Subject: Once Again, The Will of the Voters Is Denied
Once Again, The Will of the Voters Is Denied
October 9, 2009
Yesterday afternoon, Justice Edward Lehner of the State Supreme
Court rubberstamped Referee Louis Crespo’s recommendation that the decision to
establish a local commission to investigate the events of September 11th not be
put before the voters on November 3rd.
After showing interest in weighing both sides’ arguments in the
hearing, the Judge’s short decision gives no indication of having considered
the arguments put forth in the Petitioners’ memorandum of law, nor any
acknowledgement of the need for a new investigation, which the City of New York
callously dismissed as “irrelevant”.
On a dark day for democracy, the patriotic call for answers by
hundreds of 9/11 families, first responders and survivors has been stifled, and
the will of the people of New York City once again denied.
Judge Lehner ruled that modifying the petition to make it
“legally permissible” would result in it being “inconsistent with the law
sought by the signatories of the Petition” despite the fact that all 80,000
signatories agreed by signing the Petition that “If any provision of this law
is held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, the remaining
provisions shall be in no manner affected thereby but shall remain in full
force and effect.”
The deadline for inclusion on the ballot falls just before the
election, making it possible to appeal Judge Lehner’s decision. NYC CAN is
weighing all options and will make an announcement early next week on this
issue, as well as on how it will be moving forward on other fronts. Regardless
of the outcome in court, the quest for answers continues full throttle. This
fight is only the beginning.
Thinkers think and talkers talk. Patriots ACT.
www.NYCCAN.org
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"Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not
powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to
fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people
boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. "
-- Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56559403
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"Many people do not have sufficient confidence in themselves, their
judgment and their capacities to make them capable of disobedience and
resistance. Having no strong will of their own, they accept that of their
rulers, and sometimes prefer rulers who will direct their lives and relieve
them of the task of making decisions. The subjects may be disillusioned,
exhausted, apathetic, or possessed of inertia, or they may lack a belief system
which makes it possible both to evaluate when one ought to obey and disobey,
and also to give confidence in one's right and ability to make such a decision.
Lack of self-confidence may also be influenced by a belief that the ruling
group is more qualified to make decisions and to carry them out than are the
subjects. This attitude may be based on perceived greater competence, social
customs and class distinctions, or conscious indoctrination."
-- Gene Sharp, Power and Struggle, Part One of The Politics of Nonviolent
Action, 1973
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21051113
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"No free man shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished,
or in any way destroyed, not will we proceed against or prosecute him, except
by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land."
-- Magna Carta, an 800 year old document
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"It may well be a question, whether these are not, upon the whole, of
equal importance with any which are to be found in the constitution of this
State. The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus, the prohibition of ex
post facto laws, and of TITLES OF NOBILITY, to which we have no corresponding
provision in our Constitution, are perhaps greater securities to liberty and
republicanism than any it contains. The creation of crimes after the commission
of the fact,or, in other words, the subjecting of men to punishment for things
which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of
arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most
formidable instruments of tyranny. The observations of the judicious
Blackstone,1 in reference to the latter,are well worthy of recital:
" 'To bereave a man of life,' says he, 'or by violence to confiscate his
estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of
despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole
nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where
his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and
therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government." And as a remedy for
this fatal evil he is everywhere peculiarly emphatical in his encomiums on the
habeas corpus act, which in one place he calls "the BULWARK of the British
Constitution."2
-- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 84
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa84.htm
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** Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR
drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
Continental Congress 2009 - The Next Step For A Free People [10min ver]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiwtfk_uAhQ
www.CC2009.us
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