bogus as a 3 dollar bill.
--- Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is an interesting letter!
>
> Tamar Mag Raine
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> Oakland Mayor's Commission on People with
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>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Edward Evans
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: Edward Evans <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: 10/21/2004 9:29:04 PM
> > Subject: [berkeley-disabled] THE LAST STRAW
> >
> >
> > THE LAST STRAW
> > Carl F. Worden
> >
> >
> > That's it, I've had it.
> >
> > I've been a registered Republican since I pulled
> my first lever in a
> > voting booth, and I've voted as a loyal
Republican
> for Republican
> > candidates consistently every year. I am 55
years
> of age. I am
> > considered a right-wing Christian conservative
and
> strict constitutionist
> >
> > who knows the Framers of the Constitution
expected
> strict adherence
> >
> > to that original document unless and until it is
> amended.
> >
> > You don't get much more conservative and
> constitutionally-minded than I
> > am, and that is why I just cast my Oregon
> vote-by-mail ballot for
> > Democrat John Kerry as the next president of the
> United States. So did
> > my wife -- and she's a very independent thinker.
> I know there are
> > thousands of lifelong Republican/Independent
> conservatives who are
> > going to do the same thing on November 2nd,
> because they've written and
> > told me so.
> >
> > The absolute last straw for me took place at the
> Bush rally, held in
> > Central Point, Oregon on October 14th.
President
> Bush stayed in
> > Jacksonville, Oregon overnight after the rally,
> and protesters and
> > police clashed on the streets. I sent out a
photo
> of a Jackson County
> > Sheriff's Deputy, all Nazi's up in black leather
> riot control gear and
> > grinning evilly as he shoved a woman holding her
5
> year-old daughter.
> > It wasn't the finest hour for local law
> enforcement, but even that
> > wasn't the last straw for me. No, the last
straw
> for me happened just
> > before the Bush rally itself.
> >
> > Three local teachers got tickets to the Bush
> rally, passed all the
> > security checkpoints and scrutiny and got in.
> They never created or
> > caused a disturbance, and they were perfectly
> peaceful members of the
> > audience waiting to hear Bush speak. But before
> they got to hear Bush,
> > they were expelled from the rally by Bush rally
> staff who objected to
> > the words printed on the T-shirts they were
> wearing.
> >
> > No, the words on the T-shirts the ladies were
> wearing did not disparage
> > Bush, nor did they suggest support for Kerry or
> any other candidate.
> > The words did not condemn or support the war in
> Iraq, nor did they slam
> > any Administration policy. No, the T-shirts the
> three women wore
> > showed an American flag, and under it the words,
> "Protect Our Civil
> > Liberties". That was all -- I kid you not.
> >
> > That was it. That was the last straw for me.
> That was the defining
> > moment I'll never forget. That was my epiphany.
> >
> > Bryan Platt, Chairman of the Jackson County
> Republican Central
> > Committee, said he stood 100 percent behind the
> person who made the
> > decision to exclude the women, removing any
doubt
> that one or two
> > individuals exceeded their authority and blew
it.
> No, it was solid,
> > Republican neo-conservative fascist policy on
> open
> display, and the
> > Brown Shirts weren't about to apologize for it.
> No way.
> >
> > I am now a man without a political party. I
will
> never again register
> > as a Republican unless the party returns to what
> it was before the
> > fascists took it over. I'm certainly not a
> Democrat or a liberal, but
> > I might just register as a Democrat to help them
> avoid mistakes in the
> > next primary, like running another John Kerry
for
> president. Any
> > moderate, pro-gun southern Democrat would have
> easily swept Bush aside
> > this election. As it is, the race is so close
it
> could go either way
> > at this point.
> >
> > My decision to vote for Kerry was a vote to get
> Bush and his
> > administration out. I could have voted for a
> third party candidate who
> > couldn't possibly win, but that would have
> translated into a vote for
> > Bush, and I just couldn't do that. Too many
kids
> in uniform have
> > already been killed and maimed for nothing, and
I
> see it as my primary
> > duty to save as many of them as I can. If my
vote
> for a third party
> > candidate means Bush wins and more kids come
home
> dead and mutilated,
> > then I have abrogated my duty as an American, as
a
> Christian and as a
> > decent human being. I didn't know better during
> the Vietnam War, when
> > I voted for Nixon twice, but I would be without
> excuse if I did it
> > again now.
> >
> > This election is different: In this election,
we
> all have to answer
> > the call to vote wisely. Lives depend on it,
and
> God is watching how
> > we vote as well. When an individual sins, God
> deals with him
> > individually. When a whole nation sins, God
deals
> with the nation
> > nationally. It's right there in the Bible.
> >
> > The way I see it, the threat Bush presents is
just
> too great. I know
> > what Bush did with his first four years on good
> behavior, and so do
> > you. What scares the bejeebers out of me is
what
> Bush would do with
> > four more years with nothing to lose -- and an
> assumed mandate from the
> > people for what he did the first four. At least
a
> Kerry Administration
> > would be strapped down by a Republican Congress,
> so I'm not too worried
> > about major gun control bills being passed, and
as
> far as abortion is
> > concerned, it really doesn't matter what a
> president believes, because
> > that issue is decided only by the Judiciary
Branch
> now.
> >
> > Regardless of the proclaimed Bush position on
> abortion, he never issued
> > an executive order banning any form of abortion
> because he knew such an
> > order would be overturned by the courts. Oh,
and
> that phony Late-Term
> > Abortion Ban Bush signed? It's as good as dead
--
> and I have a
> > niggling feeling it was intended to be killed
even
> as they wrote it.
> > The lower Federal Courts are already finding it
> unconstitutional, and
> > why?, because the people who authored it left no
> possibility for a
> > woman to use late term abortion to save her
life,
> let alone to preserve
> > her health. In lieu of that provision, any
first
> year law student knew
> > the federal courts would overturn it, so why did
> seasoned
> > lawyers/legislators write it that way? Don't
even
> try to convince me
>
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