Help Wanted!
Air America Phoenix is asking for your help! We are looking for a LARGE well maintained RV to drive to Crawford TX. We are looking to setup the RV as a broadcast studio at the Crawford Peace House for Randi Rhodes, Charles Goyette and Dr Mike Newcomb.
Please contact Bob Christy at 602-296-3600 ASAP.
8 Comments:
I wish I could!!! I wish I knew someone! I will spread the word. Randi should be there
3:49 PM
randi, randi, randi
7:00 PM
Thought you people would like this since " Madame Justice" starting supporting Cindy about 10 weeks ago on her site... http://www.rachelforjustice.com The site was hack over the weekend by the neo-cons and will be up tommorrow with this alert going out to be in O Reilly face and the neo-cons. Rachel will in Cary tommorrow for the candlelight service for Cindy and headed for Texas. We will look for a RV to help you..... Rachel's wimp husband...Connie Mack Jr.
Dear Friends & Voters:
I have been occupied with matters that required my attention at work and, after working all day, there was little time or energy to write. Much has been happening since I last wrote.
But I have been paying attention to events. I don't like what has been happening, especially to Cindy Sheehan. For those of you who don't know, she is the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. She also has begun to turn her grief to anger, so that other mothers, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives and friends will not have to lose their loved ones or have their family members maimed in this nonsensical war.
We are told that it is for a "noble cause." What "noble cause" is that? To kill innocent Iraqis? We are told its for our "freedom." That's nice that we are SO concerned about freedom in Iraq when our own freedoms at home are daily being eroded. We have a Supreme Court that does not respect the ownership of private property. And we do not have a government that any longer respects our rights to liberty. There are cameras everywhere. The government already has systems to read your email. And thanks to the misnamed Patriot Act, they can visit your library or home and search your belongings without a warrant. The government can accuse you of being a "person of interest," destroy your life or lock you up and hold you indefinitely without access to counsel. Life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness are all in jeopardy. We are on the slippery slope to fascism or worse.
But back to Ms. Sheehan. There has been a growing effort by the neo-cons in Washington to silence her. They are doing to her what the state neo-cons did to me on a local level. They have called out their usual attack dogs and willing accomplices in the media. They have attempted to portray her as part of the lunatic fringe, as some dupe controlled by these groups. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Before this controversy started, I had written to Ms. Sheehan to voice my support. I also put her and her group, Gold Star Families for Peace, up on my website. If she has not been removed and, if my health permits me to travel such a distance, I will visit her in Texas. But anyone who knows her knows that she is not a tool.
There is an old saying that politics often makes strange bedfellows. I was a loyal Republican for many years. I am not a communist or socialist. I do not agree with Michael Moore on many things. But I think the war is wrong. So does he. Does that mean I am linked with him? Or with Code Pink?
No, it does not. It just means that we can agree on this one issue. It makes sense for these groups to combine their efforts and resources on the anti-war issue. So it does not surprise me that such groups are supporting Ms. Sheehan's effort to oppose this war. And Fox News, Bill O'Reilly (who sexually harassed his own co-workers) or any other talk show host can attempt to smear me, as they do Ms. Sheehan, as being part of these groups. But is not of true of me. And it is not true of her either.
Fortunately, the neo-cons' plan is unraveling. Support for Ms. Sheehan is growing. And there is overwhelming support among the people that this war was based on untruths and that it is time to end it. The war is going so badly for the neo-cons that they may not do well in the elections next year. If there is any proof of this, one can see it in a recent election in a Republican stronghold in Ohio. Yes, the incumbent may have won, but the race between her and her Democratic opponent, who was himself in Iraq as a soldier and campaigned against the war, was a lot closer than anyone thought it would be.
To counter this anti-war feeling, the neo-cons have announced that there might be a reduction in troops. While a reduction would be welcome, I don't see how they can possibly train enough Iraqi troops to seal the border. There was never a terrorist in Iraq before this war started. Now, not only are they pouring in over the border, but many of them have been newly created. The war has caused those who wouldn't have been terrorists, to be such. And if we leave, civil war may break out among the various factions. At the same time, there is talk of bombing Iran. Why? Simply because we can.
We were told that the war would provide oil. And yet gas prices are on the rise. I have not been to the gas station today, but the price is already over $2.15 per gallon here and over $3.00 per gallon in California. We are told that it is because of the refineries and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. Huh? Like we never had hurricanes before? Meanwhile, the oil companies are reporting record profits.
