, being Catholic, was trying to blow up British parliament with the support of the Pope in Rome to install the catholics in power in Britian. Of course that didn’t square with what Beck wanted, so Beck immediately segued into talking to Horowitz.

Then David Horowitz, who I used to admire, starts saying that the publics mood is worse now than in the sixties. Are you nuts Horowitz? Apparently you don’t remember the sixties! IMHO, it was much worse then. Horowitz goes on talking about the leftists and Muslim radicals and how the Democrat leaders recognize the disenfranchisement and are playing on it. Since this isn’t going the way Beck wants, he jumps in and says that the right is involved too. Of course Horowitz, who likes to get paid, either in notoriety or in U.S. Federal Reserve Notes, takes the bait. He says Ron Paul is taping into the sentiment as well and that they are in bed with the Islamofascists. Again all said without the mention of one fact. Dr. Paul should sue Horowitz for defamation. You are a loser Horowitz.

Interestingly Brit Johnathan Sandys summed up the discontent with, “no one is asking the citizens what they want”. And isn’t that the truth! And if American or British leaders hear what the citizens want they ignore us, or at least try to. You can view Beck’s tripe on the youtube below.

If you viewed the video, you will have seen that the last thing Beck asks is for the viewers to comment on Beck’s opinion at www.cnn.com/glennbeck. Beck’s opinion is:



I think the results of this poll (at 2200 MST on 11/13) proves that the majority of the people are on to Beck’s fusion of BS, sensationalism, and stupidity. Now if only the public would turn Beck off. Unfortunately that’s unlikely, look at how many watch ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and that damn singing ‘talent’ show…what’s it called?

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Glenn Beck calls Ron Paul supporters terrorists.
http://www.truthring.org/?p=5483

Ron Paul Daily Blog writes:

On tonight’s show 11/12/2007, Glenn Back implied that any person who supports Ron Paul is a terrorist. Yes…thats bullshit, but this just means we are now in the attack phase of the campaign, and we’ll see a ton more crap like this just because we are a real threat now.


So the best way to deal with this is not to attack Beck or CNN…we all know they are just trolling for attention. Beck’s show has been sliding in the ratings, and its time to put the final nail in the coffin. Take 5 minutes out of your day, and contact any of the following companies…and tell them you’ll boycott their products until they pull their advertisement from Beck’s program.

We need to make an example out of Beck, for all future talking heads that will dare call Americans terrorists just because they are supporting Ron Paul.

Here is a list of advertisers who advertise on his program.
Marriot
Cialis x2 1-877-242-5471
U.S. Trust (part of Bank of America)
Verizon
Geico
Honda 800-999-1009
Lunesta
American Express x3 877-890-2639
Garmin
Schwab Bank 866-855-9102
Leaglzoom 323-962-8600 or 800-773-0888
Joesph A Bank Clothiers (JoB Clothiers) x2 1-800-999-7472
Bayer
American Express
LL Bean
TD Ameritrade
Progressive
Americaspower.org (some Coal lobbyist group)
Lincoln
Farmer’s
Glass Doctor
Walgreens
Lexmark x2 859-232-2221
Liberty Mutual 617-357-9500
Volvo
Hyundai 800-633-5151
Direct Buy 800-988-6049
AARP 800-852-0879
Yellowbook 1-800-YB-YELLOW
Lazyboy
Lending Tree 800-555-8733
Edward Jones 314-515-3269

And then go to http://www.teaparty07.com and sign the pledge to give $100 to Ron Paul on December 16th.

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Neo-Libs & Neo-Cons Gang Up On Ron Paul Supporters
Liberal Wonkette website teams up with right-wing Red State to "declare war on Paultards"
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/151107_gang_up.htm
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, November 15, 2007         


In another example of how the establishment of both sides of the controlled political paradigm are scared stiff of the Texas Congressman's surging popularity, smarmy liberal website Wonkette and frothing Neo-Con blog Red State have ganged up to form an alliance and "declare war" on Ron Paul supporters. Wonkette is a predominately mindless political gossip blog which mixes serious items in with alleged humor. Its founding editor, Ana Marie Cox, was eventually recruited by Time Magazine to sit on the peanut gallery with the rest of the toadying establishment media neo-lib sycophants. Wonkette has engaged in a continued smear campaign against Ron Paul supporters, maturely labeling them "Paultards", "CGI runts," inferring they are all racists and accusing them of spamming online blogs and messageboards, in a similar vein to the ridiculous accusations of those who claim that Ron Paul's support is phantom or as a result of "spambots". The fact that the Texas Congressman broke records in receiving over $4 million from donations in one day recently - from real people and not "Computer-generated imagery" as Wonkette would have us believe, didn't seem to register with these morons.

