Show #44
GUEST: Frank Morales, Episcopal Priest and author of “Police State America”
TOPIC: “Operation Garden Plot” and U.S. government plans for rounding up
dissenters in today’s America
LINKS:
https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/JAGCNETInternet/Homepages/AC/CLAMO-Public.nsf
Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates,
Especially Chapter 4, “Military Assistance for Civil Disturbances,” on Operation
Garden Plot.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/ED5OUPQJ7.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle, Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg, Monday, February 4, 2008,
“Rule By Fear, or Rule by Law?”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/24/enemy.combatant.ap/index.html
CNN, May 2008, “Does Constitution Apply to Enemy Combatant on US Soil?”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198456,00.html
“Critics Fear Emergency Centers Could be Used for Immigration Round-Ups,” Fox
News, June 7, 2006
http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/
“Bush Moves Toward Martial Law,” by Frank Morales, the ominous reworking of the
Insurrection Act allowing Bush to station troops anywhere he wants.
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22130.pdf
“Detention of US Citizens,” Congressional Research Service, April 28, 2005
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/258.html
“Official Touts Nonlethal Weapons for Use,” (AP), September 12, 2006, on the
microwave crowd dispersal weapon.
http://demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com
“Campaign to Demilitarize the Police” - (inactive) website, but by scrolling
down to “articles” section you’ll find numerous pieces on the subject of Garden
Plot, non-lethal weapons and the militarization of the police.
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ALSO:
- Brown University student Molly Little expelled for throwing a whipped cream
pie in face of NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Sign the on-line petition
defending Molly Little:
http://www.petitiononline.com/422buml/petition.html
- Genetically engineered monkeys are being bred to suffer horribly and die from
brain disease, in the name of “research”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-567201/Monkeys-bred-die-brain-disease–As-scientists-search-cures.html
MUSIC:
- Edwin Starr, “War”
- Simone White, “The American War”
- Credence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”
- Sweet Honey in the Rock, “No Mirrors in my Nana’s House”
OPENING THEME:
Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
Jefferson Airplane, “Volunteers”
Save New York City’s Parks from our Predatory Mayor, Mike Bloomberg!
http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com
Rejin’s blog on ecology and urban environment
http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/
And, send in your own songs, poems and ideas to
mitchelcohen@mindspring.com
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Order a copy of Mitchel Cohen’s two Poetry Books:
“One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight,” and
“The Permanent Carnival”
both available for $14 + $1.81 each in stamps
beautiful artwork on the covers painted by Haideen Anderson.
write to MitchelCohen@mindspring.com (or paypal to that address)
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Upcoming:
June 28-29 Major Anti-War Conference in Cleveland, OH
http://natassembly.org/
July 10-12 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Chicago IL
http://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
August 25-28 Democratic Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Denver.
Prepare for anti-war demonstrations
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