[Northampton-GP] RE: No-Fly List Strikes Greens Again!

[Jackie J Jaffe]

Hey All,
If you are trying to get people for the organizational meeting, it is now on
the 21st at 7:00 at AFSC in the Florence Community Center on the third
floor.

Jim, can you send me a list of the emails for the six of us who are
organizing this, so it can be just between us at this point and not
everyone?  INclude Lisa's, please.

Thanks, Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bosman" <jamesbosman at yahoo.com>
To: "Hamp Greens" <northampton-greens-discuss at green-rainbow.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: [Northampton-GP] RE: No-Fly List Strikes Greens Again!


> About that article I posted a link to the other day,
> this email came through the state statecom list.
>
> Jim
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> By Shaun Delaney of Pittsfield ((former?) GRP State
> Committee Member)
>
> I would like to say a few words about this call to
> arms and the article that inspired it.
>
> This site www.timnews.com declares, "DEVELOPING -
> Justice Department
> declares Green Party a "terrorist" organization ..
> Alternet" Then offers a
> tantilizing snippet of the story and a link to another
> site www.alternet.org
> with the full article atributed to "Frederick Sweet,
> Intervention Magazine
> January 6, 2003" Feel free to read it in full at this
> link -
> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14884.
>
> The article came across with all the jurnalistic
> integrity of the Fox News
> info crawler. In my opinion here's what this story is
> lacking that lead me
> to give it almost zero credibility:
>
> - The article is atributed to Frederick Sweet as
> published January 6th 2003,
> and not once mentions the dates involved with the
> actual incident involved.
> The name and location of the airport described as
> where Mr. Stuber was
> denied passage 3 days in a row is not mentioned.
>
> - The very first line "Writing about his no-fly
> nightmare in the Fairfield
> County Weekly, art dealer Doug Stuber..." suggests
> this is a review or
> rehashing by Mr. Frederick Sweet of information from
> yet another source.
> This could very well have been a Letter to the Editor
> written by Mr. Stuber
> himself.
>
> - At no point is there any suggestion that the author
> talked to a single
> person involved in the story to substantiate facts or
> confirm quotes.
>
> - Mr. Stuber is described as visiting the airline desk
> (apparently Delta
> airlines) 3 times on three consecutive days, not one
> of the clerks was
> quoted nor was Delta Airlines contacted for comment.
>
> - An "officer Stanley" is mentioned as approaching Mr.
> Stuber for
> questioning. The full name, possition, and police dept
> of this officer is
> not mentioned and could have been legaly obtained very
> easily by Mr. Stuber
> himself or a journalist investigating the story.
>
> - Besides the unidentified first airport, subsequent
> atempts to board a
> flight in Greensboro (NC?) and then Charlotte (NC?)
> are desrcribed, again
> with no mention of the airports or airlines involved
> and no attempt to
> contact anyone persons for comment or confirmation of
> facts.
>
> - Once again the only date we are given between these
> two websites is
> January 6th 2003, just over a year ago, when Frederick
> Sweet apparently
> summarized for some pulication called Intervention
> Magazine something
> written originaly published at an unknown date and
> unknown author in
> something called the Fairfield County Weekly.
>
> - The headline on www.timnews.com, where we were all
> prompted by to go to
> read about Greens being labled terrorists, starts off
> with the word
> DEVELOPING in bright red letters of a larger font size
> than the accompaning
> text. This suggested to me that it was a CURRENT story
> and that I was about
> to pointed to some FACTS by a JOURNALIST who was
> actively INVESTIGATING on
> behalf of a concerned public.
>
>
> My greater point here is: This is how rumors are
> started kids! This is the
> exact method of corupt politicaly motivated journalism
> that the right uses
> to smear progressives (and moderates and centrists and
> anyone else standing
> in thier way for that matter). We need to hold our
> sources of information to
> the HIGHEST measure of integrity. We CAN NOT allow
> ourselves to accept rumor
> and inuendo as fact just because it is against our
> opponents. This only
> diminishes OUR credibility.
>
> There are much better documented cases of a wide range
> of people being
> denied access to commercial airlines after 9/11,
> including Greens, Labor
> leaders, various clergy and peace activists. If anyone
> would like to get
> involved I suggest contacting the ACLU for an update
> on the cases they are
> representing and perhaps asking how you can help.
>
> peace,
> Shaun Delaney
>
>
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