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Borders Botches Palin Book Signing In Indiana!

When Sarah Palin showed up for her book signing at Border's in Indiana over 2,000 people were in line.

Borders had given wrist bands to waiting fans anxious to meet the Governor and have her sign their book.

At 9pm, at the end of the event about 400 people were left standing in line.

Borders had given out 1,000 wrist bands that admit 2 people and their children. Usually book signings are limited to a couple of hours. It's a herculean task for anyone to greet, converse and sign 2,000 books in a few hours.

It's amazing that Sarah could have managed an estimated 1600 in a couple of hours.

The rules also said that only two books could be signed per wristband and that a wristband would not guarantee an autograph if "unforeseen circumstances" arose.

The Fort Wayne signing went smoothly, and Palin voluntarily stayed about 20 minutes past the scheduled 3 p.m. end time to sign books for the last 50 people in line.

The Noblesville signing was scheduled from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Palin arrived early and stayed late, according to an e-mail from Tina Andreadis, a spokeswoman for HarperCollins, which published "Going Rogue" and coordinated the book tour.

How gracious of the Governor to arrive early for the crowds and stay late.

Those waiting in line in Indiana were naturally dismayed and disappointed. Borders misjudged how many people could actually be accommodated in the time allotted.


"Borders spokeswoman Mary Davis couldn't offer an explanation why so many were turned away.

"Gov. Palin is a hugely popular figure," Davis said. "We just couldn't get to all the customers."

Despite their booing and shouting, several who were turned away said they blame Borders, not Palin."

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy ~ The American Coup d' e`-tat ~ Part 2 ~ The Secret Society Investigated

In part one of this series a Secret Society operating covertly in our country was suggested. The components of this society included Military, Industrial, Financial and Political interests. Whether you refer to it as the Cartel, Secret Society, Secret Team, Secret Club or Shadow Government it amounts to the same thing.

A group of wealthy, powerful and politically connected men joined in a common interest or goal for the direction they wished to take this government. They plot and plan every move to benefit their collective interests. The Shadow government controls through the Presidency the future of this country.

EisenhowerBushDwight Eisenhower was the first U.S. President to publicly warn us. He saw the Shadow Government forming or trying to exert control. In his last address as President he said “Beware of the Military-Industrial Complex”.

Even he saw the growing threat presented by this group, which put him in power.

Richard Nixon, who was Eisenhower’s VP displayed no similar concern. He had lost a bitterly contested election to Kennedy. He made no pretense at hiding his hatred for the Kennedy's.

  • For a moment consider that the years from 1963 – 1972 were the bloodiest years politically in our country. We experienced more assassinations, attempted assassinations or mysterious deaths in our recent history.


  • 1963 – John Kennedy - Assassinated
  • 1968 – Martin Luther King - Assassinated
  • 1968 – Bobby Kennedy - Assassinated
  • 1969 – Ted Kennedy near murder
  • 1969 - Rev. A. D. Williams King-drowns in swimming pool-suspicious circumstances
  • 1972 – George Wallace – Attempted Assassination – Presidential candidate vs Nixon

As an aftermath


  • 1980 – Allard Lowenstein – Assassinated – found conspiracy in RFK assassination. (source)

Without going into drawn out detail, eye witnesses or those who possessed information pertinent to each of these events mysteriously died before they could testify. Some witnesses within days of their appointed testimony. In another blog the full list of names and relationships will be supplied.

It’s just a coincidence! That’s what the Shadow Government would want you to believe. Look at the list of names. If it were a coincidence would they all be related either to each other or politically?

My Friends – we lost control of our country on November 22, 1963. Those responsible systematically eliminated anyone else who stood in their way. Our Presidency has been controlled secretly behind the scenes ever since then.


Have we really elected a President since, who was of the people, by the people and for the people?

  • After 1972 it was not necessary to use assassination as way of control. Anyone elected as President could see the handwriting on the wall. To a large extent – nothing has happened in this country, either success or failure that was not controlled behind the scenes.

  • Look at the upheaval we face in our country today and the radical administration that has risen to power. We have been on this foot path for years. The Shadow Government gaining strength and control with every administration.

