News about the media rigging our election by eliminating Candidates from the Presidential Debates is spreading all over the web at a fast and furious rate. All indications are that people care and change is in the air. GOOD!! Please join the wave because now is a peak moment: Word is spreading + together, we can get so much accomplished! Please write the FCC and FEC and letters to your editor! Thanks!

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Dear friends:

All indications from the Web is that the sentiment about the Media excluding certain Candidates from the Presidential Debates is just plain wrong. The article I wrote went all over the web in only 12 hours, being posted to numerous blogs and radio stations’ websites et al. Comments from readers have chimed in that the attempts to steal the next election and to set American policy are obvious, and are unacceptable. This is a very good sign!

It was people like you who took the ball into your own hands and posted the concerns to the Web at a fast and furious rate: Thank you all! Change is in the air and with such proactivity, the Media is bound to learn a very important lesson: No longer will they be able to get away with buying public policy, selling us wars based on lies (if that isn't lawsuit material I don't know what is!), chosing our next president for us by eliminating Candidates from public debates, clamping down on free speech and eliminating the American power of electoral choice!

A blogger below on Newsvine provided a link from which one can contact the FCC and FEC.  Here is the blog with the link:

 www.everyonespeaks.com     the link for contacting the FCC/FEC

Everyone Speaks http://nosuddenmoves.newsvine.com

“I think that what happened to Kucinich, Gravel and even Hunter is pretty much an outrage. Corporate controlled media has no right to decide who the valid contenders are with ten months to go before the final elections. It is a network that is robbing Americans of our right to make an informed decision about who our leader should be. Any way you want to spin it, it's just wrong.

If you or anyone reading this would like to let the FCC and FEC know how you feel about this, myself and some concerned voters have created a form on our website that will make it easy to do so. Please visit www.everyonespeaks.com and let us know what you think of the place, or better yet, let the FCC know that what ABC has done is wrong.

Thanks!”

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! #6 - Sun Jan 6, 2008 6:16 PM EST

Blogger MargaineSwann on Digg makes a very important point:

“Why isn’t everybody jumping up and down about this? It isn’t a liberal or a conservative issue---it’s an AMERICAN issue. This strikes to the heart of our democracy. This level of corporate interference in an election is fascism. Wake up, people! Disney is telling you how to vote!”

Let's keep the ball rolling and help to change the face of the American media. Please feel free to continue to post this article below along with the important link above to blogs, websites, to e-mail them around and to ask for public proactivity.

AN OPEN LETTER TO ABC NEWS:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/opedne_kathryn__080106_an_open_letter_to_ab.htm

THIS INFORMATION IN THE ARTICLE WHICH I WROTE BELONGS TO THE PUBLIC AND NOT TO ME. YOU ARE WELCOME TO USE THE INFORMATION IN ANY WAY YOU CHOOSE. Please feel free to use my talking points, excerpt, use my exact wording if that‘s easier for you than writing your own…and there is absolutely never any need to quote me. I don’t care one iota about my name going around and even prefer to remain anonymous.

The point here is to get concerned public action going, and that is the sole objective. If the Media is driving American policy and trying to pick our next president for us, it is a serious state of affairs and we must take it seriously.

If you choose to post it in its entirety to a website, for congruity’s sake it should bear my name, in its unedited version (especially because some of the Campaigns mentioned in the letter may post it to their websites). If you edit or re-write it, it should have your name on it. And once again, I hope you will please feel free to do with this public material as you wish. It's yours!

The only thing I ask is that proactive things be done. Class action lawsuits, letters, faxes, letters to the editor, phone calls…..that’s all I ask for!

And thank you all for such a concerned response, and so fast too! I am really appreciative.

I want to see just as much proactivity about S.1959 as this article generated all over the web, overnight. Free speech and due process of law are nothing to toy with. I see voluminous amounts of concerns written all over the web about S. 1959 but very little if any proactive things being done.

FYI statements and a letter sent by the Legislative Aide of my US Representative would indicate that it is the Legislative Aides who are trying to sneak the bill through and convincing Congress, as well as the public, that it protects civil liberties. Not so, as we all know! Let’s call the Legislative Aides on their act (in letters to the editor, on blogs etc) and get on the ball with this one, in the same fast and furious rate as the article above was spread all over the web/written about!

Thank you very much,

Kathryn Smith

Authors Bio:
This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism:

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul Revere, House of Commons