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| Freedoms
Under Fire |
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| "There
ought to be limits to freedom."-George Bush, 1999 |
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| Bush
criticizes Web site as malicious |
| Saying
"there ought to be limits to freedom," Gov. George
W. Bush has filed a legal complaint against the owners of a
Web site that lampoons his White House bid. |
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| Presidential
contender's reaction to parody Web site backfires |
| The
parody George W. Bush Web site has gotten 6,451,466 hits during
the first 25 days of May, thanks in part to the story's front-page
treatment by The New York Times online edition, Exley said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the real George W. Bush Web site has gotten about
30,000 hits in May, according to Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker. |
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| "If
this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier,
just so long as I'm the dictator."
George W. Bush-December 18, 2000 |
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| If
I Were a Dictator... by GEORGE W. BUSH |
| George
W. Bush has stated he'd prefer to be a dictator at least three
times |
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| America
The Free - Or Is It Under The Bush Dynasty |
| What
it means if the Homeland Security Department is approved by
the Senate? It will place the FBI, CIA, NSA and 22 other government
agencies under the control of one man and one man only. |
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| Justice
Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act. Center
Publishes Secret Draft of ‘Patriot II’ Legislation |
| The
Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel
to the USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of September 11, 2001,
which will give the government broad, sweeping new powers to
increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law
enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial
review and public access to information. |
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| “Free-Speech
Zone” The administration quarantines dissent. |
| On
Dec. 6, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft informed the Senate
Judiciary Committee, “To those who scare peace-loving people
with phantoms of lost liberty … your tactics only aid terrorists,
for they erode our national unity and … give ammunition
to America’s enemies.” Some commentators feared that
Ashcroft’s statement, which was vetted beforehand by top
lawyers at the Justice Department, signaled that this White
House would take a far more hostile view towards opponents than
did recent presidents. And indeed, some Bush administration
policies indicate that Ashcroft’s comment was not a mere
throwaway line. |
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| Secrecy
Plan |
| Keeping
information from Congress and other government agencies is nothing
new to this White House, however. Going further back in President
Bush's term, many lawmakers -- both Republicans and Democrats
-- complained that they learned more from the media than from
intelligence briefings on the Hill after the Sept. 11 attacks. |
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| Bush
Administration Thwarts Access |
| Excerpt
from The Buying of the President 2004 Shows the White House's
Propensity for Secrecy |
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| Bush
Clamping Down On Presidential Papers |
| The
Bush White House has drafted an executive order that would usher
in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow an
incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers
even if the former president wanted to make them public. |
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| SUMMARY
OF THE BUSH EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT-PDF |
| The
Presidential Records Act was passed in 1978 to make Presidential
records the property of the public and to assure that these
records are released to the public in a timely manner. On November
1, 2001, however, President Bush issued Executive Order 13233
which significantly curtails the disclosure of Presidential
records under the Presidential Records Act. Under the new executive
order, former Presidents are given virtually unlimited discretion
to withhold their records indefinitely. |
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| News.com
reports that the House is scheduled to vote on proposal which
could result in the owners of misleading domain names being
jailed for up to 2 years. |
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| Patriot
Act |
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| The
USA PATRIOT Act |
| The
clumsily-titled Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act, or USAPA) introduced a plethora
of legislative changes which significantly increased the surveillance
and investigative powers of law enforcement agencies in the
United States. The Act did not, however, provide for the system
of checks and balances that traditionally safeguards civil liberties
in the face of such legislation. |
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| Declarations
of Independence |
| But
seldom before has there been so widespread a refusal to trust
the national government—cutting across political, religious,
ethnic, and other divisions—as the current rising refusal,
even during a war on international terrorism, to yield to the
Bush administration's subversions of the Constitution in the
urgent cause of national security. |
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| Patriot
Act II (draft) |
CONFIDENTIAL
-- NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
Draft--January 9, 2003 |
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| Privacy |
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| Bush's
Double Vision on Privacy |
| There
are good guys and bad guys. Us and them. Except, that is, when
it comes to personal privacy. Two major news stories in late
April have highlighted the Bush Administration's flip-flop approach
to privacy protection -- what I call suit-yourself privacy.
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| California |
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| CA
Energy Scam Fraud Traced To White House |
| How
California's energy scam was inextricably linked to a war for
oil scheme... |
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| Censorship |
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| Michael
Moore |
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| Report-Disney
Blocking Anti-Bush Documentary |
| Oscar-winning
filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary linking President Bush
with powerful Saudi families, including that of Osama bin Laden,
is stirring up controversy even before its release. |
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| REPUBLICAN
STRATEGIST BEHIND EFFORTS TO INTIMIDATE THEATRE OWNERS ABOUT
MICHAEL MOORE FILM |
| Michael
Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 is due to hit theatres on June 25th.
But that hasn't stopped a campaign from being launched to intimidate
theatre owners into not booking the film: |
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| Conservatives
launch pre-emptive strike against documentary critical of Bush
'Fahrenheit 9/11' called propaganda |
| The
California-based organization, called Move America Forward,
is headed by former GOP Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian and aided
by Melanie Morgan, a talk show host on KSFO 560 AM, both of
whom had high-profile roles in support of last year's recall
election of former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. |
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| Republican
dirty tricksters join the Motion Picture Association of America
to stop Americans from seeing Michael Moore’s new movie,
“Fahrenheit 9/11.” |
| The
award winning movie Fahrenheit 9/11 exposes financial connections
between President George W. Bush’s family, its associates,
and prominent Saudi Arabian families including that of Osama
bin Laden. The latter is blamed for masterminding the September
11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC.
