\r\nBENEFIT FOR JAVIER PEREZ and SHERMAN AUSTIN (FROM RAISE THE FIST)\r\n<\/p>
\r\nJoin us for a night of revolutionary hip hop, speakers, open mic, and unity to speak out against the intensified war being waged against our communites here at home by local and federal law enforcement agencies as they continue to harass, brutalize, racially profile, round-up and target and surveill political descendents.\r\n<\/p>
\r\nWhen: June 20th\r\n
Where: Casa Del Pueblo (498 W. Sunset Blvd. St#2 , Los Angeles, CA)\r\n
Time: 7pm\r\n
Suggested Donation: $5\r\n<\/p>
\r\nFIGHT CLUB\r\n
POOR HOUSE PROJEKTS\r\n
LIQDZUNSHINE\r\n
DJ CANEO\r\n
+ more TBA<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
\r\nProceeds from the event will go to help Sherman Austin from Raise the Fist who was radied by the FBI under the U.S Patriot Act on Jan 24, 2002 (has sentencing on June 30th, 2003) and for Javier Perez who was deported after being arrested at a brutal police riot in Long Beach on May 1, 2001.\r\n<\/p>
\r\nFor more info contact: 562-434-6934 \/ StopLBPD@yahoo.com.\r\n<\/p>
\r\nABSOLUTELY NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL<\/b>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"stoplbpd@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.raisethefist.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":".","numcomment":45,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/05\/60882.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":60885,"heading":"OOP'S! CORRECTION FOR CONTACT #","article":"the correct contact number is 562-856-1932 , please call anytime after Sat, May 31st.\r\n\r\n","author":".","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-31 05:33:58","modified":"2003-05-31 05:33:58","fileurl":""},{"id":61065,"heading":"Yeah!","article":"Revolutionary hip-hop will make the world a better place!","author":"daveman","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-31 19:40:16","modified":"2003-05-31 19:40:16","fileurl":""},{"id":61081,"heading":"davemoron","article":"The world would be a better place if you would jump off a bridge!!!","author":"anti-moron","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-31 20:04:32","modified":"2003-05-31 20:04:32","fileurl":""},{"id":61089,"heading":"I hear","article":"I hear Sherman Austin is going up the creek for a while! Don't bend over for the soap! Someone might "Raise the fist" up yo ass, homey!","author":"in the know","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-31 21:23:32","modified":"2003-05-31 21:23:32","fileurl":""},{"id":61170,"heading":"Yes, anti-moron!","article":"Death to all who disagree with you! And let's repeal the First Amendment, too, so no one can voice any different opinions!\r\n\r\nAnti-moron should rule the world! He is, after all, the wisest human being in all of history...so wise, he makes Solomon look like a regular poster on la-imc.","author":"daveman","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-01 11:39:55","modified":"2003-06-01 11:39:55","fileurl":""},{"id":61265,"heading":"Yeah, lets hear it for the 1st amendment","article":"FREE SHERMAN AUSTIN\r\nVOTE TODAY ! ! !","author":"Sy$teMF@iLuRe","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-06-02 09:17:46","modified":"2005-08-15 01:31:23","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/06\/free-sherman-now.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/06\/free-sherman-now.jpg"}},{"id":61267,"heading":"Heh.","article":"How deliciously perfect.\r\n\r\nAny else drawing the parallels between the homogenization of hip-hop and "organized" anarchy? Soon all the white surburban kids with their pants around their ankles will be yelling anti-G8 slogans from their parent's 1 mile to the gallon $50k SUVs as they cruise the stripmalls listening to Nelly and Missy Elliot.\r\n\r\nFuckin' classic. Fight the power, brotha'.","author":"Katalyst","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 09:30:56","modified":"2003-06-02 09:30:56","fileurl":""},{"id":61269,"heading":"I guess the revolution wont be televised","article":"Thats a pretty cool statement showing that the rich white kids are starting to understand the plight of less fortunate minorities.\r\nThe realization of the youth.\r\nThe realization that the can use thier parents corruption and riches to spread the word of global decontrol.\r\nGood point.\r\nThe seeds of discontent are spreading thru to all.\r\nThe understanding is near.","author":"Sy$teMF@iLuRe","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 09:38:00","modified":"2003-06-02 09:38:00","fileurl":""},{"id":61270,"heading":"Righto.","article":"Put down the joint.\r\n\r\nTurn off The Matrix.\r\n\r\nThink about it.","author":"Katalyst","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 09:41:50","modified":"2003-06-02 09:41:50","fileurl":""},{"id":61271,"heading":"sorry dude, i dont smoke","article":"why dont you go home and finish fucking your mother?","author":"Sy$teMF@iLuRe","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 09:45:28","modified":"2003-06-02 09:45:28","fileurl":""},{"id":61272,"heading":"*snicker*","article":"My work here is done.","author":"Katalyst","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 09:50:35","modified":"2003-06-02 09:50:35","fileurl":""},{"id":61273,"heading":"she came eh?","article":"good work.","author":"SF","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 09:51:52","modified":"2003-06-02 09:51:52","fileurl":""},{"id":61315,"heading":"oh yeah","article":"I also tongue-kissed her butthole.\r\n\r\nwww.kobehq.com","author":"Katalyst","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 16:02:01","modified":"2003-06-02 16:02:01","fileurl":""},{"id":61333,"heading":"shut the fuck up","article":"every time something is posted on here about raisethefist, you people always come in here with your stupid fucking drama and start your stupid petty little fights as if anyone gives a damn. grow up and find something more productive to do with your time!