ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4556113.stm


For those who may have missed the stellar performance of MP George
Galloway, I have posted a video of at least a portion of George's
testimony at:

http://steverider.org/video/index.php

The video is available in both Real Video and Windows Media formats.

Finally, a man named George who does no disgrace to the name!

I look forward to hearing more news about Mr. Galloway

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Any evidence you have against me, you bought and paid for yourself.
Anne of a Thousand Days to Henry VIII

Chimes of Freedom Flashing

Sir, have you no shame?!!!

Waiting for a year to hear those words, tone absolutely that

Member of Parliament Borrow him forever to fight the Revolution and
restructure our banana republic into a democracy?

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Subject:
Please stand for what is right.

To:
Sen. Paul Sarbanes
Sen. Barbara Mikulski

May 23, 2005

Dear Sir:

Please read the below post, and pass the link along to your fellow
Democrats in the House and Senate. We need leadership, and not
wussyship. This administration has done serious damage to this nation
that I love dearly and have served proudly. Please stop capitulating
to the Right. We need powerful and outspoken leadership. We need to
stop the tide that is turning our great nation into a corporate
theocracy police state in front of our very eyes. (I'm not a
conspiracy theorist, I just look at the bills that are being
introduced and passed by the Republican religious right, and it's
obvious what they're DOING, not what they're planning to do).

Thank you for your time, and please stand up for what is right. We'll
support you.

Very sincerely yours,

Liberal, Veteran and Patriot

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http://stangoff.com/index.php?p=102

5/18/2005

Gorgeous George - An Open Letter to U.S. Democratic Elected Officials

Filed under: General, Repression & Resistance, Class — Stan @ 1:23 pm

Dear Democratic Elected Officials of the United States (with damn few
exceptions),

I am writing this open letter to call your attention to the remarks
made yesterday, May 17, 2005, to the United States Senate, by British
MP George Galloway of the independent Respect Party. I do this
because he serves as an example of why your party should be abandoned
by the U.S. working class, by U.S. women, by oppressed nationalities
in the United States, and by anyone who professes to be a progressive
or a leftist.

George Galloway did that for which you have proven incapable; he
spoke as an opposition. Since there seems to be a great dark space in
the middle of your heads where the notion of opposition should be – a
void filled by parliamentary molasses and the pusillanimous inability
to tell simple truths – I suggest you all review the recordings of
Galloway's confrontation with Republican Senator Norm "Twit" Coleman
to see exactly how effortless it is to stand up to these cheap
political bullies. While you are at it, you can watch your colleague
Carl Levin demonstrate exactly what I mean about most of you and your
party, as he alternately hurls petulant cream-puff insults at
Galloway and kisses Coleman's stunned, clueless ass to give that
toothy dipshit some comfort in the wake of Galloway's verbal drubbing.

Galloway didn't have to walk up to the docket and slap the cowboy
<profanity removed> out of Coleman – though I admit I still struggle
with my own secret urges to do just that with most of the air-
brushed, combed-over, Stepford meat-puppets who now people the United
States Congress. No, all Galloway had to do was tell the unvarnished
truth, and it had exactly the same effect. If Democrats had half the
spine that Galloway does… if you would stop chasing your creepy
little careers through the caviar and chicken-salad circuits of duck-
and-cover American political double-speak, then not only would people
like me not be calling for all to abandon the Democratic Party and
take their fight to the streets like good Bolivians… not only that,
but you'd have won the last election.

The reason Galloway was able to break from your mirror party in UK –
Blair's sell-out Labor Party – and still get elected, is that
Galloway fights for his convictions and the real needs of his
constituents, and doesn't run for cover every time the bully-boys of
the capitalist extablishment attempt to take him down.

Here's a hint.

People follow those who speak plainly and fight. Aside from Maxine
Waters, Barbara Lee, and Cynthia McKinney (not surprisingly Black
women who know where it goes if you let rich white men get away with
giving you a bunch of <profanity removed>) and a precious few others,
the Democratic Party is not only just another party controlled by big
capitalists; it is not even a good *capitalist* opposition party
(much less a real opposition).

You don't deserve anyone's support, not even as a tactical matter any
longer, because you end up doing ritual verbal combat then giving
the "cornpone Nazis" of the Republican Party any goddamn thing they
want. That's why Galloway rhetorically spanking that soap-opera-
looking <profanity removed>bird was the most satisfying thing many of
us have seen in months.

That's exactly why some of us are saying go Bolivian on their asses.
Tell the Democratic Leadership Council to eat <profanity removed> and
die. Stop working, stop obeying, block the streets and highways, shut
down the capital, and watch them choke on their own sewage. If
Americans weren't so bewildered by television, so addled and soft
from junk food and cars and electronic appliances, and so addicted to
their own cultural superficiality, they might begin organizing
general strikes: women's strikes, workers strikes (without union
bureaucrats to calm them down), Black people strikes, Brown people
strikes, info-tech strikes, eco-strikes, all working our way up to
One Big Strike.

It's a ways off, but it's coming. Of course, there won't be any
Democrats there. They'll be wringing their hands about their defunct
careers, and conducting focus groups to see how they can shift
further to the right in the next election.

And the reason this doesn't happen is that people still hang their
thin hopes on you, on electing Democrats who stab them in the back
the first chance they get. But Galloway's appearance before the U.S.
Senate moved us an inch closer to the Big Strike and an inch further
away from your worthless asses.

Because Galloway didn't, as some are saying, expose the Republicans.

Someone with a full frontal lobotomy could expose a Republican
politician.

He exposed the spinelessness of the Democrats.

Yours very truly,


(My thanks to James Howard Kunstler for the term "cornpone Nazi."
I've known quite a few… even been related to some of them.)