GAS STRIKE DAY

Everyone Please read this message before you just disgard it!!!!!
  IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES DID
NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME,
THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES. AT THE SAME TIME IT
WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION
DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.
THEREFORE Sept 10TH HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED "STICK IT TO THEM  DAY"
AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF GASOLINE
THAT DAY.
THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY
PEOPLE A S YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.
WAITING ON THIS ADMINISTRATION TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES
THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO? REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT
ONLY IS THE PRICE OF GASOLINE GOING UP BUT AT THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE
FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES, TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE
THEIR PRICES WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS
LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING MATERIALS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS
IN THE END? WE DO! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE
MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.
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A memoir of recklessness and deceit . . .


Did you ever see the Abel Ferrara movie "Bad Lieutenant," with
Harvey Keitel? It's about a NY cop on the edge of annihilating
himself, whose behavior and character have so deteriorated that it
is unclear that redemption is even possible.

One might well call this book, which purports to be an anonymous
memoir, "Bad Attorney." Only it's not fiction, and at the end of the
book no gesture of redemption seems forthcoming.

But it's a mesmerizing read. The author begins his tale by
describing a single lawsuit over a fall from a horse in which he was
never able to bring himself to file the papers necessary to go to
court. He goes on from there to recount in affecting detail his
grossly incompetent law practice, his systematic deceit of clients,
the day-trading habit that he embezzled money from clients in order
to support, and his eventual disbarment.

Woven into this narrative of self-destruction, too, is the author's
infidelity to his wife, the dissolution of two marriages (the second
to a woman twenty years his junior), his brushes with various
characters who wish him harm, and his attempts to make a living
first selling cars and then as a pop-up advertiser and salesman
for "work-at-home" scams. The tone of the narrative is neither
apologetic nor proud; if anything, it tends toward shell-shocked.
Read it as a cautionary tale about procrastination, or as a warning
to take extreme care when picking out your next lawyer.


Now in print. http://www.fallenlawyer.com

IS IT TIME TO BRING THE NATIONAL GUARD HOME FROM IRAQ?

After 5 years of laughing off or suppressing sound policy advice,
the criminal neglect of our REAL homeland security by the Bush
administration has now resulted in the total loss of a major
American city.  And where is our National Guard and all their
equipment that are supposed to be here to protect and save us?
They are being ground up in the sand half a planet away for
absolutely nothing but the arrogant, uncaring and obstinate pride
of our chief executive, who is mentally incapable of admitting or
correcting any mistake ever.  We must DEMAND that our National
Guard come home now.

http://www.usalone.net/nationalguard.htm

The form above will send your personal message to all your
members of Congress, and now you can send a letter also to the
editor of your nearest daily newspaper at the SAME time, all
with one click.  Our troops in Iraq need to come home
immediately.  Not a year from now, not a month from now, NOW now.
Is there not a SINGLE politician with the courage to stand up and
speak the truth.  When enough of US speak up it will happen.  We
must take PERSONAL responsibility for our government and what it
does.  Why are you not clicking on the action form below right
now?

http://www.usalone.net/nationalguard.htm

Is it the destiny of our country to be utterly destroyed in
pursuit of vain foreign conquests, as was Rome so many centuries
ago, to where they could no longer protect their own homeland?
Is that what is meant by the words "finish the job"?  What
insanity misled us to this terrible PREVENTABLE tragedy, where
pleas for critically needed levee repairs were ignored to finance
war profits and tax cuts for this administration's personal
cronies.  They can't even recruit for the National Guard anymore
because it's nothing but a ticket straight to a desert hellhole.
Bring the guard home now.

http://www.usalone.net/nationalguard.htm

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Of course not you say.  The real question is WHO are you saying it
TO.  In the next 4 weeks if we all speak out to our senators we
can build a consensus that ANY new Supreme Court appointee must be
moderate centrist.  They have put forward a stealth nominee who a
will not be candid about their real extremist agenda.  They can't
even be honest about the fact that he was one of the movers and
shakers with the Federalist society.  That alone must preclude
this candidate.

http://www.usalone.com/rightwingcourt.htm

There are many defeatists who will tell you that truth cannot
prevail.  And if we only count on the candidate taking public
offensive positions or making outrageous statements on the record
it may not be enough, for this is a Bork in sheep's clothing.  They
will stonewall access to any memos in the last 20 years that might
expose the truth to the American people.  But we can encourage our
senators to take a stand, just as they denied their approval to
Bolton.  In the case of a lifetime appointment, that would be
enough.

