Why isn't this making any kind of media attention?

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Subject: Re: Dover Suspends Anthrax!!!

Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 21:39:32 -0700

From: " Colleen Clements " <sunshine@...>

" daniel j meck " <danielmeck@...>

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Why isn't this making any kind of media attention. It seems that we are the only

ones who are aware of all the New Evidence coming out about the Gulf War. I know

they know, but you would never know it. Why is that??? I'm getting really

frustrated. I contacted my local news and at first they were gung ho and wanted

the story all for themselves, well they did nothing with it. I contacted the

paper. Nothing. So, what can all of us do to get this National Attention?????? I

can't stand to just watch all this coming out and it's getting hidden and pushed

aside so we can fight in Kosovo and not upset anyone. So, give me your ideas,

opinion. I know you say be patient, but this is getting ridiculous. The Vanity

Fair article should have made the News. Take Care Colleen

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Hi Colleen and all,

I agree that this certainly isn't stirring up a hornets-nest outside of the

veterans groups...we all know how much the media cares about the military, they

want blood and guts not scandals (Clinton gives them those). What we as

individuals can do: print out copies of the email msgs and take them to your

local news agencies...send them to the mainstream orgs (I always send things

email to ABC CNN MSNBC etc-usually get form letter responses) ...and your

congress-person. Write letters to the editors of your local newpapers...call

your radio stations...call your state representatives. I know these are not

always getting the results we want to see...but if we all are trying to contact

someone...sooner or later we will get through. We must all recognise that we

are a team...and that if we act as responsible individuals---within the

team....we will overcome. I know you don't want to hear about being patient. I

don't want to either, too many GW friends dying as this keeps dragging along.

We have to work the system from within...it's a pain in the ***, but any other

methods will allow them to have us appraised as radicals, militia, or just crazy

Gulf Vets (you know how stressed we are...it's even made us ill).

We truly need to keep up a concerted effort to press on with the

truth...it's obvious that the machine we are battling doesn't really care about

us....rather they wish we'd go away. Just remember...the squeaky wheel is the

one gets greased.....lets all keep squeaking.

This is a good site to get some news agency email addresses...I know there are

many more. We all need to do our part if we are going to 'make something

happen' before more of our brothers and sisters die from this illness...whether

caused by the shots, burning oil-well smoke, low dose exposures to chemical

and/or nerve agents, DU, or some bug in the mid-east. http://www.el.com/

Anyone with strong media ties or interactions...we'd all appreciate any

response....

Sincerely,

[Guest guest]

Dear all.......

The one thing you have in the US, even though you may feel that it has been

eroded to a very great degree, is the ability to quote your Constitution and

your Bill of Rights. YOU HAVE A VOICE, and as so succintly put

it........you MUST use it.

We in the UK have NO voice, we are perceived as subjects of this country and not

citizens.

We live in a society that does not honour Veterans or accord them the respect

that they deserve, it does however honour the dead. I do believe they should be

honoured for their sacrifices, but not to the detriment of the living. The fact

remains that it is cheaper to do this than to pay Veterans a decent living

pension. We do NOT have a Freedom of Information Act, or a Constitution, nor do

we have a Bill of Rights which would allow us to do what our American Colleagues

are able to do.

Our society has been a closed structure of secrecy until very recently, to

obtain information from our political representatives is a very long and

involved process. It is based on outmoded undemocratic systems warped by history

and an ethic of feudalism.

It takes great effort and time to push any enquiry through to the Houses of

Parliament, and longer to get these questions answered.

Our politicians do not have to follow a set of Constitutional rules, they can do

as they think fit, they can set their own priorities and they are not answerable

to us except at election time or when we publicly demonstrate our feelings.

We do have the " Mother of all Parliaments " however it is as yet NOT a fully

Democratic institution. We do have a " Monarchy " which has also it's own

interests at heart and NOT those of the subjects over whom they appear to rule.

Our political system since King the 1st restricted the size of the armed

forces because the Monarchy and Parliament have an inbred fear of a Military

Coup D'etat, this fear of the common man has permeated their thinking to such a

degree that they have labelled us as the " Common Herd " , the " Ignorant Masses " ,

and the " Working Class " .

We are fit enough to fight and die so that they can live their way, however we

are perceived to be unfit to participate in the governance of our own future or

our country. We are perceived as being too ignorant and uneducated to be told

the truth, and too emotional and irrational to be given the facts. They do not

trust us and we do not trust them and this leads to a scenario that makes

dialogue very difficult.

The reality is that it is we who do the fighting and dying and we are more in

touch with reality than they are. We are perceived as a danger to them to their

privilege, to their status.

In striving to make YOUR voices heard in the United States, by doing ALL of the

things which suggested, you bring matters to the surface which if, given

enough impetus, could not only give YOU the help you so badly need, but also OUR

government would not be able to ignore it. At the end of the day this small

island is only a satellite of the United States.

Regards

Anne