Galloway knows a lot about oratory and rhetoric (somebody has said
that he could be a "modern day Cicero"), and DU is an extraordinary
phenomenon. There is an item about him being broadcast now, as I
write, on the BBC Radio 4 "Broadcasting House" programme -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/

- You can either listen live or follow the link at the top right-hand
corner of that page to listen to this programme again, for the next 7
days. Being the BBC, they are starting off with his (mild)
detractors; Tony Benn has said that Galloway does know what he is
talking about and is consistent. Even Stephen Hitchens is saying that
Galloway's performance at the Senate this week made him proud to be
British - can I believe my ears!

They are interviewing Galloway now, asking him how he prepared. He
says that he has made more than 1,100 public speeches since 9/11. He
reads a lot, every chance he gets.

9. I am sure that the reference to "democratic underground" is
deliberate -
***
and this Scotch/Irish, punk Philly kid salutes him for speaking TRUTH
to POWER

MP3... 4 min
http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/George_Galloway.mp3

Real Video... 47 min
http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/Galloway/Galloway....

Transcript...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0517-35.htm

his political party website ....
http://www.respectcoalition.org

his email
gallowayg@...

BTW: found an error in the gov website link to the whole (3 hr) real
media file. here is the correct link to the real file...
http://hsgac.senate.gov/audio_video/051705video.ram
start at 1:51:26

more contact info...

Office
Phone 020 8980 3507
Fax 020 8981 5862

Email office@...

Post Respect The Unity Coalition, Room 207/208 Coborn House, 3 Coborn
Road, Bow, London E3 2DA
Press
Phone 07980 675998, 07958 450867, 07749 411191, 020 8980 3507
Email press@...
Website/Technical
Email admin@...
http://www.respectcoalition.org/index.php?sec=1

psst... pass the word

peaceReady-made base - DU has 70,000 reg members PLUS untold numbers
of
lurkers - Galloway already has solid backing from an organized,
interconnected base of people who are spread all over the country and
the world. Good thinking, man!

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

******
I want heroes, not saints

I want someone who will fight.

I don't want a martyr -- like Al Gore or John Kerry.

I don't want a saint, because there aren't any and waiting for one is
like waiting for Godot, non?

I don't want a compromiser, which is what Bill Clinton is turning
into.

I want someone with whom I can agree on the most important points and
maybe disagree with on some of the smaller points.

Most of all, I want someone who will stand up to the enemy and not
back down.

Whether Galloway takes money for speaking or not is one of
those "small" points. That point becomes larger depending on who he
speaks to, where he speaks, who is allowed to listen, etc. But the
payment isn't important. The message is.

***
heroes need some security to get their message out

Mon May-23-05 11:50 AM

and this hero is getting our message out and he's got the balls to
kick in the right places. i say goodonim. no martyrs for me. people
giving up at the first defeat are not of much help in this fight for
our lives as free people. fighters need financing to fight. the
people who think like us should give it to the fighters....a speaking
tour will kill two birds with one well placed jibe, and lets face it
folks this guy knows how to fight.

****

As long as he declares the income, it is perfectly acceptable

All MPs have to declare any substantial income to Parliament. As I
pointed out in another post, Galloway already makes more than his
MP's salary for writing a column for a right wing newspaper. Most
well known MPs who aren't government ministers make some money from
writing or speeches.

***
Speaking tour money would go to the Respect party -

and Galloway would have to declare it (and any gifts received) to a
House of Commons scrutiny committee. Respect is not funded by big
business or by the trades unions (like the Conservatives and the
Labour Parties, respectively).

http://www.respectcoalition.org/

****
The UK "great and good" are as jealous as hell of Galloway. Remember
how class-ridden the UK society is. And I speak as a Brit.

DUers might like to know that Galloway has written a book, I'm Not
The Only One, in which he tells his side of his expulsion from the
Labour Party for opposing the invasion of Iraq and also gives an
insider's view of politics in Whitehall. "He also discusses the
present day global conflicts, the war on terrorism, the problems in
the Middle East and many other issues, including his personal
encounters with world leaders, his role in Stop The War Campaign and
Respect: The Unity Coalition." The paperback edition was published
this year:

Paperback 240 pages
Release Date: 03 February 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0141019395
http://www.book-shopper.co.uk/books/detail/im-not-the-o...

