While we are on the subject of petitions, I am forwarding a petition
(legitimate) demanding the the censure of George Bush. This effort is being
led by MoveOn.Org.
Regards,
Walter Nicholls
Dear friend,
In an attempt to escape responsibility for the misleading statements that
led the nation to war, President Bush has announced plans to form an
independent inquiry to look into what went wrong. An inquiry would serve
the Bush administration well: it would envelop the issue in a fog of
uncertainty, deflect blame onto the intelligence services, and push any
political damage into 2005, after the upcoming election.
But the facts need no clarification. Despite repeated warnings from the CIA
and Defense Intelligence Agency, President Bush and his administration
hyped and distorted the threat that Iraq posed. And now that reality is
setting in, the President seeks to pin the blame on someone else. We can't
let him.
Congress has the power to censure the President -- to formally reprimand him
for his betrayal of the nation's trust. If ever there was a time to use
this function, it is now. Join the call for Congress to censure President
Bush now at:
http://www.moveon.org/censure/?id=-539027-24Vd7Yn86Y9kb1kp3dto2A
Thanks.
Quoting "Torres-Melo,JA" <[log in to unmask]>:
> FYI. Most of the emails with petitions asking for signatures and names,
> but without any link or website are hoax. Who is going to check the
> names? or why is 400 the limit?. They use good causes and our will to
> help to collect email addresses and then use them to spam everyone. There
> are many websites to check if the petition is for real or an hoax, for
> instance, please have a look at http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/. The best
> way to help is sending an email directly to the organisation or signing
> in a website.
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halfacree K.H. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 February 2004 12:48
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: email petition - feel free to ignore!
> Dear all
> The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the
> Amazon forest to 50% of its size. It will take 1 MINUTE to read this, but
>
> PLEASE put your names on the list and forward this on as instructed
> below.
> The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be
> mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock. All the wood is
> to
> be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by large
> multinational companies. The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest
> is
> useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the
> region
> is prone to constant floods. At this time more than 160,000 square
> kilometres deforested with the same purpose are abandoned and in the
> process
> of becoming deserts, meaning that this proposal is in the short-term
> interests of a few, and in the long term interests of none. Please copy
> the
> text into a 'new e-mail' put your complete name in the list below, and
> send
> to everyone you know.
> (DON'T JUST FORWARD IT - AS IT WILL THEN END UP WITH ROWS AND ROWS of
> '>'s)
> If you are the 400th person to sign please send a copy
> to: [log in to unmask]
> Thank you for your help:
>
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