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Spied on by the Maryland police
Mike Stark, a national board member of the Campaign to End the Death
Penalty (CEDP), was one of many targets of a Maryland State Police
investigation into anti-death penalty and antiwar activism.
July 21, 2008

WHEN I received a voice mail last Wednesday from the Maryland ACLU, I
assumed it was about the fight against Maryland's death penalty.
Executions in Maryland have been shut down since 2006, and the state's
General Assembly has authorized a commission to make recommendations on
the future of capital punishment. The commission's plans are the topic
of constant conversation among abolitionists.

It turns out the ACLU call was about the death penalty, but not exactly
in the form I was expecting.

When I called back, ACLU staff attorney David Rocah explained that my
name had appeared repeatedly in a 46-page report documenting a
clandestine surveillance and undercover investigation conducted by the
Maryland State Police for more than a year, from March 2005 to May 2006.

The report was released to the ACLU after it sued the Maryland state
police for refusing to disclose information-gathering activities aimed
at peace activists. "Detailed intelligence reports logged by at least
two agents in the police department's Homeland Security and Intelligence
Division reveal close monitoring of the movements as the Iraq war and
capital punishment were heatedly debated in 2005 and 2006," the
Washington Post reported.

"Organizational meetings, public forums, prison vigils, rallies outside
the State House in Annapolis and e-mail group lists were infiltrated by
police posing as peace activists and death penalty opponents, the
records show. The surveillance continued even though the logs contained
no reports of illegal activity and consistently indicated that the
activists were not planning violent protests."

The infiltration of the CEDP was carried out during the one-term reign
of former Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich, who ended the moratorium on
executions that had been imposed by his predecessor when the flaws in
the death penalty system became impossible to overlook.

The surveillance began after the first execution overseen by Ehrlich--of
Steven Oken in 2004--and continued during the CEDP's campaigns to save
Wesley Baker, who was put to death in December 2005, and Vernon Evans,
who won a last-minute stay of execution in February 2006.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

HEARING THE news, I thought it was a bad joke. Undercover cops
investigating public meetings of civil and human rights activists
against the death penalty? Police infiltration of discussions held at
the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee hall?

My first reading of the surveillance report reinforced this response. It
was full of factual errors, botched names and mistaken identities and
associations. According to the report, the "national socialists" (i.e.,
Nazis) were organizing against racial bias in Maryland's death penalty.
Not just wrong, but a dumb kind of wrong.

The report ludicrously described one well-respected activist and ardent
pacifist, Max Obuszewski, as a "terrorist." As for me, they couldn't
figure out if I was an anarchist or socialist.

Their confusion on this last point is at least somewhat understandable
since we have people from a wide variety of political and religious
affiliations who come together to oppose capital punishment. But in the
event the Maryland police are still wondering, in the proud tradition of
anti-death penalty attorney Clarence Darrow, I'm a socialist.

The report does get one thing right. Nowhere in the 46 single-spaced
pages is a single illegal activity conducted by anti-death penalty
activists (observed or imagined) described. Not a single statement,
note, e-mail or comment made publicly or illegally obtained through
surveillance can be construed as illegal, improper or even rude.
Instead, the list of events documented in the report--distributing
fliers, petitioning--are about as scandalous as the minutes of a local
Rotary club.

I've read enough history to know something of the long and sordid story
of these kinds of spy operations in the U.S. I've also attended events
in support of imprisoned activists, such as Leonard Peltier, Mumia
Abu-Jamal and Maryland's own Eddie Conway, who have paid a terrible
price when paranoid policing takes hold.

The surveillance of the CEDP and antiwar activists seems ludicrous by
comparison, especially with the ineptitude of the Maryland cops shining
through on every page.

But this kind of inanity is dangerous--to the lives and livelihoods of
the people who are subjected to it, and to the constitutionally
guaranteed rights of free speech, assembly and petition of grievances of
everyone.

And it's there that the joke stops. Because sending cops into activist
meetings on college campuses, community centers and Quaker meeting halls
to write down lists of names and the activities of the participants can
only be described as one thing: state repression.

Any state-organized act designed to prevent or disrupt the efforts of
ordinary people to effect change must be vigorously opposed and
organized against, to stop similar acts from occurring again. The
current governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley, has assured the public
that the surveillance has stopped. This is a first step, but until the
laws are changed and the responsible parties publicly brought to account
for treading on our liberties, it's not enough.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

ANTI-DEATH penalty author and activist Sister Helen Prejean once
counseled activists that "support for the death penalty may be a mile
wide, but it's an inch deep." She meant that while many people support
capital punishment in the abstract, their support is based on
misinformation and is easily turned when faced with the facts.

Prejean is right. The more light that is shown on this archaic and
barbaric practice, the more it loses its hold. My own experience has
shown me time and again that a five-minute conversation with even the
most ardent death penalty supporter can often turn someone from a
booster to a critic. Those conversations have helped turn the tide of
public opinion away from support for the death penalty.

