FYI - My response to a fund-raising letter from the DCCC. -- Charlie Reid Executive Producer, Community Prespectives [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Salus populi suprema est lex" (Cicero) The welfare of the people is the highest law. ---------- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee 430 South Capitol Street, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003 Greetings! As your records may show, I have been a consistent contributor to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, increasingly so since the Republican took the Congress in 1994. Yet I am saddened by the direction of the Democratic Party. (You may recall that the California State Party rejected Campaign Finance Reform. At a bad luncheon, the party chaiman joked about it as he explained the high price of a bad meal. That's when I ceased contributing to the state organization.) Now there is another serious issue at hand: Fast-Track authority for the MAI Treaty. If Democrats in Congress vote with Republicans to give the President fast-track authority and/or should the President sign such a treaty, I shall seriously consider abandoning my lifetime allegiance to the Democratic Party and ending all future support. Whatever good the President may have done, this will negate it all, because it will bring the nation closer to transitioning to a component in a system of global Corporate Feudalism, where all politics and economics will be controlled by the equivalent of market fiefdoms, over which local citizens and communities shall have no democratic power or control. This will be disastrous for our nation in the coming millennium. History will record President Clinton and conservative administrations as Corporate Feudalism's prime mover, and the world's decline toward global barbarism, where predatory holders of mass wealth rule, and rule not by rational law, or any sense of social justice. I, therefore, consider it to be in my interest, and in our nation's interest, to withhold all contributions to Democratic Party organizations anywhere until this issue becomes clarified. Sincerely, [signed] Charles J. Reid Executive Producer Community Perspectives, A Program on Community Television of Santa Cruz County
