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US Geeks Recycle GNU/Linux Boxes for Ecuador
An anonymous submitter writes: "According to this article on Salon, geeks involved with Indymedia are recycling 300 GNU/Linux boxes to send to independent media activists in Ecuador. The machines will be used to create free public computer labs across South America, networked with donated wireless 802.11b cards. Anyone wanna chip in to help cover the shipping costs?"
If you are not familiar with IndyMedia, it is an extreme leftist "news" organization that is essentially committed to the destruction of America. Basically it blaims all of the world's problems on America and glorifies terrorism, like Yassir Arrifat and Osama bin Laden. It has suggested that President Bush is responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is extremely anti-semetic (to the point of being Nazist) and consistently attacks Israel.
If you want to cut a check to these people, be my guest, but you should at least know what your money is going to support.
Oh great. Some "anti-globalization" freaks are sending computers to under-priviledged South American kids. Let's all get out our crying towels... How about we take care of the kids in THIS country first, eh? There are plenty of school districts in the U.S. that could use the hardware/manpower that is going into this project.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Put up or shut up, AC. What have you done lately? What have you done for "our own" or anybody else, for that matter?
mice work better if you remove them from your ass.
Troll or not, the OP was basically correct in marking IndyMedia as a far leftist organization, in whose eye the US can do no right, and other destructive forces can do no wrong.
One article: http://rochester.indymedia.org/media/00/00/00/61/
On September 3, the U.S. Navy unleashed another terrorist assault on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
They are talking about practice bombing on a range. The use of the word terrorist is deliberately inflammatory, and completely incorrect. As to whether the Navy should have a pracice bomb range on that island is another thing entirely, but using it with the blessing of the local gummint is NOT a "terrorist act".
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Daily and nightly demonstrations have been held at the Navy's base, Camp Garcia, and have continued unabated despite brutal attacks from Navy security forces and at least a dozen arrests. Activists continue their courageous acts of civil disobedience by infiltrating the range and putting themselves directly in harms way, acting as "human shields" against the bombing.
Infiltrating a military base is a sure way to get arrested.
"Brutal attacks"? Proof please. If you fight back with a cop, or military security police, you can expect to get thumped in the head.
"Courageous acts of civil disobidience"
well...fine. Again, the protestors can do no wrong, and the evil military can do no right. Curiously, no mention is made anywhere that I can see of the innumerable acts of good will that various military forces around the world have done to help people. Hurricane rescue, fresh water sources, schools. Ah well. Obviously, those things do not count.
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Puerto Rico for the Puerto Ricans!
U.S. Military Out of Puerto Rico!
From cpcml.ca (Canadian Communist Party- Marxist Leninist)
No further explanation needed...
I did not pick out this particular article as being the most inflammatory on the website. This was merely pretty much the first I came across. IndyMedia apparently allows any and all individuals to write, and publish, an article to their websites. However, I did not see anything promoting a pro-US, or pro-Israel, or pro-corporation stance. Being pro-US may or may not be a GoodThing(tm), but if you are going to allow anyone to publish anything, then do that. Not only anyone that agrees with us.
When donating time, money, expertise to an organization, be sure you know for what and to whom it is actually going for.