Big bucks beckon Galloway

[Frederik]

"GEORGE GALLOWAY is to cash in his new-found status as the poster boy of the anti-war movement in America with plans for a speaking tour that could earn him a six-figure sum.
He has returned to Britain from his barnstorming appearance on Capitol Hill with what his associates claim is a firm offer of a two-week lecture series in America."

“I think in the United States the ground was tinder dry, waiting for a spark like this. The democratic underground is alive with the transcript and video screening of this event (with the senators), so there are a lot of people in the United States who are very happy about it,” he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622520,00.html

[Syrinx]

1. was "the democratic underground" a carefully chosen phrase? n/t

[Frederik]

2. Well, he has said

the he likes DU! So it may not be too far-fetched to assume that it was.

[Syrinx]

4. I wasn't aware of that

But that's so cool!

[ElectroPrincess]

28. Oh yes! Quite Cool, if not Outstanding! ; )

[Benbow]

9. I am sure that the reference to "democratic underground" is deliberate -

Galloway knows a lot about oratory and rhetoric (somebody has said that he could be a "modern day Cicero"), and DU is an extraordinary phenomenon. There is an item about him being broadcast now, as I write, on the BBC Radio 4 "Broadcasting House" programme -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/

- you can either listen live or follow the link at the top righthand corner of that page to listen to this programme again, for the next 7 days. Being the BBC, they are starting off with his (mild) detractors; Tony Benn has said that Galloway does know what he is talking about and is consistent. Even Stephen Hitchens is saying that Galloway's performance at the Senate this week made him proud to be British - can I believe my ears!

They are interviewing Galloway now, asking him how he prepared. He says that he has made more than 1,100 public speeches since 9/11. He reads a lot, every chance he gets.

[0007]

15. Thanks for the link....n/t

[tsuki]

20. "He reads a lot, every chance he gets." That says it all. eom

[bpilgrim]

26. Sounds like an Evil DU'er to me ;-> WELCOME to DU Mr. Galloway!!!

and this Scotch/Irish, punk Philly kid salutes him for speaking TRUTH to POWER :toast:

MP3... 4 min
http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/George_Galloway.mp3

Real Video... 47 min
http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/Galloway/Galloway.rm

Transcript...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0517-35.htm

his political party website ....
http://www.respectcoalition.org

his email
[e-mail]


BTW: found an error in the gov website link to the whole (3 hr) real media file. here is the correct link to the real file...
http://hsgac.senate.gov/audio_video/051705video.ram start at 1:51:26

more contact info...

Office
Phone [phone]
Fax [phone]
Email [e-mail]
Post Respect The Unity Coalition, Room 207/208 Coborn House, 3 Coborn Road, Bow, London E3 2DA
Press
Phone [phone]
Email [e-mail]
Website/Technical
Email [e-mail]

http://www.respectcoalition.org/index.php?sec=1

psst... pass the word :bounce:

peace

[Zhade]

42. How did you get the whole 47 minutes?

I've been looking for that for days! Thanks for the link!

[bpilgrim]

56. here's the whole 3hr edition from the senate site

http://hsgac.senate.gov/audio_video/051705video.ram
starts about 1:50:00 into it.

the other was posted to DU i believe...
Thank GORE he 'invented' the INTERNETs :evilgrin:

:hi:

peace

[Zhade]

57. WOW. Thanks!

NT!

[Lost-in-FL]

63. Just like our president...

:sarcasm:

[PA Democrat]

79. Unlike the idiot in the White House

who can't be bothered to read a 2 page Presidential Daily Briefing, especially the one with the catchy title that mentioned something about al Qaeda being determined to strike in the US.

[getmeouttahere]

85. reading...what a concept!

but lost on most Americans. When I was laid off my job of 10 years in 2003, I started doing a TON of reading, mostly political and sociology type stuff. What I found was that my ability to articulate myself, and my writing, improved considerably. And I was a journalism major in college. So reading can do wonders for ANYBODY!

[Al-CIAda]

60. He called out DU specifically two days ago. He said to quote-

He recieved great support from the 'politically astute members of Democratic Underground"....
The article is floating about on here somewhere...

[silverweb]

99. He did.

I'm obviously not the only one who supplied a link to an appreciative DU thread along with my thank you email to him!

:D

[CJCRANE]

13. It's a coded message for his base!

But seriously, I'm sure he used it knowing that it could be interpreted in a general or specific way.

