#4: 04.12.15(3): US Secession, VT from US: Bush Adm's 9/11? NetGovernance

1) SECESSION.NET: ""Creating a worldwide Secession Network Right to Secede - Community-Based Secession - Libertarian/Decentralist Political Processes - Nonviolent Secession and Institutions"" http://www.secession.net/ US Right of Secession Amendment, by Committee to Ratify the Right of Secession Amendment: "The sovereign authority of any State to withdraw by law from the United States shall not be questioned, and the United States shall recognize it as a sovereign and independent country." http://secessionamendment.bravehost.com/ "" The Committee to Ratify the Right Of Secession Amendment, or ROSA, is a group of Americans who believe that the right to secession is an inalienable human right, as fundamental and necessary to a free society as the rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. While we believe that this right is implicit in the US Constitution, we feel that it should be made explicit with a constitutional amendment, in order avoid unnecessary confusion. "" ROSA State Committees: NJ, NC: http://secessionamendment.bravehost.com/committees.html 2) 2nd Vermont Republic: Original independence, Jan. 15, 1777 - Mar. 4, 1791: http://www.vermontindependenceday.org/pages/1/index.htm Second independence: The Middlebury Declaration, November 7, 2004 Middlebury, Vermont: http://www.vermontrepublic.org/writings/middleburydeclaration.html 2nd "VERMONT INDEPENDENCE RESOLUTION" by James R. Hogue, Thomas Naylor and, posthumously, Thomas Jefferson: http://www.vermontrepublic.org/ "Thomas Naylor on Vermont, George Bush, and Secession", by Andrew Woods: http://www.vermontcynic.com/news/2003/10/14/News/Thomas.Naylor.On.Vermont.George.Bush.And.Secession-526880.shtml 3) Bush Administration's 9/11? - D. R. Griffin, "The New Pearl Harbour: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11" "" David Ray Griffin is one of the most respected philosophers of religion in North America. He is the author or editor of more than 24 academic books, including works co-written with the deans of worldreligions, Huston Smith and Martin Marty. "", from "A Theologian Asks the Hard Questions About 9/11" by Douglas Todd, Vancouver, Sun, Saturday, Dec 11, 2004: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-1409702-3336929 "" Griffin is one of those profiled in the prestigious volume, A Handbook of Christian Theologians. He's painstakingly probed countless philosophical challenges, from the question of why there is evil to the relationship between science and religion, for which he'swon numerous awards. So why did this soft-spoken professor from the high-ranking Methodist-rooted School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., feel it necessary torisk his hard-earned reputation as a religion scholar to write one of the most incredible -- in all senses of the word -- political booksof 2004? Because no one else in mainstream America seemed prepared to do it... The result? Griffin's book, The New Pearl Harbour: DisturbingQuestions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (InterlinkPublishing, $22.50) has already sold an astonishing 80,000 copies. "" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566565529/qid=1103142011/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-1409702-3336929 "" Griffin's unflinching analysis of the unanswered questions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York andWashington has made Amazon.com's bestseller list despite receiving virtually no reviews in North America's mainstream media. That's unlike in Britain, where he's had solid coverage, including a three-page spread in London's mass-circulation Daily Mail. "" "" In effect, The New Pearl Harbour fleshes out in 214 pages the question asked in the final moment of Michael Moore's Academy-award-winning documentary, Fahrenheit 911. That's when the filmmaker wonders aloud: What exactly was Bush thinking as he sat in front of abunch of school children reading a book titled My Pet Goat, knowing two jetliners had been flown into the World Trade Center? Griffin's book is titled The New Pearl Harbor for two reasons. One, because that's what Bush wrote in his diary on the evening of Sept. 11: "The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today." But also because members of the Bush administration in 2000 helped author the document, Project for the New American Century, which opined it would be difficult to galvanize Americans to support military expansion in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere unless a "new Pearl Harbor" occurred. "" "" In the past month, Harper's Magazine and the New York Times have tentatively started to catch up with Griffin's questions. Harper's, for instance, published a cover feature titled, "Whitewash as public service: How the 9/11 Commission Report defrauds the nation," byBenjamin DeMott, which also asks whether it was sheer incompetence orsomething else that made the attacks possible. "" ... ... "" Two weeks ago he released a follow-up book with the same publisher, titled The9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. "" The above amazon.com quotes Publishers Weekly: "" Griffin draws heavily on three similarly skeptical examinations, by Nafeez Ahmed, Paul Thompson and Thierry Meyssan, whose The Big Lie was a bestseller in France, and which the New Republic has called "thinâ€"and thinly argued." "", Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 4) NetGovernance "" every time I find a story or blog post or online story about WSIS, ICANN or internet governance issues generally, I'm now tagging it indel.icio.us as "netgovernance." Feel free to do the same and then we can all subscribe to one big tag-feed: http://del.icio.us/tag/netgovernance "" From Rebecca:- RE: [DDN] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing? Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:57:12 -0500