From kjhinde@yahoo.com Sun Feb 3 18:07:10 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g14279Mr013072 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:07:09 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Feb 03 18:07:08 2002 -0800 Received: from web13405.mail.yahoo.com (web13405.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.63]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1427837022828 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:07:08 -0800 Message-ID: <20020204020708.97751.qmail@web13405.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.121.39.107] by web13405.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 18:07:08 PST Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:07:08 -0800 (PST) From: Katherine Hinde Subject: Fwd: MICHAEL MOORE'S OPEN LETTER TO GW BUSH 012902... To: primas@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0-1666919314-1012788428=:97139" --0-1666919314-1012788428=:97139 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Kiddos- I know that its long, but its definately worth the time it takes to read. Katie Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! 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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:26:39 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0077_01C1A99A.2195AEC0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Content-Length: 10469 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0077_01C1A99A.2195AEC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Posted 1.29.2002=20 George W. in the Garden of Gethsemane An Open Letter to George W. Bush from Michael Moore Dear George, When it's all over in a couple months, and you're packing up your = pretzels and Spot and heading back to Texas, what will be your biggest = regret? Not getting out more often and seeing the sights around Rock = Creek Park? Never once visiting the newly-renovated IKEA in Woodbridge, = Virginia? Or buying your way to the White House with money from a = company that committed the biggest corporate swindle in American = history? I got a feeling you didn't miss much by not spending an entire = Saturday afternoon assembling a Swedish bookcase -- but you should have = known that there was no way you would ever finish your term by hopping = into bed with Kenneth Lay. It's kind of sad when you think about it. Here you were -- the most = popular president ever! -- the recipient of so much good will from your = fellow Americans after September 11, and then you had to go and blow it. = You just couldn't stay away from your old cowpoke friend from Texas, = Kenneth Lay. Kenny has always been there for you. You needed a way to fly around to = all the primaries and campaign stops in the 2000 election -- so Kenny = gave you his corporate jet. Did you tell the voters when you arrived in = each city that the bird you flew in on was from a billionaire who was = secretly conspiring to give the bird to all his employees and investors? = He flew you around America on the Enron company jet, and for that favor = you touched down on tarmac after tarmac to tell your fellow citizens = that you were "going to restore dignity to the White House, the people's = house." You said this standing in front of an Enron jet!=20 Man, you loved Lay so much, you not only affectionately referred to him = as "Kenny Boy," you interrupted an important campaign trip in April, = 2000, to fly back to Houston for the Astro's opening day at the new = Enron Field -- just so you could watch Kenny Boy Lay throw out the first = pitch. How sentimental! I mean, you loved this man so intensely that, when you were awarded a = set of keys the Supreme Court had made for you so you could live in the = White House, you invited Kenny Boy to set up shop -- at 1600 = Pennsylvania Avenue! He interviewed those who would hold high-level = Energy Department positions in your administration. You not only let Kenny Boy decide who would head the regulatory agency = that oversaw Enron, you let him hand-pick the new chairman of the = Securities and Exchange Commission, Harvey Pitt -- a former lawyer for = his accountant, Arthur Andersen! Kenny and the boys at Andersen also = worked to make sure that accounting firms would be exempt from numerous = regulations and would not be held liable for any "funny bookkeeping" = (don't you wish you were this forward-thinking?). The rest of Kenny Boy's time was spent next door with his old buddy, = Dick Cheney (Enron and Halliburton, as you'll recall, got the big = contracts from your dad to "rebuild" Kuwait after the Gulf War). Lay and = Dick formed an "energy task force" (Operation Enduring Graft) which put = together the county's new "energy policy." This policy then went on to = shut down every light bulb and juicer in the state of California. And = guess who made out like bandits while "trading" the energy California = was in desperate need of? Kenny Boy and Enron! No wonder Big Dick = doesn't want to turn over the files about those special meetings with = Lay! The only thing that surprises me more than all the Enron henchmen who = ended up in your cabinet and administration is how our lazy media just = rolled over and didn't report it. The list of Enron people on your = payroll is impressive. Lawrence Lindsey, your chief economic advisor? A = former advisor at Enron! Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill? Former CEO of = Alcoa, whose lobbying firm, Vinson and Elkins, was the #3 contributor to = the your campaign! Who is Vinson and Elkins? The law firm representing = Enron! Who is Alcoa? The top polluter in Texas. Timothy White, the = Secretary of the Army? A former vice-chair of Enron Energy! Robert = Zoellick, your Federal Trade Representative? A former advisor at Enron! = Karl Rove, your main man at the White House? He owned a quarter-million = dollars of Enron stock.=20 Then there's the Enron lawyer you have nominated to be a federal judge = in Texas, the Enron lobbyist who is your chair of the Republican Party, = the two Enron officials who now work for House Majority Leader Tom = DeLay, and the wife of Texas Senator Phil Gramm who sits on Enron's = board. And there's the aforementioned Mr. Pitt, the former Arthur = Andersen attorney whose job it is now as SEC head to oversee the stock = markets. George, it never stops! My fingers are getting tired typing all = this up -- and there's lots more. Don't get me wrong, George -- I do not think you're an evil man. You = don't need any crap from people like me -- heck, you got mother-in-law = problems! Now, I have a very good relationship with my mother-in-law, = but then, I never told her to put $8,000 of her money into a company my = administration knew was going belly-up.=20 You say you didn't know? Your bag man -- Don Evans, the man who squeezed = all that money for you from Enron as your campaign finance chairman (and = is now collecting his reward as your Commerce Secretary) -- has admitted = that he got calls from Enron begging for help last year because they = were going under. Didn't he tell you this?=20 Then Paul O'Neill, your Treasury Secretary, admitted that Enron and = Kenny Boy called him, too, for some special favors to save Enron. Didn't = he mention this to you? They claim to have called your chief of staff, = Andrew Card, and he said he didn't bother to inform you. What does your = mother-in-law think about these boys her daughter's husband consorts = with? I love watching the O'Neill and Evans show. What a couple of cut-ups! = They're, like, all proud of themselves for "not doing Enron any favors." = Actually, I think it's more like they didn't do your MOTHER-IN-LAW any = favors. Enron got LOTS of favors. And why not? Kenny Boy has been your = number one financial backer since you ran for governor. No other = American or Saudi has given you more money than Kenny Boy and his gang = at Enron. O'Neill, Evans, Cheney, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham -- = ALL of them gave Lay and Enron special favors from day one. The New York = Times last May was so concerned about how Kenny had the run of the place = (1600 Pennsylvania Ave.), they referred to Lay as the "shadow advisor to = the president."=20 And what advice! Who was it that wanted you to deregulate the energy = industry further? Kenny Boy! Who was it that convinced you to explore = the sick idea of PRIVATIZING our water supply and then allow private = corporations to "trade" it in the future? Kenny Boy! Who was it that = wanted Social Security to be tied to the stock market? Yup, Kenny Boy! = (Imagine, if you will, what would have happened to our precious Social = Security funds had they been invested in Enron stocks as you, George, = suggested be done during your campaign as yuppies everywhere clucked = along in agreement over that genius idea.) O'Neill's and Evans's admission that they "did nothing" when Enron told = them of the company's shell game and impending collapse is reason enough = for you and yours to hit the Beltway and never return to that sacred = trust we call Our American Government. They are proud of "doing = nothing?" By doing nothing, millions of Americans have been swindled. = Tens of thousands have lost their jobs. Thousands more have lost their = savings and their retirement. Yet your cabinet secretaries gloat over = what a "good job" you and they did by "doing nothing." Let me ask you this: If someone was setting a house on fire, and they = called you to help them set it on fire, and you said no you wouldn't = help them -- BUT then you also DIDN'T call 911 and inform the police = that someone was going to burn down a house, do you think you would have = committed a crime?