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It’s the fourth week in June which signifies only one thing. Wimbledon has arrived! It’s the two weeks in the yr where people begin to root out their tennis rackets, find their whitest of whites and take on the foreseeable rainfall to exercise their serve and volley. Man and Van Wimbledon is dedicated to giving out the most able and competitive service addressable even when SW19 stuffed with tourists. Man and Vans, London’s premier light removal service, is grounded in South West London and actually is happy to help its neighbors with any light removals they might have. Man wth Van Wimbledon could be too busy to brave the courts this summer but here at Man and Vans head office we’re exceedingly crazy about Wimbledon’s new Centre Court Roof. Although Man and Van Wimbledon will do work in the rainfall, Rafael, Roger and Andy have never been too ready to face heavy rain. It’s good news that this summer there’ll be no need for Cliff Richards’ services as, from the 17th May, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Association has been using its new retractable roof. Health and Safety tests on the court were borne by the infamous Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters, who enjoyed an exhibition game of mixed doubles as the well timed rain pummelled the roof as it shut.

In principle the cleaning arrangements for schools and hospitals should be relatively straightforward. They know what they require, the cleaning company can then tender using those requirements as a basis for the quotation. If the contractor cannot sustain the correct level of cleaning then another is brought in. This is the situation in the commercial world.

You are provided with a brief and using that the cleaning company prepares its quotation. It then either gains the contract or does not. If it then underperforms notice is given and another company is engaged.

Things in the world of Local Government and NHS Trusts do not quite work like that. Both are laden with beaurocrats whose sole function is to draw up the tender requirements, vet firms as suitable and then oversee the contracts. Theirs is a purely paper exercise, everything being documented and filled in on appropriate forms and passed from one person to the next. This layer of individuals is a complete waste of money and it would be better spent on allowing more for the contracts so that in the case of cleaners the contractor could hire more cleaners to carry out the job.

However that is not the end of it because we then have another layer of local government management whose function is to go out and investigate complaints about the cleaning. These fill in endless forms and produce sheets of written reports but the cleaning does not improve.

These layers of civil servants could all be dispensed with thus saving, across the country millions of pounds, which could then be spent on improving the service. So who does the hiring and monitoring? The individuals on the receiving end! In the case of schools it would be the head teacher who could obtain their supplies and services from whomever they wished instead of being told who they can and cannot purchase from. This system, said to be efficient often leads to money being wasted, but the authorities have a vested interest in maintaining it because otherwise they would be out of a job.

Talk to any headteacher in the UK and you will have stories of how they could have got something much cheaper but were not allowed to because the company involved was not an approved supplier.

In the Health Service you have even more layers of managers when it would be better for each unit manager to engage the contractor and oversee in this case the cleaning. Instead we have multi million pound cleaning contracts being awarded to the large multinational cleaning companies because bigger is better and more efficient and cost saving. In some cases and this is one of them big is not better it only enables this tier of middle management to justify their jobs. Sweep them away, clean them out and give the power back to the smaller unit. That way cleaning will improve and money will be saved.

Walk into any hospital now and look around at the number of offices as compared to the treatment facilities. Most NHS Trusts also have quite separate multi-storey office complexes where no treatment occurs only paper shuffling. What and where do our priorities lay?

David Andrew Smith owns and operates a commercial cleaning company that provides its cleaning services to domestic and commercial clients across the UK.

In the wake of the Alito confirmation the Left is in shambles, unfocused, unbalanced, and unable to act. They are not alone. As Alito takes up the cause of Presidential Privileges he will at the same time move against the painfully established rights of women, never confirmed by the ratification of the ERA.

Large sections of those who identify themselves as republican or libertarian or independent are living through a deer in the headlights moment; they know that the executive mandate now poised like a sovereign anointing over the head of George W. Bush is the last thing they want. But their tools for organizing political protest, the Republican Party and the Libertarian Party, are lost to them, swallowed up by the NeoCons who so suavely converted their labor and lives to cold hard cash in NeoCon pockets. NeoCons are no more Republican than they are Democrats.

The ‘game’ of politics has turned into a reality as frightening as Godzilla arising from the Hudson River to eat New York.

That is the bad news. The good news is that the means are within our grasp to drive a wedge in the machinery of tyranny now poised to roll over the rights and lives of Americans. It is time to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and to get serious about a common understanding of our rights, where they originate and who has them.

That will surprise most people in the republican-libertarian camp. It surprised me when I realized three years ago I had been sold a bill of goods by my own movement. I had spent all of my life as a libertarian and a republican. I had been told that the ERA was about privileges for women, in effect, about entitlements. Wrong. It is about nothing more than recognizing for women the original package of rights envisioned by our founders for everyone.
When, after many generations of struggle women were unable to secure the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment most women settled for privileges and hoped it would work. They were wrong to have done that. Never settle when it is your rights that are at issue.

Ironically, it was Republican women and the Republican Party who had originally championed the battle for rights for women as an extension of their right to vote.

