PEACE DEMO NEWS FLASH
IMCuk | 07.10.2001 19:51
PEACE DEMO NEWS FLASH
at approx 7pm a group of anty war protesters numbering 100 assembled at Oxford Circus to demonstrate against the bombing in Afganistan.
from there they marched to Trafalgar square and managed to stop the traffic for a time they then moved on to Dowing St having swelled ranks to around 150 people and blocked off Whitehall before moving on the the houses of parlement where the cops used section 60 unconfirmed reports that 2 people were arrested watch this space as updates will be coming in
at approx 7pm a group of anty war protesters numbering 100 assembled at Oxford Circus to demonstrate against the bombing in Afganistan.
from there they marched to Trafalgar square and managed to stop the traffic for a time they then moved on to Dowing St having swelled ranks to around 150 people and blocked off Whitehall before moving on the the houses of parlement where the cops used section 60 unconfirmed reports that 2 people were arrested watch this space as updates will be coming in
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Fragging:dont ask,dont tell.
07.10.2001 20:05
by Chuck0 11:51am Sun Oct 7 '01
Some appropriate reading now that the U.S. has engaged in yet another terrorist action. The U.S. didn't lose the Vietnam War because of the peaceniks, it lost it through a combination of the resistance of the Vietnamese people and sabotage from within the U.S. military.
Harass the Brass!
Mutiny, Fragging and Desertions in the U.S. Military
By Kevin Keating
Is it “Fleet Week” in San Francisco again? Let’s rename ‘Fleet Week’ Mutiny Week!
Introduction:
‘Fleet Week’ is an annual event in San Francisco, held over a four or five day period every September. Ships of the US Navy sail into port, and a team of the Navy’s ‘Blue Angels’ stunt fighter aircraft pretends to strafe the city. No wonder they call San Francisco ‘Baghdad-by-the-Bay!’ Thousands of young enlisted people from the visiting ships flood SF’s tourist traps in North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf. What follows is the latest and longest version of a leaflet distributed to them on three or four occasions since 1985.
A friend who was in the US military during the Persian Gulf War told me that when George Bush visited the troops in Saudi Arabia before the war, many enlisted men and women in Bush’s immediate vicinity had their rifle and pistol ammunition taken away. The bolts were also removed from their rifles. If this was so, it makes it clear that Bush and his corporate handlers may have been afraid of the US enlisted people who Bush would soon be killing in his unsuccessful re-election campaign.
The suppressed history of the Vietnam war shows that the Commander-in-Chief had good reason to fear and distrust the troops. Our rulers want us to forget what happened during the Vietnam war, and they want us to forget what defeated their war effort — and the importance of the resistance to the war by enlisted men and women.
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