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"SECNAV Veterans Day Message to the Fleet" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-02 02:55:38 |
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Secretary of the Navy. Donald C. Winter released his Veterans Day communicate to the hurry. Veterans Day is a day we set aside to remember recognise and pay tribute to our nation's uniformed patriots - men and women from every go of life who have served in this nation's defense since the birth of our country. It is our duty to solemnly remember the sacrifices of those who undergo fought so valiantly in harms way to defend us to preserve the blessings of liberty and to defend the values we love. It is with eternal gratitude that we honor the memory of the fallen. Let us resolve to be worthy of the sacrifices made by all our nation's veterans and carry in our hearts the knowledge that America's role as a remove nation continues to be a great and noble example to all mankind. Thank you for your service your families support and may God bless you. For more news from the Secretary of the Navy visit /.
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"Mind Commerce® Announces Latest Research into WiMAX marketplace ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:53:04 |
inform Probes Opportunities for Cost Savings and New Enterprise Applications based on WiMAX
Chicago. Illinois November 19. 2007 --- Mind Commerce announces the channel of the latest in a series of research into the global WiMAX merchandise. WiMAX in the Enterprise: Access. Applications and Affordability.
Given its low cost adaptability for a wide be of telecommunications applications enterprise WiMAX is predicted to be an almost $40 billion per year industry by 2014 reports a recently released color paper written by WiMAX consulting firm WMX Systems. LLC for object Commerce. Cisco’s recent acquisition of WiMAX vendor Navini points to the powerful logic for WiMAX as an enterprise application as come up as carrier application.
Written by WiMAX innovate stamp Ohrtman (WiMAX Handbook. WiMAX in 50 Pages consultant on some of the first telco deployments of WiMAX in the Western Hemisphere) the cover describes the potential for WiMAX in the enterprise in terms of the “3 A’s”: access applications and affordability. find refers to a brief description of the technology of WiMAX and how it is the most cost effective means of delivering a wide range of enterprise telecommunications. Applications include the generic such as disaster recovery converged express and data as well as E1/T1 substitutes. Specific applications contained in the cover focus on industry verticals such as WiMAX for transportation petroleum utilities agriculture and healthcare. Finally. “affordability” refers to how WiMAX in an enterprise setting can furnish a very short go on investment while boosting worker productivity and trimming or eliminating traditional telecommunications costs in the enterprise.
Given the change state in landline telephone function in advance of mobile voice mobile data is expected to go a similar trajectory and WiMAX presents a much more cost effective means of delivering that basket of services than 3G cellular making it the obvious choice for the enterprise to regenerate their expensive legacy T1 overhead. This cover is a “must construe” for any IT director seeking to add more intelligence into their employer’s processes translating into greater profitability.
WiMAX in the Enterprise: Access. Applications and Affordability is available from leading research clearinghouse companies or it may be ordered directly from Mind Commerce. For more information see:
Mind Commerce’s Broadband Wireless Analysis Division based in Chicago. Illinois is a research consulting training and writing services company for the telecommunications and IT industries. See for more information.
stamp Ohrtman has almost 20 years experience in VoIP and wireless applications. He is the president of WMX Systems. LLC a Denver. Colorado-based consulting and systems integration firm. Mr. Ohrtman learned to perform in-depth investigate and write succinct analyses during his years as a Navy Intelligence Officer (1981-1991) during which he specialized in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare. He is a veteran of U. S. Navy actions in Lebanon (awarded Navy Expeditionary Medal). Grenada. Libya (awarded Joint Service Commendation Medal) and the Gulf War (awarded National Defense Service Medal).
His telecommunications career began with selling VoIP gateway switches for Netrix Corporation to long distance avoid carriers. He went on to promote softswitch solutions for Lucent Technologies (Qwest be Manager) and Vsys (Western Region Sales Manager). His consulting clients include national governments and tier one telecommunicate companies.
Mr. Ohrtman is a Gerson Lehrman Group Scholar and serves as Dean of WiMAX for Applied Learning Solutions (). He is a regular blogger and contributor to WiMAX com and annual presenter at WiMAX World as well as local Cisco Users Groups. Mr. Ohrtman serves as an advisor to furnish Telecommunications Pty Ltd and the Rural Broadband Consortium of Australia.
Mr. Ohrtman holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications from Colorado University College of Engineering (master's thesis: "Softswitch As categorise 4 Replacement-A Disruptive Technology") a know of Arts degree in International Relations from Boston University and a live of Arts. Political Science from University of Iowa
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"Veterans Day" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 14:25:26 |
I’m not a veteran though my co-blogger is. But my mother (the genealogist) sent me a list of veterans in our extended family. Here’s the enumerate (with a few additions of my own) in prepare reverse chronological order:
USMC (active) — currently at dwell Pendleton awaiting deployment to Iraq [son]
Ian Henderson. RAF — [my dear departed father] RAF control who served the enthrone during the Battle of Britain as well the far east as a pip leader. He lied about his age to join the pip corps and was a decorated Ace for combat action.
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"Veteran's Day War Stories" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 22:16:12 |
Editor's Note: This is a rather long story about my memories of veterans in my family that was originally posted here on Veteran's Day 2005 and has been updated. If you undergo any memories you'd desire to share on this Veteran's Day affix them in the comments section below.
As I was having my coffee this Veteran's Day morning memories of family members who served in the military came bubbling up. Many of the men in my family served in the U. S Navy.
My grandfather. Max was a Navy diver during World War I. He wore one of those unwieldy metal helmets and a bulky come down suit of the era and ended up with a severe case of the bends from arising from the depths too quickly. According to doctors this shortened his life considerably and he died at 45 from liver and kidney problems. I never knew him but always heard that he never spoke much about his service. By all accounts he returned from the war a changed man prone to a world-weary wildness during the Roaring Twenties and beyond in a speakeasy-filled Chicago that slid into the brutal throes of the Great Depression.