Nowhere has this been clearer than my home state of Maryland, where by
every indication, capital punishment is on its way out. A moratorium on
executions (the second halt in executions since 1999) has been in place
since 2006. The number of people on death row has shrunk from 17
prisoners in 1998 to only five; new capital prosecutions and convictions
are down; and support for the death penalty remains on the decline.

Perhaps that's why a shrill and die-hard supporter of the death penalty
like Ehrlich and his team decided it was necessary to send undercover
agents and surveillance vans to our meetings. Ehrlich came into the
governor's mansion in 2003 determined to restart executions in Maryland,
and he discovered that it was necessary to resort to underhanded tactics
and dirty tricks to prop up the tottering house of cards.

As CEDP National Director Marlene Martin put it, "How incredible it is
that the Maryland state police wasted money to spy on a group of folks
trying to stop the execution of a poor Black prisoner. But then again, I
guess the little people, Black and white, coming together to fight
against a blatant, unfair and racist barbaric practice like capital
punishment, has always scared those in power who want to maintain an
unfair and unequal society."

In the Maryland police report, alongside the names of long-time
anti-death penalty activists, there's a special focus on the activities
of the family of death row prisoner Vernon Evans.

According to the logic of the report, the Evans family represented a
unique kind of threat--because of the power of their personal efforts to
stop the state from killing their son, brother, cousin and father, and
because of how broadly their story of pain, redemption and hope
resonates in an often beaten-down city like Baltimore.

Their voices are a powerful antidote to the politics of fear and revenge
practiced by death penalty supporters. They are precious to our movement
against the death penalty and to build a better world, and we have to
defend them.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

What you can do

If you want to express your outrage at the surveillance of Maryland
activists, contact the office of the current Maryland Gov. Martin
O'Malley and demand a full investigation of the Maryland State Police,
the public release of all documents obtained through its illegal
activities and a specific commitment that the anti-death penalty and
antiwar movements will not be targeted again. Call 800-811-8336, or
submit a comment online [1].

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1. [1] http://www.governor.maryland.gov/mail
2. [2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"

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When COINTELPRO comes calling
"Homeland Security" picked on the wrong group of activists, because we
will not be silenced.
by Dave Zirin
July 21, 2008

FINALLY, AT long last, I have something in common with Muhammad Ali. No,
I'm not the heavyweight champion of the world, and I haven't been named
spokesperson for Raid bug spray. Like "the Greatest"--not to mention far
too many others--I have been a target of state police surveillance for
activities--in my case, being against the death penalty--that were
legal, nonviolent and, so we assumed, constitutionally protected.

In classified reports compiled by the Maryland State Police and the
Department of Homeland Security, I am "Dave Z." This nickname was given
by an undercover agent known to us as "Lucy." She sat in our meetings of
the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, smiling and engaged, taking
copious notes about actions deemed threatening by the then-governor of
Maryland, Robert Ehrlich.

Our seditious crimes, as Lucy reported, involved such acts as planning
to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing up a
petition. Adding a dash of farce to this outrage, she was monitoring us
in the liberal enclave of Takoma Park, Maryland, a place known more for
vegans than violence, more for tie-dyeing than terrorism.

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and the ACLU, we now know that
"Lucy" was only one part of a vast, insidious project. The Maryland
State Police's Department of Homeland Security devoted nearly 300 hours
and thousands of taxpayer dollars from 2005 and 2006 to harassing people
whose only crime was dissenting on the question of the war in Iraq and
Maryland's use of death row.

My dear friend Mike Stark, a board member of the Campaign to End the
Death Penalty is at times referred to in "Lucy's" report as a
"socialist" and an "anarchist." One can only assume this is the pathetic
time-honored tradition of reducing people to simple caricatures, all the
better to garner Homeland Security grant money.

Veteran peace activist in Baltimore, Max Obuszewski, who initiated the
suit, was also consistently shadowed as he walked down the streets. His
"primary crime" (their lingo) was entered into the homeland security
database as "terrorism--anti govern(ment)." His "secondary crime" was
listed as "terrorism--anti-war protestors." The database is known as the
Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, or HIDTA.

Yes, a respected peace organizer of many decades standing is checked as
a terrorist, his actions listed as criminal, for doing nothing more than
exercising his rights. It boggles the mind.

Former police superintendent Tim Hutchins defended these totalitarian
practices by saying, "You do what you think is best to protect the
general populace of the state." (The article mentioned that Hutchins is
now a federal defense contractor. I guess the global war on terror is
just the gift that keeps on giving for the Hutchins family.)

But "protect the general populace" from what? The surveillance continued
even after it was determined that we were planning nothing more
dangerous that carrying clipboards in a public place. Hutchins and the
Ehrlich administration have undertaken an ugly violation of our civil
rights, manipulating fears of terrorism to stamp out dissent.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

THIS IS COINTELPRO pure and simple. Like the infamous
counter-intelligence program, whose heyday many assume was a relic of
the 1950s and 1960s, it's an effort to harass the innocent and breed
paranoia, all for daring to question power.

