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Re: Fwd: [LA-F] Campaign of "race hate" by fundmentalist Muslims

Colored boy is as a colored boy does.

On Nov 27, 10:25 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martin Reed
> Date: Sunday,
>
> She'll probably lose this of course (wrong religion) but she'd be more
> certain of losing if she'd been born here (wrong race).
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8917675/Christian-worker-los...
>
> Christian worker loses her job after being 'targeted' by Islamic extremists
>
> A Christian worker has launched a landmark legal action after she lost her
> job when she blew the whistle on what she says was a campaign of "race
> hate" by fundmentalist Muslims.
>
> By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent
>
> 7:30AM GMT 27 Nov 2011
>
> Nohad Halawi, who worked at Heathrow Airport, is suing her former employers
> for unfair dismissal, claiming that she and other Christian staff at the
> airport were victims of systematic harassment because of their religion.
>
> She claims that she was told that she would go to Hell for her religion,
> that Jews were responsible for the September 11th terror attacks, and that
> a friend was reduced to tears having been bullied for wearing a cross.
>
> Mrs Halawi, who came to Britain from Lebanon in 1977, worked in the
> duty-free section as a perfume saleswoman of the airport for 13 years but
> was dismissed in July.
>
> Her case is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, who say it
> raises important legal issues and also questions over whether Muslims and
> Christians are treated differently by employers.
>
> It comes amid growing concern among some Christians that their faith is
> being marginalised and follows calls from Lord Carey, the former Archbishop
> of Canterbury, for Christians to be given greater legal protection in the
> wake of a series of cases where they have been disciplined or dismissed for
> practising their faith.
>
> It also raises further questions over race relations at Heathrow Airport.
>
> Last week, Arieh Zucker, a Jewish businessman, complained that he has been
> repeatedly singled out for full-body scans by Muslim security staff at the
> airport.
>
> The 41-year-old mortgage broker from London has accused them of "race hate"
> and is threatening to sue for racial discrimination after being made to
> "feel like a criminal" while being scanned.
>
> Mrs Halawi's case centres on whether she was treated unfairly when she lost
> her job in World Duty Free in Terminal 3 after she spoke out over what she
> described as bullying and intimidation by her Muslim colleagues of her and
> other Christians.
>
> She said that she was the subject of a complaint by an Islamic colleague
> which was specious and that when she raised her own concerns as a
> Christian, she was the one who was dismissed.
>
> Now she is distraught at losing her job on allegations made by what she
> describes as a small group of "extremist" Muslims.
>
> Mrs Halawi, 47, said: "I have been sacked on the basis of unsubstantiated
> complaints so there is now great fear amongst my former colleagues that the
> same could happen to them if one of the Muslims turns on them.
>
> "This is supposed to be a Christian country, but the law seems to be on the
> side of the Muslims."
>
> A mother of two, she says that she had always got on well with her Muslim
> colleagues and relations between staff of different faiths had been good in
> the past, but that the atmosphere became increasingly uncomfortable with a
> growing number of employees espousing "fundamentalist Islam".
>
> She says they harassed Christians at work by making fun of them for wearing
> crosses, ridiculing Jesus and telling them they would go to Hell if they
> did not convert to Islam.
>
> "One man brought in the Koran to work and insisted I read it and another
> brought in Islamic leaflets and handed them out to other employees," she
> said.
>
> "They said that 9/11 served the Americans right and that they hated the
> West, but that they had come here because they want to convert people to
> Islam.
>
> "They say that Jesus is s***** [shitty] and bullied a Christian friend of
> mine so much for wearing her crosses that she came to me crying."
>
> Mrs Halawi says she was targeted by the fundamentalists after she stood up
> for her friend, who is 62 and who she is keeping anonymous because she
> still works at the terminal.
>
> In May, five of her Muslim colleagues complained to David Tunnicliffe, the
> trading manager at World Duty Free, accusing her of being anti-Islamic
> following a heated conversation in the store.
>
> The row had stemmed from her description of a Muslim colleague as an
> allawhi, which means 'man of God' in Arabic. Another Muslim overheard this
> and thought she said Alawi, which was his branch of Islam.
>
> Following the complaints she was suspended immediately, but was not told
> the grounds for her suspension until she met Mr Tunnicliffe in July.
>
> Two days after the meeting she received a letter, which said the "store
> approval" - the Heathrow security pass - needed to work at World Duty Free
> was being removed because her behaviour was deemed to be unacceptable.
>
> "I believe that the breakdown in relationship between yourself and some of
> your colleagues has contributed to this situation and has led to a number
> of inappropriate conversations taking place," the letter said.
>
> "Whilst I do not believe that you may have meant to be offensive, I believe
> that it was not unreasonable for the individuals who either heard these
> comments, or who they were directed at to find them offensive, and they are
> extremely inappropriate."
>
> However, the only comments she made which Mr Tunnicliffe claimed were
> offensive relate to her accusing a Muslim colleague of having "extremist
> leaflets" and asking another Muslim why Jesus was being described as
> "s*****".
>
> She was paid on a freelance basis by Caroline South Associates, a fragrance
> and cosmetics agency that provides staff to work in World Duty Free, and
> was told that she would not be able to continue working without her pass.
>
> A petition signed by 28 colleagues, some of them Muslims, argued that she
> has been dismissed on the basis of "malicious lies", but failed to see her
> reinstated.
>
> Andrea Minichiello Williams, founder and director of the Christian Legal
> Centre, said that the case is one of the most serious they have handled.
>
> "It raises huge issues," she said.
>
> "First, there is the level of Islamic fundamentalism prevalent at our main
> point of entry to the UK.
>
> "Then there are very real issues of religious discrimination, which it
> would appear those in authority are turning a blind eye to, using the
> current loop-holes in employment law as an excuse."
>
> The centre has instructed Paul Diamond, a leading human rights barrister,
> to represent Mrs Halawi in taking both Caroline South Associates and
> Autogrill Retail UK Limited, which trades as World Duty Free, to an
> employment tribunal.
>
> They hope that the case will set a precedent for thousands of people like
> Mrs Halaoui who would appear to be employees from the working relationship,
> but actually have no rights because of their self-employed status.
>
> A lawyer acting for CSA said: "The case is still pending so the company is
> not in a position to comment, but as far as the company is concerned she's
> never been an employee and has never been dismissed."
>
> A spokesman for World Duty Free said they were unable to comment because
> the matter is subject to "ongoing legal proceedings".
>
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Fwd: [LA-F] Campaign of "race hate" by fundmentalist Muslims



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Reed
Date: Sunday,

 

She'll probably lose this of course (wrong religion) but she'd be more certain of losing if she'd been born here (wrong race).
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8917675/Christian-worker-loses-her-job-after-being-targeted-by-Islamic-extremists.html
 
 

Christian worker loses her job after being 'targeted' by Islamic extremists

 

A Christian worker has launched a landmark legal action after she lost her job when she blew the whistle on what she says was a campaign of "race hate" by fundmentalist Muslims.

 

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent

7:30AM GMT 27 Nov 2011

Nohad Halawi, who worked at Heathrow Airport, is suing her former employers for unfair dismissal, claiming that she and other Christian staff at the airport were victims of systematic harassment because of their religion.

