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Post by Alejos H. Coy IV on May 1, 2005 20:41:43 GMT -5
"There's more all over Brazil," Alejos says, waving his protest sign high in the air. It says, in Portugese, "We Will Be Exploited No Longer!"
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Post by soledad on May 1, 2005 20:52:09 GMT -5
There you are Alejos, I was looking all over the crowds for you. I walk up to him and am carrying a sign. This is really exciting.
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Post by Gabriel on May 1, 2005 20:57:36 GMT -5
Gabriel is met with the others, all are heavily armed missionaries preparing for a May Day miracle. The FBI must have decided to stay out of this one. So HOLY can do the dirty work of the government. Who cares as long as the job gets done.
John "The Cross" Peterson and Mark "The Disciple" Daniels arrive. John is a bigger man, soft spoken, but very strong. Mark is more flamboyant, shorter, and is newer to HOLY. John, Mark, and I park the car on the side of the road.
It is night now and we can sneak inside. Mark and John will go after the others. My mission is to capture their leader and take him back to HQ. The man's name is Grey. They brainwashed him and our job is to undo the damage and turn him into a new addition to HOLY.
John and Mark go before me. I follow behind, entering the compound through a basement window. I immediatly start searching for Grey's bedroom. After entering a few empty rooms I finally find the one. I enter and point my gun at him.
"You're coming with me." I shout at him.
In the background I can hear gunshots. Mark and John have already gone to work.
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Post by Grey on May 1, 2005 21:00:14 GMT -5
Grey was sound asleep until the man entered the room. He became quite afraid when the man entered the room, pointed a gun at him, and order him to come along with him. "Okay, I'll go with you, just don't kill the others." Grey begs of the man. He puts his hands up and assumes that this stranger must be with the police or something.
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Post by Gabriel on May 1, 2005 21:08:04 GMT -5
"Too late. We have our orders." Gabriel replies coldly as the shots become fewer and fewer. It reminds him of popcorn. The popping becomes spread out over time as there are fewer kernals to pop. Finally the popping stops. John and Mark are done.
Gabriel puts the gun to Grey's back and marches him out the door. A van is waiting for him. A Mary gets out of the van and cuffs Grey. He is put in the back of the van, which then drives off, leaving a dusty cloud behind it. Gabriel watches as it leaves. The next time he sees Grey, the man will be changed.
He smiles and Mark and John rejoin him. They tell him how many were in the building and how many were killed. As far as they are aware, no one escaped, but they did spare one man who was an undercover investigator.
With their job done, they return to their own cars. Gabriel says nothing to them as they walk back. They share a silent peace that comes from doing the Lord's work.
Gabriel gets inside his car and drives off. The SLA is no more. He turns on the radio to a country station and heads back towards the city.
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Post by Grey on May 1, 2005 21:10:32 GMT -5
Grey is more than a little afraid when he is put in the van and handcuffed. He has no idea where he is going. He assumes it is to prison. He keeps his head down and wonders how things ended up like this. He was never a terrorist, never violent, just an ordinary person from a rich family who wanted to do some good in the world.
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Post by Heikki Toivonen on May 1, 2005 21:19:36 GMT -5
Heikki gets off of work at Olive Garden and sees that there are people protesting in the streets. Normally he would not participate in this kind of thing, but since he doesn't want to go home to Dariya, he makes a sign and joins him. His sign says: "Down with Everything!"
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on May 1, 2005 21:26:00 GMT -5
Bassarov smiles. "Well, this is great. So many people." He says looking around. It is really very loud, there is a lot of shouting and some singing.
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Post by Tristan Thistle on May 1, 2005 21:42:23 GMT -5
(because I am lazy this is an actual artical, not a made up one)
Thousands stage May Day protests Protests have been mainly peaceful in London Thousands of protesters gathered in central London to take part in May Day demonstrations have been asked to disperse by police.
A minor clash between protesters and police took place early in the day, but police said the rallies had been "relatively peaceful".
Seven arrests had been made by mid-afternoon for minor public disorder offences.
One male police officer was treated in hospital after being hit by a missile, but was not seriously hurt and was later discharged.
More than 400 people were still demonstrating in Trafalgar Sqaure, central London, at 1920 BST.
The protesters were split into three groups, with police in riot gear surrounding the main group.
Streets around the protest sites had been cordoned off, but police could not say when they would be re-opened.
