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May heshe with the best slogan (meme) carry the day!

In 1786, the great Thomas Jefferson said to John Jay, “Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it”. Yes, this is true enough, but it’s moot when the average citizen believes they are free when in actuality they’re not. Because they think they’re free, they also think the press and media are free.

Of course, people are free to do exactly as they’re told by the State, and the press and major media outlets are free to print and air exactly what they’re allowed to by their corporate fathers. If executive editors and producers don’t tow the corporate line, they don’t keep their jobs or they don’t get them in the first place.

It’s interesting to look at the corollary to Jefferson’s proclamation: The [modern] State can not control the masses without controlling the mass media.

Imagine how different things would be if your favorite corporate news outlet blasted out headline stories like: “Half Million Iraqi Children Died Under Eight Years of Clinton Sanctions!”; “Official Story of 9-11 Violates Laws of Physics, Chemistry, and Thermodynamics!”; “WTC Leaseholder, Silverstein, Admits to Authorizing Demolition of WTC Building 7 on 9-11 — Explosives Planted Weeks in Advance!”; “Molten Steel in Sub-basement of WTC Towers Caused by Incendiary Devices — Proves Towers Demolished by Explosives!”; “Federal Judge Rules Electronic Votes Property of Corporation!”; “Numerous Districts in Ohio Reported More Votes Cast than Registered Voters!”; “Illegal Napalm used to Subdue Restive Falluja — City Destroyed!”.

As long as the mass media does the bidding of the State by manipulating ‘news’ and public ‘opinion’, the State is able to engage with impunity in treason, criminal racketeering, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and the People will never again know truth, liberty, justice, or peace.

Free-thinking people everywhere want to know, “What can i do?”. Besides using your imagination, you can help by joining the PAN coalition of people and organizations declaring Friday, September 23, Global Observance: Media Awareness Day (GO: MAD). GO: MAD will take place the fourth Friday of September annually until the media is unfettered by the corporate fathers and the State.

Here are some things you can do:

1. tell your friends and family about GO: MAD;
2. pass this missive along to your friends and affiliated organizations;
3. write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper;
4. if you’re a teacher, devise a lesson to teach your students about the true nature of today’s mass media;
5. call the executive editor of your local newspaper and schedule a meeting with you and your colleagues to remind them of their obligation to you, the ‘consumer’ of their product;
6. bring a law suit against your favorite media mogul for complicity in crimes against humanity;
7. stage a “media circus” at your favorite local media outlet… use your imagination!

If you'd like to share your plans for GO: MAD, please feel free to drop me an e-mail. Also, please send me an e-mail if you or your affiliated organization would like to join the PAN coalition participating in the Global Observance of Media Awareness Day.

For those of you in the Bay Area, i'm in the process of setting up a meeting with Susan Goldberg, the executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News (SJMN). If that meeting does not take place, i'll be exploring throwing a "media circus" at the offices of the SJMN and would like to hear from you with your ideas and offers to participate.

Forget the Alamo! Remember the Constitution?! We the People demand the return of the Constitution. Because the vile and pernicious State continues to show nothing but contempt for the will of the People, we must make it clear to the media that we will not tolerate more business as usual.

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Do you remember the joy and jubilation you felt when you read these words: “Bush and Cheney Indicted!”? Many people thought it was just “too good to be true”.

It’s unclear at this point whether this pronouncement was simply misinformation, deliberate disinformation, or a leak coming from the Grand Jury investigating the Bush regime and its role in the outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Whichever is the case, the fact remains that Patrick Fitzgerald -- US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, the special prosecutor in charge of investigating the Plame affair -- is conducting an ongoing inquiry into the treasonous act of exposing an undercover agent in a time of war. This is a very serious matter. Rumor has it that Fitzgerald is expanding his investigation to include: the illegal, unilateral, preemptive war on Iraq; widespread election fraud in the 2000, 2002, and 2004 ‘elections’; and the involvement of the Bush regime in the crimes of 9-11 and subsequent cover-up.

We the People need to let the Grand Jury investigating the Bush cabal know that we support their efforts to bring Bush and his cronies to justice. If you phone 312-353-5300 and ask to speak to a paralegal working with Fitzgerald on the case you’ll be able to add your input and encouragement and offer assistance to the investigators. I’ve personally phoned twice and offered to be an expert witness on the crimes of 9-11. The paralegal listened to my evidence that 9-11 was an “inside job” and took my name and phone number. If you prefer to FAX Fitzgerald, the number is 312-353-2067, of if you’d rather send a letter, the address is 219 South Dearborn Street, Fifth Floor, Chicago 60604.

The bottom line with this Grand Jury investigation is all we need to do is put Bush and Cheney and Rice and the other principals in this series of treasonous affairs under oath and ask them the tough questions. They’ll all be forced to perjure themselves, because telling the truth would mean admitting to treason, murder, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Time is short. Fitzgerald has his job only until October of this year and the Neocons who pulled off 9-11 are planning their next “false flag” operation. We must act and we must act now!