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The BuzzFlash Mailbag The opinions expressed in the Mailbag are not necessarily those of BuzzFlash. More reader opinion is at "Contributors." You can write to Mailbag at http://www.BuzzFlash.com/contact/mail.html. Guidelines for submissions are at BuzzFlash FAQ #18. Subject: House To Vote on Unpatriot Act [Tuesday] 3/7 @ 6:30pm EST The House of Representatives plans to vote whether to extend the USA PATRIOT Act at 6:30PM EST. The Senate approved it last Friday, March 3rd, with 10 opposed — a ten-fold increase from Senator Russ Feingold's lone opposition to the original act back in 2001. To date, 8 states and approximately 400 cities across America have passed resolutions opposing the PATRIOT Act: http://www.bordc.org/list.php?sortAlpha=1 More and more Americans expect Congress to represent the public will against growing government violations of civil liberties. Many congressfolks are up for re-election, and are paying close attention to the public groundswell around this. Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will announce her position around 4PM EST. Please call her leadership office NOW at 1-202-225-0100 to lead the opposition. Use these toll-free numbers to reach any other Reps: 1-866-340-9281 1-866-340-9279 1-877-851-6437 1-888-355-3588 1-888-818-6641 Go to http://congress.org click on Your Congress Member and choose the categories you want to call: maybe all the Dems, or everyone west of the Mississippi, or folks with unusual surnames ... just remember the action is in the House! For more info on the legislation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act Chico [BuzzFlash Note: The vote was 280-138: Our Freedom is Imperiled and at Risk Because of this Craven Deed: Congress Reauthorizes UnPatriot Act Provisions that Give Bush Powers He Has Shown He Will Continue to Brazenly Abuse. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." So Said Benjamin Franklin. With the UnPatriot Act, We Get Tyranny and No Safety. 3/8] Subject: The white house idiots are at it again How soon before we bomb Iran? Will we wait for UN approval or go it alone? What kind of legal mumbo jumbo will Bush/Cheney cook up with Gonzales' help to justify bombing without congressional approval? Will our military follow orders of the chimp? Help!!! Protesting, writing letters, demonstrating, talking about it, organizing, blogging, etc. Nothing is working to stop the madness. The Great Disconnect. No one can plug in these group of thugs to the rest of us as they hemorrhage the blood that makes up American democracy. Bush/Cheney now known as The Great Destroyers. Karen/WI Subject: Letter to Al Franken re His Recent Petulant Tirades Against Nader Voters Hey Al, Quit blaming (on your radio show) Nader voters from 2000 for the horrible crap Bush and his party keep doing. Half of this horrible crap (the bloated “defense” budget; the fascist newbies on the supreme court; the giveaways to drug, insurance, and credit industries; the pointless invasion of Iraq; the “Patriot” Act; ...) the Republicans have accomplished with the supine acquiescence - and often enthusiastic support - of the same Democratic figureheads to whom you now petulantly demand we give our allegiance. For instance, just (Monday) immediately following a tirade about Nader voters, you segued into laughing about the anti-flag-burning bill that is being promoted by some knuckle-dragging Republican lawmakers. Interestingly, that same irrational proto-fascist bill has been explicitly supported by the “liberal” goddess Hillary Clinton! Why in the hell are we supposed to trust these people? Just because they call themselves “Democrats”? You forget that Nader Voters, where they were to be found, were in all levels (precinct, district, state, and national) of the electorate outnumbered by Democrats Who Voted for Bush, and by Democrats Who Neglected to Vote At All (check it out). It is the incessant political triangulation and cowardly capitulations by the “No Daylight” (between them and the Republicans) Democratic “Leadership” that lost the most votes for the party in the past couple of election cycles, not the availability of an independent choice on the ballot. Oh yeah: Votes Demonstrably Stolen by the Republicans is another category that outnumbers Nader Voters in both 2000 and 2004 - and yet the actual Democratic winner in each of those situations couldn’t muster the gumption to object in any way - let alone mount a real defense - to this corruption of the political voice of so many of their fellow citizens. Thanks a lot for backing our play, Al Gore and John Kerry. Now I myself have not yet been a Nader Voter. I’ve always been impressed by the fact that everything he says regarding the state of American governance rings true (and I’ve yet to hear any Democratic Nader-basher object to any of his policy prescriptions - it's always about his sheer effrontery in exercising his right to run for office) and I considered supporting his candidacy in 2000, but I “realistically” opted for Gore despite the latter’s obvious terror of saying anything of substance during that campaign (not to mention his crypto-Republican running mate). In 2004 I canvassed and cold-called for John Kerry’s candidacy, despite the fact that