perpetrators are sgt beasley from the san francisco police department, his wife, debra davis, and peter davis. in my many attempts to seek protection from the san francisco police department, and public authorities in san francisco, i have not only been denied but threatened for speaking about the crimes against me. officer kelly dunne even showed up at my husband's place of work to say that the crimes against me have been investigated and the case closed. i'm requesting a real, genuine investigation with integrity that does not come for the criminal and crucify the victim. i wanted to let you know that a group of victims just testified at the bioethics meeting in washington, d.c., this past week. thank you so much. supervisor mirkarimi: i'm sorry. a question wanted to be asked by supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: i did not catch your name. >> christine harris. supervisor cohen: just wanted to make sure i understood what you just said. you are a victim of cyber- stocking -- cyberstalking? >> it is called organized stalking. it is an act that a group of people did back in the 1950's, 1960's,

peter. what about the repeal of the davis-bacon act. there's a similar law and the state of missouri which you are addressing. and then i have one more question for the fairtax issue. it is more of an observation. take away the power to write the tax code and you would give the power back to the people. and that is the situation that most people do not understand. and i would appreciate your responses. >> prevailing wage is a serious issue. at the federal level, it is called davis-bacon, and in the states is called prevailing wage. the system is set up theoretically to in -- to enjoy a fair wage. they can be union wages. along with the union wage, the union work >> going through all that paperwork and tracking all of that is the unions. everybody else, the nonunion contractors try to make money and actually do their work. you end up with a situation where union elected bureaucrats are administering the system that basically forces anybody doing government contracting work to live by the union rules. it is not about the wages. it is abou

davis sixteen thousand still missing. the foreign forces have gone into libya to protect the people of political points. came. along and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle libya within the great arab awakening a one off detour for the maintenance of western military and political intervention in the arab world when it comes to libya and the arab world what is the difference between humanitarian aid and western geopolitical interests. and you can. discuss libya and the great arab awakening i'm joined by islam qassam in the hague he is a strategic analyst at the hague center for strategic studies in cairo we crossed the editing should go fisher he is a visiting distinguished lecturer at the american university in cairo and in san francisco we have eric harris he is the founder and managing editor of antiwar dot com all right gentlemen this is cross talk you all have different points of view and i want my viewers to see them ok eric if i can go to you and kind of maybe change the direction of discourse at least from western media and looking at libya and what is going in the in the arab world i mean let's take it back a few months we have tunisia w

peter. what about the repeal of the davis-bacon act? they have a similar law in missouri. have one more question for the fair tax issue. it is more of an observation. take away the power to write the tax code and you will get it back to the people. >> what it does is guarantee they pay the union wage. this comes the union work rules. it is a situation where they based it on a survey of what the wages are paid for work. the only people that have the resources to deal with answering the survey is the unions. the yund union contractors are trying to make money. -- non-union contractors are trying to make money. it forces anybody doing government contracting work to live by the union rules. it is the work rules. the problem is when you are in a unionized contract environment you have one guy it allowed to do this thing and not allowed to do this. it is crazy the lack of flexibility. prevailing wage laws are a disaster. they make everything the government does more expensive. they do nothing to ensure labor peace. >> the history is really interesting. the davis-bacon law was in

davis. >> -- the united states constitution, then leave this country -- >> reporter: protesters showed up for a showdown about a congressional hearing scheduled for later this week. >> it's unamerican to attack muslims. >> reporter: representative peterof new york, chairman of the house homeland security committee, says affiliates of al qaeda are radicalizing some american muslims and thursday's hearing is about the threat they pose to the u.s. >> there's self-radicalization going on within the muslim community. it may be a small minority, but it's there. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters showed up in times square to say muslims shouldn't be singled out under any circumstances. >> what i want us to do now is not go down the same road as mccarthyism, not to target a whole community with the fault of the actions of a few. >> reporter: the imam initially behind the controversial islamic center near ground zero was among those who condemned the hearing. do you see this hearing as a potential vilification of the muslim community? >> that's the perception. the real enemy is not islam and muslim, the real enemy is radicalization and extremism. >> reporter: down the street, a much smaller group stood in support of the hearing. >> i am here

peter. what about the repeal of the davis bacon act on the federal basis? and i'm very familiar with the, they have a similar law in the state of missouri which you're addressing and then i have one more question for the fair tax issue and it's more of an observation. take away the power to right the tax code and you will give the power back to the people. and that is a situation that most people do not understand. and i appreciate your response, sir. >> sure. well prevailing wage is an insidious issue that at the federal level is called davis bacon, most of the states call it per vailing wage and the system is set up theoretically to guarantee a so-called fair wage on government contracts. what it really does is guarantee that they pay the union wage. and along with the uneyg wage come the union work rules which is a much bigger problem. and it's a situation where they base it on this so-called survey of what the wages are being paid for given work. well, the only people that have the resources to deal with actually answering the survey and going through t