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[Rumpelstiltskin]

Here's an interesting alternative media web-site(Independant Media):
www.indymedia.org

[Evan Young]

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

This is the group that Govornor bush belongs to. It used to have a 99 page document describing their plans (published in '97) and detailing how we would need a "pearl harbor like incident" in order to unify the nation or som shit like that. It also described how they would slowly stip the people of their constitutional rights. This document has been getting exposed on the liberal talk radio stations a lot recently so they must have taken it down from the web site.
I know this sounds like conspiracy theory but it's all true.

[Rich Potter]

Here is a transcript of the apology from the dixie chic ks' Natalie Maines for her comments at the Oscars

http://thespeciousreport.com/2003_dixiechicks.html

Apology from Natalie Maines

As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I now realize that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.

I hope everyone understands, I'm just a young girl who grew up in Texas. As far back as I can remember, I heard people say they were ashamed of President Clinton. I saw bumper stickers calling him everything from a pothead to a murderer. I heard people on the radio and tv like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott bad mouthing the President and ridiculing his wife and daughter at every opportunity.

I heard LOTS of people disrespecting the President. So I guess I just assumed it was acceptable behavior.

But now, thanks to the thousands of angry people who want radio stations to boycott our music because criticizing the President is unpatriotic, I realize it's wrong to have a liberal opinion if you're a country music artist. I guess I should have thought about that before deciding to play music that attracts hypocritical red necks.

I also realize now that I'm supposed to just sing and look cute so our fans won't have anything to upset them while they're cheating on their wives or getting in drunken bar fights or driving around in their pickup trucks shooting highway signs and small animals.

And most important of all, I realize that it's wrong for a celebrity to voice a political opinion, unless they're Charlie Daniels, Clint Black, Merle Haggard, Barbara Mandrell, Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs, Travis Tritt, Hank Williams Jr, Amy Grant, Larry Gatlin, Crystal Gayle, Reba McEntire, Lee Greenwood, Lorrie Morgan, Anita Bryant, Mike Oldfield, Ted Nugent, Wayne Newton, Dick Clark, Jay Leno, Drew Carey, Dixie Carter, Victoria Jackson, Charleton Heston, Fred Thompson, Ben Stein, Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Bo Derek, Rick Schroeder, George Will, Pat Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly, Joe Rogan, Delta Burke, Robert Conrad or Jesse Ventura.

God Bless America,
Natalie

This article is satire from The Specious Report.
This is a parody and not affiliated in any way with DixieChicks.com.

(but wouldn't it be great if it were real?)

[Pyromancer]

[quote]Originally posted by Evan Young:
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This is the group that Govornor bush belongs to. It used to have a 99 page document describing their plans (published in '97) and detailing how we would need a "pearl harbor like incident" in order to unify the nation or som shit like that. It also described how they would slowly stip the people of their constitutional rights. This document has been getting exposed on the liberal talk radio stations a lot recently so they must have taken it down from the web site.
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I'd like to read that document and I think it should exist somewhere on the web? Can you give some more keywords to refine a search for it?

[Evan Young]

I'm not sure. I'm trying to find it as well because I know it's out there somewhere.
If we do find it.... beware. it's in difficult to understand language.

Here is what is really on the Dixie Chicks web page

http://dixiechicks.launch.yahoo.com/news.asp?id=26

Statement from Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks
March 14, 2003

"As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect. We are currently in Europe and witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war. While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American."

http://dixiechicks.launch.yahoo.com/news.asp?id=24

From the Dixie Chicks with respect to statements being reported in the British media
3/12/2003

From the Dixie Chicks

"We've been overseas for several weeks and have been reading and following the news accounts of our governments' position. The anti-American sentiment that has unfolded here is astounding. While we support our troops, there is nothing more frightening than the notion of going to war with Iraq and the prospect of all the innocent lives that will be lost."

Maines further stated, "I feel the President is ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view."

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[Pyromancer]

[quote]Originally posted by Evan Young:
<strong>I'm not sure. I'm trying to find it as well because I know it's out there somewhere.
If we do find it.... beware. it's in difficult to understand language.
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Chinese? Arab? [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

I have been able to handle scientific books and articles in English, some of them written with the utmost effort to be as incomprehensible as a scientist can be in describing his reality... ;-)

[martin ewen]

www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
mmmmm
seems to have been wiped
...no here it is

http://www.newamericancentury.org/defense-121602.htm

Just google
RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Its a download
or go to

http://www.geocities.com/stuart323_99/the_hawks.htm

and its towards the bottom of the page (the download)
I can't vouch for the sites contact as I just found it but I have read the rebuilding america thing...

You can see why it becoming mainstream would reveal that in their own minds they are old white cowards who have stolen control of the worlds most powerful military and are brazen enough to call each other intellectuals as they run about offices wearing their underwear on the outside of their trousers and silk capes making noises like Brrrat tat tat tat tat, Bkshoosh, Blam, while their mates get rich and they actually publish papers like this that outline how profoundly important it is for freedom if they get to rule the world. Its the best joke, the most multileveled irony america's ever produced.
George bush, an ex cheerleader and drug addict actually lost a popularity competition and is now on his way to ruling the universe. At least in his own state they still let you execute the retarded. Theres still hope.

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[Mark Wessels]

Nothing to make you want to die or leave the country like a good post from Martin. Is this thing real or is it bullshit? It's almost unbelieveable.

mark

[Butterfly Man]

Nothing like spending a day with Martin to make you want to cry and go releave yourself:

http://www.theonion.com/onion3912/i_should_not_be.html

[martin ewen]

Whiners...How about having to spend almost 40 years AS martin?

[martin ewen]

Wow.. From the woman who wrote 'The God of Small Things' (won the Booker prize 97)
A searingly articulate and profoundly scornful piece of writing,

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0402-01.htm

[Evan Young]

How did we miss this? Just look at what Bush said at the state of the Union!

http://www.campchaos.com/othershows/video/02.html

[martin ewen]

A light day today

http://www.minimumeffort.com/nutshell.html

[jonnyflash]

dozo....heres the link. This man has seen it all and lived to tell it.

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/southamerica/ASoldiersStory.html

Herein lies the tale of an American son.
Stan Goff served in the U.S. military for two decades, much of the time with Special Forces training Third World armies. He retired from the U.S. Army in February 1996, after serving in Vietnam, Guatemala, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Honduras, Somalia and Haiti.

“A liberal will tell you the system isn’t working properly. I will tell you that the system is working exactly the way it’s supposed to.

[jester]

I just want to say that how they could make a missile hit a selected square on a chessboard in Saddams Palace is astonishing. How they didn't think of bringing the supplies water, medicines and other things required to keep the peace afterwards is absolutely unexplainable.

I am so ashamed that on the one hand we go on about respecting international law and then ignore it when it suits us. Bush and Blair have set the world back about 40 years with their actions.

Now I've said it. Will anything change?