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Title: Has-been old hippy Baez b**ches about Barry
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The Politco
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/click/stori ... _at_70_ever_the_activist_.html
Published: Mar 17, 2011
Author: PATRICK GAVIN
Post Date: 2011-03-17 09:09:17 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doma-ding-dong
Views: 10141
Comments: 17
Amnesty International will mark its 50th anniversary this weekend at its annual gathering in San Francisco. Friday’s kickoff event is a tribute to folksinger/songwriter/activist Joan Baez, recognizing her longstanding work on behalf of human rights. Baez helped start Amnesty chapters in the Bay Area in the early 1970s and has served on the national board of the organization, which has activists in more than 150 nations. Grammy winners Steve Earle and Saúl Hernández will perform at Friday’s tribute, at which Baez will receive an award named for her that will be given annually to an artist who has helped advance human rights. Former President Jimmy Carter will address the anniversary conference via video. “Whether marching arm in arm with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or stuffing envelopes at our first home office in San Francisco, Joan’s commitment to human rights has known no bounds,” Amnesty International USA Executive Director Larry Cox said in a statement. “It is no exaggeration that many attending this annual conference are direct descendants of a human rights family that Joan created. Her devotion is a constant reminder of what can be accomplished when one will put herself on the line to effect change. We are grateful for her lasting legacy.” POLITICO spoke with Baez about her work and legacy. POLITICO: What is the current state of affairs with regard to human rights around the world? Baez: We're in terrible shape in this world, and I think that, when things happen for the better, they happen thanks to organizations like Amnesty. There's so much going on in the world that the awareness that Amnesty International has brought about is just huge. ... It used to be that human rights abuses weren't on anyone's agenda. Amnesty made it compulsory to bring it out. In any country, you're going to have to discuss it. POLITICO: What issues are most important to you right now? Baez: I feel very strongly about immigration. That's something we need to work on. This country has so much and people say, "Oh, they're going to take [our] jobs away."... The fact is, there are very few American citizens who would be willing to do what the farm laborers are willing to do. ... To be a nonwelcoming society just seems bizarre to me. POLITICO: Amnesty International has been very outspoken in denouncing military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, and just this month the president announced that those trials would resume for detainees, ending a two-year hiatus. What was your reaction when you heard that news? Baez: It's a sin. There's no excuse for it in the first place. To have people detained there for nine years without having a trial boggles the imagination. I'm not sure why it stays open. POLITICO: The president campaigned on the promise of closing Guantanamo. What does this move mean to someone like yourself, who supported his candidacy in 2008? Baez: Part of that stuff comes from just being in office. I'm not defending him at all, but I know that people with those ideals and dreams, once you get into office, your hands are tied by so many people. My concern with Obama is, I don't know who he listens to. He's a Nobel Peace Prize winner — as kind of silly as that was and premature — but he could meet with Nobel Peace Prize winners who have moved mountains and he could do extraordinary things by not falling into the trap that I think he is: of waking up in the morning and meeting with the military. So that's all he gets for input, unless we can make ourselves heard somehow. 
'My concern with Obama is, I don't know who he listens to,' said Joan Baez. | Photo by AP
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
She's not dead yet?
Socialist ass-hats think "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, leading disfunctional and delusional socialist of the forum. "You want me to kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, I'll kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, Rebs, or Sioux, or Cheyenne... For 500 bucks a month I'll kill whoever you want. But keep one thing in mind: I'd happily kill you for free." Algren, "The Last Samurai" Nope. She's very much alive and lives near here.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Does she have the nerve to still go sixties-style braless with her bound to be super-saggy by now no longer perky puppies?
too bad.
Socialist ass-hats think "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, leading disfunctional and delusional socialist of the forum. "You want me to kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, I'll kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, Rebs, or Sioux, or Cheyenne... For 500 bucks a month I'll kill whoever you want. But keep one thing in mind: I'd happily kill you for free." Algren, "The Last Samurai" Why?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Evidently, she only looks that way.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Why is what underwear she wears any of your business?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
She used to make her hooters everybody's business back in the '60s, I was just wondering if she still did. She doesn't seem to have left anything else from that time period behind.
Some posters here appear to be voyeurs.
"http://first-draft-blog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5ced53ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi"
Another fake title from Happy Racist, Stone. You really ought to do something about this.
"Am I for or against abstinence?" - Sarah Palin
Socialist ass-hats think "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, leading disfunctional and delusional socialist of the forum. "You want me to kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, I'll kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, Rebs, or Sioux, or Cheyenne... For 500 bucks a month I'll kill whoever you want. But keep one thing in mind: I'd happily kill you for free." Algren, "The Last Samurai" She's a has-been Beatnik, gone bad. I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... "What the world needs now, is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my head".
This thread is an example of Christians mocking someone who has been outspoken about peace, justice, and compassion - Christian principles she learned from her religion as a child.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
And she was a popular and VERY EFFECTIVE anti-war protestor and will never be forgiven for that by the perennial warmonger/military-industrial complex crowd.
"http://first-draft-blog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5ced53ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi"
She sure was! We've basically been at war ever since Korea! Who are you attempting to bullshit?
Honestly, your ignorance is EPIC. " Luke 22:38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough. After Jesus told the eleven disciples that the two swords were enough, they carried these two swords to the Garden of Gethsemane where Peter used one to cut of the servant's ear. After this was done, Jesus told Peter in John 18:11b: Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? Of course, Jesus' focus was on being obedient to the Father, but He also told Peter to put the sword into the sheath; He did not tell Peter to cast it away. The assumption would be that the disciple carrying the other sword never drew his. Ex 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. Num 32:6b Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Rom 13:4b he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Qoh 3:3a A time to kill, and a time to heal Prov 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. Matt 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Luke 22:36b he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Romans 13:4 "the minister of God to thee for good."" Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
folksinger/songwriter/activist Joan Baez, recognizing her longstanding work on behalf of human rights.
#2. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
She's not dead yet?
#3. To: lucysmom (#2)
She's very much alive and lives near here.
#4. To: Happy Quanzaa, lucysmom (#3)
She's very much alive and lives near here.
#5. To: Capitalist Eric (#4)
too bad.
#6. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
She's not dead yet?
#7. To: Happy Quanzaa (#3)
Does she have the nerve to still go sixties-style braless with her bound to be super-saggy by now no longer perky puppies?
#8. To: lucysmom (#7)
Why is what underwear she wears any of your business?
#9. To: lucysmom (#7)
Why is what underwear she wears any of your business?
#10. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#11. To: Skip Intro (#10)
Another fake title from Happy Racist, Stone.
#12. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
(Edited)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#13. To: hondo68 (#12)
(Edited)
She's a has-been Beatnik, gone bad.
#14. To: Happy Quanzaa, Ferret Mike (#0)
Has-been old hippy Baez b**ches about Barry
#15. To: lucysmom (#14)
This thread is an example of Christians mocking someone who has been outspoken about peace, justice, and compassion - Christian principles she learned from her religion as a child.
#16. To: Rek (#15)
she was a popular and VERY EFFECTIVE anti-war protestor
#17. To: lucysmom (#14)
This thread is an example of Christians mocking someone who has been outspoken about peace, justice, and compassion - Christian principles she learned from her religion as a child.
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