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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: denizen48 who wrote (528914)	1/24/2004 11:11:52 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush’s Speech Raises Concerns Among Ethnic Media Pacific News Service, News Analysis, Peter Micek, Jan 22, 2004 Members of the ethnic media were quick to refute some of the main points of President Bush's State of the Union speech Tuesday night. In his 54-minute address, Bush further shifted away from the “compassionate conservative” image he presented in the last election, said James May, a correspondent for Indian Country Today, a national newspaper owned and operated by New York’s Oneida Nation. May gave examples near the end of the speech, when Bush proposed to use the “constitutional process” to define marriage as a union between a man and woman and promoted a $23 million fund for high school drug testing. “For somebody who ran as a moderate in 2000,” May says of the President, these plans were “quite surprising, especially in an election year.” He concludes that Bush was pleasing the right wing of his party with political “red meat.” The controversial Patriot Act, which increases government power to scrutinize citizens suspected of being terrorists, sparked one of the most divisive moments Tuesday. Loud applause broke out when President Bush mentioned that the Act was set to expire. In a list of news briefs sent to subscribers by email Wednesday, the Council of American Islamic Relations noted the applause for the Act’s expiration. Bush said Congress must renew the Act. The Patriot Act is an “act of discrimination,” says Miguel Baez of Noticiero Semanal, a weekly based in Porterville, Calif. “They are treating any immigrant as a terrorist, and that’s not fair.” Baez believes there are other, better ways for the administration to fight terrorism than by renewing the Act. Sal Osio, of the Southern California weekly Hispanic Vista, said conservative Republicans should oppose the Patriot Act. Osio believes, “It’s surprising that people on the right are not more concerned about the Patriot Act.” The Act weakens personal privacy rights, he asserts, even though “one of the pillars of conservative thought” is to protect citizens from government intrusion. Immigration policy also affects American Indians. Many tribes live on the borders of Mexico and Canada and could be affected by changes in border security, May said. Though immigration is an issue tied to the “War on Terrorism,” Baez said, the war on Iraq is not. He disagrees with what he sees as President Bush’s labeling of the conflict in Iraq as an anti-terrorism effort. Bush began his speech Tuesday with a reference to American troops “deployed across the world in the war on terror.” The occupation of Iraq, Baez says, is “not a war on terror. It’s a war against Iraq that a lot of us don’t agree with.” It was Bush’s defiant attitude, not his words, that most irked Osio on Tuesday. He singles out one comment in particular – when Bush stated that, “America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country” – as something “unnecessary” that “goes without saying.” Of course America does not have to ask permission to defend itself, Osio says. “That was a macho statement that has no place in international diplomacy.” news.ncmonline.com

To: denizen48 who wrote (528914)	1/24/2004 11:12:08 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

What a revelation. You're a Zionist yourself, aren't you? I am? where did you ever get that ? Ah...I thought about that. I* said to myself, just watch some bigot yell at me and expose me for being a rotten, Jew Bastard Zionist, only because I think destroying Jews is a very bad thing. You give Alabama and the insurance industry a bad name Harry. I was born to a Baptist and a Catholic and then attended both Baptist and Presbyterian. I am no longer a religious person, but remain spiritual. Interesting how your thick head came to your conclusion. Want to enlighten me as just how you figured that? Was it because I posted contrary to the angry Iranian boy Mohebbi? Obvious your tree hanging anti-semitism came shining through.