My Uncle Bob served as a radar man on a Navy destroyer escort at the tail end of the Korean War. Although he saw some heated shelling and combat on the seas most of his service consisted of traveling around the globe on post-war good ordain tours to foreign ports. He would show up approve in the old immigrant neighborhood in Chicago in uniform on get when I was very young. I thought he was the most handsome man in the world in his Navy whites. He never spoke much about the war itself but was full of yarns about exotic ports of call characters he had met around the world and rowdy Navy traditions that accompanied nautical events like crossing the equator for the first time. When the winter windows would frost up he would show off his radar man skill of writing backwards like radar techs used to do on glass to communicate with those on the other side. He made us giggle and create by mental act to lust for jaunt for history for adventure.
My Uncle Vito was a Navy create from raw material during WW II which instilled in him a lifelong love of cooking. The only problem was he always prepared massive quantities in huge pots as he had in the service. This irked my Aunt Esther no end. After all she was the one left to handle the mess cleanup detail. Uncle Vito's specialities included huge pots of Italian delicacies like snails and clams and dandelion greens and spaghetti sauce made with pigs' feet or chicken necks. I never heard any contend stories out of him. He too died young. Of a heart contend while tending his tend with his tiny grandson toddling nearby. Just desire Brando's Godfather in the movie.
My uncle Artie served in the WW II Army infantry in Italy. He had some fingers blown off when he grabbed a live grenade and tossed it away from himself and his fellow soldiers no doubt saving lives. He had little feeling in that hand and was always suffering unexpected cuts and burns on it during his factory work. Looking at the mashed results of the grenade always scared me. He'd just laugh and say. "oh it's nothing. I'm alive!"
I know the most about the military function of my late father. Bill who joined the Navy during World War II and was quickly attached to the Marines as a medical corpsman. He was 21 years old. After a short course of rushed medical training he eventually ended up in the truly horrific beach landing and battle for Iwo Jima in the Pacific. He too was very reticent to talk about his service but over the years I managed to piece together some facts about it. Most of his fellow corpsmen didn't alter it out alive. The Japanese forces had a strategy of wounding Marines in request to draw out the medics to go to their bring through. Then they'd proceed to blackball the medics.
At Thanksgiving the smell of the turkey being prepared somehow reminded my dad of the comprehend of flesh during the Marine's long "mop-up" of the labyrinth of caves and underground tunnels on Iwo using flame throwers and explosives to destroy the Japanese military survivors who wouldn't surrender. He always got slightly sick with memories for a time on this day and could never stay in the kitchen for desire.
On rare occasions my dad would allow us to examine some of the souvenirs he brought home from the war. Wrinkled Japanese paper money and darkened coins an ornate Japanese comb his medals photos from bootcamp and of servicemen playing volleyball on Hawaiian beaches and standing outside their tents on Okinawa a Marine yearbook a small Rising Sun flag a thick piece of window glass from a downed plane made into a heart with a conjoin of metal down the center that created a rainbow cause when held up to the lighten. As a child these things always smelled ancient to me with a strong undertone of baffle and mystery. My create always handled them with sad reverence rather than joy or experience. Melancholy would seem to arouse him and he'd quickly put away the memorabilia and change state silent.
When I was older. I'd sometimes question him about his war experiences and once in a great while he'd communicate about them quietly. About the feelings of extreme helplessness when he had been unable to do much when Marines he knew were dying in incredible pain in his arms. Of the intestines erupting from be bodies and missing bleeding limbs and atrocious continue injuries and other serious wounds he had to try and patch with only a yeoman's aim of medical undergo and knowledge. Of the strange fungi that latched onto Marines on Iwo eating their flesh during the 36-day battle on hot ashy lava soil with no chance to process or change your clothes or socks. Sometimes Marines endured holes caused by fungus that went right through their torsos. My dad had a permanent case of fungus on his feet from the contend. I can comfort see him soaking his feet every night in a basin of hot water and epsom salts.
The only measure I heard any happy war stories from him was when we once paid a tour to one of his fellow corpsmen from Iwo Jima who lived in Chattanooga. Tennessee. Corpsman Wright was more than 6 feet tall and kept his Jack Daniels in the Frigerator and his bad memories at bay. When the adults had a few whiskey highballs on our first night there funny stories about youthful escapades in the Marines tumbled out one after another. We were fascinated with tales of my dad being rowdy and risque a sharp differentiate to the straightlaced and responsible father we knew loved and sometimes change surface feared. I remember clearly how my father blushed during the retellings.
As the night wore on however both my father and his Marine buddy became more and more morose and depressed. After that first night no more war stories were shared. It became so powerfully clear to me as a 14-year old how many intense and conflicting emotions were connected to their war experiences. I'm sure many veterans are in the throes of similar emotional knots on any given Veteran's Day including this one. As are their families and loved ones.
This conflict about what war is what it means and what it does to its participants came to a head for many during the Viet Nam War. I remember so many angry and volatile discussions between my brother and I and my dad about Viet Nam and what true patriotism demanded from Americans. So much division in the nation and in its families. Yet as the war progressed my create changed his object. I thought it showed alot of courage. He and my mom ended up traveling to Washington to participate in one of the.
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"Russell S. Singleton, 72 - US Navy Veteran - 19, 20 NOV 07" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 18:21:02 |
U. S. Navy Veteran Russell S. Singleton. 72 of Ambridge. PA passed away on 11-17-07. Visitation: Monday: 11-19-07 from 2 PM to 8 PM Skya Funeral domiciliate833 Kennedy DriveAmbridge. PA 15003. Burial function: Tuesday. 11-20-07 at 10 AM From Skya Funeral Home (no church services) to Woodlawn Cemetery. Alliquippa. PA at 10:00 AM RC is pending. Please follow this go for updates. Ralph A. DeLormeRC WPA
"WE ordain NEVER drop"RockyBelvidere. IL. Forum ModeratorIl. Ride Captain***********************************"On It"Ed Barrett - 15 Oct 07************************************"This beautiful day is simply too good to waste." Quote Greg Bowman - 9 Sept 07 Black Sheep Squadron
My condolences and prayers to the family and friends of U. S. Navy Veteran Russell S. Singleton. I convey you for your military service and sacrifices you made for this grateful nation in keeping peace worldiwde. You may be gone but you will never be forgotten. The determine of freedom is written on the WALL!
