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VOLUME III NUMBER 30 AUGUST 11, 2003 www.americanfreepress.net $1.50 EACH Voting Machines Exposed Prisoners Experts Cast Doubt on Veracity of Computer Voting Brutalized An independent team of computer experts has exposed how electronic voting machines In Baghdad are insecurely programmed and are vulnera- ble to hackers who can manipulate data and steal elections without leaving a trace. Gulag Prison
EXCLUSIVE TO AMERICAN FREE PRESS Former prisoners and aid workers By Christopher Bollyn provide insight into the brutal living conditions of those held in makeshift team of computer security experts has examined the software that runs one of the leading touch- prison camps in Iraq. screen voting systems currently being used in the A United States and discovered “significant security EXCLUSIVE TO AMERICAN FREE PRESS flaws.” The voting system examined fell “far below even the By Gordon Thomas most minimal security standards.” Three experts from the Information Security Institute ach prisoner receives six pints of dank, (ISI) at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a fourth tepid water a day. He uses it to wash and from Rice University in Houston analyzed the source code— drink in summer noonday temperatures of programming that makes up software which runs a comput- E120 degrees Fahrenheit. He is not allowed er system—found on a publicly available web site belonging to wash his clothes. He is provided with a small cup to Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems Inc. (DESI). of delousing powder to deal with the worst of his body infestation. Bob Urosevich heads DESI. His brother Todd is a vice PHOTO BY DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES president at a competing company, Omaha-based Election For the slightest infringement of draconian rules he is forced to sit in painful positions. If he cries out Systems & Software. These two companies count nearly 80 An access card is used to begin the voting process on in protest his head is covered with a sack for lengthy percent of the votes cast in the United States. an AccuVote-TS electronic machine during a demon- The Hopkins group and other experts believe the “source periods. stration. Experts have raised doubts (as has AFP since This is daily life in America’s shameful Gulag— code” they examined is used in Diebold’s direct recording its first issues) as to the reliability of computer voting. electronic (DRE) AccuVote-TS (touch screen) voting system. Camp Cropper on the outskirts of Baghdad Smart cards, above, for instance, can be easily tam- International Airport. (See SCIENTISTS CONCERNED, Page 15) pered with. Except for guards and prisoners, only the International Red Cross is allowed inside. They are THE INSIDE SCOOP: Page 2: News You May Have Missed. • Page 4: Iraq Intervention a forbidden to describe what they see. But some of its staff have broken ranks—to tell Flashback to Vietnam Bled by House to the Tune of $2 Billion. • Page 7: Veterans’ Medical Care • Page 7: Roll Call: Amnesty International (AI), the London-based Find Out How Your Congressman Voted on Slashing the VA’s Budget. • Page 8: Spotlight on Congress: Major Blow human rights watchdog, of the shocking conditions Struck at Patriot Act; Bill to Buy Cheap Drugs from Canada, Mexico Approved; Rash of Free Trade Deals Approved. the 3,000 Iraqi prisoners are held under. • Page 10: Critics of Israel Smeared as Racists, Nazis. • Page 12: Christians Take On Zionism and Its Supporters. None had been charged with any offense. They are listed as suspected “looters” and “rioters.” Or • Page 12: Demjanjuk’s Defender Tries to Recoup Some of His Losses. • Page 16: Classifieds. Page 18: Letters. listed as “loyal to Saddam Hussein.” Every day more prisoners are crowded into the U.S. GIs Proposal to Hungry Fed American- broiling, dusty compound. Surrounded by 10-foot- Used in Buy From Beast Anglo Aims high razor wire, they live in tents that are little pro- Bio-Chem U.S. First Gobbles Up Go Way tection against the blistering sun. They sleep 80 to Tests. Attacked. Tax Dollars. Back. a tent on wafer-thin mats. Each prisoner has a long-handled shovel to dig Page 3. Page 8. Page 9. Page 3. his own latrine. Some are too old or weak to dig the ordered depth of three feet. Others find they have (See IRAQI POWs LIVE, Page 3) 2 AMERICAN FREE PRESS August 11, 2003 Feds Won’t Enforce Bans on
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But Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld vetoed the proposal. EXCLUSIVE TO AMERICAN FREE PRESS Meanwhile the senior CIA agent in Mosul had con- By Gordon Thomas tacted his headquarters at Langley. George Tenet, the CIA director, approved the “basic feasibility” of the pro- furious row has broken out between the CIA posed tear gas attack. and the Pentagon over why tear gas—or A CIA source said that Tenet was convinced that tak- another non-lethal agent—was not used to ing Saddam’s sons alive would be “a major public rela- A capture Saddam Hussein’s sons alive. tions coup. We could show them on TV. They would Using sophisticated listening equipment from a speak. There could be no further doubt who they were. Black Hawk helicopter, the CIA agents on the ground in Afterward we could squeeze them for the whereabouts Mosul, northern Iraq, had established that Uday of their father and any weapons of mass destruction.” Hussein, 39, and Qusay Hussein, 36, were in the house The CIA had already set up a secret interrogation with only one bodyguard and Qusay’s 14-year-old son, center for Saddam and his sons at Bagram in Mustafa. Afghanistan. They would be held in converted freight Earlier they had given a written promise to the house The above picture shows a missile striking the com- trucks, under constant bright lights. A team of top CIA owner, Nawaf al-Zaidan, a 50-year-old Mosul merchant. plex where Saddam’s sons were hiding out. The Army interrogators and psychologists was on standby to grill He would receive a $30 million bounty for betraying says the missile that is pictured exploding in the front them. Saddam’s sons. He and his family would also be given a of the building killed at least one of the brothers. But Rumsfeld refused to budge. He told Tenet that new life in America under the Witness Protection there “might be tunnels under the house through which Program. It could include facial surgery to change their dictator. Uday and Qusay turned up a week ago. They Saddam’s sons could escape.” And he reminded the CIA identities. took over the upper floor of the house. It had access to chief of President Bush’s “dead or alive” policy when it Nawaf provided the agents with a floor plan of his the flat roof. came to Saddam and his sons. home. To avoid arousing the suspicion of Saddam’s sons, Operating from a bombed-out nearby building, the “Better be sure,” said Rumsfeld as he hung up on he was told to return to the house. U.S. agents had watched the house being fortified by Tenet. Nawaf’s plot to betray Saddam’s sons was carefully machine guns and grenades. The CIA team was advised The CIA director was still on the phone to his senior prepared. A month ago he had been approached by one that the building’s large windows and open-plan interi- agent in Mosul when the firestorm began. of Saddam’s aides to see if he would make the house or were ideal for a concerted tear gas attack. It raged for six hours. There were four American available for “important guests.” Nawaf later told the They urged this upon the commander of Task Force casualties. The last to die in the house was Qusay’s son, CIA he thought it might be Saddam. 