She claims that she was told that she would go to Hell for her religion, that Jews were responsible for the September 11th terror attacks, and that a friend was reduced to tears having been bullied for wearing a cross.

Mrs Halawi, who came to Britain from Lebanon in 1977, worked in the duty-free section as a perfume saleswoman of the airport for 13 years but was dismissed in July.

Her case is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, who say it raises important legal issues and also questions over whether Muslims and Christians are treated differently by employers.

It comes amid growing concern among some Christians that their faith is being marginalised and follows calls from Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, for Christians to be given greater legal protection in the wake of a series of cases where they have been disciplined or dismissed for practising their faith.

It also raises further questions over race relations at Heathrow Airport.

Last week, Arieh Zucker, a Jewish businessman, complained that he has been repeatedly singled out for full-body scans by Muslim security staff at the airport.

The 41-year-old mortgage broker from London has accused them of "race hate" and is threatening to sue for racial discrimination after being made to "feel like a criminal" while being scanned.

Mrs Halawi's case centres on whether she was treated unfairly when she lost her job in World Duty Free in Terminal 3 after she spoke out over what she described as bullying and intimidation by her Muslim colleagues of her and other Christians.

She said that she was the subject of a complaint by an Islamic colleague which was specious and that when she raised her own concerns as a Christian, she was the one who was dismissed.

Now she is distraught at losing her job on allegations made by what she describes as a small group of "extremist" Muslims.

Mrs Halawi, 47, said: "I have been sacked on the basis of unsubstantiated complaints so there is now great fear amongst my former colleagues that the same could happen to them if one of the Muslims turns on them.

"This is supposed to be a Christian country, but the law seems to be on the side of the Muslims."

A mother of two, she says that she had always got on well with her Muslim colleagues and relations between staff of different faiths had been good in the past, but that the atmosphere became increasingly uncomfortable with a growing number of employees espousing "fundamentalist Islam".

She says they harassed Christians at work by making fun of them for wearing crosses, ridiculing Jesus and telling them they would go to Hell if they did not convert to Islam.

"One man brought in the Koran to work and insisted I read it and another brought in Islamic leaflets and handed them out to other employees," she said.

"They said that 9/11 served the Americans right and that they hated the West, but that they had come here because they want to convert people to Islam.

"They say that Jesus is s***** [shitty] and bullied a Christian friend of mine so much for wearing her crosses that she came to me crying."

Mrs Halawi says she was targeted by the fundamentalists after she stood up for her friend, who is 62 and who she is keeping anonymous because she still works at the terminal.

In May, five of her Muslim colleagues complained to David Tunnicliffe, the trading manager at World Duty Free, accusing her of being anti-Islamic following a heated conversation in the store.

The row had stemmed from her description of a Muslim colleague as an allawhi, which means 'man of God' in Arabic. Another Muslim overheard this and thought she said Alawi, which was his branch of Islam.

Following the complaints she was suspended immediately, but was not told the grounds for her suspension until she met Mr Tunnicliffe in July.

Two days after the meeting she received a letter, which said the "store approval" - the Heathrow security pass - needed to work at World Duty Free was being removed because her behaviour was deemed to be unacceptable.

"I believe that the breakdown in relationship between yourself and some of your colleagues has contributed to this situation and has led to a number of inappropriate conversations taking place," the letter said.

"Whilst I do not believe that you may have meant to be offensive, I believe that it was not unreasonable for the individuals who either heard these comments, or who they were directed at to find them offensive, and they are extremely inappropriate."

However, the only comments she made which Mr Tunnicliffe claimed were offensive relate to her accusing a Muslim colleague of having "extremist leaflets" and asking another Muslim why Jesus was being described as "s*****".

She was paid on a freelance basis by Caroline South Associates, a fragrance and cosmetics agency that provides staff to work in World Duty Free, and was told that she would not be able to continue working without her pass.

A petition signed by 28 colleagues, some of them Muslims, argued that she has been dismissed on the basis of "malicious lies", but failed to see her reinstated.

Andrea Minichiello Williams, founder and director of the Christian Legal Centre, said that the case is one of the most serious they have handled.

"It raises huge issues," she said.

"First, there is the level of Islamic fundamentalism prevalent at our main point of entry to the UK.

"Then there are very real issues of religious discrimination, which it would appear those in authority are turning a blind eye to, using the current loop-holes in employment law as an excuse."

The centre has instructed Paul Diamond, a leading human rights barrister, to represent Mrs Halawi in taking both Caroline South Associates and Autogrill Retail UK Limited, which trades as World Duty Free, to an employment tribunal.

They hope that the case will set a precedent for thousands of people like Mrs Halaoui who would appear to be employees from the working relationship, but actually have no rights because of their self-employed status.

A lawyer acting for CSA said: "The case is still pending so the company is not in a position to comment, but as far as the company is concerned she's never been an employee and has never been dismissed."

A spokesman for World Duty Free said they were unable to comment because the matter is subject to "ongoing legal proceedings".

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Re: Showdown at Neocon Central

Ron Paul has no chance of ever being nominated
---
because the gop will not stop funding and protecting israel regardless
of the cost to Americans