Who would want to kill John F Kennedy?

MILITARY – LAW ENFORCEMENT

Kennedy and Viet Nam

John Kennedy was not in favor of military involvement in VietNam. Even though we had troops on the ground as advisers, he resisted any escalation in spite of the urging of those who were in favor of it. Kennedy appeared weak to those who wished to involve the United States in a full scale war.

  • It was not only the CIA and the Pentagon who wanted him to send troops to Laos and Vietnam. Members of his Kennedy’s administration, including Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, Alexis Johnson, McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and Roswell Gilpatric, were also strongly in favor of Eisenhower’s policy of “intervention in remote areas backed by nuclear weapons”. (10)

  • It has to be remembered that Johnson, McNamara and Gilpatric had all played an important role in the ensuring that General Dynamics got the TFX contract. (bomber-fighter plane) (11) Is it possible that they had other motives for involving the United States in a long-drawn out war?

Kennedy met with Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor on 2nd October, 1963. Kennedy told McNamara to announce to the press the immediate withdrawal of one thousand soldiers from Vietnam. Kennedy added that he would “probably withdraw all American forces from Vietnam by the end of 1965”.

When McNamara was leaving the meeting to talk to the white house reporters, Kennedy called to him: “And tell them that means all of the helicopter pilots too.”

In his statement to the press McNamara softened the President’s views by stating that in his judgment “the major part of the U.S. military task” in Vietnam could be “completed by the end of 1965.” (27)

On October 5, 1963 John F Kennedy signed a National Security Action Memo 263 National Security Action Memo 263.

There are many more twists and turns leading up to Kennedy’s decision to bring home the troops. As reference an in depth article can be found at Kennedy and Vietnam. (source)

CIA – FBI

Officials of the FBI and CIA were fearful of the Kennedy's, who had come to realize how dangerously out of control these agencies had become. The anti-Castro Cubans felt betrayed by Kennedy because of his last-minute orders halting U.S. military assistance to the Bay of Pigs invaders and were quite willing to support and assassination.

  • However, no matter how violent these crime-intelligence-industrial cliques might be, they never would have moved against this nation's chief executive without the approval of—or at the very least the neutralization of—the U.S. military.

Already angered by Kennedy's liberal domestic politics, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and his signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union, top military brass undoubtedly were incensed in late 1963 when Kennedy let it be known that he planned to withdraw all U.S. military personnel from Vietnam by the end of 1965.

Kennedy stated that “The CIA will have to be dealt with”, following the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy accepted the blame for the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion, but the CIA was actually responsible for it.

  • Immediately after the foiled attempt the Agency began to plan a second invasion training Cuban exiles and soldier of fortune in Guatemala on No-Name Key in Florida.

  • The President ordered the CIA to cease its invasion plans but the training continued. Angered and outraged by the Agency’s rogue elephant behavior and arrogant attitude, Kennedy ordered the FBI and the police to break up the paramilitary training camps.

Kennedy fired CIA Director Allen Dulles, Deputy Director Gen. Charles Cabell, and Director of Planning Richard Bissell after the Bay of Pigs. (Later in an astonishing and inexcusable move, Dulles would be named one of the seven Warren Commissioners investigating the assassination.)

  • It was at this time that President Kennedy told Sen. Mike Mansfield that he would tear the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.

The stage was set. Gen. Charles Cabell, the CIA deputy director fired by Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs, was back in the Pentagon, and his brother, Earle Cabell, was mayor of Dallas.

FINANCIAL - INDUSTRIAL

H.L. HUNT FAMILY

H L HUNT

The government oil depletion allowance made H.L. Hunt rich. He did in a few years what it took John D Rockefeller a lifetime to accomplish.

When Kennedy threatened to retract the depletion allowance, the right wing John Birch hate machine cranked up against him.

  • Hunt was the most powerful American propagandist of the far right. In 1951 he financed “Facts Forum”. He spent millions advertising in print and radio that “We should do whatever our general advise us to do”

  • His business interests were so extensive that he subsidized (along with other important oilmen) most of the influential men in Congress like Lyndon Johnson. Hunt was one of the financial backers of Sen. Eugene McCarthy. (source)

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shown an inflammatory full page advertisement that appeared in that day's Dallas Morning News.


