Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (666)	11/25/2003 2:21:41 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 3079

VoteNoWar.org: FBI Targets Anti-War Movement -- votenowar.org Sign On to Defend the First Amendment, Oppose the FBI's Targeting of the Antiwar Movement Dear VoteNoWar Member, Thousands of organizations and individuals will be signing the following statement in support of the First Amendment and in opposition to the FBI's targeting of the antiwar movement. Initial signers include former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark; historian Howard Zinn; National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian and others. To sign the statement, click on the link at the end of this e-mail. We the undersigned stand in defense of the First Amendment and in opposition to the Bush Administration's expanding effort to stifle dissent. Confronted with a rising tide of political opposition from the people of the United States, who are outraged at the lies used to justify a war and occupation of Iraq, Bush and Ashcroft are resorting to crass intimidation tactics against the anti-war movement. The current campaign of FBI intimidation was revealed in the front-page NY Times story of Sunday, November 23 under the headline: "F.B.I. SCRUTINIZES ANTIWAR RALLIES - Officials Say Effort Aims at 'Extremist Elements.'" Citing an internal FBI memorandum circulated ten days prior to the October 25 demonstrations that drew 100,000 in Washington D.C. and 20,000 in San Francisco, this well placed "revelation" of FBI targeting of the antiwar movement should be seen as a measure of the desperation of an Administration that is increasingly alarmed that people of this country are rejecting its illegal and immoral policies. As they become isolated on Iraq, Bush and Ashcroft are borrowing a page from the Nixon and Mitchell tenure during Vietnam: use the secret police and FBI to disrupt and intimidate their opponents. Like Nixon they will fail because the people of the United States will stand together to reject FBI intimidation. Bush and Ashcroft seek to stifle dissent by making the exercise of First Amendment rights synonymous with terrorism but the people will defend these cherished rights today as they have been forced to in the past. We will never be silenced! We publicly affirm the right to express dissent and to engage in protest free from FBI and government harassment and we vow to support the growing efforts of the antiwar movement to end the illegal and ongoing war and occupation of Iraq. To sign the statement in defense of the First Amendment and opposition to the FBI's targeting of the antiwar movement, click here.