TRUE DEMOCRACY Editorial

TRUE DEMOCRACY SPRING 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Demands

Please copy this page, fold it into thirds, address it to Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, whose address is here, close it with a staple or tape and mail it. You do not need to place your name or address on this mail:

We want you to do the following or we will not visit your state on vacation:
- Free all political prisoners, allow them to sue for false arrest, and provide them resources to go home;
- A huge increase in funds for the National Endowment for the Arts;
- Allow the Brown and Goldman families to sue for negligent homicide and apologize to O. J. Simpson returning his Heisman Trophy to him;
- Pass a law stating that airlines must provide baby carriers on all flights;
- Nationalize energy in honor of President John F. Kennedy;
- Eliminate the oil depletion allowance in honor of President Kennedy;
- Mandate that ethanol be removed from gasoline year round;
- Provide funding into alternative resources of energy such as solar energy and wind energy and do not allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve;
- End 48 hour rule, mandate a truly independent community review board composed of civilians and police who have not been involved in brutality and give subpoena power in cities with 100,000 pop;
- Shut down Street Crimes Units;
- Make police brutality and misconduct a federal crime if committed against citizen or non-citizen regardless of religious preference prosecutable in a court of law;
- Allow Native American families of 64 murdered by the FBI on the Pine Ridge Reservation to sue for negligent homicide;
- Allow convicted to make phone calls at the regular rate;
- Free Chad Ray Bennett TDCJ#790798, allow him to sue for false arrest, expunge his record, and provide resources to go home;
- Expunge the criminal record of Larry Ray Bennett;
- Provide psychotherapy for Matthew Bennett with a psychotherapist who practices Dr. Susan Forward�s method and provide the resources for Brenda Bennett to drive there; provide Brenda Bennett the resources to purchase a vehicle of her choosing, comparable to the vehicles she has owned;
- Disbar Judge Sue Pirtle, Jana Morris, DA Roy Summrow, and Judge Myer;
- Allow the Puerto Rican political prisoners who were granted clemency by Bill Clinton to associate with anyone of their choosing;
- Add a huge increase in funding for technical colleges in the U.S. for student grants.