Tell Mr. Kerry if he should call for a recount in Ohio along with the Greens/Libertarians
Some say it is not enough for him to play bystander while the third parties fight for our rights, that as the only one with 'standing" he must himself demand an immediate recount to keep the clock in Ohio from running out. Here is a one click page where you can send your personal message to the Kerry campaign, the DNC and the GAO all at the same time. http://www.thepen.us/e-fraud.html And if you have an issue of your own you would like featured on The People's Email Network as a decision page, please email your request and we will set one up for you for no charge. Just show that you have constituency who will participate on the site. Please post this link everywhere you can to everyone you know. Otherwise just email back to get off list. NEVER SEND SPAM. IT IS BAD.
Write Congress what to do about Social Security
This week both sides of the Social Security controversy hit the airwaves. Some are trying to persuade you that there is a crisis that requires privitization of the system now. Others point out that analysts agree the system will remain solvent for 30 years and beyond just maintaining the current system. What do you think Congress should do? Here is a one click form that sends your personal message to both your senators and house representative at one time. http://www.usalone.org/socialsecurity.htm And remember we will set up a custom action page for any issue of your own you like for no charge, and you get a snazzy drop-in dynamic menu for your own web page to help promote it too at http://www.usalone.org/action_center.html Please forward this message and post this link everywhere you can to everyone you know. Or if you want to get off the list, just email back and indicate the same. NEVER SEND SPAM. IT IS BAD.
Should Congress investigate the integrity of presidential press conferences
How is it that a phony journalist was promoted to ask propaganda questions at White House press conferences? The issue is not whether Mr. Guckert (Jeff Gannon) might have moonlighted as a prostitute. The real question is whether the press itself, in the exercise of its professionalism should have more control over the process. Is it time for Congress to get involved to make sure the tough questions are allowed to be asked? What do you think we should do? Here is a one click page that sends your personal message to all your members of Congress at once. http://www.usalone.org/press.htm And remember we will set up a custom action page for any issue of your own you like for no charge, and you get a snazzy drop-in dynamic menu for your own web page to help promote it at http://www.usalone.org/action_center.html Please forward this message and post this link everywhere you can to everyone you know. Or if you want to get off the list, just email back indicating same. NEVER SEND SPAM. IT IS BAD.
Should the bankruptcy abuse prevention bill be rejected
The Senate Republican leaders have now filed for cloture (a move to preclude a filibuter) on the bankruptcy abuse prevention act, which will be voted on this coming Tuesday. With the exception of a minor rewording of the definition of "special circumstances" every proposed amendment, including restrictions on predatory lending practices and corporate retirement fund theft so far has been blocked. The banks and credit card companies pushing for this would like to believe this is a fair way to restrict bankrupty filings. Do you? Here is a one click page where you can send your personal message to both of your senators and your house representative too, all with one click. http://www.usalone.org/bankruptcy.htm And remember we will set up a custom action page for any issue of your own you like for no charge, and you get a snazzy drop-in dynamic menu for your own web page to help promote it at http://www.usalone.org/action_center.html Please forward this message and post this link everywhere you can to everyone you know. Or if you want to get off our list, just email back indicating same. NEVER SEND SPAM. IT IS BAD.
