I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of average or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say will always be wrong.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Hangout with Lovely Priscilla

 

Thursday, November 9, 2017 5:32 PM

Lovely Priscilla: hello. how are u doing.

Matt Love: I'm good baby, I'm just walking back to my room from a
show at Casa do Mancha. it is so nice to hear from you

Lovely Priscilla: thank u

Matt Love: I have known 3 Priscillas in my life and they were all top girls

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay. has u date any of them before

Matt Love: Priscilla Sorcery, Priscilla Castro and Priscilla Dean.
What the hell? Stupid autocorrect... Not Sorcery, Dorcett

Lovely Priscilla: have I wrong u

Matt Love: She married Blair Davis... I should have dated her.

Lovely Priscilla: oh sorry

Matt Love: She was a good ol' girl, very pretty. But I couldn't date
her, she was best friends with Teresa Quirk, who was my girlfriend for
5 minutes

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay

Matt Love: The code of the west and all, I grew up in Wenatchee.

Lovely Priscilla: I want to be your wife forever.

Matt Love: And then there was Priscilla Castro. I would have written
Brown Eyed Girl for her, but Van Morrison beat me to it.

Lovely Priscilla: oh oaky. forget about them lets talk.

Matt Love: Let's get to you soon. Priscilla Castro and I even had a
waterfall. She pretended she was going to jump over it, but she only
wanted me to grab her breasts, but I was too stupid to know it. I
wrote a song about Priscilla Castro. I'll send you a link to it later
when I get back to my room.

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay.

Matt Love: And then there was Priscilla Dean. She changed my life and
not in a good way I had a sense of foreboding when I saw those
pumpkins. I mean, what the fuck, did a Halloween ship capsize?

Lovely Priscilla: How many brothers and sisters do u have?

Matt Love: I am the last of my breed, it's just me and my daughter
left. She doesn't know about you. Priscilla. How old is you?

Lovely Priscilla: 32. how old are u

Matt Love: You are3 years younger than my daughter, you ok with that?

Lovely Priscilla: yes why not . how old are u

Matt Love: 61 but not a bad specimen all things considered. Do you
object to being Priscilla number 4?

Lovely Priscilla: no I want to be Priscilla number1

Matt Love: I could move you to the head of the line if you meet my criteria.

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay.

Matt Love: Do you like the B-52s?

Lovely Priscilla: yes . Do you know what you want in a new partner?

Matt Love: Someone who likes the b-52s. And also Harry Chapin.

Lovely Priscilla: oh oaky. I am searching for someone who shares the
following qualities with me. Thoughtful, loving, goal oriented, along
with sense of humor. I love to laugh and smile

Matt Love: I am all laughs all the time. I was sad when I was young,
but now I'm like the laughing Buddha. You know the one?

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay

Matt Love: You won't leave me standing there with your wedding ring
in my hand? The way Priscilla Dean did? The way Corine France did?

Lovely Priscilla: yes I will not I promise with my mother's grave.

Matt Love: The ancestors... There are getting to be more of them all
the time. Is your father still with you?

Lovely Priscilla: he also passed away

Matt Love: Mine too

Lovely Priscilla: so I stay with my aunty in Ghana.

Matt Love: We are both orphans.

Lovely Priscilla: oh oaky

Matt Love: But it is to be expected at my age. You are so young. It
is tragic when the good die young and they are the only ones that do

Lovely Priscilla: age is just a number

Matt Love: Do you remember that song that goes "my mamma was a
prostitute, my daddy was a priest, I'm a motherfucking outlaw, a
badass jungle beast"?

Lovely Priscilla: oh sorry

Matt Love: Oh. I wrote that one.

Lovely Priscilla: okay

Matt Love: It was 78 with a bullet in Hoboken NJ in 1978

Lovely Priscilla: really

Matt Love: It kind of sums up my life. In a deeply meaningful way.

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay.

Matt Love: Do you like Abba?

Lovely Priscilla: yes

Matt Love: I'm not gay or anything, but the older I get the more I
dig them. What's your last name?

