Independent sources tell Libertythink that aside from broken bones, there were also lost eyes from rubber bullets, and of the 273 that were arrested, 5 were raped in jail by cops.
On a related false paradigm note, the fascists have gotten so out of control that the socialists have to come and fix the problem:
Taking over the universe and stroking your own ego are mutually exclusive goals, that's why the guys who've come out ahead have all, at one point, given it. That's right, sweet-cakes, the world is a dirty, dingy place. Flowers are sex organs, birds are violent descendants of dinosaurs, and honey is just bee vomit. You want polite? Read a fairy tale, sister, because the real world does not brush under its fingernails and it does not starch its collar.
Me--Dr. Menlo--am participating in NaNoWriMo this year. To kick myself in the ass you see. Am an old fuck now, getting on in dog years. Need to write more, even if it's crap. Well, this is all a fast draft, of course. A first draft. Written fast. In a month. A novel. Never written before. I've written about International Art Machine before, but never this, as an adventure novel. Half baked. Schmoozing in the adventure section. Art is the artifice, but also the trojan horse. Or something like that . . . we'll see.
Let me start by saying I hate you very, very much. I dispise your policies and your politics. That being said, I implore you to take my vote for the presidential canditacy of 2004.
To shake up the powers that be, I feel, is the only way we can truly seperate ourselves as not a democracy, but the constitutional republic that we happen to be, from the corporate global new world order that is most likely inevitable.
Sure, you will probably continue down the path of the PNAC agenda, and sure hundreds of thousands will probably die in the wake of cleaning up from the party(ies) of the fudamementalist extremists in Washington, those hiding in caves, and those who are just watching the numbers as our future is being gambled away, not unlike a horse race, where there is only the "old-school" trainers allowed to practice the 1/2 mile sprint.
I understand that your allegence is to the money-men and in order to achieve those goals you probably will pimp out our country to whatever the ghosts of Orwell tell you to to; that will make us safer from the evil, evil boogeyman called "_blank".
Even though those with any rational views of reality will tell you that the chances of a US citizen being killed by a "terrorist attack" on American soil is LESS likely than being struck by lightning, or slipping in our own bathtubs, or an automobile fatality, We as Americans are your sheep, and we apperently do as we are told.
We, as Americans, have grown to love war instead of peace, slavery instead of freedom, and ignorance instead of stregnth.
We have grown to accept that it really doesn't matter who gets elected next year, considering 1.) Diebolt 2.) That all candidates have a close relationship to the CFR 3.) That the foreign policy of creating a "hornets nest of unrest" in the muslim world is a strategic advantage of perpetuation for any think tank that claims to act under the notion of National Security.
There are many of us that do understand what is going on, and feel more helpless when CIA printed document surface in "al-Qaeda" madresses, indoctrinating the youth to hate Jews and Americans, while these same "intelligence assets" help us win "jihads" in the Soviet Union and in the Balkans.
We understand that You have won. We understand that there will be no real change. We pretend to understand that bombing people will make them love us.
What we don't understand is why you let them win. Your husband did his share to arm al-Qaeda in Kosovo, just as the Bush regime set up Ansar al-Islam to act as "al-Qaeda instigators" in Iraq.
We know the score. The sheeple are staring to awake to the agenda of the Project for a New American Century.
This is the part of the play where you step up to the plate, make empty promises, take back this country, because then, and only then, will the American-hating neo-conservatives have something to complain about; how they would have made it all worse.
It seems that not a day goes by anymore without me receiving at least a half dozen emails from people who want to know when the revolution will begin. When will we, the People, finally wake up to the abuse of power we suffer at the hands of our "elected representatives" in government? When will we grow tired of having our rights violated, raped and plundered by those to whom we have entrusted power and authority? When will we stop 'putting up with it all', just to avoid the dangers that might confront us?
My reply has lately been that, at least here in Northwest Arkansas, we've already gotten to that point.
No, we haven't lynched any politicians (although I'm certain that there are many around here who wonder if we might). We haven't fired a single shot at anyone, we haven't barricaded any 'compounds', we haven't staged any standoffs; and yet, here in this little area I often refer to as New America, thousands of people are participating in a revolution against the evils of a corrupt government and its corrupt and fraudulent financial system.
The reason is value-- the people here are rediscovering what real value, and real money, are all about;and the weapon of choice is a 'silver bullet' called the Liberty Dollar, which is in regular circulation here.
Leaderless Resistance is a strategy in which small groups (cells) and individuals fight an entrenched power through independent acts of violence and mayhem. The cells do not have any central coordination - they are leaderless - and they do not have explicit communications with one another. As a result, causes that employ Leaderless Resistance are themselves resistant to informers and traitors.
Leaderless Resistance was popularized by the anti-government activist Louis Beam as a technique for white nationalists to continue their struggle against the government of the United States in the face of overwhelming odds. Since then, Leaderless Resistance has become the de facto strategy of the violent fringe of the animal rights and environmental activist movements.
After introducing the concept and history of Leaderless Resistance, this paper explores the use of the technique by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), the Earth Liberation Front, and individual Islamic terrorists carrying out acts against U.S. interests. It argues that Leaderless Resistance is resistant to counterterrorism based on network analysis. Finally, this paper makes recommendations of ways that may be used to fight causes that employ Leaderless Resistance.