We should stop debt robbery
HELP REJECT THE "BANKRUTPCY ABUSE" BILL IN THE HOUSE Do you have to pay 25, 35 percent or over on your ccards? How do you like outrageous late and overlimit charges? Have they raised your interest to the max the instant you were a day late? The Senate rejected all attempts to provide measures prohibiting credit abuse in the pending bill. Plus, they would not act to do anything to stop the exclusive asset protection trusts that corporate kingpins use to shield THEIR portfolios, perhaps what they may have stolen from your own retirement fund by bookkeeping theft. What are you going to do about this? What CAN we do about this? Our Senate has been unwilling to vote for fairness, but this provision still has to pass the house, where all members have to face re-election in 2006. Won't you take a moment to tell them that that you won't be quiet while they betray you in favor of private lobby groups. Just submit the web form below to instantly send your personal thoughts to all of your members of Congress at one time (1) Constituent info: Email: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr. First Name: Last Name: Addr: Apt/Ste: City: State: AK AL AR AS AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA GU HI ID IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WI WV WY Zip: Phone: (2) Next add your own personal message to your Congress: The question is "How should the House vote on the bankruptcy bill?" This petition will submit your "No" vote. If you want to compose a long message, please make a copy of the text for yourself before submitting form, or paste in from a text editor (3) Submit the email addresses of friends to invite to vote: (4) Now send your messages If you need help with the form or to email in your comments directly What would happen to you if a member of your family suffered a medical disaster? Also rejected by the Senate were provisions to make an exception when a single illness can ruin you. Will there be a family member forced into endless deployment as your resources crumble? Our senators don't care while their banking industry pals take you for all you've got. Speak out now to let the house know what you think. They dismissed the long overdue raise in the minimum wage, an exception for victims of identity hijacking, and for the ability of our senior citizens to maintain just a modest bit of the home they've lived in all their lives. It's not a surprise level-headed news sources are calling this bill despicable. Our Senate would not hear it. Or perhaps we haven't started speaking up loudly enough yet. Or if you want to get no more, just use our Off address Powered by The People's Email Network © 2005, Patent pending, All rights reserved
Vee have to examine your papers (NO on federal ID
NO ON THE NATIONAL ID CARD NOW Generally we like to send out newsletters no more than about once a week, however when they try to ram MAJOR new laws through Congress with not as much as a debate we the people must jump into action. This time they want to set up a giant central database and federal ID card, and they hid it in the latest Iraq supplemental appropriation in the dead of night. What is so wrong in this scenerio? To begin with if the current administration wasn't so busy cooking intelligence, ignoring the real danger signs, forcing public servants who actually know what they're doing to tell lies, and playing rope-a-dope with the national security, 9/11 itself could have been stopped. The problem isn't that they haven't got enough UNCHECKED power to violate our privacy, it's that they can't be trusted with the power they've seized already. The worst thing we can do is place all of our most personal information in one abusable database, with theft of identity already rampant. Do you think they would possibly abuse this power? Probably not until they would excommunicate people from their own churches for holding the wrong political views. Sorry, oops, that's already happening even now. The form in this email will transmit your own message to all your congresspeople at once. Please take amoment to submit the one click form below and call for a debate on a national ID in the light of day. (1) Constituent info: Email: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr. First Name: Last Name: Addr: Apt/Ste: City: State: AK AL AR AS AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA GU HI ID IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WI WV WY Zip: Phone: (2) Next add your own personal message to your Congress: The question is "Should we have a national ID card?" This petition will submit your "No" vote. If you want to compose a long message, please make a copy of the text for yourself before submitting form, or paste in from a text editor (3) Submit the email addresses of friends to invite to vote: (4) Now send your messages If you need help with the form or to email in your comments directly Do something NOW about this and post this message everywhere you can to everybody you can. Or if you want to stop future, please use our No More function Powered by The People's Email Network © 2005, Patent pending, All rights reserved
Honor our armed forces by speaking out for an INVESTIGATION [f4240@al-qaeda.net]