=20 Of course you would have! You had prior knowledge and then you knowingly = and purposefully HID this information from the authorities and the = people living in the house! You only admitted that you knew a house was = going to be torched when you were confronted by the police. Are you = complicit? Yes! Are you an accessory? Yes! Who would even think of going = around boasting, "Hey, look what a great guy I am -- a friend of mine = told me he was going to commit an act of arson, and then I decided NOT = to tell ANYONE about it!! WHOO-HOO!!" Enron and Kenny Boy bought your silence and the silence of your cabinet = members. You yourself didn't have to actually raid the 401(k) accounts = of those poor people in Houston (many of whom probably voted for you = every time your name was on a ballot). All you had to do was remain = silent, change the government regulations that let them get away with = it, and install their hand-picked cronies to sit on the "oversight" = boards which were supposed to be keeping an eye on them. While doing all this, you told the American people that these rich = friends of yours were not getting any special breaks -- when, in fact, = Enron had already scammed their way out of paying NO taxes in four out = of the last five years. Your economic "stimulus" bill that you got the = House to pass after 9-11 had a section that would give Enron a gift of = $250 million of our tax money. You were pushing this bill in November = and December, long after your administration knew that Enron was raiding = the vault and screwing its workers and investors. You and your Republican friends are quick to point out that Enron had = their claws into the Democrats as well. Yes, they did, and thank you for = making the case why we not only need an alternative to the current = make-up of the Democratic Party, we need private money removed from our = electoral process ASAP.=20 But, George, let's be real -- the Democrats only got a pittance from = Enron compared to the millions you and the Republicans received. = Democrats just don't have the killer instinct to do anything right, and = they certainly don't know much about making money the old-fashioned way, = one off-shore tax shelter at a time. I would expect nothing less from a = Party that couldn't even put their candidate in the White House after he = had already won the election.=20 The Democrats are like a Yugo -- you know it won't last long or work = well, but it will occasionally get the job done. Fat cats know they can = buy the Democrats at discount prices, and so they do. Anyone who tries = to deflect this scandal away from you, George, or away from the = Republicans, or away from the whole dirty way we elect our leaders, is = someone who is desperately trying to cling to what's left of a very = crooked system that has to go and go now.=20 The saddest part of this whole affair was the day the scandal was = revealed -- and you denied that you even knew your good friend, Kenneth = Lay. "Ken who?" you said. Oh, he's just some businessman from Texas. = "Heck, he backed my opponent for governor, Ann Richards!" was your way = of trying to deflect the truth that was hitting you like a Mack truck. = You knew that he, in fact, endorsed YOU and gave you THREE times the = money Ann Richards ever saw from him. I hardly ever talk to the guy, you said. You were like Peter in the = Garden of Gethsemane, denying he knew Jesus, three times. And then the = cock crowed. And Peter felt shame and ran away. What shame do you feel tonight, George, for the lies you have told? What = shame do you feel using the dead of 9-11 as a cover for your actions, = hoping that our sorrow for those lost souls and our fear of being killed = by terrorists would distract us from what your boys and Kenny Boy were = up to during those horrific weeks in September and October?=20 It was during those very days, while the rest of us were in shock and = sadness, that the executives at Enron were selling off their stock and = shifting assets to their 900 phony partnerships overseas. Did they = notice the remains of the dead being pulled from the rubble while they = were downloading their millions, or were their eyes glued only to the = bottom third of the TV screen as the stock ticker with the rigged Enron = price crawled across the images of firemen desperate, in tears, to find = their fallen brothers?=20 The country was behind you when you said you were fighting the evildoers = who did this. In fact, all the while, the real fight your friends at = Enron were conducting was the fight against the clock, to see how fast = they could transfer all the loot to their personal accounts and run = away. Those were the evildoers, George, and you knew it. And because = you, by design or negligence, allowed this to happen, it is time for you = to resign. The cock has crowed for the last time. At the very least, your mother-in-law deserves better. Yours, Michael Moore American Son-in-Law Owner of 7th LARGEST COMPANY IN AMERICA! (revised ranking) mmflint@aol.com http://www.michaelmoore.com ------=_NextPart_000_0077_01C1A99A.2195AEC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Posted 1.29.2002 =

