Bush censors his father's White House papers

[shadowsource]

Bush has quietly signed an executive order allowing the White House NOT to release papers scheduled for release since 12 years ago. These papers pertain to the Iran-Contra scheme, various skullduggeries in Lebanon, etc., and Bush's memo - which they claim has to do with the bin Laden emergency - has been being drafted since May, when we were all worried about lesser things. Many of the folks whose papers would have been given to scholars and researchers are now employed in the Bush II Administration, of course:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0111020336nov02.story

 

[CeceliaSkye]

Why does this NOT suprise me??

 

[Todd]

I was going to post something on this about 10 days ago but y'all hate copy and [paste so much

 

[WriterDom]

Holy shit. The next thing you know, FBI files on all the democrats in congress will be floating around the White House.

 

[shadowsource]

Quite possibly!

Holy shit. The next thing you know, FBI files on all the democrats in congress will be floating around the White House.

I got audited two years in a row for opposing Reagan on Central America. The second time, having admitted a year earlier that I was clean, they apologized profusely. I'm sure WD & I can agree that state power isn't pretty when it doesn't like us.

State skullduggery is why I favored the open records law that Bush is trashing. Now WD won't get a chance to see Clinton's files - unless some scholar defeats Bush in court.

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Quite possibly!

I got audited two years in a row for opposing Reagan on Central America. The second time, having admitted a year earlier that I was clean, they apologized profusely.

This is the IRS? And how did they pick you out of millions of citizens for your particular attitude against Reagan? The IRS apologized for auditing you? That would be a first.

 

[shadowsource]

I've removed personal information from this post. Suffice it to say that the agent apologized for wasting his & my time.

 

[Guest]

The persecution has begun.

GREEN PARTY USA COORDINATOR DETAINED AT AIRPORT
PREVENTED BY ARMED MILITARY FROM FLYING TO GREENS MEETING IN CHICAGO

Armed government agents grabbed Nancy Oden, Green Party USA coordinating
committee member, Thursday at Bangor International Airport in Bangor Maine,
as she attempted to board an American Airlines flight to Chicago.

"An official told me that my name had been flagged in the computer," a
shaken Oden said. "I was targeted because the Green Party USA opposes the
bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan."

Oden, a long-time organic farmer and peace activist in northern Maine, was
ordered away from the plane. Military personnel with automatic weapons
surrounded Oden and instructed all airlines to deny her passage on ANY
flight. "I was told that the airport was closed to me until further notice
and that my ticket would not be refunded," Oden said.

Oden is scheduled to speak in Chicago Friday night on a panel concerning
pesticides as weapons of war. She had helped to coordinate the Green Party
USA's antiwar efforts these past few months, and was to report on these to
The Greens national committee. "Not only did they stop me at the airport
but some mysterious party had called the hotel and cancelled my
reservation," Oden said.

The Greens National Committee -- the governing body of the Green Party USA
-- is meeting in Chicago Nov. 2-4 to hammer out the details of national
campaigns against bio-chemical warfare, the spraying of toxic pesticides,
genetic engineering, and the Party's involvement in the burgeoning peace
movement.

"I am shocked that US military prevented one of our prominent Green Party
members from attending the meeting in Chicago," said Elizabeth Fattah, a
GPUSA representative from Pennsylvania who drove to Chicago. "I am outraged
at the way the Bill of Rights is being trampled upon."

Chicago Green activist Lionel Trepanier concluded, "The attack on the right
of association of an opposition political party is chilling. The harassment
of peace activists is reprehensible."

For further information, please call 1-866-GREENS-2 (toll-free)

Further information: http://unitedstates.websidenews.net/page2.html
Interview: http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1813233
Related Article:
Novel Security Measures | A local man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was carrying.
Source: http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml
Thread: http://www.democraticunderground.co....cgi?az=list_threads&om=384&forum=DCForumID25
This thread is continued from Part 1: http://www.democraticunderground.co....cgi?az=list_threads&om=8100&forum=DCForumID5

 

[shadowsource]

Don't panic yet, folks!

Here's a story that was on the same site as the first link in the above post.

LEADER FIBS ABOUT AIRPORT HASSLE


From: WSheasby@c...
Date: Sat Nov 3, 2001 2:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Redbadbear] Green Leader's Harassment and "Detention" at Bangor Airport ...


LEADER OF GREEN SPLINTER GROUP FIBS ABOUT AIRPORT HASSLE

In an official press release from its Chicago headquarters, the Greens/Green
Party USA, a small splinter group that opposes recognition of the Green Party
of the United States as the electoral voice of the movement that ran Ralph
Nader for President in 2000, declared that one of its leaders was stopped
from boarding a flight after a check turned up her name was on a computer
list because the organization opposes the U.S. bombing of Afhanistan. The
release said:
<Armed government agents grabbed Nancy Oden, Green Party USA
coordinating committee member, Thursday at Bangor International Airport
in Bangor Maine, as she attempted to board an American Airlines flight to
Chicago.
"An official told me that my name had been flagged in the computer," a
shaken Oden said. "I was targeted because the Green Party USA opposes
the bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan.">
The press release was relayed around the nation as a first signal of the reach
of the new draconian Patriot Act. But it turns out that Nancy Oden was
apparently not barred because of a computer check, but because she did
not comply with standard screening for weapons. While who said what is
not clear, it appears that her name was not flagged by a computer search
of potential terrorists or their supporters, according to a news report
in the Bangor Daily News on Nov. 3.