\r\n","author":"click-clack","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 18:11:47","modified":"2003-06-02 18:11:47","fileurl":""},{"id":61334,"heading":"Heh.","article":"What's less productive, what we do or the fact that you're responding to it?\r\n\r\nAnd if you're going to imp me at least use some grammar. I'm not a "member" of Kobe, but if it makes you feel better to think that, go ahead I guess.","author":"Katalyst","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 18:26:12","modified":"2003-06-02 18:26:12","fileurl":""},{"id":61350,"heading":"Katalyst","article":"You are in need of a Prozac the size of a basketball. Please get back into your straightjacket before you hurt someone, you psycho.","author":"anti-psycho","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 20:19:34","modified":"2003-06-02 20:19:34","fileurl":""},{"id":61354,"heading":"I wish.. alas.","article":"Someday, maybe, just maybe, someone will stand up and debate the issues instead of attacking the debater.\r\n\r\nIt's so much easier to say "Katalyst\/Bush\/G8 is a poo-head." then it is to say why you think they're wrong, isn't it. Heaven forbid you have to, like, uhh, expose some points you might have to defend and stuff, right?\r\n\r\nBut who cares about the issues.. it's just cool to dress up in black, riot n pretend 2 b smart n stuff rite? FUK BUSH FUK U PSYCHO OK THX BYE","author":"Katalyst","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 20:29:27","modified":"2003-06-02 20:29:27","fileurl":""},{"id":61356,"heading":"Katalyst","article":""Katalyst\/Bush\/G8 is a poo-head."\r\n\r\nPlease stop hallucinating. There is no such sentence anywhere in this thread. Like I said, you need to get back on your meds.","author":"anti-psycho","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 20:36:59","modified":"2003-06-02 20:36:59","fileurl":""},{"id":61361,"heading":"Logical Fallacy","article":""The left is so incredibly irrelevant in America today."\r\n\r\nUnsubstantiated Allegation. ","author":"debate coach","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 20:49:22","modified":"2003-06-02 20:49:22","fileurl":""},{"id":61365,"heading":"I hold these truths self evident","article":"The fact that the left is completely irrelevant today (in American politics) is self evident.\r\n\r\nEven you should be able to figure that out debate coach. \r\n\r\nI didn't do it to them. They did it to themselves. They did it by taking absurd positions on the issues of the day, such as our interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.\r\n\r\nThey are now self-marginalized. They're like Nessie at SF-IMC (irrelevant).","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 20:53:08","modified":"2003-06-02 20:53:08","fileurl":""},{"id":61366,"heading":"Logical Fallacy","article":""The fact that the left is completely irrelevant today (in American politics) is self evident."\r\n\r\nUnsubstantiated Allegation. \r\n\r\n","author":"debate coach","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 20:55:41","modified":"2003-06-02 20:55:41","fileurl":""},{"id":61370,"heading":"Speaking of SF IMC...","article":"Hey BA, have you listened to this garbage yet?:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.killradio.org\/proginfo.php?id=66\r\n\r\nIt's a radio broadcast on KILL Radio with some of the SF IMC Collective members.\r\n\r\nIt's quite a hoot. Especially part two, where they take caller's questions on the phone.\r\n\r\nThe thing that most comes to mind are the similarities between these people, and your run-of-the-mill cult.\r\n\r\nThe brainwashing tactics employed by these people are quite impressive, and nearly undetecable to the untrained ear. It's like "We love you. We accept you for who you are. Come join our click. We have no discernible leadership and we have weekly "concensus training". We'll love you just because you are you."\r\n\r\nIt's very entertaining. Give it a listen when you get board sometime.","author":"Eric","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 21:23:43","modified":"2003-06-02 21:23:43","fileurl":""},{"id":61371,"heading":"Memo to Eric","article":"We love you!! Please contribute to our Eric Robert Rudolph defense fund!","author":"FOX NEWS","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 21:29:21","modified":"2003-06-02 21:29:21","fileurl":""},{"id":61375,"heading":"^","article":"sorry i do this all the time\r\nits all i got","author":"skippy","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-02 22:31:44","modified":"2003-06-02 22:31:44","fileurl":""},{"id":61450,"heading":"HEY eric,,,,,,","article":"WHy ya gotta try and H@cK my email account?\r\nThats not very nice.....\r\nLooks like some retribution is in order...\r\nH@ hA\r\nHa HA\r\nsee ya soon.........\r\nI ll be X POSING you soon here on indyMeDia\r\ndick.","author":"Sy$teMF@iLuRe","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-03 09:03:18","modified":"2003-06-03 09:03:18","fileurl":""},{"id":61461,"heading":"Try and hack it?","article":"Unfortunately for you, I didn't just try. Actually, I did hack it.\r\n\r\nBut I'll be waiting for you to xpose me (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean).\r\n\r\nHAR!","author":"Eric","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-03 10:10:13","modified":"2003-06-03 10:10:13","fileurl":""},{"id":61609,"heading":"and his IP is....","article":"daveman\/erics IP is.......68.212.64.23","author":"Sy$teMF@iLuRe","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-06-04 02:19:53","modified":"2005-08-15 01:31:23","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/06\/shithead.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/06\/shithead.jpg"}},{"id":61628,"heading":"and here's one of me..","article":"check me out.\r\nI RuLeZ!","author":"Sy$teMF@iLuRe","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-06-04 04:13:22","modified":"2005-08-15 01:31:23","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/06\/sf.