A letter from Michael Moore, you know Fahreheit 9/11 & A Thank you to Senator Barbara Boxer

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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January 7, 2005

Dear Friends,

Something historic happened yesterday. For the first time since 1877 a member of the House and a member of the Senate stood up together to object to the outcome of a presidential election.

This is the first step on a necessary road toward making sure that everyone is allowed to vote and that every vote is counted (something we did not see in 2000 or 2004) so the next time around ALL of us can be confident, when the election results come in, that they reflect the will of the people, not the whim of mechanical error and human obstruction.

Unlike 2000, when the black members of Congress were told to sit down and shut up, this time a senator had the courage to stand with them, as the law requires, to force Congress to go back to their separate chambers to discuss and debate the issues surrounding the vote count. Senator Barbara Boxer rose to the occasion and stood with Ohio Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones and 29 other Representatives "to cast the light of truth on a flawed system which must be fixed now." The ensuing debate, at times, became a debate over me and all of you and the fact that we would dare make the attempt to protect our democracy.

I was blown away when Representative Maxine Waters took to the floor and said, "Mr. Speaker and members, I dedicate my objection to Ohio's electoral votes to Mr. Michael Moore, the producer of the documentary '9/11' and I thank him for educating the world on the threats to our democracy and the proceedings of this house on the acceptance of the electoral college votes for the 2000 presidential election."

I am honored to the point of embarrassment because it is Maxine Waters who deserves thanks for defending our most basic right, not once, but twice.

Coming out of the gates like this in the very first week of session sent a strong message that we are not going to be pushed around. If the Republicans think the next four years are going to be a cakewalk, they've got another thing coming. With Michigan Representative John Conyers leading the charge, we showed them something not seen in over 120 years. And we're just getting started!

Congratulations to the tens of thousands of you who called, faxed, and e-mailed Barbara Boxer and other senators. You have shown the world, with the strength of your convictions, that the movement toward a truly representative democracy will not be stopped in its tracks. Yesterday's actions will be marked by history books as a turning point for the electoral process and for a Democratic Party that has for too long sat back and taken it on the chin.

Your voices have echoed all the way up to the hallowed halls of Congress and for that, you deserve thanks more than anyone.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com

P.S. If you want to see portions of what took place, check out the video clips and transcripts on the website.

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Battle Looms Again Over Drilling Alaska Wildlife Refuge, and we voted him Back in to do this

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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Battle Looms Again Over Drilling Alaska Wildlife Refuge

With Republicans having added four seats to increase their Senate majority to 55, the battle over drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is high on the agenda once again.

Rather than including ANWR as part of an energy bill, pro-drilling forces are expected to attempt to insert ANWR into a budget resolution.

This is because an energy bill can be filibustered, with 60 votes required to end the filibuster, while a budget resolution requires only a simple majority, and cannot be filibustered. The GOP sought to use this tactic in 2003, but lost by a 52-48 vote.

Criticizing the tactic, Kristin Cummings, senior Alaska Lands Advocate at the National Wildlife Federation, calls the move a backdoor attempt to write legislation, pointing out that the energy bill has no place in a budget resolution. "It's not a revenue raising mechanism," says Cummings. "It needs to be in a forum where it can be openly debated on its merits."

As Athan Manuel, director of U.S. PIRG's Arctic Wilderness Campaign, told BushGreenwatch, "Including the arctic refuge in the budget shows how desperate drilling proponents are to open this wilderness and hide it from the American public."

The Bush Administration touts drilling ANWR as a way to reduce dependence on imported oil. Opponents point out that it will take as long as 10 years before any ANWR oil could reach the market, and even then it would provide at best a six-months' supply. Defenders of Wildlife notes that a mere one-mile-per-gallon increase in fuel efficiency would save half-a-million barrels of oil per day--but drilling advocates show so sign of supporting such a measure. [1]

Three Senate Democrats--Mary Landrieu (LA), Daniel Akada (HI) and Daniel Inouye (HI)--voted in favor of drilling ANWR in the last Senate vote, in 2003. Eight Republicans opposed it. They include Sens. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Mike DeWine (R-OH), Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), John McCain (R-AZ), Norm Coleman (R-MN), Gordon Smith (R-OR).

