Monday, September 28, 2009

John Boehner: We're calling him out



Instead of building honest consensus around reform, Rep. John Boehner is choosing to be a leading peddler of health reform lies.

He's claimed that reform would result in a government takeover of health care, cuts in Medicare benefits, and federal funding of abortion -- even though his lies have been debunked by non-partisan fact checks, and his own party has voted to gut Medicare.

Enough. We're calling him out.

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It's 420 Everyday in Keene (Day 4)

Keene, NH Liberty activist Rich Paul decided to start a cannabis civil disobedience event at 4:20 every day in central square of downtown Keene, NH. It started on Monday and has been growing wildly ever since. See what happened on Thursday, September 24rd, 2009, on day four of the daily 420 Celebration.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Tell Big Brother to Stop Watching You

We elected Democratic majorities to Congress in 2006 to end illegal spying by the Bush Administration. At long last, Senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin are leading the way, but all the other Democrats in Congress need to join them.

It's time to repeal telecom immunity for illegal spying and roll back the worst abuses of the PATRIOT ACT.

Bob Fertik


Cops in Fatigues Throw Protester into Unmarked Car at G-20 Protests and Drive off

Posted by Jan Frel, AlterNet at 11:43 AM on September 25, 2009
They may have been cops, but the video still reveals the militarization of police work. Muriel Kane at Raw Story shares a statement released by security at the G20:
"Military members supporting the G20 Summit work with local law enforcement authorities but do not have the authority to make arrests. The individuals involved in the 9/24/09 arrest which has appeared online are law enforcement officers from a multi-agency tactical response team assigned to the security operations for the G20. It is not unusual for tactical team members to wear camouflaged fatigues. The type of fatigues the officers wear designates their unit affiliation.

Prior to the arrest, the officers observed this subject vandalizing a local business. Due to the hostile nature of the crowd, officer safety and the safety of the person under arrest, the subject was immediately removed from the area.”

Read more at Raw Story.



Pittsburgh Police Riot, Attack Students

Posted by Staff, AlterNet at 8:57 AM on September 26, 2009

"The only figures breaking any laws on that calm campus were the cops themselves."

The video below comes to us from John Ennis. The reader who sent it our way writes:

As you'll see, the students were (a) not numerous, and (b) not really doing much of anything, but sort of hanging out. And yet the cops were suited up for heavy combat (in some galaxy far, far away), and came down hard on.... nothing. They lobbed gas grenades, dragged people off, etc., as if there were a riot going on. But the only figures breaking any laws on that calm campus were the cops themselves.




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Bill Clinton: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (Video)