Red State, a term originally derived from Marxist political thinking, is a virulently phony right-wing Neo-Con blog. Its chief founder, Ben Domenech, was similarly recruited by the Washington Post in March 2006, but was forced to resign within a week after admitting to plagiarism, before returning to the Red State editorial board. Red State is a favorite haunt of scandal-ridden Republican Congressman Tom Delay, who posts a regular diary. Red State is notorious for banning anyone who criticizes George W. Bush - after he was banned, longtime Red State blogger Adam Bonin remarked that the website "Seems to represent the worst in partisan hackery rather than the intellectual, grassroots conservative site it had been." Red State recently announced that they would instantly ban new users who "Shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion.” Now Wonkette and Red State have teamed up to "declare war" on Ron Paul supporters. "We were impressed with your recent banning of Paultards. We have one or two that we kind of like, but we try our best to ban the others. Nevertheless, these little CGI-based runts find their way to new cyber enclaves, from which they donate $4.3 million dollars to celebrate Guy Fawkes, as popularized by that sad excuse for a film, V for Vendetta," reads the Wonkette post.

"This is a call for internet bipartisanship. We must bipartisan…ly declare war on the Paultards!" Red State followed up by accepting the invitation. Whether this is just a tongue-in-cheek jibe or an actual policy to coordinate smear attacks on Ron Paul supporters, it's merely a continuation of what both these websites have been doing for months. If Ron Paul's support base is nothing more than a bunch of CGI runts, retards and spammers then why are both these websites so obsessed about ceaselessly attacking them? The fact is that the Ron Paul Revolution represents a growing movement of real people who are sick and tired with the same set of establishment stooges put forward in the Republican and Democrat fields every four years - the very shills that Wonkette and Red State lend credence to with their ninnying idolatry of people like Giuliani and Hillary Clinton. Ron Paul is the only leading candidate from either field who advocates the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. This isn't a "fringe" belief, it isn't a closeted whim on behalf of spammers, racists or retards - it is the majority sentiment prevalent in America today. Wonkette and Red State's amazement that they would be "spammed" with so many Ron Paul e mails and comments answers why their ignorance is rivaled only by their stupidity.

DUMMIES - you are getting so many Ron Paul comments and e mails because Ron Paul is POPULAR and his POPULARITY is growing. Do you understand? Ron Paul is REAL, his POPULARITY is REAL, his supporters are REAL, and the record breaking $4 million plus he received in donations recently is REAL. Do I have to spell it out any clearer for you to grasp this basic concept? Now may I suggest you Neo-Libs at Wonkette concentrate solely on fawning over Bill Clinton at DC parties, and you Red Staters return to your masturbating over the future bombing of Iran, and leave the REAL political activism to those of us who are actually interested in saving America by electing the only REAL candidate out there?

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PAUL-that last paragraph!!!!  Thank you for telling it like it is!!!!

AWESOME!!!!

[Sasha]

Just mailed Glen a note.  Doubt he'll get to read it considering, but I just had to send it.

"Your psych-job of associating Dr. Ron Paul with Al Qaeda and terrorists has been rightly used as an example of self-justified civil liberty assassination.  It is double speak to affirm your affinity, Mr Beck,  as a Libertarian then go talking about liberty killing.  You are no doubt following a set of talking points and might not have any motive other that that which sycophants must.  Your bosses are the bad guys.  Those you target do their deeds in peaceful civic responsibility, yet you call them terrorists.  You are the provacuteur, you are the terror wonk, the fear monger.  You Mr. Beck hate the liberty of others, and thus hate the American Constitution and its Bill of Rights, but you still deserve habeous corpous and the rest of your rights, and here in is the difference between you and those you have attacked.  They would grant enemy and friend the same rights,... same humane, human rights.  Here is where you are lost."

send your own@:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?69

[New Whirled Order]

Does anyone really think these neo-con tactics are going to work?  I don't.  The perfect storm for Ron Paul to gain even more widespread support will be the sinking US dollar.  It's all out in the open, and they can't keep it hidden any longer.     

