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Cover up of Enron facts while repealing the Public Utility Holding Company Act

To the SEC
Enforcement@sec.gov
November 19, 2003


Re: Cover up of Enron facts while repealing the Public Utility Holding Company Act

On behalf of the Alliance for Democracy, and in conjunction with Common Cause/Ohio, I have been litigating a matter for over three years during which the respondents, the US and Ohio Chambers of Commerce, to an Ohio Elections Commission complaint have engaged in extraordinarily evasive measures so as to avoid the most basic discovery as to who was involved in the election violations involving a corporate funded attack on the Ohio Supreme Court. This continues today and, I anticipate will go on for some time.

I have been following similar machinations in Texas, by the Texas Association of Business, over a corporate funded attack on the Texas House of Representatives, where the inquiry is criminal in nature, but nevertheless the evasion as to who was involved seems to be without limit.

These matters follow the refusal of Vice President of the United States Richard Cheney to disclose basic information as to

Bush's voting machines

It should also be IMPEACHABLE for Bush to have buddies: Sequoia, Diabold, ES&S plus another can't remember to be having them manufacturing voting machines--

No Paper Trail (no printout)--We have to more fast to at least get Rep. Rush Holt's bill "Voter Confidence Act" (requiring every voting machine have paper printout trail) pass in time.

Patricia D. Hilton, "The American Homemaker"

P.S. I WROTE TO REPS & SENS AND U.S. SUPREME COURT TO BEGIN IMPREACHMENT PROCEEDINGS.

The following verse

Dear Free Press,

I've been traveling a lot lately and everywhere I go I've talked to people about our current administration. I've distilled my findings into the following verse:

Here is what I've learned in my travels round about: That George Bush is a moron and Cheney is a lout, And Rumsfeld hides his emptiness behind a knowing frown When word comes from Iraq that another chopper's down.

Greg Farnum
Auburn Hills

U.S. Trade Officials Unlikely to Succeed at Miami Ministerial

When trade ministers from the Americas gather for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial in Miami November 20-21, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and his team of advisors are unlikely to walk away with the agreements they seek. The FTAA is an ambitious undertaking intended to link every country in the Western Hemisphere (except Cuba) through a free-trade agreement covering a broad array of issues.

Proponents argue that the accord would increase trade and economic growth among the participating countries, leading to increased prosperity and strengthened democracy throughout the region. But a large and growing number of citizens organizations and some of the region's governments, particularly Brazil, argue that such an agreement would devastate farmers, working people and the environment, and consolidate the power of transnational corporations.

There is currently very little consensus among the participating countries about either the timing or the scope of the FTAA. The United States, along with 12 other nations (those with which the U.S. either already has or is

Is Bush a "Dry Drunk"? This is a Serious, Not Just a Provocative Question

In a March 7th Bush Commentary, you note:

"Jack Beatty in the Atlantic Monthly: Beatty suggests ... Bush's apparent belief that God has appointed him to lead a global crusade against evil.

"He writes, 'If this is what Bush believes, if his talk of Armageddon is not just catnip for the religious right, then he is in a fair way to becoming the American Ayatollah.

"'Bush's belief in God is based on his personal narrative of divine salvation as a recovering alcoholic. He once told members of the clergy, 'There is only one reason that I am in the Oval Office and not in a bar. I found faith. I found God.'"

First, I highly suggest that the two previous articles noted in my piece GEORGE W. and ALCOHOLISM as published In Counterpunch be read. Michael O'McCarthy: Bush and Alcoholism (Counterpunch - October 19, 2002)

There is nothing, absolutely nothing to indicate in the lifestyle of George Bush that he is a "recovered" alcoholic. (As indicated above, Bush explicitly implies that he is alcoholic.)

Mr. Wasserman Article of 11-12-2003

This was an outstanding article: Harvey Wasserman

Bush to veterans: Drop Dead
November 12, 2003

I wished more journalists were just as brave, take their collective heads out of the sand, and tell it like it is as Mr. Wasserman did in this article. I am proud of him and journalists like him. He has my heartfelt support to continue to do HIS JOB unlike others who have abdicated theirs!!!

George Soros is half-right

George Soros is dedicating his life to defeating George Bush. He feels that Bush has the same dangerous tendencies that Soros suffered, first under Hitler and then under the Soviets.

A belief that God is on your side, that contrary evidence is mere bias and that those who oppose you are non-patriots marks the extremist, even if their God is ideology.

Unfortunately Soros, by focusing on the extremism of Bush and the Righteous Right, misses the larger picture of our problems with democracy. If an enemy attacks you, most agree that you must take up arms and defeat him. But that doesn't mean you believe in war. In similar fashion, Soros needs to focus his war against Bush beyond this inferior presidency. Defeating Bush by outspending him is a bit like defeating Osama bin Laden by restricting freedoms and wounding innocents.

Fifty years ago political theorist Robert Dahl said."the only thing democratic about an American presidential election is an honest tabulation of the ballots." For a long time there has been a trend against reason, merit and honesty. Instead, more and

Harvey Wasserman's article: 'Bush to Veterans: Drop Dead'

Thank you for this article. I agree with the sentiments expressed and you brought to my attention additonal facts that I was unaware of. Regarding the issue of Bush donning a military uniform as a civilian, you omitted a comparison to another national leader who enjoyed parading around in a uniform, while never serving in his country's military: Saddam Hussein. Keep up the good work! We all must do whatever we can to expose this sham of an administration before it's too late.

The London trip of a global tyrant

LONDON -- This city has been the November host of a global tyrant, on whose rampages the sun never sets. His name is not George Bush but Rupert Murdoch.

Bush, acknowledged as their legitimately elected leader by at least some of his fellow citizens, presents so frail a political physique that it seems faintly ludicrous to impose on him even the conventional honorific, "leader of the free world," let alone the robust dignity of "tyrant."

The president's arrival in the United Kingdom was preceded by interviews with British newspapers in which he paid humble respect to those democratic traditions permitting Britons to assemble in vast numbers and to cover him with ridicule and abuse. He allowed himself to be scheduled for a possibly humiliating session with relatives of British soldiers killed in Iraq.

The entire state visit, the first by an American president since Woodrow Wilson visited these shores in 1918, has been depicted in virtually every newspaper as a vast political embarrassment to Prime Minister Tony Blair, who issued

Media Clash in Brazil: A Distant Mirror

RIO DE JANEIRO -- After a quarter-century of intensive grassroots organizing and a victorious presidential campaign a year ago, Brazilian social movements are in a strong position as they push the left-wing Workers Party government to fulfill its promises. The contrast to Washington’s current political climate is as diametrical as the opposite seasons of the two countries. Yet Brazilian activists are now giving heightened priority to the same concern that preoccupies an increasing number of people in the United States -- the imperative of challenging the corporate media.

On the night of Nov. 10, at the headquarters of the Brazilian Press Association here in Rio, more than 100 activists gathered to help kick off the nationwide Campaign for Media Democratization. In spite of progress for social justice, Brazil’s mass media remain firmly in the hands of nine wealthy families intent on serving the interests of conservative economic elites. The contradictions between an ascendant democratic movement and a timeworn media oligarchy are extreme.

The government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -- known to

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