  • JFK said to an aide, "We're heading into nut country today." Hours later he was assassinated. The ad was the responsibility of Nelson Bunker Hunt (Son of H L Hunt). H.L. Hunt was a leader of the John Birch Society, the anti-Semitic and racist organization.

H L Hunt, the billionaire Texas oilman who's son paid for the black-bordered JFK hate-ad in the Dallas Morning News the day of the assassination (and who was noticed looking down from his office-tower window - with a mean scowl on his face - at JFK as the motorcade made its way down Main street to Dealey Plaza).

Other politicians with deep interests in the oil business included Nelson A Rockefeller, whose grandfather John D Rockefeller founded Standard Oil. Kennedy’s threatened retraction of the oil depletion allowance would have hurt the family badly.

In later years George H W Bush would also have oil business interests.

Murchison

Clint Murchison another powerful oil baron was closely aligned business wise with H.L. Hunt. Together with Bedford Wynne they founded the Dallas Cowboys. Murchison was also the recipient of large loans from the Teamsters pension funds. (Source)

  • Bedford Wynne also connected to oil interests was probably Murchison’s top political fixer in Washington. Murchison also owned Holt Rhinehart and Winston, J Edgar Hoovers publisher. (source)

  • Richard Nixon was long backed by major oil interests, and it was the major multinational oil companies which in 1963 lobbied successfully for the U.S. intervention in Viet Nam.

MAFIA CONNECTION

After being thrown out of the lucrative casino business by Castro the mob interests were desperate to regain control of Cuba. They desperately wanted the second CIA sponsored invasion to take place, and did everything they could to support this effort. The Cuban missile crisis agreement ended any chance of a military invasion to overthrow Castro. Unknown to the President and his brother(As the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation later found), the Mob contracted with the CIA to assassinate Castro.

hoover

J Edgar Hoover denied that organized crime was an issue in the United States. It was fiction he said. J Edgar Hoover , in his way condoned Organized crime. He indirectly helped kill Martin Luther King Jr and others. He was ruthless and did not hesitate to blackmail anybody in politics.

While this was happening, Robert Kennedy was engaged in the most serious crackdown of Organized Crime in U.S. history. It is almost certain that Mob elements were used in part of the plot. Santos Trafficante, Carlos Marcello, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana and Jimmy Hoffa had a motive and possible means to kill the President.

Nixon

Carlos Marcello had ties to Richard Nixon and Jimmy Hoffa.

  • Marcello's first dealings with Vice President Dick Nixon involved Jimmy Hoffa, the mobbed-up Teamsters Union leader. Because Jimmy shared a common enemy with Nixon, Hoffa and his two million-member union backed Nixon against Sen. John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. A Louisiana Teamster official who later became a government informant has revealed that Hoffa met with Marcello to secretly fund the Nixon campaign with stacks of cold Mob cash. (source)

Jack Ruby who plays a significant role in the assassination had lifelong Mob connections.

POLITICAL

John F Kennedy was preparing for a second run at the White House.

It was widely rumored that Vice President Lyndon Johnson—long associated with dirty politics, gamblers, and defense officials—was to be dropped from the Democratic ticket in 1964.

Richard Nixon had suffered a stunning defeat. Not one to take defeat lightly he desired to win the Presidency. Richard Nixon was in Dallas the night before the assassination meeting with Clint Murchison, H.L. Hunt and J Edgar Hoover among others.

On the morning of the Assassination Nixon was interviewed in Dallas by a reporter from the New York Times. He was quoted as saying that he intended to do everything in his power to see that Kennedy was defeated in the upcoming election.

Almost immediately after the assassination Nixon denies being in Dallas at that time. There are 3 different versions of his story. Later investigations proved that he was in fact in Dallas the night before and the day of the assassination. (source)


THE PLOT IS HATCHED

So now we have all the elements of a Secret Society with a common goal. Military, Industrial, financial and political.

By the beginning of 1963, serious talk against President Kennedy was circulating within many groups—organized crime, the anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA, business and banking, the oil industry, and even the military.

