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March 28th to March 29th, 2007:

The CORRUPTION UPDATES reviews corruption in the news. News Stories from California, the Nation and the World are abstracted below, and followed by commentary and references.

 

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1) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE: Washington Post, 3-28-07:

McCaffrey Paints Gloomy Picture of Iraq
In Contrast to His Previous Views, Retired General Writes of 'Strategic Peril'

By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 28, 2007; A11

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032701923_pf.html

An influential retired Army general released a dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen. David H. Petraeus and 16 other senior U.S. commanders.

"The population is in despair," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey wrote in an eight-page document compiled in his capacity as a professor at West Point. "Life in many of the urban areas is now desperate."

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

Bush, Corporate Media, Unable to Admit Defeat in, Error of, and Crimes Committed, During Iraq War

As American Citizens, we lost the Iraqi War when we threw away our values and principals, and invaded an innocent country, based on self-serving lies and deceptions.(since this was written, Durban came out of the closet, and admitted hiding the truth from the American Public)

In military terms, we lost the war after winning an initial military victory. Our only victory was the defeat of the Iraqi Army. Afterwards, everything else went to hell. We are unable to impose our will and values on people with military force, nor are we capable of bribing enough Iraqi traitors to run a successful government for us.

Our "democratic" elections in Iraq were a farce. Iraq is divided into sects and clans, not corporate controlled political parties. Expecting their "government" to act according to our values is ignorant. People voted for their tribes, clans, and sects, not corporate controlled parties.

Our "values" are so corrupt that we are only capable of inspiring resistance to our occupation, in Iraq and around the world. Yet we did achieve military victory.

Despite their defeats, Arabs and Persians seem willing to contest our victories in Iraq, and the middle east, by giving up their lives to kill us, and each other.

Although we seem unwilling to understand it, or even admit the fact that many Arabs are "...sorry they have but one life to give for their country."

Sound Familiar?

If only the Nazis had anticipated the depth of resistance the French, Dutch, and Russians were willing to put up against the invasion and occupation of their countries, they might have thought twice about the consequences of their brutality.

Instead, they "bombed, bombed, bombed Iran, (England)" John mCain recently sung this ditty in South Carolina, greatly amusing the VFW meeting he was attending.

Bush, or our Israeli proxy is going to attack Iran, extend the war in a doomed attempt to rescue the legacy and failed policies of this corrupted administration from the shit-can of history.

The legacy of this administration has already been established, if not recognized: The Bush Administration is the catalyst for the loss of American dominance over the middle east, and control of the world's oil markets.

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2) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : NY Times, 3-29-07:

U.S. Iraq Role Is Called Illegal by Saudi King

NYT March 29, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/world/middleeast/29saudi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print

By HASSAN M. FATTAHRIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 28 — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Arab leaders on Wednesday that the American occupation of Iraq was illegal and warned that unless Arab governments settled their differences, foreign powers like the United States would continue to dictate the region’s politics.

On Wednesday King Abdullah called for an end to the international boycott of the new Palestinian government. The United States and Israel want the boycott continued.
Last week the Saudi king canceled his appearance next month at a White House dinner in his honor, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The official reason given was a scheduling conflict, the paper said.
In his speech, the king said, “In the beloved Iraq, the bloodshed is continuing under an illegal foreign occupation and detestable sectarianism.”
King Abdullah has not publicly spoken so harshly about the American-led military intervention in Iraq before, and his remarks suggest that his alliance with Washington may be less harmonious than administration officials have been hoping.

Since last summer the administration has asserted that a realignment is occurring in the Middle East, one that groups Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon along with Israel against Iran, Syria and the militant groups that they back: Hezbollah and Hamas.

(Arab League Plan:) The plan calls on Israel to withdraw from all land it won in the 1967 war in exchange for full diplomatic relations with the Arab world. It also calls for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Turki al-Rasheed, who runs an organization promoting democracy in Saudi Arabia, said the king was “saying we may be moving on the same track, but our ends are different.”

Bush wants to make it look like he is solving the problem,” Mr. Rasheed said. “The king wants to actually solve the problems.”