Police had asked demonstrators to disperse by 1905 BST, but hundreds were continuing their protests after the deadline had expired.
Earlier, an official TUC march of 1,500 people had gathered at Trafalgar Square.
Some demonstrators had also marched from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square, staging a protest outside Downing Street en route.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Trotter said there still "a bit of pushing and shoving" on Whitehall, but the day had been quiet.
'On alert'
Thousands of anti-capitalist, anti-war and anarchist groups also took part in May Day events in other major UK cities including Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Leicester and Bradford.
Previous May Days have seen riots and mass arrests in central London, with offices and businesses being attacked. Last year 54 arrests took place.
Mr Trotter said police were still on alert as trouble during previous May Day protests had not broken out until the evening.
Earlier in the day about 20 campaigners attempted to break through police lines outside the central London headquarters of an arms manufacturer.
The coppers hit me last time. This time I've come protected
Ben Protester
About 200 people had been demonstrating outside Lockheed Martin in High Holborn, when trouble erupted at around 1430 BST.
Protesters charged police officers who were not wearing riot gear, before being pushed back by police reinforcements.
Some demonstrators unfurled flags and staged a sit-down protest in the middle of the road.
They were contained within heavy police lines, bringing traffic in the area to a standstill.
Police have been issued special powers that allow them to contain protesters until they agree to disperse from the area on a route defined by police.
Arrests
Police had filmed some protesters, many of whom were wearing masks.
A separate group of approximately 30 people protested in Oxford Street and Oxford Circus, watched by police.
The Charm protest - a cycle ride by about 150 members of the Critical Mass organisation - stopped for a sit-down protest in St James's Park, after travelling from Waterloo Bridge.
Earlier about 1,000 protesters ran and walked from The Strand to Piccadilly Circus, escorted by police on foot.
After heading off into a narrow Soho street, they changed their minds and marched back to Trafalgar Square with no sign of trouble, joining the TUC gathering.
The first London demonstration saw no trouble outside the Dolce and Gabbana shop on Old Bond St, where anti-fur protesters were outnumbered by members of the media.
Police forces spent months preparing road closures and training in riot control and a total of 4,000 officers were expected to be involved in London. Scotland Yard has cancelled all leave.
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Post by Matro San Miguel on May 1, 2005 21:56:58 GMT -5
(I haven't posted as CBN for a while, as usual to not offend Christians, this is just an actual artical to give you a Christian perspective on issues that would be present in American society at the time of the rpg)
Battleground: Public Schools and the Gay Agenda By Paul Strand CWNews
April 22, 2005
CWNews.org – On issues ranging from sex education to AIDS prevention, homosexual and other groups are pursuing an agenda they like to call 'tolerance.'
Here in the U.S., public schools have become battlegrounds over that agenda. Lawsuits between parents and school boards are on the rise. In some cases students are forced to learn about homosexuality in school.
Some parents in Maryland are worried that their children's school system may adopt a new curriculum: one which stresses to students that homosexuality is normal, healthy, and that people are born that way. The course is called "Family Life and Human Sexuality."
Students are introduced to homosexual terms and encouraged to develop their so-called ‘individual sexual identity.’
The course has sparked outrage from many parents.
Carolyn Black is a Maryland mother. She said, “I do not believe in homosexuality and I believe the subject of homosexuality should be taught at home. It has no place and no business in the public school system, being taught and forced on our children. In the public school system, it just has no place!”<br> Because of issues like this, Barry Sullivan has chosen to bypass the public schools and home school his children. Sullivan said, “Are we really going to teach our kids that this is normal behavior? If some kid stands up and says, ‘I got a brother and he is attracted to young boys’. Is the teacher really going to say, ‘I don’t want to be judgmental, so, well he‘s just born that way’?”<br> Across the country, from California to small town mid-America, teaching homosexuality has become the norm in many schools—sometimes, without parental consent.
One case is playing out in a Santa Cruz, California public school. A group of lesbian teachers has put up posters in classrooms that promote the gay lifestyle and refer students who question their sexuality to homosexual and bisexual groups.
Parents are suing to change the posters to represent all differences among students. In this case, the homosexuals believe they should have exclusive rights.
In Kentucky, students are being forced into ‘diversity training’, where they're told homosexuals cannot change their behavior.
