Sunday, September 25, 2005


Sorry for the sideways picture posted below, just one more complaint to add to my list for Verizon/Audiovox/Microsoft PDA/Cam combo. Anyway, here are a couple pics to make up for my error.

posted by Edward at 9/25/2005 10:40:00 PM

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Blogger V said...

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The San Francisco Chronicle got its hands on 2000 pages of testimony on Tillman's death and interviewed his family and soldiers who served with him. The Chronicle's report not only strengthens the evidence that the Pentagon deliberately covered up Tillman's death from friendly-fire to better exploit him as a PR tool, it reveals that:

--Tillman joined the Army specifically to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, but was sent to participate in the invasion of Iraq against his wishes. He called the invasion, "so fucking illegal."

--He was an avid reader and fan of Noam Chomsky. Tillman was scheduled to meet Chomsky upon his return from Afghanistan.

--Tillman was an independent-minded, outspoken Bush critic who planned to vote for John Kerry.

--On April 23, 2004, a day after he was killed, Tillman's bullet-riddled body armor was burned by a soldier. That same day, all Army Ranger top commanders were informed of the suspected fratricide.

--Two days later, Tillman's uniform was burned.

--On April 30, Tillman was awarded the Silver Star for bravery. "Through the firing Tillman’s voice was heard issuing fire commands to take the fight to the enemy on the dominating high ground,” the Army stated.

--Three days later, acting Army Secretary Lee Brownlee was told of Tillman's death by fratricide.

--On May 29, once Tillman's PR value had been exhausted, the Army admitted to his family that his death was a fratricide.

--ON November 14, an officer who interrogated Rangers involved in Tillman's killing stated he thought some could have been charged with "criminal intent" and other with "gross negligence."

--Portions of the Pentagon's report on Tillman's death were deleted.

26 September, 2005 08:27  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thousands Protest the Iraq War
By Kathleen Sullivan, Chris Heredia, Janine DeFao and Todd Wallack
The San Francisco Chronicle

Saturday 24 September 2005

SF also crowded with Love Parade revelers.
Tens of thousands of people marched in San Francisco and the East Bay today to urge the U.S. government to pull out of Iraq, joining anti-war protests in Washington and other cities.

Elsewhere in the city, thousands of people grooved to the sound of electronic music along Market Street and at Civic Center Plaza. And tonight, thousands more are expected to rock-out at SBC Park to Green Day, the celebrity punk band born in Berkeley.

Police estimated 20,000 people marched today. Organizers pegged the crowd at 50,000. Either way, it was one of the largest anti-war protests since the U.S. invaded Iraq two years ago. Protesters gathered in San Francisco's Dolores Park this morning, then marched for two hours to Jefferson Square Park, where the park was jammed with a standing room only crowd of bodies.

As they marched, people carried signs expressing outrage at everything from the war in Iraq to President Bush to the treatment of Palestinians. One man, dressed as Uncle Sam, carried an American flag with a peace sign.

A sixth-grader from San Jose held a handmade sign that said "No war ever more" on one side and "No war anymore" on the other. "I am going to be a conscientious objector," said Dominic Dello Bueno, 11, who was there with his father and younger sister. "I vote for peace not war." Some participants said they have been actively protesting the war for months or years.

"I write letters," said Isabelle Corkins, 47, of Alameda, who with her husband and 4-year-old daughter. "This is the only thing left that gives me a sense of doing something."

A student from Laney College in Oakland prepared to help carry a procession of black coffins, built to represent Iraqi children who have died in the conflict.

"The idea is that we will stop protesting just because the war is continuing, but we won't," said Maryjane Jota, 20. "Just because it's old news, doesn't mean that it's old news to the people who are dying."

Douglas Fisher, 61, held a large rainbow flag that said "Peace" in Italian. He said he got the flag in Sicily, and has taken part in several peace marches to oppose the war.

"Somebody said it was a great day for a march," he said. "I was thinking it would be great if we didn't have to come down here anymore."

Along a grassy median on Dolores Street, people set up 40 large placards marking casualties from the war. Each poster carried 60 photos and drawings, representing American soldiers and Iraqi citizens who have been killed in the conflict. (The U.S. military estimates that at least 1,900 soliders have died, and thousands more have been wounded in Iraq.)

Jim Haber, 43, said the posters were designed to "show the human cost of the war." At least a half dozen counter-protesters, including a group of college Republicans from San Francisco State University, turned out to the military effort in Iraq.

One held a handmade sign that said "Hey, losers. Stop demoralizing the troops."

Another said he thinks the U.S. military will need to remain in Iraq for years to help the country establish a democracy. He said he thought most of the protesters were radicals who wanted to overthrow the U.S. government.

"There is a different way to peace," said Leigh Wolf, a 19-year-old broadcast major. "This work can come to an end with patriotism instead of a socialist revolution."

By late afternoon, the crowd at Jefferson Park had thinned considerably.

