Wednesday, July 23, 2008

THIS JUST IN! MOVEON HAS NO STANDARDS!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

 

SOCIALLY CONCERNED RAPPER NAS IS CALLING OUT FOX 'NEWS' AND TEAMING UP WITH THE POLITICAL NON-ORGANIZATION MOVEON TO DO SO.

 

THIS ALLOWS MOVEONE TO AGAIN GET IN BED WITH SEXISTS.

 

AMONG NAS' LITTLE DITTIES IS A NUMBER CALLED "MONEY IS MY BITCH" WHICH INCLUDES MANY 'ENLIGHTENED' LYRICS SUCH AS "THE HO TURNED ME OUT."  OR WHO CAN FORGET THE FEMINIST MANIFESTO NAS CONTRIBUTED ENTITLED "PU**Y KILZ"?

 

The first thing I learned is money makes the world go round

On a small planet, it's 10 women to 1 man

I wounder how we managed

To say vows and walk a straight line in marriage

N**gas is some nasty creatures, b**ches even nastier

The throw it at your boy and it's hard for me to pass it up

freaky ho's licken n**gas ass and nuts

Stupid bitch braggin' till her baby dad went nuts

And now were looking for me, 2 cars deep

Rollin' up on n**gas.

[. . .]

Watch out for diseases, the doctors can't name 'em

Just a thought we all f**k the same chicks.

Some play like they innocent

F**kin' entertainers and basketball players

The bitch is a ho

 

NAS NOW TEAMS UP WITH MOVEON TO CALL FOX 'NEWS' OUT ON RACIAL STEREOTYPES.  WHEN REACHED FOR COMMENT, MOVEON RESPONDED: "WE HATE WOMEN.  DIDN'T YOU SEE WHAT WE DID TO HILLARY?  WE'LL GET IN BED WITH ANY WOMAN HATER!"  COLOR OF CHANGE SAID, "DON'T FORGET US! WE CLAIM TO BE ABOUT PRESENTING REAL AND STRONG PORTRAYALS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS BUT NAS GRINS AT US AND WE GO CAAA-RAAZ-EEEEE!"

 

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

 

 

Starting with war resistance, July 15th Robin Long's case was noted on CNN's The Situation Room (here for transcript):

 

Wolf Blitzer: Americans seeking to dodge the Vietnam War have found a have in Canada.  Many began new lives there.  But, now, right now, times have changed.  Brian Todd is working the story for us.  Brian, it's a different situation for what we're calling the Iraq War generation.

 

Brian Todd: It certainly is, Wolf.  This one case of an American deserter being handed over turning this theory on its ear, the idea that Canada is an unqualified haven for American deserters.  It's the kind of history Robin Long probably wishes he wasn't making.  He is believed to be the first American deserter during the Iraq War handed back to the U.S. military by the Canadian government.  During the Vietnam War, Canada was haven for US draft dodgers and deserters.  In this case, a Canadian judge ruled that Long didn't adequately prove he would suffer irreparable harm if he returned to the United States.  The leader of a Canadian war resisters group that had supported Long is frustrated.

 

Unidentified Male: I don't think there's any doubt that someone who has been up in Canada and a vocal opponent of the war will be treated harsly by the American military.

 

Brian Todd: Long, who had trained as a tank commander, took off from Fort Carson, Colorado, to avoid serving in Iraq.  Even though he had volunteered for the army, his attorney told the court that Long became disillusioned over the mistratment of Iraqi detainees and by the fact that no weapons of mass destruction had been found.  In nearly three years in Canada, he fathered a child, was turned down for refugee status last year, and was arrested recently for not checking in as required with border officials.  Commanders at Fort Carson will now decide his fate.  They can court-martial him, give him a less than honorable discharge, or even reassign him.  A former military lawyer who has defended and prosecuted deserters says the first option is the most likely.

 

Unidentified male: I do believe that he is going to be most likely court-martialed in this instance.  The fact that he has been vocal, not to say that they would infringe on his First Amendment right to state his case or his objections, but rather his stated reason for leaving, to avoid service in Iraq, is going to be sort of the threshold issue for the legal authorities.

 

Brian Todd: But experts say US military officials may also be thinking about deterrence here, sending a signal to others thinking of deserting that prison time could await them and Canada may not be so receptive to harboring them in the future.  If he's court-martialed and convicted, Robin Long could get up to five years in prison.  Wolf?

 

Wolf Blitzer: Do we have any idea how many deserters are in Canada?

 

Brian Todd: The leader of this war resistance group in Canada who we talked to today about this says that there are about 50 who they know of.  But they say there are hundreds more they think who are living underground in Canada.  You can believe this case is probably going to keep them underground.

 

Wolf Blitzer: I believe it.  Brian, thank you.