George W. in the Garden of=20 Gethsemane

An = Open Letter to=20 George W. Bush from Michael Moore

Dear=20 George,

When = it's all over=20 in a couple months, and you're packing up your pretzels and Spot and = heading=20 back to Texas, what will be your biggest regret? Not getting out more = often and=20 seeing the sights around Rock Creek Park? Never once visiting the=20 newly-renovated IKEA in Woodbridge, Virginia? Or buying your way to the = White=20 House with money from a company that committed the biggest corporate = swindle in=20 American history? I got a feeling you didn't miss much by not spending = an entire=20 Saturday afternoon assembling a Swedish bookcase -- but you should have = known=20 that there was no way you would ever finish your term by hopping into = bed with=20 Kenneth Lay.

It's = kind of sad=20 when you think about it. Here you were -- the most popular president = ever! --=20 the recipient of so much good will from your fellow Americans after = September=20 11, and then you had to go and blow it. You just couldn't stay away from = your=20 old cowpoke friend from Texas, Kenneth Lay.

Kenny = has always=20 been there for you. You needed a way to fly around to all the primaries = and=20 campaign stops in the 2000 election -- so Kenny gave you his corporate = jet. Did=20 you tell the voters when you arrived in each city that the bird you flew = in on=20 was from a billionaire who was secretly conspiring to give the bird to = all his=20 employees and investors? He flew you around America on the Enron company = jet,=20 and for that favor you touched down on tarmac after tarmac to tell your = fellow=20 citizens that you were "going to restore dignity to the White House, the = people's house." You said this standing in front of an Enron jet! =

Man, = you loved Lay=20 so much, you not only affectionately referred to him as "Kenny Boy," you = interrupted an important campaign trip in April, 2000, to fly back to = Houston=20 for the Astro's opening day at the new Enron Field -- just so you could = watch=20 Kenny Boy Lay throw out the first pitch. How sentimental!

I mean, = you loved=20 this man so intensely that, when you were awarded a set of keys the = Supreme=20 Court had made for you so you could live in the White House, you invited = Kenny=20 Boy to set up shop -- at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! He interviewed those = who=20 would hold high-level Energy Department positions in your=20 administration.

You not = only let=20 Kenny Boy decide who would head the regulatory agency that oversaw = Enron, you=20 let him hand-pick the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange = Commission,=20 Harvey Pitt -- a former lawyer for his accountant, Arthur Andersen! = Kenny and=20 the boys at Andersen also worked to make sure that accounting firms = would be=20 exempt from numerous regulations and would not be held liable for any = "funny=20 bookkeeping" (don't you wish you were this = forward-thinking?).

The = rest of Kenny=20 Boy's time was spent next door with his old buddy, Dick Cheney (Enron = and=20 Halliburton, as you'll recall, got the big contracts from your dad to = "rebuild"=20 Kuwait after the Gulf War). Lay and Dick formed an "energy task force"=20 (Operation Enduring Graft) which put together the county's new "energy = policy."=20 This policy then went on to shut down every light bulb and juicer in the = state=20 of California. And guess who made out like bandits while "trading" the = energy=20 California was in desperate need of? Kenny Boy and Enron! No wonder Big = Dick=20 doesn't want to turn over the files about those special meetings with=20 Lay!

The = only thing that=20 surprises me more than all the Enron henchmen who ended up in your = cabinet and=20 administration is how our lazy media just rolled over and didn't report = it. The=20 list of Enron people on your payroll is impressive. Lawrence Lindsey, = your chief=20 economic advisor? A former advisor at Enron! Treasury Secretary Paul = O'Neill?=20 Former CEO of Alcoa, whose lobbying firm, Vinson and Elkins, was the #3=20 contributor to the your campaign! Who is Vinson and Elkins? The law firm = representing Enron! Who is Alcoa? The top polluter in Texas. Timothy = White, the=20 Secretary of the Army? A former vice-chair of Enron Energy! Robert = Zoellick,=20 your Federal Trade Representative? A former advisor at Enron! Karl Rove, = your=20 main man at the White House? He owned a quarter-million dollars of Enron = stock.=20

Then = there's the=20 Enron lawyer you have nominated to be a federal judge in Texas, the = Enron=20 lobbyist who is your chair of the Republican Party, the two Enron = officials who=20 now work for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and the wife of Texas = Senator Phil=20 Gramm who sits on Enron's board. And there's the aforementioned Mr. = Pitt, the=20 former Arthur Andersen attorney whose job it is now as SEC head to = oversee the=20 stock markets. George, it never stops! My fingers are getting tired = typing all=20 this up -- and there's lots more.

