Bambi advertises in Texas

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- DALLAS-FORT WORTH.

 

'I'M BARACK OBAMA AND I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE," SAYS BAMBI IN THE LATEST COMMERCIALS THAT ARE AIRING IN TEXAS. 

 

YES, BUT DID HE PICK HIS NOSE?

 

"I REALLY DON'T NEED TO STARE UP HIS NOSTRILS," EXPLAINS BILLIE WHO CAUGHT IT ON THE CW DURING FAMILY GUY LAST NIGHT.  "IS IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM NOT TO LOOK DOWN HIS NOSE AT PEOPLE?"

 

KENDRICK CAUGHT IT ON WFAA'S MORNING NEWS SHOW AND WONDERED THE SAME THING AS WELL AS, "WHERE'S THE HOPE?  ALL THAT TALK ABOUT HOW HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN 'FIX HEALTH CARE' -- IT'S A HEALTH SCARE AD AND ALSO A SLAP AT HILLARY.  BUT IT'S THE LOOKING DOWN THE NOSE AT THE CAMERA THING THAT MAKES HIM COME OFF LIKE SUCH A JERK."

 

DESHAWN CITED BAMBI'S CLAIM THAT HE'S GOING TO "FIX WASHINGTON" WHICH "MIGHT BE MORE BELIEVABLE IF HE ACTUALLY HAD SOME EXPERIENCE."

 

AT MOUNTAINVIEW AND EL CENTRO CAMPUSES, THESE REPORTERS POLLED STUDENTS AND WERE SURPRISED AT THE ANTI-BAMBI SENTIMENT THAT CUT ACROSS CATEGORIES.

 

DESHAWN SPOKE FOR SEVERAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS WHEN HE EXPLAINED, "IF YOU'RE NOT BAPTIZED, DON'T PRETEND TO BE A CHRISTIAN IN A BLACK CHURCH.  JUST DON'T GO THERE."

 

WITH 228 DELEGATES GOING TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION FROM THE STATE, 126 OF WHOM WILL BE DECIDED BY THE MARCH 4TH PRIMARY, TEXAS IS  A DELEGATE RICH STATE AND BAMBI'S SUPPORTERS ARE BRAGGING ABOUT THE MONTHS THEY'VE SPENT BUILDING SUPPORT ON THE GROUND IN TEXAS.

 

LATINA DIANE, MOTHER OF 5, TOLD US, "THEY'VE BUILD NOT SUPPORT HERE.  I'M A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT.  EVERYONE I KNOW, REGARDLESS OF RACE, IS TALKING ABOUT HILLARY."

 

DIANE SPOKE OF HILLARY'S AD WHICH SHE CAUGHT ON WFAA THIS MORNING AND HOW HILLARY'S APPROACH IS "I'M ABLE AND WILLING AND CAN DO THE JOB."  ASKED TO CONTRAST IT WITH BAMBI'S AD, DIANE NOTED, "HILLARY'S SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE.  BAMBI'S STARING DOWN AT A CAMERA, LOOKING POMPOUS AND LIKE HE'S DOING AN ARROW SHIRT AD.  HE SPEAKS VERY AWKWARDLY IN IT AND MY HUSBAND SAYS IT'S LIKE OBAMA'S TRYING TO BE LENOARD NIMOY'S SPOCK IN STAR TREK."

 

BEAM HIM UP, BAMBI. 

 

 

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

 

Starting with war resistance.  Courage to Resist notes a new campaign for Andrew Hegerty, Jeffrey Gauntt and James Blanks, all US service members, all in Mannheim, Germany in a US military prison for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan.  They note Agustin Aguayo's confinement there earlier and how much letters meant to him.  Aguayo went to Iraq as a medic.  He found that training and ethics were disregarded (that's putting it mildly and Aguayo's comments are echoed by many others who were sent to Iraq as medics).  While serving, Aguayo had a religious awakening or deepening.  Seeing death and destruction strengthened previous beliefs and led him to contemplate additional issues.  Not surprising and not uncommon.  But the military command attempted to play dumb, attempted to act as though such a thing never happened, could never happen.  Aguayo applied for CO status.

He was then informed that his CO status would be determined AFTER his second tour of Iraq.  On his first tour, he'd refused to load his gun due to his religious deepening.  While this was going on, his fight for CO status was also going through the federal courts.  Despite that, the US military told him he was going back to Iraq.  Aguayo self-checked out briefly trying to demonstrate how serious he was about not returning to Iraq.  When that message was not received, he self-checked out again and was gone for less than the 30-day rule of thumb (30 days or more usually is seen by the US military as desertion, less is generally seen as AWOL).  Aguayo turned himself in.  He was court-martialed and charged with desertion which was only one of the many violations in the military 'justice' system.  He is appealing the verdict from his court-martial (he has already served the time the judge sentenced him to). 

 

Courage to Resist provides contact info for James Blanks (due out this month), Jeffrey Gauntt (due out April 2008) and Andrew Hegerty (due out in August 2008) are reachable at: Unit 29723, Box LL, APO, AE 09028-9723, USA -- Just put the name of whichever of the three you are writing to. 