[Cropmeat]

Nice stuff, Sane.

I would say just stop watching CNN altogether.  You're still exposing yourself to manipulative advertisements -- which could be classified as a form of mind control -- and they're still getting you to think about what they want you to think.  Even if you disagree with the content, you're keeping yourself within their box.  Some stuff is interesting to watch like Lou Dobbs but I would encourage everybody to mute and walk away from the TV during advertisements, at least (on any channel).

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Hello all!

The leader of my Ron Paul meetup group E-mail blasted our group, to let us know about the latest travesty that the senate is trying to get passed into law-S.1959.
I encourage everybody to call,  write, or fax your congressmen asap so we can eliminate this bullshit legislation out of existence!!  I read as much as I could stand to, and copied a portion of the definitions section so you get my drift!
SEC. 899A. DEFINITIONS.

`In this subtitle:

`(1) COMMISSION- The term `Commission' means the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism established under section 899C.

`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.

`(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM - The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

`(4) IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE- The term `ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs.

In other words, this government wants to outlaw dissent- which is protected by our Constitution!!

[Femacamper]

raisethehammer.org
"Sane Bush Hatred"
2007/11/15
Joel S. Hirschhorn

The Wall Street Journal gave the top half of its opinion page yesterday to a long essay by Peter Berkowitz titled, The Insanity of Bush Hatred. If anything, it deserves a gold medal for political propaganda.

What caught my attention immediately was the frequent use of the word "progressive" to describe the people Berkowitz was attacking. It was used ten times. In other words, progressives were attacked for hating Bush.

There is a major lie of omission. No mention was made of the vast number of Americans who certainly do not call themselves progressives but hate Bush. Surely there are many millions of sane independents, moderates, libertarians, conservatives and liberals who rightfully hate Bush. To ignore all these Americans betrays the intellectual legitimacy of the article and its arguments.

Here are the few core reasons given by Berkowitz for condemning Bush hatred: It is not a rational force in politics. It clouds and impairs political judgment. It subverts sound thinking. It has addled minds. It damages the intellect. It reduces "complicated events and multilayered issues to simple matters of good and evil." It "blinds to the other sides of the argument, and constrains the hater to see a monster instead of a political opponent."

There is no detailed analysis of all the ways that the Bush administration has betrayed our Constitution. No mention, for example, of Bush signing statements that self-justify not obeying the laws passed by Congress. No mention that the Bush claim of not using torture is so obviously a lie. No mention of using illegal surveillance of Americans and lying about it. No mention of countless lies used to get us into the absurd and costly Iraq war. No mention of the enormous amount of evidence showing that 9/11 was not solely an operation by foreign terrorists, but involved the federal government. And on and on.

The only rational and sane conclusion is that hating Bush is justified and completely sane.

There is some truth to the opening statement: Hating the president is almost as old as the republic itself. But the growing consensus that George W. Bush will go down in history as the nation's worst president is a much larger truth.

It is perfectly reasonable for all Americans to hate Bush for squandering the lives of the many people in our armed forces, for squandering the nation's wealth, and for squandering our nation's good name and reputation. Bush is a national embarrassment and disgrace, and for that he deserves to be hated.

All those with a clear and sound intellect, rational objectivity, sensible judgment, and the ability to know evil when they see it should hate Bush. Hating Bush is nothing to be ashamed of. The real challenge is moving beyond Bush hatred to seeing the need for deep political reforms that restores American democracy.

We must convert the national Bush-hatred-energy into rebellious action. We must re-establish our constitutional checks and balances and removing the unlawful and excessive powers of the presidency. How do we achieve reforms? That is the right question.

As to insanity: I say Americans must stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That same thing is voting for Democrats or Republicans.

