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Protesters Rip Gov. Martin O'Malley for Broken Promises
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As a result of deregulation, electric rates are going through the ceiling in Maryland. Gov. Martin O’Malley’s promises to “protect” the public have turned out to be lies. Protesters showed up at the governor’s mansion on June 23, 2007, to demand a “Special Session” of the legislature and for reregulation. Maria Allwine said the people are being “Enroned!” Leo Burroughs, Jr. said: “An injustice of the highest order” is being perpetrated.
“If I’m elected, I will fire [the] PSC and replace them with...members who will ‘protect’ the public.” - Martin O’Malley
Annapolis, MD - During his campaign, in 2006, for the office of governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, repeatedly promised the voters that if he were elected he would do something to stop the huge Baltimore Gas & Electric/Constellation Energy electric rate hike, which was then set to go into effect on June 1, 2007. (1) After he got elected, however, he did nothing! The new Public Service Commission (PSC) that he appointed just rubber-stamped a rate increase of 50 percent. As a result, on June 23, 2007, demonstrators opposed to any rate hikes descended on the governor’s mansion in this city to make their voices heard. Despite a projected $1.5 billion state deficit, Gov. O’Malley has also taken on the role of chair, in Maryland, of Sen. Hillary “War Lite” Clinton’s presidential campaign. He also went up to New Hampshire on her behalf. One Maryland lawmaker, Del. Anthony J. O’Donnell, demanded O’Malley cut out “the road show” and do some “heavy lifting” on the state’s many “problems.” (2)
Over 50 activists staged a rally opposite the governor’s mansion, at Lawyers’ Mall, under a hot sun. Most carried signs and posters and a few chanted anti-O’Malley/BG&E slogans. One of the protesters was Leo Burroughs, Jr., the chairperson of the “Maryland Coalition to Stop the BG&E Rate Hike.” He said: “We are not going to be manipulated...or taken advantage of by those who should be serving the best interests of working people and poor people in the state of Maryland...Reregulation is what we are all about...We want a ceiling to be placed on energy cost...We are not going to be anybody’s victim.” He described Gov. O’Malley’s failure to keep his promises over the BG&E rate increase and the deregulation mess as “an injustice of the highest order.”
Background: The Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (BG&E) is now a subsidiary of a parent organization, Constellation Energy. 1.3 million Marylanders’ electric bills will rise by hundreds of dollars this year! Why? Well, because in 1999, the Democratic-dominated General Assembly of Maryland voted in a sweetheart deal to deregulate the industry after a six-year rate freeze. That screw-the-rate-payer scheme was orchestrated by the powerful State Senate President, Thomas V. “Mike” Miller, Jr. (D-PG CO.) (3) He is a crony of O’Malley. Miller’s ego is so massive that Camden Yards isn’t big enough to hold it. He makes the camera-mugging O’Malley look like an acolyte of St. Francis of Assisi. Miller also insisted that the State Senate Office building in Annapolis, a sprawling, multimillion dollar edifice, be named after himself. In the old days, such grandiose rituals were reserved for dead politicos.
Rotten Politics 101: The Democratic leadership in Maryland has been playing games with deregulation. As pundit, Blair Lee, put it: “The Democrats caused the 72 percent increase by deregulating the industry...[which then] took rate-setting away from the PSC.” Since 2006 was a state election year, the Democrats needed a “scapegoat.” They found him: the Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich. Lee added: “If the voters figured out that Democratic deregulation caused this mess--there would be hell to pay at the polls. Ehrlich might even get reelected!” Thus, “the big lie” from the Miller-O’Malley Propaganda Machine--It’s all Ehrlich’s fault. He’s “too cozy” with the BG&E, PSC boy-ohs. (3) The strategy worked. The Miller-O’Malley Cabal now firmly controls the state government. To prove it, O’Malley has begun firing state employees for purely “political reasons,” according to a recent decision of an administrative law judge. One contract employee, who was cruelly axed was suffering “with cancer,” and another was “five months pregnant...and lost her health insurance.” (4) Today, the Sun reported at least “78” employees were purged.