Governor Ehrlich and Tim Hutchins stand in the legacy of those who
hounded Martin Luther King and facilitated the death of Malcolm X. They
stand in the tradition of those who drove the great actor, college
football superstar and activist Paul Robeson toward the mental breakdown
that claimed his life. When Robeson's files were opened under the
Freedom of Information Act, the results were terrifying.

As his son, Paul Robeson Jr. has written, "From the files I received, it
was obvious that there were agents who did nothing but follow every
public event of my father, or even of me...It took on a life of its
own...Over time, even for someone as powerful and with as many resources
as my dad had...the attrition got to him."

Now Robeson is on a postage stamp. The moral midgets who destroyed him
went unpunished. That's what has to change.

The ACLU, to their credit, is going on the offensive. As ACLU lawyer
David Rocah said at a news conference in Baltimore on Thursday, "To
invest this many hours investigating the most all-American of activities
without any scintilla of evidence there is anything criminal going on is
shocking. It's Kafkaesque."

Unfortunately, it is also "the most All-American of activities" for
people like Gov. Ehrlich to take the Constitution and use it as their
personal hand-wipe.

As the great political philosopher Ice T wrote, "Freedom of
Speech...just watch what you say."

Well, now is exactly the time not to watch what we say. I'm angry. I'm
angry for my friends, who trusted "Lucy" and others. I'm angry that my
tax dollars went to paying the salaries of people who spy and intimidate
those exercising their rights. I'm angry that Barack Obama just voted to
increase the power of the Federal government to disrupt people's lives.
And I'm angry enough that I'm joining a lawsuit initiated by the ACLU.

"Homeland Security" picked on the wrong sports writer. They also picked
on the wrong group of activists. We will not be silenced.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Columnist: Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin Dave Zirin is the author of the forthcoming book A People's
History of Sports in the United States [2], as well as two collections
of his sports writings, Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics
and Promise of Sports [3] and What's My Name, Fool? Sports and
Resistance in the United States [4]. He is a columnist for TheNation.com
[5]; his writings are also featured at his Edge of Sports [6] Web site.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
What you can do

If you want to express your outrage at the surveillance of Maryland
activists, contact the office of the current Maryland Gov. Martin
O'Malley and demand a full investigation of the Maryland State Police,
the public release of all documents obtained through its illegal
activities and a specific commitment that the anti-death penalty and
antiwar movements will not be targeted again. Call 800-811-8336, or
submit a comment online [7].

1. [1]
http://socialistworker.org/department/Books-and-Entertainment/Dave-Zirin
2. [2]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%%3A%%2F%%2Fwww.amazon...
3. [3]
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Haymarket&Product_Code...
4. [4]
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Haymarket&Product_Code...
5. [5] http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/dave_zirin
6. [6] http://edgeofsports.com
7. [7] http://www.governor.maryland.gov/mail
8. [8] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"

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Catholic Workers celebrate 75 years
Created 07/21/2008 - 16:27
By EILEEN MARKEY, Worcester, Mass.
Published:
July 21, 2008

More than 500 current and former Catholic Workers, adherents of a
radical fealty to the beatitudes who have taken their Catholicism all
the way to the margins of society, gathered in Worcester, Mass., July
9-12, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the movement.

They came from throughout the United States and from Europe to share
stories, pray, discuss the nitty-gritty of life in Catholic Worker
houses of hospitality, hash out philosophy and dance. They produced a
statement urging the church to reject war and speak loudly for justice.

“At this critical point in history, as we face unending war, including
U.S. plans to attack Iran, ecological destruction and economic collapse,
we call on our church and nation to join us in repenting our affronts to
God,” the statement read in part.

“We once again implore the leadership of the Catholic church in the
United States, now and without evasion, to break its silence and to
wield the authority provided by the nonviolent Gospel of Jesus Christ,
by calling the entire nation to repent for the war crimes we have
committed in the so-called War on Terror.”

For many the gathering was a chance to connect with old friends. Between
shared duties preparing meals and managing child-care, participants
listened to a lecture on the history of the Catholic Worker, delivered
by four authors who have written on Day and the Worker. They attended
workshops on Catholicism and the Catholic Worker, raising children in
the movement, CW farms, anarchism, seamless garment theology, racism and
how to make CW houses more welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered people.

(An expanded version of this story and a report on the role nonviolence
has played throughout Catholic Worker history appear in the July 25
issue of National Catholic Reporter.)

In the 75 years since Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin began feeding the
destitute men of New York’s Bowery and speaking out against militarism,
the Catholic Worker has grown tremendously. It now includes at least 180
communities, among them dozens of small, organic farms growing food for
community pantries and hungry neighbors, an art gallery, scores of
houses of hospitality offering long- and short-term shelter to
undocumented immigrants, women fleeing domestic violence, people exiting
prison and those without a place to sleep or belong. It has produced
four generations of Catholics living gleefully in opposition to a
dominant culture of consumerism and violence.

