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Sweet Greetings from Good Works On Earth
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich is a name worth
remembering.
This is the man who speaks so eloquently with
his words .....
This is the man who has worked for the Department
of Peace
to become a reality in America.
He calls himsElf a Democrat, for which I forgive
him. He is from Ohio.
Keey your eye on this fellow.
Help him if you can.
We share something about him, and from him,
below this story.
March 20, 2003
The Day America Died
Uncle Sam Succumbs to Heart Failure
by Michael Lightweaver, Publisher
Dateline: USA - According to published reports,
Uncle Sam, famous patron
of the USA, died during his sleep last night
from heart failure arising
from complications of a two year bout with
greed and arrogance.
His widow, Lady Liberty, went into seclusion
and refused to speak
with the press. He is survived by two sons
Dr. Jekell a resident of
Fairfield, Iowa and a Mr. Hyde of Crawford,
Texas Sources close
to the family confirmed that Uncle Sam did,
in fact, die of a broken
heart. It is reported that two years ago,
Mr. Hyde, a successful oil man
from Texas, was able to use his money, influence
and family connections
to orchestrate hostile takeover of the family
business and have himself
appointed as executor of Uncle Sam's extensive
estate. Using well known
tactics from European leaders in the 1930's,
Mr. Hyde and his family were
able to create and capitalize upon a family
crisis in September, 2001
which allowed him to galvanize support for
the hostile takeover.
Taking this as a personal mandate, he appointed
a Mr. Midge from
Pennsylvania as head of faterland security
and Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam
were promptly placed under house arrest.
People around the world were
shocked by the ease with which the takeover
occurred and even more
shocked by the bold and blatant steps the
Hyde family has taken
to consolidate it's power.
According to sources close to the family, Lady
Liberty is very ill.
Two of the vice-presidents of Mr. Hyde's company,
notably Mr. Bumsfield
and Mr. Rainy, are suggesting that, in spite
of her health, Lady Liberty
poses a security risk and should be put on
trial under a new law passed
by Hyde's rubber-stamp legislature which has
granted him vast new
powers.
The Hyde family has planned an "awe inspiring"
patriotic funeral for Uncle
Sam which, they say will be brief, spectacular
and painless. Lady Liberty
and the Jekell family will not be attending
the public performance. They
said that they preferred to remember Uncle
Sam in the quietness of their
homes with a simple prayer and a candle.
Well known political commentator, Thomas Paine,
of the Emperor's Clothier
Institute in Philadelphia, PA., contends that
the whole affair is simply a
ruse and that Uncle Sam is in fact still alive.
According to Paine, Uncle
Sam was whisked away from the hospital during
the night by one of Dr.
Jekell's sons and has been reunited with Lady
Liberty and they are both still
alive and in hiding in a small town in New
England, not far from the Canadian
border. According to Paine, the Jekell
family is in constant communication with
Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty and are preparing
to reestablish the rightful
ownership of the Sam estate once the public
funeral is over and everyone
realizes the extent to which the family fortune
has been plundered by Mr. Hyde
and his company. Millions of people around
the world poured into the streets
upon receiving news of the death of Uncle
Sam, some with shouts of anger
at the hostile takeover by the Hyde family
and others in silence,
with a candle and a prayer for renewal. One
thing that all agree on, however,
is that these are extraordinary times and
the world is in the midst of
tremendous change.
Mr. Paine offered the best analysis as a final
statement: "Mr. Hyde has
breached all of the sacred and accepted principles
that Uncle Sam held so
dear. This indeed is one of the darkest times
that America has ever faced;
equaled - if not greater - than the 1860's,
the 1940's and the 1960's. But
Uncle Sam weathered them all, and he will
weather this as well. Mr. Hyde is
having his day and he is unknowingly performing
the important role of
bringing all of the family skeletons out of
the closet. Everyone throughout
the world can see these skeletons for what
they are. After the patriotic
public funeral is over - his own family will
begin to see them as well. On
that day, a new America will be born, Uncle
Sam and Lady Liberty will return
home and the USA will rejoin the family of
nations and offer a leadership
based on respect rather than fear; on morality
rather than military might.
That day will mark the beginning of a new
world.
( Appearing as an editorial in the March 24, 2003 issue of
The Global Village News & Resources : http://www.gvnr.com/ )
This may be distributed and reprinted without
permission from the author.