On edit: A poster from Scotland mentioned on another thread that Galloway had specifically mentioned the DU website in an interview on Scottish radio.

[jean]

84. Ready-made base - DU has 70,000 reg members PLUS untold numbers of

lurkers - Galloway already has solid backing from an organized, interconnected base of people who are spread all over the country and the world. Good thinking, man!

[applegrove]

3. Unbelievable! I like my heroes when they don't profit. I'm just old

fashioned.

[neweurope]

5. Me, too... especially since the heroes tend to crumble once

somebody waves those dollar bills in their face...


---------------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Syrinx]

6. I don't know if he's one yet, but I do like my heroes to be rewarded

[bpilgrim]

27. i like them even more when they EARN IT speaking TRUTH to POWER!

no doubt, he EARNED IT last week :evilgrin:

(of course thats the spin the M$MW want you to swallow even in our capitalist world :crazy:

peace

[skooooo]

29. heros have to eat, pay bills, etc.

[Tansy_Gold]

35. I want heroes, not saints

I want someone who will fight.

I don't want a martyr -- like Al Gore or John Kerry.

I don't want a saint, because there aren't any and waiting for one is like waiting for Godot, non?

I don't want a compromiser, which is what Bill Clinton is turning into.

I want someone with whom I can agree on the most important points and maybe disagree with on some of the smaller points.

Most of all, I want someone who will stand up to the enemy and not back down.

Whether Galloway takes money for speaking or not is one of those "small" points. That point becomes larger depending on who he speaks to, where he speaks, who is allowed to listen, etc. But the payment isn't important. The message is.

[OzarkDem]

58. Agree

Everyone has to make a living. If earning money from a speaking tour allows him to keep traveling and getting the message out, that's fine. Its unrealistic to expect people to pay from their own pocket.

I hope he goes for it and our leaders learn a thing or two about standing on principle.

[ooglymoogly]

88. heroes need some security to get their message out

and this hero is getting our message out and he's got the balls to kick in the right places. i say goodonim. no martyrs for me. people giving up at the first defeat are not of much help in this fight for our lives as free people. fighters need financing to fight. the people who think like us should give it to the fighters....a speaking tour will kill two birds with one well placed jibe, and lets face it folks this guy knows how to fight.

[applegrove]

40. Well - if it is true - let him give free speeches to universities and make

the people with the money pay for the privilege. He still is an MP. I don't know if this is even ethical. To get money while you are an elected member.

Must be a dupe or something.

[bpilgrim]

61. "I don't know if this is even ethical" - lol

talking to yourself :shrug:

pardon me for interrupting but ethical or not i hope he makes a fortune... then i'll know he was successful in getting the MSG out :bounce:

come, join the party, we're ALL invited :party:

peace

[applegrove]

103. I meant that he is an active MP! Remember? He just got re-elected?

For sure if he retires he can make all the money he wants. But should elected representatives be getting paid for speeches - even if they make them away from the home country?

See what I mean? It is not so simple.

[muriel_volestrangler]

111. As long as he declares the income, it is perfectly acceptable

All MPs have to declare any substantial income to Parliament. As I pointed out in another post, Galloway already makes more than his MP's salary for writing a column for a right wing newspaper. Most well known MPs who aren't government ministers make some money from writing or speeches.

[applegrove]

112. Okay. If you say so. n/t

[TwentyFive]

68. But what about Michael Moore? It costs a ton of money to go on a tour

You can really lose your shirt (or make big bucks) going on tour. Same thing with movies or any event that gets national exposure. Michael Moore took a big financial risk with F9/11. If the crowds didn't show up, he could have lost his shirt.
So, I hope the crowds show up and he rakes in the money.

That said, if I see his speaking tour is 'underwritten' by American Express or Exxon, then I'm with you....and certainly would draw the line.

[Frederik]

73. 'underwritten' by American Express or Exxon

And if pigs should grow wings one day, I would certainly draw the line.

That would be like Napoleon paying for Lord Nelson's bombardement of Copenhagen ...or something like that.

[Bridget Burke]

75. Actually, you'd prefer he give no speeches at all.

That much truth is inconvenient. The possibility of his earning money is a good excuse to slam him.

[applegrove]

104. How would you feel if Tom Delay went to England on a speaking tour

and made money. While he was in office? Or Hillary Clinton?

That is all I mean.

