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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (12256)	2/24/2003 1:16:15 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Re: As you can probably tell, we've grown a bit. Yes, the basic life plan of a cancer. Vastly increased number of posts. Most of which are emanating from a slimy Right Wing Confederacy of Dunces who think they can drown out the truth with the sheer volume of the detritus of their putrid and puerile posturings. While they try to spread lies here, they try to suppress the truth elsewhere: Here's the goon squad in action: mediawhoresonline.com DUBYA'S ENEMIES LIST Nixonian Attack On Dean Of White House Press Corps Organized Official Republican Party Smear Campaign Against Helen Thomas Bush Assault To Intimidate Media White House Correspondents' Association Silent Not since Richard M. Nixon made a little list -- an enemies list -- of those in the press and in politics who disagreed with his policies has a U.S. President launched a public personal attack on a specific American journalist. Now, the ever-reliable Hotline reports, George W. Bush has mobilized the Republican National Committee to beat up the outspoken truth-teller, venerated senior White House correspondent, and "First Lady of the press," Helen Thomas, because she has DARED to criticize his public policies. Helen Thomas: Press heroine, Dubya smear target Helen Thomas has had the courage to say what many are thinking, that Bush is "the worst president in all of American history." For exercising her First Amendment freedom, the entire Republican Party smear machine has now been deployed against the brave and distinguished journalist. The RNC has sent out a full-scale call to the hardline partisans in its email data base to destroy Ms. Thomas in response to her criticism of their "president." By singling her out, the Republicans seek nothing less than to intimidate the entire press corps: PRESS PASS: GOP Asks Activists To Take On Helen Thomas In response to Helen Thomas' recent column naming Pres. Bush "the worst President in all of American history," the RNC is asking supporters to "Call Her Out." They provide the following information online: "Helen Thomas -- Hearst News Service Title: Columnist Department: Headquarters E-mail: [e-mail address] Phone: [phone number] Fax: [fax number] Address: [address]" (RNC e-mail, 2/20). Where are the editorials in the New York Times and in the Washington Post? Where are the press freedom groups and journalists' defense organizations? Where are Daniel Schorr, Mary McGrory, and all of the other surviving targets of Nixon's "enemies list"? Above all, where is the board of the White House Correspondents' Association, now that their courageous colleague -- who has covered every president since John F. Kennedy, and always commanded the utmost respect -- has been targeted in Dubya's Nixonian campaign to smother all criticism? Email the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press mailto:rcfp@rcfp.org and Bob Deans, President of the White House Correspondents Association, mailto:bobdeans@coxnews.com to demand public statements defending Helen Thomas's freedom of expression and denouncing George W. Bush for attempting to suppress it. Email Helen Thomas mailto:helent@hearstdc.com to express your full support against George W. Bush's and the RNC's outrageous smear campaign against her.

To: PartyTime who wrote (12256)	2/24/2003 1:23:46 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Countries unite against war By Kimina Lyall, southeast Asia correspondent February 24, 2003 CALL it a gathering of the bad and the worst. Attendees at tomorrow's Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Kuala Lumpur include a rollcall of the world's great pariahs. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe will be there ? Malaysia being one of the few countries to offer warm welcomes to men who have undeniably plunged prosperous countries into economic ruin ? joining key representatives of the US's "axis of evil". Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khameini, is the most senior of the ill-fated three to arrive, and Iraq is represented by Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan ? along with a truckload of documents he says will convince the 114 members of his country's innocence in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction. North Korea's Kim Yong-nam, the president of the People's Assembly, rounds out the troika. Already, he has thrown the summit into its expected controversies, by demanding ? apparently unsuccessfully ? that the summit's declaration call on the US to cease its aggression towards North Korea. Meanwhile, the leaders of the world's two fragile nuclear adversaries, Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf and India's Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will probably keep their distance from each other after India called for the resolution to stand against "state-sponsored terrorism", in a clear reference to Pakistan and disputed Kashmir. Of course, of the movement's 114 members ? set to increase to 116 by tomorrow ? there are many more mild-mannered leaders also present. East Timor's Xanana Gusmao and Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai will represent potential alternatives to unpopular regimes. The gathering is presided over by a slightly less iron-fisted despot, Malaysia's Mahathir Mohammad but, even with such a roll of heavy-hitters, there isn't much chance it will actually achieve anything. The problem is the non-aligned movement, which was launched in 1955 as a "third way" grouping against the Cold War superpowers, in recent years represents a group of people who are largely not aligned with each other or even, in many cases, with their own citizens. Now it seems that anti-American sentiment will form the only basis for some unity in the grouping, which is almost entirely made up of developing nations in Africa, the Middle-East, Asia and South America. "NAM?" asks Malaysian political scientist Professor P. Ramasamy. "I call it the NUMB . . . it is a non-aligned non-movement. Mahathir is trying to revive a movement that is irrelevant." In a sign that he is right, the only surviving founder of the movement, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk ? who was present during the NAM's planning in 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia and at its first meeting, in Belgrade in 1961 hosted by Yugoslav President Tito ? is one of many heads of state who has decided to stay home.