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/06\/sf.jpg"}},{"id":61635,"heading":"Good job, utterfailure.","article":"Don't quit your day job. You'll never work for the NSA.\r\n\r\nThe porno is however, unnecessary.","author":"Eric","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-04 09:15:21","modified":"2003-06-04 09:15:21","fileurl":""},{"id":61647,"heading":"Hey utterfailure!","article":"Or should I say, Enrique Barbeito Garcia?\r\n\r\nHablo un espa\u00f1ol peque\u00f1o, usted idiota. He estado a Espa\u00f1a muchos, muchas vez. Quiz\u00e1s vendr\u00e9 la visita usted ahora que tengo toda su informaci\u00f3n. \u00bfApreciar\u00eda usted eso? \u00bfC\u00f3mo el tiempo en Alicante es? Necesito una vacaci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n. \r\n\r\nThat's right goober. You're owned.","author":"Eric","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-04 09:44:17","modified":"2013-11-11 00:22:51","fileurl":""},{"id":61649,"heading":"Fuck you leftie queer","article":"bunch of communist squatter fucks!\r\nThis website is hosted by queer san fran faggots and nigger lovers.","author":"Kobe power","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-04 09:51:35","modified":"2003-06-04 09:51:35","fileurl":""},{"id":61657,"heading":"Yeah....","article":"is this the fucking gay pride page or what?\r\nThe intellegence here is ???????\r\nWHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\r\nps\r\nYour probally right.\r\nBWAHABWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH\r\nPSS\r\nWE WON THE WAR ASSHOLES\r\nWAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!","author":"KOBEMAN","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-04 10:11:32","modified":"2003-06-04 10:11:32","fileurl":""},{"id":61660,"heading":"We support George Bush","article":"fuck sherman piece of shit \r\nrot in jail you piece of dog shit.\r\n\r\nHeres some info for you leftie fucks about the GREATEST president in history.\r\nread it an learn what makes some one a hero.\r\n\r\nBirthplace: Milton, Mass.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush. The family later moved to Connecticut. The youth studied at the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.\r\n\r\nThe future president joined the Navy after war broke out and at 18 became the Navy's youngest commissioned pilot, serving from 1942 to 1945. The man later derided by some as a \u201cwimp\u201d fought the Japanese on 58 missions and was shot down once. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross.\r\n\r\nAfter the war, Bush earned an economics degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key in two and a half years at Yale University. While there he captained the baseball team and was initiated into \u201cSkull and Bones,\u201d the prestigious Yale secret society.\r\n\r\nIn 1945 Bush married Barbara Pierce of Rye, N.Y., daughter of a magazine publisher. With his bride, Bush moved to Texas instead of entering his father's investment banking business. There he founded his oil company and by 1980 reported an estimated wealth of $1.4 million.\r\n\r\nThroughout his whole career, Bush had the backing of an established family, headed by his father, Prescott Bush, who was elected to the Senate from Connecticut in 1952. The family helped the young patrician become established in his early business ventures, a rich uncle raising most of the capital required for founding the oil company.\r\n\r\nIn the 1960s, Bush won two contests for a Texas Republican seat in the House of Representatives, but lost two bids for a Senate seat. After Bush's second race for the Senate, President Nixon appointed him U.S. delegate to the United Nations with the rank of ambassador and he later became Republican National Committee chairman. He headed the U.S. liaison office in Beijing before becoming Director of Central Intelligence.\r\n\r\nIn 1980 Bush became Reagan's running mate despite earlier criticism of Reagan \u201cvoodoo economics\u201d and by the 1984 election had won acclaim for his devotion to Reagan's conservative agenda. Die-hard right-wingers could also find satisfaction in Bush's war record and his government service, particularly with the CIA. Throughout he remained influential in White House decisions, particularly in foreign affairs.\r\n\r\nIn the 1988 presidential campaign, Bush's choice of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana for vice president surprised his friends and provoked criticism and ridicule that continued even after the administration was in office. Nonetheless Bush strongly defended his choice.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush became president on Jan. 20, 1989, with his theme harmony and conciliation after the often-turbulent Reagan years. With his calm and unassuming manner, he emerged from his subordinate vice-presidential role with an air of quiet authority. His inaugural address emphasized \u201cA new breeze is blowing, and the old bipartisanship must be made new again.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn his first months, the president, the nation's 41st, established himself as his own man and all but erased memories of what many had regarded as his fiercely abrasive presidential election campaign of 1988 and questionable tactics against his Democratic opponent. People liked his easy style and readiness to compromise even as he remained a staunch conservative, although that readiness had disconcerted some conservatives.\r\n\r\nBush's early Cabinet choices reflected a pragmatic desire for an efficient, nonideological government. And with his usual cautious instinct, in 1990 he nominated to the Supreme Court the scholarly David H. Souter, with broadly conservative views. Souter was confirmed without a bruising battle.\r\n\r\nIn his first year, Bush, a World War II hero, had won plaudits at home and abroad for his confident, competent conduct at the NATO 40th anniversary summit meeting in Brussels, the Paris economic conference, on his tour of Eastern Europe, and at the Malta conference with Gorbachev. Grave challenges in that year were the Lebanese hostage crisis and the ongoing war against drug trafficking.