That long history had forged the largest political organization in the world, and arguably the most effective for most of its history, the National Federation of Republican Women. In 1980, when the ERA was struck from the platform of the Republican Party a generation of women who had poured their lives into the Republican Party went through the same deer in the headlights moment now being experienced by so many non-NeoCon libertarian-republicans. In one moment they had been betrayed, losing their political home and the investment of their time and money made over long life times.

That was one in a series of actions that converted the Republican Party into the NeoCon tool it is today.

The NeoCons are a minority, a small powerful minority, we need to remember that.

96% of all Americans from all ethnic groups, both genders, and all parts of the country have already affirmed in their hearts equality for all and the equality of women under law. (see link at ERACampaign.net, Newlstter No. 6)

Most us want to do the right thing. We have been divided and confused by a highly sophisticated campaign of disinformation designed and implemented by those we know now as NeoCons.

The mission statement of America has always been clear. Our rights are not granted by government; they preexist any government we choose and cannot be altered. But instead of securing those rights to everyone our Founders made a profound mistake. All too human, they failed to sunset slavery, leaving blacks in servitude. They failed to secure to women their right to control their own lives and property.

It was a failure that has haunted us ever since.
That failure is the basis of the conversion of all rights to privileges to be granted or withheld by government. This is why libertarian-republicans should sit up and take notice.

If our Constitution affirms the original Mission Statement then we have ground on which to stand and reverse the conversion of basic rights to privileges controlled by government. And by so doing a common ground will have been created for cooperation, right and left, so that the unceasing attrition of our liberties can be opposed successfully.

It is the right thing to do, and it is time for Progressives, Democratic moderates, and Liberals to deliver. Women have been the heart and power of the Democratic Party for generations. That party has failed over and over again when it had the control of state legislatures and the Congress to secure to women their proper rights under the Constitution.

They, too, preferred to grant privileges instead of the absolute security of rights. It is time to put aside other issues and do what should have been done generations ago. The leadership of the Democratic Party has ignored and compromised away the essential acknowledgment of rights for women that would have provided exactly the protection we now so desperately need.

But it is not too late.

The ERA today stands just three states short of ratification. There is no time limit on the need for the amendment; securing those rights are as relevant today as they were in 1776. Active campaigns exist in most of those states and together the non-NeoCon segments of the republican-libertarian wing of American politics and the Left possess enough clout and money to do the job if they choose to do so.

Women from all parties and persuasions should keep watch.

The outline of the campaign is simple.

We need a website to apply to the legislators in each of the unratified states the scrutiny and encouragement they need to ensure ratification. We need money to lobby them. We need to communicate and to network, watching for the ugly tactics that will come from the NeoCon camps.

The NeoCons think they have won. They set up this scenario in 1980 with the removal of the ERA from the Republican Platform. They set out Phyllis Schlafly to tell women that the ERA would diminish their womanhood. Today the idea promoted by Schlafly that women had a ‘right’ in the “Christian tradition of chivalry to be supported and protected by men” sounds like text from a harlequin romance.

Women dying for their country in Iraq, raped while serving there, or left homeless by no-fault divorce law understand the reality that Schlafly, who profited so richly from her work, was really selling.

Allowing government to convert rights to privileges is making slaves of all of us.

Business and Professional Women, a major leader in the earlier efforts for the ERA, is once again putting ERA high on its action priority list. Now, every day, women are working and organizing.

It is time for all of us to come together, right, left, libertarian and independent.

If freedom is not for everyone then none of us are truly free.

With the ERA in place Alito can could still damage our freedoms, but the ERA will built a buttress against the predators he represents.

Ratify now.

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is the author of GREED: The NeoConning of America and A Tour of Old Yosemite. The former is a novel about the lives of the NeoCons with a strong autobiographical component. The latter is a non-fiction book about her father and grandfather.

Ms. Pillsbury-Foster has been active in politics since the Goldwater Campaign. She left the Republican Party to join and become active in the Libertarian Party in 1973, working as an activist and party officer until she left the Libertarian Party in 1988. She received 5% of the vote in a four way race in 1982 for California’s 20th State Senate Race while also serving as Southern Vice-Chairman for the California Libertarian Party. She was elected to six terms as a state officer, eventually serving on National Committee.

In 1988 she rejoined the Republican Party and became a member and country officer for the National Federation of Republican Women and also served as a Regent for several years.

She is also the the founder of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation

Americans have always seen themselves as independent and self-sufficient. The spirit of this nation has fostered the view that any American, willing to work hard and take some risk, could strive to achieve any future he wanted, including the Presidency of the United States. It’s a tantalizing picture but if it did ever exist, it is rapidly fading. We have gone from the greatest creditor nation to the greatest debtor nation. We have gone from superpower to supplicant. We are deteriorating from a nation of rugged individuals to a nation of dependents.

The big government statists have convinced most of the American people that our country’s greatness stems not from the qualities of its people but from the largess of its government. As the communist world falls apart and searches for ways to embrace capitalism and the free market, America is in the process of making its people as dependent on government as the worst of the socialist nations.