Don't = get me wrong,=20 George -- I do not think you're an evil man. You don't need any crap = from people=20 like me -- heck, you got mother-in-law problems! Now, I have a very good = relationship with my mother-in-law, but then, I never told her to put = $8,000 of=20 her money into a company my administration knew was going belly-up. =

You say = you didn't=20 know? Your bag man -- Don Evans, the man who squeezed all that money for = you=20 from Enron as your campaign finance chairman (and is now collecting his = reward=20 as your Commerce Secretary) -- has admitted that he got calls from Enron = begging=20 for help last year because they were going under. Didn't he tell you = this?=20

Then = Paul O'Neill,=20 your Treasury Secretary, admitted that Enron and Kenny Boy called him, = too, for=20 some special favors to save Enron. Didn't he mention this to you? They = claim to=20 have called your chief of staff, Andrew Card, and he said he didn't = bother to=20 inform you. What does your mother-in-law think about these boys her = daughter's=20 husband consorts with?

I love = watching the=20 O'Neill and Evans show. What a couple of cut-ups! They're, like, all = proud of=20 themselves for "not doing Enron any favors." Actually, I think it's more = like=20 they didn't do your MOTHER-IN-LAW any favors. Enron got LOTS of favors. = And why=20 not? Kenny Boy has been your number one financial backer since you ran = for=20 governor. No other American or Saudi has given you more money than Kenny = Boy and=20 his gang at Enron. O'Neill, Evans, Cheney, Energy Secretary Spencer = Abraham --=20 ALL of them gave Lay and Enron special favors from day one. The New York = Times=20 last May was so concerned about how Kenny had the run of the place (1600 = Pennsylvania Ave.), they referred to Lay as the "shadow advisor to the=20 president."

And = what advice!=20 Who was it that wanted you to deregulate the energy industry further? = Kenny Boy!=20 Who was it that convinced you to explore the sick idea of PRIVATIZING = our water=20 supply and then allow private corporations to "trade" it in the future? = Kenny=20 Boy! Who was it that wanted Social Security to be tied to the stock = market? Yup,=20 Kenny Boy! (Imagine, if you will, what would have happened to our = precious=20 Social Security funds had they been invested in Enron stocks as you, = George,=20 suggested be done during your campaign as yuppies everywhere clucked = along in=20 agreement over that genius idea.)

O'Neill's and Evans's admission = that=20 they "did nothing" when Enron told them of the company's shell game and=20 impending collapse is reason enough for you and yours to hit the Beltway = and=20 never return to that sacred trust we call Our American Government. They = are=20 proud of "doing nothing?" By doing nothing, millions of Americans have = been=20 swindled. Tens of thousands have lost their jobs. Thousands more have = lost their=20 savings and their retirement. Yet your cabinet secretaries gloat over = what a=20 "good job" you and they did by "doing nothing."

Let me = ask you=20 this: If someone was setting a house on fire, and they called you to = help them=20 set it on fire, and you said no you wouldn't help them -- BUT then you = also=20 DIDN'T call 911 and inform the police that someone was going to burn = down a=20 house, do you think you would have committed a crime?

Of = course you would=20 have! You had prior knowledge and then you knowingly and purposefully = HID this=20 information from the authorities and the people living in the house! You = only=20 admitted that you knew a house was going to be torched when you were = confronted=20 by the police. Are you complicit? Yes! Are you an accessory? Yes! Who = would even=20 think of going around boasting, "Hey, look what a great guy I am -- a = friend of=20 mine told me he was going to commit an act of arson, and then I decided = NOT to=20 tell ANYONE about it!! WHOO-HOO!!"

