GOP Association Gives 'Christian' a Bad Name

Some of Roy Moore's supporters form PAC to raise money for
pro-sodomite, pro-abortion Republican Party in Jesus name
Supporters of Judge Roy Moore now have a political action committee raising money for Christian candidates for the Alabama Supreme Court in next year's elections. Organizers say the money will also be used to elect Christian candidates as delegates to the Republican National Convention next year and possibly to help raise funds should Moore decide to run for political office in the future. Zeigler said the Organization also hopes to draw supporters through a web site.

Flashback
Your Republican Party Identity: Get Rid Of It!
Have Christians no knowledge of what this Republican Party association is doing to our witness? How can Christians call murderers and sexual criminals to repentance through Jesus Christ when Christians are identified with the Republican Party which is gladly funding those criminals' activities?

Bush Keeps Distance From Free-speech Zone
To avoid other viewpoints and conceal any dissenting views on his national and international policies, President George W. Bush only appears before the public in stage-managed settings with carefully vetted, like-minded audiences. The president has made it clear that he doesn't read newspapers or magazines or watch TV and depends instead upon his close circle of advisors to tell him what he needs to know.

Bush Signs Bill Expanding FBI Authority
WASHINGTON - President Bush signed legislation making it easier for FBI agents investigating terrorism to demand financial records from casinos, car dealerships and other businesses. The changes were included in a bill authorizing 2004 intelligence programs. Most details of the bill are secret, including the total costs of the programs, which are estimated to be about $40 billion. That would be slightly more than Bush had requested.

Squelching Dissent in the Name of Security
DESPITE THE FBI's denials, recent disclosures of intelligence efforts against lawful antiwar protesters are strong reminders of the bureau's intensive undercover operations of the 1960s and '70s. Those counterintelligence operations, known as COINTELPRO, sought to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of targets that included communist organizations, civil rights groups, the Ku Klux Klan, and anti-Vietnam War protesters. While the current revelations are confined to the monitoring of perceived threats rather than active harassment, the broad sweep of the FBI's efforts should raise serious concerns over the bureau's motives and methods.

FBI Fully Implements New Surveillance Rules
WASHINGTON -- From Albany, N.Y. to Albuquerque, N.M., FBI field offices are working under new guidelines for terrorism cases that allow criminal and intelligence agents to work together and share information. The FBI also will be able to conduct more surveillance under the auspices of a secret intelligence tribunal, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which comprises judges selected by the chief justice of the Supreme Court. The judges sit on a rotating basis to review applications for electronic surveillance.

Free Speech Defeated
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gave its stamp of approval to the most significant limits on political speech in decades. The 5-4 decision, penned by Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens, declared, "Just as troubling to a functioning democracy as classic quid-quo-pro corruption is the danger that officeholders will decide issues not on the merits or desires of their constituencies, but according to the wishes of those who have made large financial contributions valued by the officeholder." The justices' solution was to approve the McCain-Feingold limits on campaign donations. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia stated that the majority ruling made it "a sad day for the freedom of speech." We agree.

Memo To President Bush: Please Veto The
Next Unconstitutional Bill To Reach Your Desk
When the McCain-Feingold so-called campaign reform act reached your desk you said you thought it was unconstitutional. But you signed it anyway.

US to Provide $34 Million in Health Aid to Afghanistan
KABUL -- The US government has agreed to provide 34 million US dollars to support health services by various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the Afghanistan, officials said here on Monday. The grant, aimed at improving health sector in the post-war country, would be distributed to 13 national and international NGOs operating in over 10 Afghan provinces, according to a senior official at the Afghan ministry. An agreement on the grant was signed here at the Public Health Ministry Monday between the US International Development Agency (USAID) and the ministry.

TV News, Rich People Now Control
Political Speech, Analysts Say
Broadcast news organizations with a liberal bias and billionaires with potentially hidden political agendas will now control much of the flow of information about federal candidates in the days leading up to elections, according to critics of a Supreme Court decision issued Wednesday. Richard Lessner, executive director of the American Conservative Union, called the restrictions on issue advocacy groups, which don't apply to wealthy individuals, the "dirty little secret" of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) upheld by the court.

Restoring Rights Difficult for Felons
Florida is one of six states that deny ex-felons the right to vote unless they take steps to have the state restore their civil rights. It's surprisingly easy - especially for the poor - to become felons and lose their right to vote.

Posted by Editor at December 15, 2003 11:04 AM