http://www.usalone.com/rightwingcourt.htm

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originally posted by The Pen to pain-in-the-law

There is a strong bipartisan move afoot in Congress to limit the
power of the president to torture detainees in our name,
specifically to bar the U.S. Military from engaging in "cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment".  Does it surprise anyone that
this out of control administration is threatening to VETO the
whole defense bill if can't continue to commit war crimes?  If we
do not speak out they are our crimes as well.  Why don't you tell
your members of Congress to stand tall and stand together?

http://www.usalone.com/guantanamo.htm

This is especially meaningful in the context of the hearings
Friday where seasoned intelligence operatives stepped forward to
testify that GOOD intelligence comes from building relationships
over decades with foreign sources on a TRUST basis, not by pulling
off the peoples' fingernails.  It is precisely the rest of the
world's confidence in our intelligence agencies that the outing by
administration officials of one of our own top secret undercover
agents has so wantonly destroyed for petty political purposes.
And they did it AGAIN by outing a key inside source (Khan) whose
information would have prevented the recent British transit
attacks.  We are getting bad intelligence from administration
policies that are doing nothing but destroy our country and our
respect in the civilized world.  Please tell Congress to demand
that the torture must STOP.

http://www.usalone.com/guantanamo.htm

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originally posted by The Pen to pain-in-the-law

This year again the administration is trying to deliver a huge
payoff to their corrupt oil company campaign contributors,
absolving them of any future liability for polluting our water
supplies with MTBE, an insidious smelly solvent infiltrating water
systems all over the country.  So let me get this straight, the
oil industry, who is rolling in so much windfall profits cash
their biggest problem is they don't know what to do with it, THAT
oil industry can't afford to clean up after their environmental
disasters.  This measure barely passed the house but not in the
Senate and will now be settled in conference.

With such shaky support, those pushing for this mammoth act of
corporate welfare are offering to create some kind of fund that
oil companies will "contribute" to in some kind of LIMITED way,
and the rest of us just get to pick up the rest of their tab,
whatever that might be.  And if that wasn't outrageous enough, we
now discover that hidden in the energy bill like some stealth
elephant is repeal of the original Public Utilities Holding
Company Act, the last thing standing between our public utilities
and worst kind of speculators, like nobody's supposed to notice or
Enron never happened.  We still have time to raise a howl about
all this, so please use the action page below to do so

http://www.usalone.com/energy.htm

What they did to grease this hit job on the PUHCA was to propose
that oversight responsibility be shifted to the director of FERC,
who just HAPPENS to be a hardcore administration crony.  Yes, you
heard right, yet another wolf put in charge of administrating the
dismantling of the Hen Protection Act, this one a key member of
Cheney's SECRET TASK FORCE who wrote the energy bill itself.  It
It gives incentives to mostly the wrong people, does nothing to
promote real conservation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil,
will decimate the sea life off our coasts with excruciating sonic
booms in preparation for destroying even more of our coastal
environment, and all instead of making renewables the urgent
policy priority they should be.

http://www.usalone.com/energy.htm

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originally posted by The Pen to pain-in-the-law

There are so many reasons to reject the CAFTA 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.  Just as we did as to
Bolton, 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.usalone.com/cafta.htm

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and encourage its posting on blogs and websites.

originally posted by The Pen to pain-in-the-law

What do you say about an author who pens his life story anonymously?
Something to hide? You bet! But he's not hiding anything here,
anything other than his face. This is a true story. A one-of-a-kind
tell-all confessional. A memoir written by, perhaps, the worst lawyer
ever admitted to a State Bar. From a good start, with top grades and
high accomplishments early on, came a gradual unraveling, ending in a
complete and commanding collapse. Bloody details of the how, leaving
only questions as to the why. Riveting, compelling, desperate, and
dastardly.

Printed: 527 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in., Perfect-bound, 60# cream interior
paper.

http://people.lulu.com/users/index.php?fHomepage=4443

Linda,

   I live by a very strict motto: Honor,Respect,Duty,and commitment.