And there were millions that have gone unaccounted for in Iraq. The word is actually embezzled. Someone took the money. And you and I, the American taxpayer, will be left with paying the bills.
Just like we are supposed to pay the legal fees for the alleged re-districting case. It seems incongruous for the state party GOP chairman, Ferrell Blount, to argue that these fees should be paid by the taxpayer while he rails at other taxes on cigarettes and slush funds. If you are against these things and are a true Republican, you would not be for having the taxpayer pay your legal tab, Mr. Blount. The legal fees should be paid by the party that hired them. Like it or not, its the American system.
Appeals judge Barbara Jackson and NC Right-to-Life recently sued the state over judicial financing. They have it right that its a bad thing, but for the wrong reasons. What is wrong is that it takes taxpayer dollars and uses it to benefit a few select individuals. Individuals must raise sufficient funds to get the money, making sure that the little people who cannot do so are kept out. In other words, only the "right" people will end up getting a handout from the taxpayers. The lucky few who get the money will spend it in all the wrong places, as they did in the last election. And all to save individuals from the odious task of raising money. The whole system should be scrapped, not because it has a chilling right on speech, but because it is flawed.
The Republican party used to stand for smaller taxes, more individual responsibility and less government. What it has become is the party of the neo-cons. They are all set to use government for their own ends. And the faction now in control are absolutely ruthless. They have taken to heart Goebbels' philosophy of repeating a lie often enough and it will become the truth, whether the lie is about Cindy Sheehan, oil or anything else. That is why I left this party. Or I should say, the party left me. I do not recognize this crowd any more. They have given up true Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican ideals and replaced it with an agenda of nationalism and big government. They are using the power of the state to force their view of religion and their version of how the world ought to be down our throats.
Are we going to just lie back and take it? Or will we wake up and do something about it? I am running to do something about it.
Rachel Lea Hunter
8:38 PM
could you just post a link next time instead of flooding the comments thread with such a long post? sheesh!
10:55 PM
No RV here, but you're welcome to my corvette! I'm so upset over this War. Never should have happened - what a waste of lives and the money to underwrite this war is outrageous. My brother is serving albeit against his will. I live in "republican alley" - ie Plano, Texas, where the rich get richer and the issue of war protesting is considered unthinkable. I'm going to DC in September to add my support to this peace effort. I feel I have to do something. Thanks for letting me write.
10:25 PM
could you just post a link next time instead of flooding the comments thread with such a long post? sheesh!
You mean Sheehan don't you! We didn't know about your rule! We are trying to help you find a RV for free. Any reference or link is http://www.rachelforjustice.com Thanks
9:45 AM
The Sunrise Report (sort of) from Crawford
We just got reconnected...BIG rain storm last night and this morning...but as everything here at Camp Casey II, the rain was a welcome inconvenience cooling us down and cleansing the world.
The inter-faith service held today was very moving with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam represented as well as a secular sermon with those of all faiths encircling the orator in a show of respect and solidarity.
The Reverend Al Sharpton gave a rousing sermon and is now meeting with Cindy.
This morning the tent was filled with the scent of 3000 roses that had been delivered to adorn the crosses in Arlington West.
Two counter protestors were screaming profanity from the road as they walked past the camp. As they reached our parked cars, they began pulling off bumper stickers. As they passed Ann Wright, one of the group leaders, one of the counter-protestors shoved Ms. Wright by pushing her shoulder.
The Crawford Sherrifs promptly arrested the two and whisked them off to jail.
Kim may be headed home...she is looking for a ride to catch her flight, but if she does not she will return Monday...and she comes with a profound message...
And the message is PEACE.
Ian from Camp Casey II
12:01 PM
For all you left wing tree hunging liberals, for those of you who don't get it. Mrs. Sheehan your son VOLUNTEERED! yes loosing a son is a terrible thing but did you see FDR, meeting with the mothers who lost sons after DDay? or Pearl Harbor? or any other president. There is a chain of command, you do not go right to the top. I never believed for one moment this was about your son, but about all you Lefties who cna't stand that the president won again! Your are a disgrace to his memory and for all of those parents whose sons gave the ultimate sacrifice!!
11:59 AM
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