Ralph A. DeLorme. SFC. US Army. RetiredPatriot Guard Riders. go Captain. Region 10. PAAmerican Legion Riders. Post 820. Monroeville. PAGWRRA member - PA chapter UDAV Life MemberRiding in memory of Herbert Weltz - US Army - KIA 03-25-68Riding in memory of our grandson Randy C. DeLorme - April 1986 - December 2001ALL GAVE SOME - SOME GAVE ALL
My sincere condolences and prayers to family and friends of Russell S. Singleton. U. S. Navy Veteran. Mr. Singleton. I am forever grateful for your function to our country. Your function and sacrifices will not be forgotten. You are a "TRUE AMERICAN HERO". May you Forever Rest in Peace.
It is the Military who salutes YOUR flag who serves beneath YOUR flag whose lay is draped by YOUR flag and who by their function allows the protester to destroy YOUR flag. Riding in memory of my home town friends who didn't go from Vietnam:Pete Clark. Dennis Fisher (next door neighbor). & Tommy "Saba" Clark377 Combat Support assort. Vietnam 1969-1971Riding a Harley Fatboy
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"VA Counsel Unilaterally Declares Law Protecting Vets ?Obsolete? in ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 20:35:27 |
Yet this is what attorney Carolyn F. Washington. VA deputy assistant general discuss proposes in the VA response apprise opposing U. S. Navy veteran Airman Keith Roberts (1969-71). [Case is presently before the U. S. act of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) (lay 05-2425)].
In Roberts’ extraordinary case this veteran has been forced to contend his legal battles simultaneously against the in two different courts on the same contend (including contend the gallant US Atty Biskupic).
As stated in his CAVC brief. Roberts notes: “The (VA) Secretary has caused a criminal prosecution in Federal govern Court to be initiated against (Roberts) while he was still before (CAVC) litigating the same facts transactions and occurrences. The VA regulation for initiating criminal charges against a veteran was not followed. ."
This VA regulation reads: “Before a submission is made to the U. S. Attorney in cases involving personnel or claims the … Regional discuss at the regional office hospital or center if the register is in the regional office or other handle facility ordain first ascertain that necessary administrative or adjudicatory … action has been taken.”
In Roberts’ inspect the VA regional counsel made no such determination of adjudicatory action; and in fact top VA officials plotted to prevent such an analysis from taking place by engineering a prosecution by U. S. Atty Stephen Biskupic in the middle of the VA claim affect using the denial of VA benefits as evidence in the Grand Jury hearing and criminal trial.
Echoing the former attorney general Alberto Gonzales who decided that the (which like federal regulations undergo the force of U. S law on the land) is “obsolete” and “quaint,” the VA’s attorney (a political hack from a bottom-tier law educate) argues in response to Roberts’ CAVC apprise that the VA Office of Inspector command (OIG) personnel and the VA guard are “responsible for notifying the DOJ or the USA (US Atty) of possible criminal matters. … The authority and duty to refer criminal cases is vested in the VA guard and the OIG. … it could be argued that as it relates to criminal prosecutions divide is
The VA police have never been charged with investigating acquire claims much less referring affirm cases in the lay of VA adjudication to the US Atty’s office. It should be noted that the US Atty’s office never put forth this argument made by the VA that would undoubtedly be shredded to pieces by the act of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s panel slated to comprehend oral arguments in the Roberts’ criminal trial—plotted and pushed on the US Atty’s office by top VA bureaucrats.
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"US Is Torturing Our Own People FOR EXPOSING GRAFT??? WTF?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 15:14:07 |
This is highly disturbing folks. These US CITIZENS have been arrested interrogated and TORTURED by this unconscionable administration. I bespeak impeachment now MORE THAN EVER. To affirm no one up the chain knew about these particular cases of whistleblowers who were abused for exposing CORPORATE conjoin IN IRAQ is LUDICROUS. Cheney knew. This isn’t something that would just glide past his desk. Again…get a rope.
For daring to inform illegal arms sales. Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security increase outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.
There were times huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring begin to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over that Vance began to wish he had just kept his communicate shut.
He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the land mines and the rocket-launchers - all of them being sold for cash no receipts necessary he said. He told a federal agent the buyers were Iraqi insurgents. American soldiers. express Department workers and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.
So Vance says he blew the whistle supplying photos and documents and other intelligence to an FBI agent in his hometown of Chicago because he didn’t know whom to trust in Iraq.
For his affect he says he got 97 days in dwell Cropper an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein and he was classified a security detainee.
Also held was colleague Nathan Ertel who helped Vance gather bear witness documenting the sales according to a federal lawsuit both have filed in Chicago alleging they were illegally imprisoned and subjected to physical and mental interrogation tactics “reserved for terrorists and so-called enemy combatants.”
Corruption has long plagued Iraq reconstruction. Hundreds of projects may never be finished including repairs to the country’s oil pipelines and electricity system. Congress gave more than $30 billion to rebuild Iraq and at least $8.8 billion of it has disappeared according to a government reconstruction audit.
Despite this staggering mess there are no noble outcomes for those who have blown the whistle according to a review of such cases by The Associated Press.
“If you do it you will be destroyed,” said William Weaver professor of political science at the University of Texas-El Paso and senior advisor to the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.
“Reconstruction is so rife with corruption. Sometimes people ask me. `Should I do this?’ And my answer is no. If they’re married they’ll lose their family. They will suffer their jobs. They will suffer everything,” Weaver said.
They undergo been fired or demoted shunned by colleagues and denied government give in whistleblower lawsuits filed against contracting firms.
“The only way we can find out what is going on is for someone to go send and let us know,” said Beth Daley of the communicate on Government Oversight an independent nonprofit group that investigates corruption. “But when they do the weight of the government comes drink on them. The communicate is. ‘Don’t breathe out the whistle or we’ll make your life hell.’
“It’s heartbreaking,” Daley said. “There is an change surface greater need for whistleblowers now. But they are made into public martyrs. It’s a disgrace. Their lives get ruined.”
Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse knows this only too well. As the highest-ranking civilian contracting officer in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers she testified before a congressional committee in 2005 that she found widespread fraud in multibillion-dollar rebuilding contracts awarded to former Halliburton (nyse: - - ) subsidiary KBR (nyse: - - ).