\r\n\r\nDomestically, Bush had to cope with such issues as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the dispute over flag-burning restrictions, which was resolved, if only for a time, in mid-1990.\r\n\r\nBut in his second year, 1990, the president confronted a mounting array of problems, chief among them the staggering budget deficit and the savings and loan crisis. The president's popularity dipped sharply from its near-record public approval following the invasion of Panama in late 1989. This plunge followed Bush's recantation of his campaign \u201cno new taxes\u201d pledge as he sat down with congressional leaders to tame the budget deficit and deal with a faltering economy.\r\n\r\nIn 1991, the president emerged as the leader of an international coalition of Western democracies, Japan, and even some Arab states that came together to free Kuwait following an invasion of the country by Iraq in Aug. 1990. The coalition forces defeated Iraq in only a little more than a month after Operation Desert Storm was launched on Jan. 16\u201317, 1991, and a nation grateful at feeling the end of the \u201cVietnam syndrome\u201d gave the president an 89% approval rating. However, the high rating fell as the year went on, as doubts persisted about the war's outcome\u2014Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remained in power and persistently avoided complying with the terms of the peace treaty\u2014and as concerns began to grow about the faltering U.S. economy and other domestic problems.\r\n\r\nA major Bush accomplishment in 1991 was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in July with Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their fourth summit conference, marking the end of the long weapons buildup. \r\n\r\nThe year also saw the president undergoing treatment for Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, from which he suffered serious side effects.\r\n\r\nIn the 1992 presidential election, Bush was defeated by Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas.\r\n\r\nThe Bushes have four sons, George, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, and a daughter, Dorothy. Another daughter, Robin, died at age three from leukemia. Son George served as governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, when he was elected the 43rd U.S. president. Jeb Bush was elected governor of Florida in 1998\r\n\r\nGO GW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\r\n\r\nBirthplace: Milton, Mass.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush. The family later moved to Connecticut. The youth studied at the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.\r\n\r\nThe future president joined the Navy after war broke out and at 18 became the Navy's youngest commissioned pilot, serving from 1942 to 1945. The man later derided by some as a \u201cwimp\u201d fought the Japanese on 58 missions and was shot down once. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross.\r\n\r\nAfter the war, Bush earned an economics degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key in two and a half years at Yale University. While there he captained the baseball team and was initiated into \u201cSkull and Bones,\u201d the prestigious Yale secret society.\r\n\r\nIn 1945 Bush married Barbara Pierce of Rye, N.Y., daughter of a magazine publisher. With his bride, Bush moved to Texas instead of entering his father's investment banking business. There he founded his oil company and by 1980 reported an estimated wealth of $1.4 million.\r\n\r\nThroughout his whole career, Bush had the backing of an established family, headed by his father, Prescott Bush, who was elected to the Senate from Connecticut in 1952. The family helped the young patrician become established in his early business ventures, a rich uncle raising most of the capital required for founding the oil company.\r\n\r\nIn the 1960s, Bush won two contests for a Texas Republican seat in the House of Representatives, but lost two bids for a Senate seat. After Bush's second race for the Senate, President Nixon appointed him U.S. delegate to the United Nations with the rank of ambassador and he later became Republican National Committee chairman. He headed the U.S. liaison office in Beijing before becoming Director of Central Intelligence.\r\n\r\nIn 1980 Bush became Reagan's running mate despite earlier criticism of Reagan \u201cvoodoo economics\u201d and by the 1984 election had won acclaim for his devotion to Reagan's conservative agenda. Die-hard right-wingers could also find satisfaction in Bush's war record and his government service, particularly with the CIA. Throughout he remained influential in White House decisions, particularly in foreign affairs.\r\n\r\nIn the 1988 presidential campaign, Bush's choice of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana for vice president surprised his friends and provoked criticism and ridicule that continued even after the administration was in office. Nonetheless Bush strongly defended his choice.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush became president on Jan. 20, 1989, with his theme harmony and conciliation after the often-turbulent Reagan years. With his calm and unassuming manner, he emerged from his subordinate vice-presidential role with an air of quiet authority. His inaugural address emphasized \u201cA new breeze is blowing, and the old bipartisanship must be made new again.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn his first months, the president, the nation's 41st, established himself as his own man and all but erased memories of what many had regarded as his fiercely abrasive presidential election campaign of 1988 and questionable tactics against his Democratic opponent. People liked his easy style and readiness to compromise even as he remained a staunch conservative, although that readiness had disconcerted some conservatives.