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number 19 09.04.05

Christians Offer Condemnation to Hurricane Victims and Threats to Others

In the days following the landfall of
hurricane Katrina a Christian group
released a statement praising the storm’s
disastrous impact on the city of New
Orleans stating “this act of God destroyed
a wicked city.”

As rescue teams struggled to locate and
bring to safety thousands of residents of
New Orleans stranded in the ravaged city,
Repent America, a radical Christian group
that promotes theocratic governance in
the United States advised faithful people to
pray for the victims of the calamity but
that New Orleans’ tolerance of
“wickedness” and its “celebration of sin”
resulted in its destruction by the angry
Christian deity.

The extremist religious group explained
that the annual events of Mardi Gras and
“Southern Decadence”, both week-long
city-wide celebrations, caused the
Christian God, characterized in the Bible
as both vengeful and compassionate, to
reach out and smite the 300 year old city.

Mardi Gras, the centuries old festival
that precedes the Lenten season of
abstinence and atonement in the
Christian religion, draws thousands of
visitors to New Orleans every year and is
one of the city’s most important civic
and economic events. Southern
Decadence is the 34-year-old annual
celebration of Gay pride in New Orleans
that, like similar events in

Chicago, New York and San Francisco,
receives enthusiastic support from the
city’s mayor and other leaders as it
highlights and promotes openness and
the acceptance of all of the city’s
residents.

The Director of Repent America,
Michael Marcavage, said that “the
citizens of New Orleans tolerated and
welcomed the wickedness in their city
for so long” that Hurricane Katerina, as
a mechanism of God’s wrath, had
destroyed the city. Marcavage added a
warning to other US cities, “May this
act of God cause us all to think about
what we tolerate in our city limits.”

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Weather

FBI Advises Local Cops How to Prepare for Terrorizing Peace Groups

New Rules for
National Parks
Ensure Cell
Phone Service
to Strip Mines

activity’ is a threat to legitimate dissent”,
and added that the expression of dissent
“has never been considered a crime in
this country.”

The ACLU has also filed a lawsuit in
federal court to due to the FBI’s delay in
releasing documents it has relating to
surveillance of groups including
Greenpeace, United for Peace and
Justice and the Muslim Public Affairs
Council. The ACLU has previously
obtained internal FBI memoranda on
United for Peace and Justice and other
peace activist groups.

federal law enforcement agencies
apprised of the activities of the various
groups and individuals within the state of
Michigan who are thought to be involved
in terrorist activities.” The report is
called “Domestic Terror Symposium”.
The groups named in the report are
Direct Action, an anti-war group, and
BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), an
organization that supports affirmative
action.

Sarah McDonald, a member of Direct
Action said that the group was disturbed
and dismayed that the FBI is misusing its
power by spying on anti-war groups.
Kary Moss, Executive Director of the
ACLU of Michigan is fearful that “labeling
political advocacy as ‘terrorist

The American Civil Liberties Union
recently released an FBI document that
was obtained through a Freedom of
Information request that characterizes
two Michigan-based activist groups as
potentially “involved in terrorist
activities.”

The ACLU initiated the information
request after peace activists and student
groups reported being questioned by FBI
agents during the 2004 presidential
campaigns. The group feels that the
document indicates that the FBI and it’s
Joint Terrorism Task Force engage in
political surveillance.

The FBI document is a tutorial prepared
by the FBI to “keep the local, sate and

A Bush appointee at the
Department of Interior has
proposed a series of sweeping
changes in the management codes
of the National Parks Service
which threaten to weaken
protection of America's natural
resources while allowing opening
the parks to increased
commercial activity and the
damaging effects of snowmobiles
and off-road vehicles. The
proposed changes, the second set
of changes in the park service's
history, were leaked this week.

The changes represent a seismic
shift in policy away from
conservation and preservation of
the national parks by altering the
definition of impairment from "an
impact to any park resource or
value [that] may constitute an
impairment" to only those
impacts which "permanently and
irreversibly adversely [affect] a
resource or value."

The potential changes would
allow placement of cellphone
towers and would jeopardize
rules that prohibit mining in our
national parks. The code was
also changed to omit references
to evolution but allow the sale of
religious souvenirs in park shops.

Sports

Pat-Downs Before First Downs at Football Stadiums

Football fans entering NFL stadiums will
be subject to full pat-downs by security
personnel as part of a league-wide
“security enhancement” program
announced recently by commissioner
Paul Tagliabue. Some teams were
already using the pat-downs as part of
their security protocol over the past
three years, but the commissioner’s
directive makes the practice mandatory
for all teams for the upcoming season.
NFL owners approved the measure at
their August meeting in Chicago.

According to Securityinfowatch.com,
“Fans will be separated by sex at entry

gates and will be screened by wired
security officers of the same sex.
Everyone entering the stadium will be
screened.

Tagliabue stressed that the new security
measures were not the result of any
specific threat or new information. The
NFL used hand searches of individual fans
at last year’s playoff games, and has used
pat-downs at the last three Super Bowls.
The league, in conjunction with law
enforcement agencies, has also made use
of facial-recognition software on security
cameras that scan the crowds during
recent Super Bowl games.

News

Reading the Inscriptions on the Tombstones

The Pentagon has ordered that all
grave markers of fallen soldiers who
were killed during the invasion and
occupation of Iraq be inscribed with
the slogan “Operation Iraqi
Freedom”. The slogan “Operation
Iraqi Freedom”, created by
marketers in the Pentagon and White
House, has been used by the military,
major television media outlets and
the president since the invasion in
Iraq as a shorthand or catch phrase
eluding to the overall military and
diplomatic mission in the occupied
country.

The slogan is in addition to what has
been traditionally inscribed on grave
markers at the nation’s military
cemeteries; name, rank and other
essential information, and is thus

precedent setting.

While soldiers families are supposed
to approve what goes on the military
tombstones, the slogan is now being
engraved on the gravestones of all
soldiers killed during America’s
Occupation of Iraq, whether the
families ask to have the wording
added or not.

The first military operation to
employ the use of a marketing catch
phrase was the invasion of Panama to
arrest the former CIA asset Manual
Noreiga who was alleged by the then
President, George Herbert Walker
Bush, to be involved in the sale of
drugs. The Pentagon brainstormed
the slogan “Operation Just Cause”
for the invasion of Panama in 1989

in an admitted attempt to positively
spin domestic and international
perceptions and reporting of America’s
unilateral military invasion. Hundreds
of civilians were killed during the
invasion of Panama.

The Pentagon reports that it does not
know how many grave markers of the
more than 1800 casualties from the
invasion of Iraq have been inscribed
with the slogan, but the majority of the
markers of the 193 soldiers interred at
Arlington National Cemetery who
were killed in Iraq are inscribed with
the wording. The owner of the
Vermont Based company that supplies
the grave markers for Arlington
National Cemetery told the Associated
Press that he thought the requirement
“might be connected to politics.”