Sheila Stump who lives with her husband at John Leary House in Boston
and a friend who is raising her children at the Nazareth House Catholic
Worker in Raleigh, N.C., sat in folding chairs breastfeeding their
toddlers and remembering the years they lived together in Virginia.

“All the Worker houses we lived in were families with kids. It seemed
like such a better way to live, to raise a family,” Stump said, as her
daughter dozed off to sleep. “I’m very happy that the children are
raised in this culture of resistance, but at the same time that it’s a
resistance born of love.”

The Worcester gathering was notable for an event of the Catholic left:
It was not dominated by gray hairs. There were plenty of peace veterans
who had been with the Catholic Worker for 20, 30, 40 years. But there
were nearly as many people in their 20s and 30s, and a whole crop of
children.

[Eileen Markey is a freelance writer living in Bronx, N.Y.]

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"

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Mon, Jul. 21, 2008
Anarchists' gathering surprisingly organized
By ERICA PEREZ
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Some 150 anarchists from throughout the United States and Canada
descended on a strip of private land last week in this Sheboygan County,
Wis., village for four days of workshops, including some focused on
strategizing for demonstrations at the upcoming Democratic and
Republican national conventions.

The 2008 CrimethInc. Convergence was the sixth annual communal campout
organized by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, an international
underground network that since the mid-1990s has published widely read
anarchist texts such as "Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook."

The group also has drawn the attention of FBI agents trying to
infiltrate the protest movement. At the 2004 CrimethInc. gathering in
Iowa, an undercover FBI operative met Eric McDavid, a California man who
was found guilty last year of conspiring to burn or blow up a federal
facility.

CrimethInc. texts eschew government, capitalism and conformity. The
collective has no members and no leader. But the convergence had plenty
of policy and procedure. Decisions are made by consensus, and there are
no drugs, drinking, photography or exchange of money allowed. And
definitely no police or corporate media.

"The locals are welcome," media liaison and local circus performer
Pinkerton Xyloma said. "We have a no-media policy because the media are
not considered individuals. It is a concern that people from the media
will not respect people's consent or consensus."

Xyloma would not say why the group was gathered in Wisconsin or what
participants were discussing. He said they had no interest in violence
or terrorism.

On its Web site, CrimethInc. describes itself as a place where "the
secret worlds of shoplifters, rioters, dropouts, deserters, adulterers,
vandals, daydreamers ... converge to form gateways to new worlds where
theft, cheating, warfare, boredom, and so on are simply obsolete."

The collective publicized the event on its Web site and at anarchist
social centers around the country -- places such as Cream City
Collectives in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, which had fliers for
the gathering posted on the door and closed shop on the day it began.

Participants met up between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday at Gordon Park
in Riverwest, where they picked up pamphlets, got directions to the
campground in Waldo, Wis., or hitched rides with fellow campers. Mostly
young, they arrived on bikes, on foot and by car, some lugging packs
with tents and camping supplies and others with nothing but a notebook.

Some were tattooed and pierced; some brought their dogs; a few brought
young children. One brought a jar of omega-3 fortified peanut butter.
People who recognized each other from past convergences embraced.

They traveled about 45 miles north into Waldo, along the village's main
street, down a gravel road bordered by shoulder-high wildflowers and
grasses.

There, on privately owned land, campers pitched about 75 tents and hung
laundry from clotheslines. They built campfires, played board games or
lined up for free food at a tent marked "Kitchen."

The focus of the 2008 convergence was on strategizing for action at the
national conventions and "longer-range anarchist endeavors," according
to the Web site. Among the presenters: The RNC Welcoming Committee, an
anarchist group preparing to disrupt the 2008 Republican National
Convention in Minnesota.

Participants were also encouraged to come prepared to lead their own
workshops. "Projectiles 101" promised to teach anarchists how to build
things such as confetti cannons and slings. "Guy-necology" focused on
sexual issues for men, such as their role in birth control and
acceptable flirtation.

Meanwhile, residents of Waldo, population 485, weren't sure what to make
of the anarchists in the woods. Some had assumed the campers were part
of a religious retreat or were in town for a nearby vintage auto show.

Waldo Village President Mike Hintz said he didn't know anything about
the convergence until he happened to see the campsite Wednesday night
when he was driving by. He didn't go into the site, though, because a
neighbor told him the group had been behaving themselves.

"I don't know what they're doing back there, but it seemed so far
there's no disturbance," Hintz said.