While the undue harassment of airline travelers is to be condemned, it does
not seem that this incident warrants fears of a major violation of Constitutional
guarantees of free speech, as it first appeared. The group that Nancy Oden
leads is nevertheless using the incident to draw attention and support to itself.
One member of the group's National Council urged:
<The first thing to do is to organize a committee, include spokesperson/
spokespersons. Contact civil liberties organizations including the National
Lawyers Guild, the ACLU ... Ask organizaitons to sponsor defense
committee- Seek prominent attorney who may need to have a license to
practice in Maine- Send releases out every day. Has Ralph Nader been
contacted? What about Phil Donahue CONTACT TALK SHOWS. TRY
TO GET POLITICIANS TO SUPPORT, Barbara Lee. Organizations in
Maine who know Nancy and will back her up.>

If the incident had taken place as Nancy Oden described it, it would mean
that other Green activists and leaders of other anti-war groups would also
be on computer lists and barred from flying, which reportedly has not been
the case. The exaggeration of her victimization may only serve to discredit
opposition to the Bush Administration's attack on civil liberties.

It may also further isolate the Green Party USA, which saw a majority of
delegates at its July 20 National Convention leave to form a new Green
Alliance, which has its first convention in New Orleans January 18-21.

From the Bangor Daily News, Nov. 3, 2001:
http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.html?ID=44958
Green Party activist denied Chicago flight
BANGOR — Green Party activist Nancy Oden was grounded at Bangor
International Airport on Thursday after reportedly becoming uncooperative
when she was targeted for additional screening.
Oden, who said she believed she was singled out for extra scrutiny because
of her activist past and public opposition to the current war effort, was
on her way to Chicago to attend a Green Party USA meeting when airline
personnel told her that she had been selected to undergo added security
screening before boarding.

“I was treated if I were guilty just because I’m a dissident and I speak
out,” Oden, a middle-aged woman who sits on the party’s national
coordinating committee, said from her Jonesboro home after she had
abandoned her travel plans. “They’re looking at me like I’m a terrorist and
I’m just a peaceful person trying to go to a meeting in Chicago.”
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, security has been tightened at all
the nation’s airports — including BIA, where armed National Guardsmen
monitor the screening area and passenger lists are checked against the
FBI’s terrorist watch list.

Officials at BIA and American Eagle Airlines have a much different account
of Oden’s afternoon run-in with the added security.
“She was uncooperative during the screening process,” said American Eagle
spokesman Kurt Iverson, who added that Oden reportedly would not stand
still when security staff tried to wave a metal-detecting wand over her.
“Obviously if they can’t submit to screening, [Federal Aviation
Administration] regulations require that they not be allowed to board the
plane.”

Oden said that while she asked security staff not to touch her with the
wand, she did allow them to complete their search of both her person and
her baggage. Oden said that she did pull away from a National Guardsman
when he grabbed her left arm and asked her if she “knew what happened on
September 11,” she said.

While acknowledging that Oden was singled out for added extensive
screening, authorities said it was more likely due to the manner in which
she purchased her ticket than for her activist past. Under newly adopted
FAA regulations, more passengers — either randomly or based on a
computerized profile — are being targeted for more intense screening
during the boarding process.

While industry officials were unwilling to release the criteria under which
they would profile a passenger, they said the criteria did not include
federally protected characteristics such as race, religion, age or sex.
Without providing details, interim airport director Rebecca Hupp said that
the FAA guidelines “have more to do with the ticket than the person.” For
instance, one airline official said, a passenger who pays cash for a ticket
the day of the flight would likely undergo added scrutiny. Oden bought her nonrefundable ticket online, she said.

While an FBI spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny the presence of
any name on the terrorist watch list — another trigger for added security
response — one law enforcement source said it was “extremely unlikely”
Oden was on the list of potential terrorists because her name is unknown to
the FBI.

After the incident, Oden was told she could not take her scheduled flight
to Chicago, and that she could not travel on any other airline at the
airport that day.

“If I had done something wrong, they should have arrested me instead of
denying me my right to travel,” an upset Oden said Friday. “We’re losing
more of our rights and people don’t realize it.”

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Re: Don't panic yet, folks!

Here's a story that was on the same site as the first link in the above post.

LEADER FIBS ABOUT AIRPORT HASSLE

When people tell lies like that it just hurts their credibility and their cause, valid or not.

Such crap also hurts everyone else who does have a valid complaint about harassment.