Expressive Opposition

The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Social Disobedience

Animal rights activists pushed congressional legislation that would inhibit research by limiting research institutions so they can no longer purchase animals from some traditionally common suppliers. On another front, activist physicists numbering nearly 500 are protesting a United States policy allowing the use of nuclear weapons against adversaries. Two issues, testing on animals to save human lives, and the idea that using Nuclear force to save combat forces and perhaps civilian lives, should be considered carefully and understood by all Americans.

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President George Bush’s controversial choice for the Supreme Court has withdrawn her nomination. In Harriet Miers’ resignation letter she states “Protection of the prerogatives of the Executive Branch and continued pursuit of my confirmation are in tension. I have decided that seeking my confirmation should yield.” The next nominee will likely be either another woman or a minority who is a hard line conservative, likely evangelical, and definitely pro-life. Bush had his shot; now the puppet masters will again select a viable nominee.

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Oil prices are starting to decline, not because of supply issues, but because the five major oil companies realize they may have pushed the greed envelope too far. Out of oil industry greed many positive things are starting to occur, such as declining SUV and gas guzzling auto sales. A more exciting manifestation of positive change is in alternative energies. These are not new technologies, but merely suppressed technologies starting to emerge as a result of multiple factors and the catalyst being fuel prices. Enter the new Israeli self fuel-generating automobile and before that, the infamous “Dead Cat Car.”

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This story is quoted from Linux Chix News, “The VeriSign Inc. regime will continue to monopolize Internet domain name control, running .com and .net for another five years until 2012. The giant will also be able to raise prices by 7% a year under a newly announced VeriSign and ICANN legal settlement. Brief history: VeriSign hijacked DNS in Sept. 2003, ICANN and computer geeks world wide demanded VeriSign disable the wildcard DNS (SiteFinder), VeriSign launched multiple frivolous lawsuits against the nonprofit ICANN to bog them down and force concessions which succeeded as today VeriSign and ICANN struck a monumental Internet deal.”

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Ever wanted to save a Real Player video stream to your hard drive? Unless the stream provider enables it, Real Player will not allow you to capture and save a video or audio stream. The terms “capturing streaming video, recording streaming video, downloading streaming video, and saving streaming video,” all refer to the same thing, saving the video to a file. There are many legitimate reasons why you would want to do this, and there’s one straightforward and totally free answer, “R7C“.

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In a shocking adjustment to an already civil rights crushing law signed by President Bush in April, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act has been spiked with tougher penalties and prison sentences. A shared folder with a movie will buy you a 40% longer prison term. The MPAA and RIAA are just salivating over their monopolistic control of art and culture in America.

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Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman proposes a resolution, which assures support for protecting the Internet from an International takeover by the United Nations. Although the Bush Administration has, to a small degree, abused power over Internet policy, it is the United States that created, financed, and built the Internet. Under International control, oppressive nations such as China, North Korea, and parts of the Muslim world would result in a censored Internet for all.

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An eleven-year-old Texas girl and two other children have been suspended from their school because she folded paper to resemble a crude gun shape. Furthermore, the children must attend an alternative school for the month following the suspension, all for folding paper with no intent of any wrongful behavior. “I just thought they would tell us to throw it in the trash or just cut it up and don’t make no more,” the girl said. This raises the question of excessive post Columbine sensitivity in other schools so many years after the horrific 1999 school shooting.

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As you may already know, the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act” has already passed the Senate and now waits for Congress to move on it. However, did you know that Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy tried to debunk the bill by adding ludicrous gun control amendments leveraging police safety as reasoning? Furthermore, Senator Kennedy was humiliated when Law Enforcement opposed his amendments! Will this slap-in-the-face wake up the senile senator or is it just one of many times he has been caught in dishonest legislation manipulation motivated by warped ideology?

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Tamiflu is the most effective known drug to treat the Avian “Bird” Flu, which will inevitably strike the United States in the very near future. However, the United States only has enough to treat 1% of its country’s population. Experts estimate that 90,000 to 300,000 Americans will die unless the President takes decisive action, not by preparing military forces, but by providing resources to produce enough Tamiflu to save American lives. The effort must begin now.

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