Lovely Priscilla: Amofo. Do you have any woman in your mind for now?

Matt Love: Give a little time to answer. I'm drunk and I'm lost.

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay

Matt Love: I need to find my room.

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay

Matt Love: I wrote a song about this and now it has come true.

Lovely Priscilla: really can I hear the song

Matt Love: I'll send a link when I get back to my room. Do you like musicians?

Lovely Priscilla: why not

Matt Love: There is music everywhere here. Good lord, that sounds
like Pearl Jam. I didn't come all the way to Brazil to hear Eddie
Vedder. Give me Samba, or give me deaf!

Lovely Priscilla: oh oaky

Matt Love: One more hill to climb. Then its all downhill

Lovely Priscilla: oh oaky

Matt Love: I am back in my room

Lovely Priscilla: can I hear the song

Matt Love: yes baby. The Brazil of my imagination just now became
the Brazil of my reality:
https://soundcloud.com/the-waiters-948227981/ugly-american. Could you
be my Venus?

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay

Matt Love: Here is another song about Venus, from my childhood (I
didn't write it, I just listened to it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8C8pyuOO5U

Lovely Priscilla: thank u.

Matt Love: and here is my song about Priscilla Dean:
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5602479

Lovely Priscilla: oh okay sorry.

Matt Love: and here is my song about Priscilla Castro (I had my robot
sing it, it was too painful for me to sing):
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10133954

Lovely Priscilla: okay lets talk I want to know much about u.

Matt Love: here is lots of information about me:
https://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Love/+wiki

Lovely Priscilla: oh oaky

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Re: Ultimate Guitar

 

Hi Amy,

lol, you made my day. It's been decades since I've had to answer that question.
 
https://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Love/+wiki


On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:18 AM, amy allen <amy47allen@gmail.com> wrote:
Who the fuck is this

On Aug 16, 2017 2:11 PM, "matt love" <mattlove1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Amy, I think you should give up trying to get in  touch with Yngwie, and hook up with me instead.  I wrote a song for you with the intent of persuading you this is the right thing to do: https://soundcloud.com/wacky-moose/amy


*****
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/yngwie_malmsteen_will_the_new_generation_have_guitar_virtuosos_like_me.html

amy47allen
Hey Yngwie, this is Amy. I met you at the Button South in Miami Florida. In 1991, you were with a dude, named Shawn. I hope you are reading this, I've been trying to get a hold of you., for sometime now, I would love to hear from you. .

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Friday, October 06, 2017

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Re: Please do not be afraid read carefully and get back to me

 

Dear General Sansbury,

Unfortunately I am not able to help you at this time. However, I have posted this to my blog. It is widely read and I'm certain somebody will want to come forward and take advantage of your generous offer

Sincerely,

Matt Love

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:49 AM, David Michael <davidmichaelsansbury21@gmail.com> wrote:

My Name is David Micheal Sansbury. I was born on the 15th of January 1965 at Baptist Hospital of Miami. I started A & A Children Academy at 6 and later on continued from Calvary Baptist Church Schools. I was very playful at school and it affected my academic works. I joined the Military academy at the age of 16. I was in the boarding school so my parents visit me once in a while. I didn't spend much time at home,later studied law at the university of Miami,i am a also a criminal lawyer.. My mom was a head teacher and dad was in the medical field of the army.

I fought in the Gulf war in 1990 to 1991. The gulf war was fought to liberate Kuwait from autocratic rule of the late Saddam. I had a pretty bad experience. Well,I am an E-6 Staff Sergeant (SSG) and now working with the UN. I also act as a platoon sergeant in the absence of the Sergeant First Class. I am the leader of my squad. I am a non commission officer at least now I will be out of action for at least 2 months or more.

