FreemanZ.com/  Photo Reports/  Aug 13, 2005

A Bush Figure Gestures to Liberals

(Beside Tremont St., below MBTA 'henhouse,' looking toward State House) Boston Common is a landmark of the American Revolution, a major part of the "Freedom Trail" and is still, on paper anyways, open for public activity...If MBTA Police allow it.

In MBTA 'Police' headquarters, a sign reads "We Serve And Protect...When We Fucking Feel Like It" So you better be aware how the traincops feel if you want to go onto Boston Common and record political statements with which MBTA Patrolman Brian Harer doesn't agree. (See trial transcript for details) Isn't it nice we have 'men' like him to guide our weak minds in the RIGHT direction? Anyway, Brilliant Brian didn't bother me today... not physically anyway.

Vigil at the "Frog Pond"

(Looking east, parallel to Beacon, toward Park Street. Steeple is corner of Park and Tremont)

This is an artificially circulated (and likely brominated) sculpture pool with all kinds of rules inarticulately posted. 

Vigilers Assemble Around the Water

(Looking east, parallel to Beacon, toward Park Street)

The water, the proverbial Riverside is a place for reflection. W go to the water to ponder our reflection...to view ourselves. At a time when warmongers point their fingers and deny their own failures, and the failures of our nations policies, these folks are taking an action that is self-reflective.

Distribution of Votive Candles

(Looking west, parallel to Beacon, toward Charles Street)

After a short memorial service, Folks began singing Peace, Salaam, Shalom, Down by The River Side and other songs as the sun set.

A Rainbow PEACE Flag

A Veterans For Peace Banner, (Samantha Smith Chapter)

As you see, Veterans for Peace has a good showing today.  Iraq Veterans Against The War is growing daily as surviving troops return and join the ranks of the real "Support the Troops" movement.

No Draft No Way is spearheading anti-recruitment Direct Action, Civil Disobedience and education efforts. First Lesson: Recruiters Lie ... Like Bush lies ... Like Brian Harer and Victoria Riel lie.  A conspiracy of liars in Government and the Corporate Press, who have committed war crimes by inciting the public to violence where they reasonably knew the Administration was acting illegally, and failed in their responsibility to serve the fuction they have assumed as the Fourth Estate. the Administration's principle war crime is Aggression...the major evil punished at Nuremburg.

A legal point of those trials by the Allies was the pre-emptive nullification of the so called Nuremburg Defense "...I was just following orders." Like all doctrine propped up by lies, the Bushite Neoliberal Iperialism is, to borrow a phrase ... fruit of the poisonous tree.

Many folks outside the corporate press like myself, John Grebe, with his acclaimed Sounds of Dissent  program, (and others who've paid the price for offering up truth against the corporate lies for private profit,) have exposed these lies for years with interviews of guests of national and international stature, such as Scott Ritter, the Iraq Weapons Inspector fired for not finding the nonexistant weapons he accurately reported Iraq hadn't the means to create. Since that interview, this many  Civilians have died, this many US soldiers (not including American contract employees.) And here's another fatality count website. ...Mission Acomplished, huh?

Former US Marine Ritter’s book, Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America, is a scathing critique of the Bush administration’s main pretext for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And here's his latest book, co-authored by William Rivers Pitt, whom I recently recorded, for a different radio program,speaking with Dahr Jamail, a surviving UNimbedded Reporter in Iraq.

Tune in to Sounds of Dissent from WZBC. (Live web stream and 90.3 FM in the Boston area. Peace and Justice Radio airs on WZBC on Subday at 06:00 hours.

Support and view Indymedia. Central authority is a dying beast. Centralized Newsgathering is a dying beast. Let's finish it off!

Facing Beacon Street

The State House is up Beacon Hill, to the right. At the corner of Beacon and Park, Fox 'News' just moved in. Faux News is well documented in the exciting and affordable video Outfoxed...Murdoch's War on Journalism. I'm thinking that's where I'll take the fight to hold Harer and Riel accountable, because Citizen Rupert's benefitted from the same doctrine that's harmed me. I produced a nice segment for No Censorship Radio on Outfoxed with the help of an audience from the Arlington Chapter of United for Justice with Peace.

Veterans For Peace "Smedley Butler" patch

Decorated U.S.M.C. General Smedley Butler was Author of War Is A Racket.