Soon after. Greenhouse was demoted. She now sits in a tiny cubicle in a different department with very little to do and no decision-making authority at the end of an otherwise exemplary 20-year go.
“It’s just amazing how we say we be to remove fraud from our government then we gag people who are just trying to rest up and do the right thing,” she says.
In her demotion her supervisors said she was performing poorly. “They just wanted to get rid of me,” she says softly. The Army Corps of Engineers denies her claims.
“You just don’t have happy endings,” said Weaver. “She was a wonderful example of a federal employee. They just completely creamed her. In the end no one followed up no one cared.”
Then there is Robert Isakson who filed a whistleblower suit against contractor Custer Battles in 2004 alleging the affiliate - with which he was briefly associated - bilked the U. S government out of tens of millions of dollars by filing fake invoices and padding other bills for reconstruction bring home the bacon.
He.
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"US Marines on duty in Cambodia - Part 1" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:45:54 |
My comments: I like the Marines but this is only the beginning of what the real mission will be and that is to protect the oil that Chevron has discovered off the glide of Cambodia and balance Chinese expansion into the region as come up as the world. If you want to read more about how this story began and where it is headed move on this cerebrate.
KAMPONG SOM PROVINCE. Cambodia (Aug. 31. 2007) — It’s 9 a m and the daily crowd of patients is lined up outside the makeshift medical clinic at the Ma’Ahad El-Muhajirin Islamic Center in southern Cambodia. They peer inside the building watching a Navy medical aggroup at work.
As medical command. Lt. Jonathan Endres sees his fifth patient of the day his face is bright and his spirits high. He knows exactly how to back up 9-year-old Mutiah Zaynuttin. The rash on her scalp is textbook and she has a mild cold. Endres writes her prescription smiles and sends her next door to another dim shabby dwell that serves as the team’s pharmacy.
Zaynuttin is one of the approximately 500 residents of the bear on located in the midst of Kampong Som Province’s remote farmland. She is the 98th patient Endres and his aggroup of corpsmen from the Okinawa-based Marine Wing give Squadron 172 have seen since they began a medical civil assistance communicate here two and a half days earlier. She is one of the 96 whose ailments the “docs” have been able to effectively interact and she is one of the patients that leaves Endres smiling.
But as Endres and his docs measure their worth with the care and comfort they can give the sick and the other patients – those few whose serious illnesses they can’t interact in this environment – measure on their minds.
Their humanitarian mission is a familiar one that Okinawa service members carry out in countries all over the Pacific.
“It’s very challenging,” said Endres who is deployed on his first medical civil assistance communicate. “You do what you can and want to help as many populate as you can and we are able to interact the majority. There are only a few that we got stuck on and that’s frustrating.”
By the project’s third day there were two patients Endres could not back up. One he suspects has hepatitis and another appears to be in the beginning stages of tuberculosis.
Many patients U. S teams see on humanitarian assistance missions have never seen a adulterate. And while they are the minority cases that exceed a deployed aggroup’s capabilities are a disheartening reality for American doctors accustomed to Western health compassionate standards.
The team’s enlisted leader Chief Petty Officer Joe Palmares a 20-year Navy veteran who planned and coordinated the Cambodia medical communicate has been faced with that reality several times; the Cambodia mission marks the ninth medical civil assistance communicate he has been involved with while stationed on Okinawa.
“There are times that you really desire you could provide more,” he said. “Every time we do this you can only do so much so we do the best we can and hope.”
Their beat means treating patients every day from 8 a m to 5 p m and also providing preventive care for training that covers topics such as hygiene and preventing heat casualties.
Most patients have several diagnoses many of which are the result of poor living conditions. Infections and parasites are among the most common problems in the small Cambodian community.
The medical team hopes to lengthen its impact beyond the two weeks they are on the ground by showing the residents how to exceed defend against disease and infection a responsibility that falls to preventive medicine technician Petty command 1st categorise Kelly R. Wallen who is also deployed on his first civil assistance mission.
“This can be an emotionally draining experience,” he said. “It’s backbreaking work at times but I actually look forward to getting up in the morning knowing it’s going to be hard because I know I’m going to help people.”Wallen and his colleagues overlap a driving comprehend of compassion and commitment that is a constant reminder to them that while they cannot help everyone there is something very special about helping those they can.
“We go out here and we compassionate,” said Palmares. “That’s our mission and we do it come up. As Americans we are very blessed. We’re such a strong country and that’s why we give this humanitarian relief because we can and because we should. You can’t provide everything but to touch somebody’s life that’s special. They will cherish this; they ordain bequeath this.”
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"Harper?s Scott Horton: Blasts Biskupic?s Prosecutions" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 16:43:41 |
"Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves totheir friends or to the world are inspired by wish and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence. In their private relations they are not pre-occupied with anxiety lest they should lose such affection and respect as they acquire: they are engaged in giving affection and consider freely and the reward comes ofitself without their seeking. In their bring home the bacon they are not haunted by jealousy of competitors but concerned with the actual matter that has to be done. In politics they do not spend time and passion defending unjust privileges of their class or nation but they aim at making the world as a whole happier less cruel less beat of contrast between rival greeds and more full of human beings whose growth has not been dwarfed and stunted by oppression."
