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About Mail and Books for Daniel McGowan So, here's a new and hopefully more thorough list of
what to do and not to do when writing Daniel.
Please read every single one of these, as he just got
7 mail violations in one day!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:12pm PST
Did Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley target a civil rights activist? 
In the picture below, taken from video footage shot by a Minuteman supporter at the Tuesday, January 3, 2006 meeting of the Costa Mesa City Council, Police Chief John Hensley is ordering his men to arrest Coyotl Tezcalipoca for allegedly disrupting a public meeting. The only problem, however, is that a few moments before he made this order, Mayor Allan Mansoor declared twice over the microphones that the meeting was in recess. Did Hensley order his men to make an illegal arrest?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 1:30pm PST
The RCMP's “inexplicable” intervention into Canada’s election campaign Media commentators agree: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s announcement that it is conducting a criminal investigation into the possible leaking of a Liberal government decision on the taxation of investment income has had a major impact on the campaign for the January 23rd federal election....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:24am PST
More revelations of illegal spying by US government Over the past week, several new reports have emerged casting additional light on the vast extent of illegal spying carried out by the US government. It is becoming increasingly clear that the government has initiated a major project to collect and database the communications of US citizens and non-citizens, including opponents of the war in Iraq and other policies of the Bush administration....
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:00am PST
An Imperial President? Bush Claims Right To Ignore New Law Banning Torture Five years after President Bush joked, "If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator,” we look at the growing controversy over presidential power and how it relates to many of today’s biggest stories: the Senate ban on torture, the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, domestic surveillance and the jailing of U.S. citizens as enemy combatants. Earlier this week three influential Republicans Senators condemned Bush for claiming h...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:36am PST
BTL:One Year Delay in New York Times' Coverage of NSA Spying Scandal Exposes... ...Flaws in U.S. Corporate Media ~ Interview with Norman Solomon, author and columnist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 6:07am PST
Bush administration seeks dismissal of Guantánamo habeas corpus suits The Bush administration is seeking the dismissal of all habeas corpus lawsuits brought by detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp. On Tuesday, the Justice Department informed federal judges that they would be asked to dismiss more than 160 cases involving at least 300 Guantánamo detainees who are challenging the legality of their imprisonment....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 11:19pm PST
CUAPB Newsletter from 12/20 2/1: At long last, our community lawsuit is going to court. To remind you, this was the
lawsuit that was filed when it became clear that the city had hijacked the federal
mediation process. The purpose of the lawsuit has been to force policy and practice
changes within the Minneapolis police department....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 10:18pm PST
Media conservatives cited faulty poll to claim popular support for domestic spying program Conservative media figures have defended the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program by citing a Rasmussen poll saying 64 percent of Americans believe "the National Security Agency [should] be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States." But the key issue, which the poll misrepresents, is not whether surveillance of terrorism suspects should take place at all -- something a...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 6:55am PST
Abramoff and al-Arian: Lobbyist's "Charity" a Front for Terrorism .......
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 6:40am PST
Cheney-Rumsfeld Surveillance Plans Date Back to 1980s Illegal eavesdropping and illegal detentions of U.S. citizens marks a revival of presidential powers curtailed since Watergate, and likely grew out of a secret Reagan-era program that planned to suspend the U.S. Constitution in the event of a national emergency....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:21pm PST
January Execution Alert Ringing in 2006 with 8 Scheduled Executions...
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 9:51pm PST
NSA Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a “Polic Former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice condemns reports that the Agency has been engaged in eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. Tice has volunteered to testify before Congress about illegal black ops programs at the NSA. Tice said, “The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 9:21am PST
The Bush administration and the Padilla case: White House caught in its own lies An extraordinary dispute has erupted between the Bush administration and a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals over the status of Jose Padilla, the US citizen who has spent 42 months in a Navy brig after being arrested in Chicago and placed in military detention as an “enemy combatant.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 11:15pm PST
Bush's Witchhunt Against Truth-Tellers: A Gestapo Administration By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 9:36am PST
Gang Killings Close to Home It happened without any fanfare, weeks ago in Pomona. A young Latino boy, popular among kids of his age and a student at the Pomona Alternative School, attended a party with some friends. An overtone of hostility began to replace the enjoyment of the early evening, and the group of boys left to go home. They were followed. Expletives were shouted, followed by fists. Gunshots sounded and Bobby Guerrero fell, mortally wounded. The shooter was a member of an established gang, though nobody was a...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 9:30am PST
New reports expose extensive illegal spying by US government Recent articles in the US media indicate that the illegal spying organized by the Bush administration has extended far beyond what was initially reported. It is becoming increasingly clear that the US government has been engaging in a massive operation that violates fundamental democratic and constitutional rights....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 9:33pm PST
Indonesian court implicates intelligence agency in murder of human rights activist Pollycarpus Budihari Priyato, a pilot for the Indonesian state airline Garuda, was found guilty on December 20 of the murder of the internationally respected Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by the Jakarta Central District Court. The court dropped a political bomb shell, however, when it implicated members of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency (BIN) in the murder despite neither the prosecution case nor the accused himself making ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 8:00pm PST
Another Execution Nears -- Where Are the Protesters? African-Americans who rallied for clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams must do the same for Clarence Ray Allen, a non-black, 76-year-old blind man just weeks away from execution, the writer says....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 5:28pm PST
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