en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/324618 Comments by Ann_Garrison http://sfbayview.com/2012/gov-brown-increases-prison-budget-cuts-basic-services/#IDComment364814786 Think this might be a reason to try voting Green? What did this lesser of evils vote for Jerry Brown win? Tue, 22 May 2012 05:22:53 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/gov-brown-increases-prison-budget-cuts-basic-services/#IDComment364814786 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment364789907 I&#039;m just trying to understand what you are saying. Are you saying that Alan Blueford had a gun and that he pointed that gun at the officer on the night the officer shot him? And that that is why the officer shot him? Tue, 22 May 2012 04:19:06 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment364789907 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment364486450 You&#039;re saying that he had a gun, and he pointed the gun at the officer on the night the officer shot him? And that&#039;s why the officer shot him? Mon, 21 May 2012 17:08:49 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment364486450 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment364051046 So, this was a preventive murder, by the OPD? Mon, 21 May 2012 00:24:43 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment364051046 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment362983821 So, Mr. Mulligan, you think this makes it open season? You are one sick mofu. Sat, 19 May 2012 03:00:14 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/community-protests-opd-murder-of-alan-blueford-18/#IDComment362983821 http://sfbayview.com/2012/congressman-john-lewis-in-oakland-civil-rights-legend-takes-center-stage/#IDComment361216386 I know that John Lewis is a civil rights legend and I&#039;m glad he came out here to inspire so many. But it saddens me to see his name, and Barbara Lee&#039;s, appear as a co-sponsor of H.R. 4169, the Sudan Accountability, which govtrack.us summarizes thus: &quot;To require the development of a comprehensive strategy to end serious human rights violations in Sudan, to create incentives for governments and persons to end support of and assistance to the Government of Sudan, to reinvigorate genuinely comprehensive peace efforts in Sudan, and for other purposes.&quot; How does isolating the Government of Sudan, for starters, reinvigorate comprehensive peace efforts? This is buying into the KONY 2012 propaganda. It in no way discounts his legendary civil rights work here. It&#039;s just discouraging, especially now, as the U.S. escalates its war in Africa. Wed, 16 May 2012 01:37:46 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/congressman-john-lewis-in-oakland-civil-rights-legend-takes-center-stage/#IDComment361216386 http://sfbayview.com/2012/swedes-revive-ridicule-of-black-beauty-hottentot-venus/#IDComment357311793 Here&#039;s the phone # for the Swedish Embassy in the U.S.: (202) 467-2652. Call and demand that Swedish Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth be asked to resign and removed from office if she refuses. Wed, 9 May 2012 18:22:09 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/swedes-revive-ridicule-of-black-beauty-hottentot-venus/#IDComment357311793 http://sfbayview.com/2012/swedes-revive-ridicule-of-black-beauty-hottentot-venus/#IDComment357306514 This honestly is hard to believe. What can these people possibly have thought they were doing and how could they possibly have thought that there was anything funny about it? This &quot;artist&quot; belong in prison along with this Swedish Minister of Culture. Here&#039;s what the Wikipedia says about laws against hate speech in Sweden: &quot;Sweden prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or express disrespect for an ethnic group or similar group regarding their race, skin color, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation.[38][39] The crime doesn&#039;t prohibit a pertinent and responsible debate (en saklig och vederh&auml;ftig diskussion), nor statements made in a completely private sphere.[40]. There are constiutional restrictions pertaining to which acts are criminalized, as well limits set by the European Convention on Human Rights.[41]. The sexual orientation provision, added in 2002,[42] was used to convict Pentecostalist pastor &Aring;ke Green of hate speech based on a 2003 sermon. His conviction was later overturned.[43][41]&quot; Wed, 9 May 2012 18:12:24 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/swedes-revive-ridicule-of-black-beauty-hottentot-venus/#IDComment357306514 http://sfbayview.com/2012/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-unanimously-passes-foreclosure-moratorium-resolution/#IDComment336802628 The Homeowner&#039;s BIll of Rights is very deceptive. Unless it&#039;s radically amended, it&#039;s just going to offer more false hope. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:04:25 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-unanimously-passes-foreclosure-moratorium-resolution/#IDComment336802628 http://sfbayview.com/2012/black-star-news-leading-critic-of-invisible-children-kony-2012-and-ugandan-president-yoweri-museveni-target-of-ddos-attack/#IDComment336768310 @Bruce Wilson: I posted that piece to my Facebook page yesterday, and I&#039;ve been trying to get in touch wiht you for WBAI and KPFA. My e-mail address is at the end of the piece here. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:04:20 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/black-star-news-leading-critic-of-invisible-children-kony-2012-and-ugandan-president-yoweri-museveni-target-of-ddos-attack/#IDComment336768310 http://sfbayview.com/2012/japans-throwaway-people-and-the-fallout-from-fukushima/#IDComment331310967 Horrible, and where would I learn about this but in the Bay View? Wed, 4 Apr 2012 05:46:13 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/japans-throwaway-people-and-the-fallout-from-fukushima/#IDComment331310967 http://sfbayview.com/2012/spying-on-san-franciscans-end-fbi-control-of-sfpd-joint-terrorism-task-force/#IDComment308923559 In Uganda they call it the Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force, or JATT. Here&#039;s a paragraph found under the subhead, &quot;X. Role of Uganda&#039;s Foreign Partners in the Military and Security Sector,&quot; in the Human Rights Watch report &quot;Open Secret, Illegal Detention and Torture by the Joint Anti-terrorism Task Force in Uganda&quot;: &quot;In his response to Human Rights Watch, Brig. Mugira explained a series of trainings that JATT agents had received from &quot;partners in the war against terrorism,&quot; but did not give any detail about the content of the courses. In an in-person meeting, Mugira told Human Rights Watch that the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel have all provided training to his forces.&quot; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:14:39 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/spying-on-san-franciscans-end-fbi-control-of-sfpd-joint-terrorism-task-force/#IDComment308923559 http://sfbayview.com/2012/uganda-acholi-people-face-second-genocide-with-u-s-troops-in-country/#IDComment307210534 @Joshua Dysart: The San Francisco Bay View sells advertising but the advertising does not even cover the cost of printing the print version of the paper, which comes out once a month. Its publisher and editor have to fundraise every month to print it. There are hot link citations to most every fact in that report. I did not hot link the 90 percent figure, which was Milton Allimadi&#039;s, in the report that I had cited in the previous paragraph. Your photograph has been replaced with one made freely available by Wikimedia Commons. Sat, 3 Mar 2012 18:35:52 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/uganda-acholi-people-face-second-genocide-with-u-s-troops-in-country/#IDComment307210534 http://sfbayview.com/2012/uganda-acholi-people-face-second-genocide-with-u-s-troops-in-country/#IDComment305076811 The Acholi are also across the border of Northern Uganda in South Sudan. And, the legal groundwork for this is the Northern Uganda Recovery and LRA Disarmament Act. And, why is the LRA such a concern to the United States, and not these tragic land evictions threatening to finally destroy a whole people? Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:14:51 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/uganda-acholi-people-face-second-genocide-with-u-s-troops-in-country/#IDComment305076811 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment295796388 Sorry you couldn&#039;t use the link. Here it is again: <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2011/u-s-backed-the-invasion-of-eastern-congo-on-obamas-inauguration-day/" target="_blank">http://sfbayview.com/2011/u-s-backed-the-invasion...</a> And here are two other reports of mine, which have been critical of my own government&#039;s role in your part of the world, although the Obama Senate Bill I discuss in one of them is a very good piece of legislation except for the fact that it has never been implemented: <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2011/obama-requests-immunity-for-kagame-re-rwanda-genocide-and-congo-wars/" target="_blank">http://sfbayview.com/2011/obama-requests-immunity...</a> <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=21291" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va...</a> Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:05:38 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment295796388 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294982365 I have been very critical of President Obama, e.g., &quot;U.S. backed the invasion of Eastern Congo on Obama&rsquo;s inauguration day,&quot; <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2011/u-s-backed-the-invasion-of-eastern-congo-on-obamas-inauguration-day/," target="_blank">http://sfbayview.com/2011/u-s-backed-the-invasion...</a> and of other presidents before him. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:27:39 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294982365 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294318977 Once again, seamus, you presume to be judge and jury. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:27:40 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294318977 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294234018 So, you think Rugambage and Ingabire were murderd by gangsters, with no motive but. . . what? Robbery? Was anything taken from them? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:16:52 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294234018 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294187353 Who do you think murdered Rugambage and Ingabire? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:02:34 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294187353 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294185913 Nope. I lay even more on ours and on the American presidents who preceded him. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:00:17 +0000 http://sfbayview.com/2012/rwandan-president-paul-kagames-war-on-journalists/#IDComment294185913