20, the Special Forces team created especially to hunt Mustafa. He was found shot in the head while hiding in He covered the walls of his home with photos of the down Saddam Hussein and his family. Predominantly a a bathroom. ★ Iraqi POWs Live Like ‘Animals’ in Camp Cropper (Continued from Page 1) prisoners to be released, Adnan Jassim. his client is being held in contravention of the Geneva excavated pits already used. “Tariq Aziz has aged very much in the past months in Convention and the Human Rights Act. The overpowering stench in this hellhole is suffocat- the camp. He shuffles and has a stoop,” said Jassim. “I spent a week in Baghdad, but I was not allowed to ing. “Add to sleep deprivation and physical abuse you “This may be because he has to dig his own toilet hole. see my client,” said al-Ani. “I know the conditions he is have highly degrading conditions which are tantamount It is forbidden for anyone to help him to do this. He is being held under from those who have been released. It to torture and gross abuse of human rights,” said Curt treated just like anyone else—an animal to be driven is outrageous what is happening.” Goering, deputy director of AI. wherever the guards want him. “Chemical Sally’s” family is also planning legal He confirmed that AI had received “credible reports” “His hair has grown. It is very dirty. He gets no spe- moves to have her freed. They have submitted evidence of detainees who had died in custody, “mostly as a result cial treatment: The same terrible food. Mostly he eats to the Americans that she has breast cancer and has to of shooting by members of the coalition forces.” very little of it. It is hard to believe he was second to continue treatments. Camp Cropper also houses a growing number of what Saddam, the most powerful man in Iraq,” said Jassim. Her mother, Kasmah Ammash, a frail 70-year-old, are listed as “special prisoners.” They include the former Jassim was arrested the day after the war officially said: “My daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer in deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, Saadiun Hammadi, ended. He insists that he was stopped for speeding. the late ’80s. She went to Pittsburgh for chemotherapy the former speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, and Ezzar “The Americans just fired at my car. Then they threw and underwent a mastectomy. Before she was arrested Ibrahim, the son of Saddam’s second in command on the me into a truck and took me to the camp. At the gate I she was undergoing further follow-up treatment. How Revolutionary Command Council. had a badge pinned to my shirt. It said ‘presumed killer.’ can they be so cruel?” A woman “special” is Huda Ammash—known as I have never even fired a gun, let alone killed anyone,” AI said it urged the coalition forces to look into alle- “Chemical Sally,” because she was a key member of Jassim insisted. gations and to convict those found guilty of offenses. Saddam’s chemical and biological weapons program. AI’s human rights workers and Red Cross officials “The Americans have acknowledged there are some The week before he allegedly committed suicide, Dr. have gathered statements from the few prisoners who serious problems,” said Goering. “But there is a differ- David Kelly, the English scientist, had prepared ques- have been released. One detainee, Suheil Laibbi ence of opinion on what laws apply.” tions he planned to put to her when he returned to Iraq Mohammed, who used to work as a mechanic, repairing Nada Doumani, the International Red Cross to assist in the search for weapons of mass destruction. Saddam’s fleet of cars, said he had seen prisoners spokesman in Baghdad, said: “We never comment on the “Chemical Sally” sleeps in a tent with other women repeatedly hit with rifle butts. conditions at the detention centers.” members of the Ba’ath Party. Like the men, they are not Detainees described being given food that is inedible Doumani added: “The Geneva Convention is clear allowed to wash their underwear—and several have to Muslims. Most of the meat was pork. “But it was about the obligations that exist for legal advice and vis- developed sores, according to a Red Cross visitor. either eat it or starve,” said Rafed Adel Mehdi. its. If someone is being held as a POW, then there is a After two months incarceration none of the “special Aziz’s wife, Zureida, and his two sons fled to Jordan legal obligation to allow him or her access to legal prisoners” has been told what charges he or she will when the war ended. advice. But if they are held as a civilian, that does not face—though several, like Aziz, had surrendered volun- In London their family lawyer, Dr. Abdul Haq al-Ani, apply. A tribunal has been set up to decide which cate- tarily to the Americans. wants to serve a writ of habeas corpus on Britain’s gory each person in the camp fits into. Until their work A glimpse of his life now has come from one of the few embattled Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, arguing that is complete, we can say no more.” ★ 4 AMERICAN FREE PRESS August 11, 2003
ANALYSIS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Iraq Intervention Reminds Many Of Conditions in Vietnam Conflict What could be the longest and blood- Does this sound familiar? It should, since it is the same type of warfare that the iest phase of the war against Iraq is now U.S. found itself fighting four decades ago in Vietnam. RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES under way: guerrilla warfare. In the beginning small bands of Viet Cong guerrillas attacked and ambushed U.S. units, causing a few EXCLUSIVE TO AMERICAN FREE PRESS deaths, which escalated as the enemy gained strength By Mike Blair and was able to field large numbers of troops in heavy engagements. t has become clear to military analysts why the Many people predict this is what is going to happen forces of Saddam Hussein were so easily defeated in in Iraq, unless the Pentagon is able to come up with a ground battles during the invasion phase of hostili- plan to halt the Iraqi irregulars, which will be no easy Ities in Iraq. feat. Weapons and ammunition—as many predicted— Just like in Vietnam, U.S. and other coalition forces were buried all over the country in well-hidden caches. continuously locate enemy weapons caches, but the Iraqi troops, whose commanders were aware they could problem is that the Iraqi guerrillas find it easy to replace A rocket-propelled grenade explodes close to a U.S. not defeat U.S. air power and ground forces, may have them. Weapons and ammunition suppliers, friendly to Army vehicle during clashes in the northern Iraq city cast aside their uniforms and “gone underground” to the Iraqi guerrillas, can, without great difficulty, ship of Mosul. Every day, U.S. soldiers are being targeted fight another day as guerrillas. them into Iraq from Syria, Jordan, Iran and Saudi by Iraqi guerrillas. U.S. forces in Iraq say these guerrillas are making Arabia. about a dozen attacks each day on U.S. troops alone and The guerrillas’ leaders—whether Saddam Hussein American military bogged down in. Unless some solu- others on British forces in regular warfare, as well as on himself or his former underlings—realize that if they tion is found, the casualty figures will continue to Iraqis friendly to the occupation troops. can keep up the daily pressure on U.S. forces they will mount. As this issue goes to press a total of 164 U.S. soldiers eventually wear down the will of the American people, This is why last week this newspaper