Moore writes: "We are Americans. We don't believe in captivity of anyone without charges or a trial. Julian Assange hasn't been charged with anything."
Michael Moore. (photo: unknown)
Today I Went to See Julian Assange
13 June 16
i, this is Michael Moore. I�m standing outside the Ecuadorian embassy, where inside Julian Assange has been under siege, seeking asylum for nearly four years now (it will be four years next week). I just came out from visiting him for a couple of hours and I have to say this is absolute madness that this individual who is responsible for informing us the American people of the lies that our government told us. Things we never would have known had not wikileaks put the truth out there.
He has been holed up in this embassy here. This is not an apartment building. This is a tiny little office on one little part of this one floor in this building and it�s just wrong. It�s shameful. We are Americans. We don�t believe in captivity of anyone, right? Without charges or a trial. The man hasn�t been charged with anything. He can�t come out of here because if he does the UK (or if he goes back to Sweden they) are going to deport him to the U.S. The U.S. has already taken Manning into prison for telling us the truth and of course that�s what they want to do that to the person who put the truth out there.
I just want to say I�m standing here as one American, proud American citizen, a country that believes in democracy, believes in transparency, hopefully, right? Folks, this is wrong and the United States should stop this.
President Obama, if you see this, come on. However he may have upset our national security agency, the greater good that this man did and Specialist Manning did for us far supersedes anything else here. So, let�s end this. Let�s tell the U.K. to end this. Let�s us end this. Sweden, come on, you�re Sweden for Christ sake. Let�s stop this. Let�s let him out of this four-year prison. His crime was to tell us the truth - that�s not supposed to be a crime, and I�m going to continue to do what I can do to get him his freedom. So, do what you can do. Be supportive of this. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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btw, who actually is the architect of this grand betrayal, mr. reich?
before the election it was vote for obama or the country will go to hell; now will it be "accept the grand betrayal or the country will go to hell" can anyone use reason instead of fear-based sophistry any more?
I vote for the cliff. And I certainly don't want people like reich "saving" us from it.
why do you blame robert reich as well, he has been dead on in everything he has said, and his suggestions are backed up with facts, history and a lot of famous economists, like Joe Stiglitz for example.
i don't think you really get it. if you want to understand how objective reich is read "the future of success" by him that talks about how all these factors have acted together to get us to this point, a situation he understands better than most and can articulate very well.
We can and should push back against misinformation in the form of political ads to counter the deception. I just saw a dark, ominous anti-Obama ad, and this was after the election! Once every 4 years is not enough to keep the truth out there.
Wow,you really hit on all the points that make people keep returning the "R"s to office. There are a lot of people that paid very little attention to politics most of their lives. That was until they either lost their job or home, or some of their friends lost their jobs and/or homes back starting in late 2008.
So they decided to pay attention, since politics now made a difference in their life, up close and personal. Unfortunately, since they started paying attention late in the game it was very easy for them to accept that it's all Obama's fault. The TV News makes it all easy to understand and that Fox network is the most popular. So they got duped. And since they never paid hard attention in the past, there is very little for them to reference back to.
Most of the Republicans I know are good people. Many fall into the category I just described, and if it wasn't for the systemic dismantling of our economic infrastructure over the past 30+ years they would continue to not pay much attention. Others, are embarrassed by the insanity in the Republican Party; but that's their party and in many but not all cases they continue to vote for the R's.
At the end of thew day, I have found that they tend to hear things differently and the walls in many cases are too thick to break down overnight. We have to keep plugging away, and be ready to learn their language so we can translate Liberal ideas into something they will understand.
Check it out, if you like it, spread the word. Remind your Congress persons about it.
cpc.grijalva.house.gov/budget-for-all/
BTW, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a state referendum endorsing this plan.
Does money make a difference in governance....Y ou betcha, always has, always will, in any and every country. It's human nature....So I guess is whining.
If no compromise let the tax cuts for everyone expire. Then let Obama have a bill for a tax cut for those only making under $250,000. If the Republicans don't vote for it, then the people will hold them accountable.
But we don't delay this decision after Jan. No way.
The goofs in Washington DC, keep talking about it costing too much money to pay out people intitlements. It seems to me these are earned benefits and the goofs who collect $80,000.00 for kicking the can, think they deserve a continued paycheck, even though We The People have Fired Them are the ones who are depleating the money.
Can't there be a movement of Citizens to cut this as well as congressional members paying taxes on their health insurance which we pay for as well?
Shar
Don't believe what hear on the tv box, their first agenda is to get you go out and but that car or deodorant that they are always telling you about. Stay tuned for more details after this message!
Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC has given it a new name - the 'Fiscal Curb' which describes it much better. As he pointed out, nothing is going to happen immediately if ALL the tax cuts expire - just a bunch of Repuglicans standing there with goo on their faces because they didn't follow orders and scare enough people into supporting another rich-man's tax giveaway.
If you have not seen it yet, check out the Moveon.org and CREDO campaigns to send emails and phone calls to the President, and the members of the House who want to pull this B.S. on us. Let them know that just because the election is over and a horrible fate is averted, we are not going to let up on them. That's the only response that will keep them honest.
And let's all work on getting the s***heads out of office!!
Obama did NOT get re-elected to cave to the Republican agenda. Let the cliff come, as it should, as it was expected to. Think of creative solutions for funding human services affected by the "cliff" - perhaps take what's left over of campaign contributions to the Obama campaign and split it up among affected programs to make up some of the cuts and encourage others, like Bernie Sanders and Pat Leahy and other Dems with big campaign pots to do so also, along with George Soros and Bill Gates, etc. etc. etc. But NO DEAL with the intransigent Republicans. They LOST!!! We can better cope with the cliff than having a spineless president.
Tha Amarican people are the ones who have no backbone, why don't we call, write or go as a crowd to the members who are not doing their job. Thats what needs to be done. Obama is not the father of grown men. Shar
Maybe begin with following Senator Warren's lead... :)
and view it at your chance to 'Refresh' yourselves with the American People.
You might be surprised at to just what kind of strong and much larger following you gather to yourselves/your 'base'...
Steve
Bmiluski, thank you for the Library of Congress citation, however, as Milton Friedman said,"I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you".