Hope you got your hard copy of the following REQUESTED submission. It was mailed to your Illinois office.
Good luck in your ‘juggling’ of issues and efforts.
Similar things were happening in the souther part of the state a third of a century ago.
I [we] still think the 21st Century Peace Symbol was a superior and ground breaking effort.
—-DonLake@sbcglobal.net, U of Misery at Saint Louis alum and former Scott Air Force Base air man, 610.420.0209

Here’s something else you won’t read about the anti Populist [Corporate controlled!]
media. There was a broad based, centrist, moderate, reformist United States anti-war
effort right before 1900! This West Coast organization was national in scope and the
broad based forerunner of the populist Anti Bush movement of today.
The American Anti-Imperialist League that organized over nine decades before George H.
W. Bush invaded Iraqi occupied Kuwait was both elitist and broad based. Political groups
outside of the main stream spoke up in opposition to the proposed illegal annexation of
the Spanish Occupied Philippine Islands at that ‘other’ turn of the century. This group of
predominately Non Republicans and Non Democrats was formed over a century before
the current American Empire’s occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
The first official meeting was on June 15th, 1898, in San Francisco. It’s members
included
Andrew Carnegie [Billionaire Steel Magnet and Philanthropist]; Mark Twain [Samuel
Longhorn Clemens]; William James [Philosopher, Writer, Educator] and Samuel Gompers,
[Labor Union Legend]. George S. Boutwell, former secretary of the national treasury and
Massachusetts senator, served as first [and only] president of the League.
Inpite of the Anti-Imperialist League propaganda and complaints, on December 21, 1898,
corrupt good ole boy President William [Big Bill] McKinley issued his Benevolent
Assimilation Proclamation. This slap to the Constitution and America’s rebel origins,
unilaterally and illegally ceded the Philippines to the United States. He also was secretly
instructing the American occupying service members to use force, as necessary, to
impose American sovereignty over the Philippine Islands. This criminal act was informal
and unlawful. It was issued even before the nation obtained formal Senate ratification of
the (‘Paris’) peace treaty with the Iberian Empire.
Doesn’t it seem like the more things ‘change’ the more they seem to merely ‘re-invent’
themselves? Like Ho Chi Min City [nee: Saigon] and Bagdad, Americans were originally
hailed as liberators! United States troops then over stayed their welcome and were later
fired upon and then bombed with make shift materials by local patriots. To add injury to
insult, the Imperial Japanese Empire mimicked the Corporate States of America by
‘liberating’ Manilia from it’s second group of light skinned European based over lords on
December 7th, 1941. The Phillipines were FINALLY an independent, yet some what
occupied territory in 1946, almost half a century after the original American Anti-
Imperialism League. Maybe in the 22nd Century. America will have a truly Populist
national administration [with possible direct voting of a number of things, including laws
and Presidents]. May be then we will defuse the cultural autopilot of being an out dated,
old style Imperial [AND HATED] empire!

Citizens For A Better Veterans Home[s] is a west coast populist group which was formed
at the worst veterans care campus on the planet [Veteran Home of California - Barstow]
in May 1998. We are standing up against the terrible government programs for former
military and their families on the local, state, and national level. Our web site is
www.calvets.blogspot.com and our email address is . We
can also be reached at 263 Eucalyptus Court, Chula Vista (San Diego County), California
91910-3030 or [any time] at 619.420.0209 or 760.253.2371.

Of all of the contributors to the Midwest Alliance, Citizens For A Better Veterans Home, has touched me the most. Here is a group of citizens who felt compelled to service their country by enlisting in the volunteer army and risk their lives under the command of chief executives, which once garnered the trust of these brave soldiers. Despite the sacrafice of these brave men, our nation refuses to give them the care and benefits they so, undisputably, deserve.
If this is not evidentiary of the negation of everything sacred that once gave this country reason for pride then I do not know what is. I urge everyone who happens to come accross these writings to look into this issue quite closely, because it is a problem that reflects so poorly upon our polity that is warrants immediate change; no matter what it takes.

Russell Cole

Bush is forever saying that democracies do not invade other countries and start wars. Well, he did just that. He invaded Iraq, started a war, and killed people. What do you think? How does that work in a democracy again? How does being more threatening make us more likeable?Isn’t the country with
the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn’t that likely to be the most hated country?
If ever there was ever a time in our nation’s history that called for a change, this is it!
We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!

I share your sentiments, and also have an equal sense regarding the extent that Bush’s follies have impact this nation’s relations with the rest of the world. Also, I agree that the ineptitude of Bush far surpasses anything that this country has gone through in past Administrations.

I am currently worried over this ridiculously fabricated nonsense over Iran’s provocative acts against the US Military. We are so far down in the worsening quagmire that is Iraq, I cannot even fathom what another ill conceived act of imperial adventurism will entail for this country.

Hi all!
I like this forum!!

Hey,
I love what you’e doing!
Don’t ever change and best of luck.

Raymon W.

Looks Like Dallas is in trouble!
Phoenix might end up blowing them all away.

PHX vs. Det. Hmmm..Could be interesting?

I’m not quite understanding what all
this is supposed to be about?
Must be me or something…

How green is the grass on the other side of the fence?
Not much. Don’t believe it I tell you.
Jerry

Hey,
Really nice site you got here.
I’ll come back more often and check it out.
Peace!

Interesting Post.
I’d never heard that before.

Barney

Hello !
Sorry to bother you. I found this forum when looking through google for forums to use. I need
to install a forum on my website but I cannot find where it is sold.

Where did you get this one

Thanks for any assistance

i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!

eric