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Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .::::::Change the environment. Recruit more Downsizers. Share this message with others.
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:::”No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
:::– Judge Gideon J. Tucker (1826-1899)
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::: Subject: Urgent Action Item
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:::The Senate may vote today to replace or extend the “Protect America Act” (PAA), a law that legalizes warrantless spying on Americans.
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:::There is a version of a replacement bill that some organizations describe as acceptable. For one thing, it does not grant immunity to the telecom companies that participated in spying on Americans when such spying was still illegal. However, we have stopped asking you to ask Congress to favor this bill because . . .
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:::We think we are more likely to get what we want, or a better compromise, if we ask for what we want, which is the termination of PAA.
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:::We think it is strategically unsound to ask for less than what you really want. Doing so sends Congress a message that it is safe to compromise in the wrong direction. By asking for what we want, even if it is not what Congress is likely to grant, we make it more likely that any resulting compromise will be in the right direction.
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:::Now, this may be your last chance to influence what Congress does. Please ask Congress to repeal the PAA, or let it sunset out of existence.
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:::Also, in other news, gold moved above $900 an ounce this morning. Investors are trying to protect themselves from the Fed’s inflationary interest rate cut from earlier in the week. You might want to send Congress a message urging passage of the “Honest Money Act,” and mention $900 gold in your personal comments.
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Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .:::Change the environment. Recruit more Downsizers. Share this message with others.
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:::”If you don’t trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a pine tree, worth $4,000-$5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars?”
:::- Kenneth J. Gerbino
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::: Subject: Changing the environment
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:::The “American Spectator” reports that Mike Huckabee is out of money. His campaign workers are now having to volunteer. The same with Giuliani. People will vote for these guys, but they won’t fund them. 
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:::We find this fascinating and instructive. People are easy with their votes, but stingy with their dollars. This tells us that support for the Big Government status quo is only an inch deep, though it remains a mile wide.
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:::The Big Government Establishment is running on fumes. It continues to dominate through sheer inertia, and because it retains the loyalty of the most important constituency of all — the mainstream media.
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:::The media, under the guise of reporting, can provide its favored candidates with massive free advertising, without regulation from the campaign finance laws.
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:::This is what keeps the house of cards standing.

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . . ::::::Quote of the Day:
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:::”To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means — to declare that the Government may commit crimes in orderto secure conviction of a private criminal — would bring terrible retribution.”
:::– Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
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:::Subject: Sunset the “Protect America Act”
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:::We need to keep hitting Congress on the “Protect America Act” (PAA).
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:::The “Protect America Act” — which legalizes warrantless spying on Americans — will sunset out of existence on February 1 unless Congress either agrees to a replacement bill, or votes to extend the sunset deadline. The Senate is having a hard time reaching an agreement on a replacement bill, so the main opportunity and threat is the deadline extension.
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:::We must tell both the Senate and the House to let the PAA expire, and to oppose any replacement bill.
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:::We also asked you to do this last Friday, but there were problems with the campaign that took us a while to fix. But the problems are now fixed, so you can go forth and pound Congress with confidence that they will get your message. PAA will either die or be extended in the next couple of weeks, so the time to act is now.
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:::Thank your for being a part of the growing Downsize DC Army.
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:::Perry Willis
:::Communications Director
:::DownsizeDC.org, Inc. ::::::

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .:::Let us begin with an extended quote:
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:::”Mr. Speaker, today the Chief Executive sent to this House of Representatives a . . . bill for immediate enactment. The author of this bill seems to be unknown. No one has told us who drafted the bill. There appears to be a printed copy at the speakers desk, but no printed copies are available for the House Members. The bill has been driven through the House with cyclonic speed after 40 minutes debate, 20 minutes for the minority and 20 minutes for the majority. I have demanded a roll call, but have been unable to get the attention of the Chair. Others have done the same . . .
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:::”I want to put myself on record against procedure of this kind and against the use of such methods in passing legislation affecting millions of lives and billions of dollars. It is safe to say that in normal times. after careful study of a printed copy and after careful debate and consideration, this bill would never have passed this House or any other House. Its passage could be accomplished only by rapid procedure, hurried and hectic debate, and a general rush for voting without roll call.
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:::”I am suspicious of this railroading of bills through our House of Representatives, and I refuse to vote for a measure unseen and unknown.

On today’s (Sunday) Downsize DC Conference Call, my now 2 hour long radio show, my guest will be Jack Mullen. Jack is Chair of the Downsize DC Foundation, a businessman with several businesses, and an investor.
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:::He convinced me to buy gold. I waited too long, and gold went up in price. He said, it’s not too late. And he was right. Already, I’m profiting.
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:::Our topic today is the economic collapse. What does it mean to you? …to your neighbors and friends? How do we explain things like fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, and so forth? Why bother?
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:::And what are you doing to prepare for the coming economic earthquake?
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:::Tune in at 3:06 PM Eastern (2:06 PM Central, 1:06 PM Mountain, 12:06 PM Pacific).
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:::More on that in a moment, but first . . .
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Bad law to sunset?

Today’s Downsizer Dispatch . . .::::::Quote of the Day:::::::“We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called ‘isolationism.'”:::— Pat Buchanan::::::Subject: Courage is Contagious::::::If you don’t get the results you want at the ballot box, it may be because the environment isn’t right. And how could the environment possibly be right when . . .

Government schools use your tax money to teach fraudulent history and economics that favors an all-powerful state?
• The Mainstream Media is populated by apologists for monopolistic government?
• Mainstream political candidates are funded by people who benefit from your tax dollars?

::::::Those are three big megaphones that combine to drown-out your voice. Your beliefs, and any candidates who come along to promote your beliefs, are relegated to the fringe. Then, in a wicked twist, the resulting low vote totals those candidates receive are pointed to as confirmation that your ideas aren’t worth considering. It becomes a vicious cycle and a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Saving the world, one bill at a time . . .

The Real story on “REAL ID”.

The price of gold moved above $900 an ounce . . .