editorially have died thus far in Iraq, 17 more than were killed in just like the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese did. called for America to “Get Out of Iraq.” the 1991 Gulf War. With that Vietnam experience still fresh in the col- The search for a solution is going to become more and That the Iraqi conflict has become a guerrilla war–as lective memory of the American people it did not take more critical for the Bush White House as the 2004 pres- first reported in this newspaper–is now admitted by all long for the public to take a dim view of heavy U.S. loss- idential election draws closer. competitors and observers. es in Lebanon in 1983 during the administration of Already there have been major drops in Bush’s popu- It was hoped by U.S. forces that the guerrilla warfare Ronald Reagan and 10 years later in Somalia under Bill larity, as evidenced by numerous polls. This precipitous would lessen after the deaths of Hussein’s sons, Uday Clinton. U.S. troops were hastily brought home from decline will continue to get worse as the casualty figures and Qusay, in a four-hour gun battle in the city of Mosul those two hostile environments. mount. and as coalition forces seemed to be closing in on There is little doubt that Iraqi guerrilla leaders are President Bush is going to find that the battle for Hussein himself. But this appears not to be the case. playing the same game, hoping they will be able to Iraq had not been accomplished by major land and air The guerrilla attacks on U.S. soldiers continue with no weaken the resolve of the U.S. military, whose morale is battles last spring. Who won the war will not even be signs of ceasing. already low. decided in Iraq but instead in the living rooms of The Pentagon now estimates that U.S. forces will be The Bush administration will not find an easy solu- American homes, as the people grow weary of casualty needed in Iraq until at least the end of 2004. tion to the Iraqi quagmire that it has gotten the figures. ★ A Bestseller in Europe! POPULAR COLLECTOR’S ISSUE OF FROM THE TBR BOOK CLUB THE BARNES REVIEW NOW ON SALE! September/October 1999: America’s First Accidental President Few if any even think about 100 Million People John Tyler any more, yet Tyler may have been one of America’s toughest presidents. And even fewer know the strange way he came to power. Find out in this exposé on a true populist hero who was Murdered Since 1914 nearly impeached by his enemies. 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EXCLUSIVE TO AMERICAN FREE PRESS A test called “Blue Tango” involved the spraying of By Mike Blair two types of bacteria, including E. coli, in a rainforest in Hawaii in 1968 to determine how long the germs would housands of unknowing U.S. soldiers have linger in the vegetation. been used as guinea pigs in top-secret tests of It is possible, although the Pentagon has not admit- the effectiveness of biological and chemical ted it, that since the tests took place at the peak of the T weapons, according to reports that have recent- war in Vietnam that there was consideration being ly leaked out of the Pentagon. given to utilize such biological agents against the Viet While it has been known for some time that GIs were Cong and North Vietnamese operating from the jungles In the 1960s, the Pentagon conducted Project SHAD, used to test the dangers from deadly radiation from of Vietnam and neighboring Laos and Cambodia. “Shipboard Hazard and Defense,” a series of secret atomic bombs during tests in the western U.S. deserts tests on the effects of chemical and biological at- and Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the use of American sol- According to reports out of the tacks on military naval vessels. The program in- diers to test the effectiveness of chemical and biological volved 109 planned tests to identify warship vulnera- weapons as recently as 1973 has only now become Pentagon the U.S. military conducted bilities and to develop methods to defend against known. 50 top secret tests involving 5,842 GIs these types of attacks. Nearly 6,000 GIs were turned According to reports out of the Pentagon the U.S. mil- into guinea pigs, many of them unwittingly. itary conducted 50 top secret tests involving 5,842 GIs between 1962 and 1973. between 1962 and 1973. Many had no knowledge that This series of tests was not the first time that Amer- they were being used in the tests, which included the Another experiment, dubbed “Folded Arrow,” in- ican troops have been used as guinea pigs in chemical release of deadly nerve gas in Alaska and Hawaii. volved spraying Bacillus globigii from a submarine near warfare experiments. Some tests utilized the release of bacteria and caus- Oahu, Hawaii, to determine how the deadly Venezuelan Between World War I—when chemical mustard gas tic chemicals and there were experiments to determine equine encephalitis—similar to the so-called West Nile and phosgene were introduced—and World War II, GIs if submarines could be used to release biological or virus that has appeared in this country—could be car- were used to conduct tests of these caustic gases, chemical weapons. ried by the wind. although they were never used on the battlefield by Project Shad and Project 112, as they were named by Headquartered at Desert Test Center at Fort Doug- either side during World War II. the Pentagon, were started in 1961 to study the combat las, Utah, tests of the biological and chemicals were Some experts believe the horrible Spanish flu pan- uses of biological and chemical weapons and methods to undertaken in Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland (where the demic that swept the world in 1917-18 and killed mil- protect troops from exposure. It was long believed that Army’s top-secret biological laboratory is located at Fort lions of people was a biological warfare experiment that the military used only simulated agents in its tests but Detrick), Florida, Utah, Georgia, Panama, Canada, got out of hand. The first signs of the terrible disease it is now known that actual chemical and biological Britain and ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific appeared among U.S. troops. ★ weapons were utilized. oceans. Social Security The Civil War: Road to Tyranny Withholding Scam
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Listen to a recording by calling toll free 1-800-433-9553 or visit our web site at www.johnellis.com August 11, 2003 AMERICAN FREE PRESS 7 House Bleeds Vets’ Medical Care Budget Veterans health care funding has I have never met such patriotic, dedicated and com- been slaughtered in Congress’s rush to mitted young men. To a man, each wanted to be back in Iraq with his Veterans fund its own pet pork projects. buddies, with his unit. One young man, who had lost both legs and an arm, was just staring at the ceiling, By Ronald Conley obviously wondering how he would be able to cope with Concerns living. n July 25, the House of Representatives broke Another young man from Pennsylvania wasn’t star- faith with our nation’s veterans by removing ing at anything. He was blind. One leg had been ampu- the 15 million who fought in Korea and Vietnam. $1.8 billion from the VA medical appropria- tated and his arm mangled. Today, we have soldiers in more than 130 countries tions bill it had agreed to in April. Another had his leg crushed by a tank. waging a war on terrorism whose end is not yet in sight. O Each of them, like thousands of their brothers and At a time when our nation is engaged in a worldwide During the past 60 years, nearly every family in war on terrorism, and 