Online action Alert - happening now!
ProgressiveBrit | 20.03.2004 15:28 | Anti-militarism | World
Members of allied groups in the Progressive Webgroup Alliance who are unable to attend the "real world" demonstrations are today making their voices heard in an online action, if there is anyone reading this who would like to join the action, please see below from the Progressive Webgroup Alliance mailing list
Members of allied groups in the Progressive Webgroup Alliance who are unable to attend the "real world" demonstrations are today making their voices heard in an online action, if there is anyone reading this who would like to join the action, please see below from the Progressive Webgroup Alliance mailing list
Hello all,
Firstly I must apologise as I have only just returned home after assisting a family member over the past few days so am a bit late sending this out to everyone, please circulate this far and wide and feel free to repost on message boards, today as most of you will know is the global day of action against the continual illegal occupation of Iraq, for those of us who for whatever reason have not been able to get to the "real world" demonstrations today, we are asking as many people as possible can take part in the following actions in the next 24 hours, we can make our voices heard today and tomorrow if not in the "real world" then by the following methods:
PLEASE REPOST THE FOLLOWING AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE...... FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, LET'S HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TAKING PART IN SOME FORM OF PROTEST IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS, EVEN IF PEOPLE CAN'T TAKE PART IN THE "REAL WORLD" PROTESTS, PEOPLE CAN STILL MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD
1 - Please contact both Bush and Cheney at the following email addresses, send them the following list of 20 questions, demand an answer!
president@whitehouse.gov
vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Courtesy of a Mr Kelley from the Anti War Pro Peace mailing list, we have the following list of 20 questions:
1. President Bush, were you arrested for cocaine in 1972 in Harris County, Texas (Houston area)?
2. President Bush, in 1972 did your father arrange to have your cocaine arrest expunged from the records through a judge, a close-acquaintance of your fathers, in exchange for you to perform community service at Project Pool, a Houston inner-city program that mentors youth in poor neighborhoods?
3. President Bush, was your friend from the National Guard, James R. Bath, arrested for cocaine around the same time? Is this why both of your National Guard records show suspensions in 1972 for refusal to submit to annual medical exams? Is this why you were no longer allowed to fly? If so, why did you make up the story that you no longer WANTED to fly?
4. President Bush, do you remember Bill Calhoun from your National Guard duty in Alabama? No one else remembers your serving in the National Guard in Alabama at that time, but "coincidentally" the Republican National Committee suddenly found this Bill Calhoun to vouch for you. Is Mr. Calhoun a paid operative of the Republican Party? Or did he just volunteer to lie to save your reputation?
5. James R. Bath was appointed by your father as a CIA operative in 1976 leasing aircraft in Houston and serving as a liaison between wealthy Arab sheiks (including the Bin Ladens) and American entrepreneurs. According to all sources, Baths company served as a front for the CIA. Before 1976, Bath was broke, according to all accounts. What was it that prompted your father to select James R. Bath in 1976? Did he hold incriminating evidence against you?
6. James R. Bath, representative of wealthy Saudi sheiks, channeled investment money into your first company in 1977, Arbusto Energy Corporation of Midland, Texas. Were you personally acquainted with Salem bin Laden (Osamas brother) and Khalid bin Mahfouz (Osamas brother-in-law) who poured thousands into your first company and millions into your subsequent enterprises?
7. Mr. Bush, how did you profit $880,000 from Harken Energy (your fourth company), when all other investors lost 90%? Why didnt the SEC (under your fathers administration) look into the matter of your sale of stock a week before the stock collapsed?
8. Mr. Bush, how did Harken Energy (who had never explored off-shore) land the contract off Bahrain in 1990 when your father was President of the United States? Who, then, worked up the sweetheart deal under the table?
9. Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose younger sister married Osama bin Laden, was director of the powerful Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia and also served as director of BCCI (Bank of Credit & Commerce International) which laundered money for the CIA under the watch of your father. He was also part of the IRAN-CONTRA scheme (Ollie North) and the savings & loan debacle of the 80s. Mahfouz was also one of your prime investors (through James R. Bath, your Guard buddy) in your 4 failed firms. Khalid bin Mahfouz has also been tagged by the CIA for funneling millions to his brother-in-law, Osama, since the 1980s through 2004. Why, then, are you EXEMPTING Mahfouzs banking activities from being closed down? The 9/11 families especially WANT TO KNOW. (9/11 families are incensed at Bush for exempting these Saudi royals connected to Osama bin Laden.)
