Last Saturday on K-Talk I was joined by David Garger, Shawn Loura, and Royal Peterson. We all covered bad experiences with Utah police, but David, Shawn, and Royal in particular focused on Provo.
Shawn and Royal had some enlightening insights on how to get involved in local government to achieve positive change. Shawn stressed it’s important to be respectful and positive when dealing with local officials.
We also discussed how local citizens can get involved in local government. Only two of Provo’s City Council members are elected from the general population. The rest are elected just as we elected delegates in local caucuses.
What this means is a person can get all their friends and family together for a local election to get himself elected, just as people do within the precinct caucuses.
People should also write and meet with the Mayor to let him know their concerns, and voice their support or disapproval during election time.
To begin with, the name affixed to this piece of legislative legerdemain is a prime example of congressional doublethink: will it really enhance diplomatic relations with Iran to impose draconian sanctions, the equivalent of an economic chokehold and a prelude to a military blockade? Hardly, and that is very far from its clear intent.
On July 26, 1941, Roosevelt ordered a freezing of Japanese assets in the United States, which brought U.S.-Japanese trade to a halt. In September, an oil embargo was laid on Japan, essentially a death sentence for the Japanese economy.
In the following months, Japan’s ambassador to the United States made numerous concessions to the U.S. government in an effort to have the sanctions lifted. Prince Konoye told Roosevelt that he would offer to meet anywhere in the Pacific, and that if Roosevelt agreed to resume oil exports to Japan, the Japanese army would pull out of Indochina.
The Japanese government was shocked when Roosevelt refused – although the United States had apparently broken the Japanese diplomatic code and knew that its refusal would provoke the Japanese into military action.
After a meeting with Roosevelt on November 25, Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote in his diary that the main question is “how we maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves”
I have heard two reasons for supporting these sanctions. The first reason is Iran seeks to obtain nuclear weapons, which Israel has had for 40 years as reported by The Washington Times. After seeing what happens to countries that don’t have nuclear weapons (Iraq), and countries that do have nuclear weapons (North Korea), it’s hard to blame them. Iran also has a long history of exposer to US intervention which is covered at the bottom of this page.
The second reason given for supporting sanctions is the claim Iran supports terrorism. This is odd since we should all have heard by now Osama bin Laden is a Saudi, and receives money from the Saudi’s. When are we going to put sanctions on Saudi Arabia?
Even if Iran is supporting terrorism, there is one country who has probably given the Mujahideen more money than any other. On my May 16th show I covered who that country is. I read two different articles on the history of the creation of the Mujahideen:
To give you a taste of what is contained in this article:
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Brzezinski not long ago revealed that on July 3, 1979, unknown to the American public and Congress, President Jimmy Carter secretly authorized $500 million to create an international terrorist movement that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and “destabilize” the Soviet Union.
The CIA called this Operation Cyclone and in the following years poured $4 billion into setting up Islamic training schools in Pakistan (Taliban means “student”).
Multiple sources site the above listed information. Richard Stallman the father GNU Linux who I interviewed previously stated on his web site:
The Colder War , an article published in the London Mirror, lays out the parallels between today’s “War on Terrorism” and the Red Scare of the Cold War. It also shows how the US began in 1979, before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to fund militant religious schools in Pakistan, the same schools that later produced the Taliban. (“Taliban” means “religious students”.)
The purpose of these schools was to lay a trap for the Soviet Union–a successful trap that contributed directly to its overthrow. Ending that murderous tyranny was a great achievement, but we could have achieved the same result by supporting people not quite so fanatic, if we had paid attention. In any case, that goal could hardly explain the US support for the Taliban in the 90s, after the Soviet Union had disappeared.
I would like everyone to take these article’s into account before we accuse other countries of supporting terrorism, and take actions to provoke a war.
