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After just speaking with Joe Zadroga, the father of NYPD hero James Zadroga, I am, and never have been as mad as one man can be. The chief ME of NYC is a perfect example of the injustice served to "ALL" 9/11 responders over the last 6 years. All the media attention in the world will not bring James back, but your support for the Zadroga family will help ease the pain of a great family and his beautiful 7 year old daughter Tyler. Any donation will go directly to the Zadroga family and any email of support mailed to me at feal13@aol.com will go directly to Joe. I implore all Americans to stand up now and help these brave souls while federal, state and local governments deny, lie, neglect and walk all over their great work and service at 9/11 and ground zero.

God bless.

One pissed off American
John Feal
president of the Fealgood Foundation

Unbelievable! How cold and under handed. Bastards is right !

OT - I'm watching Ron Paul addressing the Family Research Council right now on C-Span. You may want a candidate who's willing to consider 9-11 Truth issues, but remember all the extreme right-wing ideology that come along with it - like repealing Roe v. Wade. You 9-11 Blogger may be a social conservative, but appealing to the Family Research Council is a major defect in my book.

is their political messiah, just read over this speech delivered by an upcoming Presidential Candidate that you will never hear of because the mainstream Media cant afford for you to.
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""Probably no lie ever spoken has done more damage to the human condition, than that wherein we deserve what we get, and will get what we deserve – eventually. That is the lie that through the ages has allowed a handful of people to flourish on the dubious merits of biological accident, while the rest slaved and suffered and counted the hours until their (naturally) posthumous reward. That is the lie that permits our leaders to indulge themselves while moralizing to us, and to exempt themselves from every new constraint upon us. And that is the lie that has cost me night after night of sleep for... years.

My name is Alan Augustson. Obviously, I'll be the cute one in the 2008 Congressional election. An election in which, chances are, you'll be voting for a Democrat no matter who or what they're offering up, in the hopes of reining in the insanity of the past several years.

I'd like to remind you though, that you tried that already.

In 2006 we sent a swarm of Democrats to both houses of Congress. By now we should have expected from that Congress, at the barest minimum:

An end to the war in Iraq,

The repeal of the so-called “Patriot Act”,

Decisive action, on the combined and inter-related threats of global warming and Peak Oil, and of course,

Impeachment proceedings against the President and the Vice President.

Now I understand completely, that radical action in any legislative body is hard. And I'd be inclined to forgive Congress if their only sin was to have failed to deliver on these things, “yet”. But that is not the case; they have in fact switched sides. The Democratic majority have capitulated to every new, and increasingly unreasonable demand handed down from the Bush Administration. They did not fail; they simply have not tried.

What more do we think we'll get out of Democrats or Republicans in 2008? Most of you in this audience, probably know transaction-cost theory as well as I do, if not better. The trade-offs, the compromises you have to make to get any piece of legislation passed. The reasons why every so-called swing of the so-called pendulum seems to bring us right back to status quo. The reasons why every new action looks suspiciously like inaction.
Therefore I ask you: why should Congress act if they know they don't have to? If a Democrat, for instance, knows that he or she has got your vote no matter what, simply because “the Republican is worse”, then why bother with the 'hard stuff'? What's the point?
The point is this. My country is turning into a big jail. My planet is turning into a big desert. Our leaders have abandoned all pretense of accountability. Words like 'freedom' and 'democracy' are morphing into their polar opposites. Militarism and flag-idolatry pass for patriotism. Intellectuals and critical thinkers are derided and viewed with suspicion. And even the word 'truth' has been disarmed: anyone who isn't buying the hype, who isn't toeing the line, can now be dismissed as a “truther”, and thereafter relegated to the Tinfoil Helmet Brigade as if they were Area-51 junkies.

And into this mess comes... me. Why? Why is a non-wealthy, non-famous and clearly non-telegenic person standing here now, prepared to face the ridicule and the character assassination from both sides of the non-argument?
Because I honestly felt that I had to. Our country is less free, less safe, less healthy, and less liked, than it has been for generations. Food and fuel and water are being depleted, worldwide, faster than anyone seems to want to admit. The jobs are virtually gone; we are reduced to a nation trying to sell real estate and lattes to one another. Our government is forging band-aid measures, symbolic measures, diversionary measures and just plain non-measures. Our people are too mesmerized by the endless procession of flags-and eagles to demand more than that.

And no one – no one – appeared to be stepping up. I don't think I've heard a single new idea from Washington, DC since the turn of the Millennium.

I'm angry. And if you're not, then I'd like to know what it will take.

When people who thought they were middle-class have missed a day's worth of meals... When people who thought they were middle-class have had their electricity cut-off mid-summer... when people who thought they were middle class, are found dead in their freezing-cold homes in the winter... what will we do? Will we just write another embittered, snarky note on our blogs? Pass around another impotent e-mail petition? Continue to preach to the same old choirs, witty and smug and self-righteous like an Algonquin Roundtable? Or will we at last get up and do something?