  • There were many connections among all these groups and, once word of this pervasive anti-Kennedy feeling reached the ears of certain members of the Southwestern oil and business communities, secret meetings were held where money was raised and tacit approvals given.

  • Kennedy set out to shake up the status quo of Big Banking, Big Oil, Big Military-Industrial Complex with its powerful Intelligence Community, and Big Organized Crime, which had gained deep inroads into American life since Prohibition.

  • Texas oilmen, staunch friends of Johnson and the military-industrial complex, were dismayed that Kennedy was talking about doing away with the lucrative oil-depletion allowance.

Simply voting him out of office wouldn't suffice. After all, what was to stop someone from carrying on his policies? Two more Kennedys were waiting in the wings for their turn at the presidency. A Kennedy "dynasty" was in place.

  • Therefore the decision was made to eliminate John F. Kennedy by means of a public execution for the same reason criminals are publicly executed—to serve as a deterrent to anyone considering following in his footsteps.

As the true assassination plot began to come together, word must have reached the ears of J. Edgar Hoover, a power unto himself with plenty of cause to hate the Kennedy brothers.

  • Hoover was in contact with his close friend Lyndon Johnson and with Texas oilmen such as H. L. Hunt and Clint Murchinson of Dallas. His agents and his informers were in daily contact with mob figures. (source)

THE PRE-ASSASSINATION MEETING


Madeleine Duncan Brown was the mistress of Lyndon Baines Johnson for 21 years. She was supported by him and bore a child to him during their relationship. She was his mistress up to his death.

She had an intimate knowledge of all the high rollers in Texas who Johnson had as friends and political confidants. As Johnson's mistress she was present at the times leading up to the assassination and witnessed many of the participants who she claimed were involved.

In Oliver Stone's movie JFK, there is a scene depicting a meeting of powerful men the night before the assassination. It is a fact that this meeting took place. Besides the testimony of Madeleine Brown other witnesses confirmed seeing these men in attendance.

Madeleine Brown gave an exclusive interview with Gaylon Ross before her death. There are at least 10 videos of about 8 mins each on Utube. I've included the first two for reference as they deal with the assassination meeting. You can find them by doing a search on her name.

The first video indicates the role H L Hunt played and that he was the driving force behind Lyndon Johnson. The meeting held at Clint Murchison's home included a host of political characters.

She was there that night and witnessed every person who retired from the social event to conduct a private meeting in the conference room. She fully admits that H L Hunt and Lyndon Baines Johnson conspired to assassinate John F Kennedy.

Be that as it may, there were many highly placed people who knew and were present during the conspiracy. Not one of them blew the whistle. Each one would stood to gain personally or politically. Therefore, they were all co-conspirators.


Those who attended that private meeting were:


J Edgar Hoover

H L Hunt

Clint Murchison

Earle Cabell - Mayor Dallas

Bill Decker - Sheriff of Dallas County

Amon Carter

Richard Nixon

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Carlos Marcello

Malcom Wallace

Clifton Carter

Gen. Chas Cabell

This is not the entire list of those who were present. Listed are the most familiar names.

(I'm not real great with Utube videos yet - watch the second video first)



JFK Conspirators: The Clint Murchison Meeting P1

John Fitzgerald Kennedy ~ The American Coup d' e`-tat ~ Part 1 ~ Who Wanted Him Dead?

Many of us will never forget where we were 1pm November 22, 1963.

The President of the United States - John Fitzgerald Kennedy was brutally gunned down in broad daylight by assassin's bullets in Dallas, Texas.

JFK Dallas


This year marks the

46th anniversary of

one of the darkest

days in America's

history.

46 years later we still have unanswered questions.

Many who view this time in history were not even born. For them the questions should be answered. History should tell the truth and not continue to cover up the facts.

We had a coup d'é·tat in our country and we have never recognize it.


  • What is a coup d'é·tat? The sudden overthrow of a government by a usually small group of persons in or previously in positions of authority.

It is my personal belief that this was the most treasonous act ever committed on American soil in modern times. The act was treasonous. Not a terrorist act.

IT WAS HIGH TREASON !

