[Originally part of Morgan’s Reality Check]
This page will always be a work in progress. If you notice any dead or changed links, or have any suggested additions or comments, please contact me. Note that times are taken from the original source, and unless a time zone is given I’m not going to guess.
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News
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First-hand Accounts of the "New American Century"
- 2004-12-12: Mystery Cloaks Couple’s Firing as Risks to U.S. — a couple who’ve lived in the US for 18 years and who worked at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were fired for failing "secret background checks"
- 2004-11-12: School Talent Show Draws Secret Service — Colorado Band Singing Dylan Song Seen as Threatening President Bush
- 2004-10-21: To Be Silenced, Or Not to Be: That is the Question — An independent voter, when trying to see both VP candidates, "was summarily told [by the GOP] that if I wasn’t planning on voting for Bush, I wasn’t welcome."
- 2004-10-20: Shutting them up — in addition to the teacher’s mentioned below, this includes another story of differential treatment of protestors.
- 2004-10-15: Medford teachers thrown out of Bush rally (free registration required) — Campaign officials objected to their shirts, which read "Protect our civil liberties."
- 2004-10-02: Bush’s Police State — totalitarian incidents starting before 9/11 and continuing throu Sep 2004, with links to others
- 2004-09-05: Guantanamo on the Hudson and New York City follies…or, Guantanamo on the Hudson, part two — First hand accounts of what happened to those suspected of, well, almost anything, during the RNC.
- 2004-09-04: Utah man’s anti-Bush sticker prompts visit by Secret Service — "The black-and-white, postcard-sized paper printed off a Web site and taped on Derek Kjar’s car had a cartoonish depiction of Bush’s head wearing a crown, with the words ‘King George — off with his head.’"
- 2004-09-03: First They Came for the Protesters — "The biggest underreported story of the Republican National Convention…was this: how could 1,800 people be arrested when they had done nothing wrong with the exception of crowding the sidewalks or block traffic?"
- 2004-08-25: Tales of Big Brother — "What do a software engineer, an intern, and three young men in Missouri have in common? Each has been the target of the FBI’s efforts to intimidate political protesters before the party convention."
- 2004-08-17: Sen. Kennedy Flagged by No-Fly List — No one’s immune. *g*
- 2004-08-17: Ticket ripped because of sticker — "Bush campaign staffers tore up the 55-year-old social studies teacher’s ticket and refused her admission because she sported a small sticker on her blouse that touted the Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards." (orig. at static.record-eagle.com/2004/aug/17mead.htm, this article quotes that one.)
- 2004-08-16: You, Too, Could Be A Suspected Terrorist — just sharing a name with someone on the watch list can give you major headaches.
- 2004-08-16: Bush Camp Controlling Admission to Events — If you want to hear what your president has to say, you’d best not show any sign of not supporting him.
- 2004-08-09: Bush-backers-only policy riles voters at RNC rallies — loyalty oaths required to hear the VP speak in New Mexico.
- 2004-08-08: Fessing up to doctor costs drinker his license (a web search on the title will bring up other copies if you don’t want to subscribe)
- 2004-08-03: Bush rally was sad day for democracy — At a Bush appearance in Springfield, Missouri, anti-Bush protesters were moved 200 feet farther away than the pro-Bush ones, and protesters with tickets had them torn up and two were arrested (one for trespassing — on public land)
- 2004-07-31: Is This America? By Jim Hightower — A couple arrested (and one being "released" from her federal job) for "trespassing" while wearing "Love America, Hate Bush" t-shirts at an official presidential visit for which they had tickets…on Independence Day. (Follow-up: Federal lawsuit follows anti-Bush T-shirt arrests
- 2004-07-23: Secret Service’s visit to cartoonist ‘profoundly bad judgment’ — Los Angeles Times cartoonist questioned over a political cartoon
- 2004-07-02: I write badly, therefore I am a would-be terrorist by Charles C. Green, — A writer is put on the DHS watch-list for writing bad dialog
- 2004-05-27: Free Speech Zones In the USA? by Ward Reilly
- 2004-04-27: Secret Service questions student about anti-war drawings — 15-year-old questioned about anti-war drawings he did for an art class
- 2003-09-14: Fascism In The Name Of Security by Jimmy Breslin — You know things are getting bad when Irish-bashing is back in style.