Quotes on the bookshopper.co.uk web site (I could not find any
reference to "I'm Not The Only One" on amazon.com, even when
searching on its ISBN number) by people who have read it include:

The media have misjudged this guy big time. I have read quite a few
different texts on the subject matter that George Galloway covers.
However I have never read something that reads so eloquently and so
easily. He is wittily scathing of New Labour, but I believe is fair,

*****
I bought this book and couldn't put it down. I have read work by John
Pilger, Michael Moore, Greg Palast and this is superb reading with an
insight into the harsh reality of bumbling political idiots running
this increasing poor country of ours. He is probably one of the few
ethical, moralistic politicians who doesn't tow the line (to his cost)
and the passion and obvious sadness flows with each page.

George Galloway comes over as that most endangered of rare creatures,
a British politician with integrity ! More power to his elbow! My
politics are not the same as George Galloway's, however I find myself
in agreement with almost (but not quite!) everything he says in, "I'm
Not The Only One". ... This book is compulsive reading and should be
at the top of the reading list of any British person who is not brain
dead

I was pleasantly surprised to find that given chance to expand on his
subjects comes across as a deeply knowledgeable and passionate
writer. All too often we see in the press out-of-context quotes by
Galloway, but this book contains the real essence of his philosophies.

****
Mr. Galloway - if you're reading this - crate up a bunch of those
books and do a book signing tour along with your speaking tour (if
that comes to pass). You will reach a lot more Americans who can't
get to some of the major universities and raise a bunch of money for
your Respect party.

Just a thought - but I know many people who would stand in line for
an autographed copy.

Americans are a fickle lot; strike while the iron is hot.

**
Times is a Murdoch paper
so it's not surprising that they would try and find a negative angle
to the positive (for Galloway) news that his testimony was well
received in the US.

***
Galloway is perfectly willing to get paid for giving his views as
pretty much everyone in public life is. This is not impugning his
motives. He writes a regular column in the Mail on Sunday, a right
wing newspaper, which pays him between £85,000 and £90,000 a year; he
writes twice a month for the Morning Star, a left wing newspaper, for
free. Source:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/george_galloway/bethna...

***
I am not saying that he will or won't get paid.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with him making money for books or
speeches. If he donates the money to the Miriam Fund, that's even
better. But, I am saying that the whole point of telling us how much
money he may or may not get for speaking is to imply that "he is in
it for the money, and his cause can therefore be ignored". It is
obviously only an implication, but I believe that is the purpose of
these articles.

One of the ironies of political discourse I have noticed of late, is
that alternative voices have had to spread their opinions primarily
through the book market, and a few magazines such as Harper's (if the
author needs to get paid, if they don't need the money there is
always the internet). I suppose speaking tours is another route.

The status quo, on the other hand, has armies of paid pundits and
columnists to spread their message. The money for the army of right
wing pundits comes from media advertising revenue, which is paid by
large corporations who have a major stake in the right message (from
their point of view). So, the whole thing is a closed loop,
ultimately paid for by consumers, through the advertising component
built into the price of the goods and services they purchase. In a
sense, we are forced to pay for the propaganda used against us.

***
The lecture circuit is quite lucrative

Bill Clinton gets $100,000 a pop.

Al Franken gets $10,00- to $20,000 a pop. So does mAnn Coulter

I have no doubt he will get on the lecture circuit and make big bucks.

He is exceedingly eloquent and has his facts straight. Besides which
he HOLDS NO PUNCHES. NONE

***
The Times are really being asses

The news that Galloway's testimony was so well received that it may
lead to a speaking tour in America is spun as "Galloway sees business
opportunity".

***
If this is true its excellent news

RESPECT needs the money, and needs it badly. And if Galloway can make
some money by speaking his mind (which he does freely anyhow) all the
better!

***
Well, if Orrin (Unctuous) Hatch gets his way...

and the constitution is amended so Ahhhhnold can run, then there
could be a Galloway/Gropinator contest.

My money'd be on Galloway--there's fake tough and real tough.

***
Sun May-22-05 10:45 AM

23. MOTHER OF ALL SMOKESCREENS - ALL WERE KNOWN

....

All of these transactions involving Bayoil's Giangrandi, Cardoen,
Secord, and Barbouti, were known to President George H. W. Bush and
Secretary of State James Baker.

Between 1990 and 1991, three journalists who were investigating
various aspects of Cardoen's secretive arms trading activities were
found dead in suspicious circumstances. They were freelance writer
Danny Casolaro, found dead from wrist slashes in a bathtub in a
Martinsburg, West Virginia, hotel; Lawrence Ng, a stringer for the
Financial Times, found shot to death in the bathtub of his apartment
in Guatemala City; and Jonathan Moyle, a British aviation journalist
found hanging in the closet of his hotel room in Santiago, Chile.
Moyle had uncovered details of Cardoen's role in the Bush 41 deal to
illegally ship weapons to Iraq."