this high-pocketed princeling turned my stomach with his empty demagoguery and existential poll-watching. But, I figured, we “had to beat Bush.” Never again. I will never again be brow-beaten, cajoled, or pressured into giving my vote to a self-absorbed elite that seems to claim it as casually as if it were their birthright. Gore, after suffering his humiliating victory, has apparently rehabilitated himself into a radical somebody I may actually get excited about working for, should he run in 2008; but Kerry, Biden, Reid, Clinton, and Schumer I view as parasitic collaborators to the Republican oligarchy who I will actively oppose should they run for anything that I’m eligible to vote for. And remember this - when you bad-mouth Nader Voters, you’re talking about my Mom and Dad, two social-action heroes who have put more on the line in their long lives for civil rights, voter rights, the anti-war movement, and other progressive causes in this country than you or I could even dream of; so show a little civility ... Ken Duerksen Subject: So much for "democKracy"... Dear Buzzers -- So Cindy Sheehan and her "collaborators" were arrested for -- gasp!! -- blocking a doorway at a peaceful protest that (the last time I checked) the Constitution still guarantees under the First Amendment. Meanwhile, the lobbyists and their "payees" are scurrying around like cockroaches trying to escape the light. Not to mention the scurrying on the part of corporate corrupted folks (Enron is just one example) who are busily pointing fingers at each other and saying, "Hey, it wasn't MY fault!" And then we have the mass murderers (including Dubya -- I won't mince words here) and the rest of this neocon/corporate-chained administration -- who face no charges at all. Go figure. If you or I showed up in a T-shirt stating our views, there's a good possibility that we might be ejected/arrested. But when you've bought and elbowed your way to control an entire nation, you're held responsible for...well, essentially NOTHING. Tom DeLay is (at least that's what I've heard on NPR, another borderline sell-out) running in the Texas primary for re-election to the House today. I hope he chokes on a pork rind on his arm-twisting route to the polling place. C'mon, guys: this exploiter and thief should be in PRISON, NOT running for office. However, I'm prepared to hear, tomorrow, that he "beat" his Republican opponents (nothing like a couple of million bucks and an enforcement system in place to ensure "victory") by an "acceptable" margin. As we Buzzers already know -- we're psychic -- if he wins the primary, the Repukelicans and their supporters (I hardly need to tell you who!) will, to ensure their permanent control of the House -- throw more $$ than most of us even collectively, have ever seen in our lifetimes. Where is Sam Ervin -- remember him? -- when we really NEED him? He chaired the Watergate Senate investigation committee back in the 70's -- and as soon as I got out of class I'd turn on the TV and watch him GRILL the perps. Except for a few lone voices -- Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy -- and a few REALLY brave Republicans -- Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins (sorry if I've left anyone out) who stand up for our rights, we're pretty much on our own. Back to my original point: To arrest Cindy Sheehan (really, jail time is much less painful than the loss of her son in a lied-into, greed/power based, and ultimately disastrous war) for exerting her First Amendment rights (peaceful protest, wearing a T-shirt) and excuse these BLEEP-BLEEPS for killing what's left of our country and the global environment is -- for us (while we still have the voices to speak out). Of course, as I've mentioned (!!) before, they're trying to take our Internet access away. This is unacceptable. PLEASE, someone with a better organized brain than I am, offer suggestions. (In my case, don't suggest contributing money; I don't HAVE any.) Barbara Lee (Barb) Blazyk Subject: Faint-hearted Need Not Apply! DO WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY ENOUGH TO CHANGE IT? We have been looking in the face of an abuse of power multiplied again and again by an arrogant and incompetent Bush Administration! There must be a correction of abuses, misuse of power, and this can only be accomplished by a transfer of power. Only dedicated Americans and Congressional Representatives, WHO REPRESENT THEM, will be able to make the difficult commitment to change the faces of those now in charge! We need to recover our sense of right and wrong, and we need to take right action to eliminate a President and his cronies, and the Party of Republicans, who believe they can write their own rules, bend them as they see fit, and block any investigations that will incriminate them and hold them accountable. That lets out McCain, and anyone of either party who can put on blindfolds to injustice for political gain or favors. Hear the words again of Thomas Jefferson, “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long-established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT, EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH A GOVERNMENT, AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY!” Elections are of primary importance with