- 2003-08-22: Write a Story, Go to Jail by Kim Zetter — Writing the wrong thing can get you arrested, too.
- 2003-07-17: Careful: The FB-eye may be watching by Marc Schultz — Reading the wrong thing in public can get you in trouble; Freelance writer gets questioned by the FBI — over a report that he was reading something "subversive"
- 2003-05-19: The View From the Middle of the Road by Liv Dillon, AlterNet — People arrested for watching a peaceful protest from across the street.
- 2003-04-28: Patriot Raid (and 2003-04-29) by Jason Halperin, AlterNet — Raid on an Indian restaurant in NY, where everyone inside was held at gunpoint for an hour and a half
- 2002-08-09: JFK airport security forces woman to drink own breast milk
- 2002-08-05: Soldier toy disarmed at airport — Is G.I. Joe on the no-fly list now?
- 2002-05-02: Big Brother Is Watching, Listening
- 2002-01-08: Political dissent can bring federal agents to door
Wilson/Plame: The unfolding saga of the outing of an undercover CIA operative
Links on the Wilson/Plame leak scandal have been moved their own page.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Politicians
- Bush Flatly Declares No Connection Between Saddam and al Qaeda (from a 2003-Jan-31 press conference, full official White House transcript)
- Bush’s Irrelevant Case for War, The Nation, 2003-Mar-07
- Defying the Security Council, CBC News Online, 2003-Mar-14: "One authoritative study shows at least 88 UN Security Council resolutions are currently being ignored by a dozen countries. … And there is a common factor … These have been allies of the United States and the non-enforcement has been a direct consequence of the U.S. support for these governments…"
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Ultimatums, a breakdown of the facts (and non-facts) in our Duly Appointed Leader’s speech of March 17. I was going to do something like this, but why reinvent the wheel when someone else has done such a good job?
Our Glorious Leaders
- America Admits Suspects Died in Interrogations, The Independent, 2003-Mar-07
- Pentagaon Threatens to Kill Independent Reporters in Iraq, 2003-Mar-10 (just so you know how unbiased the American reporters will be allowed to be)
- Perle Suing Over New Yorker Article, New York Sun, 2003-Mar-12, and the article Richard Perle is suing over, Lunch With The Chairman: Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi? by Seymour M. Hersh, 2003-Mar-10
Standing Up
- Actors’ guild condemns blacklist, 2003-Mar-05: At least someone seems to have learned the lessons of the McCarthy era.
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Opinions and Essays
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Civil Rights
- The day the Constitution died, Capitol Hill Blue, 2003-Mar-03: John Ashcroft’s fast-tracking of the PATRIOT Act after 9/11/01
- Patriot II’s Attack on Citizenship, CNN, 2003-Mar-06
- The Lie Of The U.S. Military: Tough gritty American soldiers protect freedom of liberal S.F. columnist? Or the other way around? SF Gate, 2003-Mar-07
Things They’d Rather We Didn’t Know (or wish we’d forget about)
- Public Letter to 9/11 Commission Chairman from FBI Whistleblower, 2004-Aug-01
- Bush Cultural Advisers Quit Over Iraq Museum Theft, 2003-Apr-17
- Reality Check: A New American Century, CBC News Online, 2003-03-17
- Spoon-feeding the press: The Bush administration’s unprecedented war on public information - and how the major news media are going along, The Guardian, 2003-Mar-(somewhere between 02 and 14)
- The Coming October War in Iraq, TruthOut.org, 2002-Jul-24
- Compare and contrast: 22 May 2001 Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban and 16 Nov 2001 White House to highlight Taliban treatment of women (especially Bush’s little comment about how the "Taliban government and al Qaeda … use heroin trafficking in order to fund their murder…" Like he didn’t know this six months earlier?)