The movie also exposes the Bush administration’s role in
evacuating Osama bin Laden's relatives from the US immediately
after the September 11 attacks. |
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| Valerie
Plame (Joseph Wilson's Wife) |
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| Bush
Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name |
| Witnesses
told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about,
and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's
name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband,
a critic of administration policy in Iraq. |
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| Cheney's
Staff Focus of Probe |
| Federal
law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard
evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of
Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful
exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation,
which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department
official said. |
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| Cheney
Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-gate Leaker |
| MSNBC'S
Buchanan & Press scored a major scoop on Wednesday, all
but unmasking the high government official who "outed"
a CIA operative via a July 14 column by Robert Novak. Larry
Johnson, a former CIA analyst who worked with Valerie Plame,
the reported agent, all but identified "Scooter" Libby
as the government official who outed her – and at least
one other in the Vice President's office. |
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| Cheney
staff accused of role in CIA leak |
| In
new book, Joseph Wilson names administration officials who may
have leaked wife's job. |
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| The
CIA leak-Robert Novak |
| The
leak now under Justice Department investigation is described
by former Ambassador Wilson and critics of President Bush's
Iraq policy as a reprehensible effort to silence them. |
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| Bill
Mahr |
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| Politically
Correct After All |
| The
boys at NewsMax backpedal on their war against Bill Maher after
finally figuring out they agree with him. |
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| Dixie
Chicks |
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| Political
controversy |
| A
controversy has arisen regarding exactly who was responsible
for launching the boycott of their music and the extent their
fans supported the boycott. Some critics of the boycott, such
as Michael Moore, claim the boycott was not a product of large
numbers of fans angry at their comments but an organized plot
by Bush supporting radio chain executives and the Republican
party leadership. |
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| Florida
2000 Election |
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| How
the Grinch stole America |
Every
Vote down in Voteville liked Voting a Lot,
But the GRINCH, who lived West of Voteville,
did Not. |
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| U.S.
presidential election, 2000 |
| Comprehensive
Analysis |
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| URL's
on the 2000 US Presidential Elections |
| This
is a complete list of the URL's about the 2000 US presidential
elections, including the voting irregularities in Florida, that
I have listed in messages to the Red Rock Eater News Service.
They are in reverse chronological order. |
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| Timeline-2000
Election |
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| The
Legacy of Robbing elections |
| Ronald
Reagan, in 1979, sent George Bush, Richard Allen, and Donald
Greg to two meetings, one in Paris France and one in Washington
DC, to insure Carter was not re-elected. They negotiated with
Manchari Gorbanifar (Iranian arms dealer), Bani Sadr (president
of Iran and political puppet of the Kohmeni regime), Albert
Hakim (arms dealer), and Hashem (diplomat of the Iranian government).
Reagan's team promised that the US federal government would
sell over one billion US dollars in American weapons to Iran
if Iran would not release the American hostages until after
the 1980 presidential election. |
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ALBERT
GORE, JR., and JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN
vs.
KATHERINE HARRIS, as Secretary, etc., et al.-PDF |
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| Recount
shows Gore had won |
| Fresh
evidence has emerged in Florida that Al Gore might have won
last year's presidential election under a less contentious voting
system, and if the US supreme court had not stepped in to stop
the recount. |
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Fla.
'Overvotes' Hit Democrats The Hardest
Gore 3 Times as Likely as Bush To Be Listed on Tossed Ballots
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| Florida
voters who spoiled their ballots because they punched more than
one presidential candidate's name were three times as likely
to have included Vice President Gore as one of their choices
as George W. Bush, a Washington Post analysis has found. |
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| Right-wing
coup that shames America |
| Continuing
unofficial counts reveal the full extent of Al Gore's lead and
the massive abuses that have put George W. Bush into power |
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| Jeb
Bush grilled on voting irregularities |
| Jeb
Bush, the governor of Florida and brother of president-elect
George W Bush, was hauled in front of the US civil rights commission
yesterday to face questions about the irregularities which allegedly
discriminated against voters from ethnic minorities. |
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| Jeb
Bush blamed for unfair Florida election |
Thousands
of black electors in Florida were disenfranchised in last November's
election by an electoral system tainted by "injustice,
ineptitude and inefficiency" a leaked report by the US
civil rights commission says.
It accuses Governor Jeb Bush, the president's brother, and his
secretary of state, Katherine Harris, of "gross dereliction"
of duty, saying they "chose to ignore mounting evidence"
of the problems. |
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| Transcript:
Vice Presidential Debate in Danville, Ky. |
| Following
is the complete transcript of the vice presidential debate between
Richard B. Cheney (R) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.). |
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| The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy |
| In
the opening excerpts from Palast's book we learned that five
months before the November 2000 election, Governor Jeb Bush
of Florida and his Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, moved
to purge 57,700 people from the voter rolls, supposedly criminals
not allowed to vote. Almost every one was innocent of crimes. |
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| US
election 2000 |
| "The
American people have spoken," said Bill Clinton shortly
after election day. "It's too bad it's going to take a
little while to determine what it was they had to say." |
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| Judge
says court was close to backing Gore |
| George
Bush might have been prevented from entering the White House
if a US supreme court judge had had another day to work on persuading
his colleagues, according to a new book. |
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| ELECTION
FRAUD 2002 Many
Relevant Articles
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| "There
are no documented cases of electronic vote-rigging occurring
anywhere in the country, but only because it's nearly impossible
to prove." |
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