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The Rule Of Law

lyvwyr101 — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:49:21 EDT

Please take time out from your busy schedule, to write just a short note to Judge Richard Kramer.
Judge Kramer is the courageous California jurist, who protected the rights of gay people, with regard to marriage.
This judge is currently under attack {as you can well imagine} by the conservative factions in this country.
This judge has around the clock bodyguards, based on the death threats he has received, from our Culture of Life friends.
So I am asking of you a favor: please take out your pen - yes, your pen, I ask for your hand in this - and write Judge Kramer a brief note of support
Please note that Judge Kramer is known to be a conservative and prudent jurist. He is a married catholic and a republican, and was appointed to the bench by a republican. So it is difficult to write off his opinion as one biased by a liberal or personal agenda.
Please, forward this request and ask your friends and colleagues to write as well.
If we do not support and defend people who act with integrity and stand up for what is right, who will?

Your letter should be sent to:

Judge Richard Kramer
Civic Center Courthouse
400 McAllister Street
San Francisco, Ca 94102-4514

Theocracy

lyvwyr101 — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:57:38 EDT

The religious right is pushing very hard, in this country, to turn our government into a theocracy.
Where I come from, it has already been tried. It was both a failure and a nightmare.
I am from Massachusetts. When the old Puritans settled here, their form of governance was a church/state. A theocracy.
They had quite the society. In fact, our current society is one which any old Puritan, would be familiar with.
Everybody is "telling on everybody." People are pointing their fingers at this group, and that group. Everyone is running to their minister, with tall tales to tell, about everyone else.
No one is good enough, no one is religious enough, no one is pure enough, on and on it goes.
Everybody is sitting in judgement of everybody.
The old Puritans would have been right at home, in America, in 2005.
Just like then, our current society is pretty hysterical, too.
Unfortunately before their theocracy {their church/state} was finished with, many innocent men, women, children, domestic animals, and livestock had been tortured, abused and put to death.
The Salem witch trials.
As a native New Englander, let me share this with you. Theocracy has been tried in this country. It doesn't work.

Democracy

lyvwyr101 — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:49:10 EDT

The prominent Boston law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Halet, and Dorr has filed a historic suit in Federal District Court on behalf of 6 Algerian detainees, who were captured in Bosnia and are still being held in Guantanamo.
The firm filed suit after repeated requests for information under the Freedom of Information Acts, were ignored.
One of the detainees said a beating by guards left his face partially paralyzed, and one of his fingers broken.
The complaint will ask the judge, to order the military to hand over documents about its treatment of the 6 detainees, in Guantanamo.
This is the first FOIA lawsuit in connection with detention challenges, marking a new tactic in piercing the "veil of secrecy" that surrounds the "enemy combatants" at the prison.
The US government brought the 6 detainees to Guantanamo after the Highest Bosnian court released them, due to "lack of evidence."
So, it looks as though democracy is, at long last, on its way to Guantanamo.
However, I do believe it will come home to" roost."

Opposing

lyvwyr101 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:09:02 EDT

Former New York governor Mario Cuomo, was a televised guest on Bill Maher's show "Real Time" this week.
If students are looking for a way to oppose "right-wing" speakers who are "guest lecturing" on their campuses, perhaps former governor Cuomo could help.
Mario Cuomo is curently engaged in "putting together a network" of democrats, who will engage conservative lecturers in public debate.
Perhaps, instead of a lecture, these republican speakers would be willing to participate, in a debate.
I would think, former governor Cuomo would be the one to call with regard to this.

MAKE THE SWITCH

lyvwyr101 — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:04:08 EDT

The Brooks Drug Store chain does not sit in judgement, nor do they look down their noses at you. If you are unhappy with a pharmacy that makes moral judgements concerning your life, make the switch.

Dear Brooks Pharmacy Customer -

As healthcare professionals, our pharmacists' primary objective is to provide our patients with superior health information and unmatched standards of care.

Our company position is that our pharmacists comply with the policies and procedures to ensure that appropriate care is delivered to our patients. This prohibits a pharmacist from refusing to fill a prescription based on any religious, political or moral beliefs.

Brooks Pharmacy has traditionally carried and dispensed the Plan B product in question to our patients who present prescriptions, and will continue to provide it.