200,000 veterans from previous sisters in previous wars, was passing through Walter America has sent one or more of their sons and daugh- wars are still standing in line for medical care, Congress Reed on their way, eventually, to a VA hospital, joining ters to fight somewhere in defense of freedom. Don’t you decided that funding 1,000 pork barrel projects was those in the long, long line waiting for care because the think that the very least we owe them is adequate med- more important than ensuring that veterans receive system is desperately under funded. ical care provided in a timely manner? timely, quality medical care. Where in the name of God I suggest that Congress make a point of visiting No community is untouched by war. Somewhere in are their priorities? Walter Reed and the local VA hospitals in Washington— your neighborhood there flies a blue star banner, or gold We have money to repair a statue of the Roman god they are right up the street from where they voted to star banner, signifying a sacrifice made by a family on Vulcan in Birmingham, Ala. We have money to pay for a destroy the VA medical budget. the altar of freedom. Do you think that these families— bike trail in North Dakota. We have money to fund a These men and women are not merely statistics. do you think that these Americans—will stand idly by Nevada helicopter company that performs Elvis imper- They are the human toll taken by war, and we owe them while Congress refuses to fully care for those who bore sonator “weddings.” And yet we have neither the heart first priority in any budget decision made on behalf of the battle? nor the will to ensure that all U.S. veterans receive the the American people. I don’t think so. medical care they earned and we owe them. The inevitable result of Congress ignoring its duty America will not accept this VA budget. We will take This is outrageous and I cannot believe the American and breaking its promise will be deprivation for those this fight directly to the people and there will be no people will stand for this. who have paid the price for freedom. I can’t help but armistice until every veteran, everywhere, receives the During the past year, I’ve visited more than 60 VA wonder what is happening to the moral fiber of our medical care so richly deserved. ★ hospitals. Last month I visited a military hospital in country when those we have elected turn their backs on Germany that was receiving three plane loads of the bravest of the brave. Ronald Conley is national commander of the 2.8-mil- wounded veterans a day. In 2004, the United States will be dedicating a lion member American Legion, the nation’s largest vet- Last week, I visited several hundred more wounded memorial to the 16 million men and women who partic- erans organization. soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington. ipated in World War II. We already have memorials for See if Your Congressman Sold Out Ailing Veterans
On July 25, the House passed appropriations legislation (H.R. 2861), by a vote of 316 to 109, which cut funding to Veterans Administration medical services by almost $2 billion.
YES: 316 Cannon Edwards Hoekstra Linder Ney Ross Thompson (MS) Boozman Hooley (OR) Sensenbrenner Abercrombie Cantor Ehlers Holden Lipinski Northup Rothman Thornberry Boswell Hostettler Simmons Ackerman Capito Emanuel Holt Lofgren Norwood Roybal-Allard Tiahrt Bradley (NH) Hyde Smith (MI) Aderholt Capps Emerson Houghton Lowey Nunes Royce Tiberi Brown (OH) Inslee Smith (NJ) Andrews Capuano Engel Hoyer Lucas (KY) Olver Ruppersberger Tierney Brown-Waite, Ginny Jackson (IL) Smith (WA) Baca Cardin Eshoo Hulshof Lucas (OK) Ortiz Rush Towns Burgess Janklow Solis Bachus Cardoza Etheridge Hunter Lynch Osborne Sabo Turner (TX) Burns John Stark Baker Castle Everett Isakson Majette Ose Sanchez, Linda T. Upton Carson (IN) Johnson (CT) Baldwin Chabot Farr Israel Maloney Otter Sanchez, Loretta Van Hollen Carson (OK) Johnson (IL) Strickland Ballance Clay Fattah Issa Manzullo Owens Sanders Visclosky Carter Jones (NC) Tancredo Ballenger Clyburn Ferguson Istook Markey Oxley Sandlin Vitter Case Kind Tanner Barton (TX) Cole Foley Jackson-Lee (TX) Marshall Pallone Saxton Walden (OR) Chocola King (NY) Tauscher Bass Collins Ford Jefferson Matheson Pascrell Schiff Walsh Coble Kline Toomey Becerra Cox Fossella Jenkins Matsui Pastor Scott (GA) Wamp Conyers Kucinich Turner (OH) Bell Cramer Frank (MA) Johnson, E. B. McCarthy (MO) Payne Scott (VA) Waters Costello Langevin Udall (CO) Bereuter Crane Frelinghuysen Johnson, Sam McCarthy (NY) Pearce Serrano Watson Davis (CA) Larsen (WA) Udall (NM) Berkley Crenshaw Frost Jones (OH) McDermott Pelosi Sessions Waxman Davis (IL) Lee Velazquez Berman Crowley Gallegly Kanjorski McGovern Pence Shadegg Weiner Davis (TN) Lewis (KY) Watt Berry Cubin Gibbons Kaptur McHugh Peterson (MN) Shaw Weldon (FL) Davis, Jo Ann LoBiondo Wexler Biggert Culberson Gilchrest Keller McKeon Peterson (PA) Shays Weldon (PA) DeFazio McCollum Bishop (GA) Cummings Gillmor Kelly McNulty Petri Sherman Weller DeGette McCotter Bishop (NY) Cunningham Gingrey Kennedy (MN) Meehan Pickering Sherwood Whitfield Delahunt McInnis NOT VOTING: 10 Bishop (UT) Davis (AL) Gonzalez Kennedy (RI) Meek (FL) Pitts Shimkus Wicker English McIntyre Cooper Blumenauer Davis (FL) Goode Kildee Meeks (NY) Platts Shuster Wilson (SC) Evans Michaud Fletcher Blunt Davis, Tom Goodlatte Kilpatrick Menendez Pombo Simpson Wolf Feeney Miller (FL) Gephardt Boehlert Deal (GA) Gordon King (IA) Mica Porter Skelton Woolsey Filner Moran (KS) Green (TX) Boehner DeLauro Goss Kingston Millender-McDonald Portman Slaughter Wu Flake Murphy Hinchey Bonilla DeLay Granger Kirk Miller (MI) Price (NC) Smith (TX) Wynn Forbes Musgrave McCrery Bonner DeMint Graves Kleczka Miller (NC) Pryce (OH) Snyder Young (AK) Franks (AZ) Nussle Oberstar Bono Deutsch Greenwood Knollenberg Miller, Gary Putnam Souder Young (FL) Garrett (NJ) Obey Ros-Lehtinen Boucher Diaz-Balart, L. Hall Kolbe Miller, George Quinn Spratt Gerlach Paul Sullivan Boyd Diaz-Balart, M. Harman LaHood Mollohan Radanovich Stearns NOS: 109 Green (WI) Pomeroy Brady (PA) Dicks Harris Lampson Moore Rahall Stenholm Akin Grijalva Ramstad Wilson (NM) Brady (TX) Dingell Hastert Lantos Moran (VA) Rangel Stupak Alexander Gutierrez Renzi Brown (SC) Doggett Hastings (FL) Larson (CT) Murtha Regula Sweeney Allen Gutknecht Rodriguez Brown, Corrine Dooley (CA) Hastings (WA) Latham Myrick Rehberg Tauzin Baird Hart Rogers (MI) Burr Doolittle Hayes LaTourette Nadler Reyes Taylor (MS) Barrett (SC) Hayworth Ryan (OH) Burton (IN) Doyle Herger Leach Napolitano Reynolds Taylor (NC) Bartlett (MD) Hefley Ryan (WI) Buyer Dreier Hinojosa Levin Neal (MA) Rogers (AL) Terry Beauprez Hensarling Ryun (KS) Calvert Duncan Hobson Lewis (CA) Nethercutt Rogers (KY) Thomas Bilirakis Hill Schakowsky Camp Dunn Hoeffel Lewis (GA) Neugebauer Rohrabacher Thompson (CA) Blackburn Honda Schrock 8 AMERICAN FREE PRESS August 11, 2003
“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” —Emiliano Zapata
