October 15, 2007
Re: 56th Update To October 14, 2004 Correspondence
Dear Ms. Barker:
Before again addressing the ongoing unresolved credit reporting agency fiasco ignored by Sen. Hutchison and her office over three years now, R. McCloskey, a lackey in the office of the Postmaster General acknowledged USPS indeed sells forced customer information to third parties under specific conditions. … Forced customer information. Should customers not comply, their mail isn’t forwarded. -- While corporations they no longer wish to have updated personal information laugh their portly gluteus maximus off all the way to the bank.
Most accommodating of the Postal "Service," no? -- As it lines its pockets with fees paid by these corporations. Clearly, privacy for sale, -- in Nazi America. Fascism, defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. Sadly, "justified" by the bastardization of religion. … Aren’t we lucky?
Worse, his otherwise comically unresponsive letter ignored all other questions asked of the Postmaster General. -- Including several regarding USPS acceptance of "national security letters" in lieu of court-authorized subpoenas from federal agents engaging in fishing expeditions. How could the Senator and her colleagues allow such misuse and abuse of customer information by federal thugs?
Would you kindly have her explain how a "national security letter," issued by federal goons without benefit of probable cause and the discretion of a judge, is indeed constitutional and a substitute for a subpoena? Does Ms. Hutchison truly believe administrative fiat and/or federal statute trump the U.S. Constitution? … Has the Senator even read the Fourth Amendment recently? Does she even remember the oath of office she took to defend the Constitution?
Equally pointedly, where is the Senator’s outrage regarding the recent al-Masri decision by the U.S. Supreme Court? Doesn’t she understand at the very least this man’s 7th and 14th Amendment rights were abrogated? Although a German national, he does indeed enjoy these rights since he was held by American authorities. This duplicitous increasingly fascist Court has perniciously denied his constitutional right to be heard in court regarding claims of torture and abuse, allegedly perpetrated by CIA thugs during "rendition." "Rendition" acknowledged by the United States government to German officials. Also, acknowledged to have been a "mistake."
This appalling abrogation of civil and constitutional rights by this Nazi "court" has intentionally, deliberately protected and coddled our outrageously corrupt and abusive "President" and his henchmen. Worse, it has given the "Commander In Chief" carte blanche to do as he pleases. Sadly, Mr. Bush has become little more than a dictator as the people of our formerly great country foolishly ignore the deliberate continuing erosion of civil and constitutional rights and liberties, falsely in the name of "national security." If al-Masri can have his civil and constitutional rights so wantonly abrogated, who’s next?
The Senator’s cowardly silence is deafening. Amusingly, the Court decision is indeed Orwellian since it claims victims of abusive secret government programs cannot sue, since the programs are secret. "National security," a phony excuse. Sadly, this is no more than fascist "double-speak." A "Catch-22" unworthy of our formerly great country. … A clear, concise, pernicious example of kangaroo justice, and corruption and abuse, in Nazi America. Again, where is the Senator’s outrage?
Regarding health insurance for children, Republicans should wisely reconsider opposition to major expansion of the State Child Health Insurance Program. More importantly, it is time for the GOP to join Democrats in providing federal universal healthcare. Sadly, the unwanted alternative is socialized medicine. -- Something most Americans rightly don’t want, but will become a fact of life, nonetheless, if something is not done soon regarding the unlimited greed of healthcare providers.
Greatest misconception of Republicans? The ludicrously mistaken and naïve belief the market place will supposedly solve the problem. This position is delusional. It hasn’t. It won’t. There is no true free market. The market is owned and manipulated by hopelessly avaricious healthcare providers. They truly enjoy a captive audience and know they can easily loot the very last dollar out of people desperate for care. Whether for themselves or their children.
One of the legitimate functions of good government is to protect the public from such corruption and abuse. When will the Senator finally direct attention to the needs of her constituents rather than herself and her corporate cronies? Why shouldn’t all Americans enjoy the health benefits she enjoys as U.S. Senator? How is she any better, or more entitled? After all we have no kings or queens, or do we?
The permanent end of hopelessly ill-advised nation-building wars, evisceration of waste, fat, fraud, and corruption in military procurement, elimination of all domestic political pork, immediate sunsetting of abjectly useless federal bureaucracy, with new strong federal statutes in place to control existent virtually unlimited gouging by healthcare providers, would more than pay for the program. Time for a total revamp of government, government spending and priorities in a non-partisan manner.
