FASCIST TACTICS IN THE USA (see the Knight-Ridder article below) continues
to typify the character of the US's Amercian politics recently re****ted
that
tactics seen at the 1968 Democratic and later Republican conventions has
not
stopped.
How can the world expect more from the USA when domesticly its common
standards are so low and of a fascist nature, when the world atacks the US
oy when they feel threatened, annoyed, disagreed with, or contradicted
albeit local op****tunistic reasons?
I say they can expect nothing and that the US must institute a Truth and
reconciliation Commision as did South Africa for the USA has politically
gone thru as an objectionable if not worse period of political filth.
How was segregation different from Aparteid? It wasn't
How was McCathyism different from any other period of repression?
The USA can not pretend to addres the citizens of the world let alone
those
of the world when its policies are mainly determined on levels which have
no
real regard for the people as:
The US society is awash with over worked people too tired in relation****ps
not even *** (Poll finds Americans too sleepy for ***, Reuters Press
Association Tuesday March 29, 06:03 AM )
and in failing marriages (where 50% of first time marriages fail) and
produce dysfuntional families where there is often less than an hour a
week
for quality time together, children are constantly pressured at school to
inform on their parents for drug use (amongst other things) considered
non-criminal in most countries (smoking a joint).
--
Andrew Zito
P.O.Box 1615
Altoona, Pa 16603
andrew_zito<remove before posting>@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 29, 7:16 PM ET Top Stories - Knight Ridder Newspapers
By Ron Hutcheson, Knight Ridder Newspapers
WA****NGTON - Some of President Bush's sup****ters seem to be going
overboard
in their efforts to stifle dissent when he comes to town to talk about
changing Social Security.
Echo Company
Knight Ridder Special Re****t (at philly.com)
In Denver, three people say they were booted out of a presidential event
last week even though they never uttered a peep, apparently because their
car bore a bumper sticker denouncing the war in Iraq.
In Fargo, N.D., last month, local Republicans developed a blacklist of
more
than three dozen residents, including a city commissioner, who were to be
banned from Bush's visit.
White House officials say they have nothing to do with the exclusions,
which
they blame on overzealous sup****ters.
"We welcome a diversity of views at the events," White House spokesman
Scott
McClellan said Tuesday, although in fact participants at the events are
carefully screened and dissenting voices are rare.
There was no welcome mat for Alex Young and his two companions when they
showed up to see Bush on March 21 in Denver. Bush was there for one of a
series of "conversations" about his plan to change Social Security.
Young and his friends, Karen Bauer and Leslie Weise, had barely gotten in
the door before they were unceremoniously shown the exit by a man who
refused to explain his actions. They thought he was a Secret Service agent
because he had an earpiece and an official-looking lapel pin.
Young said he was later told by Secret Service officials that he and his
friends had been ejected by a local Republican volunteer who'd been
spurred
to action by the bumper sticker on their car: "No More Blood for Oil."
"The thing that set them off was the bumper sticker," Young said in a
telephone interview. "It was completely unprovoked. ... The whole time he
was really pu****ng and shoving me. We were never told that only
Republicans
were invited."
Complaints about tight restrictions at Bush's events have become common.
His
presidential campaign used tight crowd-control screens last fall, and
similar tactics now seem to be employed at official presidential stops,
which unlike campaign events are paid for by taxpayers' dollars.
During Bush's Feb. 3 visit to Fargo, the local newspaper published a list
of
about 40 local residents who were supposed to be barred from the White
House-sponsored event. City Commissioner Linda Coates, a Democrat, was on
the list, along with her husband, Mike, but she got in anyway.
In a follow-up letter to the Fargo Forum newspaper, she called the
attempted
exclusion "one of those small dumb things" that is a symptom of a larger
problem.
"It was jarring to realize that someone, somewhere, thought that making
this
list was the right thing to do. Sadly, the climate of keeping voices of
disagreement at bay has become a well-known characteristic of this
administration," she wrote.
In Denver, Young, a 25-year-old information-technology worker,
acknowledges
that he and his friends had initially intended to protest Bush's
appearance.
All wore "Stop the Lies" T-****rts under their outer clothing. They had
planned to expose their ****rts while shouting the slogan.
"It was kind of juvenile. When we got inside, we decided not to do that,"
he
said.
Young said the man who ejected him had no way of knowing about the aborted
protest because they kept their opinions to themselves during their brief
time at the event. They got tickets to Bush's appearance through Rep. Bob
Beauprez (news, bio, voting record), R-Colo., who handed them out without
asking about party affiliation.
Still unclear is precisely who was behind the decision to eject the three
people. Colorado Republican Party officials, the Secret Service and a
spokesman for Beauprez all said they had nothing to do with it.
White House spokesman McClellan said: "My sense is that the volunteer felt
that these individuals were coming to the event to disrupt it. If people
are
coming to the event to disrupt it, naturally they are going to be asked to
leave."
But Dan Recht, a Denver lawyer says he's considering legal action on
behalf
of the ejected critics for what he sees as a violation of their
free-speech
rights. "They were punished for the speech that was on their bumper
sticker," Recht said. "It just feels so un-American."
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