On Nov 26, 10:01 am, Sage2 <wisdom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>      No matter how you slice it MJ, only a small minority agree with
> Ron Paul, the greater majority don't. Though his views may resound for
> some like you they are not in sync with the reality of the world as it
> is today. Ron Paul has no chance of ever being nominated.
>
> On Nov 25, 4:47 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > ""I've spent years studying this stuff," he adds, and one could well believe he had indeed spent years learning how to start out with a libertarian premise –"It's desperately important that we preserve your right to be innocent until proven guilty"– and coming out the other end with a purely authoritarian conclusion. This, as I've pointed out in the past, isBizarro Conservatism– a doctrine that preaches the preciseoppositeof what the traditional "less government," pro-individual rights conservativesused tobelieve."Showdown at Neocon CentralNewt Gingrich vs. Ron PaulbyJustin Raimondo, November 25, 2011
> > The Republican "national security"debatesponsored byNeocon CentraltheAmerican Enterprise Instituteand theHeritage Foundationcaptured perfectly the intellectual and political bankruptcy of the Republican party when it comes to foreign policy. Here the party's panderingdemagoguery, reflexiveultra-nationalism, and visceralhostility to libertywas on full display in all its exhibitionistic belligerence. It was only natural, therefore, that the first question was asked by disgraced former US Attorney GeneralEdwin Meese, who was forced to resign as Reagan's AG as a result of his complicity in obtaining big defense contracts for a phony "minority"-owned company. Here is his "question":"At least 42 terrorist attacks aimed at the United States have been thwarted since 9/11. Tools like the Patriot Act have been instrumental in finding and stopping terrorists. Shouldn't we have a long range extension of the investigative powers contained in that act so that our law enforcement officers can have the tools that they need?"What a set up forNewt Gingrich! And he certainly took advantage of it: naturally he was given the first answer –with poor Herman Cain having outlived his usefulness and been unceremoniouslydumped, Newt is the "mainstream" media'snew darling. That's because he can always be counted on to reiterate the neocons' favorite talking points, and on this occasion he did not disappoint:"BLITZER: Speaker Gingrich, only this weekend there was an alleged terror plot uncovered in New York City. What do you think?
> > "GINGRICH: Well, I think that Attorney General Meese has raised a key point, and the key distinction for the American people to recognize is the difference between national security requirements and criminal law requirements.
> > "I think it's desperately important that we preserve your right to be innocent until proven guilty, if it's a matter of criminal law. But if you're trying to find somebody who may have a nuclear weapon that they are trying to bring into an American city, I think you want to use every tool that you can possibly use to gather the intelligence.
> > "The Patriot Act has clearly been a key part of that. And I think looking at it carefully and extending it and building an honest understanding that all of us will be in danger for the rest of our lives. This is not going to end in the short run. And we need to be prepared to protect ourselves from those who, if they could, would not just kill us individually, but would take out entire cities."In less than 200 words, Newt managed the wholesale bifurcation of American law into two parallel tracks, one that acknowledges how "desperately important" it is to "preserve your right to be innocent until proven guilty," and the other which recognizes no such necessity – and, in fact, negates it.
> > Oh, isn't he glib – isn't heclever? With a mere sleight of hand he has obviatedtheConstitutionand upended the legal and moral traditions of two hundred years. What an achievement! He smiles agreasy, easy grin,well-pleased with himself. The audience dutifully applauds.
> > "I've spent years studying this stuff," he adds, and one could well believe he had indeed spent years learning how to start out with a libertarian premise –"It's desperately important that we preserve your right to be innocent until proven guilty"– and coming out the other end with a purely authoritarian conclusion. This, as I've pointed out in the past, isBizarro Conservatism– a doctrine that preaches the preciseoppositeof what the traditional "less government," pro-individual rights conservativesused tobelieve.
> > Newt'sclash with Ron Paulover this issue defined the parameters of the subsequent hour or so: this was the firstPaul-centricdebate, preceded by hisrise in the pollsand his increasingly important role as theideologicalcatalystof this GOP presidential primary. Once again, as in the economic sphere – with even former Federal Reserve board memberHerman CainechoingPaul's callto audit the Fed – the Texas congressman set the tone of the discussion with his ringing defense of the Founders' concept of what freedom means:"I think the Patriot Act is unpatriotic because it undermines our liberty. I'm concerned, as everybody is, about the terrorist attack. Timothy McVeigh was a vicious terrorist. He was arrested. Terrorism is still on the books, internationally and nationally, it's a crime and we should deal with it.
> > "We dealt with it rather well with Timothy McVeigh. But why I really fear it is we have drifted into a condition that we were warned against because our early founders were very clear. They said, don't be willing to sacrifice liberty for security.
> > "Today it seems too easy that our government and our congresses are so willing to give up our liberties for our security. I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights."Newt thought he'd won by making a dramatic pause and intoning:
> > "Yes. Timothy McVeigh succeeded. That's the whole point."Looking like a Halloween pumpkin left out in the rain, Gingrich went into novelist mode,scaring the childrenwith the specter of "losing a major American city" and bringing his fist down hard on the podium as he thundered"I want a law that says, you try to take out an American city, we're going to stop you!"Paul's answer wasperfect:"This is like saying that we need a policeman in every house, a camera in every house because we want to prevent child-beating and wife-beating. You can prevent crimes by becoming a police state. So if you advocate the police state, yes, you can have safety and security and you might prevent a crime, but the crime then will be against the American people and against our freedoms. And we will throw out so much of what our revolution was fought for. So don't do it so carelessly."In short: why not just set up a dictatorship and be done with it? Paul is too polite to point out that Newt would make theperfectdictator, strutting about the stage and puffing out his chest like a peacock on parade – so I will.
> > I thought I detected an elegiac note in Paul's remarks, a sadness in his voice as he pleaded with his audience not to throw away the Founders' gift "so carelessly." As if he fears that they probably will, anyway.
> > There is reason for pessimism: we are, after all, living in a time when a half-bakedprofessionalbloviatorlike Gingrich is considered a conservative "intellectual." With the help of the "mainstream" media – which would like nothing more than to see the singularlyunattractiveandbaggage-ladenGingrich up againsttheir heroObama – the Newtster is having his moment in the sun. It will, however, be a brief moment – and he's not really running for president anyway.Everyone knowshis campaign has been a vanity project and moneymaking operation from the outset.
> > Quietlygaining traction, the growth and development of the Paulian movement occurring largelybeneaththe media's radar, the Paul campaign has achieved tremendous gains for the peace movement in America. No matter how it ends, it has created a new chapter in the history of the foreign policy discourse in this country: anti-interventionism is no longer considered the exclusive preserve of the "radical" left. For the first time since the 1930s, the anti-imperialist tendency in American conservatism is in the ascendant: theOld Rightisback, more organized andintellectually coherentthan ever.
> > This is a development the neocons have longfeared, and the viciousattackson Paul coming fromthose quartersare bound to increase in number and intensity as the campaign succeeds in becoming theconservative alternativeto thesupposedly"inevitable" Mitt Romney.
> > Gingrich's job in all this is to act as the "moderator," the Deep Thinker who polices the discussion, always on the lookout for any deviation fromneoconservative orthodoxy. His role-playing is underscored by thepost-debatespeculationover whether he imperiled his rising star by taking a "soft" stand on immigration.
> > It may seem passing strange that someone so concerned about a nuclear bomb being smuggled into a major American city would take such a lax attitude about policing our borders. But that's the Newtster for you: he can think up an argument foranything– even taking$1.6 millionfromFreddie Macwhile at the same timeclaiming to be in favor of abolishing it! I tell you, the man's a genius – and if you don't believe that, then just ask him. After all, he's "spent years studying this stuff."
> > There's nothing new in Newt's stance on immigration: he's been saying the same thingfor years. He said at the debate he's "willing to take the heat" on this issue because the neocons – who see America as a "universal nation," like Rome, Great Britain, and the other great empires of the past – have always been for amnestying so-called illegal aliens. On the other hand, Paul echoes the concerns of the
>
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Re: Showdown at Neocon Central

America's middle east policy has been written by jews and supported by
zionist xians.

choose sides carefully

On Nov 26, 9:31 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Justin "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing"  Raimondo  +  M.J. =
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Re: A muslim author/philosopher challegens Americans at Ground Zero (video)

Good Morning from Tampa Florida Edip,
 
You have addressed so many issues on your web page, that it would be impossible to address each and every ascertation and allegation that you raise, especially in three minutes. 
 
I wonder if you know and understand the true definition of Fascism?  If so, could you take the time to explain to our Group what your understanding of Fascism is?
 
The same for the term:  "Oligarchy".   Would you please take your valuable time to explain how you believe that the United States' federal government has now become an oligarchy?
 
I assume, based on your web page, that you are Islamic by faith.  You even propose to give a "Reformist" version of the Qur'an to any individual who will engage in a three minute debate with you.  I am unsure what a "Reformist Qur'an" is,  but I would hope that you would agree that Islam's roots are well documented, and that you will not dispute that  Islam in and of itself, was born in violence. Not only did the angel Gabriel allegedly try to choke Mohammad to death at one point, but so did Mohammad's tribe, the "Quraysh".