10. Why will you not release the August 6, 2001 brief from the CIA (delivered to you personally at Crawford) as part of the 9/11 Investigation? Did the memo not warn that Al Qaeada was planning imminent hijackings flying airliners into American buildings?
11. Mr. President, did you authorize contracting out the gathering of intelligence to a group called OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS? Was not this group closely associated with the Republican Party? Did the OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS circumvent the use of the CIA for the sole purpose of lending credibility to your pre-conceived notion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and was poised to use them against the U.S. and its allies? Was there another ulterior motive in contracting OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS ($80 million taxpayer money)? Since OSP is a private enterprise, the Congress cannot oversee its operations. Thus, you were free to dismiss any congressional inquiries. Is this correct?
12. Mr. President, who was on staff at the OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS? Were they not close to your administration and were part of the formation of PNAC (Project for a New American Century) in 1997? Was not the PNAC determined to invade Iraq regardless if Saddam was there or not even if no WMD existed?
13. Mr. President, did not the PNAC write a policy statement in September 2000 in which they believed a new Pearl Harbor was necessary to rouse Americans to back a war against Iraq?
14. Mr. President, name members of your administration who also serve or have served with the Project for a New American Century (PNAC
15 An organization/business called CARLYLE GROUP, whose members include 3 Bin Laden brothers, your father, James Baker, Frank Carlucci, and several others from your administration, serves as a conduit for weapons sales between major defense contractors and governments all over the world. CARLYLE also rebuilds defense companies both financially and through market availability. Mr. President, you also served with the CARLYLE GROUP 1990-92. Dont you find this organization and its members in conflict of interest since they come directly from high government positions and are now selling weapons systems to those same governments? Dont you find it a conflict of interest when the CARLYLE GROUP advises governments what weapons systems to procure and what strategies to use against potential enemies?
16. Mr. President, were you really born again upon Billy Grahams visit to your fathers summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine? Or was this another ploy to cover your future political aspirations where you foresaw the need to sway the Southern vote to lock up elections?
17. Mr. President, did God really speak to you in 1999 and predict your rise to the presidency? While you were sitting at your mothers church in Houston?
18. Mr. President, did God really direct you to strike Afghanistan, then Iraq, and then turn your attention to the 2004 election? (As you claimed to the Prime Minister Mahmoud Abba of the Palestinians)
According to Abbas, immediately after the peace negotiations Bush said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them." June 25, 2003 Ha'aretz - Israeli Press Article
19. Mr. President, who were the White House staffers who leaked information to Bob Novak and five other prominent journalists concerning Ambassador Joseph Wilsons wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA operative? Wasnt vengeance their prime motive? Did you or your closest adviser, Karl Rove, have knowledge of the leak at the time, and did you approve?
20. Mr. President, name the company executives who sat down with Vice-President Cheney at the energy policy meetings of early 2001. Was not Ken Lay chief among them? What did they discuss and what were their plans? If Cheney and the energy planners motives were pure, why not release the names and information to the public? Or at least to Congress?
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2 - Also, sometime in the next 24 hours, please write to Fox News, Sky News and CNN, demand they raise the issues mentioned in the above 20 questions, ask them to press our "leaders" on their reasons for invading Iraq illegaly when we all know that there are no WMD in Iraq, the media are not doing their duty and should not be whoring themselves to the likes of Bush and Blair! Here are those addresses:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/home (if you scroll down the page, on the right hand side you'll see a feedback button)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/
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3 - If you own a website/group please take part in Operation Poodle - Blair is very sensitive about that term and definitely would not be pleased at his biography showing up at number 1 spot when searching for "poodle" on Google! For more information please see http://progressive.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=OnlineAct&action=display&num=1076242533
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4 - Email Tony Blair/John Howard (The British and Australian PMs) - remind them their reasoning for illegally invading Iraq was because of the so called "imminent threat" from Iraqs alleged WMD! Ask them where the WMD are, you may also like to make some of your own comments!
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page848.asp (Ask Blair "Why did you in parliament state that the source of the 45 minute claim on Iraqs so called Weapons of Mass Destruction, which you described as a "Clear and present danger" was not an Iraqi exile, when in fact the source of that dubious claim was an Iraqi exile? An answer is required by the people who already know you have lied and been willing for British blood to be spilled to cement your "special relationship.")
http://www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm
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5 - Demand the truth! Please see http://progressive.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=OnlineAct&action=display&num=1078651921
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Thanks for taking the time to read this email, and once again my apologies for the lateness in sending this out.