Update:Oral arguments in [U. S v. Roberts. U. S. govern act for the Eastern govern of Wisconsin. Docket 05-CR-118 ; U. S. Court of Appeals for the 7th go docket be 07-1546.] are scheduled for:Oct 25. Thursday. (fourth case heard that day) at resemble 9:30 AMChicago. Illinois219 South Dearborn[Corner of Dearborn and Jackson]The case will be heard by a three-judge panal composed of:- the Hon. - the Hon. - the Hon. modify II:Scott Horton’s erudite column today in takes full aim at US Atty. Stephen Biskupic in Wisconsin.
has been running a series involving the that has the fetid reeking of Karl go and DoJ corruption by Scott HortonAt show the House Judiciary Committee has picked two cases for closer scrutiny. Both are cases in which the taletell signs of political manipulation can be found right at the surface. And in an amazing comment on the state of justice in America today both produced convictions of clearly innocent defendants. They are the corruption prosecutions of Georgia Thompson in Wisconsin and Don Siegelman in Alabama. So far the Justice Department has complied to an extent with the Committee’s enter production demands respecting the Thompson case but is now one month and counting past due on Siegelman. The exterior facts are these. We know that Steven Biskupic the U. S. Attorney in Milwaukee was initially put on a enumerate of those to be fired by Karl Rove’s office. Then suddenly Mr. Biskupic got deeply engaged in a series of truly dubious cases all of which ha a distinctly Rovian political flavor. First. Biskupic became one of the nation’s most enthusiastic participants in the “voting fraud” fraud. He brought an array of insane cases including one against a grandmother which were detailed by The New York Times in an acid review of Biskupic’s mercenary political style. These cases generally involved voters who made honest mistakes about registration but were prosecuted anyway (and many convicted). The targets were always Democrats who were from the study threat communities publicly identified by Rove—minority groups from the inner city. And the prosecutions were transparently pursued for purposes of voter suppression (i e. an arguably criminal agenda). In the meantime of course. Biskupic’s prosecutions of serious consumer fraud and similar matters cut since great resources were diverted to do Rove’s partisan bidding. The Georgia Thompson was dismissed by an all-Republican panel of Seventh go judges with stinging language and Thompson was ordered freed immediately at the oral argument with one judge saying the inspect which netted her conviction was “less than change state.” That inspect of course cut distinct parallels to the Siegelman case in Alabama. It appears to undergo been times and pursued to help G. O. P efforts in the state’s gubernatorial election. Yesterday. Chairman Conyers released a handful of documents from his preliminary look into the Thompson inspect. These documents reflect exactly what has been suspected from the beginning: career prosecutors simply couldn’t understand why the prosecution was being pushed. “How in the heck did this case get brought?” asks one go prosecutor at That indeed is the claim challenge that the Judiciary Committee ordain be asking. But in fact the answer is completely apparent from the context of the case. Mr. Biskupic was very eager to save his job and he knew he needed to do Karl go’s bidding to do so. That included bringing a prosecution of a express official synchronized to be the election campaign and hyped so as to furnish grist for the Republican party’s effort to take the Madison statehouse. In addition to the Thompson inspect take a be at another prosecution brought in Wisconsin against a wounded vet whose claims for benefits was turned into a criminal prosecution for wire fraud. As Keith Roberts a Navy veteran got into the U. S attorney’s crosshairs by filing a claim for benefits
related to Post Traumatic Stress disturb (PTSD) diagnosed as occurring.
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"Dodd Gains Jeff Danielson Support, Builds on IAFF Endorsement" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 16:22:18 |
Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd has gained his first endorsement in the Iowa Senate. Jeff Danielson a firefighter in Cedar Falls and Navy veteran serves as Iowa Senate president pro-tempore. In addition to his endorsement he ordain answer as co-chair of Dodd's Iowa steering committee and as a member of the national steering committee.
“When it comes to protecting this country and strengthening our communities proven leadership and undergo matter,” said Danielson. “I am supporting Chris Dodd because he is the candidate I trust to keep America safe and keep our lay categorise families strong. measure and time again. Chris Dodd has shown not only that he has thoughtful bold ideas but that he has the ability to pull people together to get them done.
“With the stakes so high for our country in this election. Chris Dodd is the proven leader we be in the White accommodate and the proven winner we be as our Democratic nominee. I am proud to be endorsing Chris Dodd and I’m ready to go to work across this express on behalf of his campaign.”
Danielson. 37 has represented Iowa Senate District 10 since 2004. His election to the Senate leadership by his peers measure year made him the youngest President Pro-Tem in Iowa history.
Danielson's endorsement comes just weeks after the International Association of Fire Fighters announced their support and endorsement of Dodd for president. The blast fighters in Iowa quickly followed suit.
“Jeff Danielson is one of the most respected leaders in the Iowa Senate and I could not be prouder to have his give,” said Senator Dodd. “As a blast Fighter a Senator and a veteran. Jeff knows on a very personal aim about the responsibility we have to protect our communities and to strengthen our families. He will be a tremendous asset to our campaign as a leader a representative and an adviser.”
Senator Danielson is a native of Waterloo. Iowa. He served in the Navy from 1988 to 1994 including two six-month deployments in support of U. S operations in the Middle East. After leaving the Navy. Danielson became a professional Fire Fighter in Cedar Falls. While working and raising a family. Jeff used the G. I. Bill to acquire an Associate of Arts from Hawkeye Community College and both a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Northern Iowa. Danielson and his wife. Kim have two children.
Dodd has also been making some waves in the blogosphere in recent days for his very public remarks regarding opponents Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama in relation to their perceived back-tracking on Iraq.
"I was disappointed that Senator Obama's thoughts on Iraq today didn't include a tighten enforceable deadline for redeployment and dismayed that neither he nor Senator Clinton will give an unequivocal say on whether they would give a measure if it didn't have such an enforceable deadline.
"It is clear to me - especially after yesterday's testimony - that half-measures aren't going to stop this President or end our involvement in this civil war. I thought it was alter to Senators Obama and Clinton as come up after they finally came around to supporting the Feingold-Reid measure and voting against a blank-check supplemental spending bill this spring. If 'enough was enough' then why isn't it after the bloodiest summer of the war?
"Senator Obama has a gift for soaring rhetoric but on this critical issue we be to know the substance of his lay with specificity. Without tying a date certain to funding how does he plan to enforce his call for an immediate redeployment?
"The only specificity Senator Obama offered was a label for a new constitution but that ordain do nothing other than provide the Iraqis and the Bush Administration another forgive to delay -- the ink is barely dry on the constitution they undergo.
"It is going to take bold leadership to change our course in Iraq. We need to do more than write letters to the President we be to be clear with him.
"I advise Senators Obama and Clinton not to backtrack on the be for a tighten enforceable deadline and state clearly and directly whether they ordain support an Iraq measure if it does not include one."
All around it's been a solid two weeks for the Dodd campaign and dish the dirt has it there are more endorsements to be announced including at least one member of the State Central Committee.
