MARCH 2003

Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis' famous book "It Can't Happen Here" at its conclusion drove out, saluted by the meadow larks, and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still Doremus goes on in the red sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup can never die.
Excerpts from letters and texts will appear at random in this series. J.Braddell,editor

Maybe worth your life to try and tell the truth on this one in AmeriKKKa, land of the free?
  Witness  the great white liberal, Michael Moore, in his very thought provoking "Columbine" documentary completely failing to mention the two white kids who went crazy were actually leadership in the youth wing of the White Supremacy movement. The two were publishing a white supremacy website way back in the days when websites were still avant gard, and had travelled around the country attending white supremacy events, even having their picture taken with  a head of a Nazi organization.
 How this most crucial fact in explaining the mental illness that triggered the Columbine school massacre managed to be eliminated from mention cries for the question: Why do white folks have to bend over backwards not to talk
about this most pervasive of mental illnesses?Awet N'Hafash (victory to the masses)
Thomas C. Mountain
Hawaii Black History Committee
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19-year-old Mark Taylor, spent nearly two months in hospital and has endured three years of follow-up operations for the gunshot wounds he received during the murderous 1999 rampage of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.

Taylor slowly is recovering from his wounds and, in an effort to bring attention to what he believes was the cause of Harris' deadly rage, has filed a lawsuit against Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc., the manufacturer of Luvox (Fluvoxamine), the antidepressant that Harris had been prescribed and was taking at the time of the shooting spree. Despite the deadly assault against him, Taylor's perception of the young men who nearly killed him is surprising.

Taylor tells Insight, "I'm suing Solvay because I believe that Eric Harris did what he did because of this drug. I didn't personally know Eric, but I knew him as one of the 'Trench Coat Mafia.' Everybody thought Eric and Dylan were the nicest people. My cousin, who was in Eric's class, told me that Eric and Dylan used to bring her flowers and cookies. Eric was forced onto these drugs and I feel sorry for him, like so many other kids who are put on these drugs. I don't have ill feelings against him since I don't think you can hold him accountable, because he didn't know what he was doing." Taylor's lawsuit against Solvay claims that the mind-altering drug Luvox was the cause of Harris' rampage — that the drug made Harris manic and psychotic.

Luvox is in a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that interact with the serotonergic system in the brain, as do Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. Street drugs that interact with the serotonergic system include LSD and Ecstasy. The Food and Drug Administration approved Luvox in 1997 for treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children, but not for treatment of depression.

The Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) records that, during controlled clinical trials of Luvox, manic reactions developed in 4 percent of children. Mania is defined as "a form of psychosis characterized by exalted feelings, delusions of grandeur … and overproduction of ideas." Court records show that the prescription for Harris had been filled 10 times between April 1998 and March 1999, and that three-and-a-half months before the shooting the dose had been increased — a common thread many experts say they are finding prior to adverse reactions to psychotropic drugs. The autopsy on Harris revealed a "therapeutic level" of Luvox in his system.
Kelly Patricia O'Meara is an investigative reporter for Insight magazine.

Speak Out
lawrence Ferlinghetti


   And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land
   And America turns the attack on its Twin Towers
   Into the beginning of the Third World War
   The war with the Third World
   And the terrorists in Washington
   Are drafting all the young men
   And no one speaks
   And they are rousting out
   All the ones with turbans
   And they are flushing out
   All the strange immigrants
   And they are shipping all the young men
   To the killing fields again
   And no one speaks
   And when they come to round up
   All the great writers and poets and painters
   The National Endowment of the Arts of Complacency
   Will not speak
   While all the young men
   Will be killing all the young men
   In the killing fields again
   So now is the time for you to speak
   All you lovers of liberty
   All you lovers of the pursuit of happiness
   All you lovers and sleepers
   Deep in your private dreams
   Now is the time for you to speak
   O silent majority
   Before they come for you
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   Lawrence Ferlinghetti is San Francisco's first poet laureate (1998) and
the owner and founder of City Lights Bookstore. This poem first appeared
on the City Lights Web site (www.citylights.com).
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Copyright 2003 SF Chronicle