Americans must remember that virtually all the evil and corrupt things Bush has done could not have been accomplished without the tacit or explicit support of Democrats in Congress.

The two-party partnership also deserves our hatred. It has removed political competition and the ability of third party candidates from winning national office. To let Bush hatred result in knee-jerk support for Democrats is a mistake.

The only way to restore American democracy is to remove the legitimacy and credibility of the two-party-controlled political system. The way to do that is through a voter boycott in the 2008 US elections for the president and members of Congress. Neither Democrats nor Republicans faithfully represent the interests of the public, and that makes our representative democracy a sham.

To keep playing the game and voting for any candidates who are members of the two-party criminal conspiracy is plain stupid. If Americans keep sustaining this corrupt and dishonest two-party system, then they will continue to witness the decay of their society.

Joel S. Hirschhorn, Ph.D., is the author of Sprawl Kills - How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health, and Money. He can be reached through his website: www.sprawlkills.com. Check out Joel's new book at http://www.delusionaldemocracy.com.

Comments here:
http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog.asp?id=841

[Amishism]

Glenn Beck v Ron Paul ReLOVEution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8M2JBIoqo

Glenn Beck Deems Ron Paul? Domestic Threat?

TruthNews | November 15, 2007
Kurt Nimmo

Hired propagandist and corporate media shill, Glenn Beck, had Jonathan Sandys, great-grandson of Winston Churchill, and the neocon and former Marxist David Horowitz on his show to attack Ron Paul, or more accurately the ?fringe elements? that support Paul.

Horowitz, typically mired in the 1960s, completely mischaracterized the underlying dynamic of the movement, drawing anachronous comparisons between antiwar radicals of the so-called ?New Left? back in the day with Muslims and the diversified antiwar movement of today. Horowitz, with his Marxist conditioning, insisted on lumping these two elements together and for obvious reasons ? demonizing Paul supporters becomes an easier, albeit intellectually lazy and disingenuous effort.
http://infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_glen_beck_considers_domestic_threat.htm


Marxist vow to overthrow republics constitutions.
The Ten Planks of Communism:

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.

7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.

10. Free government education for all children. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/10planks.htm


It is impossible to be pro-constitution and Marxist. We live in a Marxist system already, globally under the United Nations whos first Secretary General was a communist from the Soviet Union.

Ron Paul continues to seek a return to the U.S. Constitution and seperation from the above Marxist system.

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Neocon Attack on Ron Paul: Greasing the Skids for Implementation of H.R. 1955?
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=849
Kurt Nimmo TruthNews November 15, 2007   


It has all the hallmarks of a concerted effort—the corporate media, in particular Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly, are attacking Ron Paul and the 9/11 truth movement at the very moment H.R. 1955, entitled the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007″ (although more accurately entitled the Thought Crime Bill) inches its way toward the Senate, having passed the House of Representatives, that is to say the house of corporate and neocon whores in the District of Criminals. As if to send a strident message they mean business, a Ministry of Homeland Security subcommittee on “terrorism risk assessment” went out of its way on November 6 to conflate so-called jihad terrorism—you know, terrorism engineered by the CIA—with 9/11 truth.

“Under the guise of a bill that calls for the study of ‘homegrown terrorism,’ Congress is apparently trying to broaden the definition of terrorism to encompass both First Amendment political activity and traditional forms of protest such as nonviolent civil disobedience, according to civil liberties advocates, scholars and historians,” writes Jessica Lee. “Many observers fear that the proposed law will be used against U.S.-based groups engaged in legal but unpopular political activism, ranging from political Islamists to animal-rights and environmental campaigners to radical right-wing organizations. There is concern, too, that the bill will undermine academic integrity and is the latest salvo in a decade-long government grab for power at the expense of civil liberties.”

Of course, “political Islamists,” at least here in America, are too intimidated—thanks to the Palmeresque round-up and sadistic abuse of Muslims in the wake of September 11, 2001—to be of serious concern to the neocon-hijacked government. Many of the “animal-rights and environmental campaigners” fall into the category of the big foundation controlled opposition and do not sincerely pose a threat to the neocon “clash of civilizations” agenda abroad and the orchestrated attack against the Bill of Rights at home.