King Abdullah said the loss of confidence in Arab leaders had allowed American and other forces to hold significant sway in the region. “If confidence is restored it will be accompanied by credibility,” he said, “and if credibility is restored then the winds of hope will blow, and then we will never allow outside forces to define our future nor allow banners to be raised in Arab lands other than those of Arabism, brothers.”

 

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

SAUDI KING DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM AMERICA

CONDEMS WAR, FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN ARAB LANDS

The Saudi, Jordanian, and Egyptian regimes must put themselves at the head of the post-colonial, anti-American movements in their countries, or be swept aside.

Their political authority, up to now, has been based on Western military, political, and economic power, not the support of their people. The Iraqi war is accelerating the termination of The Age of Western Imperial domination over the middle east.

The "American Century" is coming to a close around the world, and coming to a very bloody ending in the Arabic lands.
A new balance of power is forming in every hemisphere of the planet. And it is rising to fight us.

A fundamental tenet of the rising powers around the world is the rejection of American military and political domination. These revolutions of local control and independence can no longer be held back in the Middle-East by our Saudi, Jordanian and Egyptian proxies. They have seen the handwriting on the wall, and can only continue to ignore the will of their people at the risk of their lives and property.

King Faud's speech acknowledges the seriousness, and the depth of damage Bush's middle eastern "policy" has inflicted on our regional allies.

When the Saudi King calls Bush a criminal, it signals that the Saudi government is accelerating the shifting of their regional policies and global alliances in a direction independent of American interests and control.

The Middle-East is using bloody Iraq as a fulcrum to free itself from our domination. Our Saudi allies are merely making the moves necessary to keep their crowns, and their heads, as the "Uma," the unified will of the Islamic community in the middle east, begins to assert itself, and demands that American political and military influence be ejected from their lands.

If the King said it, it must be true.

 

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3) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN: Time, 3-29-07:

Is a U.S.-Iran War Inevitable?

March 29, 2007 Thursday, March 29, 2007Iran Ja Jahan
Time Magazine
Robert Baer http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2007&m=03&d=29&a=19

...grim fatalism that has settled over Iran of late, the resigned belief that a war with the U.S. is all but inevitable. This week Iranian diplomats are telling interlocutors that, yes, they realize seizing the Brits could lead to a hot war. But, they point out, it wasn't Iran that started taking hostages — it was the U.S., when it arrested five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Erbil in Northern Iraq on January 11.


Tehran is convinced the U.S. or one of its allies was behind the March 2006 separatist violence in Iranian Baluchistan, which ended up with twenty people killed, including an IRGC member executed. And the Iranians believe there is more to come, accusing the U.S. of training and arming Iranian Kurds and Azeris to go back home and cause problems. Needless to say the Iranians are not happy there are American soldiers on two of its borders, as well as two carriers and a dozen warships in the Gulf. You call this paranoia, they ask.

Our Arab allies are jumping ship, apparently as fast as they can. At the opening of the Arab summit on Wednesday Saudi King 'Abdallah accused the U.S of illegally occupying Iraq. The day before, the leader of the United Arab Emirates sent his foreign minister to Tehran to tell the Iranians he would not allow the U.S. to use UAE soil to attack Iran.

That leaves us with Kuwait and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki to face Iran.

I called up an Arab
Gulf security official and asked him what he thought about it all. He said the view from his side of the Gulf is that if Iran does not soon release the Brits, a war between the U.S. and Iran is in the cards. "I for one am taking all the cash I can out of my ATM," he said before he hanging up.

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

IRAN WAR IMPENDING

Is the big game coming? Bush has "lost" the middle-east, and America seems incapable of dealing with our self-created crisis. Or are we?

Although we are incapable of admitting it, Bush will be known to history as the man who LOST THE MIDDLE EAST, empowered China with our manufacturing, and pushed Russia enough to make them openly stand against us. Bush's options around the world, and our influence in the middle east, are decreasing by the second.

There are two basic paths we can follow: We can continue fighting to prop-up, and reimpose our western dictatorships in the middle-east, as we are now. This will lead to regional war, internal revolutions, and the eventual emergence of a bitterly Anti American oil-rich middle east.

Our second option is to acknowledge the moral and political sins we have created seeking world domination, and grant honest self-determination for the Arab peoples, and get our fucking foot off their necks.

