TOTALITARIAN AMERYKA

CZYLI WIECEJ WOJEN MNIEJ WOLNOSCI

Jak jeszcze ktos ma watpliwosci i uporczywie twierdzi, ze Ameryka to raj wolnosci, musi przeczytac ksiazke Erica Lichtblau pt. "Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice" (http://www.amazon.com/Bushs-Law-Remaking-American-Justice/dp/037542492X).

Ze USA nie jest juz krajem wolnym, to pal licho. Natomiast niepokojace jest zjawisko narzucania przez USA swojego opresyjnego systemu na panstwa anglosaskie. Na przyklad, pod amerykanskie dyktando tzw. wojne z narkotykami prowadza Kanada i Wielka Brytania. Ksiaze William ugania sie za narkotykami na morzach, natomiast kanadyjska policja ma prawo pobierac mocz, sline i krew podejrzanym o jazde pod wplywem narkotykow. Podobnie jest z tzw. wojna z terroryzmem.
USA jest juz najwiekszym gulagiem wieziennym na swiecie (ok. 3 miliony wiezniow). Kanada za rzadow Konserwatystow podaza w tym samym kierunku. W zeszlym roku w Kanadzie tylko za marihuane aresztowano 40 tys. Kanadyjczykow!

HERE'S A MUST-READ BOOK ABOUT how government secrecy allowed the American justice system to falter. While the U.S. recoiled in horror at the mass murder committed on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration began plotting its counteroffensive against al Qaeda.
As the Bush war machine began rolling, casualties occured not just on the battlefields of Afganistan and Iraq, but in small and big towns in America, where civil liberties dissolved in the acidic climate of fear.
Those depressing and disturbing years are ably recalled by New York Times investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for chronicling some of the White House's dirtiest secrets.
One of the worst of these was the National Security Agency's wiretap program, initiated without warrants and kept secret even from the congressional committees charged with overseeing these types of intelligence operations.
We now know some of the other secrets: suspects arrested and kept incommunicado on the basis of flimsy evidence of terrorist connections, financial records of tens of thousands of innocent people combed for clues of terrorist financing, secret prisons, torture.
When Lichtblau and his partner, James Risen, were set to go to print with their revelations of illegal wiretapping, staff at the highest levels of the White House warned the New York Times it would have blood on its hands if the story ran.
And so the story sat unpublished for more than a year, allowing the White House to continue to lie to Congress and the public about its programs. Lichtblau describes his unease at knowing administration officials were lying, and at no setting the record straight.
Journalism junkies turning to this book in hope of finding a redux of All The President's Men will be disappointed. The decision-making process at the Times is given only cursory treatment.
Still, this is an important book about how Bush tried to keep America in the dark (Howard Goldenthal, "Totalitarian America. Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice by Eric Lichtblau (Pantheon), 349 pages, $32 cloth", NOW July 3-9 2008).

Roadside tests
Canadians who drive while high won't be able to refuse roadside drug tests under new laws that kicked in yesterday. Police can now require drivers to submit to roadside tests. Officers also have the power to take suspected drug-impaired drivers to a police station or hospital to give a blood, urine or saliva sample (24 HOURS, Thursday, July 3, 2008).

PRINCE WILLIAM. The Royal Navy ship on which Prince William is serving made a major cocaine bust in the north Atlantic, Britain's Defence Ministry said yesterday. The prince helped his crew mates intercept a speedboat near Barbados on Saturday (METRO, Thursday, July 3, 2008).

The U.S. Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups...
The FBI will be allowed to begin investigations simply "by assuming that everone's a suspect, and then you weed out the innocent," said Caroline Fredrickson of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Citing Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh - two white Americans - the ACLU's Fredrickson said: "Profiling has sent us in the wrong direction. ... I thought we learned our lesson in that regard" ("U.S. eyes racial profiling", 24 HOURS, Thursday, July 3, 2008).

06: 42 Hrs. Na zycie patrzysz bez emocji. Naprzeciw czasom, ludziom wbrew - spiewa Lombard w Polskim Radiu Toronto na fali 1320 AM. Na dworze zachmurzenie duze. 20-stopniowo. Radosny spiew ptakow. W dzienniku: Rozmowy o tarczy zakonczone, mowia Amerykanie. Strona polska ma usta zamkniete. Wypadek kolejowy w Belgii. 30 osob rannych. Jan Miodek agent SB? Upaly w Europie. 40 stopni w cieniu w Hiszpanii i w Grecji.
ESSO, Shell, Canadian Tire, Petro-Canada biora za litr paliwa $1.35.8.

06:46 Hrs. Czestuje sie darmowymi gazetami ze skrzynek na ul. Bloor. Zaczal padac deszcz.

"Metro" (www.metronews.ca) z "Ready to take a gamble? Queen's Park urging feds to introduce Ontario casino sportsbooks" na okladce.
"24 hours" (www.torontosun.com) z "I deserve it. Abortionist Dr. Morgentaler says he's honoured to finally receive The Order of Canada for his contribution to women's rights" na okladce.
"Eye Weekly" (www.eyeweekly.com) z "Fringe Fest. Paula Rivera nad Marco Timpano provide their own takes on the one-woman show at the annual theatre throwdown's 20th edition" na okladce.
"Now" (www.nowtoronto.com) z "20 years of the Fringe. The best shows then & now" na okladce.

15:09 Hrs. "Let's ride Let's ride Let's ride" - unosi sie w CBC RADIO I na fali 99.1 FM. Zachmurzenie male, z przejasnieniami. 20-stopniowo.

20:54 Hrs. Oddaje glos na Ustke (3527) na portalu "Gmina" (http://www.gmina.pl).

21:11 Hrs. Umieszczam wpis na Forum Ustki w watku "Bolek" http://www.ustka.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=666).

21:20 Hrs. Zrywam kartke z kalendarza. Dzis czwartek. 3 lipca 2008. Odmawiam Tajemnice swiatla. Dzien krotszy od najdluzszego dnia w roku o 9 minut. Imieniny Anatola, Jacka, Ottona, Leona, Tomasza, Heliodora.

1928 - Urodzil sie Jan Machulski, aktor, rezyser i pedagog; zalozyciel (z zona Halina) warszawskiego Teatru Ochota; profesor PWSFTViT w Lodzi; zagral w ponad 40 filmach, m.in. w komediach swojego syna Juliusza Machulskiego - Vabank i Kinsajz ("Kalendarz Rodzinny").

Warszawa Co piaty mlody Polak mysli o karierze zawodowego zolnierza - wynika z najnowszych, niepublikowanych dotad, badan na zlecenie resortu obrony. Dotarl do nich "Dziennik". Do armii nie zniechecaja nawet wiadomosci o polskich zolnierzach rannych albo zabitych na wojnie w Iraku i Afganistanie. Milosc Polakow do wojska trwa od kilku lat. "Zolnierze poprawiaja nam samopoczucie, zwlaszcza poczucie narodowej dumy" - mowi antropolog kultury, prof. Wojciech Burszta. Dodaje: "Sa silni, odwazni i ofiarni. To nasz najlepszy towar eksportowy" ("Przeglad Tygodnia", GONIEC, 6 - 12 czerwca 2008).