Opting out of these courses is a choice some parents make for their kids. This Maryland mother tells us how her child was ridiculed. Bunny Galladora is President of the WCTU of Maryland. She related how, “He was called up to the front of the class and the teacher said, ‘Your mother will not allow you to take this class’ and sent him to the library, and he was made fun of by the kids.”<br> Some Christian parents say the schools have no right to usurp the parental role in teaching about sex. Bob Grey is a concerned parent, he said, “It used to be I was good enough, dad was good enough, mom was good enough. Now they say it takes degree after degree, people sitting around a big table telling us what our kids should hear.”<br> One of the most influential groups promoting the homosexual agenda is GLSEN, the gay, lesbian, straight education network. It has promoted projects such as "no name calling week," and has designated so-called "safe places" in schools, where students can go in private to talk about same-sex feelings.
Linda Wall is a former lesbian. She says the methods used by the gay lobby to get into schools is often very subtle.
Linda Wall, because of her personal experiences while in homosexuality, is now a Conservative Activist. She told us, “They’ve chosen very clever terminology to use, for example ‘safe schools’. They get in to administrators and say, ‘Oh, we just want to make your school safe.’ So they paint this picture, when there really is nothing safe about homosexuality at all.”<br> CBN News obtained home video of a ‘school safe place’ from a concerned parent. These so-called safe places are signified by pink or rainbow colored triangles—well known symbols in the gay community.
In these private rooms, in the school’s building, teachers and guidance counselors can talk with students about their sexual feelings—but parents are not informed.
An organization called GLSEN, aids with this. Glsen's website also has a step by step guide for students and educators to create what it calls an “allies program" for students ‘struggling with their sexual identity.’<br> CBN News asked Glsen for an interview, but the group refused unless it could see our script first.
Recently, homosexual rights groups carried out an April 13th Day of Silence in the schools. But Christian students gathered the next day, April 14th, for what they termed a Day of Truth. They'll wear special t-shirts that said, in part...
“I believe in loving my neighbor, but part of that love means not condoning detrimental personal and social behavior. I believe by boldly proclaiming the truth, hurts will be halted, hearts will be healed, and lives will be saved.”
Despite the legal and political roadblocks, a number of parents and other activists are determined to fight the spread of the homosexual agenda.
Bob Knight of Concerned Women For America says parents need to get active.
Knight advised, “Fight city hall. Go to your school and find out what they’re teaching. Make it clear you’re watching. When parents are watching they can get away with a lot less.”<br>
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Post by Matro San Miguel on May 1, 2005 22:00:12 GMT -5
(Here is another good one.)
The Growing Threat of Far-Left Environmentalism
CBN.com – (CBN News) - United States Senator James Inhofe is one of the leading conservative voices in the Senate. Inhofe is a strong advocate of common-sense Oklahoma values, including less government, less regulation, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, and a strong national defense.
Pat Robertson recently spoke with Inhofe about far-Left environmentalist groups and their growing push to enlist conservative evangelicals in their cause.
PAT ROBERTSON: Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe is with us, and he has been a strong critic of the excesses of the environmentalist movement. Senator, it’s a great pleasure to have you with us on The 700 Club.
SEN. JAMES INHOFE: Pat, always good to be with you, brother.
ROBERTSON: Tell me, what do the environmentalists believe? Do they worship the God of the Bible or something else?
INHOFE: Well, let’s talk about the environmentalists. I call the far-Left environmental extremists the ones like the NRDC (National Resources Defense Council), like the Environmental Liberation Front. The Environmental Liberation Front bombs buildings and burns down construction, and they’re actually considered by the State Department as a terrorist group. The environmentalist Left is the largest group in terms of funding Left-wing, liberal candidates for office. Now I chair the committee, as you well know, called Environment and Public Works in the United States Senate. I deal with these people every day. I’ll tell you, Pat as I told you when you were here in Washington, when I read in the Washington Post about two months ago, that the National Association of Evangelicals was embracing some of these far-Left environmentalists, I called up Reverend Haggard, and I called up the guy who’s responsible for it. I think its a stroke of genius for the environmentalists to come in and try to capture the Christians or the fundamental Christians. You know, the first thing, there was a meeting in Washington where a Barbara Williams Skinner spoke -- this meeting was by the National Association of Evangelicals -- and she got a standing ovation. She is one who is from the far Left, she is with Jesse Jackson’s group and ACLU, and all these. And I will read you one thing she said, if you’ll let me do this, Pat.
