Archive for October 16th, 2006

no freedom for Freedom

The FBI has a new target — the Filipino Community. There are Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cells in the Philippines, which isn’t news, but the feds are now targeting Filipino activists in northwestern US as supspected terrorists.
On October 4, Freedom Allah Siyam, a Seattle Filipino activist changed his name from Gotcho Cupp in 1998, had feds come [...]

the evolution of oppression and the minstrel show

While more than 80 million people have watched some guy who spent too many hours dancing in front of a mirror to Vanilla Ice, there are some neglected gems on YouTube.
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I first stumbled on this video [...]

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Torture Taxi is a nonfiction book that pits a cadre of misguided evil people in power against everyday American heroes. It’s the story of a tragic reality that reads like a novelized Hollywood script.
The book is called “torture taxi” because that’s the unofficial name given to the business jets that fly suspects in the [...]

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