Upcoming Events
Just wanted to let people know about some upcoming events.
1. "Democrats of the 2nd Suffolk" Lt. Gov Forum
Mon, May 22nd, 6-8pm
Suffolk Univ Law School
150 Tremont St, Boston
Please join the 4 candidates for Lt. Gov at a forum sponsored by the Democrats of the 2nd Suffolk. The event will begin with a Meet & Greet from 6-6:30. Followed by a moderated discussion focusing on 3 topics chosen by area ward committees. For more info, contact Howard Leibowitz at (617) 263-3355 or at howardfordsc@aol.com.
2. Book Discussion on "Crashing the Gate"
Tues, May 23rd, 7pm
Middlesex Lounge,
315 Mass Ave, Cambridge
kos (from DailyKos) and Jerome Armstrong (from MyDD) have spent the last six years in the trenches, fighting the Bush Regime tooth and nail since they stole the election in 2000. Now kos and Jerome have written a book, "Crashing the Gate", about what the liberal movement needs to do to beat these clowns and start restoring some common sense in our government.
Join us for a great conversation with these two amazing bloggers!
Co-sponsored bt DFA Cambridge, DFA Boston, Boston Drinking Liberally, and Blue Mass Group. For more info visit www.crashingthegate.com....
3. Barak Obama Rally with Deval Patrick
Thurs, June 1st, 6pm
Hynes Convention Center, Boston
Sen Obama is coming to host at rally/fundraiser for Deval, one day before the state convention. Tickets are $50 for the Rally and $500 for the VIP reception. For more info, contact Lonsdale Koester at (617) 367-2006 x41 or at lkoester@devalpatrick.com.
4. Massachusetts Democratic State Convention
June 2nd & 3rd
DCU Center, Worcester
Endorsements for US Senate, Governor, Lt Gov, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor, and Treasurer will be voted on.
There will be a table at the convention, co-sponsored by DFA Boston, DFA Cambridge, CPPAX, Progressive Democrats of Cambridge, Progressive Democrats of America-Eastern Mass Chapter, and the Committee to Elect Jesse Gordon.
If you would like to volunteer to help man the table during the convention, please contact me at jmcgoldrick@mfs.com.
For those volunteers that are not delegates or alternates, you will need to contact the State Commmittee to find out about the creditionals needed to get into the DCU Center.
1. "Democrats of the 2nd Suffolk" Lt. Gov Forum
Mon, May 22nd, 6-8pm
Suffolk Univ Law School
150 Tremont St, Boston
Please join the 4 candidates for Lt. Gov at a forum sponsored by the Democrats of the 2nd Suffolk. The event will begin with a Meet & Greet from 6-6:30. Followed by a moderated discussion focusing on 3 topics chosen by area ward committees. For more info, contact Howard Leibowitz at (617) 263-3355 or at howardfordsc@aol.com.
2. Book Discussion on "Crashing the Gate"
Tues, May 23rd, 7pm
Middlesex Lounge,
315 Mass Ave, Cambridge
kos (from DailyKos) and Jerome Armstrong (from MyDD) have spent the last six years in the trenches, fighting the Bush Regime tooth and nail since they stole the election in 2000. Now kos and Jerome have written a book, "Crashing the Gate", about what the liberal movement needs to do to beat these clowns and start restoring some common sense in our government.
Join us for a great conversation with these two amazing bloggers!
Co-sponsored bt DFA Cambridge, DFA Boston, Boston Drinking Liberally, and Blue Mass Group. For more info visit www.crashingthegate.com....
3. Barak Obama Rally with Deval Patrick
Thurs, June 1st, 6pm
Hynes Convention Center, Boston
Sen Obama is coming to host at rally/fundraiser for Deval, one day before the state convention. Tickets are $50 for the Rally and $500 for the VIP reception. For more info, contact Lonsdale Koester at (617) 367-2006 x41 or at lkoester@devalpatrick.com.
4. Massachusetts Democratic State Convention
June 2nd & 3rd
DCU Center, Worcester
Endorsements for US Senate, Governor, Lt Gov, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor, and Treasurer will be voted on.
There will be a table at the convention, co-sponsored by DFA Boston, DFA Cambridge, CPPAX, Progressive Democrats of Cambridge, Progressive Democrats of America-Eastern Mass Chapter, and the Committee to Elect Jesse Gordon.
If you would like to volunteer to help man the table during the convention, please contact me at jmcgoldrick@mfs.com.
For those volunteers that are not delegates or alternates, you will need to contact the State Commmittee to find out about the creditionals needed to get into the DCU Center.