   I was raised to believe in and trust the law. But for the past 16
years.  Known and proveable federal and state crimes and rights
violations were commited against me by an employer,two insurance
companies,at least four lawyers,at least five medical doctors.
   I was taught,you commit a crime. You go to jail. A crime is a crime,no
matter who commits the crime. It is still a crime.
    I understand,in the State of California. There is a law,requiring any
one who witnesses a crime to report it.
    My question is. Why????
    None of the crimes commited against me and I reported,were ever
stated on any police reports and none were ever investigated.
   The crimes and rights violations commited against me. They helped the
insurance company get out of their obligations and responsibilities for
the injuries caused to me by their insured.
   I had work injuries and injuries caused by being rearended in an
Emergency Lane.
   From March 14,1989 to the present date. I have never been informed nor
have I ever received any of my rights,benefits, medical,or legal hearing
for workers' comp and car accident.
    Fraud,perjury,subornation of perjury,and witholding/suppressing
direct evidence was commited against me by both insurer and their
associated.
   As the direct result of the State of California continuing to refuse
to protect,up hold,and enforce the federal and state laws and
rights,within the State of California for and/or to every one the same
and equally.
    The employer,two insurers,four lawyers,and five doctors continue to
illegally retain their professional licenses and their places of
business. Not one of the crimes they knowingly commited against me,
commited against me through the legal system,and after,have ever been
stated on any police reports. And none have ever been investigated.
    The two case,workers' comp and car accident. The State of California,
continues to allow these two cases to stand,in direct violation of the
law.


    As far as I am concerned. The State of California is knowingly and
illegally harboring known fugitives from the law and aiding and abetting
these fugitives.
    How can can any one possibly believe in or trust the law,law
enforcement,state organizations,and the legal system,in the State of
California.  Especially knowing full well,they have full knowledge that
the crimes were commited and by whom,but did absolutely nothing to up
hold or enforce the law.

If people would just obey the laws and rights. At least half the
problems with the workers' comp system,would simply go away.

Daniel Harraden,"Voices",Representative in the State of California.

The first thing that our Congress needs to understand is that we
the people are not going to accept ANY so-called "conservative"
replacements for retiring Supreme Court justices.  The last time
our president checked the bank balance of his political capital it
was already OVERDRAWN, with some of his lowest approval ratings
ever.  The overwhelming majority of the American people do NOT
want our country to lurch even slightly more to the right, let
alone appoint another ideological extremist.

We will accept nothing LESS than a centrist, and it's up to our
senators to demand that as the representatives of our true mandate
that they go to the wall, to enforce an end to this slippage into
a corporate police state.  It is not a victory to lose yet more
ground.  Please tell your senators to make it very clear to the
president that the intimidation party is over.

http://www.usalone.com/supremecourt.htm

And if you have not yet submitted the MEDIA ACTION PAGE on the
Downing Street minutes, our form now also sends your personal
message to the ombudsmen for the New York Times, the Washington
Post, and 7 of the most important TV network news programs.  They
still are not giving this scandal the coverage it warrants so
let's all demand it.

http://www.usalone.com/downingstreet.htm

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originally posted by The Pen to pain-in-the-law

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so what do you think about this and other cases like this?

thanks,

amy

 

With the president stuck in a quagmire over his choice of U.N.
ambassador, people are saying it's time for our side to take the
initiative and suggest our own alternatives.  Why is this such a
good idea?  First, it demonstrates to the American people in a
positive way, "These are the kind of nominees you would get IF
YOU ELECTED US."  Second, it forces the president to turn his
nose up at each and every one of 2-5 strong candidates.  And
third, it further shows the intransigence of a president incapable
of admitting or correcting his mistakes, regardless of how
apparent the failure of his policies is to everyone else.  Tell
your senators we need to hold a PRESS CONFERENCE this coming week
and do just exactly that.

http://www.usalone.com/unambassador.htm

And if you have not yet submitted the MEDIA ACTION PAGE on the
Downing Street minutes, our form now also sends your personal
message to the ombudsmen for the New York Times, the Washington
Post, and 7 of the most important TV network news programs.  They
still are not giving this scandal the coverage it warrants so
let's all demand it.

http://www.usalone.com/downingstreet.htm

Please take action NOW on these issues and post and forward this
message everywhere you can to everyone you know.

originally posted to pain-in-the-law

Please note there are TWO fast action pages in this alert

(1) Yesterday 16 Senators demanded that Public Broadcasting
Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson resign.  Public television should not
be run like the Politburo, and yet he has instigated biased witch
hunts against the news department to try to purge any dissenting
voices, conspired with hostile lobbyists against the public
interest, and failed even to defend the agency from proposed
funding cuts.  Write your members of Congress with this one click
form to demand the removal of Tomlinson, and to protect the
of this, one of the last truly independent media sources.