Afterall - how money attached do you want active politicians to be?

[seemslikeadream]

77. Please

:spray:

[ooglymoogly]

92. how saintly of you

perhaps it's just not the message you want to get out

[applegrove]

105. I fully like the message he got out about Rumsfield being covered

in Saddam slime. In fact, if you search my posts you will see that I was trying to get that message out, a full few months before Galloway did.

[daleo]

7. The article is pure speculation

A speaking tour "could" earn him that much money. A trip to race track "could" earn him that much money too.

If someone speaks truth to power, they first try to impugn his motives - he's only in it for the money. They did the same thing to Micheal Moore. If people who resist the status quo do well in the marketplace of ideas, they are merely in it for the money. If they don't do well, then it proves that nobody is interested in their message, so they are not relevant. It is a ploy meant to discredit either way.

There is more money to be made sucking up to power, as most of the main players in the corporate media well know.

[Syrinx]

8. you have it figured out. n/t

[Benbow]

10. Speaking tour money would go to the Respect party -

and Galloway would have to declare it (and any gifts received) to a House of Commons scrutiny committee. Respect is not funded by big business or by the trades unions (like the Conservatives and the Labour Parties, respectively).

http://www.respectcoalition.org/

[Briar]

11. How strange that a Murdoch paper would flourish this headline

without any basis in the story as printed.

I am sick and tired of the British great and good (and of course their spin masters in the media) lining up to knock Galloway.

[Benbow]

12. The UK "great and good" are as jealous as hell

of Galloway. Remember how class-ridden the UK society is. And I speak as a Brit. :-)

DUers might like to know that Galloway has written a book, I'm Not The Only One, in which he tells his side of his expulsion from the Labour Party for opposing the invasion of Iraq and also gives an insider's view of politics in Whitehall. "He also discusses the present day global conflicts, the war on terrorism, the problems in the Middle East and many other issues, including his personal encounters with world leaders, his role in Stop The War Campaign and Respect:The Unity Coalition." The paperback edition was published this year:

Paperback 240 pages
Release Date: 03 February 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0141019395
http://www.book-shopper.co.uk/books/detail/im-not-the-only-one/0141019395.html

Quotes on the bookshopper.co.uk web site (I could not find any reference to "I'm Not The Only One" on amazon.com, even when searching on its ISBN number) by people who have read it include:

The media have misjudged this guy big time.I have read quite a few different texts on the subject matter that George Galloway covers. However I have never read something that reads so eloquently and so easily. He is wittily scathing of New Labour, but I believe is fair,

I bought this book and couldn't put it down. I have read work by John Pilger, Micheal Moore, Greg Palast and this is superb reading with an insite into the harsh reality of bumbling political idiots running this increasing poor country of ours. He is probably one of the few ethical, moralistic politicians who doesn't tow the line (to his cost)and the passion and obvious sadness flows with each page.

George Galloway comes over as that most endangered of rare creatures, a British politician with integrity ! More power to his elbow ! My politics are not the same as George Galloway's, however I find myself in agreement with almost (but not quite !) everything he says in, "I'm Not The Only One". ... This book is compulsive reading and should be at the top of the reading list of any British person who is not brain dead

I was pleasantly surprised to find that given chance to expand on his subjects comes across as a deeply knowledgeable and passionate writer. All too often we see in the press out-of-context quotes by Galloway, but this book contains the real essence of his philosophies.

[Benbow]

14. Here is a picture of the cover of "I'm Not The Only One" by Galloway

[Al-CIAda]

59. Thanks! n/t

[Coexist]

72. Mr. Galloway - if you're reading this - crate up a bunch of those books

and do a book signing tour along with your speaking tour (if that comes to pass). You will reach a lot more Americans who can't get to some of the major universities and raise a bunch of money for your Respect party.

Just a thought - but I know many people who would stand in line for an autographed copy.

Americans are a fickle lot; strike while the iron is hot.

[getmeouttahere]

86. Great tip, Benbow!....I'd been on his party's website....

but somehow I missed the book.

[applegrove]

107. There we go. That is the answer I was looking for. How to get meet

ethical standards. My question is solved. I think.

[katinmn]

16. you're right. We must become more discerning when reading

newspaper articles.

Could it be that the Times is the newspaper of the status quo, like our major newspapers? Or maybe they are just innocently cynical.