checks, balances, watchdogs, and the elimination of Diebold or any machines that can be hacked to predetermine an illegal outcome! Candidates like Paul Hackett are needed, while "moderates" who bend to Administration pressure and who will overlook abuses of power of the Executive Branch to achieve a compromise are useless! Too many come out with an optimistic strong position, and a couple days later they are taking two steps backwards and recanting or softening their position. We need a message and a Party of the people, who can and will carry everyone forward! A Ticket of many of the outspoken, including any combination of Boxer, Conyers, Feingold, or Murtha {or those like them}, is needed! Can we do it? The fight is long and hard, unswerving dedication, an iron will to withstand the character assassinations that come with the turf of extreme change, and the monetary and moral support of Americans united to rid our country of the blight of a corrupt regime can do it, but THE FAINT- HEARTED NEED NOT APPLY! Susan Carr Subject: CNN Is Still Controlled by the Right Dana Reeve dies and that is all they have been talking about all god damned day long! Give me a freaking break! One person dies and that is the most important story of the day according to CNN. People die of lung cancer every single day. Just because she is famous that makes it so important they have to talk about it all day long? Bullsh*t I'm PISSED!!! Steven Subject: SUV Attack Prompts Debate Over "Terrorism' and Islam Today's follow-up story in the L.A. Times about the recent incident in which a UNC student of Persian ancestry plowed his car into a group of fellow-students, injuring several of them. The accused UNC student, if convicted, could face a sentence of over 100 years in prison. If he does so, he'll be trading a lifetime (his) for whatever the return on one out of control moment of hate and madness. Meanwhile, back on campus yesterday, a group of College Republicans took advantage of said incident to let loose with their own brand of hate and madness, such as, "If we don't call it terrorism, what do we call it?" What do we call it? What difference what it's called? How do we prevent it, that's what matters. How? We change the world, that's how. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: GOP and Prejudice Dear BuzzFlash; How can you tell that the GOP are trying to 'be tolerant?' They can say they watched "Crash!" Ask a Republican if they are homophobic. "Of course not," claims the 'tolerant' Republi-sheep. Then ask if they have seen "Brokeback Mountain" or even "TransAmerica." Ask the newly 'tolerant' Republican if he-she is anti-semitic. "No, some of my best friends are Jews," claims the Republican. Then ask if they have seen "Munich." Watch the responses. Claiming to be unbiased is easy for a Republican as long as the only thing considered is race--and accountability and any other variety of humanity isn't. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Jeb Attacks! This coming November Florida will elect a new governor. With time running out on term limited Governor Jeb Bush the pace of his efforts to undermine public education is quickening. Last year, as the Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the school voucher case, Bush-backer, Tampa millionaire John Kirtley bused hundreds of school skipping children and their parents to Tallahassee to rally for the governor's program. Many of the same parents and their children were recalled to the Capitol this past February 15, 2006 to hear Gov. Bush announce that he will lead a drive to resurrect his three-times unconstitutional school voucher program by way of amending the Florida Constitution. With a sense of neither irony nor shame Jeb Bush told his predominantly African-American audience, "In Florida and the United States today, if you've got money you can make a choice. What about the children whose parents don't have the ability based on income to make that choice? Don't they have the same dreams? God gives every child the ability to learn. God does that!" In 2002 Florida voters were asked to consider the re-election of Jeb Bush and the class-size amendment to the state Constitution on the same ballot. Both Bush and the class-size amendment won. Jeb Bush has since graciously accepted the will of the voters that he serve a second term as governor but never stopped scheming to reverse the class-size mandate. During the 2005 session of the Florida Legislature a devious Bush plan to gut the class-size amendment pit rural school districts against urban school districts. The plan never got out of the Senate. Republican Sen. Alex Villalobos from Miami was among those who dared to stand up to the governor for his district's public school kids and their rights to a quality education. Jeb Bush's retribution against Sen. Villalobos has been swift and vindictive. Sen. Villalobos had been a champion of spinal cord research at the University of Miami and assistance to Miami Children's Hospital. Funding for both of those projects was among $27 million in cuts directed at South Florida counties in Bush's state budget for this year. Apparently unsatisfied that the budget vetoes had chastened Villalobos, Bush engineered his political humiliation. Back in 2004, Senate Republicans had