David,
Although you are apparently not an American, you just said, very well as a
matter of fact, what the most of us are saying and thinking. Your post just
went into my personal archive file!
Thank you,
Jim

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Rep. Watts takes a stand for low income communities: Nicholas Sanchez
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Animal dogma: Steven M. Wise’s Rattling the Cage is garnering praise and
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On Mon, 1 May 2000 jeffz9…@my-deja.com wrote:
|In article <20000501043548.09514.00000…@ng-cn1.aol.com>,
|  freemj…@aol.com (FreemJack) wrote:
|> So, why is Arthur Lee in jail?  Inquiring minds would like to know.
|> Jack
|>
|> http://hometown.aol.com/freemjack/myhomepage/profile.html
|> TOP 100 CHART – MAY 1, 1965
|—————————————–
|Posession of a Hand Gun…Lee was an already convicted fellon when
|he evidently turned his stereo up full blast one night and a neighbor
|came by to complain. Arthur reacted by grabbing his pistol and waving
|it around. He is also subject to California’s "three strikes and your
|out" policy visa-vis parole, so he won’t be getting out anytime soon.

I wonder if *other* rock’n'roll stars with *similar* urges to brandish
their pistols might come up with a reason to relocate to Oregon to beat
out on that California "three strikes and your out" policy?  Is pistol
brandishing one of the offenses detailed under Oregon’s Measure 11?

On 1 May 2000, Russ Anderson wrote:
|What is the difference between "Design" and "Creation"?

What kind of a difference are you looking for?

|Is it "designed" by God, or is this an attempt to remove
|God from "Creation"?

Is a ‘camel’ an animal designed by accident, or is it really
a ‘horse’ that was designed by committee?

Genetically modified food is the latest in the concerns for middle
Americans.  If we have mega farms that pollute the groundwater with the out
of proportion waste and all other kinds of chemical spillovers,  why
shouldn’t they be allowed to alter our food as well?  We can then produce
the food cheaper for the masses.  The people in the upper 1% and the CEO’s
of these companies will not be eating at McDonalds or other fast food places
anyway.  This of course is bound to take care of the Social Security problem
as people will not live as long as before.  Look at someone like Michael J.
Fox.  And I know many that are of really young ages compared to prior cases
that have come down with health problems that used to only effect the
elderly.  Look around where you live and start to wonder why far more young
people are coming down with cancer and other illnesses.  Business has this
figured out,  we the masses are all expendable,  just like the worker ant
who only lives for the Queen.

Moderation is often used in the Bible.  It is hardly ever used in Capitalism
gone out of control.  Elect a new congress,  your guy is part of the
problem.  Very few of them are worth keeping.  If you have any doubt,  don’t
vote for that office at all.  Then their opponents will win if they are good
enough and good third party candidates will have good chances to become the
congressmen that we want.

–

Gary Lantz

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Bob wrote:

|So the feds had a search warrant, right?

Got a pointer to a site that contains a copy of the search warrant,
by any chance?

|Search warrants are issued to search for something, believe at some
|point it has to be spelled out what, right? In this case obviously
|it was Elian, right? Search for and take , dare I say, custody of
|one, Elian, right?

It depends on how the warrant is worded.  A seizure might or might
not be authorized.  It depends.  A warrant to search is not necessarily
a warrant to seize.  ;)  Let’s look at the *exact* wording of the
warrant in question.

|Sounds like a court decided there would be a change in custody,
|right?

Sounds like at least one court figured there should be a change.

The Israeli sale of surveillance aircraft, together with U. S. Secretary
of Defense Cohen’s "protests", must be very satisfying to the Chinese
leadership.  I wonder if they understand how the Western Communists do
things.  Selling such sensitive equipment to China under "protest", when
the Israelis are nothing but puppets of Washington (and I speak from
personal experience in this matter) only means one thing:  The aircraft
come equipped with monitoring devices that provide information to those
under surveillance by the aircraft.

The Israelis are putting a bell around the neck of the cat and then
selling that bell to the cat.

Whoo, the local comrades here in Florida are _angry_ at me for
letting the cat out of the bag.  I must say, they are probably
right to be angry.  When you hear the rumors that have been
coming to me, about Zhiang having a secret bank account at a
CIA-controlled bank in the Bahama Islands off the U. S. coast,
and of his plans to "retire" to a villa in the tropics at a
convenient date.  If what I hear is right, he is going to make
a state visit to the U. S. or Canada, and he will be replaced
by a U. S.-trained Zhiang lookalike who has a terminal medical
condition and will be returned to China to have that condition
"discovered".