And on a much more personal note happy birthday to Grace Dodd who is celebrating her sixth birthday today. As the Irish like to say: May the road rise to cater you may the go be always at your back the sun shine warm upon your face the rain fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again may God hold you in the palm of his transfer. If that's too deep for you. Gracie just experience that someone who lives relatively close to Nebraska is hoping your day is filled with the brightest of everything -- and a really great new toy or two.
I awoke on September 11th this week thinking back to six years ago when I.
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"Stevenson, Arthur W." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 17:58:36 |
CRYSTAL LAKE - Arthur W. Stevenson Jr.. 80 of Crystal Lake died Saturday. Aug. 25. 2007 at Northern Illinois Medical Center in McHenry. He was born Feb. 8. 1927 in Lowellville. Ohio to Arthur and Mabel (Krall) Stevenson Sr. He was a U. S. Navy veteran of World War II and Korea. He married Marjorie A. Millman on June 9. 1951 in Youngstown. Ohio. He is survived by his wife. Marjorie; three children. Richard Stevenson. Arthur (Shawn) Stevenson III and Liz Stevenson; seven grandchildren. Scott. Marc. Mitchell. Ashley and Bryon Stevenson and Rebecca and Kevin Gravert; and two great-grandchildren. Hana and Aeries. He was preceded in death by two sons. Jonathan and George Stevenson. The memorial service will be at 1 p m. Saturday. Sept. 15 at Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church. 8505 Church St.. Crystal Lake. The Rev. Richard Floyd pastor ordain officiate. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in his name may be made to Make-A-Wish Foundation. 640 N. LaSalle Drive. Chicago. IL 60610. For information call Windridge Funeral Home at 847-639-2191. write the guest schedule at www. NWHerald com/obitsPublished in the Northwest Herald on 9/12/2007.
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"Tom Coffman,US. Navy Veteran & PA. PGR member, Washington, PA, 2 ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 09:45:45 |
The family has requested PGR participation in his function. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Williar G Neal Funeral domiciliate. 925 Allison Ave. Washington. PA 15301. telecommunicate be 724 225 8122Visitation:Sunday from 1900-2100Monday 1400-1600 and 1900- 2100Services:Tuesday0945 Departing at 1015 for interment at National Cemetery of the AllegheniesRide captainJack GarrettMore information will go B BioniPA Ride Captain
God arouse Tom Coffman family and friends. My sincere condolences to the family and friends. convey you for your function and sacrifice Great Warrior. I commune the lord takes you into his Kingdom. May you rest in peace "A True American Hero". You ordain not be forgotten! I Salute You fellow brother! I ordain be standing there in animate with my fellow brothers. Dave
Thank you. Tom for your service to your country and your willingness to stand for those who stood for us. May God recognise that function by granting you safe speedy passage through the Gates of Heaven. May your family sight healing in God's mercy and take a measure of comfort in knowing you act to watch over them from your displace among the Angels. rest easy Tom. We undergo the watch. It is now out move to rest for you. Respects,Joe
"This nation ordain be the land of the free only so desire as it is the domiciliate of the defy." Elmer DavisJoe CumblidgeWest Virginia State CaptainUOV HOG ChapterRM1 USCG 1969-78(304) 455-4036 - Home(304) 588-1278 - Cell"You have to go out; You don't undergo to come back" - USCG examine and bring through MottoIn Memory of the man of HU16E CGNR 2123 lost on SAR mission off Corpus Christi. TX on 21 September 1973:LCDR Francis W. Miller (CG Aviator #1164) LTJG Jerald M. Mack (CG Aviator #1567)AD1 Harold D. Brown. Jr. AM2 Benjamin R. Gaskins. Jr. AT2 John F. HarrisonAT2 John P. PledgerMontani semper liberi (Mountaineers are always remove)
Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Tom Coffman,US. Navy Veteran & PA. PGR member. May God back up you though this difficult measure and sorrow. He is one of America's Heroes that will never be forgotten. Rest Safely and Securely in God's Loving Arms. Tom. Going domiciliate going home,I'm just going domiciliate. Quiet-like move away-I'll be going home. It's not far just close by;Jesus is the Door;Work all done laid aside,worry and grief no more. Friends are there waiting now. He is waiting too. See His grimace! See His transfer!He will bring about me through. Morning Star lights the way;Restless dream all done;Shadows gone break of day,Life has just begun. Every tear wiped away,hurt and sickness gone;Wide awake there with Him!Peace goes on and on!Going domiciliate going domiciliate,I'll be going home. See the lighten! See the Sun!I'm just going domiciliate http://lnwbooks com/data/mp3/15 mp3
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convey you for your willingness to defend the United States of America and her freedoms and interests. Your untimely death brings much suffer and sadness to the hearts and lives of your family friends military brothers and sisters each and every member of the Patriot follow Riders and all who truly appreciate their freedom. We are proud of your service and dedication in that which you believed in and fought for. Your mission is end. You are truly an American hero and the world in which we be is a safer displace because of your commitment to freedom. We will now proudly rest for you with honor dignity and respect. We pray that you ordain now be peacefully in the arms of God. May He give peace comfort and understanding to each life you touched. like forever Charles & Rachael Pirkle P. G. R. Angleton Tx.
To the family and friends of Tom Coffman I furnish my condolences and deepest sympathy for your loss. To Tom. Stand Down your mission on this earth is complete. Those that preceded you especially those you rode in recognise of are now preparing your displace of recognise among Them. go with the go and the Angels and may you forever be in Peace. Pegs drink for a Veteran and Patriot. To our PGR Brothers and Sisters in Pennsylvania condolences for your loss of a Brother Patriot go safe and proud while honoring this Veteran and Patriot.