put Villalobos in line to assume the powerful post of President of the Senate in 2008. He would have been the first Cuban-American to hold that position. On Thursday Feb. 9th several of Bush's Senate allies announced they would no longer honor their pledges of support and that Sen. Jeff Atwater would become the next Senate President instead of Villalobos. With his team in place, Gov. Bush plans another run around the class-size amendment. This time the devious smokescreen will be a right-wing canard they call "the 65% solution." The Florida Department of Education is a tool Jeb Bush is using to attack the public schools on another flank. It has now breathlessly declared that school districts have six months to generate functioning merit pay systems for teachers tied to standardized test scores and subject area tests that have not yet been created. DOE Chairman, John Wynn has threatened Miami-Dade County with a $35 million loss of state lottery funding for failure to comply. Many of my fellow teachers are wondering out loud who loosed this insanity on our schools. But Jeb Bush is crazy like a fox. If with this departing salvo he can become the first to mortally wound the public schools in a state of the United States, he will be a hero in some quarters. There are powerful political and economic interests that dream of getting their hands on public education funding and privatizing the system. They are forces that will have much to say about who is to succeed his brother as President. It's just a shame that so many of Florida's children must be sacrificed at the altar of one man's political ambitions. Paul A. Moore Subject: Chat room for BuzzFlash? Hi Buzz, Just responding to Steven in Texas who suggested adding a chat room to BuzzFlash. Sounds like a good idea but don't you need a monitor--someone to always be there to make sure the chatrooms is not inundated by trolls? Believe me, Steven, you won't enjoy trying to have a serious discussion with fellow chatters when you're constantly interrupted by people bouncing in to flame (all in caps, of course) 'LIBERALS ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!!! BUSH HATERS!!! or some such screeching diatribe. Maybe a Forum format might be better? But it's your other comment I'm actually writing about, where you suggest Buzz might be "censoring" letters in the Mailbag. I have often sent letters to the Mailbag, letters on which I did considerable research and spent a lot of time trying to make as concise and informative as possible, of what I considered really really important information to pass on--only to have Buzz not print it. But I have also had Buzz print comments of mine that I never thought they'd include. Steven, I don't think it's a question of Buzz's posting just "the ones they want to post." I think they try to achieve a balance without compromising what the site is really about. Can you imagine how many letters the BuzzFlash staff have to go through each day? With 3 million plus readers a day, many of whom write letters to the Mailbag, I would imagine that's quite a lot, and to have to first read through and then decide, among possibly hundreds and hundreds of emails a day, which to choose--I wonder how any of us could deal with that. It's an editor's nightmare. I think, though, Steven expresses what many of us feel sometimes--a sense of community with other BuzzFlashers, and the need to do more than just sense our solidarity with them. Perhaps a favorite Mailbag contributor lives in our area and we'd love to contact them so we could pull our collective resources and do some real activism together, if they were interested. Kind of like what Howard Dean's blog did during his presidential campaign. I'm not sure, though, that a chat room is the answer. BuzzFlash is, first and foremost, a news blog. Maybe Buzz can spawn off a sister site for people wanting to have more frequent, unmonitored input. But again, who would run it--and be there 24/7--and what would that cost? I expect there will be a fair amount of feedback on this issue. But thanks to Buzz's publishing your letter, Steven, I bet you learn you are maybe not the "only liberal in the county." It's all about connecting, and I think you just have. Keep trekkin' Buzz. And thanks for printing Steven's letter. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Finger in the dike There are indeed so many assaults on law and public interest going on simultaneously that one hardly knows where to look. The tactic works well for Bush et al. as the opposition party appears to be awaiting something that will rise to the level of importance justifying a full-court press. In the meantime, the Bush people continue to run up the score with a series of cheap shots. You really have to call them on each an every incidence of theft, murder and rape. Like most media, the story of the day captures attention to the degree it becomes an opportunity lost. Repetitive items on single news items displace and distract, as I'm sure the Bush group realizes and exploits. The 2005 review meeting for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty took place without any accomplishment whatsoever. This was an achievement of the Bush administration in a climate where other news completely displaced the failure to support