Requiem for the Dream Ticket

It is perverse irony that Barack Obama probably feels his struggle, ambitions and dreams for the Whitehouse were snatched in an instant by a young usurper who came out of nowhere and overshadowed his celebrity and air of inevitability and destiny. Sound familiar?

Why Rev. Wright is Not Wrong

Perhaps going public will hurt the media and the political attack dogs Hillary Clinton and the Republican Right Wing have set on this man. Reverend Wright is still a Man of God, who has much greater moral authority than those who have publicly used him for their purposes. By all accounts, he has a lifetime of achievement and community service that reflect the best in our nation. ABC News and most other mass media are too exploitative to honestly report his sermons and life's work in context, and are too cowardly to defend him on the basis of the First Amendment their profession is charged to protect. That same First Amendment guarantees our right to religious freedom, freedom of religion and freedom to assemble. The Rev. Wright persecution and exploitation challenges all of these core values and is a test our the wisdom of our nation and our times. Bill Moyers is one of the few remaining TV journalists with integrity, and the Editors of CaliLaw Review have only praise for his courage to remind us what the First Amendment means, and how the scourge of McCarthyism is very much alive in our country. It has no place in our Democracy, and we should all hold the highest contempt for those who strive to resurrected it.

8th Amendment and the RIAA verdict

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), won a case against Jammie Thomas, a Minnesota resident, Ojiibwa tribe native and mother of two. The fine of $220,000 plus legal fees made Ms. Thomas not only the first individual in the U.S. convicted in trial of music piracy, but a striking reminder of how justice can be perverted when large corporations seek to make an example of individual citizens with less means to defend themselves. Is the 8th Amendmend of the United States Constiutution ignored in today's legal system? It reads:

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

As much as the Jena 6, this case brought attention to unequal prosecution in America, the Jammie Thomas case shows our courts are increasingly neither fair, or just. The freedoms we hold dear are in peril, and it can only be hoped this is appealed on 8th Amendment grounds, to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed. Towards that end, we encourage donations at http://freejammie.com.

Free Speech and the Taser Incident

Sentator Kerry's website invites comments on this topic, but doesn't post any of them. Therefore, I submit my post to the Senator here:

One website expressed a view I've heard over and over as the incident becomes a free speech debate. The view was that intervening -- telling the officers to STOP isn't something a politician would do, but it's what a man would do. I do not know what kind of man you are, sir, but I voted for you in 2004. I wasn't naive to think of you as some sort of hero, but I believed you had the courage of your convictions, and would do more to safeguard the Consitutional freedoms we hold so dear. I was deeply troubled that none of that courage surfaced when it was tested by this seemingly innocuous event. I remember Kent State. This was not it, but you saw the face of Fascism only a few feet away, and blithly turned away.

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Civil Liberities In the Election

Will the mid-term rise of the Democratic congress change the prospects of improved respect for Civil Liberties or revision of the Patriot Act? See article and have your say!

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