Send comments to :
lightweave@aol.com
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Subject: Kucinich On the American Led Attack
On Iraq
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003
00:09:05 -0500
From: Kucinich Campaign
<info@kucinich.us
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), who
leads opposition in the
House to the war in Iraq, issued the following
statement upon the
American attack against Iraq:
"This is a sad day for America, the world community,
and the people
of Iraq. Tonight, I hope and pray for the
safe return of our troops
and the end to this unjustified war."
"President Bush has launched an unprovoked
attack against another
country. Iraq does not pose an imminent
threat to the United States
or any of its neighboring nations. Iraq
was not responsible for the
terrorist attacks of September 11. Tonight,
President Bush has commanded
U.S. forces to go to war in violation of American
traditions of defensive
war that have lasted since George Washington.
This war is wrong; it
violates the Constitution and international
law."
Congressman Kucinich will issue daily statements
on the war in Iraq.
Please pass these statements on to your friends.
Help empower America's
leading spokesperson for peaceful resolution
of international conflict.
Please visit : http://kucinich.us/
now to contribute to the campaign.
Your financial help will spread the message
and enable a new vision for
America to be brought forward.
FROM MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ....
To all of Neale's friends everywhere :
At this critical time in our nation's history,
righteous action is the
antidote to despair. Please participate in
a powerful citizen lobbying
effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace,
sponsored in the House of
Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
This bill establishes nonviolence as an organizing
principle of American
society, cultivating an array of peace-building
policies and procedures. On
April 8th, this historic legislation will
be introduced for a second time;
whether or not it becomes law is dependent
on whether we, the people of the
United States, take the time to make phone
calls, lobby our Congresspeople,
and in other ways create the political will
to make it happen.
Please join us, either in Washington D.C. for
the bill's introduction and
our initial lobbying campaign, or in your
local area, as we blanket every
Congressional district with a strong message
of support for a Department of
Peace.
Let us stand as passionately for peace, as
some now stand so passionately
for war.
WHAT IT IS:
The Department of Peace focuses on individual
and group responsibilities
for establishing nonviolence as an organizing
principle in society. The
Department would focus on nonmilitary peaceful
conflict resolutions,
prevent violence and promote justice and democratic
principles to expand
human rights.
Domestically, the Department would be responsible
for developing policies
which address issues such as domestic violence,
child abuse, mistreatment
of the elderly, and other issues of cultural
violence. Internationally, the
Department would gather research, analyze
foreign policy and make
recommendations to the President on how to
address the root causes of war
and intervene as or before they begin, while
improving national security,
including the protection of human rights and
the prevention and
de-escalation of unarmed and armed international
conflict.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
I. COME TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE ALLIANCE
CONFERENCE IN
WASHINGTON D.C. ON APRIL 6-8.
During our conference we will hold seminars
on Non-Violent Principles and
Civics/Lobbying Training, led by Marianne
Williamson and Lynn McMullen
along with a presentation by Congressman Kucinich
on the Department of
Peace legislation. In addition, we will travel
together to the Capitol to
lobby our representatives. It is particularly
important that as many people
as possible come to this event in order to
lobby our Congress people on
April 8 when the bill is "dropped." There
is no political act more powerful
than actually meeting with your Congressperson.
Set a meeting with your
Member of Congress for April 8th. You can
visit www.renaissancealliance.org
to learn more about how to set a meeting with
your representative and to
register for the conference.
II. If you cannot come to Washington SET UP
A MEETING IN YOUR HOME DISTRICT
WITH YOUR CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE on April 8th.
Recruit as many people as you
can to attend this meeting with you. Doing
this, we will blanket the nation
with meetings in support of the bill, both
in DC and beyond. Our goal is a
meeting with every single member of Congress
or members of their staff, so
we need people from every Congressional district
in the country to come
forward and help.
III. GET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO CALL,
FAX AND EMAIL YOUR
REPRESENTATIVE on April 8th. Your job between
now and April 8 is to make
sure that everyone has the name and phone
and fax number of their
Congressperson (easy to find...visit www.Congress.org
), and to call them
on April 7 to remind them to make the call.
It is a good idea for you to
keep a list of the people who have agreed
to call and the needed numbers in
case they misplace the contact information.