Polls by both Democrat and Republican organizations find Americans opposed to drilling ANWR by a two-to-one margin. [2]

Signs of waning corporate support may be sprouting, with the announcement yesterday that ConocoPhillips, the largest oil company in Alaska, is withdrawing from Arctic Power, and is no longer actively advocating drilling in the region. [3] Arctic Power is a lobbying group that focuses solely on opening the coastal plain of the Arctic Natioanl Wildlife Refuge for drilling. BP, also one of the largest operators in Alaska, withdrew from Arctic Power in November 2002.

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Take action through www.SaveArcticRefuge.org. And if the site is not working try this one, he and his people are after these sites, www.defenders.org/wildlife/arctic/news/arcticpoll.pdf. Another good site on the arctic is.

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Fwd: No more Ohios.

--- "Wes Boyd, MoveOn PAC"
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:04:44 -0800
> From: "Wes Boyd, MoveOn PAC"
> To: "D"
> Subject: No more Ohios.
>
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> When Congress reconvenes this Thursday to ratify the 2004
> Presidential election, Representative John Conyers
> (D-Michigan) will object to the vote count in Ohio, and if
> even one Senator joins him, Congress will have to debate
> the widespread voting problems that have been exposed.
> Nobody expects this election to be overturned, but it's
> time in this country to seriously grapple with the issues
> of voting rights, un-auditable computerized voting, and the
> suppression of minority votes.
>
> Call your Democratic Senators today and ask them to join
> Representative Conyers in challenging the 2004 voting
> process. With your support, they can step forward and force
> this important debate. Just call:
>
> Senator Dianne Feinstein: 202-224-3841
> Senator Barbara Boxer: 202-224-3553
>
> Please let us know you've made these calls at:
>
>
http://www.moveon.org/callmade14.html?id=5046-3646104-iB4S541YpZr0opbdW2xPrQ
>
> In November's election, Americans in inner cities were
> prevented from voting by eight-hour lines. Local officials
> changed the rules on which votes were counted. Technicians
> were allowed to tamper with balloting machines
> unsupervised. We've attached an editorial by Rev. Jesse
> Jackson with more details below.
>
> The winners of these tainted elections assert that their
> outcomes didn't depend on the fraud. But even in sports,
> referees call penalties and enforce the rules, whether or
> not the game is at stake. Nowhere in the Constitution does
> it describe some acceptable level of denying Americans
> their votes. When Congress meets this Thursday, January 6,
> we'll have a good opportunity to make it clear that
> Americans want every vote counted, period.
>
> A sound democracy depends on elections that everyone,
> winners and losers, can agree were held fairly and
> honestly. America doesn't have that now, and it's got to
> change.
>
> Thanks for everything you do,
>
> --The MoveOn PAC Team
> January 5th, 2004
> ____________
>
> Senators should object to Ohio vote
> January 4, 2005
> BY REV. JESSE JACKSON
>
> http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse04.html
>
> This Thursday in Washington Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.),
> the senior minority member of the House Judiciary
> Committee, will formally object to the counting of the Ohio
> electoral vote in the 2004 presidential election. If any
> senator joins him, the counting of the vote is suspended
> and the House and the Senate must convene separately to
> hear the objections filed, and to vote on whether to accept
> them.
>
> The grounds for the objections are clear: The
> irregularities in the Ohio vote and vote count are
> widespread and blatant. If the Ohio election were held in
> the Ukraine, it would not have been certified by the