In any event, I'd rather see anti-war, anti-corporate leaders making money off speaking engagements and opening minds than someone like Ann Coulter who I understand gets $50,000 for speaking her messages of hate.

[Frederik]

18. Times is a Murdoch paper

so it's not surprising that they would try and find a negative angle to the positive (for Galloway) news that his testimony was well received in the US.

[davekriss]

47. Who on God's earth...

...would pay $50,000 to have Ann Coulter come and speak? She has nothing to meaningful to say. She will be completely and utterly forgotten after a season, this Season in Hell aka the Bush years.

[Vincardog]

53. Some fat cat reThug who is paying with someone else's money.

[applegrove]

108. For sure I would rather see Galloway making speeches than Ann.

It is just that he would have to give up his seat.

[scarletlib]

17. good post

I saw his testimony before the senate. It was great. He is a hero. If he did go on a speaking tour it would be a good thing. I think he would probably donate most of the money to Miriam's Fund.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Galloway is perfectly willing to get paid for giving his views

as pretty much everyone in public life is. This is not impugning his motives. He writes a regular column in the Mail on Sunday, a right wing newspaper, which pays him between £85,000 and £90,000 a year; he writes twice a month for the Morning Star, a left wing newspaper, for free. Source: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/george_galloway/bethnal_green_and_bow

[daleo]

98. I am not saying that he will or won't get paid.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with him making money for books or speeches. If he donates the money to the Miriam Fund, that's even better. But, I am saying that the whole point of telling us how much money he may or may not get for speaking is to imply that "he is in it for the money, and his cause can therefore be ignored". It is obviously only an implication, but I believe that is the purpose of these articles.

One of the ironies of political discourse I have noticed of late, is that alternative voices have had to spread their opinions primarily through the book market, and a few magazines such as Harper's (if the author needs to get paid, if they don't need the money there is always the internet). I suppose speaking tours is another route.

The status quo, on the other hand, has armies of paid pundits and columnists to spread their message. The money for the army of right wing pundits comes from media advertising revenue, which is paid by large corporations who have a major stake in the right message (from their point of view). So, the whole thing is a closed loop, ultimately paid for by consumers, through the advertising component built into the price of the goods and services they purchase. In a sense, we are forced to pay for the propaganda used against us.

[applegrove]

109. I didn't know that. You see, where I come from, only retired politicians

get to write columns..under their own name.. and get paid for it. Though there is a senator who does heart surgery. But I think he doesn't take his senatorial salary. (And the senate in Canada is not a very active part of government.. it is considered mostly useless as they are all appointees - thus they have no right to vote no to a bill and they rarely ever do anything but vote yes. Except for the Senators that chair parliamentary committees and participate in government that way - they are political eunuchs.

[AlamoDemoc]

38. Hear, Hear!

I couldn't agree with you more!

[w4rma]

41. I couldn't have said it better, daleo. (nt)

[Jacobin]

102. The lecture circuit is quite lucrative

Bill Clinton gets $100,000 a pop.

Al Franken gets $10,00- to $20,000 a pop. So does mAnn Coulter :-(

I have no doubt he will get on the lecture circuit and make big bucks.

He is exceedingly eloquent and has his facts straight. Besides which he HOLDS NO PUNCHES. NONE

[applegrove]

106. I simply meant that he would have to give up his seat (power) before

he could make money. I hope he keeps his seat and keeps on talking from that forum. But if he gave up his seat and went around the world talking openly about 'deals with Saddam' and Rumsfield et al, that would be fine too.

He just cannot do both at this time.

[Frederik]

19. The Times are really being asses

The news that Galloway's testimony was so well received that it may lead to a speaking tour in America is spun as "Galloway sees business opportunity".

[Vladimir]

21. If this is true its excellent news

RESPECT needs the money, and needs it badly. And if Galloway can make some money by speaking his mind (which he does freely anyhow) all the better!

[DavidDvorkin]

22. Galloway for President!

Oh, wait, that couldn't happen even if he moved here and became a citizen because the Constitution protects us from the horrible possibility that a citizen not born here might move into the White House.

I know that's a good thing because so many DUers have said so very loudly and repeatedly.

Not to mention that Galloway, just like Schwarzenegger, has a funny foreign accent.

[TankLV]

24. And that's the way it should be.

In spite of your lame attempt at sarcasm.

[DavidDvorkin]

33. Oh, absolutely.

I agree with you completely, TankLV. And also, only white male property owners should be allowed to vote.