Best wishes all
Hello all,
Firstly I must apologise as I have only just returned home after assisting a family member over the past few days so am a bit late sending this out to everyone, please circulate this far and wide and feel free to repost on message boards, today as most of you will know is the global day of action against the continual illegal occupation of Iraq, for those of us who for whatever reason have not been able to get to the "real world" demonstrations today, we are asking as many people as possible can take part in the following actions in the next 24 hours, we can make our voices heard today and tomorrow if not in the "real world" then by the following methods:
PLEASE REPOST THE FOLLOWING AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE...... FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, LET'S HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TAKING PART IN SOME FORM OF PROTEST IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS, EVEN IF PEOPLE CAN'T TAKE PART IN THE "REAL WORLD" PROTESTS, PEOPLE CAN STILL MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD
1 - Please contact both Bush and Cheney at the following email addresses, send them the following list of 20 questions, demand an answer!
president@whitehouse.gov vice.president@whitehouse.gov Courtesy of a Mr Kelley from the Anti War Pro Peace mailing list, we have the following list of 20 questions:
1. President Bush, were you arrested for cocaine in 1972 in Harris County, Texas (Houston area)?
2. President Bush, in 1972 did your father arrange to have your cocaine arrest expunged from the records through a judge, a close-acquaintance of your fathers, in exchange for you to perform community service at Project Pool, a Houston inner-city program that mentors youth in poor neighborhoods?
3. President Bush, was your friend from the National Guard, James R. Bath, arrested for cocaine around the same time? Is this why both of your National Guard records show suspensions in 1972 for refusal to submit to annual medical exams? Is this why you were no longer allowed to fly? If so, why did you make up the story that you no longer WANTED to fly?
4. President Bush, do you remember Bill Calhoun from your National Guard duty in Alabama? No one else remembers your serving in the National Guard in Alabama at that time, but "coincidentally" the Republican National Committee suddenly found this Bill Calhoun to vouch for you. Is Mr. Calhoun a paid operative of the Republican Party? Or did he just volunteer to lie to save your reputation?
5. James R. Bath was appointed by your father as a CIA operative in 1976 leasing aircraft in Houston and serving as a liaison between wealthy Arab sheiks (including the Bin Ladens) and American entrepreneurs. According to all sources, Baths company served as a front for the CIA. Before 1976, Bath was broke, according to all accounts. What was it that prompted your father to select James R. Bath in 1976? Did he hold incriminating evidence against you?
6. James R. Bath, representative of wealthy Saudi sheiks, channeled investment money into your first company in 1977, Arbusto Energy Corporation of Midland, Texas. Were you personally acquainted with Salem bin Laden (Osamas brother) and Khalid bin Mahfouz (Osamas brother-in-law) who poured thousands into your first company and millions into your subsequent enterprises?
7. Mr. Bush, how did you profit $880,000 from Harken Energy (your fourth company), when all other investors lost 90%? Why didnt the SEC (under your fathers administration) look into the matter of your sale of stock a week before the stock collapsed?
8. Mr. Bush, how did Harken Energy (who had never explored off-shore) land the contract off Bahrain in 1990 when your father was President of the United States? Who, then, worked up the sweetheart deal under the table?
9. Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose younger sister married Osama bin Laden, was director of the powerful Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia and also served as director of BCCI (Bank of Credit & Commerce International) which laundered money for the CIA under the watch of your father. He was also part of the IRAN-CONTRA scheme (Ollie North) and the savings & loan debacle of the 80s. Mahfouz was also one of your prime investors (through James R. Bath, your Guard buddy) in your 4 failed firms. Khalid bin Mahfouz has also been tagged by the CIA for funneling millions to his brother-in-law, Osama, since the 1980s through 2004. Why, then, are you EXEMPTING Mahfouzs banking activities from being closed down? The 9/11 families especially WANT TO KNOW. (9/11 families are incensed at Bush for exempting these Saudi royals connected to Osama bin Laden.)
10. Why will you not release the August 6, 2001 brief from the CIA (delivered to you personally at Crawford) as part of the 9/11 Investigation? Did the memo not warn that Al Qaeada was planning imminent hijackings flying airliners into American buildings?
