Mike,
You might mention that we will be seeking to work with Pink Pistols on
the issue. It's hard to say too much when we haven't discussed what
we'll do, but we ought to have some outreach material at the least.
I am visualizing a postcard featuring a picture of a
frightened-looking people huddling on a house in flooded New Orleans,
with the words "Do you trust the authorities to respond quickly in an
emergency? Would you trust them with your life?" Then at the bottom,
"Don't take away San Francisco's right to self-defense. Vote NO on
Proposition H."
You could mention that the above idea was put forward by one of our
members, but that we haven't decided on any campaign yet. I think the
important thing is to get that request in the mail quickly -- it sounds
like they may be under a time schedule for making political
contributions.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
P.S. - The place I got the full-color, two-sided rave-style campaign
postcards done last year, RockBottomPrinting.com, offers 500 postcards
for $125 or 1,000 for $149 (see
http://www.rockbottomprinting.com/Price.asp ). I also found a place
called Rocket Postcards
(http://www.rocketpostcards.com/rocketpostcards/oth/prices.htm) which
offers 500 for $95, but that's with color on only one side. Or for
$495, they offer 1,000 of those postcards and 500 mini-posters (8.5" by
12").
Does the ExCom or anyone else want to weigh in on what I would send?
From: Dr. Michael R. Edelstein
[mailto:DrEdelstein@ThreeMinuteTherapy.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:16 AM
To: Acree, Michael; lpsf-activists@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Perry Matlock
Subject: Fw: the number one human rightMike A.,
Perry says the union may send us a contribution. As Treasurer,
perhaps you would follow-up on this. Thanks.Excerpted from Perry's statement, below:
i am the treasurer and a trustee for local 510 sign display union's
political action committee. please, immediately send to my union
office a request for a contribution.Thank you, Perry. Please join us the second Sat. of any month. See
www.lpsf.org for details.Best, Michael
From: "Perry Matlock" <savetheshellmounds@hotmail.com>
To: <dredelstein@threeminutetherapy.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:11 AM
Subject: the number one human rightdear doctor michael edelstein,
my apologies for the tardiness regarding this message. i am sending
to you the eeeee letter i just sent to the "no on H" folks. i may
attend the anti-war rally in golden gate park on saturday, so i may
not visit you at pizzaland. thus, these are some of my sentiments.
i could go on more, yet i must rest. please, be in touch.
perry matlockdear "no on H" folks,
i am a born and raised unpropertied and working person from san
francisco who has always lived in the richmond district. i do not
own any firearms. however, on account of the fascististic
government
which both daly and bush play a role in, i am almost inclined to
purchase a gun in order to protect myself from the potential police
state which may occur in the near future on account of the likes of
both bush and daly.
the most important human right, above all others, is the right to
self defense. i do not care if the government is communist or
capitalist, if that government forbids the citizens from owning
guns; then, that government must be destroyed. why? because gun
control is slavery.
our second admendment declares that the citizen bearing an arm is,
in fact, the national guard. unfortunately, the united states
government has stolen that role from the citizenship and has
institutionalized it so that the people's right to self defense has
been monopolized by the state.
any weapon the national guard has a right to possess, the citizens
ought to have a right to possess.
in other words, whatever weapons the government may use against its
own citizens, those citizens must have the right to own, also.
otherwise, we really are slaves to the state.
i do not know what political tendencies you folks gravitate towards,
yet on the issue of the right to bear arms, i will join you.
i am the treasurer and a trustee for local 510 sign display union's
political action committee. please, immediately send to my union
office a request for a contribution. i can not promise anything,
yet the presence of the "no on H" may at least neutralize the enemy.
