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& IN PRIME ANARCHIST WORLD NEWS
Source: FBI Missing Children
by Roland Hesse PAWN Writer
WASHINGTON (PAWN)-- Three boys good at song and dance, and some
audio editing equipment are missing from the FBI, a source with
knowledge of the situation told the PAWN Tuesday.
Attorney General John Ashcroft was expected to confirm the
missing children late Tuesday. The youths that are missing are
Zach, Taylor and Isaac, said a source who described the problem
on condition of no one saying she's their mom.
"They were right there on the tourbus where I left them last,"
this source said. The equipment missing is mostly microphones,
along with some digital sampling devices and a mix-down unit,
the source said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will hold oversight
hearings on the FBI, and questions about the missing youths are
expected to come up at that time.
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LETTUCE
] Next up, perhaps the longest letter ATI's ever [
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] doesn't go long. God knows it went late. [
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> Marco, Hendrik forwarded your comments on the recent AP story of the
> arrest of Sr. Dorothy Hennessey. The following may help explain why
> nuns are singled out. In solidarity, Ed
>
>
> [[OP-ED on the School of the Americas....about 700 words; best
> published soon after July 17, 2001 -- the date most of the SOA 26 enter
> prison. Check http://www.soaw.org for press release. ]]
>
> WHY DO ELDERLY NUNS HAVE TO KEEP GOING TO PRISON?
>
> by Ed Kinane
>
>
> In Central America an archbishop, a bishop, several U.S. nuns and twice
> as many priests have been killed by the men with guns trained at the US
> Armys School of the Americas.
>
> Among the nearly 70 SOA Watchers who have gone to prison in recent
> years, are priests and ministers and at least six Roman Catholic nuns
> over 65 years of age. One, Sister Dorothy Hennessy, a Franciscan from
> Dubuque, is 88 years old. As I write, Sr. Dorothy, her own sister, Gwen
> (also a nun), and 20 other SOA Watch prisoners of conscience are
> beginning to serve six month sentences in federal prisons throughout the
> U.S.
>
>
> Whats going on here?
>
> The SOA, located at Ft. Benning, GA, claims it teaches Latin American
> soldiers and officers about democracy and human rights. Why then does it
> mock its own pretensions by sending so many people -- so many religious
> people -- to prison merely for exercising their First Amendment right of
> assembly, petition and free speech? And why do so many of these receive
> maximum sentences for what, after all, is a trivial violation -- one for
> which other courts often give a tsk tsk or slap on the wrist?
>
> Every parochial school student knows that "the blood of the martyrs is
> the seed of the Church." The SOA has had ample opportunity to learn that
> when it sends US citizens to prison, the anti-SOA campaign burgeons. You
> would think, then, that the SOA would wise up. You would think that, out
> of sheer pragmatism, it would instruct the Georgia prosecutors and
> judges who do its bidding to go easy on these defendants.
>
> But that is to misunderstand what the SOA is all about.
>
> The SOA is in its death throes. It operates with an arm tied behind its
> back. Three years ago it had to retire its commandant, a Cold War
> troglodyte. It also had to retire some of its more explicit course
> manuals. Since then, in a harbinger of its own fate, it had to close its
> cherished Hall of Fame -- a portrait gallery of some of its most
> prominent and bloody graduates. To buy time and to slither out from
> under its stigma, last January the SOA reinvented itself as the "Western
> Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation."
>
> Now, this doesnt mean the SOAs mission isnt getting
> accomplished. Besides the many other training installations in the U.S.,
> Army Special Forces and Pentagon-hired mercenaries now do military
> training in Colombia and other hot spots.
>
> And the "new" SOA/WHISC itself is as shameless as ever. It still
> provides anti-insurgency training. But that is just code for
> anti-civilian training. One of the tragedies of our era is that when the
> U.S. goes to war (whether in Viet Nam, Panama, Iraq or via proxy in
> Central America and Colombia), most of the casualties are civilians.
> Thus, Latin American soldiers indoctrinated in U.S.-style warfare learn
> that civilians are either a) expendable or b) the enemy.
>
> In Latin America often its the professional religious -- the nuns and
> priests who minister to the poor -- who are especially the enemy. They
> are the ones who teach other civilians that they are children of God.
> This means all workers and campesinos are entitled to human dignity and
> a living wage -- a notion thats anathema to the corporate interests,
> local and multinational, here and in those countries.
>
> Its pretty hard to have the civilians-as-enemy mind set overseas and
> not carry it over to civilians here at home. Especially those who oppose
> your will. If the SOA is to have any credibility in the eyes of its
> clients and trainees, it cant have a double standard: it cant
> encourage the killing of nuns and priests in Latin America and neglect
> to persecute these same kinds of people here in the U.S.
