On this week’s BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio, I covered both the nation’s most extreme voter suppression law in North Carolina (and the facts behind its passage) and the precedent setting verdict in the Bradley Manning case.
But at the heart of it all is something else — a primal, patriot scream perhaps, as exemplified by the arrest of 83-year old Robert Plummer, Jr. at the state capitol in NC last week (Plummer is a Korean War hero who was also arrested on the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Martin Luther King on Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL during the 1965 march for voting rights, and by the arrests of 80- and 85-year old Joan and Tom Kemble for singing in the Wisconsin state capitol in the same dark week.
The Kembles joined me live on the show to talk about their arrests at the daily sing-along that has been going on every day since Gov. Scott Walker’s radical anti-union bill was passed two years ago, and to sing a song or two before their next trip to the pokey for peacefully singing in protest to petition their government for redress of grievances. (Please help all of the WI arrestees pay their legal bills and fines at SolidaritySingAlong.org!)
As usual, there was much more, including Desi Doyen and the latest Green News Report, in between. I hope you’ll give it a listen. I think you’ll enjoy it.
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I see you have your plate full Brad and I don’t know if if I’m a “whistle-blower” or even if my issue is valid or not but, without any constructive implication or conclusions of law by me, and supported SOLELY by the federal statutes within the federal “drug-laws” themselves, I am able to prove to any reasonable thinking person or guru of constitution law,that there is NO congressional federal penal statute that would PROHIBIT, FORBID, or make it a federal-crime to buy, sell, use, or abuse, narcotics, drugs, or controlled substances. I just posted a 5-page letter yesterday to the United States Sentencing Commission in Washington and if you would like to learn more, you have but to send me an e-mail and I will be happy to e-mail a copy of the letter! Meantime, “keep on truckin'”! duane