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David Horowitz
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| 11.26.2009
The political arena is getting every more shrill. "I disagree with what you say but defend your right to say it", is long past. Some people who tried to speak out against the hysterics and smears such as John McCain, ended up accused of being secretly on the other side, but there are recently some precious exceptions which I will get into later, such as Hillary and Sarah Palin saying they would like to have a cup of coffee and chat together, without being condemn by their admirers for doing so, and also a couple of incidents may end up far reaching. Election day smears aren't new, but for Obama and Sarah Palin they never end. The Republican Party has been getting ever more rigid when it comes to war policy for a long time. In 2006 Richard Warner dropped out, and Chuck Hagal lost, Lincoln Chafee in 2004. Arlen Specter was squeezed out of the Republican party, due to his abortion stance, and became a Democrat. In the last election, Dede Scozzafava was trounced by fake campaign ads, that looked like they were sponsored by her, shrilly overstating her pro-choice position,
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RichardKanePA | 10.31.2009
Tigre Hill, a film-maker with past progressive credentials, has a new film on Mumia abu-Jamal coming out on December 9. The trailer has people claiming Mumia allegedly empowered himself by shooting a cop, along with comments by others whom I suspect weren’t referring to Mumia in that part of the discussion. It seems to be part of this hate campaign to associate the word terrorism to cover more and more uninvolved people. Headlines from elsewhere flash on the screen “Machine-Gun Fire Hits 2 Police Men” and, “Grenades Rip 12 New Police Cars”, plus the words pig and oink, oink, several times. If you don’t click on the below link and watch the movie trailer you will think I am exaggerating things out of context. Google, Tigre Hill The Barrel of a Gun, Since local anti-capital punishment advocates get constantly bombarded with anti-Mumia material, it will affect people at a distance far more than in Philadelphia. 
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