June 24, 2005

My Interview on Flag Burning

As many of you know, one of my web sites is flagburning.org. So whenever the Republicans pass their annual constitutional amendment to take away flag burning I get some radio interviews. My good buddy Kevin Miller of WPTF Radio Raleigh NC calls me every time the flag burning issue comes up. I'm the guy the love to hate in the south, but this time there was less resistance to the idea of flag burning than there used to be. I think that the Patriot Act and the Bush administration is making people wake up and think twice about the issues of surrendering their freedoms.

This time I made a recording of my interview so that everyone can listen to the debate. The interview was 2 hours but after editing out the comercials it's only 50 minutes long (8.7mb). Several callers brought up important points that are worth thinking about.

One issue that people don't grasp is that once this passes, how will it be abused? For example, once it becomes a crime to desecrate the flag, then all they have to do is print a flag on anything and that becomes protected. So if they want you to carry a mandated ID card that has a tracking microchip in it, that card will have a flag on it. The microchip will also have a flag on it. So destroying the ID card will be construed as desecrating the flag. It is an anti-sedition law and every time we give up our freedoms we become less free. And if we turn this country into a nation that is no longer free then the flag no longer means anything. That to me is the worse form of desecration imaginable.

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June 23, 2005

America became more fascist today

Letter to the Editor

The Supreme Court has again expanded the power of the government at the expense of The People ruling that city governments can force home owners out of their homes so that the city can give their land to corporations for private development to generate tax revenue. We are no longer a country where the interests of The People outweigh the interests of corporations and of the government serving itself. Now WalMart can take your home if they bribe the right city council members to do so. Another sad day for America as it slides into becoming fascist state. I want to burn a flag while I still can.

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June 20, 2005

Porter Goss Claims He Has Idea Where Bin Laden Is

Letter to the Editor

Porter Goss, Bush's "Intelligence Czar" says he knows where Osama bin Laden is, but he's not saying right now. I know where he's hiding. Or should I say I know where Porter Goss thinks ne's is hiding. It's hardly a secret when you know how the Bush Cult thinks.

Porter Goss thinks bin Laden is hiding in Iran.

Why? How do I know this?

It's simple. Bush is in the process of putting together an invasion of Iran for the 2006 mid term elections (wag the dog) to distract the people again from the gutting of America by the Corporate/Dominion alliance. So in order to help justify this coming war they will need to put bin Laden in Iran. So that's where he is.

The way the intelligence community works in this administration is that the President tells them what he wants reality to be and then they go out and fabricate the story that supports the president's fiction.

Porter Goss is under orders from Bush to find bin Laden in Iran, so that's where he will be. By the time next summer rolls around, Osama bin Laden will have been discovered to be secretly in control of Iran and in control of their nuclear arsenal. And like Iraq, we will be required to go to war over it. I feel a draft coming.

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Democrats.com Seeks Apology for Washington Post Attack

For Immediate Release: June 19, 2005
For More Info: Bob Fertik http://democrats.com/contact
Web page: http://democrats.com/milbank

Democrats.com Seeks Apology for Washington Post Attack

On June 19, Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank attacked Democrats.com by name for the third time in 10 days.

Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com, replied in detail to Milbank's attack in his blog:
http://democrats.com/milbank

Fertik also sent a Letter to the Editor of the Post requesting an apology.

To the Editor:

Re: Memos, 'Wing Nuts' and 'Hit Lists' by Ombudsman Michael Getler, June 19

On behalf of more than 300,000 supporters of Democrats.com, I write to express my outrage over Dana Milbank's libelous charge that our "followers have long been harassing this and other reporters and their families with hateful, obscene and sometimes anti-Semitic speech."

Democrats.com strictly prohibits personal attacks and takes immediate action against anyone who violates this rule.

Mr. Milbank never documented any personal attacks from Democrats.com supporters, so I am appalled that you published the allegation as though it were factual, and did not ask me for a response to this despicable charge.

I therefore request an apology from the Washington Post.

Sincerely,

Bob Fertik

President

p.s. I have published this letter, and all background correspondence, on my blog at:
http://democrats.com/milbank

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This reminds me of a battle I had with Salon Magazine where one of their reporters, Jennifer Liberto, decided that I was the publisher of Media Whores Online and Bartcop was the writer. Salon refused to fix the story.

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June 19, 2005

Is The United States a Cult?

Are we Americans living in a cult? I have been working on my cult pages for my Church of Reality and I came across this really good 100 question cult test. It was written by a guy who was exposing Alcoholics Anonymous as a cult and focuses mostly on religious cults. But religions aren't the only cults. More common are nation cults. So take this test from the perspective of America as the test cult and see if you think we are living in a cult.

Posted by marc at 05:39 AM | Comments (0)

Gitmo Gulag

Letter to the Editor

Thank you Senator Durbin for finally standing up to tell the truth about America's torture chambers! It's about time someone is telling the truth the way it really is. When America acts like the Nazis, the Communists, and like power crazed third word dictators then it is a act of patriotism to stand up and call it like it is. At what point did telling the truth become a bad thing? At what point does telling the truth put our troops at risk? What puts Americans at risk is what the truth is. We really do torture people to death. It really is happening. We are not as bad as the Nazis, but we are heading in that direction. If stories about American torture camps is bad for America then what we need to do is stop doing the torture - and not trying to keep it a secret.

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