In fact, the only serious threat to the neocons and their neolib partners in crime emanates from the patriot and 9/11 truth movements—and that is why, as increasing numbers of patriotic and politically diverse Americans rally around the Ron Paul presidential campaign, we are witnessing increasingly virulent and desperate attacks against Paul, who is now absurdly conflated with “Islamo-fascist” terrorists.

H.R. 1955 is scary because it does not target actual terrorists but rather “extremist belief systems” and “is not necessarily about violence” but rather the potential “use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence,” according to Alejandro Queral, executive director of the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center. “What is an extremist belief system? Who defines this? These are broad definitions that encompass so much…. It is criminalizing thought and ideology.”

H.R. 1955 is a “form of prior restraint,” explains David Price, a professor of anthropology at St. Martin’s University who studies government surveillance and harassment of dissident scholars. It will prevent people from petitioning the government, lest they find themselves equated with terrorists.

Kamau Franklin, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, is concerned the bill will be used to target peaceful protests. Franklin believes the “Commission’s broad mandate can lead to the ability to turn civil disobedience, a form of protest that is centuries old, into a terrorist act,” thus making it possible “that someone who would have been charged with disorderly conduct or obstruction of governmental administration may soon be charged with a federal terrorist statute…. My biggest fear is that they [the commission] will call for some new criminal penalties and federal crimes…. Activists are nervous about how the broad definitions could be used for criminalizing civil disobedience.”

“There are all sorts of things that activists do that involve little or no risk of hurting people, but their actions get labeled as violent, or even worse, as acts of terrorism,” explains Bron Taylor, a professor at University of Florida. “For example, if 10 activists push themselves into a congressperson’s regional office, make noise, pull out files and make a scene, is that an act of terrorism? It is quite possible that the act could scare the hell out of the secretary and office workers because they don’t know these people or what they intend to do? But is that terrorism? Some people would like to frame it that way.”

Indeed, no doubt “some people” would like to characterize We Are Change—infamous for confronting Giuliani, Romney, Biden, the neocon grand dragon Podhoretz and others—as a terrorist organization that needs to be arrested en masse and shipped to Camp Gitmo or one of those CIA torture dungeons in Poland or Jordan.

“One of the most useful tools for political campaigns today is the use of the internet,” writes Anthony Merola. “Certainly we can see how this has been used over the last few months as Congressmen Paul, as well as other candidates, has used the internet to spread their messages and appeal to new voters, but don’t worry, HR 1955 has taken care of this,” as H.R. 1955 declares the “Internet has aided in facilitating ideologically-based violence and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.”

With this piece of legislation in congress, my generation will no longer be able to use the internet in a peaceful manner. All activity will certainly be logged, and every letter typed will be scrutinized by the state.

My generation has, without their knowing, been forced into a society in which we cannot choose, where we cannot think, where we cannot be free. This legislation is another step towards an Orwellian society that will create misery and despair for generations to come. We will be forced into more wars, more taxation, and more Statist welfare, and there is nothing we will be able to do to stop those in power.

That is, unless we elect Congressman Paul. Ron Paul is the only person in our government advocating for personal liberty, and for privacy rights of the Citizens of this country. Sure, Barack Obama may appeal to the youth vote. But, he has made it clear that he is just another member of the Welfare/Warfare state. He has already told us that he cannot promise our troops will be home by the end of his first term. Style and Substance are two completely different things.

Our rulers understand this as well as the youthful Anthony Merola—and that’s why they are pulling out all the stops to pass the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.”

If they are able to successfully characterize Ron Paul as a terrorist and thus sabotage his political campaign, there will be no end to the state-sponsored domestic terrorism they will unleash against the American people stripped of all advocates.