on Congress Blow Struck at Patriot Act he House voted 309-118 on July 22 to strip one of the most tyrannical provisions from the “USA Patriot” Act: the power to search your T home or office and not tell you until long after- ward, if at all. This sharp rebuke to Attorney General John Ash- croft, a staunch defender of the act who wants to expand by their governments. By allowing Americans to buy re- it even more, came as an amendment to a $37.9 billion imported drugs, the industry argued that it would be bill funding the departments of Commerce, State and denied profits that are partially used to develop new Justice. House and Senate conferees are trying to ham- medications. mer out a final measure. It is true that it requires big bucks to develop a med- The amendment was sponsored by Reps. C.L. Otter icine from the research stage through the years-long (R-Idaho) and Ron Paul (R-Tex.). Paul was the leading process of trials and obtaining FDA approval. But it is opponent of the act when it was passed in October 2001 also true that often the government funds such research in response to the 9-11 terrorist attacks. and no profit is returned to taxpayers. The Virginia Taxpayers Association said the action The drug industry was shocked. Until the lopsided was a “sharp rebuke” to Ashcroft because he “has con- DUNCAN HUNTER JIMMY HOFFA JR. 243-186 vote, drug lobbyists, who throw millions of dol- sistently backed this unconstitutional act” which Under pressure. With us or against us. lars at lawmakers, boasted of having “votes to spare.” It “proves that he and the Bush administration have been will be politically difficult for the Senate to refuse to go using the 9-11 disasters to bring in a national police New York Times. “This is a warning shot, a red flag. We along and for the president to veto the measure. Elderly state.” need to have domestic sources for critical military com- Americans are the largest population of prescription BUY AMERICAN ponents.” drug users—and voters. Statesmen are an endangered species in Washington, Hunter’s campaign got a boost from an unlikely The legislation is part of a larger Medicare reform so the actions of Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who source—a Swiss company that benefits from the buy- package that House and Senate conferees are negotiat- rejected the internationalists by forcing a “buy Ameri- abroad policy. Switzerland, a neutral nation, blocked ing. can” provision into a defense spending bill (AFP, July 28, delivery of grenades to British troops during the inva- The Senate version allows re-imports from Canada 2003) is refreshing. sion of Iraq. exclusively, and then only if certified “safe” by the gov- The amendment has outraged Pentagon bureaucrats “The British went into battle in Iraq without a full ernment. and multinational corporations but was hailed by the grenade load,” Hunter told The Washington Times. The showdown over Medicare reforms, including the domestic steel, apparel, footwear, shipbuilding and some Whatever the merits—or lack of merits—of the Iraqi re-imported drugs provision, will be dealt with after electronic industries. war, refusing to allow a company to fulfill its contractu- Congress returns from its August recess. Military contractors opposed to “buying American” al obligation demonstrates a glaring vulnerability when ‘FREE’ TRADE DEALS APPROVED had contributed lavishly to Hunter’s past campaigns. the United States depends on foreigners for military The House approved “free” trade agreements with They were outraged to learn they had failed to buy the goods. Chile and Singapore July 24 in the biggest such deal chairman of House Armed Services Committee. They Swatch Group AG and its Micro Crystal division in since NAFTA made Ross Perot a prophet with his warn- are now trying to "unsell" “buying American” to John Gretchen, Switzerland, refused to send key components ing that Americans would hear “a giant sucking sound” Warner (R-Va.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services used in a satellite-guided bomb’s guidance system to as industry went south. Committee. Honeywell, which is a subcontractor to Boeing in mak- It was a major victory for the Bush administration, Hunter, a former Army Ranger, has long advocated a ing the tail kits for the bombs. whose officials hope it opens the door for two-way agree- strong military and typically agrees to most Pentagon “The Swiss experience—where British ground forces ments with two dozen other counties and, in 2005, the funding requests. found their grenade supply cut off because Switzerland “Free Trade Area of the Americas”—which would “If the American worker is going to pay for the disagreed with our Iraq policy and Americans were include the entire Western Hemisphere except Cuba. defense of the free world, he should participate fully in denied critical components for our most important “What you will see Congress voting on . . . is what we the manufacture of military goods,” Hunter told The weapons—should raise a red flag with security-minded hope will be the first in a series of agreements,” Robert Americans,” Hunter said. Zoellick, U.S. trade representative, said before the The Senate version of the bill has no “buy-American” House roll call. provision, but Hunter is fighting hard to keep his Chile and Singapore would be the fifth and sixth free- amendment in the conference report, which each cham- trade agreements for the United States. The Bush ber will have to approve. administration wants to add Australia, Morocco, five CHEAP DRUGS APPROVED countries in Central America and five in southern Africa The House passed legislation July 25 that would in the next two years. allow Americans to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Organized labor strongly opposed the deals because Canada and two dozen other countries—a rare and they would cost Americans jobs, as graphically demon- resounding defeat for President Bush and the powerful strated by NAFTA. Teamsters leader James Hoffa drug industry. threatened to withhold union support for lawmakers, A large number of Republicans bucked the White including Democrats, who vote for the agreements. House, the wealthy drug lobby and the Food and Drug “You are either with the American worker or against Administration to make cheaper drugs available. the American worker,” Hoffa said. If the Senate agrees, consumers could buy prescrip- But the deals were approved by wide margins, 272- tion drugs that are made in America but sold overseas 155 for Singapore and 270-156 for Chile. at much lower prices. Many Americans could save hun- The Senate, generally more supportive of such agree- RON PAUL JOHN ASHCROFT dreds to thousands of dollars annually. ments than the House, is expected to cast a final vote on Trimming Patriot Act. Wants more power. The cheaper prices in other countries are mandated the deals shortly, an aide said. ★ August 11, 2003 AMERICAN FREE PRESS 9 Federal Beast Hungry for Your Daily Bread The good news is Americans are over the hump when it comes to paying a por- tion of their salaries to the government. Straight Talk The bad news is, today, Americans have Ron Paul to work even longer before the money they earned is actually theirs. percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. By Rep. Ron Paul For those who desperately want to see the size and scope of the federal government reduced, the first Bush