Chicken Hawk Bush T-Shirt

Many, including former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, feel Bush and others in "the Rove Administration" should be tried for war crimes, (preferably after impeachment.) Rove's a huge liar, and a master of many forms of deception, including misdirection, reframing, etc.

Cindy Sheehan Asks "Why Did My Son Die?"

Poster: "More Die Every Day...Why?"

Grounds for Impeachment?

ImpeachBush.org thinks so.

Infidelity is an issue between spouses.  War crimes are the concern of all.

No one died when Clinton Lied! (This is not my endorsement of Clinton or the Democratic Party)

The Administration's Policies, Home and Abroad ...Why?

The MBTA 'Police' seem to be Bush's soldiers in this Democratic Commonwealth, a paramilitary group working for the Administration, disguised as police, receiving huge amounts of money and resources, willing to break laws and attack at least one Reporter to further their raggedy agenda. Bush has sent our National Guard away, leaving the T-Pol as the effective standing Army in the Commonwealth...think about that, kids.

The Cost of the Iraq War on Mass Residents and Bostonians

With a millionaire Republican Governor who wants to cut services to sick and dying people, who wants to kill  people with a death penalty (and lying cops) why can't they balance our budget? Some say it's an issue of motivation.

If Romney pushes for state murder legislation, I promise to try my best either, personally to flush his fat head down a public toilet or to pie him in the face.

...The hard part is choosing the right recipe!

Kifayeh Clad Man With Poster

One vigiler was pestered today for expressing "antizionist" sentiments. Apparently that person hasn't done her homework on this vigil's focus.

Regarding Zionism, Cindy Sheehan says:"I want (Bush) to tell me just what was the noble cause (my son) Casey died for?' "Was it freedom and democracy? Bullshit! He died for oil.  He died to make your friends richer.  He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East.  We're not freer here, thanks to your PATRIOT Act. Iraq is not free. You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism.  There, I used the "I" word, imperialism, and now I'm going to use another "I" word, impeachment because we cannot have these people pardoned.  They need to be tried on war crimes and go to jail."

- Cindy Sheehan

The Zionist game plan, practiced almost daily by the New York Times, is to equate opposition to Zionism with antisemitism. There's an irony there, since semitic refers to Arabs and Jews alike...the sons of Abraham. (Remember...salam..salom...semitic languages.)

Some argue that the Israeli Right Wing Extremist Zionists who level Palestinian homes with American Caterpillar D9 bulldozers are the greatest antisemites. Some even suggest Zionists sparked and encouraged this US war on Islam that began long before the Trade Towers fell.

It is hidden knowledge that many of the Jewish Orthodoxy opposed the 'resettlement' of Israel. Though I'm settling down from my own emotional rebound after discovering the lifetime of lies I was fed about Israel. I'll never allow my government or the Zionist Times, (a paper I used to sell,) to tell me what to think about Israel and Palestine. (No CIA page is even posted on Palestine...but count the other countries on the CIA list!)

Personally, I'm afraid it's too late to stop a terrorist response to what we have done, instigating a "Holy War" that surely didn't begin in September 2001. A war on Islam by the US, spurred on by Whacko Fundamentalists Worldwide united against eachother with all the rest of us lined up like sitting civilian ducks.

Veterans For Peace Arm Band

Though Veterans for Peace is involved in many coalitions, the branded paraphernalia are worn only by members, who are required to have served in the United States Military. See their website for more information.

A Vigiler Bears a Votive at the (Still Frogless) Frog Pond

A Message to Kerry, Meehan, Markey and Lynch

"Senator Kerry and Congressmen Meehan, Markey and Lynch: Casey Sheehan is dead because of your votes. Will you meet with his mother? "

Not A "Paddy Wagon" ...A "Police Wagon"

I hear that they smell of piss inside. This is because some other sucker was probably arrested at a bar and had to go reeeeeeal bad. I'm just telling you 'cause I'm a Reporter, and if you don't like it, then go suck up some NPR, and give them your money so you can feel like you're making a difference when you're not.

Paddy Wagon is said to come from the English who would round up "...the rowdy drunken Irish." Here in Boston we must be politically correct and call them Police Wagons.

A Naughty Girl in the Frogless Frog Pond

Candles Left Burning on the Frogless Pond

It's not at all usual for a group like this one to leave stuff behind, but in my experience, votives at a vigil are always left behind, removing them is not to be be done until everyone has left. Perhaps someone came back and removed the drippings, or maybe the 'authorities' will file suit...or file charges...or beat someone up. Stay tuned!