Super Tuesday

Ah, too bad. Obama and Clinton want my guns. McCain and Romney just want the rest of my freedoms.

traitor to America

"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God,” Huckabee told a Warren, Michigan audience Monday night, “and that's what we need to do, is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards, rather than try to change God's standards."

Here's our fundamentalist candidate, firmly outed.

He must be defeated so soundly that no one ever tries to monkey with the Constitution in the name of religion again.

media censorship at work

A decision has been made that Ron Paul is not newsworthy. AP won't write full articles on him, only local newspapers and international media. Fox News even edits Ron Paul's name out of AP news stories that briefly mention him!

Only the writer's strike has gotten Ron Paul any media exposure, his invitation to the Jay Leno show. Otherwise there is an echoing silence on the #5 candidate in the Republican primary, with $20 million in the bank (!!!) and a serious possibility of running a third party bid.

I have heard an unconfirmed report that when CNN broadcast the pie chart for the Republican primary, Giuliani's 9% was labeled but Paul's 8% was not.

Remember what I used to do for a living. The word has gone out, don't write stories on Ron Paul.

(from CNN)

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY January 08, 2008
Race

McCain 86,802 37%
Romney 73,806 32%
Huckabee 26,035 11%
Giuliani 20,054 9%
Paul 17,831 8%
Thompson 2,808 1%
Hunter 1,195 0%

news.google.com "Ron Paul" and compare to Rudy Giuliani
Results 1 - 10 of about 31,934 for Rudy Giuliani. (0.31 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 16,713 for Ron Paul. (0.31 seconds)

Hmmm....

Reference links (sorry, HTML broken, no time to fix)


http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/primaries/16969/its-time-for-ron-paul-to-go-bye-bye/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/01/ron-paul-loser.html

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/the-end-of-ron-paul/

http://donklephant.com/2008/01/09/ron-paul-finishes-5th-in-new-hampshire-is-the-revolution-over/

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/09/the-problem-with-paul/


Background and reaction pieces

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080108/ron_paul_080108/20080108?hub=TopStories

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS233377+08-Jan-2008+BW20080108

http://www.galesburg.com/opinions/x1925657791

http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/174684.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/01/ronpaulreigns.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS189298+07-Jan-2008+BW20080107

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/01/08/fox_news_antiron_paul_bias_shows_itself_again.php

Contradicting Terrorist Lies

I have set myself the challenge of replying to 'antimedia' only with Web links, so that others can get some use out of this discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre Wikipedia: Nanking Massacre

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/gerdec41.htm German Declaration of War with the United States: December 11, 1941

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14986702/ Clinton defends bin Laden efforts, rips host

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/clinton.htm Snopes.com

"Claim: The Clinton administration failed to track down the perpetrators of several terrorist attacks against Americans. Status: False."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden Wikipedia: Osama bin Laden

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1998_register&docid=fr25au98-133.pdf
Executive Order 13099 of August 20, 1998 Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process [PDF]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216480,00.html Clinton's Braggadocio Will Haunt U.S. in War on Terror

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47812-2004Jun16.html Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention Wikipedia: Fourth Geneva Convention

http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/375?OpenDocument Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949

"Art 85. Prisoners of war prosecuted under the laws of the Detaining Power for acts committed prior to capture shall retain, even if convicted, the benefits of the present Convention."

http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/380?OpenDocument Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949

"Art. 4. Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals."

http://www.icrc.org/IHL.nsf/(SPF)/party_main_treaties/$File/IHL_and_other_related_Treaties.pdf State Parties to the Following International Humanitarian Law and Other Related Treaties as of 5-Dec-2007

Excerpt: "GC I-IV 1949: Afghanistan 26.09.1956 Iraq 14.02.1956 USA 10.04.1975"

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/petraeus-testimony-slides20070910.pdf 10 September 2007 - Maps and Charts to Accompany the Testimony of General Petraeus [PDF] Slides 1, 4, 10 and 11.

http://www.state.gov/s/wci/us_releases/rm/19448.htm
Department of Defense Briefing on Humane Treatment of Iraqi and U.S. POWs Under Geneva Convention

"And Article V of the Prisoner of War Convention, it specifies that if there is any doubt as to the status of a person, that person is entitled to prisoner-of-war protection until his or her status has been determined. That determination can be done by an Article 5 tribunal, which is a tribunal, set up by the military to look at the facts and circumstances of the capture and any other information. They then make a determination or recommendation. Our past practice, in Vietnam as well as in the first Gulf War, was that if at any time there remains any doubt, that person will be entitled to prisoner-of- war status."

http://www.usmm.org/halifax1812.html Old war's victims forgotten no longer

"During the War of 1812, Canada was still part of the British Empire, and Halifax served as the Royal Navy's most important base in North America. According to Admiralty records, more than 8,100 American prisoners of war were held at a military detention camp on Melville Island."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678155.shtml CIA Flying Suspects To Torture?

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1322866 CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/14/bashmilah/print.html?source=whitelist Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316382,00.html Report: CIA Agent Says Waterboarding is 'Torture, But Necessary'

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17117379 CIA Interrogation Tapes: A Search for Answers

http://www.shadowmonkey.net/articles/general/dear-senators-cia-letter-on-torture.html Dear Senators - CIA Letter on Torture

"We believe it is important to combat the hatred and vitriol espoused by Islamic extremists, but not at the expense of being viewed as a nation who justifies or excuses torture and incarceration without recourse to a judicial procedure." Signed by 11 CIA, 3 DoD, 1 FBI and 2 State Dept. employees.