Depend on Bush to take the first option, and get our feet cut off.

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4) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : AFX, 3-29,07:

Iranians Accuses UK Forces of Raiding Iraq Consulate

Iran Ja Jahan March 29, 2007
AFX News
Forbes.com http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2007&m=03&d=29&a=15


TEHRAN
-- The Iranian consulate in Iraq's southern city of Basra accused British forces of storming and surrounding its office during a shootout with gunmen today. The British military flatly denied any such incident, saying its soldiers had come under small arms fire during a routine patrol in the vicinity of the Iranian consulate but did not leave their vehicles.

The incident came amid a diplomatic standoff between Tehran
and London over Iran's seizure of 15 British sailors and marines in Gulf waters last Friday.

'British forces sealed off the Iranian consulate in Basra. They went inside for 10 minutes and after that there was intense gunfire on them,' Iranian consul Mohammed Reva Nasir told Agence France-Presse in Basra.

'This is a provocative act against the Iranian consulate in Basra. I believe it has something to do with the British detainees in Iran,' he said.
(A BRITISH RAID? BRITISH...) spokesman Major David Gell told AFP: 'No. Absolutely not.'

'There was a vehicle patrol going back into Basra Palace (a British base in Basra). The rear vehicle received small arms fire. We returned fire in self defence and the patrol continued on,' Gell said.

The Iranian foreign ministry protested what it called 'the British forces' provocative act,' according to a statement obtained by AFP.

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

TENSIONS RISE BETWEEN IRAN AND WESTERN AXIS

Bush is trying to provoke the Iranians into war. Not a "hot" war, as he has broken our army, and we are as incapable of invading Iran as we are of controlling Iraq.

What Bush is looking for is a pretext to do to Iran what Israel just did to Lebanon, and what the US did to Iraq after the first Gulf War: destroy its social and economic infrastructure with air power.

I anticipate that Bush's political plan for the upcoming presidential election is to expand the war into Iran, to both sweep aside domestic political resistance to his unilateral authority, and create a crisis that will allow his regime free hand for long enough to reimpose Corporate American Control over the middle east.

Does this sound crazy? Who was crazy enough to invade Poland? What group is running our country?

It would not be surprising if a major "terrorist" attack occurred at the height of the presidential campaign, causing a "temporary" delay in the election to deal with the "crisis."

Bush has already claimed, and exercised, unlimited power, and merely needs the proper circumstances to further expand his claims to illegal emergency powers.

I give it a 20% chance that Bush will blow up something in the US, and cancel the '08 presidential election.


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5) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : Tehran Times, March, 2007

U.S. behind all problems in Mideast: Rafsanjani

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=3/17/2007&Cat=2&Num=14
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN -– Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said here on Thursday that the United States is behind all problems in the Middle East region.
The problems in the regional countries especially in Iraq stem from U.S. plots to create division and today we can see the United States behind all problems in the region,” he said during a meting with Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Otri.

 

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

IRANIAN MODERATE: US THE PROBLEM

Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is one of the "moderates" the neo-cons claim is pro-American. The Neos claim many Iraninans love us, and would greet us as liberators. They will greet us with ticker-tape parades!

I hate to say it, but the Iranians drove out the people who served America in Iran, when they drove out our FASCIST DICTATOR, THE SHAH OF IRAN.

And we have not forgiven them, nor Cuba, for driving our dictators out of their countries.

The problems we are having in Iraq are not centered in the middle east, but in the minds and hearts of Americans. We have lost control of our elections, our politicians, our "free press," and our government.

Until we get our democracy back, we have no chance of spreading democracy to other countries.

We have refused to acknowledge the fact that the time of western dictators ruling over the world in our name is over.

Unfortunately for the world, we are writing our refusal with the blood of the world.

 

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6) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : AP, 3-28-07:

China to U.S.: Halt Taiwan weapon sales

The Associated Press

Last Updated 4:26 pm PDT Wednesday, March 28, 2007

http://dwb.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/story/3587315p-12848431c.html

WASHINGTON (AP) China's ambassador to the United States urged Washington on Wednesday to continue sending a clear message condemning Taiwan independence and to stop selling weapons to the island's government.