\r\n\r\nBush's early Cabinet choices reflected a pragmatic desire for an efficient, nonideological government. And with his usual cautious instinct, in 1990 he nominated to the Supreme Court the scholarly David H. Souter, with broadly conservative views. Souter was confirmed without a bruising battle.\r\n\r\nIn his first year, Bush, a World War II hero, had won plaudits at home and abroad for his confident, competent conduct at the NATO 40th anniversary summit meeting in Brussels, the Paris economic conference, on his tour of Eastern Europe, and at the Malta conference with Gorbachev. Grave challenges in that year were the Lebanese hostage crisis and the ongoing war against drug trafficking.\r\n\r\nDomestically, Bush had to cope with such issues as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the dispute over flag-burning restrictions, which was resolved, if only for a time, in mid-1990.\r\n\r\nBut in his second year, 1990, the president confronted a mounting array of problems, chief among them the staggering budget deficit and the savings and loan crisis. The president's popularity dipped sharply from its near-record public approval following the invasion of Panama in late 1989. This plunge followed Bush's recantation of his campaign \u201cno new taxes\u201d pledge as he sat down with congressional leaders to tame the budget deficit and deal with a faltering economy.\r\n\r\nIn 1991, the president emerged as the leader of an international coalition of Western democracies, Japan, and even some Arab states that came together to free Kuwait following an invasion of the country by Iraq in Aug. 1990. The coalition forces defeated Iraq in only a little more than a month after Operation Desert Storm was launched on Jan. 16\u201317, 1991, and a nation grateful at feeling the end of the \u201cVietnam syndrome\u201d gave the president an 89% approval rating. However, the high rating fell as the year went on, as doubts persisted about the war's outcome\u2014Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remained in power and persistently avoided complying with the terms of the peace treaty\u2014and as concerns began to grow about the faltering U.S. economy and other domestic problems.\r\n\r\nA major Bush accomplishment in 1991 was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in July with Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their fourth summit conference, marking the end of the long weapons buildup. \r\n\r\nThe year also saw the president undergoing treatment for Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, from which he suffered serious side effects.\r\n\r\nIn the 1992 presidential election, Bush was defeated by Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas.\r\n\r\nThe Bushes have four sons, George, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, and a daughter, Dorothy. Another daughter, Robin, died at age three from leukemia. Son George served as governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, when he was elected the 43rd U.S. president. Jeb Bush was elected governor of Florida in 1998\r\n\r\nBirthplace: Milton, Mass.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush. The family later moved to Connecticut. The youth studied at the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.\r\n\r\nThe future president joined the Navy after war broke out and at 18 became the Navy's youngest commissioned pilot, serving from 1942 to 1945. The man later derided by some as a \u201cwimp\u201d fought the Japanese on 58 missions and was shot down once. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross.\r\n\r\nAfter the war, Bush earned an economics degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key in two and a half years at Yale University. While there he captained the baseball team and was initiated into \u201cSkull and Bones,\u201d the prestigious Yale secret society.\r\n\r\nIn 1945 Bush married Barbara Pierce of Rye, N.Y., daughter of a magazine publisher. With his bride, Bush moved to Texas instead of entering his father's investment banking business. There he founded his oil company and by 1980 reported an estimated wealth of $1.4 million.\r\n\r\nThroughout his whole career, Bush had the backing of an established family, headed by his father, Prescott Bush, who was elected to the Senate from Connecticut in 1952. The family helped the young patrician become established in his early business ventures, a rich uncle raising most of the capital required for founding the oil company.\r\n\r\nIn the 1960s, Bush won two contests for a Texas Republican seat in the House of Representatives, but lost two bids for a Senate seat. After Bush's second race for the Senate, President Nixon appointed him U.S. delegate to the United Nations with the rank of ambassador and he later became Republican National Committee chairman. He headed the U.S. liaison office in Beijing before becoming Director of Central Intelligence.\r\n\r\nIn 1980 Bush became Reagan's running mate despite earlier criticism of Reagan \u201cvoodoo economics\u201d and by the 1984 election had won acclaim for his devotion to Reagan's conservative agenda. Die-hard right-wingers could also find satisfaction in Bush's war record and his government service, particularly with the CIA. Throughout he remained influential in White House decisions, particularly in foreign affairs.\r\n\r\nIn the 1988 presidential campaign, Bush's choice of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana for vice president surprised his friends and provoked criticism and ridicule that continued even after the administration was in office. Nonetheless Bush strongly defended his choice.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush became president on Jan. 20, 1989, with his theme harmony and conciliation after the often-turbulent Reagan years. With his calm and unassuming manner, he emerged from his subordinate vice-presidential role with an air of quiet authority. His inaugural address emphasized \u201cA new breeze is blowing, and the old bipartisanship must be made new again.