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Dare To Be Imprisoned, Beaten, and Downtrodden! Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. It is unconstitutional to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner. The “right to petition” is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, and specifically prohibits Congress from abridging “the right of the people…to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

An Oakland Police officer fires a shotgun at a group of anti-war protesters near the Port of Oakland

Female Protester hit by Oakland police rubber bullet weapon during peaceful anti-war protest in Oakland, California

This man faces a six-month jail sentence for taking part in the 2006 Peace March to the Pentagon (Photo by Matthew Bradley)

Man being arrested at Antiwar protests in San Francisco (Photo by Franco Folini)

Police use force against a protester 2006 Peace March to the Pentagon (Photo by Matthew Bradley)

Iraq Die-in March 19th – four years of the Iraq war (Photo by Steve Rhodes)

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle… ~ Samuel Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He signed the Declaration of Independence, and played a prominent role during protests against the Stamp Act, and in the protests during the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ~ Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States of America

The DoD (Department of Defense) claims the new policy is necessary to conserve bandwidth but the new policy is simply censorship effectively preventing soldiers from presenting graphic images of the war or seeing disturbing images that may upend morale.

The situation BOTH in Iraq and in Afghanistan is a lot more involved than mainstream media can fathom. And, if it could fathom what is going on, it would not be allowed to report it for obvious reasons, as this would further undermine the morale of the Western world. Troops and their families at home used to be able to at least write emails to each other via blog spots and troops were also allowed to access certain parts of the internet. This is now no longer possible.

This censorship began on or about Monday, May 14, the DoD blocked network access worldwide to the following 14 Web sites: YouTube.com, 1.fm, Pandora.com, Photobucket.com, MySpace.com, Live365.com, Hi5.com, MetaCafe.com, MTV.com, iFilm.com, BlackPlanet.com, StupidVideos.com, and FileCabi.net. Active duty personnel are no longer able to post material themselves or view what has been put online. The Defense Department ban on popular Web sites — including YouTube, MySpace, and several others — will only apply to Defense Department computers and networks, not to PCs that connect to personal ISPs through the DoD network; however, in most theaters of operation, Defense Department computers are the only ones available to service personnel.

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