> international community.
>
> In Ohio, the gulf between exit polls and counted votes is
> vast and glaring. Blatant discrimination in the
> distribution of voting machines ensured long lines in
> inner-city and working-class precincts that favored John
> Kerry, while the exurban districts that favored President
> Bush had no similar problems.
>
> Systematic efforts were made to suppress and challenge the
> new voters in Kerry precincts, whether students or African
> Americans. Some precincts were certified with more votes
> than the number registered; others were certified with
> preposterously low turnouts. Voting machines, produced by a
> company headed by a vowed Bush supporter, provide no paper
> record. Ohio's secretary of state, the inappropriately
> partisan head of the state's Bush campaign, has resisted
> any systematic recount of the ballots.
>
> The systematic bias and potential for fraud is
> unmistakable. An in-depth investigation is vital -- and the
> partisan secretary of state has opposed it every step of
> the way. In this context, Conyers and his colleagues in the
> House are serving the nation's best interests in demanding
> an investigation of the irregularities in Ohio, and
> objecting to business as usual in counting the vote.
>
> If Harry Reid, the new leader of the Democratic minority in
> the Senate, has any sense, he will lead members of the
> caucus to support their colleagues from the House and
> demand a debate that will expose the irregularities in
> Ohio. If Kerry wants to establish his continued leadership,
> he will stand first to join with Conyers and demand a
> debate.
>
> Will the debate overturn the outcome of the election? That
> is doubtful, although the irregularities in Ohio suggest
> that Kerry may well have won if a true count could be had.
> But the debate is vital anyway. This country's elections,
> each run with different standards by different states, with
> partisan tricks, racial bias, and too often widespread
> incompetence, are an open scandal.
>
> We need national standards to ensure that we get an honest
> count across the country. National standards, accompanied
> by a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to
> vote for all Americans, will be passed only if leaders in
> the Congress refuse to close their eyes to the scandal, and
> instead stop business as usual.
>
> Conyers, Reid and Kerry will face harsh criticism for
> violating what might be called the Nixon precedent. When
> Kennedy beat Nixon by a few thousand votes in an election
> marked by irregularities in Illinois and Texas, Nixon chose
> not to challenge the result. Gore essentially followed that
> rule after the gang of five in the Supreme Court disgraced
> themselves by stopping the vote count in Florida. But the
> effect of the Nixon precedent is to provide those who would
> cheat with essentially a free pass. Particularly when the
> state officials are partisans, they can put in the fix with
> little fear of exposure so long as they win.
>
> So Conyers will step up, accompanied by other courageous
> members of the House. They will object to the count and
> demand a debate. To force that debate, they need only one
> member of the Senate to join them. Reid should lead the
> entire caucus to join them. Kerry should stand alone if
> necessary to demand clean elections in America.
>
> If America is to be a champion of democracy abroad, it must
> clean up its elections at home. If it is to complain of
> fraudulent and dishonest election practices abroad, it
> cannot condone them at home. But more important, if our own
> elections are to be legitimate, then they must be honest,
> open, with high national standards.
>
> The time has come to stand up for clean elections, and to
> let it be known that massive irregularities will not go
> unchallenged.
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Fwd: [Nader-Camejo 2004] War is a Racket