Maria Allwine, also with the Anti-Rate Hike Coalition, said: “This issue with BG&E is [an]...example of why we need a revolution in this country. It has to start with us, right here...We have been ‘Enroned’ in this state. Make no mistake about...We are being ripped off [by O’Malley, BG&E/Constellation] and it’s legal!...We need our own publicly owned utility, like Hagerstown’s.”
This is the same Gov. O’Malley who recently vetoed a laudable General Assembly measure which would have opened up the possibility of parole for low-level drug dealers, i.e., “the dealer-users, not the drug kingpin.” Dan Rodricks of the Baltimore Sun wrote on May 20, 2007: “O’Malley appeared [during the gubernatorial campaign] to support parole for these offenders after a couple of years behind bars...The change would have applied ‘only’ to nonviolent offenders...drug addicts who sell dope to maintain his own habit.” It costs Maryland taxpayers $24,000 a year to house an inmate. Jason Ziedenberg of the Justice Policy Institute called O’Malley’s veto: “A failure of leadership.” Rodricks emphasized that the state’s prison population, as a result of the draconian ten year manatory-mimimum-drug-related sentencing policy, has tripled “since 1980.”
Activist Chris Bush told the crowd: “We are being stolen from.” He accused Gov. O’Malley of lying to the voters. Mr. Bush demanded that he call a “Special Session” of the legislature. He reminded Gov. O’Malley, as he shouted towards the mansion, that he represents “the people” of the state, and not the “stockholders” of Constellation/BG&E. Alex Bennett said that it is time to “organize society” around the way we want it to be and to begin “taking care of the needs of the people first.” Rob Savidge said that what we are lacking under deregulation are both “social justice and grass roots democracy,” values which are championed “by Maryland’s Green Party.” Steven Ceci said: “Energy and gas and electric should be a people’s right.” He added the people have to “reorganized...continue to protest and...be in their face.”
Back to deregulation: BG&E is now out of the electric-generating business. It transferred its valuable assets to its parent company, Constellation Energy. This now requires BG&E to purchase its electricity on the open market, including, strangely, buying it from Constellation Energy! Keep in mind, that there were some so-called “liberal” members of the Legislature who voted for this boondoggle. From Baltimore City, that list included Delegates Sandy Rosenberg (41-D) and Maggie McIntosh (43-D). McIntosh has close political ties to U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), who has approved wasting $437.4 billions on the war in Iraq and is a knee-jerk supporter of the Bush-Cheney Gang’s insane “Surge” ploy. As I write, 3558 U.S. troops have died in the conflict. Mikulski, like Gov. O’Malley, has endorsed “War Lite” Hillary for president.
Gov. O’Malley recently crafted a $57 million fund to aid rate payers. But, the Anti-Rate Hike Coalition, in its press release, denounced that offering as: “Nothing more than welfare.” They labeled the June 1st increase as “unjust and unwarranted.”
Meanwhile, the General Assembly can begin to reclaim its reputation by urging the state’s new Attorney General, the Hon. Doug Gansler, to join in a class action lawsuit challenging, under federal law, its own ill-advised decision to permit the deregulation of the industry. (5) Joe Curran, the then-Attorney General, and MD’s Gov. Martin O’Malley’s father-in-law, refused to participate in that important case. On top of that, Curran’ son, J. Joseph “Max” Curran, III, O’Malley’s brother-in-law, has just taken a job as an attorney/lobbyist for the high-powered D.C.-based firm of Saul Ewing LLP. He was assigned to its--“Utility Practice Group!” (6)
Also speaking at the rally was Alderman Samuel E. Shropshire (Ward 7) of the City of Annapolis. He said that BG&E representatives had “lied to the Annapolis City Council. They deliberately mislead us” about the nature and the extent of the rate hikes. The Alderman said that he would be pleased to introduce a Resolution in the City Council calling for “reregulation” of the electric industry in the state. Nnamdi Lumumba served as the M.C. for the spirited event and did a terrific job moving the program along. Marion Flood opened up the rally with a prayer. Rita Collins and Lylydia Stokes also spoke at the protest action.