[TankLV]

62. Now you're being completely and utterly ridiculuous, as only you could

know.

Leave the fucking constitution the way it is. Presidents should be for native born only, no matter what straw men you lamely try to run up the flagpole.

Not anywhere shape or form similar to what your inane comments would be.

But thanks for playing.

[Hand]

45. Well, if Orrin (Unctuous) Hatch gets his way...

and the constitution is amended so Ahhhhnold can run, then there could be a Galloway/Gropinator contest.

My money'd be on Galloway--there's fake tough and real tough.
:popcorn:

[DavidDvorkin]

46. I'd love to see those debates.

[ToeBot]

71. Hatch's biggest fear is that his head will explode before...

...he can sponsor a successful amendment to the Constitution. It would be interesting to see just how many amendments he has proposed. I'd wager its as many as the rest of the Senate combined; perhaps several times over.

Of course if they do get rid of the filibuster the likelihood of stroke will disappear. To see him cry and fume over the Dem's refusal to roll over was an absolute joy. Yet another reason, perhaps the best reason, to fight them tooth and nail on this issue.

[seemslikeadream]

23. MOTHER OF ALL SMOKESCREENS - ALL WERE KNOWN

Sunday, May 22, 2005

....


All of these transactions involving Bayoil's Giangrandi, Cardoen, Secord, and Barbouti, were known to President George H. W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker.

Between 1990 and 1991, three journalists who were investigating various aspects of Cardoen's secretive arms trading activities were found dead in suspicious circumstances. They were freelance writer Danny Casolaro, found dead from wrist slashes in a bathtub in a Martinsburg, West Virginia, hotel; Lawrence Ng, a stringer for the Financial Times, found shot to death in the bathtub of his apartment in Guatemala City; and Jonathan Moyle, a British aviation journalist found hanging in the closet of his hotel room in Santiago, Chile. Moyle had uncovered details of Cardoen's role in the Bush 41 deal to illegally ship weapons to Iraq."



Masden goes on to note that one of the largest recipients of BayOil Iraqi oil shipments was Enron. Of course Enron CEO 'Kenny Boy' was a great pal and financier of George Bush, and Cheney has fought successfully to hide the nature of the Energy Task Force meetings between major American oil interests, including Enron, and Cheney in which they decided how to carve up the Iraqi oil fields after the inevitable war against Iraq (which of course was not supposed to be inevitable).

Masden on the possible Bush crime family connection:
"The Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal also involves one of the Bush children - Dorothy 'Doro' Bush Koch, sister of George W. Bush and married to Bobby Koch, reportedly a cousin in the oil industry Koch family, the owner of Koch Industries, which is also one of Bush's largest political donors. The minority committee report indicates that Koch Industries was also a major recipient of illegal Iraqi oil and a huge source of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein . . . ."



I note that the friend of Galloway named by Coleman as the key player in the oil-for-food scandal is Fawaz Zureikat. Indeed, after Coleman's case fell apart under Galloway's withering attack, all that was left was that Galloway was friends with Fawaz Zureikat. Zureikat and Galloway were both on the same obviously forged line of the documents used by Coleman. Fawaz Zureikat, if you can believe it, is still involved with the United States in Iraq. A firm run by him has the exclusive rights to sell highly sensitive military encryption technologies made by a US firm, Middle East Advanced Semi-conductors, to the Iraqi military, police and government. This contract had to be authorized by the U. S. government under strict export control rules. If he is such a bad guy, how did he meet the extremely strict American security tests to be involved in sales of such secret encryption technology?


As we dig further into this scandal, it appears that the attack by Coleman was an ill-advised attempt to hide the real scandals - real scandals involving supporters of the Republican Party and even Dick Cheney and George Bush themselves - behind an attack on a British politician who Coleman thought couldn't, or wouldn't, defend himself. These scandals go back to illegal support for Saddam in the 1980's, and tie into the Republican nexus of corruption involving Iran-Contra, BNL, BCCI, and more recent scandals involving illegal support for Saddam in the 1990's. Coleman's timing, right after the revelations in the Downing Street Memo that the attack was inevitable (as was the divvying up of the oil fields planned by Cheney and American oil interests), and right after the revelations that the main players in the oil-for-food scandal were none other than big American oil companies connected to the highest levels of the Republican Party, is so bad it's almost comic. When you add the involvement of Chalabi and MEMRI (an arm of the Likudniks in Israel) in the defaming of Galloway you have pretty much a summary of all the co-conspirators in the war crimes against the people of Iraq.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/05/norm-colemans-useful-stupidity.html

[loudsue]

37. Good Information There, Seemslikeadream.

:applause: I LOVE Galloway for the spanking he gave the neocons the other day. :woohoo:

You could tell the man's hands were clean, and that Coleman's and the republican mafia machine's hands were dirty as hell.