DEMAND AN INQUIRY OF THE DOWNING STREET MEMO On this Memorial Day we remember those who gave their lives for our freedom. And just as we were a year ago on this date we are still trapped in an endless occupation of attrition in Iraq without even an exit plan. For those who gave their lives with honor, we have an obligation to them to get to the bottom of why they had to be deployed there in the first place. We know from the the text of a recently exposed Top Secret British Memorandum (read it for yourself), the president had decided by July, 2002, to invade Iraq and that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy". There was no imminent threat just an imminent deceit. Just a few heartfelt thoughts from you mean more than any prepared statement can. Who in Congress possesses the integrity to call for an investigation? Who among us cares enough about our country to CALL FOR THE TRUTH no matter where it leads? This form will transmit your own message to all our members of Congress at the same time. (1) Constituent info: Email: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr. First Name: Last Name: Addr: Apt/Ste: City: State: AK AL AR AS AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA GU HI ID IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WI WV WY Zip: Phone: (2)Next add your personal message to Congress: The question is "Should Congress Investigate Bush's Iraq War Lies?" This petition will submit your "Yes" vote. If you want to compose a long message, please make a copy of the text for yourself before submitting form, or paste in from a text editor (3) Submit the email addresses of friends to invite to vote: (4) Now send your messages If you need help with the form or to email in your comments directly A resolution of Inquiry has been proposed as follows: Whereas considerable evidence has emerged that George W. Bush, President of the United States, has engaged in a conspiracy to deceive and mislead the United States Congress and the American people as to the basis for taking the nation into war against Iraq, that George W. Bush, President of the United States, has manipulated intelligence so as to allege falsely a national security threat posed to the United States by Iraq, and that George W. Bush, President of the United States, has committed a felony by submitting a false report to the United States Congress on the reasons for launching a first-strike invasion of Iraq: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary is directed to investigate and report to the House of Representatives whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach George W. Bush, President of the United States. Upon completion of such investigation, that Committee shall report thereto, including, if the Committee so determines, articles of impeachment.Take action NOW about this and forward this email everywhere you can to everybody you can. If you want to get no more, please use our Off address Powered by The People's Email Network © 2005, Patent pending, All rights reserved
John Bolton and the Downing Street memorandum outrage [f4240@al-qaeda.net]
DON'T ALLOW BOLTON TO PUSH US INTO ANOTHER ATTACK Why is everyone talking about Downing Street memo? If you haven't heard of it, if the media where you're used to getting your information is hiding it, and you haven't read it for yourself You can see it right here This previously top secret document reveals that the most senior officials of the British government knew that there was no just cause for war with Iraq, but that "the facts and intelligence are being fixed around the policy" by this administration to force it to happen anyway. That was over 1600 American deaths, over 10,000 greviously wounded, and 300 billion looted from our national budget ago. Now ponder that in the lead up to the Iraq war it was John Bolton who was HIMSELF responsible for putting out a fact sheet for the media and the U.N. containing known lies about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium from Africa Plus of course, we also learned from the Senate testimony that John Bolton over and over hyped intelligence, bullying his own staffers to do so. Put the pieces together and you realize that Bolton was one of the key players who arranged the actual intelligence "fix" discussed in the Downing St. memorandum. Then tell your members of the Senate that this standing alone has to preclude his installation as ambassador to the U.N. Are there fifty-one senators worthy and true to reject this nomination? If there is not, then is it even more critical for those with the integrity to do it to stand firm for stopping this by MAINTAINING THE FILIBUSTER, regardless of party affiliation. Use the from in this email to let your senators know that you've read the Downing Street memorandum and you demand accountability. (1) Constituent info: Email: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr. First Name: Last Name: Addr: Apt/Ste: City: State: AK AL AR AS AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA GU HI ID IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WI WV WY Zip: Phone: (2)Next add your personal message to Congress: The question is "Should the Senate filibuster John Bolton?" This petition will submit your "Yes" vote. If you want to compose a long message, please make a copy of the text for yourself before submitting form, or paste in from a text editor (3) Submit the email addresses of friends to invite to vote: (4) Now send your messages If you need help with the form or to email in your comments directly Do something NOW on this and forward this email everywhere you can and to everybody you can. Or if you want to get no more, use our Off function Powered by The People's Email Network © 2005, Patent pending, All rights reserved
