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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:41 PM
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In less than 24 h we will KNOW which members of the 109th US Congress...
....deserve any form of support and we will have unambiguous knowledge of exactly which members have joined the forces that Nov 2000 have been focused on systematic disenfranchisement our fellow citizens and, thereby, the destruction of American democracy.

I suggest we store energy tonight; make a bunch more calls before 1pm EST tomorrow and then be prepared for the launch of an historical struggle.

We have a long battle ahead.

Tomorrow we learn whom in Congress we have on our side and we will learn whether the Democratic party leadership in the House and Senate are either, ironically, a collaborator in the destruction of American democracy or if they have joined our team.

We've done an effective job of reminding each of them that they work for us and that we will not just hold them accountable, we will remove them from office if they fail to defend America, tomorrow.

Because, what some probably already realize, and more will in the days ahead, a network of citizens has emerged since 2 Nov 2004 who are going to make "We The People..." mean more than it has since those words were first inked.

Count on it.

We will in_DEED prevail.

Peace and here's to our commitment to our American Constitution :toast:
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Helga Scow Stern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:44 PM
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1. I second the motion! n/t
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:50 PM
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2. My thank you letter to my Congressman, Jim McDermott
Good evening Congressman McDermott,

I am deeply grateful as I am sure all Americans will be for your courageous act of leadership and patriotism.

The fact that you joined Congressman Conyers and others in a comprehensive request to challenge and investigate the invalid 2004 national election is an historical act of the most fundamental type -- you are defending our American franchise of Democracy from a systematic, multi-faced attack.

We must prevail tomorrow.

We must bring the full force of the Congress and the law to bear on those who, in so many varied ways, disenfranchised our fellow citizens and compromised our executive branch (during a time of war, no less).

I am honored to have you as my Congressman and will be loyal to you as long as you seek public office. At your service, Congressman McDermott,

xxxxxx
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seshers Donating Member (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:51 PM
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3. I'll 3rd the motion...
not that it's necessary
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:06 PM
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4. And 3 cheers for the availability of the internet!!!
Without it none of us would have known much at all about the election theft because MSM didn't alert anyone.
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:35 AM
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7. Precisely. And, we are going to continue to use this medium...
...ever more effectively to teach, to plan, to organize and coordinate, to motivate and inspire, to archive and research, and to expand our community of patriotic citizens for the purpose of never again allowing a few selfish, evil people to threaten our Constitution and our franchise of democracy.

Peace.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:13 PM
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5. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- November 19, 1863
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 11:14 PM by BattyDem

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


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Posting those words just seemed appropriate. :-)

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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:33 AM
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6. "and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, ...
....shall not perish from the earth."

Yes, and we are among those who will not allow it to perish.

I am very grateful you posted these words, now. Thank you.

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