Zhou Wenzhong said in a speech that how the United States and China deal with Taiwan is crucial to the overall development of U.S.-Chinese relations.

"The question needs to be handled with great care and great caution," Zhou told an audience gathered at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949. Since then, the communist mainland has repeatedly threatened to attack if Taiwan should try to make its de facto independence permanent.

Zhou also condemned as reckless recent remarks by Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian that underscored the president's belief that Taiwan should be an independent country, separate from China.

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

Who Owns Taiwan? US and China in Contest for Control of Taiwan

China has become a Bushiean Corporate Fascist dreamland. China's Commie Government possesses unlimited power over individuals, business, and governmental authority. And they are greedy for wealth, power, and prestige, just like our leaders. They disregard their Constitution and laws, just like our leaders. China's ambition is to apply their power to expand their influence across South Asia.

China has transformed itself into a nearly perfect capitalist state dedicated to profit. Internally, China has not worked out the relationship between political and economic power. Externally, the terms of China's relationships with American power, and our allies in their backyard, have not been worked out at all.

Taiwan has made the transition from an authoritarian dictatorship to Corporate Fascism. From individual rule, to small group rule. As have South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines, among others. The differences between the former, the authoritarian fascists, and the latter, the greed fascists, is causing stress in both China and Taiwan.

The distinction between the two groups is small, but vital. A fascist dictator, like most Authoritarian states, bases its power on national or cultural ideals. Corporate fascists base their authority on the universality of greed, independent of national or cultural ideals.

China has not decided where it stands in this debate. China has not claimed its true identity, yet. And China is rising in power, wealth, and influence. China and Taiwan, Japan, the Phillipines and Indonesia have a lot of issues to work out as the reach of American Corporate Greed diminishes in power and influence in the region, while simultaneously providing China with the tools to strengthen its position against our influence, and allies, in the region. The rising power of China can be measured by the rising level of demands they put on Taiwan.

China will continue to use the carrot and stick approach against Taiwan. This will continue until internal Chinese social and economic conditions ripen. If things go badly for China, a Taiwan invasion will unify an unruly domestic situation. If things go well for China, they will have the power and wealth to force Taiwan to "unify," as they did with Hong Kong.

In either case, American foreign policy, with both China and South Asia, is adding fuel to a serious conflict over who will dominate South Asia in the near future: American Corporations and their authoritarian client states, or China.

We established the tone and direction of this conflict when we took over the failed British and Dutch colonies at the end of World War II, and propped them up with military dictatorships. Now, after 30 years of moving manufacturing to China to wildly increase Corporate Profits, and disenfranchise our middle class here at home, the Chinese are entering the world power game with enough wealth and power to win it, in South Asia, to begin with.

Also See:

Corruption Update 38, 4th article on page, "WILL PROMISES OF “FUTURE WEALTH” KEEP PEASANTS FROM REVOLTING?

Corruption Updates 40, 3rd article on page, “China passes new law on property

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7) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : Washington Post, 3-29-07:

GSA chief can't recall videoconference

She and 40 others at her agency were briefed by Rove aide

Robert O'Harrow Jr., Scott Higham, Washington PostThursday, March 29, 2007

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/29/MNG5LOTLEG1.DTL&type=printable

(03-29) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The chief of the General Services Administration testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that she could not recall details of a Jan. 26 videoconference in which a White House official briefed top political appointees at the agency about targeting 20 congressional Democrats in 2008. Lurita Alexis Doan, the GSA's administrator, appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions about her 10-month tenure at the government's premier contracting agency.

Doan acknowledged attending the videoconference. She and up to 40 of the agency's Republican appointees scattered around the country watched a PowerPoint presentation by J. Scott Jennings, White House deputy director of political affairs, who works for Karl Rove.

On at least 10 occasions, she testified that she could not recall asking employees to help the GOP or remember details of the presentation. "I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit this, but I can say that I honestly don't have recollection of the presentation at all," she said. Doan also said she did not recall asking appointees what they could do to "help our candidates," as alleged in a letter to Doan from Waxman citing the multiple sources.