even an agenda for this meeting. Another opportunity will not present itself (under the present schedule) until Mr. Bush has left office. Similar "accomplishments" mark the hampered activities of the International Panel on Climate Change. As a factual matter, diffusion of nuclear technology, including tritium boosting of fission weapons deliverable clandestinely, will lead to use by terrorists in ways we cannot track or prevent. We are driving this phenomenon, rather than addressing it. If we are not incinerated by nuclear weapons, delivered through our porous borders, it won't be because the Bush administration is taking any steps to prevent this result. Similarly, it is most probable that millions (if not billions) of people will die in this century due to Global Warming. The determination of the Bush administration to NOT ratify Kyoto and move on, or to act as if they believed the science, delays any meaningful activity to address the problem. In both instances (nuclear proliferation and Global Warming) it may be too late to escape catastrophic harm. It will certainly be too late if we do not address these issues like the life and death matters they are. On the balance, if we keep trying, I think we can at least preserve enough residue of genetic stock to insure the survival of our species, if not our culture. Regards, John F. Williford Subject: Nina Easton of the Boston Globe Buzz, I am absolutely enraged by Nina Easton of the Boston Globe stating that the reason Bush didn't go to New Orleans during Katrina was because he didn't want "to be an ambulance chaser, as he saw [President] Bill Clinton being" following the riots that broke out in Los Angeles after the acquittal of four white police officers charged with assault in the March 3, 1991, beating of Rodney King, an African-American. http://mediamatters.org/items/200603060010 WHAT???? First of all, Clinton wasn't even President yet at this time! Would 'Poppy' Bush be seen in LA administering to poor, black people? Certainly not. And for God's sake, thousands of people literally DROWNING in New Orleans, in desperate need of a f'ing bottle of water, were not worthy of some attention from this "compassionate conservative"? Ambulance chasers hope to reap some financial reward from victims....surely the victims of Katrina were not good ambulance-chasing material. Most of them had nothing. Why would Bush bother with people who are poor? Oh, yeah, I forgot. He DIDN'T bother with them. Too busy pretending to play the guitar in San Diego while people were drowning, the bastard. God save us from these people, please, and quick. The hatred that people like Nina Easton spew day after day is poisoning our country and is simply murderous. Yes, these "media" talking heads I hold personally responsible for the thousands dead in Iraq, the 2300 dead US troops, the 15,000 maimed US troops, and the thousands dead and still missing in New Orleans. How does Nina look at herself in the mirror? Disgusting. A Buzzflash Reader Subject: South Dakota Abortion Ban Dear Governor Rounds: I see, you signed the anti-abortion law. Well, if you think the law will end abortions in your state, you do not know history. There were abortions as long as we remember history! It is well known that in the Middle Ages there were abortions in the convents. The nuns had to accommodate the monks and other clergy but were not allowed to bear children. When I grew up in Germany in the 30's, the government of the Nazis had outlawed all abortions. I remember the pregnant women who committed suicide by going into the lake and drowning. I remember women who died after using coat hangers. The rich travelled to Switzerland or France to get an abortion. In our city of 60 000, there were women whose names were whispered to those who "needed help." All this was well known. Your law does not end abortions at all -- it only ends safe abortions. This is a fact you cannot change. Sincerely, A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: The Handmaid's Tale Dear Mailbag: Reading about the S.D. governor signing an anti-abortion bill into law reminded me of the terrifying Margaret Atwood novel, The Handmaid's Tale. If you haven't read it, it's about a not-too-distant future in which a religious cabal has taken over America, and women are forced into servitude as surrogate mothers for the wealthy theocrats, who also keep women illiterate and completely subjugated. It's TERRIFYING. Maybe you could offer it as a premium. Just a thought. At the very least, you should encourage your readers to check out the book. Keep up the good work. Michael Carmody Subject: Reclaiming America for Christ 2006???? Buzz, Thanks for the link: With Katherine Harris canceling her public appearances it will be interesting to find out if she shows up for this "Christian boot-camp." Just a couple thoughts from my perusal of the speakers list. There are 18 speakers listed. Only 3 are women (all white). I guess that ratio is about right for conservative christians, 5 times the number of men than women. 