ccording to Americans for Tax Reform, a tax term is a very serious disappointment. PHOTO BY ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES watchdog group, Americans finally worked Spending levels are approximately 22 percent higher enough this year to pay their whopping bills to than when Clinton left office. Health care spending has A the government. July 11 earned the dubious increased 36 percent in three years, education spending distinction as “Cost of Government Day” for 2003, the has increased 26 percent, and “community and regional date when the average American has worked enough in development” spending, which includes boondoggles the calendar year to pay for government at the federal, like the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- state and local levels. ment, has increased 31 percent. These purely domestic In other words, most Americans turn over more than spending increases cannot be excused by terrorism or half of everything they make to government—in taxes, the war in Iraq. fees, and in the form of regulations that increase the Of course both Congress and a succession of presi- price of goods and services. For high-income individuals, dents are responsible for the spending mess. the percentage can be much more than half. The president can set a tone for fiscal restraint or Members of Americans for Tax Reform hold placards The good news for Americans is that the “Cost of indulgence, and can veto spending bills if he has the during a tax rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. Government” day is finally behind us for the year. The political will to do so. Protesters called for Congress to scrap the U.S. tax bad news is that the day keeps falling later and later. Congress, however, actually crafts the laughable fed- code and to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. This year, in fact, 17 days later than 2000. eral “budget” and appropriates the money, so the ulti- This is due largely to the rapid growth in federal mate blame for spending increases must be accorded vidual voters tend to support the candidate that prom- spending in recent years. This relentless growth has members of the House and Senate. ises them the most federal loot in whatever form, rather increased the burden of government faster than nation- It’s easy to talk about smaller government, but few than the candidate who will uphold the rule of law. al income has risen. The result is that taxpayers are left actually vote against the 13 annual appropriations bills As the brilliant writer and professor Thomas Sowell with less money to spend, save, or invest, while the legit- that fund so many wasteful and unconstitutional said, “If you have been voting for politicians who prom- imate private economy staggers under the weight of a departments, agencies, and programs. There are simply ise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then growing federal leviathan. too many special interests counting on the money con- you have no right to complain when they take your Only during World War II—a momentous event tained in the appropriations bills, and those same inter- money and give it to someone else, including them- requiring a huge mobilization of men, machinery, and ests will take their campaign contributions elsewhere if selves.” ★ supplies—did the federal government consume more of a congressman fails to play the game. the nation’s productive economy than it does now. The The American people are also responsible for the [AFP cannot agree with Mr. Paul’s typifying the federal government simply should not be devouring 40 growth in government, however. We have allowed our American government as a “direct democracy.” Instead, the constitutional republic to deteriorate into a virtually government is ruled by super-rich international plutocrats, well-organized pressure groups, including foreign coun- Rep. Ron Paul represents Texas’s 14th district in unchecked direct democracy. Today’s political process is tries and rigged voting machines. The public, dumbed Congress. nothing more than a street fight between various groups down by media owned by the plutocrats, really has nothing seeking to vote themselves other people’s money. Indi- to say about how the government is run. —Ed.] They’re Lying About the USS Liberty! Stung by the emerging fact that the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 was deliberate, friends of Israel in the National Security Agency and elsewhere are counterattacking. Their aim is to suppress the facts about the scandalous and deliberate mur- der of 34 American sailors. The American Free Press has told the story in its new report “Remember the USS Liberty.” Get yours.
O ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO FORGET that awful June day in 1967 when the state of Israel launched an undeclared war on the United States . . . and our leaders did nothing. In fact, for 36 years Nthey have tried to cover up the atrocities committed by Israel upon our brave armed servicemen. Three relentless hours of strafing, shelling, torpedoing and machine-gunning by Israeli land and sea forces killed 34 and left 171 U.S. sailors and Marines gravely wounded. Why did Israel do it? Why didn’t the United States respond? Why were U.S. jets prevented from protecting the Liberty? Were survivors threatened with court-martial if they ever spoke of the incident? What do prominent American military leaders have to say about the bloody sneak attack? What do survivors say about that day? Why wasn’t Israel tried for war crimes? What was the first American newspa- per to report the facts? Find out in Remember the USS Liberty, a four-page report from American Free Press. 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But I have to say that while they still seem to me unwarranted, they seem rather less he Anti-Defamation League, which keeps track alarmist in the world of today than they did a year ago.” of these matters, recently issued a press If I read Mr. Summers correctly, he does believe that release noting that “a total of 1,559 anti-Jewish negative opinions about Israel are tantamount to anti- T incidents were reported against Jews and Semitism. If that isn’t what he means, then given his Jewish institutions in 2002, a slight increase from the position of power and influence as the president of 1,432 incidents in 2001. At the same time, anti-Jewish Harvard University, Mr. Summers ought to take an STEFAN ZAKLIN/GETTY IMAGES incidents reported on campus were up by 24 percent in opportunity to make some crucial distinctions. 2002.” Without them, we have the repercussions of the The ADL’s figures accord with my own impression Moran incident to contemplate. For those who missed it, that there is more anti-Jewish sentiment, loosely The Washington Post summed up the affair nicely in an defined, now than there has been in the recent past. article which noted that Jewish organizations had con- That anti-Semitism is more prevalent now than it has demned Representative James P. Moran Jr. for “deliver- been is the opinion of Harvard University president ing what they said were anti-Semitic remarks at an Lawrence H. Summers, who says of himself: “I am antiwar forum . . . where he suggested that American Jewish, identified but hardly devout.” Jews are responsible for pushing the country to war Last September, he told an audience in Memorial with Iraq and that Jewish leaders could prevent war if Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) is under fire for daring to Church in Cambridge, Mass.: “Where anti-Semitism they wanted to. At the forum . . . Moran discussed why have suggested that American supporters of Israel and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have tradi- he thought antiwar sentiment was not more effective in are influential in the U.S. political arena. Confirming tionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated the United States. ‘If it were not for the strong support Moran’s claim, pro-Israel groups aim to destroy him. right-wing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual would not be doing this,’ Moran said.” Mr. Moran was Mr. Summers’s examples. It seems to me that the sense communities. Serious and thoughtful people are advo- further quoted saying: “The leaders of the Jewish com- of being gagged and intimidated is growing—and, with