Finally, it is long past the time for the people to wake-up and take back their power. Tomorrow may be too late! If the state of Virginia can reregulate its electric industry, why can’t Maryland?
Notes:
1. www.martinomalley.com/content/591
2. Baltimore Sun, 06/03/07, “O’Malley Hits Road...for Clinton.”
3. Gazette.net, June 1, 2007, Blair Lee, “Who’s Too Cozy?”
4. Baltimore Sun, “Mid-Level Firings Irk GOP,” 06/15/07.
5. www.pulp.tc/html/is_deregulation_of_electricity.html
6. Baltimore Sun, 05/30/07, “Name Sounds Familiar,” L. Vozzela.
William Hughes is an author and columnist. His videos can be found at: www.youtube.com/profile.
E-mail Contact: liamhughes-AT-comcast.net.
Annapolis, MD - During his campaign, in 2006, for the office of governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, repeatedly promised the voters that if he were elected he would do something to stop the huge Baltimore Gas & Electric/Constellation Energy electric rate hike, which was then set to go into effect on June 1, 2007. (1) After he got elected, however, he did nothing! The new Public Service Commission (PSC) that he appointed just rubber-stamped a rate increase of 50 percent. As a result, on June 23, 2007, demonstrators opposed to any rate hikes descended on the governor’s mansion in this city to make their voices heard. Despite a projected $1.5 billion state deficit, Gov. O’Malley has also taken on the role of chair, in Maryland, of Sen. Hillary “War Lite” Clinton’s presidential campaign. He also went up to New Hampshire on her behalf. One Maryland lawmaker, Del. Anthony J. O’Donnell, demanded O’Malley cut out “the road show” and do some “heavy lifting” on the state’s many “problems.” (2)
Over 50 activists staged a rally opposite the governor’s mansion, at Lawyers’ Mall, under a hot sun. Most carried signs and posters and a few chanted anti-O’Malley/BG&E slogans. One of the protesters was Leo Burroughs, Jr., the chairperson of the “Maryland Coalition to Stop the BG&E Rate Hike.” He said: “We are not going to be manipulated...or taken advantage of by those who should be serving the best interests of working people and poor people in the state of Maryland...Reregulation is what we are all about...We want a ceiling to be placed on energy cost...We are not going to be anybody’s victim.” He described Gov. O’Malley’s failure to keep his promises over the BG&E rate increase and the deregulation mess as “an injustice of the highest order.”
Background: The Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (BG&E) is now a subsidiary of a parent organization, Constellation Energy. 1.3 million Marylanders’ electric bills will rise by hundreds of dollars this year! Why? Well, because in 1999, the Democratic-dominated General Assembly of Maryland voted in a sweetheart deal to deregulate the industry after a six-year rate freeze. That screw-the-rate-payer scheme was orchestrated by the powerful State Senate President, Thomas V. “Mike” Miller, Jr. (D-PG CO.) (3) He is a crony of O’Malley. Miller’s ego is so massive that Camden Yards isn’t big enough to hold it. He makes the camera-mugging O’Malley look like an acolyte of St. Francis of Assisi. Miller also insisted that the State Senate Office building in Annapolis, a sprawling, multimillion dollar edifice, be named after himself. In the old days, such grandiose rituals were reserved for dead politicos.