From its very inception, Islam has been about a fight to survive.  Mohammad called this principle "Jihad", and drew two distinctions. Ultimately the greater jihad, "Jihad al Akbar", is the struggle to perfect oneself, the struggle to be a better person in the eyes of Allah.  Mohammad nevertheless emphasized, especially throughout the Medina Suras in the Qur'an, that the lesser jihad, "Jihad al Asghar"; e.g.; the struggle to defeat infidels, non-believers and opponents who threatens (or has ever threatened!)  the faith, is the primary means for the manifestation of Islam upon our World.
 
Would you also agree that there is a contradiction in terms and what Mohammad espoused, between sura's that were written in Medina, versus those sura's that Mohammad purportedly wrote in Mecca?
 
Since you obviously have a dislike, I dare say a hatred for capitalism, what social and economic system can you point to in the world today,  or at any point in history that has worked and been sustainable as compared to a free market economy?
 
Edip, would you please provide some legitimate documentation where one million Iraqis were killed by American military forces.  (Note:  if you are depending upon the "Opinion Research Business"; ("ORB");  this study has been debunked by every leading Epidemiologist and Bio-Statistician throughout Europe, the Middle East and the United States; so please point to any other legitimate source to support your allegation). 
 
What many here in our Group still cannot fathom or understand,  is the whole concept of "Sharia".   That "Sharia", to all Muslims, including moderate Muslims and those who maybe considered "Orthodox" or "Fundamentalist Muslims";  crosses all boundaries of life, to include political, economic, religious, personal, hygienic, attire, food, etc.  That there is nothing at all to compare this concept with here in the United States of Europe.   Sharia is all encompassing.  Even the concept of loving one's Nation, or patriotism is not at all the same.   By example,  one facet of Sharia would be for a Christian Minister or Priest dictating to his congregation what to wear; what to eat; who to vote for; how often to bathe, and the exact precepts of personal hygiene.  We're not talking about a Christian  Priest or Minister "Suggesting" what to wear, or eat,  we are talking about a Priest or Minister MANDATING what you will wear each and every day, and what you will eat, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc., etc.   Again, this is such a foreign concept to those of us who have lived a Western lifestyle that it seems almost laughable, but nevertheless, ALL Muslims, to include those that we consider, "Moderate"  are under the dictates of Sharia.   To not follow the dictates of Sharia, qualifies you as an infidel, and infidels.....Edip, maybe you can expand upon Islam's views of Infidels,  and go into the definition of what an "Infidel" is, and what the penalties are for Infidels,  starting with the taxation of Infidels, and the progression to the death sentence?
 
Do you consider yourself to be an Infidel?
 
I could go on, but I think the following questions will take you far longer than three minutes to explain, or attempt to make a cognitive, logical supporting and thoughtful response.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Democrat <edipyuksel@gmail.com> wrote:
For this offer to work, we need make an arrangement regarding the
referees. My original offer was a bit different: either you get 100
dollars or you get a free book or free junk food. In other words, it
was a one-sided offer. I did not need to pay someone's expenses or the
other way around. I had an allocated budget for that and regardless
the judgment of the referees I was going to achieve my goal: start
rational dialogue in an environment where warmonger's confrontational
propaganda of hostility and bloodshed is popular.

So, offer a method to select an impartial referee, then I will take
your proposal, preferrably in Tucson.

Peace,
Edip

On Nov 26, 8:22 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Morning from Tampa Florida Edip,
>
> I have ony watched a portion of your video, and seen only a smidgeon of
> your writings.
>
> I'll take your challenge,  albeit I would like for the stakes to be a
> little higher.  How about we debate,  "*mano-y-mano*", and the loser cover
> all expenses of the winner?
>
> I am prepared to come to New York,  or for you to come to Tampa Florida.
> If you come to Tampa, I can arrange for public broadcasting on cable
> television, but either way,  our debate will be broadcast on You-Tube.
>
> Put your money where your mouth is.....
>
> Respectfully,
>
> KeithInTampa
> KeithInTampa@gmail,com
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Democrat <edipyuk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Edip Yuksel chellenges fellow Americans at Ground Zero.
>
> >http://www.edip4president.com/challenge/- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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Re: A muslim author/philosopher challegens Americans at Ground Zero (video)

The Arabs are a culture of hate
for Jews and never intend to make peace with them
---
the muzzie-jew war belongs in the middle east - not America

On Nov 26, 10:21 am, Sage2 <wisdom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>            The bottom line is quite simple for any argument as it
> relates to Arab , Israeli relations. The Arabs are a culture of hate
> for Jews and never intend to make peace with them. History proves Edip
> Yuksel wrong time & time again. One need only read the 1928 Muslim
> Brotherhood Manifesto. If it had not been for the Western countries
> during WWII fighting for the worlds freedom the Arabs would be slaves
> to the Germans, even with the Brotherhood having assisted them in war
> crimes against the Jews.
>
> On Nov 26, 10:22 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Good Morning from Tampa Florida Edip,
>
> > I have ony watched a portion of your video, and seen only a smidgeon of
> > your writings.
>
> > I'll take your challenge,  albeit I would like for the stakes to be a
> > little higher.  How about we debate,  "*mano-y-mano*", and the loser cover
> > all expenses of the winner?
>
> > I am prepared to come to New York,  or for you to come to Tampa Florida.
> > If you come to Tampa, I can arrange for public broadcasting on cable
> > television, but either way,  our debate will be broadcast on You-Tube.
>
> > Put your money where your mouth is.....
>
> > Respectfully,
>
> > KeithInTampa
> > KeithInTampa@gmail,com
>
> > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Democrat <edipyuk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Edip Yuksel chellenges fellow Americans at Ground Zero.
>
> > >http://www.edip4president.com/challenge/-Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -

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Re: 99

the federal reserve should be under the control of our congress

The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of 9 banks:

$1. Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin.

$2. Lazard Brothers Banks of Paris.

$3. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy.

$4. Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam.

$5. Lehman Brothers of NY.

$6. Kuhn, Loeb Bank of NY (Now Shearson American Express).

$7. Goldman, Sachs of NY.

$8. National Bank of Commerce NY/Morgan Guaranty Trust

$9. Hanover Trust of NY (William and David Rockefeller & Chase
National Bank NY are principal shareholders).

The largest shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank are the
Rothschilds of London holding 57% of the stock which is not available
for public trading.

THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

1) Ben Shalom Bernanke: Chairman of the Board of Governors of Federal
Reserve. Term ends 2020.

2) Donald L. Kohn: Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of Federal
Reserve. Term ends 2016.

3) Randall S. Kroszner: Member of Board of Governors of Federal
Reserve.

4) Frederic S. Mishkin: Member of Board of Governors of Federal
Reserve. Term ends 2014.

5) Alan Greenspan: Advisor to Board of Governors of Federal Reserve.
Recent Chairman.