i say the enemy because the only thing that this fascist daly wants
to do is disarm the poor. we all know that the rich will always
find a way to bear arms. in any case, they can always hire armed
security. the poor have no way of doing that. chris daly is no
friend of the poor. this nazi, yes the hitler people were the
masters of gun control laws, is in effect, only going to disarm the
poor, the petty home-owner or business owner, and all working
people. pacific heights will always have the bulk of police
protection. what shall the poor do when the muggers, rapists, and
government fascists attack? throw rocks? daly wants to make
criminals out of people merely for owning a handgun.
let us touch the genuine issue which these cowards and closet
hitlers do not want to really say.
it is poor on poor crime. it is african on african crime. in other
words, the poor and working class people, generally not from
european backgrounds, who struggle to earn a living in a racist
society.
instead of these billionare democrats and their republican and other
wealthy allies going into these african poor and working class
communities and providing real and unconditionally guarantied
scholarships, home ownerships, and reparations for the genocide
which the ruling class and the united states government still
perpetuates, as the case in the aftermath of katrina proves, these
democratic party ghouls, not that the republicans fare any better,
just ban guns. thus, more poor people go to jail, and the
animosity between the poor and the police only increases.
moreover, nothing in the poor communities improves. the poor folk
don't get scholarships. they do not get home ownership. most of
all, the reparations do not happen and the racism continues.
i am no fan of the national rifle association. i am, in fact, an
enemy of both the democratic and republican parties. in the first
place, neither political party has adequately address the issue of
indian treaties, for this is stolen land, and hundreds of homelands
of indigenous people are occuppied by the united states. when shall
these folks have their homelands? when shall they have
independence?
if anyone feels that this is a minor argument, i must be asking one
to ask an israeli or palestinian about how important a homeland
could be. there is no room for for debate here. this is "indian"
land. no other nation can rest a claim as to this land being
another's homeland. either you are ohlone, or you are from
somewhere else. in other words, if you are not ohlone, your
homeland is somewhere else. have the courage and decency to give
the ohlone their independence. the united states government refuses
to do that, and that is why i hate the united states government.
as i have been mentioning, it is the duty of these democratic party
idiots to find a subsitute for their false fix. this gun ban of
daly's will not help poor people buy homes. it will not provide the
unconditional scholarships to the poor communities' children. it
will not provide any hope for the poor communities to share a common
demographic. evictions will continue. poor people will continue
to be trashed by the ruling classes. the poor will be unarmed.
that is fascism. that is something hitler did.
poor folks need guns to defend themselves from other poor folks,
because the poor peolpe, who steal exclusively from poor people,
know that police action shall be quite insignificant. that is why
few poor criminals shall prey upon the rich. poor people also need
guns to protect themselves from the rich, too.
the non-european folks, "the minorities," know rather well the
necessity to be capable of defending against hate-crimes.
gay people who experience hate from even government levels ought to
be armed to deter the hate mongers.
i admire the black panther party for their stance against gun
control and their position on community self-defence.
women who know the reality of rape ought to have the right to bear
arms, including the handguns which daly wants to outlaw for the
citizenship.
the presence of just one gun during the massacres in
uganda-rwanda-burundi, might have truely preserved thousands of
lives.
all civilizations and governments, including feudalists,
monarchists, capitalists, socialists, communists, fascists, national
socialists, and americanists have one aspect in common, the division
of two classes:
those who are allowed to bear and keep arms and those who don't.
why chris daly would want to disarm the poor only leads one to
reason that he is on the side of the future police state, which even
scares some police.long live nat turner!
long live lupugeyun (pomponio)!
long live tatanka yotanka (sitting bull)!
long live nestor makhno!
long live mordechai anielewicz!
this land belongs to the muwekma ohlone nation!perry matlock
perry matlock
PAC trustee & treasurer
local 510 sign display union
250 executive park boulevard suite 4850
tubsinte/amuctac, yelamu
muwekma ohlone nation
san francisco, california
94134-3309please, note that i am not a representative nor a spokesperson for
my trade union, and my title, although real, is for identification
only. however, i may make a request to you folks to submit a
contribution request to my union for the "no on H" struggle.
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