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POPSPolice brutality/violence at Rainbow Gathering
a link to a blog that had a post on the incident and also has really nice updates on the Rainbow Gathering: http://adap2k.blogspot.com/2008/07/rainbow-family-attacked-by-feds-peppers.html and has this audio: http://adap2k.blogspot.com/2008/07/audio-rainbow-family-attacked-by-feds.html I have not yet seen anything appear on You Tube. Here is a link to Pinedale Online which has been reporting regularly on the Gathering: http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2008/06/RainbowFamilyGatheri.htm Here is a link to a blog that has been offering updated information when possible: http://wyominggathering .blogspot.com/ Ah, that's really a shame...and growing evidence of the nature of the Police State in which we are currently suffering. I remember the police at the gathering in Drain, Oregon in '70 and all they did was stand back up on the road and watch, never interfered to my knowledge. Even when my girlfriend of a young age got naked and declared she was Jesus and I had to walk u
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POPSThe Political Establishment and Telecom Immunity — Why It Matters The Senate is dragging its feet because the compromise bill’s opponents — mostly Democrats — want also to punish the telecommunications companies that answered President Bush’s order for help with his illegal, warrantless wiretapping program. That is the wrong target. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the White House directed telecommunications carriers to cooperate with its efforts to bolster intelligence gathering and surveillance — the administration’s effort to do a better job of “connecting the dots” to prevent terrorist attacks. In its review of the effort, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the administration’s written requests and directives indicated that such assistance “had been authorized by the president” and that the “activities had been determined to be lawful.” We now know that they were not lawful. But the companies that followed those directives are not the ones to blame for that abuse of presidential power. Contrary to what the Nancy Soderbergs
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POPSObama Should Follow Feingold That’s bad — not just because Obama is putting politics ahead of principle, but because he’s calculating the politics wrong. As Feingold proved when he was overwhelmingly re-elected in a swing state in 2004, after casting the sole vote against the Patriot Act, standing strong for the Bill of Rights attracts rather than sacrifices votes. Even worse is the deceptive claim that the “compromise” on FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) reached by the Bush administration and congressional leaders allows for meaningful scrutiny. As Feingold says, “The proposed FISA deal is not a compromise; it is a capitulation. The House and Senate should not be taking up this bill, which effectively guarantees immunity for telecom companies alleged to have participated in the president’s illegal program, and which fails to protect the privacy of law-abiding Americans at home. Allowing courts to review the question of immunity is meaningless when the same legislation essentially requires the co
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