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6211 Safire: Seizing Dictatorial Power -- rank: 72

... is the strongest > statement I've read against Bush's police state polices -- isn't it odd that > it come from ... sting against Marion Barry, which was, as Safire termed it, police state entrapment. (Barry was looking to get laid by the ...

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Author:	Dennis
Date:	Fri Nov 16 05:55:57 PST 2001

6212 Safire: Seizing Dictatorial Power -- rank: 72

... is the strongest statement I've read against Bush's police state polices -- isn't it odd that it come from ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Thu Nov 15 21:05:18 PST 2001

6213 Putinism -- rank: 72

She's a very brave Russian journalist who was reporting from Chechnya. She wrote a scathing book a while ago lambasting both Russian military abuses, military propaganda and lack of military headway and Western blindness to human-rights violations perpetrated against Russians by Chechens (they're fond of torturing people to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Nov 14 09:56:46 PST 2001

6214 Putinism -- rank: 72

[Hey Chris Doss, what's the story on Anna etc.?] [WashPost] Remember Chechnya By Anna Politkovskaya Wednesday, November 14, 2001; Page A33 Three years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power by launching a war in Chechnya that is still referred to in Russia as an anti-terrorist operation ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Nov 14 09:17:29 PST 2001

6215 far right-Islamist connection -- rank: 72

Financial Times - November 9, 2001 AL-QAEDA LINKS: Far-right has ties with Islamic extreme By PHILIPP JAKLIN and HUGH WILLIAMSON One of the people identified by the US government as providing financial support to the al-Qaeda terrorist network is also a well-known figure in the European far-right ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:06:10 PST 2001

6216 Marable weighs in -- rank: 72

I agree that police misconduct is not to be tolerated. We in Chicago know ... Hampton). I don't see how the cause of ending police misconduct is to be furthered by making absurd exaggerations. The ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Fri Nov 9 19:56:37 PST 2001

6217 Fwd: Berkeley is alive and well -- rank: 72

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Stroshane, Timothy" <TStroshane at ci.berkeley.ca.us> Subject: Berkeley is alive and well Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:28:54 -0800 ======================= Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:43:06 +0200 From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com> Subject: Hello!: Popular backlash ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 12:56:36 PST 2001

6218 Political Repression under Liberal Democracy Re: Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 72

>I was amazed that when Amy Goodman asked Oden if she'd heard any >other tales of Greens being harassed, Oden said no, and then Goodman >just let it pass. This is going to discredit stories of real >repression, and over the last few days has eclipsed any concern for ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 9 10:53:46 PST 2001

6219 Censorship since Sept 11th -- rank: 72

Online Index Documents Censorship, Free Speech Incidents http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171976.html By Michael Bartlett, Newsbytes NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A. 07 Nov 2001, 7:51 PM CST The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) today unveiled an online index of what it calls, "various censorship and ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Wed Nov 7 21:31:47 PST 2001

6220 Leftists (white) and Black Liberation, was Re: Civil Rights -- rank: 72

----- Original Message ----- From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com> >As I said at the outset, what I say about race in the US may very well be >heavily infected with foot-in-mouth. I'm no expert. But the depth and >duration of blacks' grievances - an of course I mean ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Nov 6 09:31:25 PST 2001

6221 Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 72

... terms of a wider knowledge of the operations of the police state against historically oppressed groups and her dishonest use o

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Nov 5 05:30:27 PST 2001

6222 Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 72

>At 06:28 PM 11/4/01 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote: >>Bravo, Yoshie! It's absolutely lethal, also stupid, to denigrate >>civil liberties as "white skin privilege." > >no one did and i expect an apology from you. > >kelley In the interest of clarification, what Kelley wrote was as follows: At ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Nov 4 11:28:03 PST 2001

6223 Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 72

>At 11:19 AM 11/4/01 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>>but Art is entirely right: only an ignoramus would act like she >>>did and then be outraged about what happened to her. she's an >>>ignoramus because she is privileged by white skin and middle class >>>status. only a ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Nov 4 10:36:08 PST 2001

6224 Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 72

Bravo, Yoshie! It's absolutely lethal, also stupid, to denigrate civil liberties as "white skin privilege." It's outrageous when anyone is denied due process and in fact reasonable respect, and there should be no smirking when a white middle class person is abused, any more than there should be indifference ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Sun Nov 4 10:28:56 PST 2001

6225 Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 72

>but Art is entirely right: only an ignoramus would act like she did >and then be outraged about what happened to her. she's an ignoramus >because she is privileged by white skin and middle class status. >only a white, middle class person who's never dealt with the cops ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Nov 4 08:19:58 PST 2001