Bush's Escalation Speech
Remarks at the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tenn., January 13, 2007.

I'd like to request that nobody shout during this event, and I'll tell you why.  I watched Bush's speech with some people who thought it would be a good idea to take a sip of liquor every time he told a lie.  Three days later my head is aching.

But it aches mostly because of the media's coverage of the speech.  Idiots don't offend me as much as smart people following idiots do.  The Washington Post printed Bush's speech for those who missed it, and then printed some analysis of it.  But the analysis was provided by the White House, which published a glossy brochure that so-called reporters could plagiarize.

If you went to online sources like Foreign Policy in Focus, you found analyses of Bush's speech that pointed out the lies.  If you turned on your television, you heard how smart Bush was to admit his mistakes.  But you did not hear the long list of mistakes that he has not admitted to or gone to prison for.  You just heard about his mistake of not having yet done exactly what he now wants to do.

"Two things only the people anxiously desire -- bread and circuses."
--Juvenal

Searching for masculine bliss incarnate?

Look no further than NFL football and its myriad machismo delights….

Fierce armor-clad gladiators applying wicked hits, battering each other relentlessly, engaging in bone-jarring collisions, and performing feats of near super-human athleticism….

Provocatively undressed cheerleaders manifesting our culture’s ideal of feminine perfection…..

Rivers of ice cold beer gushing forth to satiate our desire to numb the mind and lower inhibitions….

And lest we forget, the NFL provides us with “Man Law” to shield us from our long repressed anima, which is constantly poised to assail our grossly exaggerated masculinity ….

United for Peace and Justice is organizing a massive demonstration for ending American presence in Iraq NOW, on Jan. 27. You can read about it at United for Peace and Justice

There will be a charter bus leaving from Yellow Springs, Ohio, on the evening of Jan 26, and will return to Yellow Springs late night of Jan. 27. Cost is $60.00 round trip, some scholarships are available. Please share this information with your group, and/or forward this email to folks who may be interested. Call 937-767-1022, or return email ken.simon@yahoo.com. Seats need to be reserved soon!

Central Ohio organizing information: 614-252-9255. OSU chapter of the Campus Antiwar Network, a national antiwar network: www.campusantiwar.net is having a meeting to organize aorund this protest. Location: Page Hall, Room 060, Ohio State University (next to Hagerty Hall and Parking Garage C, facing the south oval). Contact: negi.2@osu.edu for more details or to endorse the meeting.

For two weeks in late 2006, I traveled throughout Tanzania, East Africa, on a fact-finding tour. Over thirty years earlier, I had attended the University of Nairobi, in Kenya, as an undergraduate college student. During my year in East Africa, I visited and traveled throughout Kenya, as well as neighboring Uganda and Tanzania, immersing myself in the Swahili language, African cultures, and the region’s politics.

Throughout the 1970s, there was a large expatriate community of idealistic, young African Americans who lived and worked throughout Tanzania, and especially in its capital city, Dar Es Salaam. What attracted most of them to the East African country was a remarkable social experiment called “Ujamaa,” or “African Socialism.” The political architect of Ujamaa was Tanzania’s humble yet charismatic president, Julius K. Nyerere, who was universally called “Mwalimu,” which in the Swahili language means “teacher.”

"Much of the government's behavior at the Pine Ridge Reservation and in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be condemned. The government withheld evidence. It intimidated witnesses. These facts are not disputed."

BACKGROUND

For over 30 years I have sought justice from the United States Courts which have failed to provide me with any relief despite acknowledging numerous acts of Government misconduct. For example, after my trial, my lawyers issued Freedom of Information Act Requests ("FOIA") and discovered that the Government fabricated the ballistics evidence which it used at trial to argue that I shot the agents in cold blood. Once we revealed this egregious misconduct, the Government has had to admit on several occasions in open Court and before the Parole Commission that it could not prove I shot the agents and that it could not prove who shot the agents.