The good news is that Our General return back to the camp spoke to the troop, that went to the special mission that the President of Afghanistan was highly impressed and has commended our effort towards the invading of the hide out of the Taliban (Rebels) and for the rescue of some high Government officials and some other citizens who where held hostage in the Taliban's hide out. He has compensated each soldiers that went for the special mission, while the 4(four) Majors who were the head of the troops were highly compensated adequately among them 2 died and 1 was seriously injured why i sustain a gunshot to my leg and one was injury free. I was among the. Majors that were injured and we were compensated with $53,800,000 USD ( Fifty three Million Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each, for taking the bold action toward the invading of the Taliban Terrorist camp. This money was given in cash to the General and was told to share it to us please keep this to yourself for the sake of my job and my reputations no one should know or hear about this am telling you, this because i have no other means and i do not have any surviving family.

We were advised by our General to dispatch the money from the camp on time because the United States Over viewing Security check on our camp time to time, and this might be in 6 days time and we are not allowed to keep money in the camp. my fear is that this money cannot be safe in this camp because we are not allowed to keep cash. My thought was,Who do I send it to, who can i trust to keep it for me safely? fate brought us together for a purpose. I strongly believe in my heart that you are not going to betray my trust, just have less than few months to leave the Army.

The money is handed over to me in cash and the moment i started thinking who will keep this for me when i have my share of the money,i thought of sending this email to your address , I nursed no fear, I felt no doubt, I believe that it will be safe with you. There won't be any problem, all you need to do is receive the money through a diplomat and safe keep it until I come over for my share i will offer you 30% of the total money, after this mission is over as soonest.

i don't want you to say a word about this to anyone please am writing you this message with so much trust,but also scared and i need to let my fears leave me and i did that because i want you to keep this money for the betterment of our lives in the future; the only problem will be when you tell people because they will want to steal the money from you by all means. would you safe guard the money for us? our medical supply team will be coming in 4 days time, all I need to do is hand over the save box, that i kept the money with a Red Cross man, I will carefully wrap the money in an ultra violet material and safely place in a metal box used for our medical supply by the Red Cross and it will get to you. I can plead with the flight accompanying diplomat from the Red Cross that clears our medical supply to left 
it out of our base, so he could deposit it in a shipping company well known to him to deliver it to you,how secretive i am about this save box i will not tell the Red Cross man what is inside the box for security purpose and for my own good.

please let me have your complete:

Home Address..............
House Number..............
Street Name.................
Telephone Number...............

..this details will be needed by the shipping company to deliver the the save box to you.

Regards,
Sgt.David Michaels Sansbury.


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Wednesday, June 07, 2017

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Re: Would you stay at the Morikami?

 

It's nice to hear from you. It sure would be nice if these NPR Public Insight Networks would invite citizen participation into things that really matter, for example,

"Hey Matt, we are considering breaking the longstanding NPR blacklist of Noam Chomsky, and interviewing him. We don't know what will happen if we do that, but we want to give people exposure to new ideas."

And I'd probably say, "Wow, Katherine, I think that would be pretty nifty. The world's greatest living intellectual lives among us, it would really be quite cool for the American people to benefit from his perspective."

Instead, you write to me all the way up here in Michigan (and I'm not sure why) but you ask me if have any plans to stay somewhere I've never heard of in a state I've only ever visited once.  I guess it's legitimate to want to know, the capitalist enterprise must grind on, and indeed, grinding down anybody in it's path.

When I was younger, I enjoyed hearing people like John Ciardi on NPR. Having read his translation of Dante's Inferno when I was still younger, I appreciated the opportunity to listen to his greatness. I was poor then, but I felt I could be in the club. It had a pacifying effect.

Now on NPR I hear neoliberal idiots mocking people they regard to be stupider and more bigoted than they are (the rural poor).  This doesn't have a pacifying effect on me, or I would imagine, anybody else, except perhaps Clinton voters that didn't feel compelled to hold their noses when they cast their votes.

You people should try to learn from recent history, you know what they say about people who can't do that.

Have a blessed day.

Matt
https://soundcloud.com/the-waiters-948227981/ugly-american


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Katherine Lepri <klepri@wlrnnews.org> wrote:

Hi, I'm Katie Lepri, the Public Insight Network analyst for WLRN, South Florida's NPR station. 