Rotten Politics 101: The Democratic leadership in Maryland has been playing games with deregulation. As pundit, Blair Lee, put it: “The Democrats caused the 72 percent increase by deregulating the industry...[which then] took rate-setting away from the PSC.” Since 2006 was a state election year, the Democrats needed a “scapegoat.” They found him: the Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich. Lee added: “If the voters figured out that Democratic deregulation caused this mess--there would be hell to pay at the polls. Ehrlich might even get reelected!” Thus, “the big lie” from the Miller-O’Malley Propaganda Machine--It’s all Ehrlich’s fault. He’s “too cozy” with the BG&E, PSC boy-ohs. (3) The strategy worked. The Miller-O’Malley Cabal now firmly controls the state government. To prove it, O’Malley has begun firing state employees for purely “political reasons,” according to a recent decision of an administrative law judge. One contract employee, who was cruelly axed was suffering “with cancer,” and another was “five months pregnant...and lost her health insurance.” (4) Today, the Sun reported at least “78” employees were purged.
Maria Allwine, also with the Anti-Rate Hike Coalition, said: “This issue with BG&E is [an]...example of why we need a revolution in this country. It has to start with us, right here...We have been ‘Enroned’ in this state. Make no mistake about...We are being ripped off [by O’Malley, BG&E/Constellation] and it’s legal!...We need our own publicly owned utility, like Hagerstown’s.”
This is the same Gov. O’Malley who recently vetoed a laudable General Assembly measure which would have opened up the possibility of parole for low-level drug dealers, i.e., “the dealer-users, not the drug kingpin.” Dan Rodricks of the Baltimore Sun wrote on May 20, 2007: “O’Malley appeared [during the gubernatorial campaign] to support parole for these offenders after a couple of years behind bars...The change would have applied ‘only’ to nonviolent offenders...drug addicts who sell dope to maintain his own habit.” It costs Maryland taxpayers $24,000 a year to house an inmate. Jason Ziedenberg of the Justice Policy Institute called O’Malley’s veto: “A failure of leadership.” Rodricks emphasized that the state’s prison population, as a result of the draconian ten year manatory-mimimum-drug-related sentencing policy, has tripled “since 1980.”
Activist Chris Bush told the crowd: “We are being stolen from.” He accused Gov. O’Malley of lying to the voters. Mr. Bush demanded that he call a “Special Session” of the legislature. He reminded Gov. O’Malley, as he shouted towards the mansion, that he represents “the people” of the state, and not the “stockholders” of Constellation/BG&E. Alex Bennett said that it is time to “organize society” around the way we want it to be and to begin “taking care of the needs of the people first.” Rob Savidge said that what we are lacking under deregulation are both “social justice and grass roots democracy,” values which are championed “by Maryland’s Green Party.” Steven Ceci said: “Energy and gas and electric should be a people’s right.” He added the people have to “reorganized...continue to protest and...be in their face.”
Back to deregulation: BG&E is now out of the electric-generating business. It transferred its valuable assets to its parent company, Constellation Energy. This now requires BG&E to purchase its electricity on the open market, including, strangely, buying it from Constellation Energy! Keep in mind, that there were some so-called “liberal” members of the Legislature who voted for this boondoggle. From Baltimore City, that list included Delegates Sandy Rosenberg (41-D) and Maggie McIntosh (43-D). McIntosh has close political ties to U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), who has approved wasting $437.4 billions on the war in Iraq and is a knee-jerk supporter of the Bush-Cheney Gang’s insane “Surge” ploy. As I write, 3558 U.S. troops have died in the conflict. Mikulski, like Gov. O’Malley, has endorsed “War Lite” Hillary for president.
Gov. O’Malley recently crafted a $57 million fund to aid rate payers. But, the Anti-Rate Hike Coalition, in its press release, denounced that offering as: “Nothing more than welfare.” They labeled the June 1st increase as “unjust and unwarranted.”
