Posts Tagged ‘tyranny’
Do Americans Think We Face Tyranny?
Monday, 21 January 2013 03:00
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Via WeAreChange

Luke Rudkowski hits the streets of NYC to find out what people think about the possibility of Tyranny in the United States.

Source 2: Obama Poised to Restrict Protest Rights http://www.thenation.com/blog/166625/obama-poised-restrict-protest-rights#
Source 5: Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=print
Source 7: Relatives Sue Officials Over U.S. Citizens Killed by Drone Strikes in Yemen http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/world/middleeast/us-officials-sued-over-citizens-killed-in-yemen.html

 
Treason and Tyranny: Defense Attorney David Coombs Rallies Public Support at All Souls Unitarian Church
Monday, 14 January 2013 15:00
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David Coombs, Army Reservist, America Hater Photo: Tyler Bass, Washington Correspondent, The Internet Chronicle

On December 3rd,, 2012, David Coombs–Bradley Manning’s Attorney and an Army Reservist–spoke to a congregation near Mt. Pleasant, District of Columbia. He spoke for almost 90 minutes, part of which included a question period in which he answered questions from the press fed to him by members of the Bradley Manning Support Network, a group that has collected legal fees for the private suspected of leaking thousands of pages of data documenting war crimes, innocuous activity, the overclassification of information. Some call the Army Private a traitor; others, including Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, have called him a whistleblower. (Read more…)

“He told me that his dream would be to go to college to get a degree. And as a young man at that time he was 23. That makes sense. We all know that college degrees are pretty much the ticket to a productive future.” The Unitarian Church is notable for being one of the most educated denominations in the country, and certainly this line resonated well with attendees.

More at The Internet Chronicle.

 
Outrage over picture of Chinese forced abortion at nine months
Monday, 16 April 2012 23:12
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by Katerina Nikolas
Digital Journal
April 2, 2012

An image of a nine-month-old baby born as the result of a forced abortion and thrown in a bucket to die caused outrage when it was circulated on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, last week.

The forced abortion was carried out by Chinese family planning authorities in the town of Moshan, because the parents already had one child. Prison Planet reported the parents were hunted down and the mother injected with poison to induce an abortion. (Read more…) The report said after “the baby was ‘pulled out inhumanly like a piece of meat,’ it was still alive and began to cry before doctors slung the defenseless child into a bucket and left it to die.” According to a commentator on Beijing Shot monetary rewards are offered to women who agree to abort their children in order for family planning authorities to meet their targets. If the birth quota is exceeded then the whole village faces a penalty.

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