And, that, dear Chinese Comrades, is why Comrade Zhiang is
pretending not to notice that the AWACS aircraft from Israel are
a special design with embedded programming and microprocessors
which are the analogs of the bell that the cat wears around her
neck.

Now, that’s really odd.  When I think of Chairman Zhiang, and I rarely
do, I get a picture of him in cool sunglasses on board one of those
"sport-fishing" boats somewhere in the Caribbean Ocean, or perhaps
in the Mediterranean near the islands off of Greece.  I see him reeling
in a swordfish with great gusto.

That’s what I call a really serious Communist sport, this fishing in a
specially-equipped boat.  Why, I’ll bet all the Communist leaders go out
sports fishing in the China Straits near Taiwan, or off the coast of Hong
Kong.  Or, maybe it just isn’t as much fun to do this as when you can
dress up like a completely decadent Westerner, with baseball hat and
beady-eyed sunglasses to show your social rank, in some completely non-
Chinese setting.

So, who covers for Zhiang when he is away from the telephone, I wonder?
Does some secretary answer for him and say he is in an urgent meeting?

Did you see today’s news?  Chairman Zhiang "discovered" a party leader
by the name of Cheng who, it is said, was taking bribes.  How many of
you believe that?  Chairman Zhiang "discovered" someone who was
expendable and wasn’t giving him enough bribe money to continue in
politics.  He then used Comrade "Expendable" Cheng as a scapegoat (excuse
the Westernism) to cover up for his own philandering.

Now, Chairman Zhiang, you think you can go back to your fishing boats and
your afternoon trysts away from your office again, eh?  How long before
one of your subordinates resents you enough for not giving her enough
bribe money, and blows the (figurative) whistle?  I think "blowing the
whistle" is still an OK expression after America’s Monica Lewinsky got
over being the proverbial whistle-blower.

Bon-jour,

Comme SEUL le Manuscrit parle de la
      Communauté Universelle qui SEULE pourra
              Un Jour, Une Nuit instaurer
                      Justice et Paix Universelles sur Terre…
 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/azstar

 Et comme  cette association a pour but
         d’instaurer Justice et Paix en France
                et l’exemplarité de la France en vue de l’instauration
                       de Justice et Paix Universelles sur Terre…
 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/azstar/Partiuniverselfrancais.htm

 Je te demande donc de RELAYER ce MEL au plus de monde possible.

Si tu ne le fais pas…tant pis… pour tous les hommes,femmes et enfants
qui ne pourront être sauvés d’une mort non-naturelle
QUE par la Communauté Universelle…

Si tu le fais…tu auras consacré au moins UNE seconde de ta vie à l’
Oeuvre…

Merci

                                             ******************************

Hello,

As ONLY the Manuscript talks about
     the Universal Community which ONLY
         One Day, One Night
            make possible to establish
               Justice and World Peace  on Earth…
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/azstar

And as this association aims
   to establish Justice and Peace in France
         and exemplary nature of France  to the aim of the foundation of
         Justice and World peace on Earth…
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/azstar/Partiuniverselfrancais.htm

So, I ask you TO RELAY this E-MAIL to most possible people.

If you do not make it… so worse for all the men, the women and children
who ONLY be saved from a non-natural death  by the Universal Community…

If you make it… you will have dedicated at least one second of your life
to the Work…

Thank you

PS:(NOW ,YOU CAN FIND A ENGLISH VERSION OF The Manuscript)

Now everyone who disagrees with the above statement read this next sentence
VERY CAREFULLY:

Lazaro(Elian’s uncle) has NEVER said he would NOT let the Feds have Elian.
Lazaro said that _he would not actively BRING Elian to them_, but he would
stand by and hand Elian over "with tears in his eyes" if they came to
remove him.

There WON’T be any resistance by Lazaro or anyone else in the family, this
has been made clear.  So why hasn’t the media reported this? Every US media
opinion and report seems to closely follow Castro’s propaganda, warning
about "armed men guarding Elian", and the "imminent violent confrontation".
This govt/media propaganda effort has actually been sucessfull in provoking
violent "anti-Elian" nuts to visit the Gonzales home who scream about the
boy being "held hostage" in America… Ask yourself, why is Reno setting the
family up for a violent confrontation like this?

—————————————————————————-
————————————————————

A few days ago CNN’s Judy Woodruff was casually commenting on these "armed
men" guarding Elian when a field reporter informed her that they didn’t
actually exist, and noone around the Miami home had ever seen them.  Yet in
watching live coverage this morning only 1/2 hour after the raid was over, a
female CNN reporter was STILL inquiring as to whether this group of
mysterious "armed men" guarding Elian offered the INS any resistance.  The
sad fact is that the only violent armed men there were Reno’s goons.