ON THE WEB

CrimethInc.:
http://www.crimethinc.com

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"

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]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:30:03 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.society.anarchy/the_truth_of_the_law_of_mammon_vs_raymond_karczewski_86169031t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.society.anarchy/the_truth_of_the_law_of_mammon_vs_raymond_karczewski_86169031t.html
Lincoln Wilkinson wrote:

Mosheh Thezion wrote:

bmxninja357 wrote:

Raymond Karczewski (arkent3@earthlink.net) wrote:

bmx: >>> ray is a cop. i like you, mosh, but your friend is a cop.
he can go to hell.

mtz: >> ray was a cop...

lw: > It is interesting that Ray was convicted of a multitude of
felony charges which resulted in him facing 35 years in prison.

rk: Yet, I have not spent a day of such lengthy threat of
imprisonment, Have I?

lw: > He got off with a few months of jail time.

rk: I "got off," as you say, when I REFUSED to accept the contract
of Court Sentencing and again CHALLENGED the court to prove its
JURISDICTION over this Living, Breathing, Flesh-and-Blood, Sentient,
Natural Man.

rk: I EXPOSED for all to see, the IMPOTENCE of the Law of Mammon.

rk: You see, I have continued to do the very same things for which
they brought down the full force of their Illusory power in arresting
me after I filed a $27,180,000,00 See:
http://www.arkenterprises.com/tortjoco.html and THEY WILL NOT COME
AFTER ME. Since my release, I have set into mostion the process to
lien the Governor, The Attorney General, and several more Judges. I
have brought charges against the State Police and JOSEPHINE COUNTY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY STEPHEN CAMPBELL, will not answer my calls or
respond in writing. As to the State Police Two officers have also
defaulted and set themselves up to be liened, yet they won't repeat
their earlier criminal conspiracy to try an Living Man beyond their
FICTIONAL jurisdiction. That is not some empty boast, that is REAL
FREEDOM, is it not?

rk: I have shown the Nation how to handle the courts, how to handle
the Police, yet they continue to cower in fear of the Illusions which
rule them.

lw: > Leads me to wonder what he did in exchange for such a lenient
sentence and how long he has to do it.

rk: I exchanged NOTHING, ZIP, NADA for my FREEDOM!! Goliath and
Christ faced off. Goliath BLINKED!!

Quote:
now he is a free man...

lw: > Ray isn't really free. The government doesn't allow him to
fly, he confessed to being denied access to air travel when his mother
died.

rk: You disinformation campaign is working overtime. I never
confessed to any such thing. Pull up the exact statement you are
quoting in its full context, and you will reveal yourself to be the
wordtwister that you are.

lw: > He isn't allowed to drive,

rk: I don't drive. I TRAVEL.

lw: > although he gets away with it in Cave Junction as long as he
stays out of the way and doesn't file any more bogus paperwork, but
the moment he leaves town, he is pulled over and cited and sometimes
his car is impounded; happened in Grants Pass a while back.

rk: The State Police are still reeling from that one. You'll notice
the Judge has still not, as of this date, July 20th, 2008, issued
closure to the hearing. See: Hearing Testimony and Demand Questions
of JURISDICTION be Answered By Oregon Administrative Court Judge
http://www.arkenterprises.com/gpsphear.html#Testimony and Listen to:
THE CHRIST AND THE PHARISEE -- The Sovereign and the Judge SOUND FILE
http://www.arkenterprises.com/yunker48.html

rk: Is that a way for People of so-called authority, public servants
of a SOVEREIGN PEOPLE to comport themselves -- TO COWER BEHIND A
STONEWALL OF SILENCE?

;w: > Ray certainly isn't free of the government, he lives on a
government check, takes advantage of government health care, accepts
government appointed lawyers when he gets into a jam, and harasses
government officials all while preaching to others to boycott that
government.

rk: As said earlier, your disinformation campaign is working
overtime. Read: JOSEPHINE COUNTY OREGON THE FACE OF TYRANNY
http://www.arkenterprises.com/dialch82.html#FACE Pay particular
attention to the Attorney Severing Demand. They needed their imposed
public defender to protect the courts; interests. To speak for me
while I could not appear to speak for myself as they had me locked up
in one of their cells. Its called RAILROADING innocent men.

rk: It is true that I am an honorably retired Police Sergeant
currently living on pension even after the STATE OF OREGON and COUNTY
OF JOSEPHINE KILLED MY WIFE from the stress of their fraudulent
persecution/prosecution. As to the pension, I EARNED IT. Nothing
gratuitous or steeped in welfare about the benefits of a contract
struck early in life, even though it was struck in an ignorant state
of mind.

rk:. It is only in the satanic BASSACKWARD mind that would consider
SOVEREIGN PEOPLE holding their Public Servants ACCOUNTABLE for crimes
and corruption is deemed to be HARRASSMENT.

lw: Ray isn't allowed to possess a gun.

rk: The Hell I'm not. I own a number of weapons and was firearms
instructor for the Pacifical PD while in their employ.. The Josephine
County and State Authorities are WELL AWARE OF MY WEAPONS. If they
were able to make the case of a felon with a gun THEY WOULD, wouldn't
they?.