Masden goes on to note that one of the largest recipients of BayOil
Iraqi oil shipments was Enron. Of course Enron CEO 'Kenny Boy' was a
great pal and financier of George Bush, and Cheney has fought
successfully to hide the nature of the Energy Task Force meetings
between major American oil interests, including Enron, and Cheney in
which they decided how to carve up the Iraqi oil fields after the
inevitable war against Iraq (which of course was not supposed to be
inevitable).

Masden on the possible Bush crime family connection:

"The Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal also involves one of the Bush
children - Dorothy 'Doro' Bush Koch, sister of George W. Bush and
married to Bobby Koch, reportedly a cousin in the oil industry Koch
family, the owner of Koch Industries, which is also one of Bush's
largest political donors. The minority committee report indicates
that Koch Industries was also a major recipient of illegal Iraqi oil
and a huge source of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein . . . ."

I note that the friend of Galloway named by Coleman as the key player
in the oil-for-food scandal is Fawaz Zureikat. Indeed, after
Coleman's case fell apart under Galloway's withering attack, all that
was left was that Galloway was friends with Fawaz Zureikat. Zureikat
and Galloway were both on the same obviously forged line of the
documents used by Coleman. Fawaz Zureikat, if you can believe it, is
still involved with the United States in Iraq. A firm run by him has
the exclusive rights to sell highly sensitive military encryption
technologies made by a US firm, Middle East Advanced Semi-conductors,
to the Iraqi military, police and government. This contract had to be
authorized by the U. S. government under strict export control rules.
If he is such a bad guy, how did he meet the extremely strict
American security tests to be involved in sales of such secret
encryption technology?

As we dig further into this scandal, it appears that the attack by
Coleman was an ill-advised attempt to hide the real scandals - real
scandals involving supporters of the Republican Party and even Dick
Cheney and George Bush themselves - behind an attack on a British
politician who Coleman thought couldn't, or wouldn't, defend himself.
These scandals go back to illegal support for Saddam in the 1980's,
and tie into the Republican nexus of corruption involving Iran-
Contra, BNL, BCCI, and more recent scandals involving illegal support
for Saddam in the 1990's.
Coleman's timing, right after the revelations in the Downing Street
Memo that the attack was inevitable (as was the divvying up of the
oil fields planned by Cheney and American oil interests), and right
after the revelations that the main players in the oil-for-food
scandal were none other than big American oil companies connected to
the highest levels of the Republican Party, is so bad it's almost
comic. When you add the involvement of Chalabi and MEMRI (an arm of
the Likudniks in Israel) in the defaming of Galloway you have pretty
much a summary of all the co-conspirators in the war crimes against
the people of Iraq.

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/05/norm-colemans-usef...


***
Good Information There,

I LOVE Galloway for the spanking he gave the neocons the other day.

You could tell the man's hands were clean, and that Coleman's and the
republican mafia machine's hands were dirty as hell.

I love the man!

***
Speaking of Koch Industries, who here remembers their ties to the
DLC?

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/7/drey...

Volume 12, Issue 7. April 23, 2001.

How the DLC Does It
Robert Dreyfuss
...

And for $25,000, 28 giant companies found their way onto the DLC's
executive council, including Aetna, AT&T, American Airlines, AIG,
BellSouth, Chevron, DuPont, Enron, IBM, Merck and Company, Microsoft,
Philip Morris, Texaco, and Verizon Communications. Few, if any, of
these corporations would be seen as leaning Democratic, of course,
but here and there are some real surprises. One member of the DLC's
executive council is none other than Koch Industries, the privately
held, Kansas-based oil company whose namesake family members are
avatars of the far right, having helped to found archconservative
institutions like the Cato Institute and Citizens for a Sound
Economy. Not only that, but two Koch executives, Richard Fink and
Robert P. Hall III, are listed as members of the board of trustees
and the event committee, respectively--meaning that they gave
significantly more than $25,000.


***
-1-1995 250,000 Reconstruction of Seminar Bldg. David H. Koch
Charitable Foundation
11-27-1992 40,000 To support a seminar program on American social
policy The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.

http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on...

