Friday, April 30, 2004
I'm spreading the word...
To have been a slave in ancient Rome might soon become an envied condition compared to what the "New American Century" bastards are up to.
My comment in my previous post was a bit much, I was told. To the contrary, it was far too lame. Read what Mary Lou Seymour has collected on the impending danger, much closer than at the far horizon only. Every American, especially all young men and women (18 to 26) more directly concerned, and above all those approaching their legal majority should take the life-saving advice of Mary Lou. And beware, this is not only for American citizens, it is also for residents. Does this now enhance the famous green card so worshipped the world over by many? (I confess to having myself taken part in the lottery twice!)Mary Lou's long, thoroughly researched and very informative article seems to me to have an unusual writing style, compared to Mary Lou's normal one, sounding more dispassionate this time than one might expect: it is very slow-paced, like a marche funèbre. Let us wear black in honor of African-Americans who have always suffered disproportionately from the Empire's military extravaganzas. To denounce the state's modern form of slavery, the draft, let us meditate the following picture from the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, showing a slave about to be sold, in Equatorial Africa, around 1910:
Maybe you want now to read Mary Lou Seymour's Liberty Action of the Week: It's time to stop the draft (before it starts).
PS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/draft_resistance_network/
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:53 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Mothers, don't let your sons grow up to be cowboys ~~
we need them as soldiers instead.
That's the topic of this week's column "Grab Your Sweater: D.C.'s Feeling a Draft" by guest columnist Jonathan David Morris.Why shouldn't citizens pay some price?
Haha, cowboys maybe play mumblety-peg, but this time the knife should not stick into the ground in Texas but into the thorax of not a few guys dwelling on another piece of oil soil, at some distance (but distance has never been a problem for our professional military world tourists).Go read what JDM has to say on this important question and the all-American boys' awesome gruesome future maybe, and while on my Op-Ed page, please note how much great material has been added over the last few days to this page still in construction. You can expect at least several new top columns to be added each week.
Oh, it's drafty in here :-), go to a safer place [Canada?1 2 3 ;-)], have a cup of tea and read a good guest column in my Op-Ed room.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 08:13 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Press release received
ALERT: Elect, never appoint
April 20, 2004
The U.S. House will vote on the Continuity in Representation Act of 2004 (H.R. 2844) this Thursday. We strongly support passage of H.R. 2844 and ask you to urge your representative to vote "yes."
Congressmen Sensenbrenner, Dreier, Miller, Cole, Chabot and Paul introduced H.R. 2844 to "preserve an elected House in the event of a tragic terrorist attack on the Congress." H.R. 2844 is the practical and proper solution and is in sharp contrast to the desire by political elites to have "appointed" members of the U.S. House.
In a letter dated April 19, 2004, Congressmen Sensenbrenner, Dreier and Ney stated, "The flawed alternative of a constitutional amendment denying the right of elected representation would accomplish what no terrorist could, namely striking a fatal blow to what has otherwise been 'The People's House.' And...alternative proposals for a permanent constitutional amendment would in certain crucial moments in American history ban voting entirely, for everyone, everywhere."
We've been leading the fight against the political elite's attempt to amend the Constitution to allow for "appointed" members of the U.S. House of Representatives since they announced their grand scheme on June 4, 2003. Passage of H.R. 2844 will be a major victory in our fight.
Urge your U.S. representative today to vote "yes" on H.R. 2844. You can send your message, learn more about the issue, and see a copy of the April 19th letter, by going to
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/hr2844.htm .
Be sure to ask family and friends to join us.
Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
To make a donation, go to
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/donate.htm
Comment by a friend: I fear the bastards are getting ready for a putsch -- as if having an elected Congress made any difference any more. Dark times...
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:05 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Resisting the Occupation (“Liberation”) of Iraq
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Though I had earmarked it a number of days earlier, I discovered only yesterday, but happily, the above essay which you should read at http://www.fff.org/comment/com0404a.asp, as it is in my not so humble view :-) the definite essay on the subject of the war going on in Iraq. Ninety-nine old lady per cent of all the others are rubbish, meant to throw sand into our eyes which try to look at the unfalsified truth.
It is a stroke of luck that I can enter this tip here, right after the previous post which it is so compatible with...
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 06:41 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Send me candy and flowers ~ and eat my ass!?
It is the policy of these pages to get very ímpatient when having to listen to what any government says. Instead of listening to these systematic hypocrisies, one might even say principled ones, I prefer to listen to the critics of the government from within the country, be they roughly from the left or roughly from the right and preferably outside that spectrum, independent of any kind of establishment, be it the one of corporate power or of political correctness. But when this government extends its weapons beyond its borders ~ it being bad enough already within "its" territorial borders, I get very eager to listen to what their victims have to say, as a victim myself in a once occupied country by those who now send troops to those two countries making the headlines these days. Let us listen then to what a Canadian journalist, columnist of YellowTimes.org, Firas Al-Atraqchi, B.Sc. (Physics), M.A. (Journalism and Communications), who has eleven years of experience covering Middle East issues, oil and gas markets, and the telecom industry, has to say about the Iraqi people I have always felt close too, the people, not the government. Same difference on the invader side. Are You Really Surprised? This Op-Ed column is reposted from YellowTimes.org, an alternate news & views site often quoted by Rational Review News Digest.Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:41 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Monday, April 5, 2004
The Manifesto of Peace and Freedom
The Alternative to the Communist Manifesto
by K.H.Z. Solnemanis now also online as an HTML page, not only as a RTF download.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 04:24 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Sunday, April 4, 2004
Happy Easter and Passover!
www.lauwaert.ch
weg uit de slavernij, goed Pasen
sortie de l’esclavage, bonnes Pâques
uscita dalla schiavitù , buona Pasqua
out of slavery, happy Passover
Anne
I side with the wishes of Anna Lauwaert. Out of slavery! The exodus from Egypt is more necessary than ever.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 12:23 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Saturday, April 3, 2004
Today.