1 Comments:
The Founding Fathers of our once great nation understood the importance of education, reasoning that in order for democracy to work, the electorate had to be well educated and well informed. All things being interconnected, the Founding Fathers included Freedom of the Press, the free exchange of ideas, as the bedrock for our Constitutional Republic. If a populace is not well educated and well informed on the issues which confront it, then the system will fail; for, even a well intentioned system whose Fourth Estate lacks objectivity, honesty, or is otherwise manipulated by the powers of government and corporatism, hubris, propaganda, the electorate will undoubtedly make the wrong decisions.
We have all seen the results of propaganda within our Congress in the past five years. The so-called intelligence, namely the September Dossier, the Niger Uranium Dossier, which was supplied to Congress on the eve of the vote authorizing the Bush Administration the authority to use our military, and make preparations for war with Iraq, was false. We are still living with the repercussions of this misguided and invalid decision. The world and the Iraqi people were better off with Hussein in power. Hussein was not an ideal leader, and I would certainly not want to live in a country under his rule, but the action our government has taken has exaccerbated our troubles, not resolved them.
We as a nation were in shock from the events of 9-11-2001. Today, we have the benefit of hindsight, to reflect upon the actions our government took, who knew what when, and to decide for ourselves why. As detailed in the John Conyers report entitled "the Constitution in Crisis - The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War - Investigative Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff" - this report details the status of investigations into the Bush administration's lies concerning Iraq, pre-war, sanctioned torture and other violations of law by the Bush administration. This 273 page report is evidence, beyond a shadow of a doubt I believe, of the crimes of this administration, and is the most compelling case for Impeachment, and subsequent criminal trial, of any Administration in the history of this country. If we want to remain a Constitutional Republic, we have no choice but to Impeach Bush.
In the interest of rational well informed public discourse, and the need for us all to be well educated, I feel we need to have a public discussion of the events of 9-11-2001, which has not occurred since that tragic day. I have not heard one politician in the main stream media discuss any of the valid questions, unexplained observances, contradictions of physical evidence to the widely accepted official explanation of that day. I have read the 9-11 Commission report, and have studied the questions raised by this report by people like Dr. David Ray Griffin, as aired on CSPAN last year. I have read the academic paper by Dr. Steven E. Jones, physicist, BYU. I am also aware of previously classified history such as the proposed covert Operation Northwoods from 1962. I have viewed the myriad of media available online of television news from 9-11-2001, and analyses by civil engineers.
The fact remains, the official story of 9-11-2001, the official reason the buildings' collapsed DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS. The World Trade Towers were designed to withstand collisions of planes, multiple planes. The steel used in their construction was arc forged and rated by UnderWriters Laboratories, as mandated by law, to withstand normal fires and fires from hydrocarbon combustion, without appreciable softenning or melting. Steel, especially arc forged steel, cannot be softenned appreciably by hydrocarbon combustion, jet fuel, a type of kerosene.
I watched television live, the day of 9-11. I remembered the many, many reports of things exploding within the towers. I recall the eyewitness testimony on that day from fire fighters, police men, newscasters, citizens, who ran for their lives because things kept exploding inexplicably. Ever since 9-11, the main stream media, CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS etc... have failed to raise these questions, failed to air the very mention of explosions. Yet, a review of the available video evidence remains in the public domain. There is a video available online at google video entitled "9-11 Loose Change 2nd edition". This video is the best overview of the subject that I have found. It contains an analysis of that day, a compilation of history, public news broadcasts, and analysis. The video is an overview of many very valid question, issues.
I urge you all to consider these ideas, and investigate the information for yourselves. I also urge you to watch the film entitled "911revisited" which is available online also. I wont post links here. High speed internet access is required, as is the necessary media drivers for online viewing.
It has been far too long for a public discourse of these events. I would like a public official to discuss these ideas on television or in the main stream press.
F.Y.I., 911 Revisited is being shown in a theater in Newton, MA. Wednesday night, May 24 for the first time. It is also available on DVD and can be ordered online.
Our government and media lies to us all the time about everything. I am literally sick and tired of this fact. Everyone is discussing what the Democratic Party needs to do in order to re-establish a majority in Congress. The Democratic Party and all progressive political organisations are building their platforms, and searching for the ideas, issues, which will carry us as a nation to a better place. I offer the above ideas as a starting point. I feel we need a platform of true honesty, historical honesty, re-educating the electorate to the truth and dispelling the myriad of secrets concerning our national security. I suggest we return to Constitutional origins, a literal application of law free of esoteric legalese, ambiguity and free of the obfuscation of historical reality and instead offer the nation a platform of honesty. All of our problems can be solved, but only if rational people are well informed. Solve global warming, legalise industrial hemp, promote biofuel, end the oil age, build wind farms and solar arrays. We have the technology to be energy self sufficient in an organic and renewable way which well help Mother Nature cleanse herself of the toxins which we have been emmiting for a century. I pray for our progeny if these ideas are not embraced and nationalised.
Thank you for this forum. Thank you for your consideration.
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"Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere." - Benito Mussolini
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