In addition, I would like everyone to investigate the media coverage on Iran. In the past I read to you Paul Craig Roberts (former Reagan economist) DON’T TRUST U.S. MAINSTREAM NEWS: The Difficulty of Being an Informed American. Please read this article, if you haven’t already. Mr. Roberts suggests we need to seek news from outside the United States. I have listed the sites he recommends on the side bar.
I would like to ask you to take a look at this example of censorship from 60 Minutes
I would also like to ask listeners to study the history of US foreign intervention in the Middle East.
The site MrxfromPlanetX.com contains a documentary collection many of which focus on the Middle East. These two particular documentaries stand out:
We are talking about the potential death of thousands of people. Are we going to trust information provided by our government now when it has been relatively inaccurate in the past?
On February 2nd 2009 Provo Police assaulted a man by the name of Chris Lauridsen.
Chris Lauridsen had the nerve to be be annoyed by an Animal Control agent with a chip on her shoulder harassing him for leaving his dogs in the car for 10 minutes on a 40 degree day.
Any Animal Control Officer with common sense would not have harassed Lauridsen, but this Office obviously did not have any common sense. Perhaps it was a slow day for Animal Control.
“At one point I attempted to explain to her that I was being mistreated and that she worked for me,” he said. “She said no, she didn’t, she worked for the city of Provo and I lived in Woodland Hills.”
Lauridsen explained that he owns a business in Provo that brings in $1 million a year and employs 15 people.
“I don’t deserve to be treated like that,” he said.
And that’s when she called for backup officers.
A person should get equal treatment whether or not his business brings in $1 million into Provo each year. A bagger in a grocery store shouldn’t have to put up with police brutality either.
Do people really think it’s Constitutional for a man to be beaten with night sticks, if he gets angry at police for harassing him?
We know this isn’t an isolated incident since we have the little old lady in Orem who was brutalized for not watering her lawn during our ever lasting drought.
Mike has also started a campaign on Youchoose.net called Free Chris Lauridsen. The purpose of the campaign is to collect signatures to get the charges dropped against Chris Lauridsen and to bring attention to other cases of police brutality in Utah.
What else can be done? Who else is responsible for the conduct of these public employees? Why haven’t the names of the police officers and the animal control agent been released?
The only way police will start to respect people’s rights is if they lose their jobs when they do things like this. This means who ever is responsible for the Police Officer’s jobs has to be eliminated if he/she won’t do something about their abuse.
The way to handle an unresponsive politician is to eliminate them in a primary. People have to get together and decide what candidate in a primary they are going to back.
Although I like the views of third party candidates, supporting one as a solution is a waste of time. Here’s why:
No matter how high your ideals are the reality is the majority of Utahns are going to go to the General Election and vote straight Republican. The exception is Salt Lake who does just the opposite and votes straight Democrat. In Salt Lake it would be a good idea to volunteer for better Democrats in Salt Lake.
Maybe it would be too much effort for people to actually research candidates before they vote ***sarcasm***
Salt Lake is outnumbered by the rest of the state however so even if they vote straight Democrat, they’re not going to be able to knock out a senator like Robert Bennett who’s up for reelection in 2010, or Orrin Hatch who’s up for reelection in 2012.
You can combine the Libertarians and the Constitution Party (although they don’t agree on what liberty means), and they still don’t add up to the numbers the Democrats voting in Utah. The number of Democrats voting in Utah is almost half the numbered by Republicans voting.
Clearly the Libertarian and Constitution Party members would have more success getting involved at the caucus and primary level with the Republican Party.
One answer for people in Utah County, and the rest of Utah, is to join the Campaign for Liberty.
It takes so much time to volunteer and get involved to prevent the country from becoming a police state. Any amounted of money can be defeted by volunteers if there are enough of them. That’s one reason why as a woman, I think women have been suckered into working. Women used to be a much greater political force, but they (we) don’t have time to get involved if they are working full time, trying to take care of a family and a home. Women have been convinced they are some how inferior, or being cheated if they aren’t out in some crappy job slaving away like their male counterparts. How gullible they are.
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"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
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