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Friday, April 03, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [progressive] Obama's Sheriff

Rolling Stone writes: "Under Bush, the Interior Department was as lawless as the Wild West. But can the new secretary bring the wrongdoers to justice"

Oh, we can all be happy now that the lawless Bush Administration is history, and new we have a new bunch in that want to bring wrongdoers to justice.  Just look at what they are doing to bring this environmental wrongdoer to justice. Isn't it good to know we finally have change we can trust?

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Utah Student Who Prevented Bush Admin Sell-Off of Public Land Charged for Disrupting Auction

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We speak to University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher, who has just been charged with two felonies for disrupting the auction of over 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling. DeChristopher was arrested after he posed as a bidder and bought 22,000 acres of land in an attempt to save the property from drilling. He faces up to ten years in prison. [includes rush transcript]

Guest:

Tim DeChristopher, Environmental activist and University of Utah student. In December, he disrupted an auction of Utah's pristine wilderness to oil and gas companies.

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AMY GOODMAN: In a moment, we'll be joined by Professor Noam Chomsky. He is joining us here in a Watertown studio. But first we're going out to Utah for an update on the case of Tim DeChristopher.

In December, the University of Utah student disrupted the Bush administration's last-minute move to auction off oil and gas exploitation rights on 150,000 acres of federal land in Utah. DeChristopher was arrested after he posed as a bidder and bought 22,000 acres of land in an attempt to save the property from drilling.

Speaking on Democracy Now! days after that auction, DeChristopher explained his decision to disrupt the bidding process.

    TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: I've been hoping that someone would step up and someone would come out and be the leader and someone would put themselves on the line and make the sacrifices necessary to get us on a path to a more livable future. And I guess I just couldn't wait any longer for that someone to come out there and had to accept the fact that that someone might be me.


AMY GOODMAN: Tim DeChristopher had been hoping the Obama administration would not press charges, but on Wednesday US Attorney Brett Tolman indicted DeChristopher for two felonies. If convicted, Tim faces up to ten years in prison and a $750,000 fine.

Tim DeChristopher joins us on the phone right now from Utah. Tim, were you surprised by the charges announced this week?

TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: I was somewhat surprised by that. We didn't really see it coming, and we thought that—that since the Salazar decision had pretty much decided that this was an unjust and inappropriate auction, that they weren't following their own rules, we had figured that they would probably just want to sweep this case away rather than have us kind of discover all the rules that weren't followed in this case and all the corruption and manipulation involved in this auction. And so, I was pretty surprised that the US attorney's office moved on this case and is now pushing it to trial.

AMY GOODMAN: After the Obama administration came in and Ken Salazar became the Secretary of the Interior, didn't he nullify or say that the land could not be sold?

TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: Yes, yes. All the parcels that I bid on were part of that decision, so all of those were nullified. That's why we had raised the funds to actually make the payments on there and offer that payment to the BLM, but they weren't able to accept that because of the Salazar decision, because it was all invalidated. And I think that they made that decision because they saw all the rules that the BLM didn't follow in this case, that they didn't give this auction the due process that it deserved. And so, I saw that really as an official ruling that what I was standing against was something illegal and unjust, and so I was surprised that they still wanted to prosecute me for my opposition to that unjust procedure.

AMY GOODMAN: How much support have you received, Tim, since the December auction?

TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: I've received a huge amount of support really of every kind. I have received countless emails and calls from people expressing their support from around the country and around the world. I've received financial support, both back when we were trying to raise the funds to actually pay for the leases and financial support for my legal team. And we're collecting those donations again for my legal fund through the website bidder70.org. I had my amazing legal team of Patrick Shea and Ron Yengich step up to defend me, and they're donating their time.

And I think, most importantly, I've had a huge number of people step up in solidarity of my act and say that they, too, share my concern for our future and see that urgent need for action, and they're willing to take those sacrifices as well. From the group that we started called Peaceful Uprising to encourage this kind of act in the future and any kind of nonviolent direct action to defend our future from climate change, we took thirty students out to Washington, D.C. for the Power Shift conference and the Capitol Climate Action. And so, that was very powerful for me to see, to see this growing and to see more people step up and starting to take risks.

AMY GOODMAN: Tim DeChristopher, can you—

TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: I think that's probably the most important part of the support I've received.