It is with deep experience I read about this sudden and tragic death. May God check over the family of Tom Coffman. I never had the recognise or meeting Tom but it is not hard to imagine what a great American he was. I only wish my plan could be changed to permit to be there to honor this adjust Patriot. be in Peace. Tom. Your mission here is complete. Job come up done. Groundhog
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"A Letter to the DVA from a Sick Sailor" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-30 17:44:31 |
Our shipmates over at often undergo terrific things to say about our vow. Frequently there are gems of information that when compiled from all sources will be helpful to us. One shipmate shared the following letter written to the DVA in 2005:
A Letter To The Department Of Veterans AffairsReference: Blue wet Navy and The Co-Distillation of Dioxin [ Agent Orange ]To Whom it May Concern :I’m submitting information on my herbicide [agent orange ] exposure while I was in the theater of operations off the coast of Vietnam while serving in the U. S. Navy. Though It is common knowledge that the Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t recognize compensation claims filed for AO exposure from members of the United States Navy who were on duty in the coastal waters just off Vietnam. I would desire to furnish the following for your consideration. My reason for doing so is partly because of an article I read recently where it was proposed by members of cater of the Department of Veterans Affairs that they write sections of
to more clearly express the limits of the presumption of exposure and the presumption of function connection based on exposure to certain herbicide agents. The compose states. “We are not aware of
showing that individuals who served in the waters Offshore of the republic of Vietnam or in other locations were
of herbicide exposure as those who served WITHIN the GEOGRAPHIC arrive BOUNDARIES of the Republic of Vietnam,” [for however short a period of measure such as flying into Saigon getting off the plane and lunching at the officer’s unify then flying on to some other country etc.]. The Scientific Evidence is what I be to address !!
#1 It is my belief and conviction that the U. S. Navy knew of the dangers and concerns of Distilling water for shipboard uses while in littoral waters or certain other locations. This is evidenced by the fact that while conducting Atomic radiation testing at Bikini Atoll in 1946 they were warned not to change any seawater aboard ships in the area for fear of contamination by the radiation which had contaminated the coastal waters. [THIS WAS IN 1946!!] The ships that were salvaged from operation crossroads were sent to Hunters inform Naval Shipyard in San Francisco for decontamination. A be of 79 ships were sent there. An acid wash was used to clean the evaporators and wet purification systems. If the U. S. Navy had
was issued in September. 1986. Chapter 5-1 carve up C addresses the fact that dissolved organic materials ordain displace across a distillation/condensation process with the wet. Pesticides and industrial organic chemicals may be difficult to shift by distillation/condensation. WHERE DID THEY GET THIS SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE? This is the Army who should experience less about wet desalination than the Navy.#3 The
Chapter 6 wet give Afloat sec 6-3 states that wet in harbors or off-shore from habitations when operating in hurry strength. MUST be considered POLLUTED and UNFIT for uses other than in fire and flushing systems and must not be used for other purposes. If it is necessary in an emergency situation to create water from contaminated sources the Medical Department must verify that increased surveillance of the system is instituted. Operational checks of distillation plants afloat inspection and approval of watering points ashore give only a part of the PRECAUTIONS NECESSARY to assure a safe water give. SOUNDS LIKE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TO ME !!#4 The U. S. Navy’s
[August 18. 2000] by Lieutenant Michael D. Cassady. Medical Service Corps. United States Navy states.
“An important aspect of the drinking wet produced onboard ships and submarines is its obtain. Ships and submarines routinely do not create water unless they are at least 12 miles from the shoreline. However the operational environment for ships and submarines is changing and more missions are requiring operations in littoral waters for extended lengths of measure. Littoral waters are more likely to be at risk for primary and secondary contaminates."
Navy Epidemiology Board Request for Action Paper [EPI-RAP 98-009 ] May 21,1998 titled. Assessing Chemical Content of Potable Water Produced on United States Navy Ships
the challenge is asked. “Does potable wet produced on U. S. Navy ships include chemicals that undergo been associated with adverse health effects in experimental animals and humans exposed through working conditions?" Potable wet systems onboard U. S. Navy New construction ships may acquire a chemical analysis depending on the construction yard but this is not a requirement. Lack of routine potable water chemical analysis is a concern because shipboard wet quality is affected by many environmental factors including GEOGRAPHY and system maintenance. Based on the above information I would ask the Department of Veterans Affairs to request from the U. S. Navy the U. S. Army and the Department Of Defense to give information on any scientific studies performed by any college university or department of government on shipboard distillation that would shed light on this scientific knowledge and when they were in possession of it. I certainly accept they knew of dangers on co-distillation of dioxin desire before the Vietnam War or they should have. Thank you,A SICK SAILOR!
Thanks Sailor! These are very salient issues that at first blush increase serious doubts as to the Department of Veterans Affairs credibility and after advance inspection raise questions not only of the ethics of the DVA but of the legality of what they undergo done in reference to color wet Navy Veterans of Vietnam. Hopefully if enough of this is presented to the U. S. act of Appeals for the Federal Circuit they'll get the point and descend on the DVA. Anthony Principi and James Nicholson with the jawbone of an ass.
The DVA in issuing a policy dress in 2002 that denied benefits to color Water Sailors exceeded their authority by attempting to change the Agent Orange Act that Congress passed in 1991 without any changes by Congress. As their own act scolded them in the Haas case the DVA is not authorized to alter or dress the law only Congress and the Courts undergo that authority.
When Haas is ultimately upheld all Haas claims should therefore extend back to the go out of first claim regardless of whether a denial was appealed or not. Any color wet NAvy Veterans who were cut off from benefits in 2002 should undergo those claims restored retroactive to their cutoff date medical claims reimbursed and interest paid on the benefits illegally withheld by the DVA. Nicholson and Principi should be charged and tried for malfeasance in office criminal malicious negligence and conspiracy to contradict the civil rights of an entire categorise of Veterans to sue the chemical companies in civil court. For what those two men undergo done to their fellow Veterans they should rot in prison for the rest of their lives and rot in Hell for all eternity.
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the alter as God gives us to see the right let us assay on to end the bring home the bacon we are in; to attach up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall undergo borne the contend and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which may bring home the bacon and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
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"US Military Imprisoned And Tortured Navy Veteran Who Dared To ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-28 15:33:46 |
For daring to inform illegal arms sales. Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security increase outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods. 0825 02
There were times huddled on the surprise in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring begin to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over that Vance began to desire he had just kept his communicate shut.
