Monday, March 19, 2012

Re: The Time for Soul-Searching Has Arrived

http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/ancient-history-us-conduct-middle-east-world-war-ii-folly-intervention

On Mar 18, 11:28 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Keith,
>
> What, if anything makes you believe that the US has a long term
> plan ?? I have seen NO evidence of one.
>
> On Mar 18, 8:17 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Good Morning Michael,
>
> > That's a bit of an extreme assessment don't ya think?
>
> > And Jacob? Geesh!  Talk about revisionist history......
>
> > Do you think the United States big big really big long term plan,  (as
> > Hornberger
> > alludes)  was to have, " *a wasteland of death, destruction, depression,
> > and impoverishment. And it is headed by a dictatorial regime that is doing
> > all the things that the Saddam Hussein regime was doing -- killing people
> > who resist the dictatorship, incarcerating people without trial, torturing
> > them, and executing them. Worst of all, from the standpoint of the
> > interventionists, the regime is more pro-Iran than it is pro-U.S."*
>
> > I think not.
>
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:48 AM, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> > >  *"The reality is that Iraq is not a paradise. It is an absolute
> > > disaster. It is a wasteland of death, destruction, depression, and
> > > impoverishment. And it is headed by a dictatorial regime that is doing all
> > > the things that the Saddam Hussein regime was doing -- killing people who
> > > resist the dictatorship, incarcerating people without trial, torturing
> > > them, and executing them. Worst of all, from the standpoint of the
> > > interventionists, the regime is more pro-Iran than it is pro-U.S.
> > > "It's no different in Afghanistan. That country is another wasteland of
> > > death, destruction, impoverishment, and depression. The Karzai regime is
> > > nothing but a crooked, corrupt, brutal pro-U.S. dictatorship."
>
> > > *Tuesday, March 13, 2012
> > > *The Time for Soul-Searching Has Arrived
> > > *by Jacob G. Hornberger
>
> > > How ironic. Countless American Christians supported the U.S. government's
> > > war of aggression on Iraq, and now consider this headline from last
> > > Sunday's *New York Times: *"Exodus from North Signals Iraqi Christians'
> > > Slow Decline."
>
> > > And now we learn that an American soldier went on a killing rampage in
> > > Afghanistan, walking into people's homes in a brutal shoot-up that ended up
> > > killing 16 people, including women and children.
>
> > > How come so many Americans still can't recognize that the U.S. invasions
> > > and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have been disasters? Why must they
> > > feel compelled to support some type of mythical, delusionary picture that
> > > has nothing to do with reality?
>
> > > Look at Iraq. At first U.S. officials convinced Americans to support an
> > > invasion of the country under a principle of preventive self-defense.
> > > Recall that U.S. officials said the same thing about Iraq that they're now
> > > saying about Iran. Saddam Hussein is on the verge of producing a nuclear
> > > weapon. He intends to attack the United States. We have to attack now. The
> > > smoking gun might be a mushroom cloud rising over American cities.
>
> > > All too many Americans simply deferred to authority, as they had been
> > > taught to do in the government-approved schools they were forced to attend.
> > > U.S. officials have access to information that we don't have, they said.
> > > They would never lie to us. They don't want to go to war against Iraq.
> > > They're just protecting national security.
>
> > > How many Americans even considered the possibility that this was all a
> > > charade, one designed to oust Saddam Hussein from power and replace him
> > > with a pro-U.S. dictator? It wasn't that difficult to see. Don't forget
> > > that that's what those 11 years of brutal sanctions were all about -- the
> > > sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. The invasion
> > > of Iraq was intended to achieve what the sanctions had not achieved. It
> > > wasn't difficult to frighten Americans into falling for anything after
> > > 9/11.
>
> > > Indeed, what happened after it was determined that there were no WMDs in
> > > Iraq? Did Americans feel bad about having supported a war in which
> > > countless people had been killed and maimed, given that the U.S. government
> > > was wrong in its WMD assessment? Did soldiers have crises of conscience for
> > > having killed and maimed innocent people -- that is, people whose
> > > government never intended to attack the United States with WMDs -- people
> > > who were entirely innocent of the 9/11 attacks. Wouldn't that have been the
> > > time for a massive congressional investigation into whether U.S. officials
> > > had intentionally deceived the American people regarding those WMDs?
>
> > > Nope. Instead, people simply deferred to authority when U.S. officials
> > > shifted to the alternative justification for invading Iraq -- that U.S.
> > > officials actually loved the Iraqi people so much that they wanted to bring
> > > them freedom and democracy through a deadly military invasion and
> > > occupation. And to prove their love of the Iraqi people, U.S. officials
> > > made it clear that they were willing to kill and maim as many Iraqis as
> > > necessary to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq.
>
> > > What a crock. If they loved the Iraqi people so much, how come there was
> > > never an upward limit on the number of Iraqis they were willing to kill and
> > > maim to achieve regime change? How come they treated Iraqis in Abu Ghraib
> > > prison the way that Saddam Hussein treated them? Is that the way you treat
> > > people whom you love?
>
> > > And look at the result in Iraq. U.S. officials, along with their loyal
> > > interventionist supporters, continue to tell the American people that Iraq
> > > is now a paradise of freedom, democracy, and prosperity.
>
> > > Oh? If Iraq is now such a paradise, then why is there an exodus of
> > > Christians from Iraq?
>
> > > The reality is that Iraq is not a paradise. It is an absolute disaster. It
> > > is a wasteland of death, destruction, depression, and impoverishment. And
> > > it is headed by a dictatorial regime that is doing all the things that the
> > > Saddam Hussein regime was doing -- killing people who resist the
> > > dictatorship, incarcerating people without trial, torturing them, and
> > > executing them. Worst of all, from the standpoint of the interventionists,
> > > the regime is more pro-Iran than it is pro-U.S.
>
> > > It's no different in Afghanistan. That country is another wasteland of
> > > death, destruction, impoverishment, and depression. The Karzai regime is
> > > nothing but a crooked, corrupt, brutal pro-U.S. dictatorship.
>
> > > Sure, it's horrible that that U.S. soldier killed those 16 people, but
> > > that's what U.S. forces have been doing ever since they invaded the
> > > country. Just think about all the wedding parties they've bombed and
> > > killed. Think about that Wikileaks video showing that helicopter gunship
> > > firing at people who were doing nothing more than rescuing people who had
> > > been injured from a U.S. attack. Think of all the people who have been
> > > killed, maimed, tortured, and incarcerated -- that is, people who had
> > > nothing to do with 9/11 and whose worst crime wastrying to rid their nation
> > > of an unlawful invader and occupier. Think about all the people who have
> > > been languishing in Bagram prison for years without trial.
>
> > > Oh, but we're not supposed to think about such things. We're supposed to
> > > blindly accept the government's pronouncements. We're supposed to support
> > > the troops. We're supposed to turn a blind eye to the reality of U.S.
> > > foreign policy. We're supposed to suppress our consciences and simply look
> > > down, remaining silent or, better yet, supportive of whatever the
> > > government is doing.
>
> > > Speaking of the law, where are the congressional declarations of war
> > > against Iraq and Afghanistan that the U.S. Constitution requires?
> > > Interventionists can rail against that requirement all they want, but the
> > > law is the law. If they don't like the law, they have a remedy -- get it
> > > changed through constitutional amendment. As long as it's the law, it is
> > > supposed to be followed. If it's now, that makes the U.S. government the
> > > law-breaker.
>
> > > The law wasn't followed, not in Iraq and not in Afghanistan. That makes
> > > both wars illegal under our form of government. The U.S. government is a
> > > lawbreaker in both instances. The invasions and occupations of Iraq and
> > > Afghanistan, which have killed and maimed so many people and destroyed both
> > > countries, have both been conducted in violation of the highest law of our
> > > land, the Constitution, the law that we the people have imposed on our
> > > public officials.
>
> > > And look at what these illegal wars, together with U.S. foreign policy
> > > before 9/11, have done to freedom in our country. We now live under the
> > > iron umbrella of a massive national security state, one that resembles that
> > > of the Soviet Union. The U.S. government now wields the authority to
> > > monitor and spy on Americans, in the name of national security and the war
> > > on terrorism. That's what the KGB and, for that matter, the Gestapo did
> > > too.
>
> > > The government also now wields the authority to round up Americans,
> > > incarcerate them for life without trial, torture them, and even execute
> > > them. The Gestapo and the KGB had the same authority.
>
> > > Indeed, the government now wields the omnipotent power to assassinate
> > > Americans and everyone else in the world. Did the KGB and Gestapo have that
> > > authority? I would assume so but I'm not sure.
>
> > > Meanwhile, Americans continue singing about how free they are. They
> > > continue praising the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for "defending our
> > > freedoms." No people in history better exemplify the words of Johann Goethe
> > > than the American people of our time: None are more
>
> ...
>
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America's religious future