13 of the 15 men appear to be caucasian. Only 1 Hispanic is listed as a speaker, Ramon Arias, who "... translated the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ’s booklet, 101 Ways to Reclaim America, into Spanish, which will also be published in bilingual form to encourage use of the English language" ('cause everybody knows Jesus spoke English). The only African/American represented is Bishop McKinney who "...was awarded a Salt and Light award at the 2005 Reclaiming America regional conference in San Diego." (Google says "Salt and Light" is a Catholic Media Foundation. Whatever.) Also of note on the speakers list is David Gibbs, infamous as the Schindlers' attorney in the Terri Schiavo case; Jan LaRue, Chief Counsel for Concerned Women for America (remember Mrs. Roberts, wife of Chief Justice Roberts, was affiliated with this group) and author of such literary masterpieces as, "Is Kate Michelman Telling the Truth About Her Own Abortion Story?" and "Schizophrenic Left Will, Won't or Might Filibuster Alito." I am left with one nagging question that the link does not provide an answer for: When did Christ claim America the first time? Michelle Subject: TV, Progressive Money The problem is, progressives do not have a TV vehicle through which they can spoon feed the emotionally and physically exhausted "average" Americans. The message needs to be simple, really simple, and repetitive, every day, every week, month after month, year after year, in fifteen second sound bites. The effectiveness of twenty years of FOX lies has been sorely underestimated. Given the short attention span of average Americans, those lies do their intended damage very effectively because, well, before the truth can be brought out, Americans have moved on. It is an excellent tactic, and one we progressives need to espouse. Where is the progressive money? Why is there no progressive TV network? Anita M. there cannot be a god. no god could take from us someone as sweet, kind and so young as dana reeves and leave behind all the evil in someone like ann coulter. randi, liz and renee Subject: Dana and Chris are still with us Today marks the passing of Dana Reeve, wife of Christopher Reeve who played Superman in the movies, but whose real story started years later when a horseback riding accident left him paralyzed. Yesterday she died of lung cancer at the age of 44. Dana and Christopher Reeve leave behind a story of love, loyalty, courage, and taking adversity and turning it into advantage. They took a situation that might otherwise have been a tragedy and used it to bring them closer to each other and to be an example of not only recovering but thriving. Together they raised awareness of the plight of the paralyzed and formed an organization to fund research and became a voice for promoting stem cells as a way to regenerate spinal nerve tissue. Although Dana and Christopher are gone as individuals, their work and their foundation live on. Their legend is part of the Tree of Knowledge and they live as an example of what people can accomplish in the short amount of time we exist in reality. Their lives inspires us to live the kind of lives worthy of being remembered. Their accomplishments are not only still alive, but they leave something for the rest of us to build upon. Their lives show us that even in the absence of an afterlife we are not without some measure of immortality. All of us have the opportunity to leave behind part of ourselves if we choose to live the kind of life worth remembering as Dana and Christopher have. I'm Marc Perkel - And I approved this message! Marc Perkel Subject: Contacting Senate Intelligence Committee on Votes I think anyone who either appreciates the 7 votes to have a formal hearing on the wiretapping, or who is disgusted with the other 8 votes to not investigate, should contact these members with their comments. http://intelligence.senate.gov/members.htm A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: America Anesthetized "Why'd you do that?" "To prevent any pain and suffering." "Pain and suffering from what? "From people finding out the truth about the way it really is. "The truth? But who will the truth possibly hurt?" "Me, among others, since I'm to blame for the way it really is." "So to protect yourself you've put everybody to sleep except for your henchmen and henchwomen?" "If I don't I'm a cooked goose, if you know what I mean." "Yeah, your forthcoming trial before the International Court of Criminal Justice on the charge of mass murder and other crimes against humanity." "And those you-know-whats promised me I'd never get caught." A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Good News for BuzzFlash.com ... Which is that the powers that be are worried and upset about anonymity on the Internet, That's a sign that we're succeeding. Otherwise why would a congressperson introduce a bill to outlaw anonymity on the Internet? Something about promoting civility in politics; a feeble excuse, at best. Hmm, so the powers that be don't like anonymity. It must be hurting them... Keep up the good work, anonymous ones; and everyone else, too. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Elections Barbara, the Repuglicans are not worried about elections. They cannot lose. They own the machines. Check out [Secretary of State Bruce McPherson] in CA approving Diebold against all advice. The fix is even deeper now. Man Pleads Not Guilty in Voting Device Case (LA Times) Barry Gordon
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