John F Kennedy

No American President, regardless of

their political ideologies should ever be

the target of an assassins bullet. As

Americans we should be forever

outraged and demand the truth from our

government.

There are people alive today who possess information that could place the blame squarely on the shoulders of those who masterminded this crime and carried it out.

Most Americans dismiss the idea that anything was lost, because we have a self perpetuating form of government and a line of succession. Nothing really happened to our government that day it was stable and continued. Or so it would appear.


  • People we never elected nor knew about changed the course of our history on November 22, 1963 forever more.

How would history and the future of our country have played out if a few had not interfered with its path?

I have a series of articles about the Kennedy assassination that will explore some facts that are well known and others that are not. It is not my intent to point a finger at any one person or group of people either alive or dead.

  • There are millions of documents pertaining to the Assassination. There are hundreds of books and articles that have been written. Many important facts cannot be included in this series because the significance of those facts would take chapters of background information to make them clear.

  • There are documents and evidence that has been held by our government and kept under seal until the year 2050. After we are dead, our children our dead and perhaps our grandchildren.
  • That fact alone should make us wonder why after almost 50 years our government is still keeping secrets?

In a series of blogs we will present some facts that have been uncovered, explore the relationships between parties of interest, proffer some theories and perhaps encourage the reader to ask – Who, How and Why?

Perhaps also to encourage those who were born long after the act, to pick up the banner and demand full disclosure.

  • Remember a coup is a small group of people in or previously in positions of authority. From the small group the mushroom cloud grows and expands. More like minded or mercenaries are involved to execute the deed.

Do I personally believe a conspiracy existed in the highest level of our government to assassinate President John F Kennedy? Yes I do.

In 2003 CBS news did a special on the 40th Anniversary of the assassination. 'A 1998 CBS News poll found that only 10 percent of respondents felt Oswald acted alone. Seventy-four percent believed there was a cover-up.

  • Recent polls suggest that this is still the way Americans feel."

The article went on to say the American public wants answers. "If the President of the United States can be assassinated in the middle of the day, then the American people have no basis to believe what their government says to them." (CBS)

That statement should weigh on us as Americans for every day the truth is concealed from us.

Who are the men responsible for killing JFK?


  • There are actually two groups, and within those groups are layers. The first group would be those who for their own reasons desired to kill the President of the United States. It might have started as a handful and grew over a period of years.

  • The next group would be the men who actually planned and carried out the execution. In order to cover all the bases to plan, execute, eliminate witnesses, tamper with evidence, and control a cover up the number had to be great. Not all the players would have realized they were pawns. Others were deeply embedded in the plan.

John Kennedy saw the dark cloud forming

He recognized there were factions in positions of power who had radical ideas that were not in the best interest of our country. He referred to them as a "Secret Society".

This speech was delivered on April 27, 1961 before the American Newspaper Publishers Association



President John F Kennedy Secret Society Speech version 2

Listen to the audio of the speech Kennedy gave warning about the Secret Society and charging the Press to keep the people informed.

Kennedy names the groups who comprise the Secret Society. The Secret Society has been known by many names over time. It has long been rumored that the course of world events are pre-planned and controlled by an elite group of men.


This is the full transcript from the Kennedy Library if you would care to read the speech in its entirety. (John F Kennedy Speech)


I urge you to either listen to the audio or read the transcript in its entirety.

This speech could have been given today. Listen to the duties of the American Free Press according to John F Kennedy .

This speech should chill Americans to the bone. Not just for the meaning it had in 1961, but the meaning it has today in our present political climate.

WHO ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE SECRET SOCIETY?

  • Industrial Interests


  • Political Interests


  • Military Interests


  • Financial Interests

In this series many familiar and not so familiar names will be used. This is a list of the people who will appear. By no means is this an entire list of persons who had an involvement either by coincidence or design.

  • George H W Bush

Assoc of George de Mohrenschildt - CIA Operative – In Dallas Nov 22 - Dir CIA - President

  • Gen Charles Cabell

CIA Deputy Director Fired By Kennedy – Brother to Earle Cabell


  • Earle Cabell

Mayor of Dallas at time of Assassination – Brother Gen Chas. Cabell

  • John Foster Dulles

Sec of State under Eisenhower – Brother of Allen Dulles


  • Allen Dulles

CIA Director. with Nixon and Bush planned Bay of Pigs – Fired by Kennedy –Johnson appointed to Warren Comm to investigate assassination.


