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Now Is the Time to Do the Right Thing

BY | Monday, January 21 2008 



Now Is the Time to Do the Right Thing 

Dear Friend: 

I am not in tonight's Presidential debate in South Carolina because, over the weekend, the Federal Communications Commission supported the arbitrary and deliberately exclusionary criteria imposed by CNN and its parent company, Time Warner, Inc., to keep me out. And, because that FCC decision came so late, there was absolutely no time to appeal or to challenge their denial of Americans' right to hear from the one and only candidate who is willing to demand ...

Immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq. No war with Iran. A national, not-for profit health care system. Repeal of the Patriot Act and a restoration of civil liberties. The cancellation of NAFTA and the rebuilding of the U.S. auto, steel, aerospace, shipping, and manufacturing industries. Carbon-free and nuclear-free energy policies.

But, it's not too late to fight for what we believe, and that's why I am asking for your help. (Click here to donate).
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The Democratic Party has out-sourced your right to a full and fair debate to private, multi-billion dollar media conglomerates whose interests do not represent mainstream America. Their interests are best served by manipulating the political process to achieve their own ends, promote their favored candidates, and profit from the rewards of their power and control.

To challenge those powers and defend your rights, we are running up extraordinary legal expenses. We need your help to sustain those efforts so that everyday Americans can believe in their rights and have faith in their strength to stand up against the political and corporate powers that are ignoring us at the same time they are trying to dominate us.

With your help, we can change this system. We can demand reforms, fight for justice, and re-write the unfair laws and the discriminatory regulations to make this a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. 

Please contribute whatever you can, and ask your friends to do the same, because the cost of doing nothing is far greater than the price of doing the right thing. Before it's too late, now is the time to do the right thing.
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Thank you
Dennis




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