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Re: MUSLIM GIRLS GONE WILD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=387Q6XRyQCk

On Mar 19, 10:25 am, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> learning the American way at the end of a gun
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY8y3Xr3k4o&feature=related
>
> On Mar 18, 6:35 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > **
> >            New post on *Bare Naked Islam*
> > <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>  MUSLIM GIRLS GONE
> > WILD!<http://barenakedislam.com/2012/03/18/muslim-girls-gone-wild/>by
> > barenakedislam <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>
> > This is what happens when you force young girls to dress in black shrouds
> > and forbid them from even talking to boys their own age.
>
> >http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.16242623
> >  *barenakedislam <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>* | March 18, 2012
> > at 6:00 pm | Categories: Just the
> > Facts<http://www.endtimestoday.com/?cat=44200>| URL:http://wp.me/p276zM-Gbt
>
> >   Comment<http://barenakedislam.com/2012/03/18/muslim-girls-gone-wild/#respond>
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Re: MUSLIM GIRLS GONE WILD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=387Q6XRyQCk

On Mar 19, 10:25 am, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> learning the American way at the end of a gun
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY8y3Xr3k4o&feature=related
>
> On Mar 18, 6:35 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > **
> >            New post on *Bare Naked Islam*
> > <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>  MUSLIM GIRLS GONE
> > WILD!<http://barenakedislam.com/2012/03/18/muslim-girls-gone-wild/>by
> > barenakedislam <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>
> > This is what happens when you force young girls to dress in black shrouds
> > and forbid them from even talking to boys their own age.
>
> >http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.16242623
> >  *barenakedislam <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>* | March 18, 2012
> > at 6:00 pm | Categories: Just the
> > Facts<http://www.endtimestoday.com/?cat=44200>| URL:http://wp.me/p276zM-Gbt
>
> >   Comment<http://barenakedislam.com/2012/03/18/muslim-girls-gone-wild/#respond>
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Re: Will Comcast Make This The Last St. Patrick's Day Parade To Exclude Gays?

an embarrassment
in a state where we now have marriage rights
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Irish and African-American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
queer (LGBTQ) communities have a lot in common when it comes to being
excluded from the iconic institutions in their communities.

For LGBTQ African Americans, it's the Black Church, and for LGBTQ
Irish Americans, it's the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Unlike the Black Church, however, that has and continues to throw the
Bible at its LGBTQ community to justify their exclusionary practices,
the St. Patrick's Day parade committee uses the First Amendment,
debating that they are constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of
religion, speech and association, and the tenet separating church and
state.

In 1994 Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade was canceled over this
issue. The state's highest court ruled that the parade organizers
could not ban members of the LGBTQ community from marching. But in a
counter lawsuit, parade officials won, accusing LGBTQ Irish-Americans
of violating their rights to free speech under the First Amendment.