cating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their munity are influential enough that they could change it, a resentment that is not without a nasty edge. effect if not their intent.” the direction of where this is going, and I think they Mr. Summers, considering his power, his being My guess is that Mr. Summers has got hold of some- should.” Jewish and his being apparently quite pro-Israel, has no thing here. There does appear to be some considerable Mr. Moran later apologized, but his apologies did him idea that these people exist—although, since they seem shifting in opinions going on. It would seem that “poor- no good. He was stripped of his position as regional to be all over the place, he probably deals with some of ly educated right-wing populists,” or what I might call minority whip in the House of Representatives, threat- them every day in his own office. They will keep their “Christian militants,” have moved over to being, if not ened with opposition in the next primary, and roundly own counsel and tell him not what they actually think, pro-Jewish, then pro-Israel at the same time that mem- denounced by rabbis and other important Jewish and but what they know he wants to hear. Some of those peo- bers of “progressive intellectual communities” have ple dissembling in front of him may also be Jewish: It’s become, if not anti-Jewish, then anti-Israel. Mr. not only non-Jews who choose discretion over valor and Summers did not add in with the intellectuals those At the same rallies where protesters, keep their opinions to themselves when it comes to these mainline Christian denominations—i.e., the Anglicans, many of them university students, con- dangerous topics. Lutherans, Presbyterians et al.—whose sympathies are demn the IMF and global capitalism and Since 9-11, it seems that the number of underground pro-Palestinian. Nor did he mention the long-held raise questions about globalization, it is dissenters has markedly increased, because although antipathies of many African-Americans. I detect no they don’t say so (except in their private circles), these great abatement of hostile opinion in those quarters. becoming increasingly common to also people are convinced that the years of supplying arms In his church address, Mr. Summers gave examples lash out at Israel. Indeed, at the anti-IMF and money to Israel ultimately triggered what they see of current “actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if rallies last spring, chants were heard as a retaliatory attack on the United States. not their intent.” They are: When our politicians talk about freedom of speech, “Hundreds of European academics have called for an equating Hitler and Ariel Sharon . . . they are referring to freedom from governmental inter- end to support for Israeli researchers, though not for an ference, from political police, from the kind of suppres- end to support for researchers from any other nation. non-Jewish figures. It remains to be seen if Mr. Moran’s sion exercised by a certain Mr. Saddam Hussein. But “Israeli scholars this past spring were forced off the political career has crashed and burned, but for many that’s not what’s going on here. The underground dis- board of an international literature journal. who are verging on what Mr. Summers might consider senters aren’t afraid of the government; they fear infor- “At the same rallies where protesters, many of them some kind of parlor anti-Semitism, the Moran story is a mal social and economic punishment. They don’t fear university students, condemn the IMF and global capi- cautionary tale reinforcing the spreading conviction that being thrown in jail, but out on the street. Life-and- talism and raise questions about globalization, it is a person risks job, career and status if he or she dis- death issues of American foreign policy aren’t being becoming increasingly common to also lash out at Israel. agrees with the party line on American foreign policy in debated and haven’t been debated, because the would-be Indeed, at the anti-IMF rallies last spring, chants were the Middle East. debaters on one side fear that the personal cost of car- heard equating Hitler and Sharon. With something like this, there is no way of guessing rying on the argument would be too high. “Events to raise funds for organizations of question- the percentages. The type of people who have decided So the other side has had the best of the argument for able political provenance that in some cases were later that the prudent thing to do is to keep their mouths zip- years. It should go without saying that American democ- found to support terrorism have been held by student pered are literate, college-educated managers and pro- racy has paid a price, but what that price is cannot eas- organizations on this and other campuses with at least fessionals. When the poll-takers come around, these ily be determined. The secret resentment and anger are modest success and very little criticism. people are not going to tell them what they really think, not unlike an underground peat fire. You know it’s “And some here at Harvard and some at universities any more than they’d tell anybody else whom they don’t there—but how deep it smolders and how long and how across the country have called for the university to sin- know and have no reason to trust. Hence, there’s no hot it may burn, no one can say. ★ gle out Israel among all nations as the lone country telling if we’re dealing with one half of 1 percent of the where it is inappropriate for any part of the university’s population, or 2 percent, or what. We don’t know, but I’ll This article was reprinted from the May 19, 2003 endowment to be invested. I hasten to say the universi- hazard a guess that they’re more numerous, more sig- issue of The New York Observer. ty has categorically rejected this suggestion.” nificant and less visible than those people figuring in August 11, 2003 AMERICAN FREE PRESS 11 Orthodox Jews Protest Sharon’s Visit to U.S. A group of Orthodox rabbis recently As the confrontation heated up between Zionists and rabbis, several pro-Israeli demonstrators confronted demonstrated against the state of Israel in Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, chief spokesman for the organiza- front of the White House. tion in America. They screamed: “Zionism and Jewry are linked forever!” By Dr. M. Raphael Johnson Weiss responded by quoting the Chief Rabbi of Cologne in 1825, who wrote: meeting between President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on We state that, according to our religious teach- July 29 drew a gathering of rabbis in front of ings, only G-d Himself knows when the redemption of the Jewish People is to occur, and it is only G-d A the White House to rally against Israel. who will make His will known to the entire universe Across the street, members of Neturei Karta, a rab- with unmistakable signs. Any attempt to gather binical organization well known to American Free Press together the Jewish People with political and readers and the anti-Zionist movement in general, were nationalist goals is forbidden to us as a crime of the highest divine authority. [Zionists have] surely for- attracting much attention by their Hasidic dress and gotten that Jews are loyal to the principles of their provocative placards. faith, that they are too attached to the native coun- Thousands of tourists looked curiously at the rabbis, tries where they reside and too devoted to their gov- each brandishing the Star of David on their signs with a ernments providing them with liberty and protec- red line through it. tion to