I love the man!

:kick::kick::kick:

[Zhade]

44. Speaking of Koch Industries, who here remembers their ties to the DLC?

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/7/dreyfuss-r.html

Volume 12, Issue 7. April 23, 2001.

Print-Friendly Version
How the DLC Does It
Robert Dreyfuss

...

And for $25,000, 28 giant companies found their way onto the DLC's executive council, including Aetna, AT&T, American Airlines, AIG, BellSouth, Chevron, DuPont, Enron, IBM, Merck and Company, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Texaco, and Verizon Communications. Few, if any, of these corporations would be seen as leaning Democratic, of course, but here and there are some real surprises. One member of the DLC's executive council is none other than Koch Industries, the privately held, Kansas-based oil company whose namesake family members are avatars of the far right, having helped to found archconservative institutions like the Cato Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy. Not only that, but two Koch executives, Richard Fink and Robert P. Hall III, are listed as members of the board of trustees and the event committee, respectively--meaning that they gave significantly more than $25,000.

[seemslikeadream]

48. Thanks so much Zhade

I knew that name sounded familiar

[Zhade]

49. Just doing my bit to spread the truth.

Of course there are those who will downplay the fact that a far-right family that helped found far-right think tanks has or has had major influence within the DLC.

Those people are in serious denial. I hope they get help someday.

[cosmicdot]

113. David H. Koch is an Aspen Institute funder and trustee, too

David H. Koch
Executive Vice President
Chemical Technology
Koch Industries, Inc.

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/index.asp?bid=1221

where such notables as "New Democrat" Simon Rosenberg have been 'groomed'

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/index.asp?bid=459


Aspen Institute, Inc., The

Total $ Granted: $ 1,160,000

For Years: 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1992
# Grants: 10

Date Amount Comment Provider
1-1-2001 50,000 General Operating Support David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
1-1-2000 50,000 General Operating Support. David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
1-1-1999 2,500 General Funds Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
1-1-1998 2,500 General Funds Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
1-1-1998 250,000 Renovation of Seminar Bldg. David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
1-1-1997 250,000 Renovation of Seminar Bldg. David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
1-1-1996 250,000 Renovation of Seminar Bldg. David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
7-1-1995 15,000 General Operating Support David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
1-1-1995 250,000 Reconstruction of Seminar Bldg. David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
11-27-1992 40,000 To support a seminar program on American social policy The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.

http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?recipientID=716

[Straight Shooter]

25. I have no problem with paying people for their expertise.

I'm not going to question someone's motivation or impugn their integrity simply because they earn big $$$ for speaking engagements. If Ann Coulter can spew venom for money, then Galloway certainly has the right to speak truth to power for money.

Think of it as applying fairness and balance to the rhetoric seesaw.

[skooooo]

30. I agree...

Let's have a fair market on truth.

[oblivious]

32. In any case, he won't come even close to Cherie Blair.

$250,000 for a few days speaking engagements for the Cancer Society in Australia. Plus $100,000 for the agency that arranged it. Leaving a few crumbs left over for the Cancer Society. Now that's shameful greed.

[donsu]

31. smirk will put him on the no-fly list - he will never get back to the US

unless he crosses our southern or northern borders on foot.

[stepnw1f]

36. When Can I Support Him?

Hey Fantasyland Freepers: Boo Hoo Hoo!

[graywarrior]

39. I'd rather Galloway get paid a handsom fund for truth speaking

instead of Halliburton getting paid to assist in the murder the citizens of an entire country.

[holboz]

76. Yes!

After all, I know my tax money is funding (at the very least a portion of) these propaganda town hall meetings for Bush. If I have to watch some white middle-America older woman tell B*sh she's so glad he's our President instead of asking a hard-hitting question I'm going to vomit.

[bvar22]

43. Hi, George....

:hi:
Everybody be nice to the newbies. You never know!!!