We demand the TRUTH about Iraq out of Congress [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WHEN WILL THEY TELL US THE REAL STORY? Haven't you read the Downing Street minutes? Why else are we not already demanding our Congress to probe why it was "the facts and intelligence are being fixed around the policy" (the exact quote) of invading Iraq. Even if the justification for the war was a not fraud, the fact that the occupation has gone so terribly wrong, with resistance from native insurgents only increasing every day, would be enough cause to question why we are even there at all. What we have learned is our president was fixated on having this war, justified or not, legal or not, and whether it would actually exacerbate terrorism and the threat to America or not. Our president secretly agreed with the British prime minister to attempt to elicit a military retaliation from the Iraqis with massive bombings in 2002, and even though Iraq did not retaliate he still invaded anyway. He figured that the Iraqis wouldn't submit to the weapons inspectors, and despite the fact that were fully cooperating he invaded anyway. The truth has finally been revealed that Iraq didn't have any weapons threatening us with any kind of destruction, and he knew it all along. It's time for America to demand that our Congress exercise its constitutional duty to call our president to account. The time has come to find out why WE WERE DECEIVED, and who was involved in manufacturing and promoting those lies. We have to judge who should be held responsible for running our military, our budget, and our standing throughout the world into a ditch for this unlawful and endless debacle. The form in this email will transmit your own message to all of your congressional representatives at the same time (1) Constituent info: Email: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr. First Name: Last Name: Addr: Apt/Ste: City: State: AK AL AR AS AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA GU HI ID IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WI WV WY Zip: Phone: (2)Next add your personal message to Congress: The question is "Should the Congress investigate the Downing Street minutes?" This petition will submit your "Yes" vote. If you want to compose a long message, please make a copy of the text for yourself before submitting form, or paste in from a text editor (3) Submit the email addresses of friends to invite to vote: (4) Now send your messages If you need help with the form or to email in your comments directly (street address needed to match House member) Do something NOW about this and post this email everywhere you can to everyone you can. Or if you want to stop future, just use our Off function Powered by The People's Email Network © 2005, Patent pending, All rights reserved
Stop CAFTA and yet more American employment oursourcing
TAKE ACTION NOW TO SAVE OUR JOBS There are so many reasons to reject the CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) treaty. With no enforcement provisions to prevent exploitation of foreign workers it would force those of us who still have jobs to compete against the lowest wage standard in the world. Without environmental protections it would force what industries we have not lost to pollute our own country to keep their costs as low as the worst offenders overseas. The agreement even signs on to restrictions on the availability of simple vitamins and minerals that might prevent illness and disease, a provision pushed by prescription drug industry interests to put us even more at their mercy. This will be a VERY CLOSE VOTE in Congress, so by speaking out you can make a real difference in the outcome of this critical policy decision. Will we slide further down the NAFTA slope of outsourcing and wage depression in our country, or will we take the kind of stand that will inspire more of our fellow constituents to elect the right people next time? Please submit the form below, whether or not you have time to add a personal word of your own, but MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD NOW. http://www.actspeak.com/cafta.htm Won't you take action NOW on this? Also forward this email to everyone you know, and encourage its posting on websites and blogs. Or if you want to get no more just email back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by The People's Email Network Copyright 2005, Patent pending, All rights reserved
We can reject John Roberts and this is THE WAY we can get it done [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Million Email March to Stop John Roberts TAKE ACTION NOW at http://www.trotn.com Thousands and thousands of your fellow citizens are speaking out right now to oppose the nomination of John Roberts as chief justice of the Supreme Court. They are telling our senators that they don't want a justice who won't let us see any of his memos for the last 20 years. They are telling them they don't want a justice who tried to hide his leadership role in the extremely reactionary Federalist Society. They are telling them the most unpopular second term president in history does NOT have any mandate to appoint his own personal crony to such a position of absolute power. And they need to hear from you too. The question we must ask ourselves is this: If YOU had the power to cast the deciding vote on John Roberts, would you vote your conscience on principle or not? That is how you need to tell your senator they must vote as well, because you DO have that power. We are the American people, and our representatives we elected are there to listen to us and want we really want Especially if you are from Vermont or Wisconsin you must immediately contact Leahy, Feingold and Kohl and tell them they got it WRONG on Roberts in the judiciary committee and they need to correct their error. We already have a president who is incapable of ever admitting or correcting any mistake. We don't need that from our senators too. But whatever state you are from it is important for you to use the action form