The old-time American idea that every individual is responsible for protecting himself, his family and his property has been replaced with government provided police forces and self-styled advocates who can only act after a crime has been committed and whose role seems to be preventing individual action rather than supporting it. We have the ridiculous situation in which the victim of a crime may be punished more severely than the perpetrator because he has violated some rule or regulation designed to protect the “rights” of the criminal.

The government is buying up huge tracts of land to “protect” it from the predation of its own citizens. It wants to develop a cradle to grave health scheme to foster medical dependence. It intrudes deeper into the education system each day in order to brainwash American children into believing that they cannot exist without the “nanny” government. Anyone who has trouble walking or talking or seeing or hearing or quitting booze or drugs or any of a vast panoply of ailments is made dependent for his survival on the government.

Communism was the great purveyor of the concept of dependency because it was necessary for the government to control the population from top to bottom and the easiest way to make someone obedient is to make them dependent. If the people have to look to the government for food, clothing, shelter, medical care, retirement benefits, education and personal protection the government effectively controls their lives. All the rulers need do is withhold those things to convince all but the most individualistic to toe the mark. Of course it is also necessary for the government to prevent anyone else from providing those services or their monopoly falls apart and the people will look elsewhere. The U. S. Postal service is a prime example.

It is clear that Social Security is also that kind of monopoly. Despite the dismal return on investment and the example of successful retirement systems outside of Social Security the government insists that 100% participation is necessary to insure success. It also insures dependency on government of a large segment of the population.

In the early 1980’s it was possible for certain non-federal government agencies to opt out of Social Security and develop their own retirement plan. The county government of Galveston, Texas was among the agencies that took advantage of this Foggy Bottom mental lapse and has developed a system that is so superior to Social Security that many participants will end their careers with a retirement payment that exceeds their former salary. They will also have a significant death benefit that goes to their estate as opposed to the two hundred fifty-five dollars that a few people will receive from the S/S system. In fact, the program is so good that the Feds are trying to force its closure and make its participants go back to Social Security. Sadly it was only a few years before the Federal government realized its error and closed the loophole and once again, the Social Security system became the only game in town.

We continue to have most of our public utilities controlled by government supported monopolies despite the fact that the economic and cultural conditions that spawned those monopolies have long since vanished. Even when the monopolies are broken up the government keeps its finger on the button so that free market forces are never allowed to prevail.

There may have been some perceived reason for monopoly protection of utilities in the early days of electric grids, natural gas distribution, telephone service and the like. The investments involved were huge and the uncertainty of the outcome made them a very risky enterprise. But that doesn’t explain why, after decades of use and becoming a part of every day life, the government continues to keep control.

When the Federal Communications Commission emerged, radio transmitters were huge, power sucking monsters and the frequency discrimination was so poor that it was believed that there would only be one or two stations in every market. With this in mind the doctrine of broadcasting “in the public interest” was formed to try to insure that the airwaves would never be controlled by monolithic vested interests. Can that relate to today’s world where powerful, inexpensive transmitters are comparatively tiny, directional antennas are available and advertising revenues support most stations? Why does the FCC continue to regulate broadcasting when technology exists to separate stations and prevent interference? It can only be because the government refuses to give up the power to influence mass communications.

In case you think that government no longer seeks to impose and control monopolies, witness the cable television industry. There was never a good reason for government to get involved in restricting cable providers but they just couldn’t resist. Anyone who complains about the size of their cable bill and the lousy service they get can thank the government agencies that prevented competition in the industry.

In 2001 California’s Democrat dominated government tried to sneak some modification of the utility monopoly status quo, thinly disguised as “deregulation,” into electricity production. In fact it only deregulated the purchase price of power from suppliers and not the price paid by consumers. When the predictable disaster occurred they then crowed happily about how it proved that the “free market” approach doesn’t work. Unfortunately, the Republicans were too impotent to even argue the point and so the statists were able to present the failure as an indictment of all deregulation.

Despite attempts at “deregulation” the U.S. transportation system remains very monopolistic. Governments build the roads, airports, port facilities and even the railroad tracks. There is no entrepreneurial spirit, no competition to force change to new technology, no incentive to improve because bureaucracy has no interest in the future except as it applies to government funding.

The ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) has created a whole cottage industry of attempting to make every disabled person, regardless of handicap, able to do everything that can be done by every other person. Those with disability are no longer encouraged to make exceptional efforts to overcome their situation, instead the “Great Nanny” government steps in and tries to equalize everything, usually by dragging down those without disability rather than attempting the much more difficult task of raising those with handicaps.

“Political Correctness” is a socialist attempt to destroy the First Amendment by invoking the protection of some helpless minority as a reason to restrain free speech. A subset is the new affection for inveighing against the so-called “hate crimes.” What is really sought is an ability for the government to demonize unpopular opinion. The whole movement is an attempt to allow an offended person to use the power of government to silence the offender.