>
>
> Ed Kinane, based in Syracuse, is a member of the SOA Watch Advisory
> Group. He has spent 14 months in prison for opposing the SOA. On July 17
> his brother Richard John, one of the recently convicted "SOA 26," began
> a six month sentence in federal prison. To learn more, check
> http://www.soaw.org.
>
> Ed Kinane
And now a moment from Dictionary.com
a·him·sa (-hmsä) n.
A Buddhist and Hindu doctrine expressing
belief in the sacredness of all living
creatures and urging the avoidance of
harm and violence.
BUMPER STICKER
| This bumper sticker speaks |
| deferential and nice about |
| law enforcement hoping this |
| will just be a warning :) |
Statement from Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone
Elder & Spiritual Leader: (07/13)
I would say that I'm making a statement against what
the tribal government, the Bureau of Indian Affairs
have done to the Indian people. This is something that
we have done for thousands of years before you people
have made a law. This is something in our tradition,
this is the way that we, the people survived for probably
a million years on this earth of ours because that's working
with the nature. The nature is providing us with all kinds
of healing from different kinds of sickness.
Then you people have come along and interrupted our traditional
way of life.This is what we are going to have to do from now
on and before you people would really understand you should
be understanding our ways because the law came upon this part
of the continent not too many years ago and you took it upon
yourself to interrupt our way of life.
Our way of life is very important, just like your life but I
wish you people would never interfere in our ceremonies, our
spiritual ceremonies because this is the way we have healed
each other and we are going to have to continue. This is the
way our forefathers have taught us, this is what the nature
have taught them, not only as a human but all the living
things that provide us with all the nature way of life. I
hope you understand that you are doing the wrong thing by
interfering in our ways. We, the nature people have never
interfered with your religion, never have and never will
cause that's your way of life, so leave the people alone.
This is a sad thing that you people have been doing since
1492. You have put this against us and this is something that
we don't want to deal with. We have never harassed your people
in your way of life, that's your religious way of life so I
would say this is the way it's going to have to be. I hope
you understand what you're doing and what I'm trying to
say to you.
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[http://www.blackmesais.org/anna_mae_sundance_2k1.htm#harney]
A SPECIAL ATI SONG
You don't know where you met me and you don't know why
You musta mixed me up with some other guy
I make up all these songs as I go along
And people like Unkle Krakka come and steal my songs
Singin,
Follow me and everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night
And if you wanna leave I can guarantee
You won't find no body else like me.
When I wrote there was no heroin
And no talk of infidelity from married women
No words about veins, or fish in the sea
Or anything about the ring you wear for me.
(repeat chorus 2 or 3 times)
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Back: WITHOUT PERMIT
YOU CAN JAIL THE RESISTER: BUT
YOU'LL NEVER JAIL THE RESISTANCE
Jay Hughes of the Associated Press published
a story today entitled "88-Year-Old Nun Begins
Prison Term" that my favorite "cyber-utne"
Commondreams.org picked up as one of their
headlines.
I thought I'd put a couple excerpts to it
here and give a link to it. Even better than
the story is the work Commondreams has done
along the right column of it which they call
"Also See:"
There's a bunch of links to other related
stories.
OK, so Dorothy Hennessey arrived Tuesday at
the minimum-security Pekin Federal Prison Camp
along with her sister Gwen Hennessey, 68, also
a nun from Dubuque, Iowa.
The sisters were among 26 protesters convicted
of trespassing during a November protest in which
some 3,400 people crossed onto the Army base
without permission. Only those who had been
arrested for trespassing before but not prosecuted
were sentenced to prison.
OK, that last statement was true, but only half
true. Associated Press fails my Journalism 101
class this first session of summerschool because
they didn't do the extra work to find clarity and
balance.
The 26 were picked from among about 100 "second
timers" within the group of about 3400 who risked
arrest by crossing the line entering onto Fort
Benning to protest the SOA.
Picture of the 26? See:
http://www.soaw.org/Articles/current%2520info/new/soa_26_indicted.html
They seem to have picked these 26 rather arbitrarily.
At least no one in "the movement" can figure out any
rhyme or reason to it. Some were from a group of
direct action puppeteers who knew they had a fairly
high risk of arrest. They marched the wrong way
walking most of the time "in through the out road,"
perhaps terrifying the MP's and police given overtime
that day to try and "handle" the protest. Others were
in the wide body of marchers crossing the line. Some
were singled out right away, others were "found out"
during the long "arrest-processing" that followed the
action, where clearly obvious attempts at disrupting
traditional "jail solidarity" was being conducted.
Besides the direct action people, the others prosecuted
really were only guilty of being on a list of people
who had been prosecuted the last year.
While waiting for our captured comrades to be returned
to us that night last November I heard it said by one
of the earliest released that it felt more like what
she'd imagined Pinochet's Chile to be not Clinton's
transfer of power to Bush in the Untied States of
the Americas.
At any rate: the AP story can be found at:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0718-01.htm
Enjoy your travels through all those other links too
if you get the chance.
Marco
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