Red Light Winter
This is a plug for the first independent show "Red Light Winter" here at U.S.U
Those in the vincity come support some excellent actors and director by coming out to see this raw gritty play about a psychedlic love triangle, and the tragic results there of.
The performance will be in the Fine Arts Center at the Black Box studio on Monday the 16th of Oct. at 4:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and Tuesday the 17th at 10:30 p.m.
Be forwarned this play is raw, gritty and has some disturbing scenes as well as explicit language and sexuality.
Fortunantly for us, our we are safe... not free any more, but safe.
with habeas corpus gone, we need not worry any more.
with it gone, we need no longer worry about any of our rights.
Kieth Olbermann has a funny little commentary about it.
Orwell was off about 40 years, i think we've still got another 8 maybe even twice that... how many of the following quotes from 1984 can you apply to today?
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy."
"And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested."
"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annhilated: vaporized was the usual word."
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
Military Comissions Act aome definitions.
Sec. 948a. Definitions
(1) UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT- (A) The term `unlawful enemy combatant’ means :
(i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces); or
(ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense.
(B) CO-BELLIGERENT- In this paragraph, the term `co-belligerent’, with respect to the United States, means any State or armed force joining and directly engaged with the United States in hostilities or directly supporting hostilities against a common enemy.
(2) LAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT- The term `lawful enemy combatant’ means a person who is :
(A) a member of the regular forces of a State party engaged in hostilities against the United States;
(B) a member of a militia, volunteer corps, or organized resistance movement belonging to a State party engaged in such hostilities, which are under responsible command, wear a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance, carry their arms openly, and abide by the law of war; or
(C) a member of a regular armed force who professes allegiance to a government engaged in such hostilities, but not recognized by the United States.
