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March 20, 2002

Lori Allen
Live from Ramallah:
The Madness of Occupation

March 19, 2002

Tariq Ali
Nuke Iraq?

Phyllis Pollack
Roger Daltrey's LA Surprise

Amir Amahdi
War-Mongering Academics:
The New Tartuffe

Ben White
Bomber Blair

Fran Shor
Child-Murderers and Madmen

March 18, 2002

Tom Turnipseed
Crazy is Cool

Dave Marsh
DeskScan:
What's Playing At My House

Armen Khanbabyan
The Pentagon in the Caucasus:
Georgia Is Only the Beginning

Gabriel Ash
Abdullah v. Osama

Bernard Weiner
Middle East for Dummies

Alexander Cockburn
Tipping in America

March 17, 2002

David Vest
The Politics of Packaging

Tariq Ali
The Left's New Empire Loyalists

March 16, 2002

Chris Floyd
Ashcroft's Secret Snatches

March 15, 2002

Doron Rosenblum
Israel's Settler Warlords

Alex Lynch
Rhetorical Attacks On Iraq

Norman Madarasz
Neo-Con Propaganda
and the National Review

Paul-Marie de La Gorce
Making Enemies

March 14, 2002

Dr. Susan Block
RIP Danny Pearl

Francis Boyle
Bush Nuke Plan Violates International Law, Again

Wayne Saunders
Memo to Paul McCartney:
There Are Two Kinds
of Freedom, Sir

H.P. Albarelli
Anthrax Cover-up?

March 13, 2002

Amira Hass
Are the Occupied Protecting the Occupier?

CounterPunch Wire
National Review Editors Suggest Nuking Mecca

Mokhiber / Weissman
Personal Responsibility
for Corporate Elites?

Robert Fisk
Arabs Don't Want US
to Strike Iraq

Alexander Cockburn
When Billy Graham Wanted
to Kill One Million People

March 12, 2002

Kay Lee
Dangerous Changes in
California's Prisons

John Patrick Leary
The Return of Otto Reich

Wole Akande
US is Being Discredited
in the Eyes of Africa

March 11, 2002

Hani Shukrallah
This is the Way the World Ends

Tommy Ates
Bush's New Nuke Policy:
Target Allies and Enemies

Lidia Andrusenko
The Great Chicken War:
Bush v. Putin

Dave Marsh
10 CDs Playing On My Desk

John Chuckman
Footprints in the Dust

Norman Madarasz
Max Steel in a Time of Chaos

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March 20, 2002

"When They Took The First Amendment, I Did Not Stand Up"

Angelfire Abuse

By Kay Lee

If you know anyone who builds on the free angelfire.com webspace, they may need to know what angelfire did to me, so it doesn't happen to them.

MY three year old, only-offensive-to-bad-employees, Making the Walls Transparent ACCOUNT AT ANGELFIRE.COM HAS BEEN CLOSED WITHOUT WARNING. The 750 Florida prisoners who told their stories on my site, their families, the DOC employees who are helping us, and the public who has been left in the dark without the truth have been hurt by the disappearance of MTWT. Of course, the errant guards are surely celebrating a short-lived victory.

As many of you know, last week an ex-sgt with the Florida DOC for 10 years, Mr. David Ortiz, had joined Making The Walls Transparent and was reporting wrong-doing in the Florida system, particularly at Hendry CI. All his information was being linked to the Guard's Index.

The first page that disappeared was the Guard Index, where I listed all the opinions and stories of the employees of the DOC, guards and 'Correctional' Officers both. Yesterday everything else came down. I assume I stepped hard on some very guilty toes.

So much for free speech, huh?

The sign at my site claims I abused the policies, although Lycos will not respond as to what policy I abused, and they say they have no copies of my pages, and that I will have to get a warrant to 'view the log'.

The DOC employee working with the project had a site on a private server. It also disappeared the same day mine did, he put it back up, it keeps coming back down.

Everything with a URL beginning with http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/prison has been taken down. The family index at http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/family.html , the things at /www.angelfire.com/fl3/starke and Gary Waid's stories at www.angelfire.com/la/kaylee/tales.html are still intact and people are trying to relocate them now as it is suspected that everything will come down soon.

No I did not have copies. Virus brought my old computer down, and my laptop disappeared at an airport recently along with a bag of prisoner information meant for the FBI. The current donated computer had few of those files that were lost.

I am rebuilding at a new donated overseas location so this can't happen again, and the story I must begin with concerns another DOC "Isolated Incident", that of Archie Davis, a young prisoner soon to be released from prison who was reliably reported to have been starved and tortured in subhuman ways for at least 10 days prior to his murder on January 10th 2002 by guards at Wakulla CI. Archie had written out about a drug running guard and a murder he had witnessed. His mail was stopped and now he's dead, beaten as severely as Frank Valdes was, bootprints and all. Guards said he did it to himself and no mention of the death was reported in the paper. His mother is now forced to exhume the body and have a private autopsy and investigation done. More on this story, along with pictures of the marks of the abuse will appear soon on the new site.

I am more determined than ever to Make The Walls Transparent.

Kay Lee is director of the Pacific Institute of Criminal Justice in Berkeley, California. She can be reached at: kaylee@idiom.com