http://www.usalone.com/pbs.htm

(2) Now that the Senate has rejected Bolton for yet a second time,
and with the White House still perversely pushing for their loose
cannon, there is a tremendous leadership opportunity for our side.
Here's an idea . . . why don't WE hold a PRESS CONFERENCE and
propose a list of acceptable candidates of our own, and say to the
American people in a positive way, "These are the kind of
nominees we would put forward IF YOU ELECTED US".  We must demand
that the White House immediately put forward a better candidate
for this critical position and to let go of their two-time
destructive loser nominee.  And if they don't have the leadership
to do so, we show that our side does.

http://www.usalone.com/unambassador.htm

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message everywhere you can to everyone you know.

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CONTACT THE MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS AND CONGRESS ALL AT ONCE

It's not just individual members of Congress who need to hear from
us demanding an investigation of the Downing Street minutes, it is
also the so-called journalists who themselves have been
stonewalling this grave constitutional scandal.  The White House
wasn't even going to send out anyone to accept the Conyers
petition until the presence of the progressive media shamed them
into it.  And where there has been other coverage it has been
typified by contemptuous spin pieces resembling negative campaign
commercials for war as usual.

The only thing that is going to precipitate a REAL INVESTIGATION
of all the lies that misled us to the Iraq disaster is DIRECT
pressure now on not just Congress but also on the mainstream media
to do their duty.  We have added functions to our action page on
the Downing Street minutes to send your personal message not just
to both your senators and your house member, but also at the same
time with one click to the key broadcast and print news outlets.
  Even if you have already submitted something else, we MUST follow
up with this as well.

http://www.usalone.com/downingstreet.htm

We're hitting the ombudsmen for the Washington Post and New York
Times, together with all the biggest national alphabet news
networks.  You saw how Conyers had to fight for a basement closet
of a hearing room this last Thursday, and how they scheduled a
dozen votes in a desperate attempt to disrupt the proceedings.
Tell your members of Congress there is zero chance of them getting
re-elected unless they confront this crisis.  Tell these news
outlets that if you can't get the REAL news from them you are
finding other sources for your news.

http://www.usalone.com/downingstreet.htm

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everywhere you can to you know.

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I know a couple of friends already who have met a few nice honey’s off of this
kind of stuff (here is the site they use: http://www.listpersonals.info/fvxq,
but what do you think? I think it is pretty cool from what I saw at my friend’s
house, and am thinking of signing up later today. Basically it's a regular
personalssite, but with an instant message and Webcam system built in. Basically
you join their chat-room on their site it gives you a link to those people
online in the chat-room, their location, their picture, etc and at one click you
can start chatting to them overwebcam (even if you don't have one). Pretty nifty
stuff I think!

FILIBUSTER FOR THE RIGHT REASON

It is looking more and more like the Bolton nomination is about to
collapse, but not only must we sustain the filibuster, we must do
it for the RIGHT reason and that reason is the PRINCIPLE that
Bolton is totally unacceptable with or without any additional
documents.r

The other side will try to claim a message spin victory by hanging
their latest foul slur "obstructionist" on us.  That is why we
must encourage all our senators to make strong statements on the
MERITS.  What we are doing is demanding something positive, that
the president tender a better nominee for this critical post of
U.N. Ambassador.  And if the other side will not take
responsibility and lacks the backbone or integrity to make that
demand, THEN WE WILL!  And we do it proudly, firmly and without
any apologies and that is what our senators must say on the floor.
You can tell them just that at the action page below.

http://www.usalone.com/bolton.htm

The message to the American people isn't that we have been as
appeasing as possible.  The message must be that the other side
has been absolutely and totally NOT cooperative.  The message must
be that our side is here to fight for what we believe in and
never, ever compromise on principle.  And the principle here is
that Bolton was, is and will always be wrong and must be
ultimately rejected for that reason ALONE.

Please take action NOW on this and post and forward this message
everywhere you can to you know.

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Going to trial on Monday!!

Need your thoughts.. please.

Will donate $5 per opinion to the Schiff liver Foundation.

thanks in advance>

Amy

Plaintiffs are four members of the Wrigly family.

