News the Conservative Controlled Media Does Not Want You to Neither see Nor Hear

For Tuesday, October 17, 2006

The New Standard
LAPD Bullies Homeless on Skid Row, Defies Federal Appeals Court Ruling

Los Angeles Police cracks down on homeless residents on skid row as part of LA’s Clean Streets Initiative. The crackdown comes after months of federal appeals court ruling that citing and arresting people sleeping on sidewalks is cruel and unusual punishment since they have no place to go.

News Source
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3777

The Death of Habeas Corpus: President signs Unconstitutional and Un-American Military Commissions Act 2006 (aka Unitary Executive Enabling Act 2006)

President Dubya signed most possibly the most unconstitutional law since the founding of the United States of America. The American Civil Liberties Union took out a full page advertisement on Today’s Washington Post expressing calling itself the most conservative organization in the US.

The Act allows the following:
1. Allows the President with approval of Congress to declare anyone even if the person is born outside the US an Enemy Combatant, which is a term that does not exist in international law.
2. Indefinitely hold people who are declared as such without charge,
3. Take away protections against horrific abuse towards people declared as such,
4. put people on trial based on hearsay evidence declares as such,
5. authorize trials that can sentence people such people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses,
6. And slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions for citizens outside the US who is determined to be an enemy combatant.
7. Not to mention retroactively gives the Bush Administration a Get Out of Jail Free card for any War Crimes committed during the War on Terror (aka War for Imperialism)
This effectively legalize Islamiphobic and racist programs such as Abu Grahib and the extraordinary renditions that primary target many innocent Arabs and Muslims that condemn the 9/11 attacks.

News Source:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/27091prs20061017.html
Wikipedia article about passed Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006

From One World United States
Democracy comes to Democratic Republic of Congo

Refugees International released a report titled “Seizing This Moment of Hope: Towards a Secure Future in the Democratic Republic of the Congo” Which calls for the international community and the Congo government to end the violence by rehabilitating the Congolese armed forces, expanding the UN peacekeeping force in the country and enforcing an existing embargo on arms and natural resources.

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/141027/1/