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FBI Should Investigate Bankers, Not Protesters

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 13:56 — Dave Culver

What we should do is continue to build our own evidence locker against the bankers, continue to announce their crimes to all who would hear, and keep risking arrest to get the truth out. Maybe we can finally turn the cops against the real bad guys.

 

Carl Gibson, Huffington Post

 

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Britain's Lord North forces tea down the throat of America (represented by a female figure) in a 1774 cartoon depicting retribution for the Boston Tea Party. (Library of Congress)

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  2. January 2, 2013 | Dec. 16, 2012 marked the 239th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, when activists clad in Native American costumes protested a tax code that benefited a multinational corporation at the cost of taxpayers, and committed one of the biggest acts of property destruction in history by dumping the East India Tea Company's product into the Boston Harbor by the crate-full. For nearly 50 years, the act was either shunned or ignored by the populace. But today, those activists' names are among the revered Founding Fathers of our country.

Yet while we celebrate the radical activists behind the Boston Tea Party, today's activists protesting corporate greed and a rigged tax system are labeled "terrorists" by the federal government and investigated as such. Last week, CNN reported what most of us in the movement already knew and assumed -- that the FBI had been closely monitoring the Occupy movement since its infancy and considered the movement's organizers a terrorist threat. And judging from a photo of my #S17 arrest in the CNN article's slideshow, it's safe to say I'm probably being closely monitored as well. Maybe they're reading this article. Maybe they'll at least learn something.

 

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Thu, 01/31/2013 - 12:48 — Dave Culver

 

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Bradley Manning's fight for justice

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 12:23 — Dave Culver

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Courage to Resist / Bradley Manning Support Network

 

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Pierce: 'This case is a mess, legally, ethically, morally and every other way.' (photo: Brendan)

 

January 23, 2013 | Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of releasing the Collateral Murder video, which shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He is also accused of sharing the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and series of embarrassing US diplomatic cables. 

 

These documents were published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, and they have illuminated such issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, along with a number of human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy. He has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his heroic and noble actions. For over 960 days he has been imprisoned without trial, 11 months of which were spent in solitary confinement at Quantico prison, where his treatment has since been judged to have amounted to unlawful pretrial punishment.

 

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In the Matter of Bradley Manning, Charles Pierce, Esquire

All of our clever improvisations have brought us face to face with legal and ethical failure...everywhere...we have tried to get out from under the commitments we have made to each other by submitting ourselves to the Constitution. We stopped trusting it, and then we stopped trusting each other, and look where that's gotten us. We look like fools, and worse.


 

 

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In the Matter of Bradley Manning

Sun, 01/27/2013 - 20:02 — Dave Culver

All of our clever improvisations have brought us face to face with legal and ethical failure ... everywhere ... we have tried to get out from under the commitments we have made to each other by submitting ourselves to the Constitution. We stopped trusting it, and then we stopped trusting each other, and look where that's gotten us. We look like fools, and worse.

 

Charles Pierce, Esquire

 

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Pierce: 'This case is a mess, legally, ethically, morally and every other way.' (photo: Brendan)

 

January 9, 2013 | A military judge named Colonel Denise Lind handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Bradley Manning, the Army private who's facing life in prison this March for having delivered various secret documents to WikiLeaks. It was the opinion of Colonel Lind that the United States government had imposed upon the imprisoned soldier a regime of incarceration that was "more rigorous than necessary," and, further, that some of Manning's treatment while in the brig, "became excessive in relation to legitimate government interests." For example:

 

Manning was kept alone in a windowless 6-by-8-foot cell for 23 hours a day and forced while on suicide watch to sleep in only a "suicide smock," which military officials said was standard procedure when inmates are believed to pose a risk to their own safety. In March 2011, after eight months of confinement, Manning had quipped sarcastically that he could kill himself with the elastic of his underwear if he wanted to. Manning, 25, has acknowledged contemplating suicide shortly after his arrest but said that he tried to convince guards for month that he was not a threat to himself or anyone else. At Quantico, he was monitored 24 hours a day, at times growing so bored and starved for companionship that he danced in his cell and played peekaboo with guards and with his image in the mirror - activity his defense attorney attributed to "being treated as a zoo animal."

 

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Glenn Greenwald | The Untouchables

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 17:02 — Dave Culver
  • Obama justice officials both shielded and feted these Wall Street oligarchs (who, just by the way, overwhelmingly supported Obama's 2008 presidential campaign) as they simultaneously prosecuted and imprisoned powerless Americans for far more trivial transgressions. 
  • A new PBS Frontline report examines how Obama's administration shielded Wall Street from prosecutions, a profound failure of justice that should be causing serious social unrest.

Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK

 

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January 23, 2013 | PBS' Frontline program on Tuesday night (1/22) broadcast a new one-hour report on one of the greatest and most shameful failings of the Obama administration: the lack of even a single arrest or prosecution of any senior Wall Street banker for the systemic fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis: a crisis from which millions of people around the world are still suffering. What this program particularly demonstrated was that the Obama justice department, in particular the Chief of its Criminal Division, Lanny Breuer, never even tried to hold the high-level criminals accountable.

 

What Obama justice officials did instead is exactly what they did in the face of high-level Bush era crimes of torture and warrantless eavesdropping: namely, acted to protect the most powerful factions in the society in the face of overwhelming evidence of serious criminality. Indeed, financial elites were not only vested with immunity for their fraud, but thrived as a result of it, even as ordinary Americans continue to suffer the effects of that crisis.

 

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Petar Pismestrovic | Sellotape / media.caglecartoons.com

Wed, 01/09/2013 - 15:11 — Dave Culver

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