A few days before Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th Governor of California last year he stood on the steps of the capital building in Sacramento waving a broom over his head, an obvious symbolic gesture in which Schwarzenegger promised to clean up the political mess left by his predecessor, Gray Davis.  

"I enter this office beholden to no one except you, my fellow citizens," the Republican governor said when he was sworn in on Nov. 18, 2003. "I pledge my governorship to your interests, not to special interests.to those who have no power...to those who've dropped out - too weary or disappointed with politics as usual - I took this oath to serve you.I did not seek this office to do things the way they've always been done. What I care about is restoring your trust in your government."  

That was then. This is now.  

Hello there,

I just found your listing at the United for Peace and Justice website.

Hope you'll decide to register and join with us in a virtual march on the White House, taking place at 2PM US Central Standard Time on the 29th August.

For more information please see http://geocities.com/tellbushtheworldsaysno

Also, please do let others know about this protest.

Best wishes John

What's LiveMarch?

LiveMarch is a free service that helps people organize online marches that use Email, Web, Fax and Phone traffic to voice support or protest on any issue.

A LiveMarch takes place when a group of users send a synchronized barrage of messages to one person or organization in support or protest of any cause.

You have been invited by John P to participate in the following LiveMarch:

Date & Time: 08/29/2004 at 02:00:00 PM

Title: Tell Bush the world says no to his agenda

Description: The World says no to the Bush agenda! Throughout the world

Thirty years after defeat in Vietnam, while the mainstream media contorts itself with oil-free justifications for the Bush attack on Iraq, George Will speaks clearly.

An administration that does not believe in democracy is not in Iraq to impose democracy.

It is there, says Will, to maintain the empire. Yes, he's used the E word and is proud of it.

But what he doesn't say is that the empire is in the process of getting its butt kicked. Again. The mainstream debate is now about whether or not the US should have gotten into Iraq, and how to maintain its presence.

But few are facing the reality that when the US finally leaves Iraq---and it will---in defeat and disgrace, its personnel are likely to be fleeing embassy rooftops by helicopter, yanked skyward as desperately as in Saigon on this day in 1975.

The George Wills and George Bushes of the world will blame the debacle on those of us who opposed this war when it started and continue to oppose it. But the root cause of defeat will be in the same word that got us in---empire.

As you may have heard, WSYX and the other ABC stations owned by Sinclair Communications have been instructed NOT to show Nightline on Friday night.  This was going to be a special broadcast consisting only of Ted Koppel reading the names of America's war dead.  Apparently, Sinclair thinks that this television memorial is "contrary to the public interest."

Besides calling WSYX (481-6666) and Sinclair (410-568-1500), we should do something public.  I plan on standing in front of the WSYX studios (1261 Dublin Road) at 5:00 on Friday (just when their competitors local newscasts are on) and stage my own reading of the names.  Anyone interested in participating is welcome to join me.  May I suggest, though, that we bring American flags and dress in the kind of somber attire befitting a memorial service.  Then we can better ask why WSYX is so unpatriotic as to not honor this country's fallen heroes.

Questions?  Email me at the numbers below. J.B. Lawton III jbliii@columbus.rr.com

On March 21st Salvadorans went to the polls to elect their future President and Vice-President. The candidates of the ruling right wing ARENA party triumphed over three other contending parties, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the National Conciliation Party (PCN) and the Coalition (PDC-CDU) of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) and the United Democratic Centre (CDU). These were the third Presidential elections since the signing of the 1992 Peace Accords which marked the end of a twelve year long war in which at least 80,000 Salvadorans lost their lives and in which the Salvadoran military forces acted essentially as a surrogate of the US military.

The ARENA candidate, Elias Antonio Saca, polled 57.7 per cent of the vote, whilst his principal rival, the FMLN candidate, Schafik Handal, polled 35.6 per cent. The Coalition party polled 4 per cent and the PCN took less than 3 per cent. The voter turnout was a record 65 per cent.