rk: , WHY THEN DO THEY NOT COME AFTER ME? The answer is quite
simple. You see, their problem lies in the fact that they would have
to admit their earlier prosecution of my Strawman in their fraudulent
attempt to snare the Living, Breathing, Flesh-and-Blood, Sentient,
Natural man as surety for the debts of the fictional defendent was
unlawful, unconstitution, a crime in itself, and therefore such
convictions are null and void. When I refused to accept their offer
of Sentencing, IT WAS OVER FOR THEM. They knew it. I Know it.
That's why they give me a wide berth and leave me alone.

rk: It is just millions of cowering, blind believers who cringe at
the thought of Government POWER, exercising the Law of Mammon who
don't know it.

lw: > He has some pictures of himself holding and wearing what
appear to be firearms but I have seen comments made that they are not
authentic or functional.

rk: And they are comments made by your disinformation compadres.

lw: Ray is hounded by collections agencies, something else he has
admitted.

rk: I've sent them packing also. Just like the courts which engaged
them.

lw: > For a free man, Ray certainly is living with a number of
government dependencies and restrictions that restrain his conduct.

rk: I'm not restrained a bit. IT AIN'T OVER TILL ITS OVER!!

Raymond Ronald Karczewski

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Making Americans Unsafe
By Paul Craig Roberts

17/07/08 "ICH" -- - The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes
have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization
that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect,
there are now one million names on the “terrorist” watch list.

One of them is that of former Assistant US Attorney General Jim
Robinson, whose top security clearances are current. Every time
Mr.Robinson flies away on business, he is delayed by a totally
incompetent “terrorist” protection racket that cannot tell a person
named Jim Robinson, who served in the highest echelons of the US
government, from a Muslim terrorist.

What confidence can we have in a regime that is incapable of
differentiating an Assistant US Attorney General from a terrorist?

Mr. Robinson said: “If I were convinced that America is a safer place
because I get hassled at the airport, I might put up with it, but I
doubt it. I expect my story is similar to hundreds of thousands of
people who are on this list and find themselves inconvenienced.”

“Hundreds of thousands of people” on a watch list that they have no
business being on?

Yes. “Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other ‘suspicious
characters,’ with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have become
trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with little hope of
escape,” said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington
Legislative Office.

And this is America, not Nazi Germany?

How can Airport “Security” possibly protect anyone when the idiots
cannot differentiate a high level American government official from a
terrorist?

Do you really believe there are one million terrorists and nothing has
blown up in the US since September 11, 2001 (assuming you believe the
government’s account of that episode)?

How can there possibly be 1,000,000 terrorists and America still be in
one piece? If there were 1,000,000 terrorists, America would be in
ruins. According to the Bush Regime’s line, it only took a handful of
terrorists to destroy America’s tallest skyscrapers and a section of the
Pentagon and to send the President of the United States scurrying to a
hiding place.

One million terrorists could bring America to its knees, and they
wouldn’t need to fly on airplanes to accomplish this.

What we are witnessing with the one million person “watch list” is
bureaucracy run amok. One Million Terrorists makes the danger seem
overwhelming. Such overwhelming danger rationalizes the aggressive
behavior of the bullies and thugs attracted by the power of confiscating
your toothpaste and bottled water and riffling your belongings in your
luggage.

Show your ID.
Take off your shoes.


Take off your belt.
Take off your jacket.

Empty your pockets.

Don’t complain about being searched without a warrant or you will miss
your flight. You might be arrested, handcuffed, kicked and otherwise
abused--the fate of many American citizens.

The morons who comprise the US government call the “watch list” one of
the government’s “most effective tools in the fight against terrorism.”

What an effective tool it is! It cannot tell the difference between Jim
Robinson and a Muslim terrorist.

The “watch list” has not apprehended a single terrorist, but thousands
of American citizens have been inconvenienced and arrested.

The ACLU says that “putting a million names on a watch list is a
guarantee that the list will do more harm than good by interfering with
the travel of innocent people and wasting huge amounts of our limited
security resources on bureaucratic wheel-spinning.”

It is worse than that. What the “watch list” or “no-fly list” is doing
is training Americans to submit to warrantless searches, to abandon
their constitutional rights, and to submit to humiliation by thugs and
bullies. A Gestapo is being trained to have no qualms about searching
and intimidating fellow citizens, using any excuse to delay or arrest
them. Americans are being taught to use arbitrary power and to submit to
arbitrary power. In the false name of “safety from terrorists,”
Americans are being made the least safe people on earth.

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"

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Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Boston Globe
Memo to Obama, McCain: No One Wins in a War
by Howard Zinn

Barack Obama and John McCain continue to argue about war. McCain says to
keep the troops in Iraq until we “win” and supports sending more troops
to Afghanistan. Obama says to withdraw some (not all) troops from Iraq
and send them to fight and “win” in Afghanistan.

