Since 1970 the right wing of the two dominance parties have colluded in the drug war to counter the social justice advances of the period. The Voter Rights Act, the rights of youth being sent to Vietnam but not allowed to vote, (the 26st Amendment),  and women's rights.

Women have joined in this right wing conspiracy in order to pander to the right hoping to garner better position for women's issues. The Mommy state with their 'for the children' hysteria has staunchly supported the Jim Crow drug war that has systematically mass disenfranchised millions of minorities and nonconformist young Americans.

SEE: How America's right wing has successfully subverted our democracy

This Jim Crow subversion of American democratic institutions in favor of the right wing hit critical mass in 2000 and 2004 with the accumulation of the millions disenfranchised combined with the progressive voters no longer willing to support a Democratic Party because of its support for the Jim Crow drug war. Greens, Libertarians, Independents and Ventura Reform people all oppose the Jim Crow drug war. In 2004 Nader Independents joined this chorus of opposition to the right wing dominated two party system.

Now it comes out that the right wing has been targeting women for mass disenfranchisement for the past ten years using the same Jim Crow drug war. Study: Female prison population surges

"The number of incarcerated women has been growing ... due in large part to sentencing policies in the war in drugs," The Sentencing Project, a group promoting alternatives to prison, said in a statement.

Is it any wonder that there is great ambivalence in the nation toward defending Roe v Wade? Nonconformist women are being targeted for mass disenfranchisement just as nonconformist minorities and young people have been targeted since 1970.

According to: EDITORIAL OBVSERVER
New York Times
Why Some Politicians Need Their Prisons to Stay Full
By BRENT STAPLES
Dec. 27, 2004

(See the Pennsylvania -democracy incarcerated- link below)

there are more than 13 million Americans disenfranchised due to criminal records. 70% of all crime is drug related. That means that more than 7 million Americans are disenfranchised by the drug war. The 2000 and 2004 elections were decided by 3 million or fewer votes. Between those disenfranchised and those disillusioned by the Democratic Party's support for the Jim Crow drug war and driven out of the Party by the policy the Democrats have lost all hope of winning the presidency.

The GOP uses this to subvert apportionment by taking pluralistic urban Americans to rural right wing district prisons where they are counted in the census but cannot vote. This deprives the cities not only of voters but it also cuts needed poverty block grants instead diverting the money to rural districts that are not providing ANY services for the incarcerated populations. SEE: Pennsylvania -democracy incarcerated- for an example of this practice that the New York Times characterized in the above  editorial last year.

"The practice recalls the early United States under slavery, when slaves were barred from voting but counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of apportioning representation in Congress."

Cross posted at my LeftIndependent blog http://leftindependent.blogspot.com/

Judith Miller may have committed perjury and obstruction of justice. My breakdown of the situation at LeftIndependent blog. Including my letter to the public editor of the Times about my concern that Miller may have deceived the Times and the public in her sourcing and  attribution in her stories over the years.

Editor Says He Missed Miller 'Alarm Bells'

Associated Press
Oct. 21, 2005

In a dramatic e-mail, Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote Times' employees he wished he'd more carefully interviewed Miller and had "missed what should have been significant alarm bells" that she had been the recipient of leaked information about the CIA officer at the heart of the case.

this week to divert attention from the Plame treason indictments.

So what will it be:

Iran

Syria

Venezuela

I have posted the members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation who co-sponsored the gun manufacturer's protection act.

S.397
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act

H.R.800
To prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages or injunctive or other relief resulting from the misuse of their products by others.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a page with their assertions on where the Tom DeLay slush fund went on a state by state basis.

PA GOP representatives alleged to be on Tom DeLay's payroll at LeftIndependent blog.

S-1370 IS Flag Protection Act of 2005
H. R. 1974Flag Protection Act of 2005

Democratic Senators Robert Byrd and Kent Conrad, along with Republican Sen.  Robert Bennett, are co-sponsoring the Flag Protection Act of 2005 in the U.S. senate.

(3) abuse of the flag of the United States causes more than pain and distress to the overwhelming majority of the American people and may amount to fighting words or a direct threat to the physical and emotional well-being of individuals at whom the threat is targeted; and

(4) destruction of the flag of the United States can be intended to incite a violent response rather than make a political statement and such conduct is outside the protections afforded by the first amendment to the Constitution.

contact information for these three senators is at: Sen. Robert Byrd(D-WV) Protects Mob Rule not Free Speech LeftIndependent blog

These two flash videos are circulating at Americablog and I have put them on my LeftIndependent blog. Enjoy

George W. Bush: Two excellent political speech flash videos on the topic of George W. Bush.

FREEFALL

ASSHOLE

Santorum gets Bonoed and U2

Bono, U2 in Fund-Raiser for Senator Rick Santorum

If anyone in Philly can find out by Sunday which hotel Bono will stay at it would be a great place for a protest. Another, of course, is the  Wachovia Center in Philadelphia Sunday evening for the dinner.

I nelieve that Rick Santorum should not be allowed to walk the streets of Pennsylvania without a protest confronting him while he is still a U.S. senator.

                         I pledge allegiance to the Constitution
                         and to the Bill of Rights of America.
                         And to the Declaration of Independence,
                         Upon which we stand as
                         One nation under law.
                         Indivisible.
                         With liberty and justice for all.

Here are my blog links for some of the Katrina stories that I have been following.

FEMA: Adding insult to injury
Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMA
By Lisa Rosetta
The Salt Lake Tribune

ATLANTA - Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?"

On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.

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State and Federal FEMA kept the Red Cross from entering New Orleans from the start of this disaster. Even though the Red Cross and Salvation Army are often the first responders for organizing the response to the humanitarian need in a disaster.

What was missing for five days in New Orleans? Adaquate humanitarian response.

SEE: Official: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?

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Part of the problem that kept humanitarian relief out of New Orleans for five days:

Associated Press; fear and rumor monger Katrina stories