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• America is hellbent on destroying its own Constitution. The first Patriot Act torpedoed most of it, but now the new Patriot Act II — currently under wraps and about to be deployed secretly for a rigged vote in Congress — actually contains a provision to revoke the citizenship of American citizens if they are deemed to be connected with a terrorist organization. This decision would require no proof, only an assertion by the government. It means that people who attend peace protests are now eligible for indefinite detention without access to lawyers or phone calls to family. To be clear, it means quite literally that America is no longer a free country, and that its citizens are no longer Constitutionally protected from arbitrary punishment by its war-mad government.....John Kaminski

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and is very encouraged that anti-war protests are being scheduled in even some of the smallest towns around the world.

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey of Ireland was recently passing through Chicago from Dublin, where she passed security, when she heard her name called over a loudspeaker. When she went up to the ticket counter, three men and one woman surrounded her and grabbed her passport. McAliskey was informed that she had been reported to be a "potential or real threat to the United States."

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey has spent the better part of her life struggling for the Irish nationalist cause. She did not lob Molotov cocktails at police. Instead, she became a member of British Parliament at age 21, the youngest person ever elected to that post. In 1981 she and her husband were shot by a loyalist death squad in their home. She has traveled to America on a regular basis for the last thirty years, and has been given the keys to the cities of San Francisco and New Yo

Upon her detention in Chicago last month, McAliskey was fingerprinted and photographed. One of the men holding her told her that he was going to throw her in prison. When she snapped back that she had rights, she was told not to make the boss angry, because he shoots people. "After 9/11," said one officer, "nobody has any rights."

"You've evaded us before," said the officer before McAliskey was deported back to Ireland, "but you're not going to do it now." She never found out for sure how she was a threat to the United States, and is currently filing a formal complaint with the U.S. consulate in Dublin.

By William Rivers Pitt
Truthout Perspective3-4-03
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THE CONSTITUTION

The other day, I made a huge "gaffe" on national TV: I told the truth about the crimes of the U.S. Government.

As you can imagine, the ceiling fell in, and a couple of walls too. Congressmen are supposed to support the government, I was told. Oh, it's okay to criticize around edges, but there are certain subjects a member of the House of Representatives is not supposed to bring up. But I touched the real "third rail" of American politics, and the sparks sure flew.

I was interviewed on C-SPAN's morning "Washington Journal," and I used the opportunity, as I do all such media appearances, to point out how many of our liberties have been stolen by the federal government. We must take them back. The Constitution, after all, has a very limited role for Washington, D.C.

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U. S. membership in the U.N.; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; No American troops in 100 foreign countries; no Nafta, GATT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; and no income tax. We can get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

That system is called Liberty. It's what the Founding Fathers gave us. Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest, most prosperous, most decent country on earth. It's no coincidence that the monstrous growth of the federal government has been accompanied by a sickening decline in living standards and moral standards. The feds want us to be hamsters on a tread mill working hard, all day long, to pay high taxes, but otherwise entirely docile and controlled. The huge, expensive, and out-of control leviathan that we call the federal government wants to run every single aspect of our lives.

Well, I'm sorry, but that's not America. It's not what the Founders gave us. It's not the country you believe in. It's not the country I believe in. So, on that TV interview, I emphasized not only the attacks on our property, but also the decline of our civil liberties, at the hands of the federal police. There's not supposed to be any federal police, according to the Constitution.
Ron Paul
U.S. Congressman
203 Canon,
Washington D.C. 20515

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...LETTER FROM A FRIEND

After 10,000 years of laborious progress from cave-dwelling, 5,000 years of progress from tribalism, 2,000 years of progress from the tyranny of the clergy, 1,000 years of progress from the brutality of Papal crusades, 300 years of progress from the Divine right of kings - what do we end up with:  all of what the humanity has thought it left behind is reincarnated in the most powerful country in the history of man.  Instead of holding in its right hand the flame of liberty as its statue symbolizes, it is holding a nuclear weapon in one hand and a holy book in the other, and a bunch of medieval shamans as its spiritual leaders.  RM]