below to send a personal message to both your senators at one time, plus you can send a letter to the editor of your nearest daily newspaper, all with one click http://www.trotn.com Who were the self-appointed media pundits who dared to tell us Roberts was a done deal before the hearing even started? Who co-ordinated the corporate media campaign that poisoned our minds with the words of defeatism and submission? Indeed, who has unwittingly collaborated with the right wing talking points merchants by speaking those words of betrayal and resignation out of their own mouths? Why NOT demand what we really want? We are the people of the United States. We don't have to settle for less than we really deserve, a true mainstream justice who will rule fairly for all the people, not just on behalf of a minority of corporate crony friends. How dare anyone tell us Roberts is the best we can hope for. The best we can hope for is what we are BRAVE enough to demand as is our RIGHT by the mandate of our numbers speaking out. TAKE ACTION NOW at http://www.trotn.com or to get no more simply email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The President appoints Ham Sandwich and Reid bites [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DO WE PUT UP A FIGHT NOW? ... NOW DO WE PUT UP A FIGHT? We told you how critical it was for us to oppose John Roberts with every fiber of our being and many thousands of you did. We warned you that allowing the stealth candidate Roberts to pass without proper scrutiny would only EMBOLDEN Bush to put forward an even more inscrutable personal crony next. And did we get that one RIGHT! The nomination of someone as unqualified as "Brownie" to replace Sandra Day O'Connor was greeted with a universal chorus of catcalls and derision from just about every corner of the media. But it is not enough for us to reject this sad excuse for a lifetime appointment, we must ALSO demand a true moderate for this next vacancy. TAKE ACTION NOW AT http://www.trotn.com/miers.htm In a Republican controlled Congress that would rubberstamp a ham sandwich if the president sent one down, this one may prove to be just too hard to swallow even for them. Indeed, some commentators believe this nomination was intended to be SO objectionable that even in its defeat it would force the goal posts even further into far right field. It's not only time for a filibuster, it's time to KEEP ON filibustering until we, the American people, get what we truly deserve, a qualified MODERATE who will rule fairly for us all. And we must make it starkly plain to our representatives that their continued cowardice will cost them their own jobs and very soon. http://www.trotn.com/miers.htm This one click action page will also send your personal message to both your senators, plus a letter to your nearest daily newspaper at the same time if you like. The Miers nomination is a non-starter. And as for Harry Reid, we've had it with his non leadership as well. Strike one was the craven filibuster compromise he gave his blessing to. Strike two was allowing the ideologue Roberts to waltz through without so much as a serious challenge. And strike three was talking as if such a dedicated Bush crony as Miers even deserved a hearing. Reid has got to go. AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT, WE'VE GOT A WAR TO STOP What we will do is continue to speak out, LOUDER and in even greater numbers, because in the process of speaking out, we are ALSO organizing ourselves into the numbers to win the elections of the future. We just saw the largest antiwar demonstrations since the war and endless occupation in Iraq started. Meanwhile we are breeding so much hatred in the Muslim world with every senseless killing, every additional day we remain it will get worse. What we must do is to speak out to our members of Congress as their personal constituents. There are many of them who are having doubts. We need to tell them the insanity must stop NOW. TAKE ACTION NOW AT http://www.trotn.com/troopshome.htm The one click action page above has now been fully dedicated to the message, "Support our troops, bring them home now." There were 250,000 people who TRAVELED to Washington, D.C. to march in person. Can we not get four times that many to make a toll-free phone call or click a mouse one time? We can stop the war years from now, after an order of magnitude more death, horror and destruction. Or we can stop it RIGHT NOW, if only we speak out in sufficient numbers. They can't put a smiley face on this one. http://www.trotn.com/troopshome.htm The majority of the American people now realize the invasion was a terrible and tragic mistake. They are beginning to realize that they have been lied to about the most sacred matter a nation can contemplate, the necessity to go to war. And they are waiting for you to reach out to them, to show them how easy it is to express their opinion directly to their members of Congress, or submit a letter to their nearest daily newspaper using the one click action page, and to mobilize them as you are even now mobilized. or to get no more simply email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RNC and White House confess Harriet Miers intended as CRONY for the Supreme Court
TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MIERS AT http://www.trotn.com/miers.htm Faced with growing opposition even from their own, the Republican National Committee and the White House held a joint mobilizing conference call to rally their most reactionary supporters behind Harriet Miers, their "get out of conviction on appeal" free card. The point was to assure them that her votes on the Supreme Court were already predetermined. Here is a typically chilling quote from the transcript of that sesssion: "He and she [the president and Miers] both understand that if she were to get on the court, and she were to rule in ways that are contrary to the way the president would want her to approach her role as a justice, it would be a deep personal betrayal, and would be perceived as such both by him and by her." This is absolutely nothing more than a patently crony nomination, and is perceived by even its proponents as exactly that and being sold as such. It is a matter of the utmost urgency that you communicate to your senators that this nomination is not worthy of any consideration at all on that basis alone. As if our members of Congress had not sold the people so far down the river already, do we really need ANOTHER hardcore administration loyalist on our Supreme Court? TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MIERS AT http://www.trotn.com/miers.htm We all know how much the reactionaries love their talking points. Here are ours: 1) NO BUSH CRONY EVEN DESERVES A HEARING Have we not seen the disaster wrought by installation of hardcore administration cronies in positions of the highest responsibility? Must our Supreme Court go the way of New Orleans? There are many jobs in this world where you have to qualify to even GET a job interview. Surely a seat on our Supreme Court is one of them. Some say they need to hear what she has to say. That is just more of the same surrender babble, and is based on two false premises, that we don't ALREADY know where Miers stands, and that she will disclose anything meaningful under examination. There is nothing coming but another Roberts' style stonewall, and for all those reasons we say NO HEARING. 2) THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DEMAND A MODERATE It's time to fight for what we really want on principle. It's time for those who would presume to represent us to take up that fight. And the American people will tolerate NO MORE extremist far right appointees to our Supreme Court. Every day Bush's popularity rating sinks to a new record low. It is only his totally corrupt party caucus, now with a temporary majority in the House of Representatives, that has prevented the initiation of impeachment proceedings already for his incompetence and malfeasance. We the people demand that any further nominees be no worse than true MODERATES. That's our position and we're sticking to it. AND SPEAK OUT FOR REAL ELECTION REFORM Is there anybody who would want to be elected by cheating? Then why should not everybody want to support real voting reform, so we can make sure all votes are always counted accurately and reliably. Rush Holt has introduced a bill (HR 550) which would make sure that's what happens from now on. TAKE ACTION NOW AT http://www.trotn.com/hr550.htm The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (HR 550) (1) establishes a requirement for a voter verified paper ballot created for every vote cast; (2) establishes a mandatory uniform national standard that states that the voter verified paper ballot -- the only record verified by the voter rather than the voting machine -- is the vote of record in the case of any inconsistency with electronic records; (3) provides Federal funding to pay for implementation of voter verified paper balloting; (4) requires a percentage of mandatory random audits in every state, and in each county, for every Federal election; (5) prohibits use of undisclosed software, wireless communication devices, and internet connections in voting machines; (6) is required to be fully implemented by 2006; and (7) protects the accessibility mandates of the Help America Vote Act. The one click action page above has now been fully dedicated to the message that we will not tolerate any more funny business in our elections. Vote now by sending a message to our members of Congress that we need these long overdue reforms, so that we will actually have a chance to really vote in the future. TAKE ACTION NOW AT http://www.trotn.com/hr550.htm or to get no more simply email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do not permit Congress release CIA from the ban against TORTURE
KEEP THE CIA COVERED BY THE MCCAIN TORTURE BAN Having already threatened to veto the entire defense bill if restrained in any way from continuing its policy of international torture crimes, administration operatives will try to gut the McCain amendment in conference committee. Although passed 90-9 by the senate, three of the senators who voted for MORE torture, Ted Stevens (AK), Thad Cochran (MS) and Kit Bond (MO) with be on the committee to reconcile the Senate and House versions of the defense bill. And Stevens has already declared he will try to EXEMPT the CIA, the primary offender in acts of illegal torture, from being covered by the provision. STOP TORTURE NOW AT http://www.actspeak.com/no_torture.htm Those who are trying to grant Bush the right of an absolute dictator to torture anybody he wants anytime and anywhere he pleases must not be allowed to sneak a CIA "get out of atrocity free" card into the bill. An explicit exemption for the CIA would not only pervert the intent of the McCain amendment, it would cut the heart out of existing law and actually WEAKEN prohibitions on such abominable conduct. NO INDUSTRY SHOULD HAVE TOTALLY IMMUNITY, INCLUDING GUN MANUFACTURERS In a bill written by gun manufacturers' attorneys themselves, the House is about to pass a bill (S 397) that would exempt them from essentially any civil litigation for any cause. This has NOTHING to do with gun owners or the right for them to keep and bear the arms they have now. If you actually read