11. Mr. President, did you authorize contracting out the gathering of intelligence to a group called OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS? Was not this group closely associated with the Republican Party? Did the OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS circumvent the use of the CIA for the sole purpose of lending credibility to your pre-conceived notion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and was poised to use them against the U.S. and its allies? Was there another ulterior motive in contracting OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS ($80 million taxpayer money)? Since OSP is a private enterprise, the Congress cannot oversee its operations. Thus, you were free to dismiss any congressional inquiries. Is this correct?
12. Mr. President, who was on staff at the OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS? Were they not close to your administration and were part of the formation of PNAC (Project for a New American Century) in 1997? Was not the PNAC determined to invade Iraq regardless if Saddam was there or not even if no WMD existed?
13. Mr. President, did not the PNAC write a policy statement in September 2000 in which they believed a new Pearl Harbor was necessary to rouse Americans to back a war against Iraq?
14. Mr. President, name members of your administration who also serve or have served with the Project for a New American Century (PNAC
15 An organization/business called CARLYLE GROUP, whose members include 3 Bin Laden brothers, your father, James Baker, Frank Carlucci, and several others from your administration, serves as a conduit for weapons sales between major defense contractors and governments all over the world. CARLYLE also rebuilds defense companies both financially and through market availability. Mr. President, you also served with the CARLYLE GROUP 1990-92. Dont you find this organization and its members in conflict of interest since they come directly from high government positions and are now selling weapons systems to those same governments? Dont you find it a conflict of interest when the CARLYLE GROUP advises governments what weapons systems to procure and what strategies to use against potential enemies?
16. Mr. President, were you really born again upon Billy Grahams visit to your fathers summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine? Or was this another ploy to cover your future political aspirations where you foresaw the need to sway the Southern vote to lock up elections?
17. Mr. President, did God really speak to you in 1999 and predict your rise to the presidency? While you were sitting at your mothers church in Houston?
18. Mr. President, did God really direct you to strike Afghanistan, then Iraq, and then turn your attention to the 2004 election? (As you claimed to the Prime Minister Mahmoud Abba of the Palestinians)
According to Abbas, immediately after the peace negotiations Bush said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them." June 25, 2003 Ha'aretz - Israeli Press Article
19. Mr. President, who were the White House staffers who leaked information to Bob Novak and five other prominent journalists concerning Ambassador Joseph Wilsons wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA operative? Wasnt vengeance their prime motive? Did you or your closest adviser, Karl Rove, have knowledge of the leak at the time, and did you approve?
20. Mr. President, name the company executives who sat down with Vice-President Cheney at the energy policy meetings of early 2001. Was not Ken Lay chief among them? What did they discuss and what were their plans? If Cheney and the energy planners motives were pure, why not release the names and information to the public? Or at least to Congress?
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2 - Also, sometime in the next 24 hours, please write to Fox News, Sky News and CNN, demand they raise the issues mentioned in the above 20 questions, ask them to press our "leaders" on their reasons for invading Iraq illegaly when we all know that there are no WMD in Iraq, the media are not doing their duty and should not be whoring themselves to the likes of Bush and Blair! Here are those addresses:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/home (if you scroll down the page, on the right hand side you'll see a feedback button) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 - If you own a website/group please take part in Operation Poodle - Blair is very sensitive about that term and definitely would not be pleased at his biography showing up at number 1 spot when searching for "poodle" on Google! For more information please see
http://progressive.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=OnlineAct&action=display&num=1076242533 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 - Email Tony Blair/John Howard (The British and Australian PMs) - remind them their reasoning for illegally invading Iraq was because of the so called "imminent threat" from Iraqs alleged WMD! Ask them where the WMD are, you may also like to make some of your own comments!
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page848.asp (Ask Blair "Why did you in parliament state that the source of the 45 minute claim on Iraqs so called Weapons of Mass Destruction, which you described as a "Clear and present danger" was not an Iraqi exile, when in fact the source of that dubious claim was an Iraqi exile? An answer is required by the people who already know you have lied and been willing for British blood to be spilled to cement your "special relationship.") http://www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5 - Demand the truth! Please see
http://progressive.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=OnlineAct&action=display&num=1078651921 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for taking the time to read this email, and once again my apologies for the lateness in sending this out.
Best wishes all
ProgressiveBrit