Palm Beach County is looking to open an authentic Japanese inn, called a "ryokan," at the Morikami Museum and Gardens. The inn was part of the original masterplan for the property 30 years ago. However, the county is only now starting to make moves to bring lodging to the grounds. 

Would you stay at Morikami Museum and Gardens? Be part of the conversation by telling us here or contact reporter Isabella Cueto at icueto@wlrnnews.org.

The deadline for this story is today, so if you have some time to respond, we'd appreciate hearing from you soon.

Thank you.

Katie


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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Breaking the silence

 

I got into a conflict with one of our resident Democratic Party explainers a few weeks ago. After he refused to apologize for calling me an alt-right and Trump supporter, i put him on moderated status.  I put through anything he posted, but apparently even this slight inhibition of his ability to slander and insult (personal attacks on other group members are one of the very few things prohibited here) because he sent me a personal email, calling me a Nazi, holding me personally responsible for decline in activity in this group (failing to see that Yahoo across the company including their groups have been in trouble for years. Furthermore,I have been so low-impact in the role I'll bet 98% of you didn't even know I'm a moderator). He even showed his political maturity by making fun of my name!  In conclusion, he said he was leaving the group. I didn't try to talk him out of it, but I did ask him for his permission in sharing his email with the group, but he declined, and I respected that.

Surely if he were still around he would have taken the following as proof that I am everything he says. So many liberals suffer from an irony deficiency that I believe in giving their diet a healthy supplement of it. I hope you find it funny, I intended it to be. And I hope you all will sign my petition.

December 28, 2016

Matt Love
845 E. Cross St.
Ypsilanti, MI 48198

Donald J. Trump
President-elect of the United States
C/O Trump Tower
725 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10022


Dear Your Excellency Mr. Trump,

My understanding is that you have been having some difficulty in getting people to perform at your inauguration, and are willing to offer ambassadorships to people willing to help out.  A most prudent course of action, and I am here to help. Please review this detailed biography of my experiences in both rock and roll, you will be assured my credentials are solid:

http://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Love/+wiki

I have dedicated this song to you in performance on two occasions, so you know my heart is in the right place:

https://soundcloud.com/the-waiters-948227981/ugly-american

I only request that you make me ambassador to Brazil in exchange for my performance. 

Oh, one final thing, I have started a petition campaign. I don't want you to be taken by surprise when you are inundated with thousands, perhaps millions of messages of support from my loyal fanbase:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/donald-trump-make-me?source=c.em.mt&r_by=1484841

Thank you for your time, and I'm looking forward to working with you on this campaign and others.

Sincerely yours,


Matt Love
Rawk Star

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Re: FW: ** Official vote re Electoral College **

 

Hey you disgusting lying propagandists, the Party of the Clintons is becoming worse than the Republicans, what an amazing and despicable achievement.  You should read this article but I'll bet you won't:


Progressives: Stop Blaming the Russians

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Photo by thierry hermann | CC BY 2.0

This week began with a mass email from the head of the Democratic National Committee, who declared: "By now, Americans know beyond any reasonable doubt that the Russian government orchestrated a series of cyberattacks on political campaigns and organizations over the past two years and used stolen information to influence the presidential campaign and congressional races." DNC chair Donna Brazile went on: "The integrity of our elections is too important for Congress to refuse to take these attacks seriously."

The importance of election integrity had eluded Brazile when she was a regular on CNN, posing as neutral in the Clinton-Sanders battle. "Brazile is not apologizing for leaking CNN debate questions and topics to the Hillary Clinton campaign during the Democratic primary," the Washington Post reported last month. "Her only regret, it seems, is that she got caught."

Many big factors affect any presidential race, and the Russian government may have tried to be one of them for the 2016 election — though it's hardly the slam dunk that agencies like the CIA and U.S. mass media are now claiming. But in any event, this month it has become routine for a lot of progressive organizations and individuals to descend into a dangerous mode of partisan flackery.

Less than two weeks ago — as soon as unnamed CIA sources told journalists that the Kremlin was behind hacks of DNC and Clinton campaign emails — a wide range of progressive online groups, activists and commentators reflexively embraced the dominant media spin. High profile among them was MoveOn, which used its big digital footprint to spur the frenzy.