On Mar 19, 10:37 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Will Comcast Make This The Last St. Patrick's Day Parade To Exclude Gays?
>
> -by Michelangelo Signorile
>
> It's 2012, and in the state of New York gays and lesbians have full
> civil rights, including marriage equality. Moreover, gays are no
> longer banned in the U.S. military. But they are still banned from
> Fifth Avenue's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in an embarrassing
> throwback for everyone involved.
>
> It's frankly appalling that NBC, and now its parent company Comcast,
> still sells the broadcast rights (on its local affiliate, WNBC) to the
> intolerant bunch that runs the parade (in 2007 that amount was
> $300,000) and then helps the organizers sell advertising to major
> companies. More than that, one of NBC's top executives, a man who aids
> the organizers in getting those ad dollars, was chosen as this year's
> Grand Marshal.
>
> As David Mixner notes, most New York politicians who support equality
> won't march in the parade because of this bigotry. Last year, the
> Irish Foreign Minister condemned the parade, and the President of
> Ireland declined an invitation to be Grand Marshal. But Francis X.
> Comerford, Chief Revenue Officer and President of Commercial
> Operations for the NBC Owned Television Stations, has no problem
> leading the parade as Grand Marshal.
>
> Groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
> have criticized NBC for its relationship with the parade since the
> early '90s. Other groups have protested the parade annually, sometimes
> resulting in arrests, and this year the group Irish Queers will be
> demonstrating once again. For years it's all been to no avail.
>
> But with Comcast now in charge after the controversial merger with NBC
> was finalized, 2012 could be the last year in which gays are excluded
> -- or the last year in which NBC is involved in the parade.
>
> There are a few reasons for this. One of them has to do with the terms
> of the merger itself, in which Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of
> Comcast, testified before the House Judiciary Committee, where he
> vowed to adhere to diversity in every aspect of the company's business
> dealings. From the company's own blog:
>
> Diversity: A few members of the Committee raised questions about
> diversity at Comcast (and NBCU). Brian reiterated the company's
> commitment to promoting diversity in everything the company does. To
> me, as Comcast's Chief Diversity Officer, this means, among other
> things, diversity in our workforce, in our programming lineup, in our
> supplier base, and in our community investments (philanthropy) -- and
> having results we can be proud of.
> Furthermore, the actual approval letter from the FCC states that
> Comcast must adhere to diversity rules for seven years or the merger
> could be undone:
>
> Protecting Diversity, Localism, Broadcast and Other Public Interest
> Concerns. The Commission is also imposing conditions and accepting
> voluntary commitments concerning a numbers of other public interest
> issues, including diversity, localism, and broadcasting, among others.
> Sure, it's debatable whether selling the broadcast rights to a parade
> that admittedly excludes a minority group violates the FCC's diversity
> rules. But it's certainly something that LGBT activists would argue,
> bringing a lot of attention to the issue. Comcast may not want that
> fight now.
>
> And that brings me to the other reasons. Comcast prides itself on its
> outreach to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
> community. Just take a look at this page, where the company touts its
> 95-percent score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality
> Index and brags of programming that reaches out to LGBT people.
> Comcast also sponsors the annual GLAAD Media Awards and, as the
> company describes, "partners with various LGBT community centers
> across the country that provide a range of services for the LGBT
> community."
>
> It's a different time than when the Ancient Order of the Hibernians
> began excluding gays from the St. Patrick's Day Parade in the early
> '90s. Netroots activism gets things done very quickly today. HRC, in
> part responding to pressure from other activists, lowered Target's and
> Best Buy's CEI score after the retail chains gave money to a political
> action committee that backed an anti-gay candidate. GLAAD withdrew its
> support of the failed AT&T/T-Mobile merger after grassroots activists
> mobilized on the Web and raised concerns.
>
> Already, GLAAD is calling for the parade to be dropped moving forward
> if gays are not included. "The idea that a group of LGBT people aren't
> allowed to participate in a parade in the middle of New York City in
> the year 2012 is completely out of touch with a majority of Americans
> and it is frankly indefensible," GLAAD spokesperson Herndon Graddick
> said in a statement. "GLAAD will be requesting to meet with WNBC to
> ensure that, if such discriminatory practices remain in place, the
> event isn't one associated with such an important and inclusive media
> outlet that should represent the full diversity of New York City."
>
> When LGBT activists have organized online and focused on companies
> that have supported homophobia -- companies that pride themselves on
> being pro-gay -- they've been enormously successful. Microsoft
> reversed course pronto in 2005 after it went neutral on a gay rights
> bill in the state of Washington, and that's just one example.
>
> The truth is, most LGBT activists weren't focused on the St. Patrick's
> Day Parade all these years, with bigger fish to fry. But many are now
> looking at this as unfinished business -- as I said, an embarrassment
> in a state where we now have marriage rights -- and they are also
> seeing Comcast as a company that is vulnerable. If Comcast doesn't
> want a battle on its hands, a battle it will ultimately lose, after
> much PR erosion, it will make sure that March 18, 2012 is the
> beginning of the end of the ban on gays in the St. Patrick's Day
> Parade.
>
> More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/will-comcast-mak...
>
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> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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Re: The Most Hated Family In America: Phelps

Theroux stated
that the Phelpses are the most extreme people he has ever met.
----
a hardcore religious nationalist fringe of Jewish Israelis who have
chosen to make their home up and down the West Bank and in East
Jerusalem. They say that those areas belong by right to the Jewish
people - a title claim based mainly on the bible.

what makes the extreme settlers more troubling is that they also enjoy
a degree of support from the Israeli state. Surprising as it may seem,
many illegal outposts like Yair's are protected by the Israeli army

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12347050

On Mar 19, 9:11 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From Jim
>
> The Most Hated Family in America
>
> The  Most Hated Family in America is a TV documentary written and presented
> by  the BBC's Louis Theroux about the family at the heart of the Westboro
> Baptist  Church. At the heart of the documentary is the Westboro Baptist
> Church (WBC),  headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the
> website  GodHatesFags.com, and GodHatesAmerica.com, and other websites
> expressing  condemnation of LGBT, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews,
> Sweden, Ireland,
> Canada,  The Netherlands, and other groups.
> The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League,  and
> classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has
> achieved national notice because of its picketing of funeral
> processions of U.S.
> soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
> The church bases its work around the belief expressed by its  best known
> slogan and the address of its primary website, "God hates fags", and
> expresses the opinion, based on its Biblical interpretation, that nearly every
> tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality – specifically
> society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual
> people. It maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of  "
> sinners" and that homosexuality should be a capital crime. Louis Theroux stated
>  that the Phelpses are the most extreme people he has ever met.
>
> _Watch the full documentary  now_
> (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-most-hated-family-in-america/)
>
> http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-most-hated-family-in-america/
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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Will Comcast Make This The Last St. Patrick's Day Parade To Exclude Gays?

