1. Bush and Brown have been kidnapping citizens of any country, of any age.
2. After being kidnapped they are then held without trial, without charges and often subjected to torture.
3. Besides being held without charges or trial they are also denied access to lawyers, family and friends.
4. Bush and Brown have also been given authority to spy on any citizen in any country without a warrant. Enter anyone's home or business in any country without a warrant.
5. Bush/Brown have and can open your mail, read your emails, keep records of what you buy and where you shop, keep records on all of your internet searches, listen in on your phone calls, globally GPS track your cell phone, etc. In America it is done under FISA by the NSA.
6. Have carried out and continue to threaten any country with pre-emptive strikes.
7. Are monitoring social networks like Myspace in the name of fighting terrorism.
8. Passed legislation to create a National ID System.
9. Harrassing and disrubting peace/activist groups.
10. Suspending Heabus Corpus.
11. Changing the laws on the Continuity of Government.
12. Creating laws which supercede and destroy our rights under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, as mentioned above.
We do not believe that these are legal means by which to fight terrorism but a prelude to open fascism. And a global war on terror requires a global response. A global General Strike.
Of course, your first reaction is, that'll never work/happen. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
In a submission to the UN in May, the Pentagon said that no more than eight youths, aged 13 to 17 at time of capture, were held at Guantánamo Bay. But a prisoner list released in 2006 in response to US freedom of information act litigation names 21 inmates under 18 when they arrived. A separate defence department admission brings the total to 22. Testimonies collected by the charity Reprieve, which represents 30 inmates at Guantánamo, indicate the actual number is much higher.
Guantánamo's child prisoners came from all over the world: they were Afghan, Yemeni, Saudi, Russian, Uighuri, and Canadian. Five of them are still there. They are: Mohammed el Gharani, aged 14-15 when he was seized while praying in a Karachi mosque; Hassan bin Attash, aged 16-17 when seized in Pakistan, and rendered to Jordan where he endured 16 months of torture before being transferred; Faris Muslim Al Ansari, an Afghan-Yemeni who was 17 when captured; Mohamed Jawad, an Afghan who was 17 when seized and faces trial by military commission; and Omar Khadr.
Saudi citizen Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, 17 when captured, joined a prison-wide hunger strike in 2005. He was found dead in his cell in June 2006 after apparently killing himself.
I created a website www.votestrike.com for you, the voters, because, whichever party you belong to they have failed you.
The website has the ambitious goal of ending the two party system & the third party myth. Modeled after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Polish overthrow of the communist government, and the Phillipine removal of Marcos. All of this was accomplished without firing a shot.
About the author: I'm uneducated, my opinion means nothing but I know that I'm a real good dancer.
When I wrote this I used self censorship. I felt that the topics in my articles weren't getting the same attention because of how much I typically go on and on about the need to strike. I thought this issue deserved our attention. The strike is in response to the issue, not the issue.
The strike has recently recieved alot of support, thanx. For strike updates go to:
Who would have ever believed that our country would be right up there with despotic governments using torture as a method of war?
I checked out your website votestrike.com and was amazed to see that you have over 160,000 people signed on to your site. That is freaking amazing. Kucinich's petition for impeachment (as of yesterday) had little over 100,000.
I don't agree with every sentiment I found there - but I do think that people should go to your site. You've got some really in-depth information on the history of strikes in this country! Every time I hear of some family that's being thrown out of their house by foreclosure - for whatever reason- not all of them are because of bad loans etc some of it is because people got sick and can't pay their medical bills or their regular bills - I think of how in the 1920's when this happened in this country people's neighbors bodily stood in the way of the bankers and police, moved furniture back into these homes and stood, armed and protected these families from eviction. Where's this kind of solidarity now? This is the kind of solidarity that's needed RIGHT NOW - this is the kind of solidarity that Votestrike is asking all of us to take part in - solidarity with our community, with our neighbors, with our country and our constitution - to non-violently take it back from the cabal that has stolen it.
The only way to stop what is happening is to hit them - the corporations of this country who really wield the power in DC - is in the pocket-book. Seems that's all they understand. A strong strike, nation or global is what is needed to send a strong message.
I'm on board for the global strike.
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Cheryl Abraham (13 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 206 comments)
on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 12:16:35 PM
Kucinich needs to hook up with the truckers. What has made the strike a success so far is not getting bogged down on one issue. When there are over 1,000 issues that go ignored every day by the federal govt.
What people need to realize is that impeachment is not a single issue. The articles deal with Katrina and our lack of an Energy policy, to name a few.
Take that petition to New Orleans and folks will line up to sign it. Everybody HATES Bush. Which made me wonder when they do these polls and say that Bush has a 20% approval rating WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE that 'approve'. Because I sure can't find them. But then I watched the Impeachment Charade and got to see who this 20% is...it's the Democratic congress! They LOVE Bush, signed every ILLEGAL piece of legislation Bush asked for. And in the case of FISA, they did it amidst protest and with open glee. Obama was NOT swayed by his supports for a second. He pretty much SPIT on every one who signed up on his site.
We are no longer heard. Listened to. And our opinion only matters during an election but does nothing to stop the slow train of death that our leaders have forced us all onto. And we sit helpless watching the destruction of our country while they rob and loot EVEN INTO OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE!!!
godsavus
PS. We need not agree on everything. The founders had bitter disagreements BUT they set those aside to defeat a common enemy. Then you hammer out your differences. But first you must remove that which is about to destroy you.
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chris rice (77 articles, 61 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 202 comments)
on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 12:45:35 PM
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