Meanwhile, the General Assembly can begin to reclaim its reputation by urging the state’s new Attorney General, the Hon. Doug Gansler, to join in a class action lawsuit challenging, under federal law, its own ill-advised decision to permit the deregulation of the industry. (5) Joe Curran, the then-Attorney General, and MD’s Gov. Martin O’Malley’s father-in-law, refused to participate in that important case. On top of that, Curran’ son, J. Joseph “Max” Curran, III, O’Malley’s brother-in-law, has just taken a job as an attorney/lobbyist for the high-powered D.C.-based firm of Saul Ewing LLP. He was assigned to its--“Utility Practice Group!” (6)
Also speaking at the rally was Alderman Samuel E. Shropshire (Ward 7) of the City of Annapolis. He said that BG&E representatives had “lied to the Annapolis City Council. They deliberately mislead us” about the nature and the extent of the rate hikes. The Alderman said that he would be pleased to introduce a Resolution in the City Council calling for “reregulation” of the electric industry in the state. Nnamdi Lumumba served as the M.C. for the spirited event and did a terrific job moving the program along. Marion Flood opened up the rally with a prayer. Rita Collins and Lylydia Stokes also spoke at the protest action.
Finally, it is long past the time for the people to wake-up and take back their power. Tomorrow may be too late! If the state of Virginia can reregulate its electric industry, why can’t Maryland?
Notes:
1. www.martinomalley.com/content/591
2. Baltimore Sun, 06/03/07, “O’Malley Hits Road...for Clinton.”
3. Gazette.net, June 1, 2007, Blair Lee, “Who’s Too Cozy?”
4. Baltimore Sun, “Mid-Level Firings Irk GOP,” 06/15/07.
5. www.pulp.tc/html/is_deregulation_of_electricity.html
6. Baltimore Sun, 05/30/07, “Name Sounds Familiar,” L. Vozzela.
William Hughes is an author and columnist. His videos can be found at: www.youtube.com/profile.
E-mail Contact: liamhughes-AT-comcast.net.
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Re: Protesters Rip Gov. Martin O'Malley for Broken Promises
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The story of a lone man, relegated to what seemed like the fringes of society. Abandoned by both political parties, because of the horrifying things he witnessed. Only able to be comforted by the rest of the world, who knew the insane things he witnessed were true.
To All Delegates & Prosecutors as well as Media,
The story of a lone man, relegated to what seemed like the fringes of society. Abandoned by both political parties, because of the horrifying things he witnessed. Only able to be comforted by the rest of the world, who knew the insane things he witnessed were true. Because the rest of the world knew AIPAC & the American Turkish Council were no good, that Zionist Jews & Knights of Malta have perpetrated gross massive evil crimes against the people over centuries. As have the aryan muslims.
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"Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked
by Thom Hartmann
When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.
"It was practice for a national effort,"( An International effort) Fisher told me.
And some believe evidence is accumulating that the national effort happened on November 2, 2004.
The State of Florida, for example, publishes a county-by-county record of votes cast and people registered to vote by party affiliation. Net denizen Kathy Dopp compiled the official state information into a table, available at ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm, and noticed something startling.
While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking – the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.
In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.
In Dixie County, with 9,676 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.
The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats, went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush.
Yet in the touch-screen counties, where investigators may have been more vigorously looking for such anomalies, high percentages of registered Democrats generally equaled high percentages of votes for Kerry. (I had earlier reported that county size was a variable – this turns out not to be the case. Just the use of touch-screens versus optical scanners.)
More visual analysis of the results can be seen at us together.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm, and www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm. Note the trend line – the only variable that determines a swing toward Bush was the use of optical scan machines.
One possible explanation for this is the "Dixiecrat" theory, that in Florida white voters (particularly the rural ones) have been registered as Democrats for years, but voting Republican since Reagan. Looking at the 2000 statistics, also available on Dopp's site, there are similar anomalies, although the trends are not as strong as in 2004. But some suggest the 2000 election may have been questionable in Florida, too.
One of the people involved in Dopp's analysis noted that it may be possible to determine the validity of the "rural Democrat" theory by comparing Florida's white rural counties to those of Pennsylvania, another swing state but one that went for Kerry, as the exit polls there predicted. Interestingly, the Pennsylvania analysis, available at ustogether.org/election04/PA_vote_patt.htm, doesn't show the same kind of swings as does Florida, lending credence to the possibility of problems in Florida."
www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm
And perhaps in the process, the other inconvenient lost patriot Sibel Edmonds will reveal the whole story once & for all as well......The world thirsts for it.