Will Comcast Make This The Last St. Patrick's Day Parade To Exclude Gays?

-by Michelangelo Signorile

It's 2012, and in the state of New York gays and lesbians have full
civil rights, including marriage equality. Moreover, gays are no
longer banned in the U.S. military. But they are still banned from
Fifth Avenue's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in an embarrassing
throwback for everyone involved.

It's frankly appalling that NBC, and now its parent company Comcast,
still sells the broadcast rights (on its local affiliate, WNBC) to the
intolerant bunch that runs the parade (in 2007 that amount was
$300,000) and then helps the organizers sell advertising to major
companies. More than that, one of NBC's top executives, a man who aids
the organizers in getting those ad dollars, was chosen as this year's
Grand Marshal.

As David Mixner notes, most New York politicians who support equality
won't march in the parade because of this bigotry. Last year, the
Irish Foreign Minister condemned the parade, and the President of
Ireland declined an invitation to be Grand Marshal. But Francis X.
Comerford, Chief Revenue Officer and President of Commercial
Operations for the NBC Owned Television Stations, has no problem
leading the parade as Grand Marshal.

Groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
have criticized NBC for its relationship with the parade since the
early '90s. Other groups have protested the parade annually, sometimes
resulting in arrests, and this year the group Irish Queers will be
demonstrating once again. For years it's all been to no avail.

But with Comcast now in charge after the controversial merger with NBC
was finalized, 2012 could be the last year in which gays are excluded
-- or the last year in which NBC is involved in the parade.

There are a few reasons for this. One of them has to do with the terms
of the merger itself, in which Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of
Comcast, testified before the House Judiciary Committee, where he
vowed to adhere to diversity in every aspect of the company's business
dealings. From the company's own blog:

Diversity: A few members of the Committee raised questions about
diversity at Comcast (and NBCU). Brian reiterated the company's
commitment to promoting diversity in everything the company does. To
me, as Comcast's Chief Diversity Officer, this means, among other
things, diversity in our workforce, in our programming lineup, in our
supplier base, and in our community investments (philanthropy) -- and
having results we can be proud of.
Furthermore, the actual approval letter from the FCC states that
Comcast must adhere to diversity rules for seven years or the merger
could be undone:

Protecting Diversity, Localism, Broadcast and Other Public Interest
Concerns. The Commission is also imposing conditions and accepting
voluntary commitments concerning a numbers of other public interest
issues, including diversity, localism, and broadcasting, among others.
Sure, it's debatable whether selling the broadcast rights to a parade
that admittedly excludes a minority group violates the FCC's diversity
rules. But it's certainly something that LGBT activists would argue,
bringing a lot of attention to the issue. Comcast may not want that
fight now.

And that brings me to the other reasons. Comcast prides itself on its
outreach to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
community. Just take a look at this page, where the company touts its
95-percent score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality
Index and brags of programming that reaches out to LGBT people.
Comcast also sponsors the annual GLAAD Media Awards and, as the
company describes, "partners with various LGBT community centers
across the country that provide a range of services for the LGBT
community."

It's a different time than when the Ancient Order of the Hibernians
began excluding gays from the St. Patrick's Day Parade in the early
'90s. Netroots activism gets things done very quickly today. HRC, in
part responding to pressure from other activists, lowered Target's and
Best Buy's CEI score after the retail chains gave money to a political
action committee that backed an anti-gay candidate. GLAAD withdrew its
support of the failed AT&T/T-Mobile merger after grassroots activists
mobilized on the Web and raised concerns.

Already, GLAAD is calling for the parade to be dropped moving forward
if gays are not included. "The idea that a group of LGBT people aren't
allowed to participate in a parade in the middle of New York City in
the year 2012 is completely out of touch with a majority of Americans
and it is frankly indefensible," GLAAD spokesperson Herndon Graddick
said in a statement. "GLAAD will be requesting to meet with WNBC to
ensure that, if such discriminatory practices remain in place, the
event isn't one associated with such an important and inclusive media
outlet that should represent the full diversity of New York City."

When LGBT activists have organized online and focused on companies
that have supported homophobia -- companies that pride themselves on
being pro-gay -- they've been enormously successful. Microsoft
reversed course pronto in 2005 after it went neutral on a gay rights
bill in the state of Washington, and that's just one example.

The truth is, most LGBT activists weren't focused on the St. Patrick's
Day Parade all these years, with bigger fish to fry. But many are now
looking at this as unfinished business -- as I said, an embarrassment
in a state where we now have marriage rights -- and they are also
seeing Comcast as a company that is vulnerable. If Comcast doesn't
want a battle on its hands, a battle it will ultimately lose, after
much PR erosion, it will make sure that March 18, 2012 is the
beginning of the end of the ban on gays in the St. Patrick's Day
Parade.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/will-comcast-make-this-th_b_1353100.html?ref=gay-voices

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Re: New York City gays not marching in Discriminatory St. Patrick's Day parade

The Ancient Order of the Hibernians, the sponsor of the New York City
event, have barred Irish LGBT organizations from participating for
approximately 20 years. As reported by Huffington Post, the group
maintained in a court case the parade is a 'private religious
procession.'
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more religious learning about acceptance and non-judgment

