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http://www.faxyourmp.com : DO IT NOW- before the IRAQ debate

Repostman | 25.02.2003 20:34

APOLOGIES FOR REPOSTING- BUT THIS MUST STAY AT THE TOP OF THE NEWSWIRE It is time to fax your MP, now, it will only take 5 minutes. Parliament will debate Iraq on Wednesday and will vote on whether to allow Blair to back Bush's war. Its up to you to stiffen your MP's resolve ---MI5 keeps knocking out the link ;-) (must be doing something right): Fax your MP now before the Iraq debate

This is the most important thing you can do this week on-line: It is time to fax your MP, now, it will only take 5 minutes. Parliament will debate Iraq on Wednesday and will vote on whether to allow Blair to back Bush's war. Its up to you to stiffen your MP's resolve.
follow the link to  http://www.faxyourmp.com/

over 1,000 faxes have been sent over the last day to MPs, add yours, make sure your friends and family act too
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Here is some text from my letter to my MP which you can use, if you like, as a model for your letter:

I regret that I must say that unless
you are seen to speak in parliament and to vote against this war neither I nor many of your constituents will be willing to support you in the next general election. This is a general problem for the Labour Party: many of those who voted for Labour in the two previous general elections will either vote Lib Dem or simply not vote at all, if this murderous attack on Iraq goes forward.

I am aware that the decision to oppose your party leadership will not be an easy one for you to take, but I hope that I may comfort you with the thought that a willingness to stand on a matter of principle against the will of the Cabinet was central to the successful political careers of Harold Wilson, or indeed much earlier Winston Churchill. Know also, that if you take the right decision, the voters of XXXXXX will keep you in Westminister.

I am grateful for the service you have given to XXXXX and hope that you will find a way towards representing the will of the vast majority of your constituents in the coming matter. We count on you to vote your disagreement with the government's conduct of its foreign policy on the Iraq question. The Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the country, and it is for you to stop him committing Britain to this act of pre-meditated mass murder, even if he secures the sanction of the United Nations

Repostman
- Homepage: www.faxyourmp.com

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Better

25.02.2003 22:43

to advance a Spoil Your Vote or a Don't Vote campaign. We only have to look at German Grune behaviour over the attack on Afghanistan, to understand the craven recognition people who get a step up the pyramid to how things the real rulers dictate. Time to look for alternative system to replace this shell of a society who the straight-minded people look at with disbelief. It's over!
May - don't bother don't vote

dh


Heads up you doomsayers!

26.02.2003 00:32

Heads up you doomsayers!
The Bush gang are doomed as we are rapidly removing their deadly
energy base.
They have missed the window of opportunity by months now.
Everybody
is now laughing at the unfunded babbling of Powell, Bush
etc.
This whole scenario from 9-11 onward is the final revelation of the
frailty, nonsensuality and stupidity of the world regime.
(Their earlier stories were not better, only everybody was
enthralled by them, see PEARL HARBOUR, GULF OF TONKIN
ETC)
Sure, Cathy and Mark have contributed greatly with their book
"Tranceformation of America", but does that make them
omniscient.
It is likely that the criminals at the helm try something on
03.03., as they're probably trying every day to set up new
terrorist acts etc. Is nobody noticing the failure of all these
"dirty bomb" and "anthrax" scares.
Just ignore these senile dirty players who are losing ground so
rapidly and concentrate on building the new world, not the NEW
WORLD ORDER, as this new world need much less order then we are
use to.
Notice how all your positive and nourishing relations are taking place
outside the realm of government interference and how you become
more and more impervious to their forlorn attemts to entangle
you in their hopeless network of papertrails, paper, paper,
compliance etc.
This is the world of the past, Bush is a last flickering afterimage
of the past, when Generals in Spotless Uniforms could still
order the annihilation of 2 million peasants and be seen as the
good guys.
This is all over, the sooner you start actively(! + with contempt)
ignoring the nonsense, the sooner it disappears.
This is not a call for passivity, as we still have to duck'n hide
from some debris the wounded beast is throwing around + give it
a toss here and a push there to accelerate it's demise.
Mostly
if we have a CB every 30 km and the space between peppered with
HHGs and TBs, they're powerless. This is easy to achieve this
year, much easier than the spread of the common fridge to each
and every american household in 50s, remember? Every body, buy
one, build one, and basta, only a few desert areas left for
them! Those will then be sorted out by fun loaded orgonite
safaris of a liberated mankind in order to reclaim these
ancient and psemingly empty spaces for mankind.
Oh what fun it is to be.....

Earth Humans Win!

Georg

 info@orgonise-africa.net
www.orgonise-africa.net

dh


MP fax

26.02.2003 05:16

If it helps, here is what I sent. Please note I did not
promise to vote for them in the event of them doing such
a thing - that would be dishonest as I have no intention
of voting for any such slimy politician:

Dear XXXXXXX,

I am writing urgently regarding an upcoming debate on war
with Iraq. I believe such a war would be murderous, immoral
and horrible in its consequences, especially for the people
of Iraq.

The above holds regardless of whether enough arms can
be twisted and bribes offered at the UN Security Council
to pass a resolution authorising military force.

As my representative, I ask you to speak out in opposition
to the proposed war during the upcoming debate, and at every
other appropriate opportunity.

In this, I would also like to direct you to your obligations
under the Nuremberg Principles and related international law,
as well as to your conscience as a human being.

Please contact me to let me know what action you have taken
in this matter.

Thank you,
YYYYYYYYY

[***********************************]

The Nuremberg  Principles

Principle I.

Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime
under international law is responsible therefore and
liable to punishment.

Principle II.

The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for
an act which constitutes a crime under international law
does not relieve the person who committed the act
from responsibility under international law.

Principle III.

The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes
a crime under international law acted as Head of State or
responsible government official does not relieve him from
responsibility under international law.

Principle IV.

The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his
Government or of a superior does not relieve him from
responsibility under international law, provided a
moral choice was in fact possible to him.

Principle V.

Any person charged with a crime under international
law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law.

Principle VI.

The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes
under international law:

(a) Crimes against peace:

(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a
war of aggression or a war in violation of international
treaties, agreements or assurances;

(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for
the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).

(b) War Crimes:

Violations of the laws or customs of war which include,
but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation
of slave-labour or for any other purpose of the civilian
population of or in occupied territory, murder or
ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas,
killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property,
wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or
devastation not justified by military necessity.

(c) Crimes against humanity:

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other
inhumane acts done against any civilian population,
or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds,
when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on
in execution of or in connection with any crime against
peace or any war crime.

Principle VII. 

Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a
war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in
Principle VI is a crime under international law.

[***********************************]

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