On Nov 27, 7:08 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: coyotep...@rocketmail.com
>
>  FYI:  Here is a partial list of the Occupy Wall Street backers, also not
> included are a bunch of labor unions (SEIU) here in the United States. A
> lot of the protesters attending these rallies across America do not know
> who they are supporting by attending. They are being used in an effort to
> undermine this country, most are ignorant to this fact.
>
>   You could also throw in some others including Frances Fox Piven, Hillary
> Clinton, George Soros, Etc.
>
> The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street's supporters, sponsors and
> sympathizers
>
> Communist Party USA
>
> Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller
>
> American Nazi Party
>
> Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News
>
> Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
>
> The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News
>
> Barack Obama
>
> ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York
>
> The government of North Korea
>
> Korean Central News Agency (North Korean state-controlled news outlet), The
> Marxist-Leninist, Wall Street Journal, Times of India
>
> Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam
>
> video statement (starting at 8:28), Black in America, Weasel Zippers,
> Philadelphia Weekly
>
> Revolutionary Communist Party
>
> Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolution newspaper, in-person appearance
>
> David Duke
>
> Talking Points Memo, video statement, davidduke.com
>
> Joe Biden
>
> Talking Points Memo, video statement, Mother Jones
>
> Hugo Chavez
>
> Mother Jones, Reuters, Examiner.com
>
> Revolutionary Guards of Iran
>
> Associated Press, FARS News Agency, UPI
>
> Black Panthers (original)
>
> in-person appearance, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Tribune
>
> Socialist Party USA
>
> Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller
>
> US Border Guard
>
> White Reference,www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day
> blog
>
> Industrial Workers of the World
>
> IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances
>
> CAIR
>
> in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York
>
> Nancy Pelosi
>
> Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard
>
> Communist Party of China
>
> People's Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The
> Telegraph
>
> Hezbollah
>
> almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia
>
> 9/11Truth.org
>
> 911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3)
>
> International Bolshevik Tendency
>
> bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine
>
> Anonymous
>
> Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement
>
> White Revolution

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**JP** indian military machine and its reality!

This is a very interesting article on the indian military machine, and its achievements and its propaganda! It may come as a shock for the bollywood lovers, who live in a dream world! Enjoy it!

Speaking of Historic Opportunity

Virginia has a history that caused her to become the mother of FF presidents.

That history still shows within the extraordinary beauty of Virginia's constitution and statutes.
Virginia's law is still enables her to save the constitutional republic of the United States if she will first save herself from the custom of cavalier conceits of authority whose toxic culture came to the 'Old Dominion' with refugees from the English Civil War.

Virginia appears to be the only state that has a law equivalent to VA18.2-481(5) where 'Resisting the execution of the laws under the color of its authority' is defined as 'Statutory Treason'.

In 1619 slavery had no lawful basis under the English common law written upon the hearts of its people – Slavery in Virginia started as no more than the cavalier criminal conceit of 'Our law will not protect you – as far as you are concerned I am the law'. That purely criminal evil is still with us and is conclusively evidenced by EVERY officer of our courts – Yet, if confronted and pardoned by our Governor upon the penitent virtue of toothy parole oath that evil can be removed from Virginia's future.

Yes, and even our country's future because every Virginia federal judge is still a member of the Virginia Bar , still an officer of the courts of Virginia, and so deemed by the presumptions of Virginia law to professionally know the law so that they must recognize VA18.2-481(5) felony when it occurs and so are conclusively evidenced as having at LEAST criminally perpetrated felony VA18.2-482 'Misprision of Treason'.

ALL such officers must plead for pardon or eventually be condemned by our law – under God – that requires that ALL felony, and conditions that foster felony, be presented to a grand jury until the felony is properly judged. Our Governor's pardon is the best and only way out of the felony condemnation due every lawyer and judge in Virginia, INCLUDING Virginia's federal judges!

'Constitution Reset' naturally cascading from Virginia can gently and gracefully save our country.

The Question that remains is 'Does Virginia still have the heart to raise leaders ready to face God?'

All prayer warriors, please remember us.   May we become fit to serve God & Country as our law requires. 

http://youtu.be/iZvZWUZFevI 

http://teapartyconstitutionalists.ning.com

http://constitutional-reset.blogspot.com/

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Re: Fwd: Would The World Be Better Off Without Religion?

humans created god in their own image

The jewish god of the old testament is arguably the most unpleasant
character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust,
unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser;
a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal,
filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously
malevolent bully. - Richard Dawkins

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Re: Fwd: [I-S] The Fed Audit - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont

"No
agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a
foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress
and the
president," Sanders said.
----
our politicians give our taxes to those who lobby the most
effectively.

it's time to take their credit cards away and make them pay for their
own charities

On Nov 27, 7:06 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Scott
>
> Yes, this is from Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT), the only politician in
> Washington who says out loud that he's a socialist, and whom I therefore
> admire for his refreshing honesty.
> --S.
>
> http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-6...
>
> The Fed Audit
>
> July 21, 2011
>
> The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping
> new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret
> loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the
> worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen.
> Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week
> directed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study. "As a
> result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more
> than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest
> financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout
> the world," said Sanders. "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich
> and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."
>
> Among the investigation's key findings is that the Fed unilaterally
> provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and
> corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according to the GAO report. "No
> agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a
> foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the
> president," Sanders said.
>
> The non-partisan, investigative arm of Congress also determined that the
> Fed lacks a comprehensive system to deal with conflicts of interest,
> despite the serious potential for abuse.  In fact, according to the report,
> the Fed provided conflict of interest waivers to employees and private
> contractors so they could keep investments in the same financial
> institutions and corporations that were given emergency loans.
>
> For example, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase served on the New York Fed's board
> of directors at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion
> in financial assistance from the Fed.  Moreover, JP Morgan Chase served as
> one of the clearing banks for the Fed's emergency lending programs.
>
> In another disturbing finding, the GAO said that on Sept. 19, 2008, William
> Dudley, who is now the New York Fed president, was granted a waiver to let
> him keep investments in AIG and General Electric at the same time AIG and
> GE were given bailout funds.  One reason the Fed did not make Dudley sell
> his holdings, according to the audit, was that it might have created the
> appearance of a conflict of interest.
>
> To Sanders, the conclusion is simple. "No one who works for a firm
> receiving direct financial assistance from the Fed should be allowed to sit
> on the Fed's board of directors or be employed by the Fed," he said.
>
> The investigation also revealed that the Fed outsourced most of its
> emergency lending programs to private contractors, many of which also were
> recipients of extremely low-interest and then-secret loans.
>
> The Fed outsourced virtually all of the operations of their emergency
> lending programs to private contractors like JP Morgan Chase, Morgan
> Stanley, and Wells Fargo.  The same firms also received trillions of
> dollars in Fed loans at near-zero interest rates. Altogether some
> two-thirds of the contracts that the Fed awarded to manage its emergency
> lending programs were no-bid contracts. Morgan Stanley was given the
> largest no-bid contract worth $108.4 million to help manage the Fed bailout
> of AIG.
>
> A more detailed GAO investigation into potential conflicts of interest at
> the Fed is due on Oct. 18, but Sanders said one thing already is abundantly
> clear. "The Federal Reserve must be reformed to serve the needs of working
> families, not just CEOs on Wall Street."
>
> To read the GAO report, click here.
>
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Warning: Stop war against people; disband Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)

28 November 2011

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister's Office

Old Sangsad Bhaban

Tejagaon, Dhaka-1215

Bangladesh

 

RE: Warning: Stop war against people; disband Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)

 

Dear Prime Minister,

I am William Nicholas Gomes, human rights activist and journalist. I have observed the overwhelming human rights violations in Bangladesh.