The once solid fortress of free speech, the college campus, has become a cesspool of groups whose only reason for existence is to insure that no speech reflecting unpopular (by student or faculty standards) opinion ever sees the light of day. Socialist/statist professors are allowed to make the most outrageous statements with impunity while those in opposition are effectively muzzled.

This kind of collectivist thinking could never have produced a nation like the United States but it may well destroy it. We will soon reach the point where the bottom fifty-plus percent of workers will pay NO income taxes (they pay less than four percent today). Once that is achieved the statists will have permanent control of this nation because they will be able to apply Marxist wealth distribution with impunity. They will be taking tax money from the successful minority and giving it to the unsuccessful majority. The class war will then be over, the dependent class will have won.

© 2005 Charles Stone, Jr.

Born: Buffalo, NY 8/7/42

Graduated: Williamsville Central HS 1960
Military Service USAF 1/27/61 – 1/4/65 Missile mechanic, 3 years in Germany.

Computer School, Buffalo, NY 1967.
Worked as a computer programmer, programmer/analyst, systems analyst, DP manager and consultant from 1968 – 1990
Became disabled in 1991

Currently living in Kissimmee, FL
Interests: politics, motor sports, history (mainly military), Web surfing, talk radio junkie.
Member of the NRA.

Favorite TV shows: CSI, Whose Line Is It, Anyway?, Nova.

Favorite radio program: Neal Boortz
Political leaning: libertarian, Constitutionalist, individualist.

Supported and campaigned for Harry Browne in 1996 and 2000. Not sure I’d do it again.

Published in: Bureaucrash, Sierra Times, The Libertarian Enterprise, Free Market Net, We Hold These Truths, The Informed Volusian

British historian, David Irving, was convicted in an Austrian court recently for the “crime” of denying the Holocaust. Irving pled guilty to the charge since he faced upward of ten years in jail. He will serve three years.
Some people will say this is a good thing since the Holocaust was such a terrible thing. While there is no denying the Holocaust was a terrible thing, locking someone up for an opinion is a bad thing as well. It is also something that will come back to haunt Europe. Fascism equals fascism, and these “anti-hate-speech” laws are fascist.
One can label Mr. Irving a “jerk” or “insensitive.” But should the guy be locked up for three years for an opinion? He was not even calling for violence of any kind against any group. No, just the fact he had issues with the authenticity of the Holocaust placed him in jail. Scary stuff.
Austria is certainly not the only place in Europe with these draconian laws. They are all over Europe. In Britain, British National Party Chairman, Nick Griffin, was recently put on trial for the crime of “incitement to commit racial hatred.” In other words, he said politically incorrect things. He spoke of a need to cut back on immigration and fears that Britain would become a non-white nation. Well, half of America would be in jail if such things were a crime here. Luckily, he was found not guilty on some charges and the jury deadlocked on others. He still has to face a re-trial on the other charges. Again, no violent calls for assaults, murders, etc. Just a “right-wing” guy with views.
In Germany, a guy was recently sentenced to a year in jail for printing the word “Koran” on toilet paper and then distributing it, some to mosques. What’s next? Two years in jail for cartoons?
Which of course brings us to the “infamous” cartoons. The cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad by a Danish newspaper has actually led to riots and death. Do you have any doubt arrests will occur for “anti-Mohammad” comments or publications?
Europe had better come out of its politically correct period. They are making up for the Hitler era with Hitler policies. This cannot go on forever. Repression is always fought against, even if little by little. To lock up people for opinions and views not to the current liking of the government is fascism. There is no other way around it. To quote Mr. Irving, who will do three years for his opionion, “The law is an ass.” No doubt. And one that simply will not be tolerated.

Robert Carberry is a freelance writer from New York

At my first interview with Jose Caliente he told me that we must always meet at the Restaurante Mexicana and not in front of the White House. He also said, “You pay!”

He was not in front of the restaurant as I expected. I played a hunch and found him at the bar drinking cerveza.

I said, “Hola, Jose! Que tal?”

“I got promoted!”

I said, “Congratulations! To what?”

“I’m a janitor! Nights! I sweep down the hallways and clean the Oval Office.”

Man, I’d hit a bonanza! Jose in the OVAL OFFICE! I said, “Jose, have a couple or three more beers and we’ll go in and eat some burritos and such.”

He said, “I can’t go to work drunk. Maybe dos or tres cervezas.”

I said, “How many beers have you had?” He said that he had slurped down only five (cinco). I knew it was okay to talk.

I said, “I’m surprised that they let you in the Oval Office.”

“They think that I don’t know one word of English. They say “Hello” and I say, “Que?”

See any notes on the President’s desk?

“Sure. His personal schedule. They hide everything else.”

“Fascinating!” I said. “At what time is he doing his pushups tomorrow, and how many?”

Jose said, “You know they are in frenzy at the White House.”

I said, “About what? Bush War II and faulty intelligence?”

“No, no! It’s that everybody hates the job the President is doing. Even his staff!”

“Baloney!” That is what I said.