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn his first months, the president, the nation's 41st, established himself as his own man and all but erased memories of what many had regarded as his fiercely abrasive presidential election campaign of 1988 and questionable tactics against his Democratic opponent. People liked his easy style and readiness to compromise even as he remained a staunch conservative, although that readiness had disconcerted some conservatives.\r\n\r\nBush's early Cabinet choices reflected a pragmatic desire for an efficient, nonideological government. And with his usual cautious instinct, in 1990 he nominated to the Supreme Court the scholarly David H. Souter, with broadly conservative views. Souter was confirmed without a bruising battle.\r\n\r\nIn his first year, Bush, a World War II hero, had won plaudits at home and abroad for his confident, competent conduct at the NATO 40th anniversary summit meeting in Brussels, the Paris economic conference, on his tour of Eastern Europe, and at the Malta conference with Gorbachev. Grave challenges in that year were the Lebanese hostage crisis and the ongoing war against drug trafficking.\r\n\r\nDomestically, Bush had to cope with such issues as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the dispute over flag-burning restrictions, which was resolved, if only for a time, in mid-1990.\r\n\r\nBut in his second year, 1990, the president confronted a mounting array of problems, chief among them the staggering budget deficit and the savings and loan crisis. The president's popularity dipped sharply from its near-record public approval following the invasion of Panama in late 1989. This plunge followed Bush's recantation of his campaign \u201cno new taxes\u201d pledge as he sat down with congressional leaders to tame the budget deficit and deal with a faltering economy.\r\n\r\nIn 1991, the president emerged as the leader of an international coalition of Western democracies, Japan, and even some Arab states that came together to free Kuwait following an invasion of the country by Iraq in Aug. 1990. The coalition forces defeated Iraq in only a little more than a month after Operation Desert Storm was launched on Jan. 16\u201317, 1991, and a nation grateful at feeling the end of the \u201cVietnam syndrome\u201d gave the president an 89% approval rating. However, the high rating fell as the year went on, as doubts persisted about the war's outcome\u2014Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remained in power and persistently avoided complying with the terms of the peace treaty\u2014and as concerns began to grow about the faltering U.S. economy and other domestic problems.\r\n\r\nA major Bush accomplishment in 1991 was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in July with Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their fourth summit conference, marking the end of the long weapons buildup. \r\n\r\nThe year also saw the president undergoing treatment for Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, from which he suffered serious side effects.\r\n\r\nIn the 1992 presidential election, Bush was defeated by Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas.\r\n\r\nThe Bushes have four sons, George, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, and a daughter, Dorothy. Another daughter, Robin, died at age three from leukemia. Son George served as governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, when he was elected the 43rd U.S. president. Jeb Bush was elected governor of Florida in 1998\r\n\r\nBirthplace: Milton, Mass.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush. The family later moved to Connecticut. The youth studied at the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.\r\n\r\nThe future president joined the Navy after war broke out and at 18 became the Navy's youngest commissioned pilot, serving from 1942 to 1945. The man later derided by some as a \u201cwimp\u201d fought the Japanese on 58 missions and was shot down once. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross.\r\n\r\nAfter the war, Bush earned an economics degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key in two and a half years at Yale University. While there he captained the baseball team and was initiated into \u201cSkull and Bones,\u201d the prestigious Yale secret society.\r\n\r\nIn 1945 Bush married Barbara Pierce of Rye, N.Y., daughter of a magazine publisher. With his bride, Bush moved to Texas instead of entering his father's investment banking business. There he founded his oil company and by 1980 reported an estimated wealth of $1.4 million.\r\n\r\nThroughout his whole career, Bush had the backing of an established family, headed by his father, Prescott Bush, who was elected to the Senate from Connecticut in 1952. The family helped the young patrician become established in his early business ventures, a rich uncle raising most of the capital required for founding the oil company.\r\n\r\nIn the 1960s, Bush won two contests for a Texas Republican seat in the House of Representatives, but lost two bids for a Senate seat. After Bush's second race for the Senate, President Nixon appointed him U.S. delegate to the United Nations with the rank of ambassador and he later became Republican National Committee chairman. He headed the U.S. liaison office in Beijing before becoming Director of Central Intelligence.\r\n\r\nIn 1980 Bush became Reagan's running mate despite earlier criticism of Reagan \u201cvoodoo economics\u201d and by the 1984 election had won acclaim for his devotion to Reagan's conservative agenda. Die-hard right-wingers could also find satisfaction in Bush's war record and his government service, particularly with the CIA. Throughout he remained influential in White House decisions, particularly in foreign affairs.