For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has
protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad?
Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned
that no one “wins” in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of humans
die, most of them civilians, many of them children?

Did we “win” by going to war in Korea? The result was a stalemate,
leaving things as they were before with a dictatorship in South Korea
and a dictatorship in North Korea. Still, more than 2 million people —
mostly civilians — died, the United States dropped napalm on children,
and 50,000 American soldiers lost their lives.

Did we “win” in Vietnam? We were forced to withdraw, but only after 2
million Vietnamese died, again mostly civilians, again leaving children
burned or armless or legless, and 58,000 American soldiers dead.

Did we win in the first Gulf War? Not really. Yes, we pushed Saddam
Hussein out of Kuwait, with only a few hundred US casualties, but
perhaps 100,000 Iraqis died. And the consequences were deadly for the
United States: Saddam was still in power, which led the United States to
enforce economic sanctions. That move led to the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis, according to UN officials, and set the stage for
another war.

In Afghanistan, the United States declared “victory” over the Taliban.
Now the Taliban is back, and attacks are increasing. The recent US
military death count in Afghanistan exceeds that in Iraq. What makes
Obama think that sending more troops to Afghanistan will produce
“victory”? And if it did, in an immediate military sense, how long would
that last, and at what cost to human life on both sides?

The resurgence of fighting in Afghanistan is a good moment to reflect on
the beginning of US involvement there. There should be sobering thoughts
to those who say that attacking Iraq was wrong, but attacking
Afghanistan was right.

Go back to Sept. 11, 2001. Hijackers direct jets into the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, killing close to 3,000 A terrorist act,
inexcusable by any moral code. The nation is aroused. President Bush
orders the invasion and bombing of Afghanistan, and the American public
is swept into approval by a wave of fear and anger. Bush announces a
“war on terror.”

Except for terrorists, we are all against terror. So a war on terror
sounded right. But there was a problem, which most Americans did not
consider in the heat of the moment: President Bush, despite his
confident bravado, had no idea how to make war against terror.

Yes, Al Qaeda — a relatively small but ruthless group of fanatics — was
apparently responsible for the attacks. And, yes, there was evidence
that Osama bin Laden and others were based in Afghanistan. But the
United States did not know exactly where they were, so it invaded and
bombed the whole country. That made many people feel righteous. “We had
to do something,” you heard people say.

Yes, we had to do something. But not thoughtlessly, not recklessly.
Would we approve of a police chief, knowing there was a vicious criminal
somewhere in a neighborhood, ordering that the entire neighborhood be
bombed? There was soon a civilian death toll in Afghanistan of more than
3,000 — exceeding the number of deaths in the Sept. 11 attacks. Hundreds
of Afghans were driven from their homes and turned into wandering refugees.

Two months after the invasion of Afghanistan, a Boston Globe story
described a 10-year-old in a hospital bed: “He lost his eyes and hands
to the bomb that hit his house after Sunday dinner.” The doctor
attending him said: “The United States must be thinking he is Osama. If
he is not Osama, then why would they do this?”

We should be asking the presidential candidates: Is our war in
Afghanistan ending terrorism, or provoking it? And is not war itself
terrorism?

Howard Zinn is author of “A People’s History of the United States.”

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"

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Friday, July 18, 2008
The Baltimore Sun
Spying Uncovered: Documents Show State Police Monitored Peace and
Anti-Death Penalty Groups
by Nick Madigan

BALTIMORE - Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied
on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and
entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people
thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released documents show.

The files, made public yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union
of Maryland, depict a pattern of infiltration of the activists’
organizations in 2005 and 2006. The activists contend that the
authorities were trying to determine whether they posed a security
threat to the United States. But none of the 43 pages of summaries and
computer logs - some with agents’ names and whole paragraphs blacked out
- mention criminal or even potentially criminal acts, the legal standard
for initiating such surveillance.

State police officials said they did not curtail the protesters’ freedoms.

The spying, detailed in logs of at least 288 hours of surveillance over
a 14-month period, recalls similar infiltration by FBI agents of civil
rights and anti-war groups decades ago, particularly under the
administration of President Richard M. Nixon.

David Rocah, a staff attorney for the ACLU in Baltimore, said at a news
conference yesterday that he found it “stupefying” that more than 30
years later, the government is still targeting people who do nothing
more than express dissent.

“Everything noted in these logs is a lawful, First Amendment activity,”
Rocah said. “For undercover police officers to spend hundreds of hours
entering information about lawful political protest activities into a
criminal database is an unconscionable waste of taxpayer dollars and
does nothing to make us safer from actual terrorists or drug dealers.”

The ACLU obtained the documents from the state attorney general’s office
through a Maryland Public Information Act lawsuit.

Col. Terrence B. Sheridan, superintendent of the Maryland State Police,
said in a statement yesterday that the department “does not
inappropriately curtail the expression or demonstration of the civil
liberties of protesters or organizations acting lawfully.”