It remains to be seen if the propaganda will hold.  The fisherman who
rescued Elian who was in the house with him at the time of the raid was
shown briefly on live TV, lamenting the violence of the raid, saying that
all they(the Feds) had to do was wait for him to get Elian up and to the
door…

=| #! rnews 666
=| Subject: Cuban Crisis III
=| X-Newsreader: CixRead/CixComm

      A terrible ‘mistake’ was made by Eisenhower (‘R’) in 1956, over the
      Suez affair, even though Britain and France proposed handing the Canal
      over to an international authority which would guarantee access to the
      world’s shipping.  Instead, the US supported an Arab Nationalist,
      whose doctrine of "National Self-Determination" was emblematic of the
      worst error in political doctrine of the 20th Century.  Eisenhower
      explicitly supported Fidel Castro’s seizure of power in Cuba.

      At the same time, however, Eisenhower refused Frank Wisner (Deputy
      Director, Plans, CIA) permission to release the "stay-behind" arms
      caches to the Hungarian Resistance. This decision destroyed Frank
      Wisner’s life, and he shot himself after being subjected to massive
      electroshock "treatment" at Fletcher Pratt Memorial Hospital.

         As Wisner said to Fitzgerald afterwards:  "If you knew what you’d
      done to me, Des, you’d never be able to live with yourself."

Cuban Crisis: 0

      In all essentials, the battle for Cuba was a public relations
      campaign, fought in New York and Washington.  Earl Smith, appointed
      Ambassador to Cuba in 1957, was told: "You are assigned to Cuba to
      preside over the downfal;l of Batista."  Once in Havana, however,
      Smith grasped that a Castro victory would be a disaster for America,
      and he sought to prevent it.  Washington, however, continued to arm
      Castro while denying arms to Castro’s opponents, as of 1958.  Castro
      had around 3 000 followers. (Eisenhowere  - ‘R’ ) was in power from
      1952-1961.  (Paul Johnson, ‘History of the Modern World’, [1983]:  my
      personal copy is inscribed by the author).

      "What goes around, comes around"; and before long, America was
      entangled in South East Asia.  Neil Sheehan’s book "A Bright Shining
      Lie" spells out this appalling tragedy in all its majesty and despair.
      Some of my friends call me "The only living Englishman who still
      supports what America was trying to do in Vietnam."  I guess that’s
      kinda true.  >:-}

      I recall so well reading John Paul Vann’s comments on the War at that
      time.  My Great-Aunt Dene Smith worked at the American Interests
      Department of the Foreign Office under Oliver Franks (later to be
      chief of MI6). She introduced me to Barry Goldwater’s politics.  Her
      husband had been Hawley Armistead Smith, who worked with the State
      Department as Consul, and served with the US Army.  Dene and Hawley
      are buried at Arlington National Cemetary, as is John Paul Vann.  

      When John Paul Vann died, I knew that America’s war was finished.

      He was indeed the one irreplaceable American in the War.

      I had no confidence whatever in Nixon (‘R’) and Kissinger (‘R’), who
      _sold out the Western cause to the Soviets_ in Paris in 1973.

      This _broke_ America’s dependability as an ally.  We all knew that.

      We must thank CIA for bringing Nixon himself down, before he took the
      whole Western cause down with him.  Anyone who believes that a "beat"
      police officer will arrest and charge active CIA operatives in the
      Watergate building is living in a fantasy world, and will believe
      absolutely anything.  Anyone who beleives that Woodward & Bernstein
      were dogged "investigative reporters" will believe anything, too.

      DDP Richard Helms denies it all, of course.  

      Well, he would, wouldn’t he?  >:-}

      "It was the policy at the time to get rid of Castro, and if killing
      him was one of the things that had to be done … we felt that we were
      acting well within the guidelines … Nobody wants to embarrass a
      President … by dicussing the assassination of foreign leaders in his
      presence." — Richard Helms, in Congressional testimony.

      Read "The Man Who Kept The Secrets" by thomas powers.

      And "The Agency" by John Ranelagh.

             ——————- * * * * * —————

      Admiral Noel Gayler, whom I respect above all living Americans, and
      who I’ve been privileged to talk with on several occasions (we share
      an interest in nuclear disarmament) commanded the American withdrawal
      from South East Asia in 1975 as CinCPAC.  Frank Snepp’s book "Decent
      Interval" gives some idea as to the problems he confronted, given
      Kissinger’s _indecent_ haste to leave those who had supported
      America’s cause to the tender mercies of the Communist enemy.