[number6]

50. YES !

:woohoo:

[mom cat]

51. Hope he can make a stop in Boston. The cradle of liberty needs

some rocking.

[Coexist]

52. Good for him - Hey George - come to Florida!

[katinmn]

54. Come to Minnesota, too, Mr. Galloway!

It will be further embarrassment to Norm Coleman when you draw 1000 to your speaking engagement.
:blush:

[Lost-in-FL]

64. I hear you, specially Florida...

But like someone said before... Shrub might place him in the No-Fly list.

[Auntie Bush]

67. If he doesn't get Wellstoned first!

[katinmn]

87. ...

:scared:

[understandinglife]

55. Let's urge him to start the tour at Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

"When in the Course of human events..." -Declaration of Independence

"WE the people of the United States..." -U.S. Constitution

We have time-traveled to 1775, everyone. We must now re-establish what once was the Constitutional democracy of the United States of America.

Our enemy is not the British Empire. Our enemy is the Bu$h neoconster regime.

Here's a suggestion of how we begin:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3688434#3690417

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Tragically we are on the path to MNA Day 4

[AuntiBush]

65. Man. Galloway is an American Hero!

:patriot:

Salute' Galloway! Can't wait for the tour! Hope it's A.S.A.P. 'cause we need help, and bad!

[beam me up scotty]

66. Galloway's testimony absent from Homeland Security's website

I posted this in another forum, but it's buried pretty far and isn't getting much traffic. I think this is very telling of our government.

Have a look at the suspiciously absent transcript:

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Sroll down a bit for this:

Panel 2
George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain
Mr Galloway did not submit a statement

I sincerely doubt he did not submit a statement (which is actually a transcript if you read the other pdf files) and missed a chance to have his speech as part of the official record.

I'm certain the main stream press will pick this up right away.

[caligirl]

93. Hey it got my attention, called several senate members. Akaka's

office actually seemed concerned about it. I spent a good half hour making those calls. Just because Coleman got the black eye he had coming from Galloway is no reason to hide his testimony.

[Willy Lee]

94. I emailed the webmaster asking about that- where is Galloway's statement?

This is what I got back...

The original message was received at Mon, 23 May 2005 10:37:32 -0400 (EDT)
from localhost <127.0.0.1>

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[e-mail]>
(reason: 550 Host unknown)

Guess they don't want anyone asking questions about the info posted on their web site which, they claim, is public information.

They can't keep Galloway hidden though! I'd pay to see him speak- hell, I'd even buy tuickets for a few friends.

[ngGale]

69. Galloway can come here anytime he wants to, but...

he needs to be careful here. The protestor's at the Repub convention ended up behind barbed wire. I watch Parliament, and love to watch big balls of sweat form on Tony Blair's face. Then, I dream of Bush having to face the same here. Wouldn't it be lovely? Galloway only gave out what he's use to doing, I loved it.:toast: :loveya:

[Rainscents]

70. This is soooooooooo cool!!!

:bounce: :kick: :yourock: :loveya: :applause:

[holboz]

74. If it's true, then bloody fantastic

I say give 'em hell, Geroge and don't ever let up. Just watch your back at all times

On the other hand, it's kind of sad that it's taken a foreigner to get us all excited, to give us hope, to FINALLY say the things that we've been aching to hear from our Democratic officials (a few exceptions noted, such as Pelosi, Boxer, etc.).

Galloway's appearance was such a breath of fresh air. Even though he's Scottish, it felt as if he was the voice of the majority of Americans who are fed up with this Congress's insatiable power grab and we're tired of B*sh and co acting like the world's Gestapo. Rethugs have gone too far, and I think most Americans now believe they have well overstepped the acceptable boundaries, both foreign and domestic.

Hey, if the law is changed and Rethugs get Ah-nold to run, then I say we recruit Galloway!!!!!!

[demo dutch]

78. Remember Lennon? Watch the WH declare Galloway a security risk and make it

hard for him to speak in the US. He'll get paid for a speaking engagement in the US but doesn't have a work permit. How does that work? I would imagine they have to give him certain clearance.
The whole John Lennon case comes to mind. Supposedly it was marijuana related it turned out it was because of his political involvement and vocal protests in opposition to Anglo-American authoritarianism. Later his attorney uncovered documents under the Freedom of Information Act that Lennon was selectively prosecuted for political purposes by the Nixon administration. Sen. Strom Thurmond, described Lennon as a threat to the US government. Can you see today's repugs trying to do the same thing?