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www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/20-Jan-2007.html
letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com
Just remember, if they think you can be defeated.....If you believe, you will be defeated by such criminals......Even if the criminals become your own family.......That is the only way, you will ever be defeated.
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MEDIA FAILS TO CENSOR TRUE CHRISTIAN CANDIDATE RON PAUL: ALL THE TRAITORS EXPOSED
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Namaste
www.criticalexponent.org/blog/2006/02/01/alberto-gonzales-lied-to-congress/ ALBERTO GONZALES LIED TO EVERYONE: BEGIN THE IMPEACHMENT & INDICTMENT OF ALBERTO GONZALES ONCE AND FOR ALL.....Ready to do something for America not yourself? Support American Whistleblower & Patriot Jeff Fisher. Order his official bookfirst-draft. Learn the life of an American Whistleblower up close and learn how to save America. www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php All payments or proceeds go direct to support of Whistleblower Jeff Fisher, in his continued fight to expose the truth about Apartheid in Ultra Zionist Israel-its military control over "The Straights" Baypoint School & Growing Together programs which stole multiple elections. All financed by the American Turkish Council, who blew up our twin towers on September Eleventh.
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Re: Protesters Rip Gov. Martin O'Malley for Broken Promises
Ralph Nader Speaks About His Family Roots in Activism
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Ralph Nader came to Baltimore on July 14, 2007 to speak on the "Seventeen Traditions" he learned from his parents. His speech was taped by independent reporter William Hughes and is available online at Google Video.
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Ralph Nader came to Baltimore on July 14, 2007 to speak on the "Seventeen Traditions," the name of his new book. Nader noted that his new immigrant parents from Lebanon raised him in a small town of Connecticut during the Depression and World War II, teaching him to take "equality and justice for all" in the Declaration of Independence seriously.
His father owned a restaurant, and during the American Depression of the 1930s fed other townspeople who could not pay, among other things. His father did not crow about it--this was "family values" for his parents--and also what any civic and responsible American should do.
Nader appeared at St. Johns Church at 2640 St. Paul Street, in the new Charles Village space being renovated by local activists and the Red Emma's Coffeeshop / Bookshop Collective. They already have been using the large spacious church for numerous weekly and one-time progressive and radical Baltimore events. Between 100-200 people showed up to the Nader speech. The chairs were all taken; people were standing in the back; Nader's speech was inspiring.
Nader urged the audience to recall and cultivate their own family knowledge, history, and traditions. This type of cultural memory and heritage today is being lost in the raising of children, argued Nader. Today children spend more and more time with what he calls "the electronic culture": television, the Internet, iPods, cell phones, and various other devices.
Nader also dryly noted that "family values" being promoted by Southern right-wing religious conservatives like Pat Robinson today is the only type of "family values" being discussed in the mainstream media. He added that mainstream liberal leaders have forgotten to speak about how liberal values are rooted in their family structures. People are forgetting this important cultural and familial heritage.
Nader left the audience with a number of mottos. The Roman philosopher and politician Cicero said that freedom is participation in power. By that standard, said Ralph Nader, most Americans are not free.
He added that an ancient Chinese proverb goes "To know and not do, is not to know." He then urged the audience to take daily actions in their own lives to represent their values in the world. Do not worry about what others are doing, said Nader. One's own activism can include using consumer dollars to shop at small businesses rather than chain stores. It can include attending or creating community meetings, organizations and events, and of course participating in democracy.
Independent reporter William Hughes recorded the Nader speech and has posted the video online. The link is below.
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Photo by William Hughes.