“I’m not kidding. The staff thinks that the President is making them look bad.”

I said, “The opposite! The staff is making the President look like an idiot, not the other way around.”

Jose said, “I heard how Bush War II got started.”

I said, “Jose, I know how Bush War II got started. It was planned just after Bush War I when Iraqis tried to kill the President’s parents in Kuwait.

When Osama bombed the Towers, Junior Bush wanted a major military presence near oil.

If he had to fight the Arabs, he wanted to be able to supply an army that was already positioned in their lands. Simple!”

Jose said, “Nope!”

I said, “Then King George I told King George II to invade Kuwait.”

“Not, close!” He swallowed a chunk of burrito and washed it down with beer.

I said, “The Cabal! They wanted that oil!”

“The Cabal wants all the oil. But that is not it!” He sipped on his beer and said, “I know where Osama Bin Laden is hiding.”

I said, “Everyone who has read my articles knows that Osama is in Mecca. His family didn’t build all those structures there for nothing.”

“Nope! He was seen on the beach at Waikiki. He was in disguise but he didn’t fool anybody because he didn’t disguise his wives or kids.”

I said, “I know that the families of German industrialist vacationed in Las Vegas during World War II. They traveled on Swiss passports. But this is ridiculous.”

Jose said, “We made a part for their Meschersmitt too; shipped through Switzerland or Sweden as I remember.”

“Not on purpose!” I said.

Jose said, “I’ve got to get over to the White House. See you next week?”

I said, “Are you going to tell me what started Bush War II or not?”

“Gotcha!” he said.

Copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D.2005

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The president of Belarus is unable to go away. Though most people think he should. Most likely Alexander Lukashenko remains the president for unlimited term as a result of outrageous lie and falsifications of election. For our security forces the tension is so great, that you cannot imagine”, – the president said.

Belarus is threatened with the destiny of North Korea. According to Alexander Milinkevich, one of the opposition candidates, polar night can let down the country. And the main result for opposition will be that the authority will discover a new portion of disloyal people which wait for repressions after election.

Alexander Lukashenko repeatedly declared, that he will not give out the power without fight. “We’ll blow so, that it will not seem a little to them, we’ll turn off heads, we’ll kick from left to right and from top to down, they’ll rush out in one day.” He named contenders at president election as “frozen imbeciles”. The authority equates practically the opposition to terrorists.

There are low chances that a lot of people will express against distortion of election results. Belarusians are intimidated by propaganda and existing total control and slavish contract system. Disloyal people are threatened with dismissal from work, arrest and beating.

THE AUTHORITY DISCOVERED THE IMAGINARY PLOT OF OPPOSITION

They arrested first 4 heads of unregistered public association Partnership – the organizer of independent observation at election. These guys wait now for 3 years of prison. KGB declared, that Partnership was created, controlled and financed by the American organization National Democratic Institute.

One of the arrested persons Nikolay Astrejko married some days before arrest. His wife Polina speaks that KGB members threatened with a pistol to her husband. They brought with themselves witnesses which live in the other end of city. They took away Astrejko’s mobile phone In the beginning of the search and replied the incoming calls. They took away all the information, even writing-books which Astrejko a long ago used in University. They took away also the money presented by guests on the wedding and keys from an apartment.

Later the president declared, that KGB discovered the plot of opposition and crushed 72 organizations which were going to observe the election and withdrew millions of dollars, PC’s, mobile phones. “They prepared to make blow up in a crowd on March, 19 and then block main Minsk city structures and make revolution”, – said head of KGB Stepan Suharenko.

Representative of KGB declared, that they have also withdrawn already filled exit-polls reports prepared by the Vilnius office of Gallup which should be carried out during president election on March, 19. As though the opposition wanted to sound off these figures simultaneously with the official data and to declare their victory.

Rasa Olishovskene, the head of the Gallup Baltic office denied this statement and named it a forgery. This organization was not going to make exit-poll during president election in Belarus at all. Experts speak, that a forged documents have bad quality as there is not figures “against all candidates” and “refused to answer”.

According to Pavel Mozhejko, press secretary of Alexander Milinkevich, the authority have data of the population polls. These figures coincide with those information which authorities named as preparing provocation. According to documents withdrawn by KGB, the victor in president election is the leader of opposition Alexander Milinkevich with 53,7% voices of voters. Alexander Lukashenko has 41,3%. Another opposition candidate Alexander Kozulin 3,8%, Sergey Gajdukevich 1,2%.

THE OPPOSITION AS THOUGH TRIED TO BUST UP BELARUS WITH MOSLEMS

In absence of the editor-in-chief A.Karol, oppositional newspaper Zgoda reprinted a caricature on prophet Mohammed which already have done a lot of noise in the West. Most likely provocation has been made by the introduced employee of KGB.
The criminal case is up. The president has declared that the newspaper will be closed and guilty persons will be in prison.

THEY ARRESTED AND BEATEN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE AND JOURNALISTS

Alexander Kozulin wanted to get to All-Belarusian People’s Congress which was made as Lukashenko pre-election propaganda action. By the way, speakers of this event sent their speeches in the administration of the president a week before event.

