If you’ve been following the United States presidential race, there’s a chance you’ve seen the viral video of an Obama supporter explaining that she supports her candidate because of a free Obama-phone. While telecommunications is an important issue to many Americans, Free Concord presents an alternative spin on the monologue from a foreign policy perspective.
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In addition to previous Free Concord coverage of Barack Obama’s recent campaign stop in Manchester, Dave Ridley has posted four videos so far from his eye on the ground. Rather than playing it normal and objectively recording the event, as I tried, Dave walked along the periphery of the security perimeter, and interacted with police and secret service along the way. He asked poignant questions of the secret service, Obama staffers, and event attendees. Some of his questions pertained to Obama’s treatment of Bradley Manning, and there is one encounter early on with USSS in which it is insisted that he not film, though no action is taken. In the fourth video, a Manchester officer tells him that he is required to answer questions and are seen clearing the sidewalk of all people before the president’s entourage passes through. You can see the one brief encounter I had with a suited USSS agent when I tried to film from inside the secured area here. Ridley’s four videos are embedded below. Additional newsprint coverage is available from the Union Leader and the Concord Monitor.
Lifelong activist for indigenous rights Russell Means has passed away at the age of 72 in Porcupine, South Dakota. Known for his work with the American Indian Movement and Republic of Lakota, Means was also an accomplished actor and musician. His perseverance in the cause of liberty exemplified living freely despite occupying an unfree world.
It was almost 8:00am, and I did not have a ticket to enter the expansive, barricaded area of Elm Street and other roads surrounding Veterans Park. Bulldozers and other large construction machines formed a fortification of the streets to vehicles, and metal barricades monitored by suits and badges kept out pedestrians. The gates were slated to begin receiving unarmed civilians on foot at 9:00am. I was unsure if I had missed my opportunity to get a ticket when I received a text message. “Bailing”, it said, “Obama wont be there til noon”.
After a brief telephone conversation, I had learned that a group of occupiers, who had planned to mic check the president, would be ditching their plans to slave for the empire. Almost all willing participants had a taxpaying job that they could not afford to miss at some point later in the day. Many had woken at 5:30 to get tickets from the Radisson at 6:00am, tickets which they would not be able to use with the president not scheduled to speak until after noon. The actual timeframe of events was not revealed until that morning. “The occupy movement has been destroyed by jobs”, one activist joked. (more…)
Rep. Ron Paul talks with Free Talk Live about what’s next, & gives a fresh endorsement to the Free State Project! Among other nice things about the FSP, he said, “I love the idea of the Free State movement and hopefully they can set the example for others to follow.” Here’s the archive:
One year ago today was the US drone strike in Yemen which targeted Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, son of Anwar Al-Awlaki. Two weeks prior, the elder Al-Awlaki became famous as the first US citizen officially killed abroad with no due process of law or even a warrant from a robed man. Another US citizen, Samir Khan, was also killed in the predator drone strike. Their execution marked a step further into the darkness for the feeble conscience of the empire, but the targeted killing of Anwar’s sixteen year old son several days later showed that the world’s military police force knew no nadir. Abdulrahman, his seventeen year old cousin, and seven others were killed while dining at an open-air restaurant. The US government has still provided no explanation for the violent execution of Americans other than to claim that the males killed were of ‘military age’.
If you’ve been following the United States presidential race, there’s a chance you’ve seen the viral video of an Obama supporter explaining that she supports her candidate because of a free Obama-phone. While telecommunications is an important issue to many Americans, Free Concord presents an alternative spin on the monologue from a foreign policy perspective.