On Mar 19, 10:07 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> New York City gays not marching in St. Patrick's Day parade
> Largest St. Patrick's Day parade still discriminates against gays and lesbians
> 17 March 2012 | By James Withers
>  Gays and lesbians might be able to marry in the Empire State, but
> they still can't march in the St. Patrick's Day parade.
>
> The Ancient Order of the Hibernians, the sponsor of the New York City
> event, have barred Irish LGBT organizations from participating for
> approximately 20 years. As reported by Huffington Post, the group
> maintained in a court case the parade is a  'private religious
> procession.'
>
> Irish Queers, an advocacy association, will continue its yearly
> protest of the Fifth Avenue celebration. This year, the organization
> plans to focus on the participation of the city's law enforcement.
>
> 'How much does the NYPD [New York City Police Department] support
> religious anti-gay bigots,' the group asked on its website. 'The NYPD
> actively fought to keep Irish queers out of the parade, fought queers'
> right to protest the parade, and now sends thousands of officers to
> march in NYPD contingents. Most recently, when a dozen queer rights
> and immigrant/cultural groups joined forces to tell NYPD Commissioner
> Kelly that police endorsement exacerbates anti-queer violence, and to
> demand that the NYPD pull out of the parade, Commissioner Kelly didn't
> even bother to respond.'
>
> City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an out lesbian and rumored to be
> planning a run for mayor, is boycotting this year's festivities.
> Instead she will attend Mass with her father.
>
> 'It saddens me that I cannot march as an openly gay woman of Irish
> descent alongside my father,'  Quinn said, as reported by the Daily
> News. 'I hope to one day march in this parade with lesbian, gay,
> bisexual and transgender people in a way that allows us to freely
> celebrate our heritage and identity.'
>
> The Ancient Order of the Hibernians points out gays and lesbians can
> march; however, overt displays of sexuality are not allowed.
>
> Richard Conway, writing for The Guardian, questioned this reasoning.
> He also noted in 2010 Ireland's former president, Mary McAleese,
> declined to be New York's parade marshal because of its anti-gay
> policy.
>
> 'To me, this attitude is outmoded, misrepresents modern Ireland, and
> as a Dubliner, is not something I recognize,' Conway wrote.
>
> More:http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/new-york-city-gays-not-marching-st...
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Tyler Clementi and the Dharun Ravi Trial: Why the Verdict Is Just

Tyler Clementi and the Dharun Ravi Trial: Why the Verdict Is Just

-by Michelangelo Signorile

I'm with those who lament the sad reality of young lives ruined in the
aftermath of Tyler Clementi's suicide and the conviction of his
roommate, Dharun Ravi, who spied on Clementi with a webcam. And I
don't want to see Ravi deported, nor getting a ten-year prison term,
the maximum sentence for his crimes.

But the bottom line is that Ravi was offered a plea deal in which he
would have avoided jail time as well as deportation. Instead, he and
his legal team put faith in what they thought was a homophobic
judicial system, one that would slough off hate crimes against gays --
as it had so many times in the past -- and once again validate the
"gay panic" defense, which in this case was dressed up as the "teen
prank" defense.

But it didn't work. The jury did exactly as it was instructed to do,
looking at the law and the 15 counts and returning with a guilty
verdict on all of them. Ravi did spy on Clementi, thereby violating
the invasion of privacy law. He did tamper with the evidence later,
deleting text messages and tweets, knowing what he'd done. And all of
the evidence shows that he did attempt to intimidate Clementi on the
basis of his sexual orientation -- and he succeeded -- which was the
basis of the hate crimes counts.

No jury that thought long and hard about the case could have returned
with any other verdict. It is not the jury's job to think about
sentencing or punishment. It is its job to follow the law.

We've seen too many cases in the past where juries didn't do that,
where they accepted the "gay panic" defense, as well as its cousin,
the "trans panic" defense -- in which defendants get sympathy for
harboring feelings that many in society, presumably including jurors,
also harbor, even if all believe those feelings are wrong.

In the days since the verdict, we've seen claims that it went to0 far
and articles focusing on the debate on hate crimes laws. But I'd like
to ask those who say it was just a "prank" to replace Ravi's
statements and implications about gays with those of other groups.
What if Ravi had told others that he suspected his roommate was a Jew,
and made it clear that he didn't like the idea of having a Jewish
roommate? What if he then spied on his Jewish roommate in an attempt
to embarrass him based on some characteristic or activity connected to
his being Jewish, and then invited others to mock the Jew online?

Ravi was attempting to play into the "ick" factor, sending tweets of
his roommate "making out with a dude." His attorney tried to make this
into an understandable reaction on the part of an 18-year-old today,
claiming "he didn't know how to deal with it because he was a kid."

In other words, kids are expected to be homophobic and freaked out by
affection between two men. The jury, in this day of gay-straight
alliances in high school and over a couple of decades of gay and
lesbian characters all over television, including MTV, didn't buy it.

That's not to say that Ravi should have the book thrown at him. On my
radio program on Friday we were inundated with calls from people
unhappy with me for not believing Ravi should be deported nor get the
maximum ten years. But this is not about vengeance. Though Ravi broke
several laws, he did not cause Clementi's death. Many others who would
be spied on and intimidated would not commit suicide as a result.
Ravi's crimes should be treated independently of Clementi's death.

Ravi came to the U.S. from India as a child, not of his own choosing.
It would be cruel to deport him as a punishment. Nor should he serve
ten years in prison. Those issues are up to the judge in this case as
well as immigration officials and, ultimately, an immigration judge,
and hopefully they will be fair.

But the jury did its job. The system worked. Hate crimes laws are
meant to send a message about bias-motivated crimes -- which are
directed at an entire group, not just at an individual -- to would-be
criminals. But this case perhaps means that these laws should also
send a message to those already charged -- those who know they are
guilty and and are facing a trial: Take the plea and don't put your
faith in the system being homophobic, because that can't be counted on
any longer. Sad as all the facts are in this case, that is progress.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/tyler-clementi-dharun-ravi_b_1362562.html

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Re: MUSLIM GIRLS GONE WILD!

learning the American way at the end of a gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY8y3Xr3k4o&feature=related

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>
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Re: Scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park

some people never learn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwbfK9PFWHM&feature=fvwrel