Enron = and Kenny Boy=20 bought your silence and the silence of your cabinet members. You = yourself didn't=20 have to actually raid the 401(k) accounts of those poor people in = Houston (many=20 of whom probably voted for you every time your name was on a ballot). = All you=20 had to do was remain silent, change the government regulations that let = them get=20 away with it, and install their hand-picked cronies to sit on the = "oversight"=20 boards which were supposed to be keeping an eye on them.

While = doing all=20 this, you told the American people that these rich friends of yours were = not=20 getting any special breaks -- when, in fact, Enron had already scammed = their way=20 out of paying NO taxes in four out of the last five years. Your economic = "stimulus" bill that you got the House to pass after 9-11 had a section = that=20 would give Enron a gift of $250 million of our tax money. You were = pushing this=20 bill in November and December, long after your administration knew that = Enron=20 was raiding the vault and screwing its workers and investors.

You and = your=20 Republican friends are quick to point out that Enron had their claws = into the=20 Democrats as well. Yes, they did, and thank you for making the case why = we not=20 only need an alternative to the current make-up of the Democratic Party, = we need=20 private money removed from our electoral process ASAP.

But, = George, let's=20 be real -- the Democrats only got a pittance from Enron compared to the = millions=20 you and the Republicans received. Democrats just don't have the killer = instinct=20 to do anything right, and they certainly don't know much about making = money the=20 old-fashioned way, one off-shore tax shelter at a time. I would expect = nothing=20 less from a Party that couldn't even put their candidate in the White = House=20 after he had already won the election.

The = Democrats are=20 like a Yugo -- you know it won't last long or work well, but it will=20 occasionally get the job done. Fat cats know they can buy the Democrats = at=20 discount prices, and so they do. Anyone who tries to deflect this = scandal away=20 from you, George, or away from the Republicans, or away from the whole = dirty way=20 we elect our leaders, is someone who is desperately trying to cling to = what's=20 left of a very crooked system that has to go and go now.

The = saddest part of=20 this whole affair was the day the scandal was revealed -- and you denied = that=20 you even knew your good friend, Kenneth Lay. "Ken who?" you said. Oh, = he's just=20 some businessman from Texas. "Heck, he backed my opponent for governor, = Ann=20 Richards!" was your way of trying to deflect the truth that was hitting = you like=20 a Mack truck. You knew that he, in fact, endorsed YOU and gave you THREE = times=20 the money Ann Richards ever saw from him.

I = hardly ever talk=20 to the guy, you said. You were like Peter in the Garden of Gethsemane, = denying=20 he knew Jesus, three times. And then the cock crowed. And Peter felt = shame and=20 ran away.

What = shame do you=20 feel tonight, George, for the lies you have told? What shame do you feel = using=20 the dead of 9-11 as a cover for your actions, hoping that our sorrow for = those=20 lost souls and our fear of being killed by terrorists would distract us = from=20 what your boys and Kenny Boy were up to during those horrific weeks in = September=20 and October?

It was = during those=20 very days, while the rest of us were in shock and sadness, that the = executives=20 at Enron were selling off their stock and shifting assets to their 900 = phony=20 partnerships overseas. Did they notice the remains of the dead being = pulled from=20 the rubble while they were downloading their millions, or were their = eyes glued=20 only to the bottom third of the TV screen as the stock ticker with the = rigged=20 Enron price crawled across the images of firemen desperate, in tears, to = find=20 their fallen brothers?

The = country was=20 behind you when you said you were fighting the evildoers who did this. = In fact,=20 all the while, the real fight your friends at Enron were conducting was = the=20 fight against the clock, to see how fast they could transfer all the = loot to=20 their personal accounts and run away. Those were the evildoers, George, = and you=20 knew it. And because you, by design or negligence, allowed this to = happen, it is=20 time for you to resign. The cock has crowed for the last = time.

At the = very least,=20 your mother-in-law deserves better.

Yours,

Michael=20 Moore
American
Son-in-Law
Owner of 7th LARGEST = COMPANY IN=20 AMERICA! (revised ranking)
mmflint@aol.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com<= /P>

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