The Wrigleys were westbound, headed for a family Christmas party, on a two-lane paved highway.  Conditions were icy.  Defendant Mr. Champs, also driving westbound, and ahead of the Wrigleys, went out of control and spun into the eastbound lanes, hitting another car.  An eastbound gasoline tanker truck, owned by Acme Transportation and operated by  Mark, was traveling eastbound.  The brakes on the truck were not properly adjusted.  The tanker truck was empty, which causes the tanker truck to have less traction.  The driver had been exceeding maximum work hours in four of the prior five days but was within maximum hours on this day.  Standards taught to professional truck drivers include not going into the oncoming lane of travel in an emergency situation.

 The defense will show that the gasoline tanker truck was faced with an emergency and did the best it could.  The tanker truck contends it acted in the most prudent manner when confronted with the Champs vehicle blocking his lane and another vehicle on the shoulder of the eastbound lane. 

However, the tanker truck must overcome some testimony that it was driving too fast for conditions and was picking up speed as it was coming down a hill, had faulty brakes, and according to driving techniques for professional drivers, should never pull into the oncoming lane of travel. 

The truck driver claims he was going at an appropriate speed for the conditions.  The Wrigley claim that he was coming down an incline and traveling at a higher rate of speed than permitted by the conditions.  Two witnesses who were traveling in a pickup in front of the truck saw the truck speeding down upon them prior to Mr. Champs crossing into the eastbound lanes.

Dena Wigley, (the driver and wife/mother of the Wrigley family), seeing Mr. Champs lose control, slowed her vehicle and pulled to the right and onto the westbound shoulder, bringing her vehicle to a complete stop.  The gasoline tanker truck hit its brakes, which pulled the vehicle to the left.  In an apparent attempt to avoid the Champs vehicle now stopped in the eastbound lane, he steered into the westbound lane.  There was a car stopped on the eastbound shoulder, and an open field to the right of the eastbound shoulder.  However, he struck and dragged the Champs vehicle with him as he continued into the westbound lane.

After crossing into the westbound lane he continued toward the shoulder of the roadway and crashed into a guardrail and then the Wrigley vehicle head-on.  The crash  , destroyed the Wrigley vehicle and causing great injury to the Wrigley family.

Medical bills for the Wriglery family are $400,000.  Past loss of income is $25,000.  The injuries to Rick and Katie are permanent.  The case has a value of $5 to $8 million.  The gasoline tanker truck does not dispute the damages, but believes it has no liability because it was faced with an emergency.

Mom/wife Dena was driving.  Her injuries include chest wall contusion, deep laceration of right knee, bilateral knee injuries with tendon/ligament damage, severe chest pain, atelectasis in the lower left lung, neck injury, hematoma of right breast from the seat belt, permanent scarring and disfigurement to chest and right breast, mental and emotional trauma, internal derangement right knee for which she underwent a right knee arthroscopy and a fractured tooth.

Dad/husband Riley was a front seat passenger.  His  injuries include right femoral neck fracture, right acetabular fracture dislocation, right tibial fracture, right midshaft femur fracture, ruptured patellar tendon, right great toe fracture, right inferior-pole patellar fracture, severe blood loss requiring transfusion, pulmonary collapse, distended abdomen, bleeding in urogenital system, psychological trauma, infection of right knee, permanent limp, permanent scarring and disfigurement.

Daughter Kelly age 19,  injuries are collapsed right lung with moderate hemothorax and right pulmonary artery contusion, lacerated spleen, avulsed right kidney with shattered renal artery, abdominal wall deficit with herniation of cecum and descending colon into the subcutaneous fat, fracture of 11th rib, right pulmonary artery contusion, flank hernia, spinal fracture at T12-L1, acute blood loss requiring several transfusions, large left pleural effusion with underlying area of atelectasis; internal bleeding, large 5-6 inch bruise on the left and front of chest, infection of internal injuries requiring drainage and antibiotics, small bowel obstruction and formation of abdominal abscess, large abdominal scarring, mental and emotional trauma.  Kelly also suffers from PTSD.

Son Rich, age 17, had relatively minor injuries.