Your government is in war against the ordinary people of Bangladesh.

The state can be titled as dysfunctional under ruling of your government. Each and every ministry is corrupted with corruption. The judiciary and the law enforcement agencies became tools of subjugate the opposition parties or to anyone trying to expose the dysfunctional character of your government.

Your government is in war against, the people of Bangladesh. The government that you are leading is clearly is not pro people government. Your government became a government of few elected dictators by the cost of many and that is what set you in war against the people of Bangladesh.

The law enforcement agencies and the security forces care little for the ordinary people of Bangladesh. The special unit of Bangladesh police, killing squad Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) became the licensed killing tools of government; as a result the cross fire and now a days the disappearances had crossed any past record.

Due process of law does not exist in practice other than in the theory and in the law books in Bangladesh.

You had followed the legacy of politicizing the judiciary. Suppressing the Mass media , the share market had looted , people is now in road and every day your  ministers are costing the people and living the life of luxury at the cost of ordinary people of Bangladesh.

US invasion on Iraq, Afghanistan were criticized by the progressive forces all over the world. The situations of Bangladesh became worst than the Iraq or Afghanistan, the imperialist find out the group betrayers lead by you. Then   they need not to run any invasion in Bangladesh, your government is enough to loot the country's people by declaring war against them. There is no democracy in the country.

You had signed a secret agreement with the Indian government and by breaching the international human rights standard. You had guided the killing squad RAB to work with special unit Indian intelligence RAW to arrest and illegally hand over the Indian citizens, especially the people associated with United Liberation Front of Asom.   

You have successfully used the law enforcement agencies, specially the killing squad Rapid action battalion. Our sources have confirmed that the intelligence unit of RAB has prepared a list of the political people who are very active in anti government activities. The list includes mainly the people of main opposition party, BNP and Jamat e Islami. These people will be tortured, killed and many of them will face enforced disappearances as the anti government movement grows. You are leading the nation towards violence .

I have lunch the SMS campaign as a part of my continuous effort to "BAN RAB". All the battalion of RAB , and every cabinet minister have already  received  the warning message and appeal to disband the RAB . I will continue to run the SMS camping until you disband the RAB and bring them under the law.  

I warn you to stop war against the people of Bangladesh. Disband the Rapid action battalion now and form a special tribunal to investigate all the allegations of torture, cross fire, disappearances and make all possible effort to bring them under the law.

 

 

I thank you for the attention you give to this letter.

 

Sincerely,

William Nicholas Gomes
Journalist & Human Rights Activist
80/ B Bramon Chiron, Saydabad,
Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh.
Cell: +88 019 7 444 0 666
E-mail:William [at] williamgomes.org,editorbd[at]gmail.com

Skype: William.gomes9
Face book: www.facebook.com/williamnicholasgomes
Twitter: twitter.com/williamgomes
Web site :www.williamgomes.org

Link : http://williamnicholasgomes.blogspot.com/2011/11/stop-war-against-people-disband-rapid.html

 

 



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Journalist & Human Rights Activist
80/ B Bramon Chiron, Saydabad,
Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh.
Cell: +88 019 7 444 0 666
E-mail:
William [at] williamgomes.org,editorbd[at]gmail.com
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99



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: coyotepiss@rocketmail.com



 

 FYI:  Here is a partial list of the Occupy Wall Street backers, also not included are a bunch of labor unions (SEIU) here in the United States. A lot of the protesters attending these rallies across America do not know who they are supporting by attending. They are being used in an effort to undermine this country, most are ignorant to this fact. 

  You could also throw in some others including Frances Fox Piven, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Etc.

 

The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street's supporters, sponsors and sympathizers

Communist Party USA

Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller

American Nazi Party

Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News

Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran

The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News

Barack Obama

ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York

The government of North Korea

Korean Central News Agency (North Korean state-controlled news outlet), The Marxist-Leninist, Wall Street Journal, Times of India

Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam

video statement (starting at 8:28), Black in America, Weasel Zippers, Philadelphia Weekly

Revolutionary Communist Party

Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolution newspaper, in-person appearance

David Duke

Talking Points Memo, video statement, davidduke.com

Joe Biden

Talking Points Memo, video statement, Mother Jones

Hugo Chavez

Mother Jones, Reuters, Examiner.com

Revolutionary Guards of Iran

Associated Press, FARS News Agency, UPI

Black Panthers (original)

in-person appearance, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Tribune

Socialist Party USA

Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller

US Border Guard

White Reference, www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day blog

Industrial Workers of the World

IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances

CAIR

in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York

Nancy Pelosi

Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard

Communist Party of China

People's Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The Telegraph

Hezbollah

almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia

9/11Truth.org

911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3)

International Bolshevik Tendency

bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine

Anonymous

Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement

White Revolution

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Fwd: [I-S] The Fed Audit - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Scott


Yes, this is from Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT), the only politician in Washington who says out loud that he's a socialist, and whom I therefore admire for his refreshing honesty.
--S.


http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3

The Fed Audit

July 21, 2011

The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week directed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study. "As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world," said Sanders. "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."

Among the investigation's key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according to the GAO report. "No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president," Sanders said.

The non-partisan, investigative arm of Congress also determined that the Fed lacks a comprehensive system to deal with conflicts of interest, despite the serious potential for abuse.  In fact, according to the report, the Fed provided conflict of interest waivers to employees and private contractors so they could keep investments in the same financial institutions and corporations that were given emergency loans.

For example, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase served on the New York Fed's board of directors at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed.  Moreover, JP Morgan Chase served as one of the clearing banks for the Fed's emergency lending programs.

In another disturbing finding, the GAO said that on Sept. 19, 2008, William Dudley, who is now the New York Fed president, was granted a waiver to let him keep investments in AIG and General Electric at the same time AIG and GE were given bailout funds.  One reason the Fed did not make Dudley sell his holdings, according to the audit, was that it might have created the appearance of a conflict of interest.

To Sanders, the conclusion is simple. "No one who works for a firm receiving direct financial assistance from the Fed should be allowed to sit on the Fed's board of directors or be employed by the Fed," he said.

The investigation also revealed that the Fed outsourced most of its emergency lending programs to private contractors, many of which also were recipients of extremely low-interest and then-secret loans.

The Fed outsourced virtually all of the operations of their emergency lending programs to private contractors like JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.  The same firms also received trillions of dollars in Fed loans at near-zero interest rates. Altogether some two-thirds of the contracts that the Fed awarded to manage its emergency lending programs were no-bid contracts. Morgan Stanley was given the largest no-bid contract worth $108.4 million to help manage the Fed bailout of AIG.