the text of the bill it presumes to exempt the entire industry from negligence, breach of contract, and just about any other reasonable cause of action that any OTHER industry would have to respect that was not selling a product designed to kill and maim. TAKE ACTION NOW AT http://www.actspeak.com/gun_liability.htm Nowhere in the Constitution do we find a "thou shalt not sue corporations" amendment. Yet over the last century they have demanded and been granted full rights of personhood. That's a truly lethal combination, all the rights of a person under the Constitution but NONE of the responsibility. And all this bill represents is another giant step to making corporations effectively unaccountable to we the people for any reason whatsoever. or to get no more simply email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The coming Hurricane FITZIE
IMPEACH BUSH AND ENTER THE "GUESS HOW MANY INDICTMENTS" POOL As always we feature the action link first, this one to call for the impeachment of George Bush http://www.actspeak.com/impeach.htm There is a storm of historic proportions headed for the United States, one that will make Hurricane Wilma (also en route) look like a small splash in the pond by comparison. It's been building and gathering strength in the increasingly hot waters of the Special Counsel's office for almost two years, and in a matter of days it may lay waste to the entire political infrastructure of Washington, D.C., from one end to the other. We start with the understanding that the crime of the century (so far) has taken place in Iraq. Lies and forged evidence duped the American people into waging preemptive war against a country that posed no threat to us -- all for the cynical and greedy purpose of enriching a handful of the Bush administration's closest cronies. In the process, over 100,000 people have been senselessly murdered and maimed, including many thousands of our own service people. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been looted from the treasuries of two countries, mostly our own. Even worse, many believe that the attack of 9/11 was not only foreseen by the inner circle of our government, but that orders for a deliberate "stand-down" allowed it to occur. Why? So that the horrific resulting tragedy would justify all that followed. The magnitude of these crimes is so monumental that their perpetrators were obsessed with suppressing any evidence of it. They ruthlessly smeared all critics, purging and intimidating any dissenting voices. For them the treasonous acts of exposing (and thereby destroying) one of our most critical intelligence assets (a front company secretly working to prevent the spread of WMD), were just another day's collateral damage. Having lied successfully for so long, having corrupted their mainstream corporate media lap dogs, and having made eunuchs of many in the "opposition" party, they considered themselves unassailable. Such arrogance has seldom been equaled. What they did not count on was Patrick Fitzgerald. The letter which appointed him as Special Counsel granted to him the "authority of the Attorney General . . . independent of the supervision or control of any officer of the Department." Careful to confirm the extent of his mandate, he further inquired and was advised that "[It] is plenary and includes the authority to investigate and prosecute violations of any federal criminal laws related to the underlying alleged unauthorized disclosure, as well as federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, your investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses; to conduct appeals arising out of the matter being investigated and/or prosecuted . . ." "Plenary" means "absolute and unqualified." In a word, Fitzgerald has all the power of the attorney general, the top law enforcement officer of the federal government himself, to pursue the facts wherever they may lead. It therefore appears he now possesses his own authority, and cannot be legally removed from his position, even by Bush. He has his own operating budget too, direct from the GAO. For the criminal purposes of the Bush administration, Patrick Fitzgerald is their worst nightmare come true. He is a career prosecutor with a reputation for being not only "frighteningly" brilliant but fearless, and with a driving passion for determining the truth, their most mortal enemy. Indeed, the fastest way to get Fitzgerald's fur up is to try to lie to him as a witness. See, he's a workaholic already, and liars just make him work harder. And if you've committed a federal crime like maybe . . . oh gee, maybe like perjury . . . says an old attorney friend, "Pat Fitzgerald's gonna get ya." Oh, and did we mention that he always goes for the person at the top of the conspiracy? For those who are still trying to get their minds around the possible indictment of Rove and Libby, now a near certainty, consider that no one in the Bush camp is capable of telling the truth under any circumstances. As for Bush himself, one of his Harvard Business School professors said that Dubya was "famous" in his class for being a "pathological" liar. Bush has known all along who the leakers were, and he's been lying all along. Fitzgerald interviewed Bush for over an hour, and it's unlikely that he told the truth in any respect. Bad move, George. Fitzie don't play that. But wait, you say; that interview wasn't under oath. Try telling that to Martha Stewart who just got out of prison from her conviction for deceiving an investigator. Likewise with Dick Cheney. Even if two of his bag men had not cut deals with Fitzgerald already. And as for those who did testify untruthfully to the grand jury under oa