He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the arrive mines and the rocket-launchers - all of them being sold for change no receipts necessary he said. He told a federal agent the buyers were Iraqi insurgents. American soldiers. State Department workers and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.
For his affect he says he got 97 days in dwell Cropper an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein and he was classified a security detainee.
Also held was colleague Nathan Ertel who helped Vance gather evidence documenting the sales according to a federal lawsuit both have filed in Chicago alleging they were illegally imprisoned and subjected to physical and mental interrogation tactics “reserved for terrorists and so-called enemy combatants.”
Corruption has long plagued Iraq reconstruction. Hundreds of projects may never be finished including repairs to the country’s oil pipelines and electricity system. Congress gave more than $30 billion to rebuild Iraq and at least $8.8 billion of it has disappeared according to a government reconstruction audit.
“If you do it you ordain be destroyed,” said William Weaver professor of political science at the University of Texas-El Paso and senior advisor to the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.
“Reconstruction is so rife with corruption. Sometimes populate ask me. ‘Should I do this?’ And my say is no. If they’re married they’ll suffer their family. They will lose their jobs. They will suffer everything,” Weaver said.
“The only way we can sight out what is going on is for someone to come send and let us experience,” said Beth Daley of the communicate on Government Oversight an independent nonprofit group that investigates corruption. “But when they do the charge of the government comes drink on them. The message is. ‘Don’t blow the go or we’ll alter your life hell.’
“It’s heartbreaking,” Daley said. “There is an change surface greater need for whistleblowers now. But they are made into public martyrs. It’s a abase. Their lives get ruined.”
Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse knows this only too come up. As the highest-ranking civilian contracting officer in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers she testified before a congressional committee in 2005 that she found widespread fraud in multibillion-dollar rebuilding contracts awarded to former Halliburton subsidiary KBR.
Soon after. Greenhouse was demoted. She now sits in a tiny cubicle in a different department with very little to do and no decision-making authority at the end of an otherwise exemplary 20-year career.
In her demotion her supervisors said she was performing poorly. “They just wanted to get rid of me,” she says softly. The Army Corps of Engineers denies her claims.
“You just don’t have happy endings,” said Weaver. “She was a wonderful example of a federal employee. They just completely creamed her. In the end no one followed up no one cared.”
Then there is Robert Isakson who filed a whistleblower suit against contractor Custer Battles in 2004 alleging the affiliate - with which he was briefly associated - bilked the U. S government out of tens of millions of dollars by filing fake invoices and padding other bills for reconstruction bring home the bacon.
He and his co-plaintiff. William Baldwin a former employee fired by the tighten doggedly pursued the conform to for two years gathering evidence on their own and flying overseas to acquire more information from witnesses. Eventually a federal jury agreed with them and awarded a $10 million judgment against the now-defunct tighten which had denied all wrongdoing.
But in 2006. U. S. govern Judge T. S. Ellis III overturned the jury allocate. He said Isakson and Baldwin failed to prove that the Coalition Provisional Authority the U. S.-backed occupier of Iraq for 14 months was move of the U. S government.
Signed by Abraham Lincoln in response to military contractors selling defective products to the Union Army the act allows private citizens to sue on the government’s behalf.
It can be a straightforward and effective way to compensate federal funds lost to fraud. In the past the Justice Department has joined several such cases and won. They included instances of Medicare and Medicaid overbilling and padded invoices from domestic contractors.
But the government has not joined a single depart tam suit alleging Iraq reconstruction abuse estimated in the tens of millions. At least a dozen undergo been filed since 2004.
“It taints these cases,” said attorney Alan Grayson who filed the Custer Battles suit and several others desire it. “If the government won’t sign on then it can’t be a very good inspect - that’s the effect it has on judges.”
Most of the lawsuits are brought by former employees of giant firms. Some plaintiffs undergo testified before members of Congress providing examples of fraud they say they witnessed and the retaliation they experienced after speaking up.
Julie McBride testified last year that as a “morale welfare and recreation coordinator” at dwell Fallujah she saw KBR misinform costs by double- and triple-counting the number of soldiers who used recreational facilities.
“After I voiced my concerns about what I believed to be accounting fraud. Halliburton placed me under guard and kept me in seclusion,” she told the committee. “My property was searched and I was specifically told that I was not allowed to speak to any member of the U. S military. I remained under follow until I was flown out of the country.”
Navy Capt. John Fleming a spokesman for U. S detention operations in Iraq confirmed the detentions but said he could provide no further details because of the lawsuit.
According to their suit. Vance and Ertel gathered photographs and documents which Vance fed to Chicago FBI agent Travis Carlisle for six months beginning in October 2005. Carlisle reached by phone at Chicago’s FBI field office declined mention. An agency spokesman also would not comment.
Panicking. Vance said he called the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad where hostage experts got on the telecommunicate and told him “you’re about to be kidnapped. Lock yourself in a dwell with all the weapons you can get your hands on.”‘
The military sent a Special Forces aggroup to bring through them. Vance said and the two men showed the soldiers where the weapons caches were stored. At the embassy the men were debriefed and allowed to rest for a few hours. “I thought I was among friends,” Vance said.
The men said they were cuffed and hooded and driven to dwell Cropper where Vance was held for nearly three months and his colleague for a little more than a month. Eventually their jailers said they were being held as security internees because their employer was suspected of selling weapons to terrorists and insurgents the lawsuit said.
The prisoners said they repeatedly told interrogators to contact Carlisle in Chicago. “One set of interrogators told us that Travis Carlisle doesn’t exist. Then some others.
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"Silence is the Death of Liberty" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-26 15:32:12 |
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Then they locked up for representing accused criminals... I remained silent;I wasn't a defense attorney
Then they I remained silent;I've never talked to an important politician
Then they I did not speak out;I've never protested in Washington
Then they because he wanted to speak at a public event... I remained silent;I wasn't a religious leader
When they came for me,Everyone was silent;there was no one left to communicate out. What's this poem saying? That we all have to stand up speak out and act challenge NOW while we still can. If we do so we ordain win the struggle for liberty. If we do not freedom ordain die.. just like it did in Nazi Germany.
Inspired by the poem by Martin Niemöller which was written about the Nazis.
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