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Topping Keith Olbermann's Worst Person Totem Poll for the second time in a week - KSFO Radio Host Melanie Morgan continues her attack on Votevots.org Chairman Jon Soltz. The worst part isn't that, as Keith points out again and I diaried earlier this week, she's completely wrong about reservists being able to participate in politics - she threatens Soltz. Morgan: Jon Soltz is still a hypocritical cockroach. He needs to be stomped on and neutralized before he and his ilk can silence military support for the mission in Iraq. I'm just asking but, exactly how many different ways do you know of to "neutralize a cockroach"? How many ways do you stop someone from speaking out politically? Think about it for a second and what do you come up with? Yeah, I thought so. And just what does the Dod have to say about Morgan accusations about Soltz's political activity? (Via Media Matters) Today, [Steve] Epstein [director of the Department of Defense (DoD) General Counsel's Standards of Conduct Office] said two sets of rules help protect the integrity of the political process: a DoD directive for active-duty service members and the Hatch Act for federal civilians. These rules keep the military out of partisan politics and ensure that the workplace remains politically neutral, he said. That's not to imply that military members and civilian employees can't participate in politics. Epstein said DoD encourages both groups to register to vote and vote as they choose, and to urge others to vote. Both groups can sign nominating petitions for candidates and express their personal opinions about candidates and issues but only if they don't do so as representatives of the armed forces. Also, all federal employees can make contributions to political organizations or candidates. Beyond that, the list of dos and don'ts differs widely, depending on whether the employee is an active-duty service member, a rank-and-file Civil Service employee, a political appointee or member of the career Senior Executive Service, Epstein said. Capt. Jon Soltz is not currently on active duty, he's in the reserves and as such these rules and limitations don't apply to him. You wanna talk about political hypocracy? Where was Morgan when it was revealed that Lorita Doan at the GSA was violating the Hatch Act and using her position to participate in so blatant partisanship for the Republican party that the Inspector General recommended that she be fired? Where was Morgan when Tim Griffin was illegally caging the votes of African-American Soldiers in Iraq as a member of the RNC? Where was Morgan when Monica Goodling and Brad Schlozman admitted under oath to illegally administering political litmus tests to DOJ employees? If active duty members of the military can't appear at political rallies in uniform then how do you explain this? http://www.truth2powerproject.com
Former Lawyer, current Business Consultant,history buff, Christian, father of 2 sons and a supporter of democratic government.
KSFO It seems as though Melanie Morgan and Devvy (everyone is a Communist) Kidd should get together. They are wonderful armchair testosterone laced war mongers willing to paint all opponents to the war as pansies. Not one word is mentioned by either of them about the immorality of trying to win an illegal war, a war that was started based on lies. This war has destroyed the political unity of a country, a million of its citizens and most of its infrastructure and still you get these harridans clamouring for more. If they love killing so much send them to Iraq and give them a quota of 10 children each, see how much they enjoy that! by
Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 966 comments)
on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 12:12:12 PM
Electronics and radio communications engineer.
So just what are they actually fighting for... "So just what are they actually fighting for over there, the right to be silenced?" Yes, absolutely, because as Joseph Goebbels put it, "It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." But, most significantly they're fighting for oil and the benefit of the members of the CFR, SPP, Trilateral Commission and so on, the true purpose of the invasion... Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil The New Oil Law Will Increase Violence in Iraq Shock and oil: Iraq's billions & the White House connection Google 'Iraq oil law' and 'Iraq hydrocarbon law' for volumes on this subject. The truth isn't hard to find, it's just hard to believe and difficult to digest because of the propaganda we've already been subjected to. "They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority." -- Gerald Massey by
Co6aka (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 68 comments)
on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 1:30:13 PM
Recently retired activist with an MA in Public Policy from an Ivy League school. A born again believer who also believes in the separation of church and state and is outraged that the Word of the Lord has been highjacked to justify the actions of the current administration.
Is this America or Germany in 1939? Am I in a time warp or a nightmare from which I can't wake up? by
macdon1 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 87 comments)
on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 7:38:38 PM
57Yo m I'm a "been there, done that! Bought the tee shirt,to hide the scars!" type of person Ive worked�many jobs from�a chicken slaughterer to managing a branch of a multinational and many jobs in between.Raised in colonial PNG Left School 16,Grad Hi school 22 Night School, University 36� BBus (majored in Psyche and Marketing), Dip Comp prog and project Mmnt.at 50 I've been in 48 different community org ,23 on board with 18 prez or deputy prez.First social campaign at 17 for the aborigine...
Motivation and what to do SHOCK jock mentality is the same world wide they profess to be the public's voice against the legions of do gooders, progressive and liberals behave like thought police. She would deny all responsibility claiming that she deplores people taking the laws into their own hands. The 'Cockroach' statement was for colour to show the depth of feeling against what the the Captain is doing. In reality she is an amoral profesional attention seeker without even the ethics of journalists. Freedom of Speech has a well established common good test often typafied by the person who calls "Fire" in a crowded theatre. The biggest problem with this is proving intention and causiality. Did she INTEND to incite violence and was her utterances the CAUSE? In court she would probably claim a: That she was only giving the people voice under their 1st Amendment right. b. That sehe must be right , just look at the public support. I get lots of feedback and only the odd complaint fom people who don't like the public to have contrary views. If it's legal it's OK (morality common sense of the consequences don't enter into it) C. I am a servant of the people it would be presumptous of me to censor their views or inject my own. Clearly this is a crock. So what to do? Simple fight fire with fire use the right's tactics on them. Swamp the stations switchboard and computer link with complaints. Bombard the regulator with complaints, call the stations sponsors telling thenm how pissed you are and how your organizing a boycott of their businesses(most right wing owned businesses rely on Dems etc to survive. Bumper stickers showing cockroaches squashing her. Tee shirts with cartoon of her looking like frankenstein monster's bride drooling with the caption . Inelligent design baby I have noticed that pond slime survives on detritis/waste products and only untill someone cleans them off and flushes them away. How about it by
Andris (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 532 comments)
on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 2:35:01 AM
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