[evermind]

80. Galloway renews attack on Senate over 'forged' evidence (TImes)

By Jenny Booth, Times Online

Today his spokesman told Times Online that while Mr Galloway was in America on his proposed two-week speaking tour, he would take the opportunity to go back on the attack.

"It is something that has not sufficiently come out that what the committee put up as exhibits were in fact all typed up in English, though masquerading as original Iraqi documents," said Ron McKay, Mr Galloway's spokesman.

"They gave us the documentation on the spot as we went into the committee hearing, we hadn't seen it before. On an A4 sheet there is this fairly clear, English-typed document, and behind it, almost obscured, there is this grey smudge which appears to be what they called the original document. But it is completely illegible and totally obscure.

"They didn't make it clear in the hearing that these weren't in fact the real documents. So we are demanding to see the originals, and to have them forensically examined."

(Edit: correct url syntax)

[Frederik]

97. Thanks

Seems like he's planning a US tour. On the (rather irrelevant)subject of remuneration:

"It is understood that fees of $5,000 per speech have been mooted, although one agent said that Mr Galloway could easily command up to $30,000 per appearance. Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities have all been suggested as possible venues, although the politician's spokesman cautioned that nothing had yet been arranged."

[KansDem]

81. TimesOnline has it wrong...

We are NOT the "anti-war movement in America" as much as we are the "anti-lie-us-into-war movement in America." I think that distinction should be made clear.

[riverwalker]

82. we DU make a difference

so many of us wrote to him, posted links to his email, and one by one we reached out to him as he touched us. Once again DU is actively fulfilling the promise of the internets in defending democracy.

[Coexist]

83. here's a link to a thread where he mentions us!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3697411

[emad]

89. Galloway to tour US

May 23, 2005

Times
By A Correspondent

GEORGE GALLOWAY has been invited on a lecture tour of America’s Ivy League universities as a result of his performance before the US Senate.

Washington was left buzzing after the Respect MP traded verbal blows with senators who had accused him of making money from Iraq’s Oil-for-Food programme.

Mr Galloway, 51, could earn £5,000 per speech when he addresses audiences at Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities.

Mr Galloway told Sunday with Adam Boulton on Sky News that he did not ask those who funded the appeal he set up to help an Iraqi girl suffering from leukaemia where they had got their money. He said that the Mariam Appeal had received funding from “two kings and an Arab businessman”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1623587,00.html

HOPE he remembers the flak jacket and life insurance...

[wtbymark]

90. I'll by him dinner

I'll buy him dinner at the MistGrill in Vermont, just to say thanks.

[Benbow]

91. What are the chances of his being a granted a visa to enter the USA again?

Coleman and friends hardly want to facilitate a re-run of last Tuesday.

[ElectroPrincess]

96. I doubt that Coleman will have a say on granting Galloway a Visa ...

Especially since Normy Boy is acting more and more like a shrill political hack. Nope, the corporate rats are running away from Coleman. The NeoCons & Co. are both corrupt and demented, but they are far from stupid.

Yes! May Coleman NOT make the most out of his one and only term. ;)

[demo dutch]

114. Yes they can make it hard to speak in the US. He'll get paid

for a speaking engagement in the US but doesn't have a work permit. How does that work? I would imagine they have to give him certain clearance,which they could block or hold up.

The whole John Lennon case comes to mind. Supposedly it was marijuana related it turned out it was because of his political involvement and vocal protests in opposition to Anglo-American authoritarianism. Later his attorney uncovered documents under the Freedom of Information Act that Lennon was selectively prosecuted for political purposes by the Nixon administration. Sen. Strom Thurmond, described Lennon as a threat to the US government. Can you see today's repugs trying to do the same thing?

[Callboy]

95. this guy is awesome....

[go west young man]

100. He deserves every penny he gets!

A truly great orator.

[corker]

101. yipeee!!!

I would pay to see him speak...

[Fluffdaddy]

110. Ditto

[riffraff_va]

115. Off topic

Frist lost the "nuclear option". http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/23/filibuster.fight/index.html

This was a defeat to the right-wing religious fanatics, but I still don't think this was a victory for the Democrats. After all, Brown and Owens(according to the agreement) will get an up-or-down vote.

[roguevalley]

116. come over, Mr. Gallagher. Speak truth to power and help us out.

'K? :-)