Medical bills for the Wrigly family are $400,000.  Past loss of income is $25,000.  The injuries to Riley and Kelly are permanent.  The case has a value of $5 to $8 million.  The gasoline tanker truck does not dispute the damages, but believes it has no liability because it was faced with an emergency:

MAKE CONGRESS DEMAND THE TRUTH AS WELL

The initiative to sign a letter to the president demanding an
investigation of the Downing Street minutes and its disclosure of
the plan to fix the intelligence on Iraq is really taking off.
But it is just as or even MORE IMPORTANT for us to ALSO speak out
directly to our members Congress as well.  John Conyers needs
every member of Congress with integrity to sign on to his letter
of inquiry, and your pressure on them can make that a reality

http://www.usalone.com/warlies.htm

What we now know is our president was determined to have his war
with Iraq, justified or not, legal or not, and whether it would
actually INCREASE TERRORISM and the threat to America or not.  He
conspired with the British government to try to provoke a military
response from Iraq with massive bombings in 2002, and even though
Iraq did not strike back he invaded anyway.  He was gambling Iraq
would not cooperate with the weapons inspectors, and in spite of
the fact that they were fully cooperating he invaded anyway.  The
truth has finally come out that Iraq had no weapons threatening us
with any kind of destruction, and he had every reason to know that
all along.

It's time for us to demand that Congress fulfill its
constitutional duty to hold the president to account.  It's time
to investigate why WE WERE LIED TO, who was involved in
manufacturing and promoting those lies, and who should now be held
responsible for running our military, our budget, and our respect
in the world into the ground for this illegal, horrific and
endless disaster.  The action page below will send your personal
message directly to all your members of Congress at once.

http://www.usalone.com/warlies.htm

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everywhere you can to you know.

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STOP JOHN BOLTON AND HIS IRAQ WAR LIES

By now you know from The Downing Street memo that the very highest
officials of the British government said there was no just cause
for war against Iraq, and that "the facts and intelligence" were
"being fixed around the policy" by the U.S. to force it to happen
anyway.  That was 1600 American deaths, over 10,000 greviously
wounded, and 300 billion missing from our treasury ago.

But now also consider that in the run up to the Iraq it was John
Bolton who was PERSONALLY responsible for creating a fact sheet for
the U.N and the media containing known lies about Iraq seeking
yellow cake uranium from Niger.  And of course, we also know from
the Senate hearings that John Bolton repeatedly manipulated
intelligence, intimidiating his own staffers to do so.  Put it all
together and you see Bolton was one of the key players who put in
the very intelligence "fix" referred to in the Downing Street
memo.  Then tell your senators again that this standing alone must
preclude his confirmation as U.N. ambassador.

http://www.usalone.com/bolton.htm

Are there 51 senators good and true to vote down this nomination?
If not then it is all the more critical for those with the
integrity to do so to take responsibility for stopping this by
MAINTAINING THE FILIBUSTER, regardless of party affiliation.  Tell
your senators you have read the Downing Street memo and demand
accountability.

http://www.usalone.com/bolton.htm

Please take action NOW on this and post and forward this message
everywhere you can to you know.

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Members of Voices,

    The letter below.  This is the actual letter I sent to the Governor
of the State of California. I stated it,like it is. I didn't pull none
of my punches. If he didn't want the truth. He should not have asked for
the truth.  I guarantee. He is not going to like this letter.  But I
will not feel like a subclass citizen any more.  I am a
{ United States Citizen }  Lets start making this mean
something,again!!!!


To Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, personal and confidential :

      Governor,this is what this state has been forcing me
to suffer and endure,for over 15 years.
      Governor,when are the Laws and Rights,enacted by the
state and federal governments,going start being protected, up held,and
enforced,within the state of California,for and/or to all citizens of
the State of California??
      I am the Living Proof,with documents, that not all
United States Citizens receive any rights granted by federal and state
Laws. Not all United States Citizens receive Equal protections of the
Laws. Not all United States Citizens receive fair, ethical,and legal
hearings.
        The letter below has been sent to my federal
congressmen from my district and both of the federal Senators from
California. And I am sending this same letter to all my political
representatives from my district. This same letter has been circulating
around the internet for about a week.