  • Gerald R Ford

Changed Bullet Wound Document in Warren Comm – VP under Nixon – President – Pardoned Nixon

  • Richard Helms

Director OSO, falling out with Kennedy over Bay of Pigs

  • J Edgar Hoover

Director of the FBI – Friend of LBJ and Clint Murchison- in Dallas Nov 22

  • E Howard Hunt

CIA Assassin –Watergate Burglar – confessed involvement

  • H L Hunt

Texas oil millionaire father of Nelson – Business Assoc with Murchinson and Wynne

  • Nelson Bunker Hunt

Son of H L – John Birch Society –Posted Newspaper ad declaring JFK as a traitor

  • Lyndon Baines Johnson

Kennedy VP – As President Rescinded Kennedy Viet Nam pull out

  • G Gordon Liddy

CIA Operative - Watergate Burglar


  • Robert McNamara

JFK Sec of Defense – Lead Viet Nam War

  • George de Mohrenschildt

Wealthy Russian Oil man – CIA handler of Oswald - Assoc with Murchinson


  • Clint Murchinson

Oil Tycoon –Founder Dallas Cowboys - Assoc of Hunt brothers, Wynne and de Mohrenschildt

  • Richard M Nixon

Eisenhower VP - In Dallas Nov 22 - President during Watergate - Resigned

  • Lee Harvey Oswald

Alleged assassin of John F Kennedy - Killed by Jack Ruby

  • Nelson D Rockefeller

Millionaire heavy oil interests – VP to Gerald Ford

  • Jack Ruby

Mob connections – once worked for Nixon – Killed Oswald


  • Arlen Specter

Authored magic bullet theory - US Senator


  • Gen Maxwell Taylor

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff JFK


  • Frank Sturgis

CIA Assassin - Watergate Burglar – Confessed involvement

  • Earl Warren

Former Republican Gov of Calif – Chief Justice – Headed Warren Commission

  • Bedford Wynne

Associate and partner of Clint Murchinson – co founder Dallas Cowboys


  • John Kennedy wanted to abolish the Federal Reserve and the CIA
  • He wanted to abolish the profitable oil depletion allowance
  • He had signed orders to remove our troops/advisers from Viet Nam

Dealey Plaza Nov 22 1963

In Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by multiple assassins’ bullets as his motorcade took and unscheduled turn in Dallas.

Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; and the youngest to die.


The Secret Service was not by his side

They had been called off his motorcade as his limousine made that fateful left turn.

Who would have the power to do this?


Deer Loses Butt Match

This article caught my attention today. A seven point buck spies a rival in the yard of Mike and Carol Brye's home in Viroqua, Wis.

During mating season bucks will defend their territory against rival bucks. In the back yard the anxious buck spies a 640 lb concrete elk. Off he goes to charge and butt it multiple times.

Alas, the Elk won. Not before the buck did some serious damage to the statue.

In the picture you can see the buck laying in the yard and the destroyed statue in the foreground. (source)

Deer Takes On Elk

How Pennsylvania Congressmen Voted On Health Care Over Haul

The Congress passed the massive Health Care Reform Act Saturday night. 220 voted in favor.


Want to know how your Congressmen voted from Pennsylvania?


The following Representatives voted in favor of the Health Care Bill

Robert Brady

Chris Carney

Kathy Dahlkemper

Mike Doyle

Chaka Fattah

Paul Kanjorski

Pat Murphy

Allyson Schwartz

Joe Sestak


WE THE PEOPLE spoke out all this summer and made it known we were against this massive overhaul of our health care system. In spite of our protests these Congressmen from Pa voted party line and not the will of the people. They blindly followed the leadership of Obama and Pelosi. Such action should put their seats in peril in 2010.

November 10, 2010 will be another historic day in American politics. If you disagree with the vote of these elected officials make it known next election day.

For now, contact your state Senators and implore them to vote against this bill when it reaches the Senate floor.

Robert Casey Arlen Specter