A smaller protest was also held in Walnut Creek, where about 250 to 300 people marched from the city's Bart station to Heather Farms Park.

The demonstration drew a wide range of people - from seniors to kids- holding peace signs. Many drivers honked noisily as they drove by marchers on Ignacio Valley Road, though some gave a thumbs down sign or a middle finger.

A 52-year-old lawyer said he joined the protest because of her outrage at the federal government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina. Faith Brewer said she thought the problem was exacerbated because too many resources were diverted to Iraq.

"Too many people died in New Orleans, because of the war in Iraq," she said.

Brewer said she was particularly motivated to march in Walnut Creek, her hometown, because it's considered a more conservative city in the liberal region.

"People tend to think that nobody here is against the war in Iraq - that all the leftist, peaceniks are in San Francisco," she said.

Others held signs supporting peace and a pull-out of Iraq. On said "Moms against the War." Another read, "Bring the troops home now." A third said "Peace is Patriotic." Unlike some other war protests, the focus appeared to be squarely on Iraq.

Sondra Runyan, who has a daughter in the Coast Guard, said she worried that Americans have become inured to the news of soldiers dying in Iraq.

"It seems when you turn on the radio, they mention we lost two or three soldiers, and then they're off to the sports scores," said Runyan, 47, of Martinez. "People are immune to the pain these families are going through. This is destroying families."

Contra Costa County Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier, who attended the rally, said he plans to propose a resolution next month in support of Congressional legislation to set a deadline to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.

"I don't see this as being out of mainstream," DeSaulnier said, as he looked over the crowd . "It may be the tip of the iceberg."

"If enough local elected speak out, we could be saving lives," he added.

The Walnut Creek rally ended peacefully at about 2 p.m.

Meanwhile, thousands of electronic music lovers gathered along Market Street for the 1 p.m. start of the city's second annual Loveparade.

The parade, featuring 24 floats with more than 200 disc jockeys from as far away as Israel, was expected to head slowly along Market Street, ending in a massive dance party at City Hall and the surrounding Civic Center Plaza.

An estimated 30,000 to 35,000 people showed up for the festival last year, and organizers hope to double that tally this year.

Though precise crowd estimates weren't available, the sidewalks were packed 12-people deep in some places along Market Street as dance party regulars mixed with tourists. "Can you feel the love? It's contagious," said Brian Tene, 27, of Daly City, dressed in a Superman outfit, complete with a red cape and sculpted foam chest. "Look at everyone being themselves and being free."

Loveparade was first launched in Berlin in 1989, with the idea that techno music would help bridge the cultures of East and West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. While the Berlin event is now defunct, other Loveparades had popped up around the globe, including Mexico City and Tel Aviv.

The San Francisco event - which includes not only Euro-inspired techno music but hip hop, house, jungle, funk, progressive and trance music - has continued the theme that music celebrates diversity, promotes tolerance and fosters community.

"The music sort of joins everyone together," said parade spokeswoman Jennifer Manger. "If we can put all the music in one place, we can join those subcultures together in a community of love."

The Green Day concert was expected to begin at 7 p.m., ensuring traffic snarls would continue throughout the day. A BART commuter reported trains were jammed.

26 September, 2005 09:16  
Anonymous Victory Gardener said...

So many words and so little said. Only accusations and assumptions, festivities and dates from questionable sources (San Fran Chronicle is one of many) that yield no answers, but feed the phobia of hatred and fear that liberals find around them. What a dying way to live.

26 September, 2005 14:39  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"A student from Laney College in Oakland prepared to help carry a procession of black coffins, built to represent Iraqi children who have died in the conflict."

..A little over the top for me..Just who is it that are killing the children with their "I.mprovised E.xpolsive D.evices"..I can't see the connection..But then..Nothing these people say makes any sense to me..
..Yankee PaPa..

26 September, 2005 15:38  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you for an interesting article!
New york times should change the name into the Beijing times or Baghdad times.
Similarly, Asahi Shimbun should change the name into Pyongyang newspaper.
They report only the fault of the home country, and make noises as fascism or totalitarianism .
My home country (Japan) is worse than US.
Here and there, there are so many traitor!
They criticize the textbook.
However, they do not have reading it.
http://www.tsukurukai.com/
This is japanese new text book.
http://www.uygur.org/
and now,so many people are killed by china.
But,no Japanese media doesn,t report it.
http://linuxer.sakura.ne.jp/homepage/home.htm
There are lies that the Korean attached here.
However, the news organization in Japan doesn't tell this.
It is because Korean people in Japan is scared as mafia.
They use violence to solve problems soon.
Is South Korea a fascism nation?
The answer is yes.
They have only one textbook and the government can intervene it.
disadvantageous reports for the government can be suppressed.
A lot of South Koreans therefore do not know the current state of the home country, and don,t want to know.

01 October, 2005 13:01  

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