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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">Funniest part of the evening besides D. going around to the back door (like the help) was when a man asked D. if he, D., had ever been wrong about anything or if there was anything he would change about something he did. D. struggled to think of something- could not come up with anything. Finally recovered and said, "well you could ask my first wife."</div><div dir="auto"> I lost my temper when he said if we protesters cared about Palestinians, we would care more about the Kurds, because there are more of them. Just like Israel cares about the Kurds. So we had a bit of a yelling match across the room. So I am in hiding now... ;) </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="LGEmailSignatureBox" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"
>------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Boyle, Francis A<fboyle@illinois.edu></fboyle@illinois.edu></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Thu, Apr 26, 2018 9:06 PM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:bjornsona@ameritech.net">bjornsona@ameritech.net</a>;Peace-discuss List <a href="mailto:(peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">(peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>);</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b>Karen Aram;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>RE: [Peace-discuss] Inside Dershowitz</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">Dersh chickening out was really the highlight of my day.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">Again, my thanks to all for making this happen and especially Karen working so hard behind the scenes—as usual. Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:'bjornsona@ameritech.net">'bjornsona@ameritech.net</a>' <a href="mailto:<bjornsona@ameritech.net"><bjornsona@ameritech.net< a="">>; Peace-discuss List </bjornsona@ameritech.net<></a><a href="mailto:(peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">(peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>) <a href="mailto:<peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net< a="">></peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Peace-discuss] Inside Dershowitz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Just got back home. Dersh and his Entourage were off to the side and about to the walk towards the front door of the Foellinger Auditorium. He saw us and
chickened out. So he skedaddled towards the back door and entered there somewhere.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hey! Hey!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dershowitz say!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">How many kids!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Did you kill today!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks to everyone who came. And Damn this Nazi College of Law for inviting this war criminal and torture-mongerer in order to stink up our Campus and
Community.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Champaign IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peace-discuss [<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net">mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>bjornsona--- via Peace-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] Inside Dershowitz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dershowitz patronizing our protests outside. Obviously felt he had to address it. The interviewer be g an with softball ?s and got tougher. D. keeps regressing to Germany, Germany, Germany and 1947 and how
badly the Jews have been treated. Living in the past century. Hated Obama in Middle East. Interviewer really ticked him off asking about 2 states<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Karen Aram via Peace-discuss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thu, Apr 26, 2018 3:08 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">[Peace-discuss] Who is behind the protests in Nicaragua?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">April 23, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">What seemed like a simple citizen protest over the increase in social security contributions in Nicaragua, culminated last week in a wave of violence that leaves
at least a dozen dead and hundreds of establishments destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">Given the level of organization shown, the extent of the damage and the participation of criminal groups, key questions arise: What is the origin of the demonstrations?
Who are behind the most violent groups?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">The demonstrations took off in the middle of last week as a reaction to a reform of the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security (INSS). The measure of the Sandinista
Executive planned to increase the contribution of workers from 6.25% to 7%, while employers would go from paying 19% to 22.5%.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">The objective of the decision was to correct the INSS deficit and make it sustainable in the medium and long terms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">Groups of students and retirees, who receive their pensions from the same fund, staged the first public displays of discontent, but in a few hours the events led
to massive looting and attacks against ambulances, hospitals, clinics, businesses, cars, government institutions and even family homes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">The scenes of the last days contrast with the statistics that show Nicaragua as one of the safest and most peaceful countries in Central America. The Sandinista
authorities consider that, beyond a “civic protest”, what Nicaragua is experiencing is a right-wing plan to incite criminals and obtain political revenue through instability and the artificial creation of a scenario of shortages and scarcity of basic products.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">Comandante Daniel Ortega said last Sunday that those who broke into the shopping centers were not “poor people” but “those interested in unleashing chaos.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">The Government reversed the reform of social security and was willing to establish a dialogue to find a solution to the INSS deficit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">However, the leaders of the protests assured that they will not stop their actions.”Social security is no longer the issue, but freedom of expression, corruption,
and many others,” said the president of the Broad Front for Democracy (FAD), Violeta Granera.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">When a “minority wants to impose its will by force,” said Comandante Ortega, “the opposition is no longer healthy and becomes a factor of destabilization.” The president
also criticized the local rightwing seeking the support of U.S. politicians with the objective of “financing destabilization plans.” It is striking that the mobilization for the protests of recent days has been carried out through social networks with methods
very similar to those of the Non- Conventional War (GNC).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">One of the basic principles of the GNC, perfected by Washington to overthrow governments that are not to its liking, is to get society to confront the government with
any excuse, strengthen the conflict from abroad and tighten the siege at the diplomatic level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">As part of the destabilizing actions, Washington ordered the departure of the relatives of its diplomats in Managua on Monday and reduced services in its embassy.
Likewise, the State Department renewed today the petition to its citizens to “reconsider trips” to Nicaragua.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">Meanwhile, the villagers began to organize themselves to defend neighborhoods, businesses, welfare centers and public spaces against the vandalism of violent groups. Likewise,
the army was deployed to guarantee the protection of government buildings and facilities vital for citizenship. The climate of peace and coexistence in Nicaragua attracts a growing number of tourists and foreign investors. The Central American country boasts
one of the highest economic growth rates in the region, around 5% of the annual Gross Domestic Product.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525;letter-spacing:.2pt">“The objective of those who are directing these criminal plans is to destroy the image of Nicaragua,” criticized Comandante Ortega. However, he was confident that
Nicaraguans will not repeat the mistakes of the past and will choose the path of dialogue instead of that of war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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