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RdTtGLIs6o&feature=related

On Mar 18, 9:08 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Scores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park
> By COLIN MOYNIHAN
>
> 1:09 a.m. | Updated Scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters were
> arrested on Saturday night as police officers swept Zuccotti Park in
> Lower Manhattan and closed it.
>
> Dozens of demonstrators sat down and locked arms as officers moved in
> about 11:30 p.m. The protesters chanted "we are not afraid" as the
> police began pulling people from the crowd, one by one, and leading
> them out of the park in handcuffs.
>
> The operation occurred after hundreds of people had gathered in the
> financial district to observe the founding of Occupy Wall Street six
> months ago. Earlier, protesters had embarked upon a winding march,
> after which police officers made initial arrests of about a dozen
> people near the park.
>
> By 11:30 p.m., as police officers massed on Broadway, a commander
> announced that the park was closed. Those inside shouted back that the
> park was obliged through an agreement with the city to remain open.
> The commander then announced that anyone who remained inside would be
> arrested and charged with trespassing.
>
> After clearing the park, police officers and private security guards
> began placing a ring of metal barricades on the park's perimeter, as
> those who had been arrested were placed inside a city bus.
>
> At one point, a woman who appeared to be suffering from seizures
> flopped on the ground in handcuffs as bystanders shouted for the
> police to remove the cuffs and provide medical attention. For several
> minutes the woman lay on the ground as onlookers made increasingly
> agonized demands until an ambulance arrived and the woman was placed
> inside.
>
> By 12:20 a.m., a line of officers pushed against some of the remaining
> protesters, forcing them south on Broadway, at times swinging batons
> and shoving people to the ground.
>
> Kobi Skolnick, 30, said that officers pushed him in several directions
> and that as he tried to walk away, he was struck from behind in the
> neck. "One of the police ran and hit me with a baton," he said.
>
> Earlier that afternoon, as protesters gathered under blue skies while
> carrying banners and signs, the day was in some ways reminiscent of
> the first time the Occupy protesters gathered in mid-September. Just
> after 1 p.m., brandishing placards with messages like "Take back
> government from corporations," the crowd left Zuccotti Park headed
> south on Broadway, chanting the now familiar slogan "We are the 99
> percent."
>
> When the first protesters set foot in the financial district six
> months ago, few people imagined what would follow, including a
> two-month encampment in Lower Manhattan, similar camps in cities
> across the country and critiques of corporate greed becoming part of
> the national dialogue.
>
> The movement was mainly quiet during the winter, but organizers said
> they were aiming for a springtime resurgence.
>
> "It's just a reminder that we're here," Brendan Burke said, as the
> crowd marched past the New York Stock Exchange. "It's an opportunity
> to remind Wall Street that we aren't going anywhere."
>
> In several respects, Saturday's march was similar to the inaugural
> one. The crowd was small but spirited and marched past the bronze
> sculpture of a bull at Bowling Green, which had served as a mustering
> spot for the first march. Marchers were accompanied by police officers
> on foot and on scooters who at one point blocked access to Wall
> Street, just as they did on Sept. 17.
>
> And, as they did that day, the marchers made sudden turns that
> appeared to surprise the police and walked along Wall Street for at
> least a brief time.
>
> At one point, several demonstrators stood on the steep steps of
> Federal Hall and chanted "1-2-3-4, I declare class war."
>
> Later, members of the group ignored orders from the police to remain
> on sidewalks and flowed onto parts of Exchange Place and Beaver
> Street. Later, on Broad Street, a deputy inspector turned to a
> sergeant and said, "We got to start collaring some."
>
> For the next 30 minutes or so, things remained calm as marchers stuck
> to the sidewalks and entered Zuccotti Park.
>
> But then, just after 2 p.m., police officers began telling a large
> group of protesters that they could not stand on the sidewalk on a
> stretch of Liberty Street. Officers pushed the crowd until more than
> 100 protesters on the sidewalk were pressed against a wall that
> borders the park.
>
> Then the police began grabbing and arresting people, taking into
> custody at least half a dozen. Officers surged into the crowd,
> dragging protesters toward the street, as people yelled objections.
>
> "They were grabbing people randomly," Zachary Kamel said, adding that
> his girlfriend, Lauren DiGoia, had been arrested while dancing on the
> sidewalk.
>
> One sergeant grabbed a woman wearing a green shirt by the bottom of
> her throat and shoved her head against the hood of a car. A moment
> later, another officer approached and forcefully pressed her head
> against the car before placing her into the back of a police truck.
>
> Over the next few hours, protesters conducted meetings inside Zuccotti
> Park and held a dance party fueled by a saxophone and a battery of
> drums. Sporadic moments of tension also arose.
>
> At one point, the police arrested a handful of protesters on Cedar
> Street near Trinity Place. A few moments later, near Cedar Street and
> Broadway, a police captain pushed a man by the shoulders for almost a
> block, then released him when a crowd loudly demanded to know whether
> the man was under arrest.
>
> The man, Charlie Gonzalez, 31, said that the captain had told him he
> was not permitted to stand on the sidewalk.
>
> About an hour later, the same captain pushed another man several
> hundred feet east down Cedar Street, about a block from Zuccotti Park,
> and briefly detained him.
>
> That man, Yoni Miller, 19, said he was counting officers standing in
> rows near Broadway when the captain forced him to walk around a corner
> onto Cedar Street, then asked him if he was a terrorist or was
> planning any crimes.
>
> Paul Moore, 25, said that he was videotaping the encounter when the
> captain asked him for identification and began pushing him away,
> telling him he was not permitted to document what was happening.
>
> After nightfall, the number of people inside the park swelled to more than 500.
>
> About 10 p.m., some of those in the park began a regimen of running
> and dancing that they called "spring training," which they said was
> meant to prepare for coming demonstrations.
>
> At 10:30, protesters sprung up a green tarp, folded over a piece of
> rope suspended from two trees near the center of Zuccotti Park.
> Security and police officers looked on from the perimeter.
>
> More:http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=cdOHbQcFwieSwGnV/swc3pcO+JEZkG...
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New York City gays not marching in Discriminatory St. Patrick's Day parade

New York City gays not marching in St. Patrick's Day parade
Largest St. Patrick's Day parade still discriminates against gays and lesbians
17 March 2012 | By James Withers
Gays and lesbians might be able to marry in the Empire State, but
they still can't march in the St. Patrick's Day parade.