Doan also has come under fire for her attempt to give a $20,000 no-bid contract to a friend. Waxman's committee heard testimony from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who has also been examining the Sun deal.Grassley said that despite "repeated warnings" to senior GSA officials in 2006 about the contract, GSA renewed the contract with Doan's blessing and "with no conditions, strings or precautions regarding the alleged fraud."

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

GSA Head Doan LIES TO CONGRESS

Claims Stupidity as Cover for Political Crimes

Gee, I committed a raft of crimes, but I don't remember any of it.

Also See:

Corruption Update 33, 8th article on page, "GSA HEAD CHEATS LIKE THE THIEVES SHE IS SUPPOSED TO REGULATE"

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8) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : NY Times, 3-29-07:

Income Gap Is Widening, Data Shows

NYT March 29, 2007By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print

Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans — those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 — receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows.

The top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression. While total reported income in the United States increased almost 9 percent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 percent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping $172, or 0.6 percent.

The gains went largely to the top 1 percent, whose incomes rose to an average of more than $1.1 million each, an increase of more than $139,000, or about 14 percent.

The new data also shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980.

Prof. Emmanuel Saez, the University of California, Berkeley, economist who analyzed the Internal Revenue Service data with Prof. Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, said such growing disparities were significant in terms of social and political stability.

The Bush administration argued that its tax policies, despite cuts that benefited those at the top more than others, had not added to the widening gap but “made the tax code more progressive, not less.”

A major issue likely to be debated in Congress in the year ahead is whether reversing the Bush tax cuts would slow investment and, if so, how much that would cost the economy.

The analysis by the two professors showed that the top 10 percent of Americans collected 48.5 percent of all reported income in 2005.That is an increase of more than 2 percentage points over the previous year and up from roughly 33 percent in the late 1970s. The peak for this group was 49.3 percent in 1928.

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

US MAIN PRODUCTS:

LUXURY&POVERTY

High profits for our Corporate Aristocracy is more important than the rights, health, education, and welfare of America.

The massive concentration of wealth at the top of American society is the product of our 30 years of unlimited illegal immigration of poor workers.

We have fed our corporate beast its favorite food; poor foreign laborers, and it has grown strong enough to become politically uncontrollable, and break the democratic restraints which once held it at bay. The military industrial complex has assumed the mantle of American leadership upon this tidal wave of supplicating foreign labor.

In the last 30 years we have transformed our country from a Corporate Aristocracy to Corporate Fascism, with little resistance from our consumers. I mean our "citizens."

The political shield of democracy that the American Middle Class once represented has been shattered, and poverty stricken obedience to greed has taken its place.

Don't depend on the Dems to stand up for the middle class; the Dems advocacy of globalism, NAFTA, privitization, and their cheap labor and Amnesty policies have cut the middle class off at the knees, while they tell us they love us.

Don't depend on the Repugs to stand up for the middle class; the Repugs advocacy of globalism, NAFTA, privatization, and their cheap labor and Amnesty policies have cut the middle class off at the knees,while they tell us they love us.

The restoral of our democracy, and the restoration of our middle class, is solely dependent on whether enough Americans are willing to sacrifice obedience to wealth for simple freedom.

Also See:

Corruption Updates 4, 2nd article on page, “Special Interests and Politicians Play, Our Education System Melts Away"

Corruption Updates 34, 3rd article on page, “LONG TERM PRISON CRISIS RECOGNIZED?SEEING IT HAS NEVER BEEN A PROBLEM-PAYING IS...

Corruption Updates 36, 7th article on page, “CORPORATE-DEMOCRAT IMMIGRATION POLICY SUCCESSFUL: PERMANENT LOW COST LABORING UNDERCLASS CREATED IN US”

Corruption Updates 36, 9th article on page, “HONEST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ONLY SHOWS MONETARY COST OF IMMIGRATION: EDUCATION, MEDICINE, DEMOCRACY, AND JUSTICE ARE HIDDEN “COSTS” OF CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR ON AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS”

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9) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : BEE, 3-29-07:

Chairman in the hot seat

Head of chiropractor board is apologetic as lawmakers grill him.

By Kevin Yamamura - Bee Capitol Bureau

Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, March 29, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A3

http://www.sacbee.com/391/story/146038.html

State lawmakers charged Wednesday that the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners violated the state's open-meeting laws in ways that jeopardized the public's trust.