In a Railway Palace building, where Kozulin tried to be registered as member of Congress, 6 guys in black jackets and sport caps tumbled down 2 meter high candidate on the floor quickly and professionally.

“They started to beat him with fists and legs, – the head of candidate staff Mecheslav Grib speaks. We could make nothing. Journalists tried to photograph and every one got down. They pressed them to a wall. Each photographer was held by two persons. Television cameraman for Reuters was also beaten. They destroyed his camera”.

After beating, men in black lifted Kozulin up, drag off the building and pushed in the dark blue bus. They jostled me as the ram under a seat in unnatural position, someone sat down from above. In this way I was driving about an hour through the city, – speaks Kozulin himself.
The crowd of people gathered at police building where they delivered Kozulin. Correspondent of KP in Belarus Oleg Ulevich was beaten when tried to photograph as the police began to detain people. The police broken his nose. Later in hospital it was found out that the journalist also have a craniocerebral injury.

Soon two policemen from the press service came to him in hospital like to apologize, but when the journalist could not describe people which attacked him, the police assumed, that he strike with head on the fence himself.

SCANDAL CONFESSIONS OF KGB EMPLOYEES

A few days ago site www.ucpb.org received e-mail signed by staff of KGB. Here is the full text of the letter.

We are employees of Committee of State Security of Belarus and declare the following! After TV statement of opposition candidate in president Alexander Milinkevich and especially Alexander Kozulin, we started to receive messages from places that the population of Belarus actively discusses them, expresses support to those politics and negatively expresses to the side of running authority.

Our information shows, that these days the rating and trust to the working president has sharply fallen. Even in the Mogilev area (native area of Lukashenko) it does not exceed 23%. Talks about TV statements of opposition candidates and also an opinions about events are active on workplaces, in transport, in shops and the markets. The main part of people shows extreme displeasure with suppression and distortion by authority of a true state of affairs. The anxiety for result of voting on March, 19 and confidence of their falsification from authorities simultaneously grows by people.

We see that the authority is frightened. The meeting with heads of power structures carried out by Alexander Lukashenko was really hysterical. Chairman of KGB Stepan Suharenko got the sanction to immediate performance of special actions. These articles of criminal code are on the top: Action on behalf of the unregistered organization and Implication in illegal activity of minors. That’s why have begun searches, checks and detentions.

Round-the-clock closer watch are established for Milinkevich, Kozulin and also for their nearest colleagues. Detachments and checks are reinforced on borders, especially with Russia. They made lists with numbers of cars of disloyal people, including members of families.
Struggle against the organization Partnership is the beginning of provocations of our department. Copies of the fabricated polls are prepared by our structure and we know those people.

And what is ahead?

1. In the day of voting Lukashenko's headquarters will be in Administration of president. This day there will be all basic heads and all power structures heads.
 2. The day of election is the working day for all officials. Everyone should manage process and be at phone.
 3. One day before elections - personal care of all leaders of opposition. In day of elections - keeping out leaders from people.
 4. Switching-off of the Internet and mobile telecommunications is planned.
 5. There will be all possible measures on denial of arriving people from places to Minsk in the day of voting. They prepare the official statement that because of probable provocations arrival to Minsk will be limited: cancellation of electric trains, buses, check of cars entrance.
 6. They prepare variant of finding the weapon or an ammunition in one of offices, in garage or the car of the oppositionist. It's the basic direction of provocations.
 7. Members of the election committee will instruct voters, that they will be responsible for carrying out of the bulletins (intimidation).
 8. The central places of Minsk in day of voting will be closed, tightly and in various ways (in advance).
 9. There is the task to find "skunk" with the big sum of dollars which he should give out to other people for coming out on the streets. Certain people will give out themselves for members of opposition.
 10. In the day of voting TV all the day long will reporting about course of voting. Positively about Lukashenko and all dirty about Milinkevich. In other words: mass infringements, purchase of the voices, a drunk active, etc.
 11. There will be an instructing of all power structures heads on March, 17 in a Lukashenko's cabinet according analysis of the received information. After that there will be command how to act: with whom and when.
 12. The plan for oppositionists is approved: arrest, police, court,15 day in prison. 2-3 hours time for all this actions. By evening on March 19 there will be no most active members at all.
 13. The task is only 1 round and more than 73% of voices to Lukashenko, Milinkevich is not the second.
 14. Groups of certain sportsmen are created. They will engaged in fight with police passing themselves off as drunk opposition and also will beat members of opposition.
 15. Till March 10, 2006 all members of the election committee will know about measures of their encouragement.
 16. The tasks also are:
 - To break utterly meetings with voters
 - To release and arrest as though Milinkevich brochures
 - 3 video sign against opposition are ready.
 - During broadcasting of Milinkevich statements, in 2-3 areas to switch off light.
 - Police should not let independent mass-media in post boxes of people.
 17. They already spy on international observers.
 18. Before the election, after TV statements of all candidates Lukashenko will give "estimation" and conclusion to all oppositional candidates.