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Re: Ralph Nader Speaks About His Family Roots in Activism
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28 Jul 2007
by Mr. Nader blew it in 2004
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Subject: Flood the Senate & CONGRESS To Appoint a Special Counsel & force Gonzales to be charged with Perjury!!!!
To All Delegates & Prosecutors as well as Media ,
We now have finally close to conclusive proof Gonzales lied. So Flood the Senate, including Chairman Specter's office and the office of Chairman Leahy; and order them to FORCE the Special Counsel to be appointed.
www.tpmmuckraker.com
Capitol switchboard phone: 800-828-0498
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Remember we have the right to do so and force our will, because Jeff Taylor is a part of the US Attorney firings and must be by default RECUSED moving us to the next phase of the investigation.
Capitol switchboard phone: 800-828-0498
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..So hold absolutely nothing back, flood the offices.......Force our will to be imposed...
Capitol switchboard phone: 800-828-0498
www.bcimpeach.com
...And also, order Congress to re-pass the Judicial Independent Counsel Law AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, therefore there will be NO cover-ups whatsoever. The Special Counsel could be someone like Eric Sussman, who we all trust, you just never kno
INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL ACT: CREW LEAD REPORT
www.citizensforethics.org/node/29547
Chairman Leahy, because this man Cheney may in fact be guilty of unfiltered treason against the United States it is mandatory that you as well as Chairman Feingold, Chairman Hatch & Chairman Specter agree upon enforcing inherent contempt and getting familiar with that process again....as deemed necessary. Only you and your colleagues, the four of you, are capable of educating the House of Representatives on using "inherent contempt" again & enforcing it since it has not been used in quite a while. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072602153.html
"Such a proceeding could be used against Miers and Bolten, by the full House or possibly by a committee. Both would be allowed legal representation in a setting similar to impeachment hearings. Ultimately, the whole House could vote to mete out punishment, which could include imprisonment."
However, it was used to bring someone to Congress who was in the EPA and that was not long ago. The requirement for it being used in this particular case may be extremely needed.........after all, they can write up laws but they can't resist a US Marshal simply handcuffing them & dragging them off just like the good old days of Judges & Cowboys, Justice in the days of the Sheriff. Democracy at work.
ALL OF YOU: KEEP ON THEM & MAKE THEM FEEL THE HEAT APPOINT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL!!!!!!!!!!
www.criticalexponent.org/blog/2006/02/01/alberto-gonzales-lied-to-congress/ ALBERTO GONZALES LIED TO EVERYONE: BEGIN THE IMPEACHMENT & INDICTMENT OF ALBERTO GONZALES ONCE AND FOR ALL.....
Ready to do something for America not yourself? Support American Whistleblower & Patriot Jeff Fisher. Order his official book first-draft. Learn the life of an American Whistleblower up close and learn how to save America. www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php All payments or proceeds go direct to support of Whistleblower Jeff Fisher, in his continued fight to expose the truth about Apartheid in Ultra Zionist Israel- its military control over "The Straights" Baypoint School & Growing Together programs which stole multiple elections. All financed by the American Turkish Council, who blew up our twin towers on September Eleventh.
suzieqq.wordpress.com /2007/05/29/great-news-lets-impeach-cheney/
*** CALL EVERYONE !!!!!! PASS THE RESOLUTION 333, POLL YOUR NEIGHBORS, AND ASK THEM TO CALL THEIR REPRESENTATIVE AS WELL. PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO YOUR LISTS.**
*** CALL AND DEMAND H RES 417 IS VOTED ON IN THE HOUSE AND IMPEACH GONZALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd
kucinich.house.gov/SpotlightIssues/documents.htm ***
Re: Ralph Nader Speaks About His Family Roots in Activism
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21 Aug 2007
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Hello Mr. Nader. Remember me! Jennifer Lynn Masryk Ellis set up the phone call from Ben Roth home in Delray Beach back after the 2004 election. Here is the headline now.
Go to this link because this website is censuring the news again.
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Re: Protesters Rip Gov. Martin O'Malley for Broken Promises