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I am a writer living in bucolic Spokane, Washington.
It wasn't always this way, back in the day I was a restless wanderer. I left home and traveled to straight to Europe, came back and hitchhiked across America. I joined a carnival, then the Navy.
After the Navy it was time for me to become an upstanding, educated citizen. I went to college, three of them to be exact, and I still don't have a degree. Maybe I don't have a Phd from and ivy tower university, but I do have street cred.
I write because I am pissed off. I am incensed by the people who prevent us from becoming what we could be. Our country, and our world are in real trouble.
We who know the truth, and seek the truth, can set each other free.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 23, 2009 An Interview With Scott Fenstermaker, Part VII
This is the seventh and final interview conducted via e-mail with Scott Fentermaker. In our previous interview, Mr. Fenstermaker called for an international investigation of our legal policy towards terrorist suspects. He also revealed a "demographic consistency" among the attorneys and judges trying cases related to the the war on terror.
SHARE Monday, December 21, 2009 An Interview with Scott Fenstermaker, Part VI
This is the sixth in a series of interviews with Scott Fesntermaker, the lawyer for several Quantanamo Bay detainees. In our previous interview, Mr. Fenstermaker revealed that the CIA was manipulating the defense attorneys representing the detainees. He also told us that the CIA had used the legal proceedings to enter a motion that will keep their secret prisons operating, despite a Presidential order to the contrary.
SHARE Saturday, December 19, 2009 An Interview with Scott Fenstermaker, Part V
This is the fifth in a series of interviews conducted via e-mail with Scott Fenstermaker. He is a lawyer who represented several detainees in Guantanamo bay, including Ammar al-Baluchi and Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. These two detainees are about to stand trial in New York's Southern District Court.
SHARE Thursday, December 17, 2009 An Interview With Scott Fenstermaker, Part IV
This is the fourth in a series of interviews conducted with Scott Fenstermaker. He has represented several of the detainees being held in Gantanamo Bay, including Ammar al-baluchi, who will stand trial in New York for allegedly taking part in the September 11th attacks. In the previous interview, we discussed the evidence available to the detainees, and their controversial "justification" defense.
SHARE Monday, December 14, 2009 An Interview with Scott Fenstermaker, Part III
This is the third in a series of interviews conducted via e-mail with Scott Fenstermaker. He has represented Mr. al-Baluchi, and several other detainees in various legal matters at Guantanamo bay. His client, and four other detainees are being brought to New York to stand trial for their part in the September 11th attacks.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 12, 2009 An Interview with Scott Fenstermaker, Part II
This is second in a series of interviews with Scott Fenstermaker. He is the lawyer for Ammar al-Baluchi. one of the detainees accused of taking part in the the September 11th attacks. In our previous exchange Mr. Fenstermaker revealed a pattern of government obstruction that prevented him from contacting the detainees, or representing them in legal proceedings.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, December 7, 2009 An Interview with Scott Fenstermaker
Scott Fenstermaker is the lawyer for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Ammar al-Baluchi, who will stand trial in New York for the 9/11 attacks. Mr. Fenstermaker has appeared on several talk shows and made numerous press statements in defense of the detainees' rights. He is outspoken in his criticism of US legal policy in regards to the -"War on Terror-"-.
On November 26th, I spoke with Scott Fenstermaker by phone.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 3, 2009 Scott Fenstermaker, the 9/11 Lawyer, Speaks Out
Scott Fenstermaker has become the lightning rod for 9/11. He is the only defense lawyer mentioned in the upcoming trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators. Although he won't be defending them in court, he's been pilloried by the press for daring to suggest that these detainees have any legal rights.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 15, 2009 No World Order
Today the US dollar is the world's reserve currency. That means many necessary commodities, including oil, are priced exclusively in dollars. Since every nation that conducts trade must accumulate dollars, our currency maintains its value.
The world has to buy our money.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 12, 2009 The Crime of the Age
America died eight years ago today, and the only thing worth saving now is the truth.
SHARE Wednesday, August 5, 2009 The Third Depression
This is the Third Depression the United States has suffered, and it will be the worst.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 2, 2009 An Apology to Iran
We owe the People of Iran an apology.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 1, 2009 An Apology to Iran
Presentation of recent history of conflicts as they formed the present day Iran.