Activist accuses Bush of betraying public ( Activist=William Rivers Pitt)

[radfringe]

Give'em hell WILL!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Activist accuses Bush of betraying public
http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10522394&BRD=1170&PAG=461&dept_id=7021&rfi=6
By: Shawn Charniga , The Record
11/16/2003
ALBANY - The auditorium of Albany High School was filled nearly to capacity Saturday for a day-long discussion of politics.

Activists, organizers, union leaders, professors and students joined the general public and a mass of foreign musicians for a left-leaning conference examining the policies of the nation's sitting far-right leadership, military recruitment in high schools, war, race issues, the role of the media and civil disobedience in workshop discussions.

The event began with a keynote speech by civil rights leader Damu Smith and later featured another notable speaker, author and journalist William Rivers Pitt, a former teacher. Employed as a political analyst by the Institute for Public Accuracy, Pitt is a writer and editor for truthout.org and a frequent public speaker.

The speech, an indictment of the Bush administration, relied on straight-faced ridicule of their widening credibility gap. Pitt used his sense of humor and addiction to research to skewer the administration's policies and statements.

Pitt began by speaking of the two Blackhawk helicopters that crashed in Mosul earlier in the day - one, thought to be hit by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile, took evasive action upward and crashed into the second chopper. Both fell into a residential neighborhood, which caught fire.

According to the Associated Press, 17 soldiers were killed, bringing the death toll of American troops to 422. Five were wounded, bringing this count to over 5,000. There were no tallies of wounded civilians available Saturday. According to Pitt, all this sacrifice has been to no good end.

"It is blazingly clear that this administration has been caught red-handed in a number of betrayals," Pitt said.

[Paschall]

1. Bravo, Will!

So have you reminded your boss that every headline you get is free advertising for him? ;-)

Hope you're well! :thumbsup:

[GalleryGod]

2. Thatsa OUR Boy!

:yourock:
His middle name should be "Standing O" instead of Rivers:grouphug:

Keep on keeping on, Big Guy!

[La_Serpiente]

3. I have a question to the person from Pennsylvania

If Specter loses the primary to Toomey, is it possible that Crystle could win the general election? I would think Toomey as being a little "too" conservatives for Pennsylvania (then again, there is Rick Santorum...yucko).

[radfringe]

5. I think major issues will be Taxes and JOBS

Hard to tell at this point - depends on who can make the best argument regarding taxes and jobs

Specter has the name recognition, he also has years in the Senate which gives him "influence"

Toomey is making some noise and has been on our local PCN (penn community network) channel

Locally - the issue is going to be taxes - property/school taxes

Rendell wants to up the state income tax and funnel the money back to the localities for schools - which in theory will either lower or keep school tax at the current rate

(Cigarette taxes went up again recently too)

Many places are looking towards reassessment of property values - this is a big NO-NO in PA where we are 2nd to Florida for an elderly population.

I know Specter, Toomey, Crystal are running for the US Senate --- but can Specter or Toomey convince local voters that the Baghdad-Bush tax cuts are "working" and won't boomerang into local tax hikes ?

along with taxes - at least in my corner of the state - is JOBS - good paying JOBS. I have 10 years experience as a CAD drafter/Graphic designer - I am currently employed, but hate where I'm working - so I've been looking and applying for a new job.

The ads advertise "competative pay" - :snort: :snort: - around here for someone with my skills/experience that translates to $9-$10/hr

We've also lost alot of companies - either just going out of business or "relocating".

There are "tax incentives" to encourage new companies to move into the area - but more often than not - once the tax breaks end, the companies "relocate"

[maddezmom]

4. you got a standing "O"

and well deserved for going right to the point of betrayal.