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If We Lose Feingold, We've Lost America

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For OpEdNews: Ruth Hull - Writer

There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate, but there is only one living Senator who has consistently represented the people of the United States since 1993. The rest have repeatedly sold out to special interests.

When the time came to vote for freedom verses fascism in the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Russ was the only Senator who cared enough about the people to vote "Nay." Despite pleas from the masses to oppose that bill, Boxer, Reid, the Nelsons, and other senators who are fighting for their seats voted for tyranny over freedom.

In 2004, Democratic Senators campaigned on the lie that they would support Feingold in striking down the Patriot Act. Instead, Boxer, Obama, Reid, and the others currently fighting for their seats deserted the people and voted to increase tyranny and they did so multiple times.

A while back, I attended a Patriot Act workshop at the California State Bar Convention that was led by a California Islamic attorney who was overwhelmed that Feingold, a Jew, had voted to treat Arabs as people while the entire rest of the U.S. Senate felt that Arabs and anyone who was different deserved to lose their liberty under the Patriot Act. The issue for most Americans was less that America had found a true hero and more that their Democratic heroes in the Senate had betrayed them. People were angry and the Democrats lost both houses as a result of the sell-out Patriot Act and War votes. The Democrats would have been victorious in 2002 if only they had listened to Russ.

In 2005, the Senate took another dramatic step in the wrong direction with the Real ID Act, which gave the U.S. Government the power to track the daily activities of all law-abiding Americans and to round them up and execute them if they were a threat. Most Americans didn't take the time to read the bill. The Secretary of Homeland Security has the power to waive all laws (including murder, kidnapping and rape) under the Act. While Senate Democrats joined the Republicans in selling out the people, Feingold held firm and voted "nay."

Feingold has always been the voice of freedom and liberty in the U.S. Senate while all other currently-living Senators have been silent. He has been the voice against war and tyranny. Yet polls show that Americans have forgotten that, more than any other Senator, Americans owe Russ Feingold their freedom and rights.

If Democrats lose the Senate to the Republicans, it would be a bad thing as the Republicans know how to be Republicans. But other Democratic Senators we are trying to save are also working hard at appearing to be Republicans. There is one, only one, living Senator who knows how to be a Democra,t and what have we done for him/

If the other Democrats win, they won't stand up against the extensions of the Patriot Act or against other acts of tyranny. They haven't in the past. Only a fool would expect them to change for the better. Millions of us contacted Boxer and other Senators to no avail prior to their votes for tyranny. I'm voting for Boxer, but I would rather be in Wisconsin voting for Russ, someone who has worked for my support and for yours.

So what can we do? Everything. We can flood Wisconsin in support of ALL OF US. If you live outside Wisconsin, you owe far less to your senator (no matter which Senator it is) than you do to Russ Feingold. It's time for you to take a vacation and spend a couple of weeks standing up for yourself rather than whining about the loss of liberty your failure to go to Wisconsin will cause. If you can't travel, get a phone list and make calls.

If I had any equity in my house, I'd mortgage everything I could so that my daughter would not be a victim of a Senate without Russ. Everyone who cares about the future of their children should consider doing likewise.

If we lose Russ, there will be nobody else to stand up for us. Wall Street has its Senators. Blackwater has its Senators. When you look at the facts, the people only have Russ Feingold. If we lose him, there is nobody for the people. Aren't we worth one Senator?

We've got just a couple of weeks to save our only voice in the Senate. It's time we put our money, our phones and our walking shoes where they will do the most good and not just for one day for every day - until we re-elect the only Senator who represents all the people of the United States.

No savior from on high delivers,
No faith have we in prince or peer.
Our own right hand the chains must shiver,
Chains of hatred, greed and fear.

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They have to get with the workers or get the hell out of the way. I liked what you wrote in the other crybaby thread - "maybe he can follow us"...

she should add idiot to the list

(seriously, someone wrote this?)


If I had any equity in my house, I'd mortgage everything I could so that my daughter would not be a victim of a Senate without Russ. Everyone who cares about the future of their children should consider doing likewise.

...and if it's any consolation, you never had "America".

It belongs to this guy:

http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/pictures/Vanderbilt-Cornelius.jpg

... and some others... even though they're dead.

At least he had an awesome locomotive named after him...

http://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/nyc5344.jpg

In 1934, Chrysler Motor Car Company introduced the "airflow" design, inaugurating the era of streamlining in transportation. Carl F. Kantola, a longtime New York Central employee, proposed a streamlined steam locomotive and his design was accepted by corporate officials. Hudson No. 5344 of class J1e, built by Alco in 1931, was undergoing repairs in the West Albany shops and was selected to receive the streamlining treatment. Kantola's design was modified by the Case Institute of Technology. In late December of 1934, No. 5344 appeared in its new form as the Commodore Vanderbilt, named for the founder of the New York Central. After a public relations tour of the NYC system, she was assigned to haul the Twentieth Century Limited between Chicago and Toledo. Movie cuts of her in that role appear on the Chicory Productions video The Century of the New York Central, Part I.

The New York Central issued a publicity leaflet introducing the Commodore Vanderbilt as "the world's first streamlined high-powered steam locomotive." The leaflet claimed that the streamlining could decrease head air resistance by as much as 36 percent at speeds of 70 to 90 miles per hour, with a corresponding saving in fuel. It is not known whether this claim was verified by testing, and the extra weight of the streamlined shrouding (probably about six tons) may have reduced any such savings. Nevertheless No. 5344 made history as the first steam engine with the simplified lines of the "upside down bathtub" style of streamlining, and became the prototype for countless electric or wind-up toy trains sold by Marx and other manufacturers into the post-World War II era. In 1939, No. 5344 was re-streamlined with Henry Dreyfus' "bullet nose" design that had been introduced with the J3 class of 1938. In this guise she differed in dimensions from other J1e Hudsons, having 23¾x28-inch cylinders and a boiler pressure of 250 pounds. Her tractive effort was 42,480 pounds, with the booster adding 12,100 pounds, and she weighed 370,000 pounds.

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I also used to like Obama. Man, that was stupid of me.

Of course, that was when I "believed" politics, as opposed to seeing things as they are....

Lookin' backward, it's Art.