The Ancient Order of the Hibernians, the sponsor of the New York City
event, have barred Irish LGBT organizations from participating for
approximately 20 years. As reported by Huffington Post, the group
maintained in a court case the parade is a 'private religious
procession.'

Irish Queers, an advocacy association, will continue its yearly
protest of the Fifth Avenue celebration. This year, the organization
plans to focus on the participation of the city's law enforcement.

'How much does the NYPD [New York City Police Department] support
religious anti-gay bigots,' the group asked on its website. 'The NYPD
actively fought to keep Irish queers out of the parade, fought queers'
right to protest the parade, and now sends thousands of officers to
march in NYPD contingents. Most recently, when a dozen queer rights
and immigrant/cultural groups joined forces to tell NYPD Commissioner
Kelly that police endorsement exacerbates anti-queer violence, and to
demand that the NYPD pull out of the parade, Commissioner Kelly didn't
even bother to respond.'

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an out lesbian and rumored to be
planning a run for mayor, is boycotting this year's festivities.
Instead she will attend Mass with her father.

'It saddens me that I cannot march as an openly gay woman of Irish
descent alongside my father,' Quinn said, as reported by the Daily
News. 'I hope to one day march in this parade with lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender people in a way that allows us to freely
celebrate our heritage and identity.'

The Ancient Order of the Hibernians points out gays and lesbians can
march; however, overt displays of sexuality are not allowed.

Richard Conway, writing for The Guardian, questioned this reasoning.
He also noted in 2010 Ireland's former president, Mary McAleese,
declined to be New York's parade marshal because of its anti-gay
policy.

'To me, this attitude is outmoded, misrepresents modern Ireland, and
as a Dubliner, is not something I recognize,' Conway wrote.

More:
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/new-york-city-gays-not-marching-st-patricks-day-parade170312

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Re: So It’s Not The Rothschilds Huh?

AIPAC hires lawyer Nathan Lewin to handle their legal defense, the
same lawyer who defended suspected Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978.
Larry Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by
Richard Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified
information to Israel back in 1970) was insisting that Iraq was
crawling with weapons of mass destruction requiring the United States
to invade and conquer Iraq.

With two suspected Israeli spies (at least) inside the office from
which the lies that launched the war in Iraq originated, it appears
that the people of the United States are the victims of a deadly hoax,
a hoax that started a war using the blood and money of American
citizens for the purposes of Israeli oppression.
The leaking of the investigation of AIPAC to the media on August 28th,
2004 gave advance warning to other spies working with Franklin. The
damage to the FBI's investigation was completed when United States
Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the FBI to stop all arrests in
the case.


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> The History Of The Satanic House Of The Rothschild
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Re: Firm Romney Founded Is Tied to Chinese Surveillance

Yikes!  Romney left Bain THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.

On Friday, March 16, 2012 10:45:00 AM UTC-4, Tommy News wrote:
Firm Romney Founded Is Tied to Chinese Surveillance

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Cities in China are installing surveillance systems with hundreds of
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In December, a Bain-run fund in which a Romney family blind trust has
holdings purchased the video surveillance division of a Chinese
company that claims to be the largest supplier to the government's
Safe Cities program, a highly advanced monitoring system that allows
the authorities to watch over university campuses, hospitals, mosques
and movie theaters from centralized command posts.

The Bain-owned company, Uniview Technologies, produces what it calls
"infrared antiriot" cameras and software that enable police officials
in different jurisdictions to share images in real time through the
Internet. Previous projects have included an emergency command center
in Tibet that "provides a solid foundation for the maintenance of
social stability and the protection of people's peaceful life,"
according to Uniview's Web site.

Such surveillance systems are often used to combat crime and the
manufacturer has no control over whether they are used for other
purposes. But human rights advocates say in China they are also used
to intimidate and monitor political and religious dissidents. "There
are video cameras all over our monastery, and their only purpose is to
make us feel fear," said Loksag, a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Gansu
Province. He said the cameras helped the authorities identify and
detain nearly 200 monks who participated in a protest at his monastery
in 2008.

Mr. Romney has had no role in Bain's operations since 1999 and had no
say over the investment in China. But the fortunes of Bain and Mr.
Romney are still closely tied.

The financial disclosure forms Mr. Romney filed last August show that
a blind trust in the name of his wife, Ann Romney, held a relatively
small stake of between $100,000 and $250,000 in the Bain Capital Asia
fund that purchased Uniview.

In a statement, R. Bradford Malt, who manages the Romneys' trusts,
noted that he had put trust assets into the fund before it bought
Uniview. He said that the Romneys had no role in guiding their
investments. He also said he had no control over the Asian fund's
choice of investments.

Mr. Romney reported on his August disclosure forms that he and his
wife earned a minimum of $5.6 million from Bain assets held in their
blind trusts and retirement accounts. Bain employees and executives
are also among the largest donors to his campaign, and their
contributions accounted for 10 percent of the money received over the
past year by Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney "super PAC." Bain
employees have also made substantial contributions to Democratic
candidates, including President Obama.

Bain's decision to enter China's fast-growing surveillance industry
raises questions about the direct role that American corporations play
in outfitting authoritarian governments with technology that can be
used to repress their own citizens.

It also comes at a delicate time for Mr. Romney, who has frequently
called for a hard line against the Chinese government's suppression of
religious freedom and political dissent.

As with previous deals involving other American companies, critics
argue that Bain's acquisition of Uniview violates the spirit — if not
necessarily the letter — of American sanctions imposed on Beijing
after the deadly crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square. Those
rules, written two decades ago, bar American corporations from
exporting to China "crime-control" products like those that process
fingerprints, make photo identification cards or use night vision
technology.

Most video surveillance equipment is not covered by the sanctions,
even though a Canadian human rights group found in 2001 that Chinese
security forces used Western-made video cameras to help identify and
apprehend Tiananmen Square protesters.

