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How Washington’s Right-Wing Wrecking Crew Robbed Us Blind
Conservatives have turned a vast government built for our protection into a device for exploiting us.
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system’s first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exists to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

Proof that Government Spying Is Not For Our Protection (Blog)
- The government’s spying on Americans began before 9/11
- The government has been spying on journalists from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications for years
- Some 8 million average Americans are now listed in government threat assessment databases as potentially suspect

Smokin’ Some Weed with Ron Paul (Blog)
The problem many people have with Congressman Ron Paul is his call for the decriminalization of marijuana.  This is not his cause celebre’, as my friend Roman Godzich points out, just a logical progression of his notion of personal freedom and personal responsibility.   But it is right there in his New York Times bestselling Revolution, for the whole world to read.

Chinese police drag away British journalist
Chinese police dragged away and roughed up a British journalist this morning as he was reporting on a protest by a group of foreigners demanding freedom for Tibet. [...] John Ray, the China correspondent for Independent Television News (ITN), was grabbed by police and forced to the ground before being bundled into a van. He was dragged along the ground, spreadeagled, his hands stamped on. Then his shoes were ripped off, apparently to try to prevent him from escaping.

Deported from China for documenting Free Tibet protests — IOC censors YouTube videos of protests
Fred sez, “My friend and fellow-NY-techer Noel ‘No-Neck’ Hidalgo was deported from China last week. He got rounded up as one of the people documenting the ‘Free Tibet’ protests in Tienanmen square. His Facebook regarding his deportation have also been censored. I’ve just posted his video and information about his Facebook updates and also a discussion about the IOC censoring YouTube videos recorded in NYC of the Free Tibet protests.”