In a Capitol oversight hearing, Assemblyman Mike Eng, D-Monterey Park, and Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas, D-Los Angeles, seized upon legislative findings that board members communicated with each other in private despite repeated warnings that such behavior was illegal.

The two Democrats also said the board, appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, ignored legal procedures when it ejected a deputy attorney general and fired its executive director March 1. And they suggested the board had interfered with an ongoing San Joaquin County prosecution of a chiropractor by passing a resolution endorsing a procedure involving anesthesia. "If the allegations raised at this meeting are true, then the governor should seriously consider asking these board members to resign," Eng said after the hearing.

Board Chairman Richard Tyler, a longtime Schwarzenegger friend, repeatedly apologized for the board's actions and began his testimony Wednesday by listing several steps the panel is taking to correct its wrongs, including regular courses on the state's open-meeting laws. He acknowledged his own understanding of those laws is "not as good as it should be."

"I am not here to defend my actions, nor the actions of other board members," Tyler said. "While I am not a lawyer, it is not a viable excuse for my failure to more aggressively seek and follow advice of legal counsel.

"The board acknowledged that it did not use legal protocols March 1 when it fired then-Executive Director Catherine Hayes. The board properly fired her Friday in a public meeting.

The board on March 1 endorsed a chiropractic technique requiring anesthesia after a California Chiropractic Association lawyer told members that doing so would help overcome "wayward prosecutors" and "outlier courts," apparent references to the pending case.

Three of the board members who voted for that resolution, including Tyler and former bodybuilder Franco Columbu, testified they did not recall hearing those terms used.

A San Joaquin County prosecutor and the Department of Insurance are pursuing charges of billing fraud and "uncertified practice of medicine" against a Modesto chiropractor who performed the procedure said that "context is everything," and that the resolution seemed intended to influence the outcome of that case.

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CHIRO BOARD DEFINES ARNIE LEADERSHIP:

WE FOLLOW, BUT NOBODY KNOWS WHERE WE'RE GOING

Also See:

Corruption Updates 6, 4th article on page, “Arnie's Turn to Bleed Special Interests: Assembly done selling itself, Now it's Arnie's Turn.

Corruption Updates 12, 4th article on page, “How to Corrupt Democracy: The Insurance Industry and the Governor

Corruption Updates 12, 5th article on page “INSURANCE INDUSTRY BATTLE PLAN: COMBINED BUSINESS ASSUALT ON DEMOCRACY” LATimes. Plot to corrupt democratic process and institutions successful. Plot uncovered, and yet it goes on. 9-24-06

Corruption Updates 13, 6th article on page, “Governor, PGE, Set Up Political Slush Fund

Corruption Updates 17, 5th article on page, “VAST SUMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY COLLECTED BY GOV CANDIDATES IN CA

Corruption Updates 17, 6th article on page “Total Campaign Outlays Approach $400 Million

Corruption Updates 24, 2nd article on page, “Arnie has Huge Special Interest Slush Fund” ("officeholder" account: Southern California Edison, PG&E, Chevron and AT&T)

Corruption Update 40, 1st article on page, "ARNIE PUTS INCOMPENTENT FRIENDS ON STATE CHIROPRACTIC BOARD"

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10) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE : AP, March 2007:

California: Sentences in Immigrant Hiring

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/us/29brfs-SENTENCESINI_BRF.html?pagewanted=print

Two executives at a fence-building company were sentenced to six months of home confinement for hiring illegal immigrants. The men, Mel Kay, founder, chairman and president of the business, Golden State Fence Company of Riverside, and Michael McLaughlin, a manager, had pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. In addition, the two were sentenced to three years’ probation. Also, Mr. Kay was fined $200,000; McLaughlin agreed to pay $100,000.

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FINALLY

The fines do not begin to cover the educational, medical, and the other social costs Golden State Fence Company has forced our taxpayers to pay to subsidize their cheap labor.

It is disturbing that these criminals are being allowed to do their time in luxury, at home. Since they like Mexicans so much, they should have been sentenced to real jail time, where the Mexican Majority could make them really feel at home.

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