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U.S. Draft in 2005
Actions Indicate Administration Has Plan To Reinstate Military Draft if Bush Re-Elected
By Mike Blair
A military draft may be reinstated by mid-2005 if President George W. Bush is re-elected in November. An appropriation of $28 million has been provided in the current defense budget to bring the nation’s Selective Service System up to speed, which many people believe will likely lead to a national draft of young men and women by June 15, 2005.
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As military operations continue in Iraq and forces are stretched thinner, President Bush and his Democratic challenger are getting more questions about the revival of a military draft
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jennifer Barrett
Newsweek
It’s one of the Internet’s most persistent rumors: The Pentagon and the White House are quietly laying plans to reinstate the military draft—as soon as the 2004 presidential election is over.
The president, the secretary of Defense and any number of senior (…)

First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Muslims, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Muslims.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945 (Edited. Muslim substituted for Jew) Who Was Martin Niemoller ? (…)

PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2232-PS
GERMAN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW [Deutsches Verwaltungsrecht] by Dr. Hans Frank. Published by: Central Publishing House of the NSDAP Franz Eher Successor, Munich. [Pages 420, 421, 424, 425, 430]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/document/nca_vol4/2232-ps.htm
Task and Means of a Political Police.
a. The Task
The task of a political police in the sense of the National Socialist conception of this institution has been formulated best so far in (…)

Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture Security or Legal Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued
by Jess Bravin Monday, June 7, 2004 Wall Street Journal
Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president wasn’t bound by laws prohibiting torture and that government agents who might torture prisoners at his direction couldn’t be prosecuted by the Justice Department.
The advice was part of a classified report on interrogation methods prepared (…)

By Matt Wells, New York
With politics in America more polarised than any time since the 1960s, there is one thing that all the parties can agree on this crucial election year - the power of web-based activism. New York City may be a bastion of Democratic Party politics and support, but that didn’t stop the Republican grassroots’ campaigner-in-chief, Ralph Reed, from attending a downtown seminar in late May on politics and the internet.
The legendary right-wing organiser - who is leading (…)

By Fox Butterfield
SANTA FE, N.M. - Tyson Johnson was in the Santa Fe County jail here in January 2002, awaiting trial on charges of stalking and aggravated assault, when his longtime claustrophobia gave him anxiety attacks and he asked to see a psychiatrist.
But the jail, which is run by a private prison company, Management and Training Corporation, did not have a psychiatrist or a psychologist. So Mr. Johnson tried slitting his wrist and neck with a razor, and when that failed, he told (…)

By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With the notable exceptions of China and India, a majority of people in 19 key countries are pessimistic about the world’s current direction, says a just-released survey, which found a high correlation between that feeling and the belief that U.S. influence is increasingly negative, particularly as compared to Europe.
The survey, conducted by the international polling firm Globescan (formerly Environics International), also found stronger support for economic (…)

Bravo BellaCiao collective and all who remind readers of the real history of state terrorism inside and outside of the USA that was perpetuated during the Raygun regime. Instead of the mythologizing and doublespeaking of the corporate media on Ronnie RayGun let us counter the barage of bullshit that is being spewed. Below is another important article by Greg Palast. June
KILLER, COWARD, CONMAN - GOOD RIDDANCE, RONNIE REAGAN & MORE Greg Palast 07 Jun 2004 15:30 GMT "...the (…)

MOURNING IN AMERICA Who doesn’t like Reagan? Some critics silent, others can’t hide venom
Posted: June 7, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
While some long-time critics of President Ronald Reagan stifled their inclination to criticize the dead, others launched the kind of venomous attacks that marked his long career in politics.
Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy said yesterday he regretted Reagan died without ever standing trial for 1986 air strikes he ordered that killed (…)