The "President" and his shills still have no Iraq exit strategy and are disingenuously "staying the course" despite growing public opposition. Democrats will indeed pay a severe price at the polls for their cowardly failure to cut off all Iraq War funding. Republicans, ultimately responsible and clear architects of this failed war, however, will pay a far stiffer price in 2008 and beyond. Tough, isn’t it? Without question, time for a third party.
The only true devastating "accomplishment" of the "President" and his henchmen in the "Global War On Terror" is the abject destruction of civil and constitutional rights and liberties in our formerly great country. Again, an inexorably crucial part of this failed "President’s" legacy in history. Yet, the Senator ludicrously and mindlessly calls for "staying the course."
The Senator’s false claim the terrorists "will follow us home" is again ludicrously disingenuous. First, for years, the "President" and his cronies have deliberately overestimated the ability of the enemy to strike here in the United States. Second, the 9/11 catastrophe could likely have been prevented had napping government officials not been so damned negligent. After all, the State Department issued all 19 hijackers visas, without doing extensive background checks. Yet, not one head has rolled. No one has been prosecuted for criminal negligence. Rather, the "President" and his henchmen have gone out of their way to protect these officials. Why?
The embrace of fascism by the GOP, i.e. the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion, is a far greater threat than any enemy, domestic or foreign. Particularly, since the cowardly Right uses the perversion and bastardization of "religious" principles to defend and "justify" its embrace. … As Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini back in the 30’s.
Time to hold State Department officials responsible for performing inadequate background checks on the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. … Instead, the cowardly Congress and "President" have cunningly shifted the burden to the American public, conveniently abrogating civil and constitutional rights and liberties, falsely in the name of "national security."
Sadly, the United States has created this Islamic terrorist monster. Six decades of unbridled support of the State of Israel at the expense of the Palestinians and other Arabs have exacerbated and nurtured this exponentially growing problem. While this conflict indeed dates back to biblical times, Arabs have never been fully compensated for seizure of their land 59 years ago. Why not?
Worse, the U.S. has not been an even-handed broker in the region. Apparently, never will be. We continue to seemingly permanently garrison American troops in Islamic countries, -- highly offensive to the Moslem community. Knowingly insist on doing so. Continue to callously and Aryan arrogantly support the outrageously corrupt and abusive House of Saud for political "reasons" and financial expediency.
Refuse to become energy independent due to the insatiably greedy energy industry and its unwillingness to aggressively pursue alternative energy sources for self-serving reasons. Financial contributions to the coffers of legislators, no more than bribes, are clearly and directly responsible for our failure to become energy independent fifty years ago. … How much money has the Senator received from this industry over the years? -- While the public pays record-high gas prices and Big Oil enjoys record profits.
Since the fascist currently occupying the Oval Office and his cronies are unwilling to change U.S. policy, expect the global "War On Terror" to go on indefinitely and be ultimately lost. Sadly, as likely will the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Worse, it is abundantly clear our formerly great state is hopelessly ill-served by two U.S. senators having absolutely no regard for civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
… As fully demonstrated by their support of outrageously unconstitutional legislation such as the USA "Patriot" Act, Homeland "Security" Act, "Real" ID Act, warrantless domestic NSA spying now supposedly overseen by the FISA court, -- an outrageously unconstitutional secret court beholden to the "President" and "Justice" Department, use of national "security" letters to access personal information without a warrant, Executive Orders cleverly designed by the "President" to abrogate the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments, etc..
… The firing of U.S. Attorneys for blatantly political purposes, conveniently missing "Administration" emails, congressional subpoenas stonewalled by Bush and his henchmen, a "national security directive" signed May 9, 2007 giving the "President" dictatorial powers in an "emergency," etc.. Sadly, the list can go on and on. -- To say nothing of "detainees" imprisoned, tortured, and abused for years without benefit of counsel or access to the courts including American citizens such as Jose Padilla, "rendition" of people kidnapped by CIA goons to countries where they are tortured and/or abused, as well as abuse and torture of "enemy combatants" in gulags run by the U.S. military.
Amusingly, this is the 56th time, and counting, this correspondence has been conveniently ignored by the Senator and/or her office. … Nothing quite like competent constituent service, is there? Then again, this is Nazi America, isn’t it? -- Where day is night, night is day, and manure smells perversely sweet. … Where only corporate donors and the rich are serviced by outrageously corrupt and abusive politicians, right?