My Letter::

    My situation has gotten way out hand. The State of
California has been in direct violation of the federal and state
Constitutions for over 15 years.
    The U. S. Constitution,Amendment 14, Section one states and
I quote,"No State shall deny any person within their jursidiction,EQUAL
protection of the Laws. The State of California continues to knowingly
deny this United States Citizen, "Equal protection of federal and state
laws and rights",dating back to 1989 to the present date.  "Known and
proveable federal and state crimes and rights violations have been
commited against me,have been commited against me through three
different parts of the Legal System,and to date, absolutely no attempt
has ever been made to up hold or enforce the laws and rights,enacted,for
this United States Citizen,since 1992,dating back to 1989 up until and
including the present date".     
        Those who have knowingly commited crimes and
rights violations against me. Every single one has been allowed to get
away every crime commited against me.     To date, not one
single police report has ever been taken of any of these proveable
crimes. And none has ever been investigated.     
        The State Bar,Medical Board,the Dept. of
Insurance,the Dept. of Industrial Relations,Div. of Workers' Comp have
had full knowledge,with direct evidence, that proves certain licensed
members have knowingly commited proveable federal and state crimes and
rights violations against me. Some of these crimes were commited through
the legal system.     
        How can I possibly believe in or trust the
laws,law enforcement,state organizations directly involved,and the legal
system,as long as,this is allowed to continue????       
     This state,law enforcement,state organizations,and the legal system
have all had full knowledge of these matters, since at least 1994. At no
time and in no way,have there ever been any attempt to up hold or
enforce the law,been made.
    What good are any Laws or any Rights,when the citizens can
not find any one to up hold or enforce them????     
        I have reported these crimes and rights
violations to local,county,state,and federal law enforcement,since at
least 1992. As of this date. Law enforcement have all refused to take
any type/kind of police reports and also,all have refusd to investigate
any of these reported crimes

Victim of and by the State of California, federal and state law
enforcement,state organizations directly involved,and three different
parts of the Legal System,in the State of California from 1989 up until
and including the present date.

Mr. Daniel Charles Harraden
Born and raised,United States Citizen

My nightmare started on March 14,1989 and this same nightmare continues.

In the last 24 hours from the Senate we have heard some of the most
reckless and hypocritical demagoguery ever heard in that chamber.
One senator suggested that those who would dare oppose even a single
administration nominee were trying to "kill" and "assassinate"
judges.  Another accused those who would defend the rights of the
minority as being like Hitler in possession of Paris.  Au contraire,
senator.  We know exactly who it is that wants to make our
legislatures and our courts their sole and exclusive property
without recourse or appeal.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION NOW:

The latest offer we've heard from the other side is they want
confirmation of 6 of the 7 MOST objectionable nominees.  One is too
many, 6 is Neville Chamberlain territory.  STILL the polls say
two-thirds of our country reject this unprovoked attack on our
checks and balances.  But the only way our Congress is really going
to believe it is if they HEAR FROM YOU now.  If you have not
already reaffirmed your support for the filibuster, please do so
while there is still time. Tell them NO COMPROMISE, NO SURRENDER,
NO APPEASEMENT.

http://www.usalone.com/filibuster.htm

Isn't it interesting that the crowd so keen on states' rights is
now trying to federalize everything.  Now that they think they are
in a position for a legislative coup d'etat, to seize control of all
all of Washington, the LAST thing they care about are states'
rights.  There is only ONE principle for them . . . their own
unchecked power, to be exercised on behalf of a small cabal of rich
corporate campaign contributors.  But WE, we the people, still have
the power to speak out, and there are still enough who will listen
if we do so now.

And while you are at it, speak out to save the life of Yvon Neptune
in Haiti as well, for which we have created another easy one click
action page here:

http://www.usalone.com/haiti.htm

Please forward this message and post these links everywhere you can
to everyone you know.

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Haiti's former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune remains near death.  He has been on a
hunger strike for over three weeks.  He was imprisoned last June, has NOT BEEN
FORMALLY CHARGED WITH ANY CRIME, and has yet to see a judge in his case.

U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, stated at her confirmation
hearing, "we must use American diplomacy to help create a balance of power in
the world that favors freedom.  And the time for diplomacy is now."

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION NOW:

Should the U.S now intervene diplomatically to demand that Mr. Neptune now be
released unconditionally?  This one click form will send your personal message
to Ms. Rice, both your Senators and your House Representative, James. F. Foley,
ambassador to Haiti, and state department Haiti desk officers, Joseph Tilghman
and Lawrence Connell.

http://www.usalone.com/haiti.htm

Just a few simple words from you mean more than any form letter can.  After you
submit your personal message above, here are some phone numbers you can call:
Condoleezza Rice 202-647-5291 [voice]; 202-647-2283 [fax] James B. Foley phone:
011-509-222-0354 [voice]; 011-509-223-9665 [fax] Joseph Tilghman 202-647-5088
[voice]; 202.647.2901 [fax] Lawrence Connell 202-647-6765 [voice]; 202.647.2901
[fax]

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