Calling all Community Activists, Past and Present [View All]

[The Backlash Cometh]

This is especially for those of you who became reluctant ca's and stumbled your way through the process learning the ropes as well as the networks. If you weren't a lawyer, if you didn't know someone in the ACLU and, instead, hit deadends with every effort you made to get help, wasn't there always a nagging suspicion in your mind that there was a political obstacle that you, as an individual, could never breach without making things worse for your family?

Just look at the Greatest page today:

NASA
A Bushie 2002 appointee, "NASA's top watchdog routinely tipped off department officials to internal investigations and quashed a report related to the Columbia shuttle explosion to avoid embarrassing the agency, investigators say."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x589064

FEDERAL SCIENTIST
"Federal climate, weather and marine scientists will be subject to new restrictions as to what they can say to the media or in public, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Under rules posted last week, these federal scientists must obtain agency pre-approval to speak or write, whether on or off-duty, concerning any scientific topic deemed “of official interest.”"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x589429

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS
Three federal prosecutors, (who would definitely know if political networks exist), demote themselves, rather than subject themselves to the agenda of one Rachel Paulose, a Bushie loyalist.

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1104033.html

Is there anyone here who has a doubt that these political hi-jackings occur at the local level too? And that there is definitely an organized attempt to appoint "scholes" or "schills" to strategic community positions to make sure that hidden agendas continue unimpeded by the pesky public?

Schills or scholes = part mole, part shill, all schmuck.