Representative Frank R. Wolf, Republican of Virginia, who frequently
assails companies that do business with Chinese security agencies,
said calls by some members of Congress to pass stricter regulations on
American businesses have gone nowhere. "These companies are busy
making a profit and don't want to face realities, but what they're
doing is wrong," said Mr. Wolf, who is co-chairman of the Tom Lantos
Human Rights Commission.

In public comments and in a statement posted on his campaign Web site,
Mr. Romney has accused the Obama administration of placing economic
concerns above human rights in managing relations with China. He has
called on the White House to offer more vigorous support of those who
criticize the Chinese Communist Party.

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Re: Scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park

Boston got rid of them months ago.

On Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:08:06 AM UTC-4, Tommy News wrote:
Scores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park
By COLIN MOYNIHAN


1:09 a.m. | Updated Scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters were
arrested on Saturday night as police officers swept Zuccotti Park in
Lower Manhattan and closed it.

Dozens of demonstrators sat down and locked arms as officers moved in
about 11:30 p.m. The protesters chanted "we are not afraid" as the
police began pulling people from the crowd, one by one, and leading
them out of the park in handcuffs.

The operation occurred after hundreds of people had gathered in the
financial district to observe the founding of Occupy Wall Street six
months ago. Earlier, protesters had embarked upon a winding march,
after which police officers made initial arrests of about a dozen
people near the park.

By 11:30 p.m., as police officers massed on Broadway, a commander
announced that the park was closed. Those inside shouted back that the
park was obliged through an agreement with the city to remain open.
The commander then announced that anyone who remained inside would be
arrested and charged with trespassing.

After clearing the park, police officers and private security guards
began placing a ring of metal barricades on the park's perimeter, as
those who had been arrested were placed inside a city bus.

At one point, a woman who appeared to be suffering from seizures
flopped on the ground in handcuffs as bystanders shouted for the
police to remove the cuffs and provide medical attention. For several
minutes the woman lay on the ground as onlookers made increasingly
agonized demands until an ambulance arrived and the woman was placed
inside.

By 12:20 a.m., a line of officers pushed against some of the remaining
protesters, forcing them south on Broadway, at times swinging batons
and shoving people to the ground.

Kobi Skolnick, 30, said that officers pushed him in several directions
and that as he tried to walk away, he was struck from behind in the
neck. "One of the police ran and hit me with a baton," he said.

Earlier that afternoon, as protesters gathered under blue skies while
carrying banners and signs, the day was in some ways reminiscent of
the first time the Occupy protesters gathered in mid-September. Just
after 1 p.m., brandishing placards with messages like "Take back
government from corporations," the crowd left Zuccotti Park headed
south on Broadway, chanting the now familiar slogan "We are the 99
percent."

When the first protesters set foot in the financial district six
months ago, few people imagined what would follow, including a
two-month encampment in Lower Manhattan, similar camps in cities
across the country and critiques of corporate greed becoming part of
the national dialogue.

The movement was mainly quiet during the winter, but organizers said
they were aiming for a springtime resurgence.

"It's just a reminder that we're here," Brendan Burke said, as the
crowd marched past the New York Stock Exchange. "It's an opportunity
to remind Wall Street that we aren't going anywhere."

In several respects, Saturday's march was similar to the inaugural
one. The crowd was small but spirited and marched past the bronze
sculpture of a bull at Bowling Green, which had served as a mustering
spot for the first march. Marchers were accompanied by police officers
on foot and on scooters who at one point blocked access to Wall
Street, just as they did on Sept. 17.

And, as they did that day, the marchers made sudden turns that
appeared to surprise the police and walked along Wall Street for at
least a brief time.

At one point, several demonstrators stood on the steep steps of
Federal Hall and chanted "1-2-3-4, I declare class war."

Later, members of the group ignored orders from the police to remain
on sidewalks and flowed onto parts of Exchange Place and Beaver
Street. Later, on Broad Street, a deputy inspector turned to a
sergeant and said, "We got to start collaring some."

For the next 30 minutes or so, things remained calm as marchers stuck
to the sidewalks and entered Zuccotti Park.

But then, just after 2 p.m., police officers began telling a large
group of protesters that they could not stand on the sidewalk on a
stretch of Liberty Street. Officers pushed the crowd until more than
100 protesters on the sidewalk were pressed against a wall that
borders the park.

Then the police began grabbing and arresting people, taking into
custody at least half a dozen. Officers surged into the crowd,
dragging protesters toward the street, as people yelled objections.

"They were grabbing people randomly," Zachary Kamel said, adding that
his girlfriend, Lauren DiGoia, had been arrested while dancing on the
sidewalk.

One sergeant grabbed a woman wearing a green shirt by the bottom of
her throat and shoved her head against the hood of a car. A moment
later, another officer approached and forcefully pressed her head
against the car before placing her into the back of a police truck.

Over the next few hours, protesters conducted meetings inside Zuccotti
Park and held a dance party fueled by a saxophone and a battery of
drums. Sporadic moments of tension also arose.

At one point, the police arrested a handful of protesters on Cedar
Street near Trinity Place. A few moments later, near Cedar Street and
Broadway, a police captain pushed a man by the shoulders for almost a
block, then released him when a crowd loudly demanded to know whether
the man was under arrest.

The man, Charlie Gonzalez, 31, said that the captain had told him he
was not permitted to stand on the sidewalk.

About an hour later, the same captain pushed another man several
hundred feet east down Cedar Street, about a block from Zuccotti Park,
and briefly detained him.

That man, Yoni Miller, 19, said he was counting officers standing in
rows near Broadway when the captain forced him to walk around a corner
onto Cedar Street, then asked him if he was a terrorist or was
planning any crimes.

Paul Moore, 25, said that he was videotaping the encounter when the
captain asked him for identification and began pushing him away,
telling him he was not permitted to document what was happening.

After nightfall, the number of people inside the park swelled to more than 500.

About 10 p.m., some of those in the park began a regimen of running
and dancing that they called "spring training," which they said was
meant to prepare for coming demonstrations.

At 10:30, protesters sprung up a green tarp, folded over a piece of
rope suspended from two trees near the center of Zuccotti Park.
Security and police officers looked on from the perimeter.

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