I'm running, in short, because you're not. And you should be. If you have enough of a brain to complain about an issue, then you need to have enough of a cojone to act upon it. You're needed. Politics was not supposed to be a career in America; it was supposed to be something from which you took time out from your life, in order that your convictions, whatever they may be, could be heard and respected. Instead, we've created a permanent political class that's looking more every year like a Roman Senate.
Democracy fails if we don't have sufficient turnover. Politicians become bounded, not by the will of the majority or their own individual judgment, but by the dimension of the feasible. The constituency is reduced to its lowest common denominator.

And what is America's lowest common denominator?

Let's take a moment to shed some political naivete. People of reason have told themselves for generations, that we need only expose the public to the light of truth, and then watch them flock to that light. It isn't true.
There are people who will gladly give up any and all rights they have to, if it'll prevent same-sex marriages. Or deprive African Americans, or Latinos, or whomever, of a few more tax dollars. Or maintain America's status as God-ordained master of the world.
There are those who have been so hypnotized by either extreme of the abortion argument, or the gun control argument, that the blinders are permanently stapled to their heads. Or who are pathologically averse to paying taxes, but still want a military that blankets the globe. Or who don't want to be bothered with any of it – just keep gasoline prices down.

These are the hearts and minds for whom Democrats and Republicans alike are vying, every election season. This is the reason why it's so easy, for money and media to define the range of choices. And this is why we have a government that has nothing to do with the people; it is of, by and for its own interests, and none besides.

What's needed now is for people of reason to do some very unreasonable things. We need for cool, considerate, thoughtful people like you to get angry. I mean, “pick-up-a-brick-and-a-torch-and-hit-the-streets” angry. It may not come to that – I certainly hope it won't – but that's the level of anger that you need to take to the primaries, to the polls, and, hopefully, to your own campaigns.

You're trying to stop American terrorism. You're trying to turn back the tide of American fascism. Is that not worth your anger? Or are you still worried about what the neighbors will think? If so, then let me tell you frankly: you're the problem. We do not get what we deserve; we get what we are willing to fight for.
Natural resources are depleting, jobs are evacuating, the infrastructure is crumbling, and all most of us can worry about is maintaining our lifestyle. The board is set; the pieces are all in place. All we need do now is... nothing. A Second Great Depression, one that will dwarf the first, one from which we won't emerge in your great-grandchildren's lifetimes.

Or – a Second American Revolution. One that won't require you to fire one shot, or break one law.

Here's how it starts: Green Party candidates are running for Congress in the Fifth District of Illinois. The Eighth. The Tenth. The Eleventh. The Thirteenth. Probably others by now. And other states are fielding Green candidates as well. Now, suspend your disbelief for just a moment – if you sat through the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, then you can bear with me another minute – and just imagine if they all won.
Suddenly you have a Progressive power bloc. It's not a big one, but it's not small enough to ignore either. And it's wedged between the parties, in an otherwise more-or-less deadlocked Congress. Suddenly the deal-makers have to make totally new deals. Suddenly they can't get a budget passed, that includes funding for the war. Or that doesn't include funding for sustainable energy.
Suddenly, unheard-of measures are being heard on the floor, instead of rotting in committee. Like ending fossil-fuel subsidies. Like restoring the right to vote, to former felons who have paid their debt to society. Like an end to the so-called 'War on Drugs'. Like Federal recognition for same-sex unions. Like returning control of the National Guard to the Governors of their home states, the better to prevent any attempt at the imposition of martial law. Like the greatest public-works project the world has ever seen, restoring the infrastructure, and good jobs, all at the same time.

Suddenly we can discuss peace through partnership, not hegemony. Suddenly we can talk about fighting terrorism, by ceasing to be a terrorist nation in our own right. Suddenly we can talk about restoring democracy to the people, through term limits, and funding for disadvantaged candidates, and abolition of the Electoral College.

And we push it. And push it. And push it. Until Congressmembers cave in and accept it, or are willing to go on record as being against. In which case, bye-bye Congressmember. And the Progressive power bloc – Green, Red, Blue or whatever – gets a little bigger. And the process continues.
If you cannot visualize just that far, if you honestly believe that we are past all hope, then you shouldn't be sitting here. You should be off in the sticks somewhere, living off the grid and stockpiling ammunition. Because your America never existed, and the illusion of it is going to come crashing down around you, very soon. But before you go, please be so kind as to lend me the vote, that you don't think matters anyway.
If you're still with me, though, you know that there is always hope, but sometimes you have to work for hope; sometimes you have to fight for hope. So join with me. Suffer a little inconvenience for the sake of hope. I have a great many unfeasible, unreasonable ideas to share with you. What I need are petition signatures, votes, volunteer hours, and definitely financial support. From you. And from people like you. If you don't live in my district, and if there's no other Progressive candidate, then please consider your own campaign, while there's still time."

Thank you.""
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Can you even imagine such a speech coming from the mouth of either a Rethug or Democrat? All you will ever hear from them are lies and bald faced lies coated with pabulum.