 

Hasan Arif (Telegraph Journal) notes the above report and it's a shame more in Canada didn't catch it because they might have learned something.  Take the laughable editorial board of Kamplops This Week: "Every one of these American citizens voluntarily joined the military.  Not one was drafted. . . .  These are not the draft dodgers of the Vietnam War era, the young men who had no choice in whether they wished to fight the Vietcong."  Happy to flaunt their ignorance of Canadian history.  The draft wasn't an issue in the decision during Vietnam and Canada welcomed dodgers and deserters.  Deserters were not required to swear they had been drafted and not enlisted on their own.  It wasn't an issue.  And little Billy Bulter is eager to flaunt his ignorance to The Orillia Packet & Times insisting that (a) the term "war resister" (a historical and well used in the last century by the MSM) is not accurate, that anyone can become a CO very easily (Willie Boy, tell them your stupidity is here) and that the war resisters "joined the military"!  We don't normally provide links to trash but the 'movement' needs to take some damn accountablity.  These are the arguments that should never have been made but too many in the 'movement' didn't know their own facts or didn't want to tell it.  They have created this straw-man argument that has no basis in today's reality by refusing to point out that deserters were welcomed in Canada during Vietnam.  There was never a need for any of this nonsense.

 

No one in the world needed to hear Tom Hayden yack on and on endlessly in interviews about his 'invasive' physical.  (Tom Hayden never served in the US military.  He was not a draft dodger.  He was not a deserter.  He had no 'war story' so he went to town on a physical and, as Rebecca noted, Tom needs to put his feet in some stirrups before he next whines about 'invasive' physicals.)  Tom-Tom couldn't shut up about the draft.  Even though it has nothing to do with today's illegal war.  He was 'helping' war resisters today . . . by throwing out crap from his past that had no bearing on reality.  No one needed it.  All it did was let some who barely pay attention fixate on "Draft Dodgers!  You hear him, Ma!  But there's no draft today!"  Tom-Tom, the patron saint of the yokels.  Across the border a number need to take accountability and start working on addressing reality.  Unless they're goal is for the 'movement' to repeatedly be undermined with meaningless cries of "There is no draft!"   Someone in Canada speaking truth is University of British Columbia's Canadian Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law, Dr. Michael Byers, who explains to Am Johal (IPS), "Canada also extradited Robin Long, a U.S. war resister, who did not want to take part in possible war crimes.  This is a very different role than Canada played during Vietnam."  Extradition is the only term to describe what Judge Anne Mctavish oversaw and ordered for Robin Long.

 

 

To pressure the Stephen Harper government to honor the House of Commons vote, Gerry Condon, War Resisters Support Campaign and Courage to Resist all encourage contacting the Diane Finley (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration -- 613.996.4974, phone; 613.996.9749, fax; e-mail finley.d@parl.gc.ca -- that's "finley.d" at "parl.gc.ca") and Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, 613.992.4211, phone; 613.941.6900, fax; e-mail pm@pm.gc.ca -- that's "pm" at "pm.gc.ca").  Courage to Resist collected more than 10,000 letters to send before the vote.  Now they've started a new letter you can use online hereThe War Resisters Support Campaign's petition can be found here.  Long expulsion does not change the need for action and the War Resisters Support Campaign explains: "The War Resisters Support Campaign is calling on supporters across Canada to urgently continue to put pressure on the minority conservative government to immediately cease deportation proceedings against other US war resisters and to respect the will of Canadians and their elected representatives by implementing the motion adopted by Parliament on June 3rd. Please see the take action page for what you can do."

 

There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes Andrei Hurancyk, Megan Bean, Chris Bean, Matthis Chiroux, Richard Droste, Michael Barnes, Matt Mishler, Josh Randall, Robby Keller, Justiniano Rodrigues, Chuck Wiley, James Stepp, Rodney Watson, Michael Espinal, Matthew Lowell, Derek Hess, Diedra Cobb, Brad McCall, Justin Cliburn, Timothy Richard, Robert Weiss, Phil McDowell, Steve Yoczik, Ross Spears, Peter Brown, Bethany "Skylar" James, Zamesha Dominique, Chrisopther Scott Magaoay, Jared Hood, James Burmeister, Jose Vasquez, Eli Israel, Joshua Key, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Clara Gomez, Luke Kamunen, Leif Kamunen, Leo Kamunen, Camilo Mejia, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Agustin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Abdullah Webster, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder, Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, Blake LeMoine, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Logan Laituri, Jason Marek, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Dale Bartell, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Chris Capps, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake, Christopher Mogwai, Christian Kjar, Kyle Huwer, Wilfredo Torres, Michael Sudbury, Ghanim Khalil, Vincent La Volpa, DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total, at least fifty US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline [(877) 447-4487], Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. In addition, VETWOW is an organization that assists those suffering from MST (Military Sexual Trauma).
 

 

RECOMMENDED: "Iraq snapshot"
"Robin Long, Joshua Key"
"High Flying Adore Barack"
"hillary's voice, ralph nader and more"
"Frankie & Annette beach party movies and Nader"
"Isaiah, Ralph and more"
"The cover, Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez, etc."
"Isaiah, Beach Party movies and more"
"Ralph Nader, Isaiah, Third"
"Goodman can't stop pimping 'dat man"
"THIS JUST IN! AND SHE PIMPS AGAIN!"