\r\n\r\nIn the 1988 presidential campaign, Bush's choice of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana for vice president surprised his friends and provoked criticism and ridicule that continued even after the administration was in office. Nonetheless Bush strongly defended his choice.\r\n\r\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush became president on Jan. 20, 1989, with his theme harmony and conciliation after the often-turbulent Reagan years. With his calm and unassuming manner, he emerged from his subordinate vice-presidential role with an air of quiet authority. His inaugural address emphasized \u201cA new breeze is blowing, and the old bipartisanship must be made new again.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn his first months, the president, the nation's 41st, established himself as his own man and all but erased memories of what many had regarded as his fiercely abrasive presidential election campaign of 1988 and questionable tactics against his Democratic opponent. People liked his easy style and readiness to compromise even as he remained a staunch conservative, although that readiness had disconcerted some conservatives.\r\n\r\nBush's early Cabinet choices reflected a pragmatic desire for an efficient, nonideological government. And with his usual cautious instinct, in 1990 he nominated to the Supreme Court the scholarly David H. Souter, with broadly conservative views. Souter was confirmed without a bruising battle.\r\n\r\nIn his first year, Bush, a World War II hero, had won plaudits at home and abroad for his confident, competent conduct at the NATO 40th anniversary summit meeting in Brussels, the Paris economic conference, on his tour of Eastern Europe, and at the Malta conference with Gorbachev. Grave challenges in that year were the Lebanese hostage crisis and the ongoing war against drug trafficking.\r\n\r\nDomestically, Bush had to cope with such issues as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the dispute over flag-burning restrictions, which was resolved, if only for a time, in mid-1990.\r\n\r\nBut in his second year, 1990, the president confronted a mounting array of problems, chief among them the staggering budget deficit and the savings and loan crisis. The president's popularity dipped sharply from its near-record public approval following the invasion of Panama in late 1989. This plunge followed Bush's recantation of his campaign \u201cno new taxes\u201d pledge as he sat down with congressional leaders to tame the budget deficit and deal with a faltering economy.\r\n\r\nIn 1991, the president emerged as the leader of an international coalition of Western democracies, Japan, and even some Arab states that came together to free Kuwait following an invasion of the country by Iraq in Aug. 1990. The coalition forces defeated Iraq in only a little more than a month after Operation Desert Storm was launched on Jan. 16\u201317, 1991, and a nation grateful at feeling the end of the \u201cVietnam syndrome\u201d gave the president an 89% approval rating. However, the high rating fell as the year went on, as doubts persisted about the war's outcome\u2014Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remained in power and persistently avoided complying with the terms of the peace treaty\u2014and as concerns began to grow about the faltering U.S. economy and other domestic problems.\r\n\r\nA major Bush accomplishment in 1991 was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in July with Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their fourth summit conference, marking the end of the long weapons buildup. \r\n\r\nThe year also saw the president undergoing treatment for Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, from which he suffered serious side effects.\r\n\r\nIn the 1992 presidential election, Bush was defeated by Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas.\r\n\r\nThe Bushes have four sons, George, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, and a daughter, Dorothy. Another daughter, Robin, died at age three from leukemia. Son George served as governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, when he was elected the 43rd U.S. president. Jeb Bush was elected governor of Florida in 1998","author":"Kobe dog","parent_id":60882,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-04 10:19:18","modified":"2013-11-11 00:22:51","fileurl":""},{"id":61661,"heading":"and clinton spied on you fucking hippies","article":"see ya and raise ya one\r\nRaise?\r\nRaise the middle finger\r\nBWAHAHAHAH\r\n\r\n\r\n[INLINE] Issue 402\r\n \r\n[INLINE] Student Bill Clinton 'spied' on Americans abroad for CIA \r\n \r\nA new book alleges that Bill Clinton spent his Oxford days monitoring\r\nanti-Vietnam war activists for the CIA, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports\r\nfrom Washington\r\n \r\nWHEN Bill Clinton ran for the US presidency four years ago, Republicans\r\ntried to prove that, as a student, he burnt the Stars and Stripes in\r\nprotest at the Vietnam War.\r\n \r\nNow Dr Roger Morris, author of an astonishing new book called Partners\r\nin Power, claims that, in the late 1960s, Mr Clinton worked as a source\r\nfor the Central Intelligence Agency. So, was the young Clinton a patriot\r\nor just an opportunist? He was certainly no dangerous radical. "No\r\nattack by his reactionary opponents would be more undeserved than the\r\ncharge that young Bill Clinton was 'radical'," concludes Morris.\r\n \r\nAccording to the book, the bearded, dishevelled Rhodes scholar was\r\nrecruited by the CIA while at Oxford - along with several other young\r\nAmericans with political aspirations - to keep tabs on fellow students\r\ninvolved in protest activities against the Vietnam War. Morris says that\r\nthe young Clinton indulged in some low-level spying in Norway in 1969,\r\nvisiting the Oslo Peace Institute and submitting a CIA informant's\r\nreport on American peace activists who had taken refuge in Scandinavia\r\nto avoid the draft. "An officer in the CIA station in Stockholm\r\nconfirmed that," said Morris.