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To: longnshort who wrote (268928)	1/17/2006 10:33:19 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 1575733

Norwegian Capitulation Regarding Boycott of Israeli Goods By Mohamed Khodr Al-Jazeerah, January 17, 2006 The debate in Norway regarding boycotting Israeli goods and the immediate disavowment by the government is in itself stark proof that Israel's influence upon the United States and thus Norway has intimidated the western world into a pandering complicity in Israel's brutal occupation of the Palestinians, the true indigent population of Palestine, ethnically cleansed by European Zionists. Without Oil and Israel the Middle East would be a forgotten desert with the exception of the Suez Canal's value to shipping. I was in Beirut in 1982 during Sharon's (man of peace) military seige of the city indiscriminately bombing civilians, cutting off of food, water, and medical supplies, and his protection of the murderous Christian Phalangist party's massacre of 2,000 men, women, and children in the camps of Sabra and Shatila. Several U.N. Security Council Resolutions "urging" Israel to lift the siege were as meaningless as the previous dozens of U.N. Resolutions. President Ronald Reagan called it " a holocaust", yet that was rejected by Begin. The U.N. Security Council is a nuclear power club whose purpose is to ensure the interests of its members at the expense of the "insecurity" of the third world. Security Council Resolutions are implemented by the nuclear club against Arab nations (Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, and third world countries) but Israel's defiance of hundreds of total U.N. Resolutions is accepted as "de facto". One night while working in Beirut's American University Hospital's emergency room several burned and severed bodies of sibling children were brought in, victims of an American missile fired from an American F-16 piloted by an Israeli pilot. Minutes later the shocked, dazed, crying, broken father was lifted in to the E.R. to see all his children in unrecognizable form. He knelt down, picked up his smallest child, a girl, and looked at me with a frozen face and asked: "why do they hate us", "why does America and the world let Israel do this to us"; "where is the United Nations"; "how do I tell their mother." With that he stretched over the bodies and wouldn't let us take them to the morgue. This is Israel, the only democracy for "jews", the ally of the west, the civilized modern nation, the monopolizers of the words; "genocide, holocaust, victims of hate, victims of Islam and worldwide "anti-semitism", surrounded by nations with the military capability to destroy Israel, the only nuclear power in the region. Not since David and Goliath have stones in the hands of youth so threatened a powerful state. This is the Israel whose power has turned America into a "NeoCon Nation, serving a "NeoCon Tribe", with power over a "NeoCongress" that would rather spend money on Israel than the victims of Katrina while cutting aid to its poorest citizens. This is the Israel whose blood is valued above all blood, whose voice is front page news, which serves as the gateway to America's benevolence, and whose stick silences people of peace and justice around the globe, whose latest victim is Norway, the most civilized livable nation on earth. Norwegians are only the victims "du jour" whose government submitted to the "AntiSemitic" label for simply suggesting boycotting goods built and grown on stolen occupied land. World peace and the subsequent elimination of terrorism depends on freeing the Palestinians from the western imposed yoke of Israel's guns and militant squatters. Intellectually and religiously Muslims oppose any terrorism but can't overcome the hypocrisy, double standards, and total support of Israel's brutality in Palestine while the west speaks of "freedom and democracy" for Muslims. The west seeks to free Muslims from their oil and impose a "democratic occupation" to serve Israel and Multi-national Corporations. Norwegians must refuse America's imposition and interference in its internal affairs, if they wish to impose a boycott they must be "free" to choose their will, not Israel's will. Without justice for the Palestinians, there will never be peace for the west. Without freedom for the west from Zionist pressure, there will be no justice for the occupied. Norwegians must decide their own destiny and not submit to Bush's Israeli foreign policy. Peace for Israel can only come from justice for the Palestinians. The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. --Henrik Ibsen Dr. Mohamed Khodr, U.S.A.

To: longnshort who wrote (268928)	1/17/2006 10:37:19 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575733

it's my understanding that during the Clinton administration there was activity regarding physical searches without warrants." Yes. And as Gonzales is very much aware, physical searches weren't covered under FISA at first. When physical searches were added, the Clinton administration stopped doing them with out a warrant.

To: longnshort who wrote (268928)	1/17/2006 10:47:35 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 1575733

"Something's wrong when, in trying to keep herself alive, the terrorized woman becomes the criminal." Battered woman carrying firearm convicted WorldNetDaily ^ \| January 17, 2006 \| WorldNetDaily Wife in danger from husband busted after leaving pursed gun in market January 17, 2006 A woman who had carried a gun in her purse to help protect her from her husband, who she believed was trying to kill her, has herself been turned into a criminal as California prosecutors convicted her of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit. The woman, whom San Francisco Chronicle columnist Joan Ryan calls "Rebecca" to protect her identity, was convinced her husband was determined to kill her. In 2001, she left him and went underground through the California Confidential Address Program, using a phony address in Sacramento, Calif. In telling Rebecca's story, Ryan says last summer there were signs the woman's husband had found her. Knowing the police couldn't protect her 24/7, Rebecca began carrying a handgun in a pouch in her purse. She had purchased the firearm after leaving her husband, waiting the required 10-day period and registering it legally. "Maybe [the gun] would save her from becoming one of the 1,300 people killed in the United States each year in domestic violence attacks," writes Ryan. In August, Rebecca stopped at an Albertsons supermarket in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on her way home and accidentally left her purse at the checkout counter. It held her loaded handgun. That's when prosecutors in California turned a woman in danger of her life into a criminal herself. Explains Ryan: "She was arrested for carrying a loaded gun and sentenced last month by a San Mateo County court to 10 days in jail and 18 months' probation. Her conviction means she can no longer possess a gun, and it might jeopardize her participation in the Confidential Address Program." Commented Rebecca: "I'm 55 years old. I've never committed a crime. I'm not a threat to anybody.'' Rebecca believed she could carry a concealed weapon legally without a permit because of an exception in the law for anyone who "reasonably believes that he or she is in grave danger because of circumstances forming the basis of a current restraining order.'' While there was a restraining order against Rebecca's husband, it had expired in June; she had thought it was permanent. "The restraining order would have been enough to take it to a jury trial,'' Ben Lamarr, the lawyer who represented her in court, told the Chronicle. "It would have created a technical defense, but without that, she didn't have anything.'' An appeal of the sentence allows her to work in jail during the day and sleep at home. Even so, it will cost her $20 per day plus an additional $60 fee, She also will lose 10 days' wages, the gas to drive from the county where she lives to the San Mateo County Jail and the $160 fine she already paid. Not only does the loss of her gun leave her more vulnerable to her husband, but prosecutors used her actual address on public records involved in the case, a mistake Ryan says they are trying to rectify. "I'm usually not in the business of trying to get anybody's gun back, but with this conviction, she couldn't have it even in her house anymore,'' attorney Myra Weiher, who is trying to get the conviction set aside, told the paper. "This is scary stuff she's facing (from her batterer). Guys like this don't behave in ways regular criminals do. They're stealth. They're all about terror.'' Concludes Ryan: "Something's wrong when, in trying to keep herself alive, the terrorized woman becomes the criminal."