The authority is ready to do anything. They afraid to lose all feeding troughs, the stolen money and power.

The most part of force and police structures are decent, patriotic people. They said years to us that coming opposition authority will dismiss everybody and the most enthusiastic will imprison.

Let’s work with our colleagues and to win over to your side. We collect and analyze the information understanding essence of the today’s moment and will present it to society when there will be conditions for this.

The order on beating of presidential contender Kozulin has given personally Lukashenko. And chairman of KGB went to look who is stronger: one marine or 30 special force men.

What for we need to serve to such executioners?

Michael Garmahis (28) is journalist working in one of the Belarusian newspaper. Some time was engaged in NGO’s work and also worked as a tutor of German and English in college.
For further information, please visit his web site: http://garmahis.worldfreeweb.com (Garmahis’Belarus stories-articles, jokes, photos, drawings,wallpapers)

When people believe that they must solve their problems with the direct use of force and violence, it will show as a great sign of the failure of civilization. Do sophisticated men solve their quarrels with the use of violence? When scientists are presenting a new theory or hypothesis, would they ever feel the need to use physical force, or would they bring evidence? A good theory will not be in need of violence, just as much as good men will do as much as they can to solve their problems peacefully. I believe in Pacifism, and by this, I believe that whenever violence arrises, the beautify in humanity decreases, the flower of reverence wilts, and a storm just begins to foment on the horizon of the future.

My opposition to violence, to the use of physical brutality as a method to reach a conclusion, is based on my humane philosophy, and my love of every conscious being. For every organism that is alive in this Universe and lives every day with as much fear as they do hope — who adores those tender memories of intimacy, and writhes and cries at those traumatic events that shifted their reality into a nightmare — for every being that can suffer and every being who mourns such suffering, there is another reason to believe in Pacifism; to believe in the way of peace, in that it is an ultimate goal of our humane sentiments. For every experience that is touched with the pain of violence, there is another mournful tear in the eye of compassion — another lie spoken by truth. In this world of ours, where war and famine are consequential results of a Capitalist economy, where a man’s opinion is enough for the government to curse them, where the most respected of the population are revered for their devotion to an unseen being — when everyday is another spectacle at how much a joke our civilization is, at pursuits that create nothing and share no inspiration, at every person’s fear to say and be what they think — to see the regrets of those who are now war veterans, to feel the trembling pains of those who never sought a lover — when everyday is just another struggle to be honest and sincere, the only wish I can cast upon the fading star of our future is that more will appeal to the position of Pacifism, and more will adhere to those non-violent solutions.

When it comes to a fight, a physical fight, it is little more than an expression of aggression, but the bruises will always run deep down to the soul. Humiliation and Depression may infect the mind, just as scars and debility will destroy the body. There is not a just court in this world who would accept a fight as a proper method to reach a verdict. Those verdicts which are guided by the principles of justice and fairness, they are not based on the fighting ability of either the defendent or the plaintiff, but rather by the evidence presented by both sides. It was a blessed day when Dueling grew old and tiresome, and garnered no respect from those who valued civilization and truth. The idea that a quarrel, a dilemma, an argument, can be settled with the use of brute force — this idea is simple a demonstration of grave ignorance, at the cost of intelligence and truth. When we see two individuals fighting each other, for the sake of some trifle or another, little more than disdain can be used to express our opinion on the matter, as fighting will solve nothing. When two scientists are arguing against each other, both of them upholding their own method as being a better way, evidence will be the determining factor in which one we decide to believe. In matters of intellectual investigation, of confirming or debunking, when it matters because it’s what we believe — brute violence, the use of coercion, has never been loyal to the spirit of truth, has never offered assistance to the methods of reason.

“Be with me now,” a lover will say to the person who gives light to life. Never are these words more sincere than at the conclusion of some conflict, at the end of some arduous fighting, intolerance, indignance, viciousness. To engage in fighting, in a contest of physical strength, it will not solve problems. To those who are so willing to do so, they may find that for years they will be haunted by the screams of their downed victims, by the tears of widows and orphans. Mercilessness among every vice — when a child cries, only those hands that belong to a humane person will reach. For a man to be robbed, to walk down the same street he has every day of his life, and to have his property taken away from him — the man will have lost more than a physical item. His heart will be wrought with the pains of the depth of cruelty in men. It may be a thing to lose an item one day, no matter how cherished or dear that item is. But when someone destroys your reasons to believe in charity, your motives to understand the emotions of the hearts of others — when something is capable of rendering such a bruttish, terrible effect, it is more than just the loss of a physical item. So, too, when a man is struck or attacked, he will feel more than just the pain from the blows, but an unending confusion and depression, mostly centering around the question, “How could they do that?” And it will be meant that it is hard to believe that a person could reach such cruel depths. I will not pretend that I can accurately express how horrible a man feels when they are wronged — such emotions are beyond the possibilities of our humble language. But, hopefully, I have been able to demonstrate to some degree what it means.