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UK Wants Net Companies to Fight Terror
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1684154,00.html
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 By AP/RAPHAEL G. SATTER

(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants Internet companies to help stifle online terrorist propaganda, he told lawmakers Wednesday, as officials say they plan to meet leading service providers to find ways of putting a lid on extremist content. But the providers argue they already do all they can to fight illegal terrorist material online, and experts say even powerful filters cannot block determined users from getting their message out. "Fundamentally, it's a losing proposition," said Ian Brown, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, noting that even countries such as China and Myanmar have had trouble with their online censorship efforts. The prime minister's proposal comes as the European Union considers ways to sanction Web sites that display terror propaganda or recruit for terrorist groups. Addressing lawmakers, the prime minister said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was "inviting the largest global technology and Internet companies to work together to ensure that our best technical expertise is galvanized to counter online incitement to hatred." The Home Office said it would meet leading British Internet service providers to examine ways of curbing online propaganda, but said Brown's plan had not yet been considered in detail. Not clear, for instance, was whether the plan would require new laws or different ways of enforcing existing regulations.

British law already forbids the publication of statements likely to be seen as encouraging terrorism or the dissemination of terrorist material, such as bomb-making information, according to the Internet Watch Foundation, an EU-funded body that works with the British government to monitor and remove illegal online content. Under so-called "notice and take down" procedures, authorities, companies and individuals can demand that Internet service providers remove content considered to be unlawful. That includes child pornography, as well libelous, obscene or terrorist material, the group said. Although the removal of child pornography is relatively uncontroversial, service providers have expressed unhappiness at having to shut down their customers' sites over, for example, allegations of libel, where guilt is difficult to determine at a glance. They are unlikely to welcome similar demands over material that allegedly glorifies terrorism. Besides taking down their own customers' sites, service providers also might be pressured to block ones hosted abroad. The government might draw up a list of banned sites, similar to one the Internet Watch Foundation has maintained since 2004 and updates twice daily to block Britons from visiting child pornography sites hosted overseas.

Another method might be to persuade search engines like Google Inc. or Yahoo Inc. to filter out prohibited content from their search results, or manage their searches so that the words "bomb," "al-Qaida," or "video" did not lead users to terrorist-related sites. But both these measures would do little to deter the computer-literate youth being targeted by al-Qaida, Ian Brown said. He noted that users could still swap terror-related content through file-sharing networks, discussion forums, or access material through sophisticated proxy servers and programs that allow users to browse the Net anonymously. Efforts to use Internet service providers to police online content amounted to a "censorship proposal" and was bound to be problematic, said John Gage, vice president and chief researcher for Sun Microsystems Inc. "It's one of these things that's going to be very difficult to implement," he said. Associated Press Writer Michael Astor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contributed to this story.
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ADL taking concerns to Ron Paul
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105349.html
Published: 11/15/2007

The Anti-Defamation League plans to ask Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul to distance himself from extremist groups. Paul, a U.S. congressman from Texas, has come under fire for the support his campaign has enjoyed from leading white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. His campaign reportedly has accepted a donation from Don Black, the owner of the white supremacist Web site Stormfront. Sites for several extremist groups also feature prominent links supporting Paul's candidacy. ADL's assistant director of civil rights, Steven Freeman, told JTA his organization planned to communicate with Paul privately and urge him to distance himself from those groups. "If he doesn't do that, then we will decide what we're going to say publicly about it," Freeman said. Paul thus far has refused to return the campaign contribution from Black. In response to a question from a reporter for Reason magazine, a campaign spokesperson said, "If people who hold views that the candidate doesn't agree with, and they give to us, that's their loss." The ADL previously has taken candidates to task for their ties to supremacist groups. Last year the organization slammed Larry Darby, a Democratic candidate for attorney general in Alabama, after he attended a meeting of the National Vanguard, a splinter group of the National Alliance. Darby was defeated. In October 2001, the ADL commended New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for rejecting a $10 million donation to a 9/11 relief fund from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. Giuliani, like Paul, is a Republican presidential candidate.
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And now the ADL has just outed themselves.

The ADL is a Neo-Con front group that assassinates all anti-war advocates via COINTELPRO operations.

Every sentence is a lie.

ADL, you ever hear of Aaron Russo and Barry Manilow?  I guess these were the biggest white supremecists in US history huh?

ADL your entire facade is going to come tumbling down, you are rockefeller/rothschild/beatrice spies who support eugenics, communism, and a police state.

Here is the ADL philisophy...

If you do not support spraying depleated uranium on innocent children then you are a racist!

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ADL -

All the major candidates are supported by eugenecists that call for (and have the means to) wipe out entire races.  Do you not think that may qualify as "defamation?"