Sunday, January 06, 2008

Naomi Wolf

Colbert: Naomi Wolf and Fascism in America
a great interview by Steven Colbert.......


Naomi Wolf can be read on The Huffington Post..........


Finally, Action! Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Defend Constitution!
Posted October 18, 2007 05:45 PM (EST)
..........On Monday, Rep. Ron Paul, the outsider Republican presidential
candidate who has long upheld these values and who was an early voice warning of the grave danger to all of us of these abuses, introduced the AFA's legislative package into Congress. (The mainstream press has an irrational habit of disparaging outsider candidates -- as if corrupt money and machine endorsements equal seriousness of purpose -- even though the Founders hoped that the system they established would lead citizens, ideally those unembedded in the establishment, to offer their service to the nation.) It is the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 [PDF], and you should read it in its entirety: just as accounts of the recent abuses send chills down your spine, this beautifully argued document feels historic and has the ring of great power to correct great injustice.


What does it do? According to an alert put out by the American Freedom campaign, it would accomplish the following: "The American Freedom Agenda Act would bar the use of evidence obtained through torture; require that federal intelligence gathering is conducted in accordance
with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA); create a mechanism for challenging presidential signing statements; repeal the Military Commissions Act, which, among other things, denies habeas corpus to certain detainees; prohibit kidnapping, detentions, and torture abroad; protect journalists who publish information received from the executive branch; and ensure that secret evidence is not used to designate individuals or organizations with a presence in the U.S. as foreign terrorists."
Ron Paul was the first of all the presidential candidates, red or blue, to step up in this way -- and all credit is due to him for getting there first. May the others of both parties race to follow his lead. These days, as we have seen from how reluctant some candidates have been -- even on the Democratic sign -- even to sign a mere pledge to uphold the Constitution, it takes some courage to stand fast against the assaults of this administration -- and their manipulations of the terms "patriotism" and "terror threat" -- and insist with legislation on the Founders' vision and on restoring democracy.
A groundswell of millions of Americans of all parties rising up to insist on passage of the AFA legislation means that we are awake -- we get it -- and that we assert that an alert citizenry, not a whipped-dog Congress or a violently abusive executive, decides what happens in this nation still. I am not a voter on his side of the ballot -- but I will move heaven and earth to support the passage of this lifesaving agenda. (Interestingly when I run into Paul's supporters -- who are deeply alert to the abuses of democracy -- and I demur by saying I am a Democrat, it is they who rightly assure me that these issues transcend party).
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this bill only has 2 cosponsors and has been sent to committee....step up congress and speak out presidental candidates!! H.R.3835 Title: To restore the Constitution's checks and balances and protections against government abuses as envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 10/15/2007) Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 10/15/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.


buy her book .....
The End of America:Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
and listen to her talk about it here

wake up america.

1 comment:

mad Nomad said...

Good interview. I wonder if the right wing-nuts ever watch Colbert?