Ultimately, when fighting and conflict rise from beyond the domestic crises, it will manifest itself in war — but much more than just that. For every bomb dropped, it is another sign of lost hope. For every soldier bayonetted, every village burned, every dissent of opinion suppressed — when we look at every sign of war, we are reminded a little less of why we believe in the bloom of humaneness. War has never brought peace, it has never brought Democracy, it has never brought economic stability. Those incidents of revolution may in some cases be the exception to this. But the rise of the Western World’s dominance in global affairs, of such a small amount of countries making up the policies and regulations for such a great amount of nations, it has only followed a great deal of Imperialism and war. In every nation that has felt the grueling whip of the overseer, there has been the crater of war, the empty bowl of famine, the slums of poverty. In these conditions, nations will struggle to survive, as all meaning of a true Democracy are removed by foreign investors. And so, we have the image of war: sacrificing the lives of our children, for the sake of economic prosperity. Yet, it is not economic prosperity in that all involved benefit, but it is rather economic slavery, in that one is forced into cooperation at no benefit, whereas the other receives the profit of the other. As soldiers march off to battle an enemy their leaders have told them was a source of all infamy, there will be one less reason to think that civilization will be acheived.

Of all inventions, of cultures which have made the human species sing praise and of those thinkers that men attribute genius to, of all creations, there are fewer that have more merits than that of Diplomacy. Through the use of this wonderful creation, we can try to settle our differences not through the sword of war, but through the quill of reason — not in spite of compassion, but at the aid of reverence. Leaders may be reviled as those who are either dictators or representatives, and the difference between the two possibilities is rather insignificant, but there was one tool that leaders had at their disposal which gave civilization a brilliant light to its shine. That tool was Diplomacy. The first day that a person used reason instead of force to conclude an argument was the first day that civilization had a true realization. Not just in the structures, or the artwork, or the productivity, or those fickle matters that historians toil over when it comes to culture. But in the hearts of men and women, there is a real understanding of civilization, when they lean towards solution which are most peaceful, and offer the greatest praise when violence can be averted. I will give Diplomacy this very merited distinction among other creations. Unlike the factories that produce more bombs than we have earth — more bullets than we have people — Diplomacy was a creation that was not brought about for use against or for justice, against or for liberty, but rather, as a conflict-resolving, peaceful method.

Violence is violence, and it is a form of brutality that will never be acceptable in the heart of the Humanitarian — it will always be reviled as ignorant as much as it is merciless. There are, though, a very few amount of cases where violence can be condoned, but in these instances, the definition of “violence” and “force” are almost altered entirely. When a man is attacked, this is violence, but when he fights back, it is equally violence — but in the case of fighting back, it is justified, it is a sign of strength and duty. There is no way that I could still adhere to the foundations of Reason and Logic, and still not defend a person’s right to self defense. Asside from this right, there is one other instance where force and coercion can be allowed. In those instances where an injustice has been committed, and recompense must be paid, it is allowable. An example of this would be our modern corporations: they pay poorly and they sell at high prices. In the end, the business world gathers wealth whereas the poor struggle to survive. In this world, where Capitalism reigns and the downtrodden must suffer, to shoplift from a store is but an act of revolution — it is justifiable in that corporations are thieves themselves. In a very real way, shoplifting is more of repossession and not theft. When companies force 12 year old children to sew soccer balls for 10 cents an hour, this is a crime. When a street punk steals food to feed himself, this is not a crime. And it is interesting to recognize that the law recognizes the first as not a crime and the first as a crime. The government does not exist to serve the will of the people. But in the instance where a person is defending themselves or their rights or justice, physical force is justified, but in those instances where people are trying to solve a simple dilemma, it is not justified. This is my position on the matter of Pacifism and Peace as a Humanitarian.

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Punkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been writing essays and poetry on social issues which have caught his attention for several years. His website http://www.punkerslut.com provides a complete list of all of these writings. His life experience includes homelessness, squating in New Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, getting expelled from college for “subversive activities,” and a myriad of other revolutionary actions.

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We are Pro-Constitution of the United States of America:

As horrific as 9/11 was, it did not repeal our constitution
The Patriot Act is impeding our constitutional civil rights

We are Pro-Democracy:
Even as we impose Democracy in foreign lands, we should not forego our own
Every Citizen should have the right to vote, and the right to have their vote counted

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Equal Opportunity and Dignity for ALL Americans, without biases

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Putting down debate and discourse is unpatriotic!

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While maintaining an environment for ethical large corporate profitability

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Do not preclude helping the needy because a few abuse the system
Help enable the disadvantaged to become self sufficient

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Strength of the Nation AND Strength of the Community

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Following the guidelines of our founding fathers

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Better through UN and NATO than aggressive unilateralism

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Support the people who defend our values with their life and limb
Develop military solutions in balance with the threats

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Train, equip and fund our “first responders”

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Mortgaging our future by uncontrolled deficit spending is bad policy

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