AMY GOODMAN: Tim, can you explain exactly what you were charged with?

TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: Yes. I was charged with two counts: one of making a false statement to the government and one of violation of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act, which was supposed to establish a competitive bidding process for oil and gas leases.

AMY GOODMAN: Tim, finally, you recently attended a twentieth anniversary of the death of Edward Abbey, the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang. Can you talk about his relevance to your actions today?

TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: I think that the most powerful relevance of Edward Abbey to what I did was his statement and really his expression of the idea that sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul, because I think that's what I had seen throughout my work as an environmentalist previous to this, where I had seen this massive crisis and massive challenge that we were facing in climate change, and I saw that my efforts of writing the letter here and there and riding my bike and things like that weren't really aligning. My actions weren't aligning with my sentiment of how serious this threat was, and I knew that. And so, I felt that kind of conflict within myself.

And when I stepped it up at this auction and was putting myself out there and winning all these parcels was really the first time I felt like my sentiment—or I felt like my actions were aligning with my sentiment. And I felt this tremendous sense of calm when I started doing that, because for the first time that conflict within me was gone, and I knew that when I was, you know, standing up and risking going to prison, my actions really were aligning with how big of a crisis this is.

AMY GOODMAN: How do you prepare for ten years in prison, Tim?

TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: That's a good question. I think it's something that I've been preparing myself for kind of by preparing myself for how severe the consequences are that we're facing by staying on the path that we're on right now. I mean, the first time that an IPCC scientist put her hand on my shoulder and said, "I'm sorry my generation failed yours," you know, that really shook me to the core and made me realize just how late in the game we are with dealing with climate change and how dark and desperate of a future we might be looking at. And I think that by preparing for that, preparing for that completely chaotic and ugly future that we're already on track for, helps me to [inaudible] prison as something that I can deal with, because I've already started preparing myself to deal with those catastrophic effects that we might be looking at.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, Tim DeChristopher, I want to thank you very much for being with us. Tim is a University of Utah student. He is facing two felonies, ten years in prison, for disrupting an auction of public land last December.




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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] FW: Don't Let'em Pull a Franken

I am so strangely unmoved by the stuff I'm getting from the Dems these days.  I get flogged with email after email from criminals like Madeleine Albright and Wesley Clark, talking about how evil the Republicans are. The hysterical tone of these messages precisely mirrors Republican tactics.

Now they are in high umbridge about accusations they are trying to steal elections - as if this were something new for the party that outstole the Republicans in the 1960 presidential election.

When will people get good and fed up with this game?  I am so tired of Pepsi telling me how Coke is so bad for me, how it is a threat to my health, my teeth, how Coke takes water out of the mouths of poor people, etc.

Of course all that is true. But what about the rest of the story?

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Dear Matt,

Are you ready for the granddaddy of hypocrisy? Republicans just accused Democrats of trying to steal elections!

Yup. The same party that stole an entire Presidential election in 2000 and is right now still trying to steal a Senate race in Minnesota just sent this outrageous e-mail to their supporters. They're accusing us of trying to steal the too-close-to-call special election in New York's 20th District, even though Democratic candidate Scott Murphy led the vote count on Election Night!

I just had to forward their e-mail so you can see what we're up against. Read it below!

I can tell you that this New York race is within the smallest of margins and Republicans have already filed a lawsuit to slow the vote count down. We know what that can mean firsthand. I am heading to Minnesota this weekend to help Al Franken in his Senate bid from November!

With a margin this close in New York, it is even more imperative we have the resources we need for as long as we need.

Our legal team is already on the ground fighting the Republicans' despicable attempts to steal another election but they need your URGENT funds to help cover the costs.

These next few hours are critical so please contribute now.

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Democrats have almost succeeded in stealing the election in Minnesota and seating Al Franken. We cannot allow them to manipulate electoral results to seat another tax-troubled liberal.

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] If you're unfamiliar with the past, you're gonna repeat it

The sad thing is, even if you are familiar with the past, if the
majority is ignorant and/or indoctrinated, you're going to get dragged
along with the crowd.

