First Amendment Voices
We are your mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons. We are your neighbors, your co-workers, your
ministers, your teachers, and your friends. We are America! We are voices crying in the wilderness as we face a life of
physical, mental, and financial destruction. What are our crimes? We are outspoken critics of injustice, whistle blowers,
protectors of the elderly, the young, the needy and the environment. We are college professors, business leaders,
politicians,teachers, artists, writers, and clergymen. We are gay and lesbian Americans.
But we cannot be punished for our advocacy or our outspoken commitment to our fellow man because we are Americans
protected by the First Amendment to our Constitution which guarantees us the freedom of speech. Yet, our lives and the
lives of our children are in disarray. We are victims of a government sworn to protect our rights.
There are thousands and thousands of us who no longer enjoy the peace, prosperity, privacy, and protection promised to
us in the Constitution. We are subjected daily to harassment, intimidation, illegal wiretaps, false arrests, misconduct by
the judicial system, surveillance, psychological assaults, and health threats. Our plight likens us to victims of domestic
terrorism.
One would think that the expansion of this domestic terrorism would grab the attention of the media, the politicians, civil
liberty groups, and civil rights groups; but we have literally been ignored by all of these organizations. Hundreds of us
have appealed to the US Department of Justice for relief, only to receive form letters that politely state that our problems
our not in their area of enforcement.
My fellow targeted individuals, we must demand that our voices be heard. We must place our selves in a position that we
are able to attend any forum of interest to our organization. We have remained silent because the system has insured
that we don't have the financial means to make ourselves visible. As you can gleam from my website, I have traveled
extensively at my own expense to carry our message. I can no longer afford these trips so I turn to you for the mere
$200.00 that I need to attend the Bioethics conference in New York on May 18, 19.
More importantly, I am asking you to support a speaker's bureau so that we may travel and speak-out. There are some
very talented individuals in our group who will eloquently deliver our message. We want to be able to provide travel for
our speakers, while other members are asked to devote time on the Internet identifying opportunities for our speakers.
Please let me know if any of you have experience in making public presentations as we need as many speakers that we
can get who will represent us well. We all live on very meager incomes, but $5.00 or $10.00 when you can spare it will
provide us with the opportunity to carry our story.
We are your mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons. We are your neighbors, your co-workers, your
ministers, your teachers, and your friends. We are America! We are voices crying in the wilderness as we face a life of
physical, mental, and financial destruction. What are our crimes? We are outspoken critics of injustice, whistle blowers,
protectors of the elderly, the young, the needy and the environment. We are college professors, business leaders,
politicians,teachers, artists, writers, and clergymen. We are gay and lesbian Americans.
But we cannot be punished for our advocacy or our outspoken commitment to our fellow man because we are Americans
protected by the First Amendment to our Constitution which guarantees us the freedom of speech. Yet, our lives and the
lives of our children are in disarray. We are victims of a government sworn to protect our rights.
There are thousands and thousands of us who no longer enjoy the peace, prosperity, privacy, and protection promised to
us in the Constitution. We are subjected daily to harassment, intimidation, illegal wiretaps, false arrests, misconduct by
the judicial system, surveillance, psychological assaults, and health threats. Our plight likens us to victims of domestic
terrorism.
One would think that the expansion of this domestic terrorism would grab the attention of the media, the politicians, civil
liberty groups, and civil rights groups; but we have literally been ignored by all of these organizations. Hundreds of us
have appealed to the US Department of Justice for relief, only to receive form letters that politely state that our problems
our not in their area of enforcement.
My fellow targeted individuals, we must demand that our voices be heard. We must place our selves in a position that we
are able to attend any forum of interest to our organization. We have remained silent because the system has insured
that we don't have the financial means to make ourselves visible. As you can gleam from my website, I have traveled
extensively at my own expense to carry our message. I can no longer afford these trips so I turn to you for the mere
$200.00 that I need to attend the Bioethics conference in New York on May 18, 19.
More importantly, I am asking you to support a speaker's bureau so that we may travel and speak-out. There are some
very talented individuals in our group who will eloquently deliver our message. We want to be able to provide travel for
our speakers, while other members are asked to devote time on the Internet identifying opportunities for our speakers.
Please let me know if any of you have experience in making public presentations as we need as many speakers that we
can get who will represent us well. We all live on very meager incomes, but $5.00 or $10.00 when you can spare it will
provide us with the opportunity to carry our story.
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