I woke up this morning to...

What do I care? I work at home and don't have to go anywhere. Which is good...

My friend Scott Marrs, who lives in Minneapolis, would laugh since they seem to have 7 feet at this point. That, and it's raining now and the snow is going fast.

Beaver Report - Day 6

I'm happy to report that my beaver buddy is back at work in spite of the snow. Apparently my comments about his being a slacker has spurred him to new efforts.

He has taken off more on the left.

Domestic Terrorism

Waiting for the War Against Domestic Terrorism

After weeks of dropping subtle and sometimes broad hints suggesting a connection between the anthrax attacks and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, federal government officials have reluctantly begun to admit that "domestic" terrorists are the likely suspects in the anthrax-laced letters that have been sent to media outlets and Democratic congressmen.

Mainstream media reports have identified the suspected culprits as "extremists." If you've watched the mainstream media tiptoe around the harsh truth for the past ten years and label our most deadly homegrown terrorists as "militias," "anti-government groups" and "freedmen," you'll know we're talking about White supremacist groups and individuals.

Even a cursory review of the tenets of these organizations reveals that whatever the differences between them, they are all united first and foremost by their common belief that Blacks, other non-Whites and Jews are inferior to Whites, rather than by their hatred of the federal government.

During the past ten or so years, the federal government and the media have shown a curious reluctance -- even after the Oklahoma City bombing -- to identify and emphasize the role of White supremacists as the single most important terrorist threat on our domestic soil. After Timothy McVeigh was arrested in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing, there was no mass detention of crew-cut-wearing White guys known to be associated with White supremacist groups. Media reports regularly emphasized McVeigh's anti-government views, but not his adherence to the tenets of White supremacy.
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Where is the war against White supremacist terrorism that by all rights should have been waged after Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices killed hundreds of innocent men, women and children in Oklahoma City? Or after Eric Rudolph set off deadly bombs at several abortion clinics and at Olympic Centennial Park in Atlanta, killing two?
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If the FBI, the ATF and the full law enforcement resources of our government after five years still haven't found Eric Rudolph -- suspected of hiding out in our own North Carolina Smoky Mountains -- why should we be confident that our military can find Osama bin Laden in the forbidding mountains and caves of Afghanistan?
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thanks to Unknown News

Expanded N.Y. abortion-clinic buffer zones struck down

A federal appeals court yesterday struck down a lower court ruling that expanded protest-free zones outside two New York state abortion clinics and prevented the use of sound amplifiers during abortion protests.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Judge Richard Arcara went too far when the Buffalo jurist decided in April 1999 to greatly expand protest-free zones that had earlier been limited to 15 feet.

“That’s wonderful news. I’m very gratified,” said Christopher Ferrara, a lawyer for the American Catholic Lawyers Association Inc. He said it had become impossible to protest from so far away.
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Cheryl, from Unknown News, commented on the above article...

And yet, people attempting to peacefully protest the war, the thief in the White House, or anything else non-rightwing in nature are herded into "First Amendment zones" up to and over one mile away from the object of protest.

Why aren't abortion protestors given the same treatment? Of course, we all know the answer to that one! --Cheryl

Afghanistan

Rage grows over war atrocities

Not only has Washington ignored increasing evidence of Northern Alliance brutality, say critics, but the Bush administration has gone so far as to signal its approval for whatever Alliance commanders decide to do with captured Taliban troops.

In fact, that signal has been: better dead than alive. That policy was made clear from the start when President George W. Bush said he wanted suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden "dead or alive."

"Well, the president's policy is `dead or alive.'" Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joked last week with reporters. "I have my preference."

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thanks to Unknown News

Merry Christmas!