***
In any case, he won't come even close to Cherie Blair.

$250,000 for a few days speaking engagements for the Cancer Society
in Australia. Plus $100,000 for the agency that arranged it. Leaving
a few crumbs left over for the Cancer Society. Now that's shameful
greed.

**http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?
az=view_all&address=102x1491212

***
Man. Galloway is an American Hero!

Salute' Galloway! Can't wait for the tour! Hope it's A.S.A.P. 'cause
we need help, and bad!

***

Galloway's testimony absent from Homeland Security's website

I posted this in another forum, but it's buried pretty far and isn't
getting much traffic. I think this is very telling of our government.

Have a look at the suspiciously absent transcript:

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Scroll down a bit for this:

Panel 2
George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow ,
Great Britain
Mr Galloway did not submit a statement

I sincerely doubt he did not submit a statement (which is actually a
transcript if you read the other pdf files) and missed a chance to
have his speech as part of the official record.

I'm certain the main stream press will pick this up right away.

***
Hey it got my attention, called several senate members. Akaka's
office actually seemed concerned about it. I spent a good half hour
making those calls. Just because Coleman got the black eye he had
coming from Galloway is no reason to hide his testimony.
***
I emailed the webmaster asking about that- where is Galloway's
statement?

This is what I got back...

The original message was received at Mon, 23 May 2005 10:37:32 -0400
(EDT)
from localhost <127.0.0.1>

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<webcenter@... >
(reason: 550 Host unknown)

Guess they don't want anyone asking questions about the info posted
on their web site which, they claim, is public information.

They can't keep Galloway hidden though! I'd pay to see him speak-
hell, I'd even buy tickets for a few friends.

***
Galloway renews attack on Senate over 'forged' evidence (Times)

Edited on Mon May-23-05 10:08 AM
Galloway renews attack on Senate over 'forged' evidence

By Jenny Booth, Times Online

Today his spokesman told Times Online that while Mr. Galloway was in
America on his proposed two-week speaking tour, he would take the
opportunity to go back on the attack.

"It is something that has not sufficiently come out that what the
committee put up as exhibits were in fact all typed up in English,
though masquerading as original Iraqi documents," said Ron McKay, Mr.
Galloway's spokesman.

"They gave us the documentation on the spot as we went into the
committee hearing, we hadn't seen it before. On an A4 sheet there is
this fairly clear, English-typed document, and behind it, almost
obscured, there is this grey smudge which appears to be what they
called the original document. But it is completely illegible and
totally obscure.

"They didn't make it clear in the hearing that these weren't in fact
the real documents. So we are demanding to see the originals, and to
have them forensically examined."

***
we DU make a difference
so many of us wrote to him, posted links to his email, and one by one
we reached out to him as he touched us. Once again DU is actively
fulfilling the promise of the internets in defending democracy.

***May 23, 2005

Times
By A Correspondent

GEORGE GALLOWAY has been invited on a lecture tour of America's Ivy
League universities as a result of his performance before the US
Senate.

Washington was left buzzing after the Respect MP traded verbal blows
with senators who had accused him of making money from Iraq's Oil-for-
Food programme.

Mr. Galloway, 51, could earn £5,000 per speech when he addresses
audiences at Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities.

Mr. Galloway told Sunday with Adam Boulton on Sky News that he did
not ask those who funded the appeal he set up to help an Iraqi girl
suffering from leukemia where they had got their money. He said that
the Mariam Appeal had received funding from "two kings and an Arab
businessman".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1623587,0...


HOPE he remembers the flak jacket and life insurance...
Mon May-23-05 01:33 PM
Response to Reply #91

96. I doubt that Coleman will have a say on granting Galloway a
Visa ...

Especially since Normy Boy is acting more and more like a shrill
political hack. Nope, the corporate rats are running away from
Coleman. The NeoCons & Co. are both corrupt and demented, but they
are far from stupid.

Yes! May Coleman NOT make the most out of his one and only term.

***
this guy is awesome....
Mon May-23-05 04:10 PM

100. He deserves every penny he gets!

A truly great orator.

101. yipeee!!!

I would pay to see him speak
Mon May-23-05 11:14 PM

115. Off topic

Frist lost the "nuclear option".
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/23/filibuster.fight...

This was a defeat to the right-wing religious fanatics, but I still
don't think this was a victory for the Democrats. After all, Brown
and Owens(according to the agreement) will get an up-or-down vote.

What would Galloway have done???

He would have told the Repigs to go Chenney themselves and then put
up his fists for the fight.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/17/oil.food/index.html


http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/051805_world_stories.shtml#2