[Sosfbay-discuss] special speaker Tues eve 5/22/Retired Lt. col. USAF Robert M. Bowman

Sat May 19 23:50:50 PDT 2007

Hi All,
I looked up the wikipedia site Jim Doyle put in his email. After reading 
about Bowman I'm definitely going to hear him talk and I encourage you all to 
attend his talk.  Please see below information on Lt. Col. Robert M. Bowman. I 
encourage you to read the entire page in Wikipedia on Robert M. Bowman.

Jim, thank you for letting us know about Robert Bowman speaking this Tuesday 
in Campbell. 

The Campbell Community Center is located at 1 W. Campbell Ave. (corner of 
Campbell Ave & Winchester Blvd in Campbell.

Lt. Col. Robert M. Bowman's talk is being held in the Orchard City Banquet 
Hall.  This hall
holds 300 people. 

Merriam 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Bowman
Robert M. Bowman

>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert M. Bowman (born 1934) was a former Director of Advanced Space Programs 
Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, 
and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat 
missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California 
Institute of Technology.

Bowman is the founder and Presiding Archbishop of the United Catholic Church, 
an "independent Catholic fellowship" created in 1996 and held to be connected 
through apostolic succession to the Old Catholic Church.<SUP class=reference 
id=_ref-0>[1] Additionally, he is Executive Director of Christian Support 
Ministries.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-1>[2] He also believes the US government 
was complicit in the September 11, 2001]

Despite his involvement with space programs and defense, he emerged as an 
early public critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, also aka "Star 
Wars") during the Ronald Reagan administration. On The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, 
he called it "the ultimate military lunacy, easily overwhelmed and vulnerable".[3] Bowman founded the Institute for Space and 
Security Studies, and its publication Space & Security News (1983) (ISSN 
1071-2569), and authored two books on the subject of SDI. He is also a critic of an 
outgrowth of the SDI program, the Bush administration's proposed National 
Missile Defense.[4]

For several years he has been active with Veterans for Peace and Vietnam 
Veterans Against the War as a speaker.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-4>[5]<SUP 
class=reference id=_ref-5>[6]<SUP class=reference id=_ref-6>[7] He had also been a 
member of the Peace Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.<SUP 
class=reference id=_ref-7>[8]

In 1998, Project Censored cited Bowman's article "Our Continuing War Against 
Iraq," in the May 1998 issue of Space and Security News as one of the few 
(along with Bill Blum of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Dennis Bernstein) 
covering what they deemed the fifth most censored story, "U.S. Weapons of Mass 
Destruction Linked to the Deaths of Half a Million Children."[9] The WMDs referred to are the biological samples sent to Iraq 
from the United States up to 1989, and use of depleted uranium during the Gulf 
War.

Bowman holds the belief that the US government was complicit in the September 
11, 2001 attacks. On September 11, 2004 in New York City, Bowman said "...the 
official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is a bunch of hogwash. It's impossible". [10] On the 2006 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda 
Symposium, he stated: "I'm an old interceptor pilot, I know the drill, I've done 
it. I know how long it takes, I know the rules... and... critics on the 
government story on 9/11 have said: "Well, they knew about this, and they did nothing"
. That's not true. If our government had done nothing that day, and let normal 
procedure be followed, those planes, wherever they were, would have been 
intercepted, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands of dead 
Americans would still be alive."[11]

Because of his beliefs, he is part of the movement to impeach George W. Bush. 
He is also a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, founded in January 2006 by 
James H. Fetzer.

Subj:   [Sosfbay-discuss] special speaker Tues eve 5/22     
Date:   5/19/2007 9:26:35 PM Pacific Standard Time  
From:   j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net 
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org    
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Retired Lt. col. USAF Robert M. Bowman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Bowman

will be speaking in San Jose Tuesday evening May 22-nd at 7 pm in the
Campbell Community Center's Orchard City Banquet Hall.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?cat=campbell%20community%20center&
formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=E%20Campbell%20Ave%20%26%20Winchester%20Blvd&
city=Campbell&state=CA&zipcode=95008&country=US&geodiff=1
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?cat=campbell%20community%20center&
formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=E%20Campbell%20Ave%20%26%20Winchester%20Blvd&
city=Campbell&state=CA&zipcode=95008&country=US&geodiff=1

He campaigned for Congress in Florida in 2006 and is trying again in 2008:
http://www.bowman2008.com/

We raised awareness about the illegal war in Iraq.
We pounded away on the need for National Health Care.
We spoke out for the middle class and the underclass and never backed down
  on economic issues - "every wage a living wage!"

He has also sent open letters to presidents Clinton and Bush:
excerpt from http://rmbowman.com/ssn/Terror2.htm

There is. But to understand it requires that we know the truth about the 
threat. Mr. President, you did not tell the American people the truth 
about why we are the targets of terrorism. You said that we are the 
target because we stand for democracy, freedom, and human rights in the 
world. Baloney! We are the target of terrorists because we stand for 
dictatorship, bondage, and human exploitation in the world. We are the 
target of terrorists because we are hated. And we are hated because we 
have done hateful things.

In how many countries have we deposed popularly elected leaders and 
replaced them with puppet military dictators who were willing to sell 
out their own people to American multinational corporations?

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