pay attention to a fairy tale and fantasies of a false redeemer. On the other side of the street from Lafayette Park, a group of fanatical Zionists demonstrated, making the Weiss instructed the crowd of mostly tourists who claim that Sharon had “sold out to the Palestinians” by knew little about the situation in the Mideast, about the permitting the release of Palestinian fighters. terror tactics used by Zionists against the Orthodox in Among the crowd was a group of Zionist Christians Jerusalem from the 1920s onward. threatening violence. “They would take Orthodox boys from their schools Above, rabbis from the Neturei Karta organization, In April 2002, the Neturei Karta organization re- and raise them in secular institutions,” said Weiss. including Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss (right), protest ceived a letter of support from Palestinian leader Yasser “They smashed the heads of all Orthodox who did not go in front of the White House while Israeli Prime Arafat, which proves to Zionists that the Palestinian along, and God forbid if you resisted.” Minister Ariel Sharon is meeting President Bush. resistance, extreme or moderate, does not oppose the Many in the growing crowd looked at one another in religion Judaism. Arafat writes: amazement that “those Jews” would not only oppose out against Zionism,” Weiss continued, “is that the Zionist movement had sufficient resources to destroy These expressions [of support from Hasidic Jews] Zionism, but vehemently demand the peaceful disman- are priceless examples of the long-standing and abid- tling of the Zionist entity “that has caused all the friction the institutions that the Orthodox had erected, such as ing relationship between Jews and Arabs reaching between Jews and Arabs in the Mideast.” kosher processing plants, that would be boycotted by back hundreds of years, and enable the entire world For the Neturei Karta organization, loyal Orthodox Zionists. Therefore, the good rabbis—those loyal to to see the stark contrast between the eternal and Jews, unlike so many of their co-religionists in the past, America, England or wherever—were silenced. Until beautiful values of Judaism and those embodied in aggressive Zionism. These demonstrations and are to have absolutely no opinion or involvement in the this day, the Zionist frauds have provided the illusion expressions are of critical importance in enabling economy or politics of the country in which they happen that Zionism represents the mainstream of religious the Palestinian people and Arabs worldwide to see to reside. The fact that many Jews throughout history opinion among Jews.” ★ this crucial difference so that everyone understands have violated this simply proves, according to the organ- that the actions of the Israeli state do not reflect any- thing rooted in the traditions, beliefs and laws of ization, the lure of secularism and the lies of religious Dr. Johnson is the editor of the historical magazine, Judaism. This is vital in emphasizing that there is no nationalism for Jews. THE BARNES REVIEW. conflict between Jew and Arab. “The reason why many of the rabbis did not speak Berkeley Protesters Rally Against Pro-Israel Officials Activists in California are telling pro- Campbell is shown explaining to Szelenyi how the group believes that the U.S. government and Israel need to Israeli U.S. officials to stop supporting honestly address the unjust way in which Zionist Israel Israel’s atrocities. was founded and the ethnic cleansing campaign against the non-Jewish Palestinians that continues to this day, By Americans for Justice in Palestine-Israel funded by U.S. tax dollars. Ethnic cleansing is specifically forbidden by the n the 16th of every month, The Rachel Corrie Genocide Convention. Ironically, the U.S. ratified this Banner Project, organized by Americans for international agreement under the strong prodding of Justice in Palestine-Israel, demonstrates in Zionists. Ofront of the offices of U.S. politicians and other Americans for Justice in Palestine-Israel hopes to public locales to demand an end to U.S. support of spark a nationwide Rachel Corrie Banner Project move- apartheid Israel. ment, whereby concerned Americans will raise banners Corrie is the 23-year-old peace activist from Olympia, and carry signs in front of their local politicians’ offices Wash., who was deliberately bulldozed to death by an on the 16th of every month. The hope is large numbers Israeli soldier on March 16. She was trying to defend a of Americans of all political persuasions will demon- Palestinian family’s home from being demolished. strate until the U.S. government stops supporting Israel The latest demonstration on July 16—the four month and demands justice for Corrie as well as the anniversary of Corrie’s death—was staged at the office Palestinians. of Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) in San Mateo, Calif. Free CDs with artwork for the banner, which can be Some 20 demonstrators rallied, with two huge, two- This American protester wants Rep. Tom Lantos to look brought to your local banner maker, are available on a sided banners that feature a photo of Corrie in front of into the murder of U.S. activist Rachel Corrie, who was limited basis. the bulldozer that killed her only moments later. The crushed and killed by an Israeli army bulldozer. Those who are interested in receiving one of these text of the banners demands: “Stop U.S. Support of free disks, and more information, are encouraged to Apartheid Israel NOW!” where she was admitted into Lantos’s office. write to: Americans for Justice in Palestine-Israel, c/o Wendy Campbell, one of the organizers, was followed The video shows how she proceeded to give Lantos’s Wendy Campbell, P.O. Box 10458, Oakland, Calif. by a videographer-photojournalist into the building aide, Evelyn Szelenyi, some of the protesters’ literature. 94610. ★ 12 AMERICAN FREE PRESS August 11, 2003 Outspoken Christians Tackle Zionism, Scofield, End Times Two outspoken Christians are chal- known as “dispensationalism” and taught that the world must support the establishment and perpetuation of the lenging fellow Christians to accept the Zionist state, ultimately established in the Eastern original words of the Scriptures and to Mediterranean region and known as “Israel.” The dispen- reject 20th-century writings appended to sationalists—who are often (incorrectly) called “fundamen- talists”—say that the establishment of this Israel was the Bible by an agent of non-Christian Biblically foretold and that anyone who does not support interests. this Israel is certain to be cursed by God. 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They tained what might be called the “traditional” Bible, but this The latest offering from Anderson and Preston is a demonstrate that the events of 1948 surrounding the estab- also included footnotes and other annotations purporting to remarkable new video, Israel 1948—Super Sign of the Last lishment of the state of “Israel” had nothing to do with “explain” the Scriptures. Days? The video confronts the claim that the political state Bible prophecy. And everything they say is based on what These additions were the writings—or at least present- of Israel was the work of God. the Scripture says—not on what Scofield’s 20th-century ed to be—of Cyrus Scofield. Scofield—prior to his emer- The video is based on Preston’s monograph, Israel 1948: “interpretation” claims the Scripture says. gence as the Rothschild family’s favorite “Christian theolo- Countdown to Nowhere. 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