She was giving a speech down at Baylor (University). She said, ‘I know I am in Bush country. But you all can go to sleep for a minute and I will be gone. You don't have a problem. I had a problem. I once had to pray for Ronald Reagan, and I had to get through it, so you can get through this.’ This is the kind of person, and she got a standing ovation. But her whole message was, you have to give up your core values. You can’t have a litmus test on gay marriage, you can’t have a litmus test on abortion on demand, you can’t have a litmus test on the Pledge of Allegiance, and all of these things that have actually propelled conservatives into the leadership and have won elections. You know, I was so excited that we were winning all of these things, and now we have this far-Left group coming in trying to capture the evangelical Christians. We can’t let it happen, Pat.
ROBERTSON: Do you think Ted Haggard is a little naïve? Do you think he understands what he is getting into?
INHOFE: Well, I called him up. In the first article I saw, they mentioned the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and I called up Ted Haggard, and he said quite frankly, well, I don’t want to be part of a group like that. They also mentioned Chuck Colson and Jim Dobson. I called both of them up and they said, no, they are lying. We are not a part of that – we are not for the global warming agenda – that’s the poster child of the far Left – in fact, we know better, we preach against it.
But they use their names, and how many people are out there who saw the names of Chuck Colson, Jim Dobson and Ted Haggard who thought, well that must be the team to join?
ROBERTSON: What is the agenda of the radical Left? They talk about – aren’t environmental concerns sort of like a god to them?
INHOFE: It is. Look, Pat, I don't have to tell you about reading the Scriptures, but one of mine that I’ve always enjoyed is Romans 1, 22 and 23. You quit worshipping God and start worshipping the creation -- the creeping things, the four-legged beasts, the birds and all that. That’s their god. That’s what they worship. If you read Romans 1:25, it says, ‘and they gave up their God and started worshipping the creation.’ That's what we are looking at now, that’s what’s going on. And we can’t let it happen. They say we don't want a litmus test on all these issues, but these issues are not just Republican issues, or conservative issues, or Christian issues, these are issues that resonate in the minds of the vast majority of the people in this country. That's what we are engaged in. We want to have a spiritual country and I would hate to think that we give in, and particularly organizations like the NAE, to a bunch of far-Left-wing environmentalists.
ROBERTSON: Let me ask you about this global warming. I’ve seen movies, you know, where the whole Earth turns into a ice flow, the polar cap melts, and we are starting into either an era of a new ice age, or everybody finds themselves in the wilderness. Are these concerns accurate in terms of the science you understand?
INHOFE: No, no. Pat, I wished you had watched yesterday. I gave a one-hour speech on this, on the Senate floor. All of the science since 1999 has repudiated the idea that global warming caused by man-made gases -- that’s methane and Co2- - is causing a global warming, and the end of the world is coming, and the icecap is going to melt and all these things. But what they don’t realize-- and what they won’t tell you -- is that it was far warmer on the icecap in the 1930s and 1940s than it is today. We have trend lines that go up and down. And God is still up there and weather does change, but the same people who are yelling and screaming, and the authors of doom about global warming, were the ones in the late ‘70s who were talking about a new ice age coming, and we are all going to die. They have to be hysterical about something. I recommend, except for the dirty words, a great book written by Michael Crichton. I think we talked about that. It’s called State of Fear. He is an author, a medical doctor, and scientist. He was going to write a novel about global warming and all the horrible things, so he researched it and he thought, wait a minute, this thing’s a hoax. So he wrote a book about the fact that it is a hoax, and while it’s a fiction book and a novel, the footnotes are incontrovertible in terms of science. Now, you might say, wait a moment, no science to it? And if we know, according to the Wharton School of Economics, that it costs the average family of four $2,715 a year if we were to buy onto the Kyoto treaty (commits industrialized nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by around 5.2 percent below their 1990 levels, over the next decade), then what would be the motivation? I think you can find that in a couple of statements that were made, one by Jacques Chirac, who said this is the first step toward international governance. And Margo Walstrom of the European Union -- she is the environmentalist over there -- she said it is not about climate change, but it’s about leveling the playing field for business, worldwide. Those are the liberals who were behind it, and I think it is a wake-up call. And I am glad you talk about it now and then.
ROBERTSON: We appreciate you being on to talk about it. Thanks for being with us.
INHOFE: Pat, it’s always great to see you.
ROBERTSON: My pleasure. Senator Jim Inhofe, a great senator from the state of Oklahoma. We appreciate him, and he chairs a vital committee on this matter, and I’m glad he’s standing for some very important principles.