A more detailed GAO investigation into potential conflicts of interest at the Fed is due on Oct. 18, but Sanders said one thing already is abundantly clear. "The Federal Reserve must be reformed to serve the needs of working families, not just CEOs on Wall Street."

To read the GAO report, click here.

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Pre-Occupied: the origins and future of Occupy Wall Street



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Pre-Occupied
The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street

by Mattathias Schwartz
The New Yorker
11/28/11
Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally Lasn will run a page with his own looped cursive scrawl on it. From this absorbing work, Lasn acquired the habit of avoiding the news after dark. So it was not until the morning of Tuesday, November 15th, that he learned that hundreds of police officers had massed in lower Manhattan at 1 A.M. and cleared the camp at Zuccotti Park. If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest—Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began thinking of reasons that this might be a good thing.
Lasn is sixty-nine years old and lives with his wife on a five-acre farm outside Vancouver. He has thinning white hair and the small eyes of a bulldog. In a lilting voice, he speaks of "a dark age coming for humanity" and of "killing capitalism," alternating gusts of passion with gentle laughter. He has learned not to let premonitions of apocalypse spoil his good mood.

The magazine, which he founded twenty-two years ago, depicts the developed world as a nightmare of environmental collapse and spiritual hollowness, driven to the brink of destruction by its consumer appetites.
Adbusters' images—a breastfeeding baby tattooed with corporate logos; a smiling Barack Obama with a clown's ball on his nose—are combined with equally provocative texts and turned into a paginated montage. Adbusters is not the only radical magazine calling for the end of life as we know it, but it is by far the best-looking.
Lasn was interrupted by a phone call about the Zuccotti eviction while in bed, reading Julian Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending." He rose and checked his e-mail. There was a message from Micah White, Adbusters' senior editor and Lasn's closest collaborator.
"Eerie timing!" White wrote. Earlier that night, Adbusters had sent out its most recent "tactical briefing"—a mass e-mail to ninety thousand friends of the magazine—proposing that the nation's Occupy protesters throw a party in mid-December, declare victory, and withdraw from their encampments. A few hours later, officers from the New York Police Department began handing out notices stating that the park had become dangerous and unsanitary, and ordering the protesters to leave, so that it could be cleaned. Those who refused to go were arrested, and whatever they left behind was carried off by the Department of Sanitation, to a depot on West Fifty-seventh Street. After a long night of angry marches and meetings, the protesters were allowed back into Zuccotti, with newly enforced prohibitions on tents and on lying down. The protest continued, but the fifty-nine days of rude, anarchic freedom on a patch of granite in lower Manhattan were over.
White reached Lasn by telephone shortly before nine. Lasn was in the bathtub, and White told him details that he had learned online about the eviction. The police had established a strict media cordon, blocking access from nearby streets. "It was a military-style operation," he said. These words made Lasn think of the bloody uprising in Syria. He quickly decided that the apparent end of Zuccotti was not a tragedy but the latest in a series of crisis-driven opportunities, what he calls "revolutionary moments," akin to the slapping of a Tunisian fruit vender. "I just can't believe how stupid Bloomberg can be!" he said to me later that day. "This means escalation. A raising of the stakes. It's one step closer to, you know, a revolution."
Lasn and White quickly hammered out a post-Zuccotti plan. White would draft a new memorandum, suggesting that Phase I—signs, meetings, camps, marches—was now over. Phase II would involve a swarming strategy of "surprise attacks against business as usual," with the potential to be "more intense and visceral, depending on how the Bloombergs of the world react." White could hear the excitement in Lasn's voice. Even as Lasn vented about the morning's counterrevolution, he was doing what he could not to splash.

This is how Occupy Wall Street began: as one of many half-formed plans circulating through conversations between Lasn and White, who lives in Berkeley and has not seen Lasn in person for more than four years. Neither can recall who first had the idea of trying to take over lower Manhattan. In early June, Adbusters sent an e-mail to subscribers stating that "America needs its own Tahrir." The next day, White wrote to Lasn that he was "very excited about the Occupy Wall Street meme. . . . I think we should make this happen." He proposed three possible Web sites: OccupyWallStreet.org, AcampadaWallStreet.org, and TakeWallStreet.org.
"No. 1 is best," Lasn replied, on June 9th. That evening, he registered OccupyWallStreet.org.
White, who is twenty-nine years old, was born to a Caucasian mother and an African-American father. "I don't really fit in with either group," he told me. He attended suburban public schools, where he began a series of one-man campaigns against authority. In middle school, with his parents' blessing, he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. In high school, he founded an atheists' club, over the objections of the principal. This led to an appearance on "Politically Incorrect," and atheist organizations flew White to their conferences to give talks. "It all went to my head," he said. "I became a little ego child. Ego destroys. I was too young to understand that."
Though he describes himself as a "mystical anarchist," White has three strict rules that govern his day: No naps. No snacks. Get dressed. "By dressed," he told me, "I mean pants and a shirt. Enough so that if someone came to the door and knocked on it you wouldn't be totally embarrassed." After earning a B.A. at Swarthmore, he wrote a letter to Lasn, whom he had never met, saying that he would be arriving in Vancouver in a matter of weeks and wanted to be put to work.

Lasn was born in Estonia, but his earliest memories are of German refugee camps, where his family ended up after fleeing the Russian Army during the Second World War. He remembers falling asleep on a cot as his uncles talked about politics with his father, a tennis champion who buried his trophies in the back yard before rushing the family onto one of the last boats to Germany. "World wars, revolutions—from time to time, big things actually happen," he told me. "When the moment is right, all it takes is a spark."

Lasn's family left the refugee camp for Australia, where he grew up. He has a degree in applied mathematics, and he began his career designing computer war games for the Australian military. Using this expertise, he started a market-research company in Tokyo during Japan's postwar boom, where, by feeding punch cards into an I.B.M. mainframe, he created reports for consumer brands, many of them alcohol and tobacco products. "It's easy to generate cool if you have the bucks, the celebrities, the right ideas, the right slogans," he says. "You can throw ideas into the culture that then have a life of their own." He made a lot of money, travelled around the world, moved to Canada, and devoted himself to experimental filmmaking and environmental protection. In 1989, when the CBC refused to sell him airtime for a thirty-second "mind bomb" aimed at the forestry industry, Lasn realized that his politics would never have a place within the mass media. With Bill Schmalz, an outdoorsman who had worked with him as a cameraman, Lasn founded Adbusters.
Lasn says that Adbusters has a circulation worldwide of roughly seventy thousand. The magazine accepts no advertising, and relies on newsstand sales and donations. Adbusters was an early supporter of Buy Nothing Day, a protest holiday, in late November, during which people abstain from shopping. In 2003, Lasn started producing the Blackspot, a sneaker made partially of hemp, which he still sells online. Lasn has long used the magazine as a platform for stridently criticizing Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, and his most controversial moment came in 2004, when he wrote an essay on how Jews influence U.S. foreign policy. Alongside the essay was a list of powerful neoconservatives, with asterisks next to the names of those who Lasn believed were Jewish.
This spring, the magazine was pushing boycotts of Starbucks (for driving out local businesses) and the Huffington Post (for exploiting citizen journalists). Then, in early June, the art department designed a poster showing a ballerina poised on the "Charging Bull" sculpture, near Wall Street. Lasn had thought of the image late at night while walking his German shepherd, Taka: "the juxtaposition of the capitalist dynamism of the bull," he remembers, "with the Zen stillness of the ballerina." In the background, protesters were emerging from a cloud of tear gas. The violence had a highly aestheticized, dreamlike quality—Adbusters' signature. "What is our one demand?" the poster asked. "Occupy Wall Street. Bring tent."
White and Lasn spent a few days in early July debating when the occupation should start. At first, White argued that it should begin on July 4, 2012, so that protesters would have time to prepare. Lasn believed that the political climate could have shifted entirely by then. He proposed late September of this year; then he settled on the seventeenth, his mother's birthday. White agreed. Lasn instructed the art department to insert "September 17th" beneath the bull and the ballerina, and Adbusters devoted a tactical-briefing e-mail on July 13th exclusively to the proposed occupation.