“No illegal actions by state police have ever been taken against any
citizens or groups who have exercised their right to free speech and
assembly in a lawful manner,” Sheridan said. “Only when information
regarding criminal activity is alleged will police continue to
investigate leads to ensure the public safety.”

Nothing in the documents indicates criminal activity or intent on the
part of the protesters, ACLU officials said.

Nonetheless, the state police’s Homeland Security and Intelligence
Division sent covert agents to infiltrate the Baltimore Pledge of
Resistance, a peace group; the Baltimore Coalition Against the Death
Penalty; and the Committee to Save Vernon Evans, a death row inmate.

Using a fake e-mail address and an alias, an undercover agent joined the
e-mail list of the death penalty group, the documents say. Agents also
monitored the group’s organizational meetings, public forums and events
in churches, as well as rallies on Lawyers Mall in Annapolis and in
Baltimore outside the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, known as
“SuperMax.”

Most of the spies’ reports were innocuous. After an Aug. 24, 2005,
gathering of the Evans group, an undercover officer wrote in a log: “The
meeting concluded with members talking about trying to get the man
running for Baltimore County State’s Attorney to commit to his plans
regarding the death penalty in the county.”

Baltimore County was responsible for more capital punishment cases than
any other Maryland jurisdiction at the time.

Another entry about the Evans group revealed that agents had spent 50
hours of “investigative time” shadowing its members in March, April and
May 2005. The entry mentioned that a May 25, 2005, meeting of the group
was attended by Max Obuszewski, a former Peace Corps member and longtime
activist who moved to Baltimore in 1983, and Terry Fitzgerald, who heads
the anti-death penalty coalition and established the Evans group.

Both attended yesterday’s news conference.

State police appeared to have been specifically tracking Obuszewski’s
activities. His name, the documents show, was entered into the
Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database, even
though there was “not a scintilla of evidence” that he deserved to be
listed, said Rocah, the ACLU attorney.

“Mr. Obuszewski has devoted his entire life to peace,” Rocah said. “If
there is anyone in the world who is further from a terrorist, it is hard
for me to imagine.”

Obuszewski agreed. “You cannot get more insulting than to call me a
terrorist,” he said. Besides, he went on, the groups he belongs to hold
open meetings and publicize their schedules. “Why would someone come to
those meetings and pretend to be someone else? Why are government
agencies targeting pacifists?”

One reason, he theorized, is that local police agencies need funds from
the federal government, and surveillance of supposed “terrorists” might
be a good way to keep getting the money. No matter the reason, the news
that the Bush administration keeps about 1 million names on a terrorist
watch-list is disheartening, Obuszewski said, since so many people
cannot possibly warrant inclusion.

In February 2006, the national ACLU and its affiliates filed multiple
federal Freedom of Information requests seeking records of Pentagon
surveillance of anti-war groups around the country. Using information
from a secret Pentagon database, NBC News reported that a unit of the
Department of Defense had been accumulating intelligence about domestic
organizations and their protest activities as part of a mission to track
“potential terrorist threats.”

“It serves no security purpose to infiltrate peaceful groups,” said
Michael German, a former FBI agent who specialized in counter-terrorism
and who joined the ACLU two years ago as policy counsel in its
Washington legislative office. “It completely misuses law enforcement
resources.”

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, German said, the government has
“actively encouraged” local police agencies to become intelligence
gatherers and to compile information that does not necessarily have a
connection to criminal activity.

Despite the fact that the Maryland infiltrators’ reports consistently
said the activists acted lawfully, agents continued to recommend that
the spying continue. Reports of the surveillance were sent to at least
seven federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, including the
National Security Agency, the police departments of Baltimore, Baltimore
County, Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, and the state General
Services police.

The documents released yesterday show the kind of information they were
trading. Among other things, Obuszewski and fellow activists arranged a
meeting with then-Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin in 2005 in which they asked
him to support a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.

Susan Goering, executive director of the ACLU of Maryland, said she
feared that the documents released so far “may be only the tip of the
proverbial iceberg.”

In a letter sent yesterday to Gov. Martin O’Malley, Goering wrote that
the state police had “recorded extensive information about specific
individuals and groups, including describing their political outlook,
whether they were articulate, what political activities they are engaged
in, and attended private planning meetings in a covert capacity.”

The only potentially unlawful activity mentioned anywhere in the
documents, she said, were two instances of nonviolent civil
disobedience. In one, activists refused to leave a guard station during
a protest at the National Security Agency after bringing cookies and
drinks for the guards, and in the other, they hatched a plan to place
photographs of soldiers who died in Iraq on the fence surrounding the
White House.

“Maryland residents should feel free to join a peaceful protest without
fear that their names will wind up in police files,” Goering wrote.
“They should feel free to engage in nonviolent dissent without fear of
being branded as ‘terrorists’ or ’security threat groups’ in shared
law-enforcement databases.”

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"

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