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Post by Dinari Dollar on May 1, 2005 22:08:01 GMT -5
(And so you have an idea of May Day things which happened today, here is some real news from Fox, however, keep in mind that events in the rpg would be larger scale...)
Millions Stage May Day Rallies Worldwide Sunday, May 01, 2005 HAVANA — Cuban President Fidel Castro (search), leader of one of the world's last communist regimes, commemorated May Day (search) on Sunday by demanding the United States expel a Cuban-born militant accused of blowing up a civilian jetliner. Elsewhere in the world, millions of workers staged largely peaceful rallies to press for better conditions or protest government policies.
But in Moscow, celebrations of the international workers' holiday turned violent when radical activists from the National Bolshevik Party (search) and the Red Youth Avant-Garde political group clashed with riot police after several activists were detained.
In Zimbabwe, despite earlier fears of a ban on May Day gatherings, the southern African country's umbrella group of trade unions held 17 rallies to celebrate the workers' day holiday with no police interference.
China used the day to single out thousands of laborers and a few athletes for recognition, dubbing them "model workers," while the weeklong labor day holiday started with visits to squares and parks for kite flying and recreation.
Up to 5,000 Bangladeshis demanded the country's first ever minimum wage — $50 a month. The South Asian country has 1.8 million workers in about 2,500 garment factories, exporting more than $5 billion in textiles each year.
Thousands of Russian communists rallied in Moscow under pictures of Lenin and Stalin, while tens of thousands of labor union workers and opposition activists denounced social reforms that replaced subsidized medicines, utilities and transport with cash payments.
More than 500,000 Germans staged rallies, with many accusing company executives of increasing earnings while squeezing workers' wages and slashing jobs.
Overnight, 69 people were detained after a street party in eastern Berlin deteriorated into a riot. Spike-haired punks and other demonstrators threw stones and bottles at officers patrolling the event, police said. Three people were lightly injured in the clashes, according to police.
Flanked by aides in red T-shirts, Castro looked out at hundreds of thousands in vast Plaza of the Revolution and demanded Washington expel Luis Posada Carriles accused of masterminding the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976 that killed 73 people. Posada denies involvement.
The Cuban president said the case of Posada, who is seeking asylum in the United States, "shows the world the immense hypocrisy, the lies, the immoralities and the cynicism" of the U.S. government, which has kept Cuba on a list of terrorist states for years.
Castro called Posada "the most famous and cruel terrorist of the Western hemisphere."
Posada, now 77, along with three associates were imprisoned in Panama in an alleged plot in 2000 to kill Castro at a conference in Panama. They were pardoned last year by outgoing President Mireya Moscoso and Posada has not been seen publicly since then.
Posada's lawyer, Eduardo Soto, says his client worked for the CIA for years and deserves asylum because he would face possible execution if returned to Cuba.
Cuban officials say Posada was involved in many attacks. He has acknowledged planning bombings of Cuban hotels, one of which killed Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo.
Drawing parallels between attacks on Cuba and those on the United States, organizers included brief speeches by di Celmo's father Giustino as well as a man whose fiance was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the United States.
In France, far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen marked the workers' holiday by urging his countrymen to reject the European Union constitution in a May 29 referendum.
Tens of thousands of women from southern Asian countries who work as domestic helpers in wealthy Hong Kong dominated marches there, demanding fixed working hours and a minimum wage for all employees.
Hundreds of thousands of Japanese workers rallied for a global ban on nuclear weapons, ahead of the 60th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, after U.S. planes dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaski.
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Post by Liron Schoenberg on May 1, 2005 22:15:35 GMT -5
Garret and Linnea meet up with Lysander and begin to march with other protestors. "This is really fun, kind of like a parade."
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Post by Lamumba on May 1, 2005 22:28:21 GMT -5
Kasai becomes increasingly worried about the vulnerability of his country. He hears rumors that he may be the target of a corporate mercenary takeover, but nothing can be confirmed. He feels powerless, but at least South Africa pledged to help him.
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Post by Kaschei Bessmertny on May 1, 2005 22:33:26 GMT -5
Kaschei does not hear from Maria or Ptisha for a couple of days. This prompts him to think of his wife and what his most trusted hit man said about her. He becomes angry at the thought of it. Although he does not love his wife, he does see her as a valuable thing to possess. He starts to wonder if maybe he shouldn't have been so trusting of Zhar.
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