 

 

And while you're writing, Canada's Supreme Court has refused to hear appeals on the issue of safe harbor status for war resisters in Canada.  The country's Parliament remains the best hope for safe harbor war resisters may have. You can make your voice heard by the Canadian parliament which has the ability to pass legislation to grant war resisters the right to remain in Canada. Three e-mails addresses to focus on are: Prime Minister Stephen Harper (pm@pm.gc.ca -- that's pm at gc.ca) who is with the Conservative party and these two Liberals, Stephane Dion (Dion.S@parl.gc.ca -- that's Dion.S at parl.gc.ca) who is the leader of the Liberal Party and Maurizio Bevilacqua (Bevilacqua.M@parl.gc.ca -- that's Bevilacqua.M at parl.gc.ca) who is the Liberal Party's Critic for Citizenship and Immigration. A few more can be found here at War Resisters Support Campaign. For those in the US, Courage to Resist has an online form that's very easy to use.

 

Monday's snapshot notes the 44th Munich Conference on Security Policy and the protests taking place which included war resister Chris Capps who was an awarded a peace medal from the Munich American Peace Committee.  Tim Slater (Media with Conscience) provides some of Capps speech:

 

To all of you here, at this protest: I would like to thank you, not just for awarding me this prize, but also for exposing and standing up to the arrogance of those leaders who commonly make decisions that destroy the lives of those who certainly are not a threat to their nations' security.  To be certain, it is the legitimate right of a just government to protect the lives of its citizens.  However, this is not accomplished by bombing and invading countries on the other side of the world where the majority of their citizens live in poverty.  The kind of 'security' policies my country, the United States, has pursued over the last few years has enraged much of the world's Muslim population, and brought more desperation to Iraq and Afghanistan; it has led to loss of privacy and liberty for American citizens, and it has reverted my country to the dark ages when torture was an acceptable form of interrogation.  Today, as it stands, America has invaded Iraq supposedly to defend its "national security".  The allegations that Iraq was a threat to America have since been proven false.  As a result, four thousand American soldiers have died in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead over thirty thousand Americans are wounded, and millions of Iraqis have become refugees.  It is time to show the people in there [indicating the location where the Munich Security Conference was being held] that military force should only be a very last resort, that it should not be used until all other options are exhuasted, and until it is completely transparent and evident that we truly must take these actions to defend ourselves.  Thousands of soldiers have made the same decision I have: the decision not to do the bidding of those who consider them Federal property.  Many more people have refused to pay their taxes until these wars come to an end; and then there are people like you who have taken to the streets to show their outrage about these destructive policies.  It is going to take all of us and all of our efforts to put these policies to an end and hold our leaders accountable for them.

 

There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes Josh Randall, Robby Keller, Chuck Wiley, James Stepp, Rodney Watson, Michael Espinal, Matthew Lowell, Derek Hess, Diedra Cobb, Brad McCall, Justin Cliburn, Timothy Richard, Robert Weiss, Phil McDowell, Steve Yoczik, Ross Spears, Peter Brown, Bethany "Skylar" James, Zamesha Dominique, Chrisopther Scott Magaoay, Jared Hood, James Burmeister, Eli Israel, Joshua Key, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Clara Gomez, Luke Kamunen, Leif Kamunen, Leo Kamunen, Camilo Mejia, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Agustin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Abdullah Webster, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder, Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, Blake LeMoine, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Dale Bartell, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Chris Capps, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake, Christopher Mogwai, Christian Kjar, Kyle Huwer, Wilfredo Torres, Michael Sudbury, Ghanim Khalil, Vincent La Volpa, DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total, at least fifty US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline [(877) 447-4487], Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. Tom Joad maintains a list of known war resisters. In addition, VETWOW is an organization that assists those suffering from MST (Military Sexual Trauma).

 

Meanwhile IVAW is organizing a March 2008 DC action:

In 1971, over one hundred members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War gathered in Detroit to share their stories with America. Atrocities like the My Lai massacre had ignited popular opposition to the war, but political and military leaders insisted that such crimes were isolated exceptions. The members of VVAW knew differently.

Over three days in January, these soldiers testified on the systematic brutality they had seen visited upon the people of Vietnam. They called it the Winter Soldier investigation, after Thomas Paine's famous admonishing of the "summer soldier" who shirks his duty during difficult times. In a time of war and lies, the veterans who gathered in Detroit knew it was their duty to tell the truth.

Over thirty years later, we find ourselves faced with a new war. But the lies are the same. Once again, American troops are sinking into increasingly bloody occupations. Once again, war crimes in places like Haditha, Fallujah, and Abu Ghraib have turned the public against the war. Once again, politicians and generals are blaming "a few bad apples" instead of examining the military policies that have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan.

Once again, our country needs Winter Soldiers.

In March of 2008, Iraq Veterans Against the War will gather in our nation's capital to break the silence and hold our leaders accountable for these wars. We hope you'll join us, because yours is a story that every American needs to hear.

Click here to sign a statement of support for Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan

March 13th through 16th are the dates for the Winter Soldier Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation. Dee Knight (Workers World) notes, "IVAW wants as many people as possible to attend the event. It is planning to provide live broadcasting of the sessions for those who cannot hear the testimony firsthand. 'We have been inspired by the tremendous support the movement has shown us,' IVAW says. 'We believe the success of Winter Soldier will ultimately depend on the support of our allies and the hard work of our members'." As part of their fundraising efforts for the event, they are holding houseparties and a recent one in Boston featured both IVAW's Liam Madden and the incomprable Howard Zinn as speakers.

 

 

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