             ——————- * * * * * —————

      John G. Schmitz was a State senator for California; a Congressman for
      Orange County; and a Presidential candidate.  He was (like Larry
      McDonald, whose killer is now the Chief of the Russian General Staff)
      a Chairman of the John Birch Society, an ideological "mixed blessing"
      which still provided much of the impetus for the founding of Heritage.

      It is fair to say that Mr. Schmitz’s politics and mine are sharply
      divergent on some issues.  His oldest son, John Pat Schmitz, is
      married to the sister of Governor Jeb Bush’s wife; and John Pat
      Schmitz served as President Bush’s Personal Aide in the White House,
      in the post of Deputy Secretary for Legal Affairs.  In that post, he
      handled the residual Iran/Iraq/Contra problems for President Bush.

      I’d read John G. Schmitz’s Introduction to Gary Allen’s "None Dare
      Call It Conspiracy."  In 1997, I went to the defence of Ms. Mary Kay
      Letourneau, the Seattle school-teacher who is presently serving seven
      and a half years imprisonment for doing rather less than John Paul
      Vann did.  Her "crime" and her "conviction" are wholly unConstitutional.

      She’s John G. Schmitz’s daughter.  She has spent eight of the past
      twelve months in "Super-Solitary", deprived of all direct daylight, no
      radio, no TV, no wrist-watch,  23 hours a day, seven days a week.  All
      this, for the high crime of daring to "communicate" with the father of
      her two youngest children.  She has been deprived of all contact with
      her four oldest children, quite deliberately, and her youngest
      daughter is only now able to see her occasionally.  Her daughter
      Audrey has been kept from her for the past 2 1/2 years.  Her children
      have been irreparably damaged by this barbarous malpractice.

      Is this not exactly the sort of thing we were fighting _against_ in
      the Cold War?

      Come and see: Imaginary crimes (women cannot "rape" males);  Enforced
      "psychiatric" treatment?  Forcible administration of "Depakote", an
      _anti-epileptic_ drug that (according to the University of California,
      San Diego [1997]), destroys religious experience itself by attacking
      neural cascades in the frontal lobe of the brain?

      Practices straight from the "coerced compliance" manuals of Fidel
      Castro’s Cuban regime.  "Welcome to Havana", America …

             ——————- * * * * * —————

Cuban Crisis I

      The ‘Bay of Pigs’ fiasco
      ========================

      When the ‘covert’ action by America to smash Castro’s government was
      under way, Kennedy deliberately left Adlai Stevenson, America’s
      Ambassodor to the UN, out of the planning loop.  Quite wisely, Kennedy
      just didn’t trust him.  CIA’s private air force proceeded to take out
      all but two planes in Castro’s entire air force.  When news of the
      invasion of Cuba broke, Stevenson swore blind to the world that the US
      had nothing whatever to do with it (this was preposterous, of course,
      but Stevenson actually seemed to believe it himself).

      And the world believed Stevenson.

      So Kennedy _changed his mind_ and _cancelled_ the operation…

      Kennedy _cancelled_ the scheduled air-strikes from the two US Navy
      Aircraft Carriers stationed conveniently outside Cuban territorial
      waters.  the Captain of the USS ‘Boxer’ said to his pilots (who were
      on the flight deck, fully kitted up,  with their planes fuelled and
      armed and all ready to go, to take out _Castro’s entire governmental
      infrastructure_  – microwave communications centers and towers;
      police offices; Cuban army barracks and vehicles; everything):

      "If you want to fly the mission, I won’t stop ypu." A brave man.

      On my living-room wall, I have an 8 x 10 colour glossy photo of an
      SR-71 "Blackbird" in USAF cover markings, in serene high flight,
      signed — just for me — by Richard M. Bissell, jr., who served as
      Chief Economist to the Marshall Plan and as Deputy Director, Plans,
      among other leading roles.  A true American Hero).

      Richard Bissell was CIA’s officer commanding the attacks on Castro.

      After Kennedy botched the [1961] attack, he summoned bissell to the
      Oval Office and told him this:

      "Under a Parliamentary system such as they have in Britain, I as Prime
       Minister would be resigning now, and you — as a civil Servant —
       would be stating.  As it is, this is the United States, and _you_
       will be resigning." ("Reflections of a Cold Warrior", by Richard M.
       Bissell jr., publ. Yale [1996]).

       President Clinton may care to remember those words when discussing
       Reno’s future after her Dawn Raid on Elian n his home in Little
       Havana with Louis Freeh, the (former?) Director of the FBI …

             ——————- * * * * * —————
Cuban
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