\r\n \r\nThe Washington Establishment would like to dismiss this troubling book\r\nas the work of a fevered conspiracy theorist. But Morris is no\r\nlightweight. He worked at the White House in both the Johnson and Nixon\r\nadministrations, resigning from the National Security Council in 1970 in\r\nprotest over the US invasion of Cambodia. He went on to become an\r\nacclaimed biographer of Richard Nixon.\r\n \r\nRhodes scholars such as Mr Clinton were favourite targets for\r\nrecruitment\r\n \r\nAs a member of America's tight-knit association of retired intelligence\r\nofficers, he has access to highly privileged information. "It's an\r\nincredible network," he explained. "They pass you along from source to\r\nsource."\r\n \r\nThe CIA started recruiting campus informants under President Lyndon\r\nJohnson when he demanded hard proof that there were, in his words,\r\n"commie money and organisers behind this student s***". The programme,\r\nknown as Operation Chaos, would offer informants a wide range of\r\ninducements: a little cash on the side; taking care of their draft\r\nproblems; and promises of future help. "You know, if the agency's in a\r\nposition to help at some point in their careers, there'd be an\r\ninstitutional memory," explained one CIA officer. "They knew the\r\nadvantages of helping out."\r\n \r\nRhodes scholars such as Mr Clinton were favourite targets for\r\nrecruitment. This caused serious friction with Britain's MI5 because it\r\nviolated a US-UK agreement that neither country would conduct covert\r\noperations or recruit on each other's home territory. "Because of the\r\nsensitivity of the UK, these kids were treated in some ways like\r\nhigh-level agents," recalled one officer.\r\n \r\nIn the mid-1970s the CIA shredded its archives on Operation Chaos. One\r\nof those involved in the purge of the records told Morris that he had\r\nseen Bill Clinton listed as a former informant who went on to run for\r\npolitical office. "He was there in the records, with a special\r\ndesignation," the official is quoted as saying in the book.\r\n \r\nMr Clinton's alleged ties to the CIA would explain some later episodes\r\nduring his tenure as Governor of Arkansas, when his state became a\r\nstaging-point for President Ronald Reagan's secret effort to supply the\r\nNicaraguan Contra rebels. An Arkansas State Trooper, L. D. Brown, has\r\ntestified in a deposition that he was inducted into the CIA on Mr\r\nClinton's suggestion, and then went on two clandestine flights to\r\ndeliver weapons to Central America.\r\n \r\nMr Clinton was even commended for his "patriotic" work by the Reagan\r\nWhite House after he had sent the Arkansas National Guard to Honduras\r\nfor manoeuvres. The deployment was a ruse by the Pentagon, according to\r\nMorris. The Arkansas Guard left its "excess" inventory behind, providing\r\na cache of weapons that were slipped to the Contras.\r\n \r\nThe point is not that Bill and Hillary Clinton are Right-wingers in\r\ndisguise . It is that they have no conviction, no ideology, no guiding\r\npurpose\r\n \r\nEven Hillary Clinton was a Cold Warrior of sorts. Described in Morris's\r\nbook as "a closet Contra supporter", she quietly aided Contra\r\nfund-raising in Little Rock. She also used her influence in US liberal\r\ncircles to undercut the legitimacy of peace activists and pro-Sandinista\r\nchurch groups opposed to President Reagan's policies in Central America.\r\n \r\nThe point is not that Bill and Hillary Clinton are Right-wingers in\r\ndisguise - although Morris demolishes the pretence that they were\r\nprogressive reformers in Arkansas. It is that they have no conviction,\r\nno ideology, no guiding purpose. Driven by raw ambition, they will make\r\nany compromise necessary to advance their interests.\r\n \r\nPartners in Power is the first of what will be a succession of books\r\nabout the Clintons whose authors are not fooled by the shadow-boxing\r\nthat often passes for substantive debate in American politics. (A second\r\nbook, by the editor of the American Spectator, will be coming out later\r\nthis month with another set of revelations.)\r\n \r\nMorris violates all the taboos. Impatient with the manicured myth that\r\nBill Clinton was the apple-pie boy from Hope, Arkansas, he reveals the\r\nlittle-known fact that the President spent much of his childhood in Hot\r\nSprings, the capital of gambling, drug-smuggling and organised crime in\r\nthe central United States, where his powerful uncle and mentor, Raymond\r\nClinton, was a member of the Dixie mafia.\r\n \r\nIt was not Mr Clinton's fault, of course, that he grew up in the culture\r\nof "the Mob". But it is central to understanding who Bill Clinton really\r\nis. It helps explain why his brother, Roger, ended up as a convicted\r\ndrug dealer, and why Bill himself allegedly became a regular user of\r\ncocaine. (On a police surveillance videotape quoted from in the book,\r\nRoger can be heard saying to a supplier of cocaine: "Got to get some for\r\nmy brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner.")\r\n \r\nFor Morris, ensconced in his New Mexico mountain retreat, the American\r\npolitical system is now fatally corrupted. Democrats and Republicans\r\nnoisily dispute how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. But both\r\nare indentured servants of the permanent government - "a bureaucracy so\r\nself-corrupted it is unfit for democracy" - and the interlocking\r\ninterests of the lobby machine to be found on Washington's K Street.\r\n \r\nIt already looks as if the US media will try to ignore Partners in\r\nPower, which is to be published next week. "Their reaction is entirely\r\npredictable," said Morris. "If they were to behave any other way, my\r\nbook would not be true."\r\n \r\nThis report appeared in the last edition of The Sunday Telegraph\r\n\r\nReply to Electronic Telegraph\r\n \r\nElectronic Telegraph is a Registered Service Mark of The Telegraph plc\r\n\r\n-> Send "subscribe snetnews" to majordomo@alterzone.com\r\n-> Posted by: Brian Redman