IV. PRINT FLYERS
Available on the
GRA website at http://www.renaissancealliance.org/
Hand them out at Peace marches and post them
in coffee houses,
universities, churches, bus stations, staff
break rooms, everywhere you can
think of!
As soon as Congressman Kucinich "drops" the
bill, we will post its number
on our website. Between now and April 8, e-mail
as many people as you can,
giving them the information about the Department
of Peace lobbying effort.
Ask them to help us!
Most importantly, FOLLOW UP. It is not enough
to merely let people know
that the legislation is being introduced;
our job is to lobby for it, so
that it passes. Congress is a reactive body,
but if our Congress people do
not hear from us directly, then there is nothing
for them to react to.
Please send us an email at peace@renaissancealliance.org
and let us know
you will be a DOP Activist Leader. This means
you will adopt your Member of
Congress and stay with this process for the
duration of this legislative
session. You will be contacted within a week,
to follow up. We will give
you a new action each month to forward the
bill. On the GRA website you
will also find many additional ways in which
you can participate in your
community on an ongoing basis-- to help educate,
speak up, and lobby for
this important legislation.
There is much to do, to change the direction
of our country. Each of us can
make a difference. The time to do it is now.
For more information on this campaign, or for
general or registration
information on our peace gathering in Washington,
visit our website at
www.renaissancealliance.org, email us at peace@renaissancealliance.org,
or
call us at (586) 754-8105. Please help us
spread the word! You can share
this information with everyone you know. If
you are a part of an activist
network, please consider sharing this information.
To sign-up to receive
email updates on the campaign, send a blank
email to:
join-gra-enews@lists.renaissanceunity.org
Please visit our website at www.renaissancealliance.org
to read the latest
draft of the proposed legislation.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE LEGISLATION
-Hold peace as an organizing principle in our
society;
-Endeavor to promote justice and democratic
principles to expand human
rights;
-Strengthen non-military means of peacemaking;
-Work to create peace, prevent violence, divert
from armed conflict, use
field-tested programs, and develop new structures
in non-violent
intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution
of conflict, and structured
mediation of conflict;
-Address matters both domestic and international
in scope;
-Submit to the President recommendations for
reductions in weapons of mass
destruction, and make annual reports to the
President on the sale of arms
from the United States to other nations, with
analysis of the impact of
such sales on the defense of the United States
and how such sales effect
peace;
-Encourage the development of initiatives from
local communities, religious
groups, and nongovernmental organizations;
-Facilitate the development of peace summits
at which parties to a conflict
may gather under carefully prepared conditions
to promote non-violent
communication and mutually beneficial solutions;
-Develop new programs that relate to the societal
challenges of school
violence, guns, racial or ethnic violence,
violence against gays and
lesbians, and police-community relations disputes.
-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention
and dispute resolution
initiatives, create special task forces, and
draw on local, regional, and
national expertise to develop plans and programs
for addressing the root
sources of conflict in troubled areas;
-Provide for the training of all United States
personnel who administer
post conflict reconstruction and demobilization
in war-torn societies;
-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention
and dispute resolution
initiatives, create special task forces, and
draw on local, regional, and
national expertise to develop plans and programs
for addressing the root
sources of conflict in troubled areas.
Thank you so much for your decision to make
a difference! Yours, with
love...
Marianne Williamson.
I'm writing to ask you to join me in signing
a Citizens'
Declaration reaffirming our commitment to
international
cooperation.
The outbreak of war is not the end of the fight
for
peace -- only the beginning. Around the globe,
people
are joining together in the declaration below.
We will
be announcing it in a press conference on
Friday, and
we need your help to make it as big as possible.
Signing up will only take a minute of your
time, but it'll
send a message that the momentum built through
our opposition
to war in Iraq will only keep growing.
As a US-led invasion of Iraq begins,
we, the undersigned citizens of many countries,
reaffirm our commitment to addressing international
conflicts through the rule of law and the
United Nations.
By joining together across countries and continents,
we have emerged as a new force for peace.
As we grieve for the victims of this war,
we pledge to redouble our efforts to put an
end to the Bush
Administration's doctrine of pre-emptive attack
and
the reckless use of military power.
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Thank you.
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If you have made it this far, we ask you to
visit this link
and read an editorial that puts a few pieces
together so
you can see what is probably really happening
here.
Isn't That Strange???
By Joseph Clifford
http://www.gvnr.com/57/editorial.htm
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