--- Ralph Nader wrote:

> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:26:59 -0500
> From: Ralph Nader
> To: nadercamejo-announce@lists.votenader.org
> Subject: [Nader-Camejo 2004] War is a Racket
>
>
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> Dear Friend,
>
> A friend has just returned from his Christmas holiday and
> reports the
> following story:
>
> "My wife, two young children and I traveled deep into
> 'red state'
> country, to be with my wife's family for Christmas.
>
> One night, my wife and I went out to dinner with my
> wife's two
> sisters and their husbands.
>
> My wife and I voted for Nader/Camejo, and as far as we
> could
> determine, three others at the table voted for Bush and
> one voted
> for Kerry.
>
> I made the argument to my wife's sister that voting for
> either Kerry
> or Bush was supporting the killing of innocents in
> Iraq.
>
> At this point, my brother-in-law, who I describe as a
> Republican
> Buddhist, shouted across the table that I was
> "self-righteous and
> judgmental."
>
> I accused him of supporting killing in Iraq too.
>
> This apparently offended his Buddhist side.
>
> The conversation went downhill from there."
>
>
> As a supporter of the Nader/Camejo ticket, you too have
> seen this
> scenario played out throughout the year.
>
> Many Bush and Kerry supporters are clinically smug in their
> support for
> the war.
>
> If you challenge them on the war, they become indignant.
>
> But the reality cannot be denied.
>
> According to the Bloomberg Johns Hopkins School of Public
> Health, more
> than 100,000 civilian Iraqis have been killed in the war
> since the U.S.
> invasion.
>
> More than 1,300 Americans have been killed there.
>
> More than 30,000 Americans have been injured.
>
> Thousands more are sick and mentally traumatized.
>
> The war is an illegal one, and every death that results is
> a war crime.
>
> The killing will continue unless Americans stand up and
> demand that the
> war end.
>
> That demand was put on hold for most of 2004 because Kerry
> and Bush
> vaingloriously agreed at the first Presidential debate that
> the United
> States must smash through "to victory."
>
> In 2004, potential leaders of the anti-war movement -
> including Michael
> Moore, Medea Benjamin and Bruce Springsteen - were
> effectively gagged by
> their support of the pro-war Kerry.
>
> Compare the actions of Moore, Benjamin and Springsteen with
> those of
> Smedley Butler.
>
> Smedley Butler was probably the most decorated Major
> General in Marine
> Corps history.
>
> From 1900 to 1933, he fought and slaughtered for the
> United States
> around the world.
>
> Butler was awarded two Congressional Medals of Honor.
>
> Then, when he returned to the United States, he turned and
> stood against
> the military-industrial establishment that he had supported
> and worked
> for all his adult life - but that he had come to believe
> was betraying
> our country.
>
> In 1935, he wrote a book titled /War is a Racket/ which
> opens with the
> memorable lines:
> "War is a Racket" - Book
>
>
>
>
> "War is a racket. It always has been."
>
> Butler toured the country, speaking to citizen groups,
> calling on his
> fellow Americans to challenge the expanding military
> empire.
>
> "I was a high class muscleman for Big Business, for Wall
> Street and for
> the Bankers," Butler said in a speech in 1933. "In short, I
> was a
> racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico
> safe for
> American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and
> Cuba a decent
> place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues
> in. I helped
> in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics
> for the benefit
> of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long."
>
> Imagine the courage it took for Smedley Butler to oppose
> the forces of
> war and plunder.
>
> In contrast, what courage did it take for the anti-war
> movement to stand
> against the war in 2004?
>
> That was their original position.
>
> That was their reason for being.
>
> Instead, they stood with the pro-war Kerry.
>
> "Ralph's Revolt" by Greg Bates
> Your
> courage in
> standing against the war and with the Nader/Camejo campaign
> was
> reflected by Greg Bates in his book /Ralph's Revolt: The
> Case for
> Joining Nader's Rebellion/ (Common Courage Press, 2004).
>
> This 175-page book documents how our traditional supporters
> cut and ran
> into the arms of the corporate Democrats.
>
> But many others, supporters like you and this group
> pictured here
> protesting at the Republican National Convention in New
> York, stood
> foursquare against the war and with Nader/Camejo.
>
> Early in the New Year, there will be an expanded campaign
> against
> President Bush and the pro-war Democrats - to end the war
> in Iraq.
>
> The Democrats cannot be allowed to get away with their
> dirty tricks
> against our campaign and their pro-war complicity with
> Bush.
>
> But first, we have to close out the campaign in the black -
> so that we
> can ramp up against the war and for the impeachment of
> Bush/Cheney.
>
>
>
> So, here is a New Year's offer for you.
>
> For a contribution of $100 through our webstore,
> independencegear.org
> , I
> will autograph
> a copy of /Ralph's Revolt/.
>
> In addition, we'll include a recently reissued copy of
> Smedley Butler's
> classic - /War is a Racket/.
>
> That's two books - /Ralph's Revolt/ - and /War is a Racket/
> - for a
> contribution of $100 to our campaign.
>
>
> Please let your friends and family know about this
> invitation by
> forwarding this letter to your e-mail address book.
>
> Thank you for your ongoing generosity and bright horizons.
>
> You have been our stalwarts all year long.
>
> Have a safe and happy New Year.
>
> /Ralph Nader/
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Fwd: Just One Senator... An Open Letter to the U.S. Senate from Michael Moore

--- Michael Moore wrote:


> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:46:32 -0800
> Subject: Just One Senator... An Open Letter to the U.S.
> Senate from Michael Moore
> From: "Michael Moore"
>
> Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
>
> Dear Members of the U.S. Senate,
>
> Welcome back! The 109th session of Congress has just begun.
> I'm watching you on C-SPAN right now and you all look so
> snap-happy and clean-faced. It's like the first day of
> school all over again, isn't it?
>
> I have a favor to ask of you. Something isn't right with
> the vote from Ohio. Seems a lot of people didn't get to
> vote. And those who did, thousands of theirs weren't
> counted.
>
> Does that seem right to you? I'm just asking. Forget about
> partisan politics for a moment and ask yourself if there is
> a more basic right, in a democracy, than the right of the
> people to vote AND have ALL their votes counted.
>
> Now, I know a lot of you wish this little problem of Ohio
> would just go away. And many of you who wish this are
> Democrats. You just want to move on (no pun intended!). I
> can't say I blame you. It's rough to lose two elections in
> a row when the first one you actually won and the second
> one you should have won. And it seems this time around,
> about 3 million more Americans preferred to continue the
> war in Iraq and give the rich more tax breaks than those
> who didn't. No sense living in denial about that.
>
> But something isn't right in Ohio and more than a dozen
> members of the House of Representatives believe it is worth
> investigating.
>
> So on Thursday at 1:00pm, Rep. John Conyers of Detroit will
> rise and object to the vote count in Ohio. According to the
> laws of this land, he will not be allowed to speak unless
> at least one of you -- one member of the United States
> Senate -- agrees to let him have the floor.
>
> A very embarrassing moment during the last session of
> Congress occurred in the first week when none of you would
> allow the members of Congress who were black to have the
> floor to object to the Florida vote count. Remember that?
> You thought no one would ever notice, didn't you? You
> certainly lucked out that night when the networks decided
> not to show how you shut down every single member of the
> Congressional Black Caucus.
>
> No such luck this year. Everyone now knows about that
> moment of shame. Thank you? You're welcome.
>
> But this Thursday, at 1:00pm, you will have a chance to
> redeem yourself.
>
> Congressman Conyers and a dozen other members of Congress
> have some serious questions about how the Republican
> secretary of state in Ohio (who was also the state's
> co-chair of Bush's reelection campaign) conducted the
> election on November 2. The list of possible offenses of
> how voters were denied access to the polls and how over a
> hundred thousand of their votes have yet to be counted is
> more than worthy of your consideration. It may not change
> the outcome, but you have a supreme responsibility to make
> sure that EVERY vote is counted. Who amongst you would
> disagree with that?
>
> If you would like to read more about the specific charges,
> I ask that you read these two links: "Senators Should
> Object to Ohio Vote" -by Jesse Jackson
> (http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse04.html)
> and "Ten Preliminary Reasons Why the Bush Vote Does Not
> Compute, and Why Congress Must Investigate Rather Than
> Certify the Electoral College"
>
(http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1065).
> I am asking everyone on my mailing list to send you a
> letter joining me in this call to you to do your job and
> investigate what happened before you certify the vote.
>
> It only takes one member of the House and one member of the
> Senate to stop the acceptance of the Electoral College vote
> and force a legitimate debate and investigation. Do you
> know why this provision is set in stone in our nation's
> laws? I mean, why would we allow just two officials in a
> body of 535 members to throw a wrench into the works? The
> law exists because nothing is more sacred than the
> integrity of the ballot box and if there is ANY possibility
> of fraud or incompetence, then it MUST be addressed.
> Because if we don't have the vote, what are we left with?
>
> C'mon Senators! Especially you Democrats. Here is your one
> shining moment of courage. Will you allow the gavel to come
> down on our black members of Congress once again? Or will
> you stand up for their right to object?
>
> We will all be watching.
>
> Yours,
>
> Michael Moore
> www.michaelmoore.com
> MMFlint@aol.com
>
> P.S. My whereabouts this week: I will be on the Today Show
> Thursday morning, Jay Leno on Friday night. And... the
> People's Choice Awards are this Sunday night, live on CBS
> at 9pm! Can we defeat the superheroes Spiderman,
> Incredibles and Shrek for best picture? A documentary???
> Whoa... tune in...
>
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Just in case you reading this blog, I've been sick.

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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After returning from the Christmas trip to the family and returning home I got a "head cold". I wash Bush would. I listened to him tday speaking on "Juke Medical Lawsuits". But he never said what makes a Medical Lawsuit juke. But that's how it works, talk wrongly on an item but make it sound like you should do something about it. Anyway back to my sick bed.

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