There's a lot of kooky ideas in the air right now. Obama is a
socialist, his extension of Bush-era policies is actually ushering in
the new world order and so on... I responded to a really nasty and
disturbing video on YouTube, and the repudiation from anonymous
cowards was swift and vicious, as you can expect from the current
generation of cybervigilantes.

Here's an interesting exchange that I had with one of them. Well,
maybe it was only interesting to me. If you don't like it, don't read
it.

sarahlee0904

The world needs help
This is bigger than that little petty shit. The Constitution is a
threat to the rich and this movie will tell you why. The bankers and
corps run this country. Wake up dude wake up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ (there are 5 parts to this one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSGwnz7XpY (JFK was killed because of
it, please wake up and spread. We are about to embark on prophecy my
friend. Hard times are coming, really hard times. Whether you believe
in God or not, this shit is true. Its being discussed right now.)

Re:The world needs help
Sarahlee,

I think you've been eating too many of those toxic little
cellephane-wrapped food-substitute objects you've been making. I am
very familiar with Zeigheist, I thoroughly explored conspiracy theory
in the 80s, they have no interest or appeal to me. Conformist? Give me
a break. Conforming to truth and reason maybe, I don't think there's
1/2 a percent of people that care about that stuff.

It's too bad for Dave Emory and Mae Brussell and Alex Constantine and
John Judge and that whole sorry cast of characters that they peaked
before glitsy computer graphics and music video editing made the hash
they were slinging so dang lucrative.

...
sarahlee0904
...
Re: Re:The world needs help
Im, sorry if I lash out. But I do not wear a cone on my head. Are you
watching the news? Its happened, and being proposed as we speak. I
don't want to hear about Americans in the 1970s or 80s because you
guys never stood up. Sir im sorry, I know youre older than me but your
generation has allowed the American people to become confused human
beings, led astray by drugs, movies and other bullshit. Shame on you
for leading future generations astray to indulge in their own self
interest. Im sorry but you have no credibility.

Re: Re:The world needs help
That's cute, blame me why don't you. It's true, I never lined up, and
as a consequence, JIm Keith called me "naive" because I didn't agree
with him that the Nazi's actually won WWII. Greg Krupey came to loath
me because I didn't agree with what he came to believe - that white
supremacy was the only answer. Everybody came to hate me and accuse me
of being a government agent when I opposed the hysteria of the day,
the great Satanic Ritual Abuse witchhunt, and I stood up for the
victims.

I haven't owned a TV since 1974, which is probably why Zietgeist
doesn't impress me, it's just the MTV version of the same old shit
that misled a lot of people in the 70s.

I'd advise you to go to this website and take a good hard look at it:
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/The_critics/Emory/Emory_bio.html

Is this really where you want to be - in a nest of backstabbing,
paranoid, delusional vipers? It's amusing that Alex Constantine is the
guy leading the charge against Emory's tactics - he's the dirtiest,
most intellectually dishonest gutter fighter of them all, who'd
destroy the lives of courageous people who have stood up against the
irrational tide of human behavior if he actually had any influence.

Of course you don't want to hear abut the past - it informs you of
where you are now. And so you will repeat the mistakes of the past.
But since you are disinterested in the past, you probably have never
heard that one, either.

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Monday, March 30, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] No Mercy from Mercy



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Sunday, March 29, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Never mind the economy, more Madonna and A-Rod news....

Alexander Cockburn writes:

"It won't go on forever [Obama getting a free pass on his disasterous
handling of the economic crisis]. If things go badly , the peple know
perfectly well where the buck stops. There's already a powerful
drumbeat of disquiet that Obama, for all his smoothness, is
Hoover-like in his timid orthodoxy. Back from the political graveyard
last week came former N.Y. governor Eliot Spitzer arguing in a strong
column in Slate that Obama's $200 billion payoff to AIG was the real
scandal, not the $180 million in bonuses.

A few days after the column Spitzer was on CNN giving his views. At
this point in this unexpected renaissance one of the agents of
Spitzer's downfall gave him an untimely nip on the ankle. The madam
running the call girl business patronized by the governor disclosed
that another of her clients had been the baseball player New Yorkers
love to hate, Alex Rodriguez.  Spitzer, A-Rod and Madonna  linked
hands in a Daily News gossip item. For now, Obama sails smoothly on,
transferring wealth upward to the bankers from the rest of us."


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