Regarding the ongoing unresolved credit reporting agency fiasco ignored by Sen. Hutchison and her office over three years now, have you bothered to read the case file? All 55 letters? The information sent from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in your letter of September 14, 2005 is outrageously unresponsive to all unresolved issues to date, and amusingly identical to material sent months before by James Alredge. Have you read it? It’s worthless. Why waste taxpayer funds? … Can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bureaucratic BS? Is the outrageous ineptness systemic? Intentional? Deliberately designed to obfuscate? Would indeed be laughable, if not so incredibly sad.
This is the second time two employees of the Senator’s office pulled the exact, same "dog and pony show." Apparently, the Senator approves of such outrageous tactics, obfuscation, and pathetically ineffective constituent "services." -- Cleverly and conveniently, prevents her from having to deal with some of the worst corporate and federal abuses of our time. … Wouldn’t want to offend outrageously corrupt and abusive corporations, however, would she? After all, they shamelessly line her war chest and those of her colleagues, don’t they?
Worse, both "dog and pony shows" exquisitely demonstrate how very little respect the Senator truly has for her constituents’ intelligence. -- Then again, only "big money" receives competent consideration and effective senatorial services, right?
Outrageously, the packet of material callously sent by your office includes copies of canned, computer-generated FTC letters to other constituents identified in that worthless correspondence. Clearly, the Senator couldn’t care less about the privacy of her constituents. … Proof-positive, Ms. Hutchison is callously unconcerned with abuse of information not only by credit reporting agencies, but even in her office.
The following issues have been conveniently ignored by the Senator since October 14, 2004:
First, Experian has fraudulently altered
this writer’s File Explanatory Statement at least three times. --
A statement well-within FCRA and FTC guidelines that was deliberately and
fraudulently altered to protect the identities of corrupt and abusive corporations.
Second, Experian has refused to permanently
remove this writer from mailing lists, cynically demanding further non-germane
personal information to do so.
Third, Baptist Air Life, Datasearch, and Alexander
Billing and Consulting posted fraudulently-obtained personal information
because: 1) this writer refused to answer questions unrelated to the medically-required
$10,000 helicopter flight to the burn center, and 2) refused consent to
a demanded future property search.
Fourth, CSC Credit Services and Equifax continue
to stonewall all correspondence from this writer and have refused to post
the File Explanatory Statement as allowed by FCRA and FTC regulations,
-- and well within guidelines. CSC disingenuously demands further personal
information that this writer has not, and will not, provide.
… Neither to them, Experian, or any other credit reporting agency (CRA.)
These four issues, as well as others described in earlier correspondence, need to be fully investigated by FTC. Yet, the Senator has refused to pressure FTC to investigate individual cases. Particularly, this one. Why? Why is Ms. Hutchison deliberately protecting and coddling outrageously corrupt and abusive corporations that have posted fraudulently-obtained data? Intentionally, shafted a burn survivor who refused to provide information not germane to injuries, and refused consent to a demanded future property search?
Worse, the Senator has filed no legislation redressing these outrageous credit reporting agency abuses. Clearly, she has no interest in these abuses. The Senator and/or her office have repeatedly refused to answer the most critical question of all. If not the Federal Trade Commission, who is responsible for investigating and prosecuting individual complaints against outrageously corrupt and abusive CRAs? The U.S. Attorney? If not, precisely who? If no one, who protects ordinary citizens against fraud deliberately perpetrated by outrageously corrupt and abusive credit reporting agencies?
Again, why has the Senator refused to introduce legislation to correct this terrible injustice against millions victimized by these lawless corporations designed only to serve themselves and the business community, certainly not consumers? Upon re-launch of this publication, correspondence from all parties will be published on the website. After all, the public must be made aware of how corrupt and abusive corporations have deliberately abused a burn survivor, and precisely how the Senator has done absolutely nothing to date to correct the injustice.
… Has taken absolutely no personal interest. Has exerted no pressure on FTC. Has introduced no legislation to correct these abuses. Sadly, the senior Senator from Texas, will continue be exposed to her constituents for exactly what she is. -- A pawn and servant of outrageously corrupt and abusive corporations. After 56 letters, and counting, the Senator is not able to claim ignorance. Nor is she able to blame inept, unresponsive staff. After all, the buck indeed stops with the Senator.
Sincerely,
Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly, The Llano Ledger
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609
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