Today and tomorrow. Today is one of those many small great days that happen all the time all over the globe and are hardly ever taken notice of in the corporate media, and which one day tomorrow might in some slight way be considered historic.As far as I could ascertain, although mentioned and even commented upon on a number of websites, my website "The Exterritorial Imperative" (which can be reached via each of the following domain names: exterritorial.info, panarchism.info, panarchy.net, panarchism.net) is the first one to make available on this globe-spanning Web a complete digitized version in English (and with comments by no other than the author's son!) of
The Manifesto
of Peace and Freedom, The Alternative to the Communist Manifesto, by K.H.Z. Solneman.May the main knowledge contained in this book spread to all continents and bring us at long last that bloodless revolution we have been longing for since millenaries. It is about time to stop that crap: politics.
This book is a synthesis of the best anarchist thinking of earlier and makes much of previous anarchist thinking obsolete, as it also does away with a good deal of shortcomings that can be found with several of the greatest names the libertarian movement considers its gurus.
I will have plenty of opportunities to get back to this more in detail. Today I only wanted to utter the deserved ta daa. :-)
You will find the necessary link on the contents page of "The Exterritorial Imperative".
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:52 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Friday, April 2, 2004
29 March 2004
(London) A move to add sexuality to the list of categories protected by the United Nations has been dropped in the midst of intense pressure from the Vatican and Muslim nations.
It is the second year in a row that the motion has been withdrawn at the Geneva-based UN Commission on Human Rights. The proposal had been put forward by Brazil and supported by Canada and most of the European Union states.
Brazil dropped the motion when it became clear the Vatican and Arab countries led by Egypt would not let it pass.
One member of the European Parliament called the opposition "The Unholy Axis".
“Millions of people across the globe face imprisonment, torture, violence, and discrimination because of their sexual orientation,” said MEP Michael Cashman, who is gay.
“For the second year running the UN has failed to condemn this discrimination and the continuing abuses of human rights on the basis of a person’s sexuality.
“Both the Vatican and the Conference of Islamic States should hang their heads in shame for having reduced their beliefs to the gutter of bigotry and discrimination,” said Cashman, an actor before he turned to politics.
The same "axis" is attempting in New York to revoke an executive order by Secretary General Kofi Annan that would provide the same-sex partners of UN workers the same benefits as married couples if their home countries approve.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:05 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Verisign, Verizon, Verio ~ is Veritas Veritably at the horizon???
Listen what Thomas L. Knapp has to say:
"FROM THE PUBLISHER
0) Final edition
Yes, folks, it is April 1st, and the headline is a little pull on your leg. Yuk, yuk and all that.
Now, to more serious things. As many of you know (and all of you ought to), one of the libertarian movement's finest activists, Jeffrey "The Hunter" Jordan, has been facing off with the state of Ohio over his right to keep and bear arms. For the whole sordid tale, have a look at:
http://www.libertyroundtable.org/projects/freehunter/#update
Of immediate interest, however, are the actions of Hunter's (now former) employer, Verizon Communications. Verizon seems to have taken an interest in Hunter's legal problems, to the extent of having suspended him, then fired him, without any real explanation but apparently over the matter of whether or not he is entitled to exercise his inalienable and Constitutionally protected rights.
There appear to be contractual aspects to the case which place Verizon on very shaky ground. But even if there aren't -- even if Verizon is acting within the limits of contractual obligation and is within its rights to fire Hunter -- that doesn't mean that you or I have to like it. Or that we have to do business with them.
To put a finer point on it, I'm in the market for a cell phone at the moment. I hate the damn things, but I'm involved with two active political campaigns and that means I need to be more available. Guess who I won't be contracting with for my cellular services?
If you're in the same situation -- looking for cellular service -- please don't use Verizon. And please make it a point to contact them and tell them why.
If you're a Verizon customer, please consider taking your business elsewhere. And, once again, please let them know why.
For the full scoop on the Hunter/Verizon situation, and for complaint templates, point your web browser at:
http://www.libertyroundtable.org/projects/freehunter/terminated.html
Let's let Verizon know which side their bread is buttered on."
Let us hope that Google will feed on this page or more likely on the permalink page of this entry some ads for cell phone companies that Tom can click, skipping the one... :-)
[cell phone, cell phone, cell phone... ;-)]
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 03:35 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Revelations 2
"2118 March 2004 (till March 28)"
The final figure for March is
2437 March 2004
Try to keep "it" up! ;-)
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 03:08 PM GMT+1 [Link]