White watched as the e-mail's proposal raced around Twitter and Reddit. "Normal campaigns are lots of drudgery and not much payoff, like rolling a snowball up a hill," he said. "This was the reverse." Fifteen minutes after Lasn sent the e-mail, Justine Tunney, a twenty-six-year-old in Philadelphia, read it on her RSS feed. The next day, she registered OccupyWallSt.org, which soon became the movement's online headquarters. She began operating the site with a small team, most of whose members were, like her, transgender anarchists. (They jokingly call themselves Trans World Order.)

Encouraged by the quick online response, White connected with New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts, which had previously organized an occupation-style action, called Bloombergville, and was already planning an August 2nd rally at the "Charging Bull" to protest cuts that would likely result from the federal debt crisis. They agreed to join forces, and N.Y.A.B.C. said that it would devote part of its upcoming rally to planning for the September 17th occupation.
This resulted in some confusion on August 2nd, when scores of graduate students and labor activists showed up, expecting a rally for New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts. They erected a small stage and began giving amplified speeches, which alienated the roughly fifty Adbusters supporters, mostly anarchists, who came expecting a planning session. There was some angry shouting before a group of anarchists broke off, sat down in a circle on the cobblestones, and held their own meeting.

The anarchists immediately agreed to use "horizontal" organizing methods, according to which meetings are known as general assemblies and participants make decisions by consensus and give continuous feedback through hand gestures. Moving one's fingers in an undulating motion, palm out, pointing up, means approval of what's being said. Palm in, pointing down, means disapproval. Crossed arms signals a "block," a serious objection that must be heard. Some participants knew this style of meeting from left-wing traditions stretching back to the civil-rights movement and earlier.
Late that night, David Graeber, a fifty-year-old professor at the University of London and an anarchist theorist who helped facilitate the first meeting, sent an e-mail to White, in Berkeley, asking him for guidance. "How did it all start?" Graeber asked. White told him, saying that the goal was "getting the meme out there, getting the people on the streets." He added, "We are not trying to control what happens."
Early on, Lasn and White said that the Wall Street occupiers needed a clear message. The revolutionaries in Cairo, they wrote, presented "a straight-forward ultimatum": they wouldn't leave the square until President Hosni Mubarak left office. Adbusters invited readers to "zero in on what our one demand will be." The suggested ideas included a Presidential commission charged with ending the influence of money in politics, and a one-per-cent "Robin Hood tax" on all financial transactions.
After the August 2nd gathering, the movement's center of gravity shifted from Vancouver to New York. The protesters planning the September occupation met again, on August 9th, at the Irish Hunger Memorial, near Battery Park; all subsequent meetings were held on the south side of Tompkins Square Park. Early on, they decided to call the organization the New York City General Assembly.
In theory, the job of facilitating the meetings rotated among the eighty or so attendees. In practice, facilitation fell to a much smaller set of people who had experience with the general-assembly process. The leaderless movement was developing leaders. Graeber was among this first rank of equals, as was Marisa Holmes, a twenty-five-year-old anarchist and filmmaker. Holmes is dark-haired and eloquent; she has the parliamentarian's trick of making harsh ultimatums sound palatable, even breezy. When she wants to emphasize a point, she doesn't raise her voice; she turns her palms up and shrugs. Earlier this year, she flew to Cairo and filmed the Tahrir demonstrations. "It was the same as here," she says. "They had speakers, banners, direct actions. I spent ninety per cent of my time in cafés, drinking Turkish coffee and talking."

At 11 A.M. on Saturday, September 17th, an elementary-school teacher I'll call P. left his Brooklyn apartment and got on a subway heading to Manhattan. (He requested that he be identified by the first letter of his last name, because he was concerned that he would be fired from his job.) He wore a red sweater and brown pants. Earlier that morning, he had sent a vague e-mail informing a co-worker that he might not show up Monday morning. He was part of the Tactical Committee, a subgroup of the General Assembly whose responsibility was to figure out where, exactly, the occupation would take place.
P. took the subway to Bowling Green. On his way to the exit, he passed a line of police officers accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs. Outside, police had surrounded the "Charging Bull" with barricades and, a few blocks north, sealed off a stretch of Wall Street around the Stock Exchange. P. tried to look nonchalant as he carried a black messenger bag that contained a first-aid kit, a bottled solution of liquid antacid and water (to remedy the effects of tear gas and pepper spray), fifteen Clif bars (carrot cake), and several hundred photocopied maps, showing seven possible locations. "We decided that low-tech communication methods would be best," P. told me. "If we'd used a mass text message, or Twitter, it would have been easy for the police to track down who was doing this."
P. majored in math at a small liberal-arts college and plays in two bands, "some punk, some noise." Like most of Occupy Wall Street's core organizers, P. is an anarchist, meaning that he is "dedicated to the eradication of any unjust or illegitimate system. At the very least, that means the eradication of capitalism and the state." He does not smash bank windows, though he said that he does not necessarily disapprove of people who do.
At Bowling Green, several hundred protesters had gathered near the Museum of the American Indian. The previous week, members of the General Assembly had stocked up on food, made bail arrangements, and circulated flyers. Still, most of them had doubts that much would come of the occupation. "I, along with many others, expected that it would fizzle out in a couple of days," Marisa Holmes says.
P. quickly found the two other members of the Tactical Committee, both white men in their twenties. All three were "extremely nervous," P. says. They left to scout Location Two, three-quarters of an acre of honey-locust trees and granite benches, a few blocks to the north, called Zuccotti Park. It was almost empty, and there were few police nearby. As the Tactical Committee had learned in its research, Location Two was a privately owned public space. While the city can close public parks at dusk, or impose other curfews, zoning laws require Zuccotti's owner to keep the park open for "passive recreation" twenty-four hours a day.
Soon, maps were distributed and people began to murmur, "Go to Location Two in thirty minutes." The first arrivals took seats beneath the trees on the eastern side, arranged themselves in small groups, and ate peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. By that afternoon, nearly a thousand people had gathered for a general-assembly meeting. Late that night, P. went home; nearly three hundred of his comrades settled in to

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