MoveOn matter-of-factly decried the "chilling news" of "Russia's election tampering." And, without a hint of media literacy, the group also informed its readers that "news broke that the Russian president himself was involved in the efforts to influence our November election — in favor of Donald Trump."

Such eagerness to share undocumented spin as absolute fact has led many progressive groups to go with knee-jerk reactions. Bent on gaining a propaganda advantage over Trump, those reactions are helping to stampede this country toward a modern form of McCarthyism — as well as brinkmanship with Russia that could lead to a cataclysmic military conflict.

Zeal to blame Russia for a bad election outcome has spread like contagion among countless self-described progressives, understandably appalled by the imminent Trump presidency. But those who think they're riding a helpful tiger could find themselves devoured later on.

If civil liberties instead of repression and diplomacy instead of war are progressive values, then all too many progressives — eager to tar Trump as a Kremlin product — have been undermining those values.

Already, from witch-hunt legislation in Congress to pernicious media blacklisting, the anti-Russia hysteria — being fueled by the high octane election-intervention storyline — has gained enormous momentum.

Days ago, assessing the momentum of that hysteria, Russian studies scholar Stephen F. Cohen cited some of the key motives propelling it (the first of which touted extremely farfetched  hopes):

*  "One is to reverse the Electoral College vote."

*  "Another is to exonerate the Clinton campaign from its electoral defeat by blaming that instead on Putin and thereby maintaining the Clinton wing's grip on the Democratic Party."

Thus, countless Bernie supporters have been unwittingly strengthening the Clinton wing of the party while beating on the anti-Putin drum.

* "Yet another is to delegitimate Trump even before he is inaugurated. And certainly no less important, to prevent the détente with Russia that Trump seems to seek."

Of all the good reasons to "delegitimate" Trump, alleged Kremlin intervention in the election should rank quite low. Trump's evils are huge, with a very incomplete list including vast greed, pathological lying, contempt for facts, enthusiasm for oligarchy, bigotry, environmental destruction, racism, misogyny, economic injustice, voter suppression and rampant conflicts of interest.

While echoing the anti-Russia themes belted out by Democratic Party officials and loyalists, the chorus on the left may think it's merely grabbing the low-hanging political fruit of this historical moment. But the fruit is already turning rancid, and apt to become poisonous. It won't be the first time in recent decades when liberals and others thought they were being clever and politically adroit as they aided and abetted the suppression of principles found in the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, while helping to gear up the machinery of war.

This month, by following the line of the Democratic Party leadership, groups like MoveOn actually have helped to set the stage for pressurizing Trump to deter him from pursuing policies that may be (along with opposition to trade deals such as the TPP) the only ways in which he might be appreciably better than Hillary Clinton would have been as president.

Let's face it: Some of the fierceness of media attacks on Trump, such as from de facto neoconservative liberal-tinged entities like the Washington Post, is propelled by rage that his stance toward Russia lacks the neocon qualities that a Hillary Clinton presidency offered.

To be crystal clear: The election of Donald Trump as president is a horrific disaster, and his regime must be resisted on a vast array of issues with eternal vigilance. And, meanwhile, Vladimir Putin is a repressive ruler.

At the same time, it's a rather glaring omission in the current outraged discourse that the U.S. government, from Egypt and Saudi Arabia to Central Asian nations and beyond, continues to avidly support regimes far worse than Russia's. As for intervening in foreign elections, the CIA has excelled at that anti-democratic game for many decades — and mainline U.S. media outlets have been inclined to nod or even cheer when the American government and allied U.S. operatives succeed in working their will on electorates overseas.

Oh, and must we forget that U.S. efforts to determine the government leaders of other countries have sometimes gone far beyond techniques like hacking and disseminating emails? As Janine Jackson of the media watchdog group FAIR wrote, "in back of it all, what makes the umbrage of elite media so hard to stomach is the hypocrisy. This is, after all, the same elite media that supports outsider-induced 'regime change' anywhere and everywhere they see an official enemy, from Iraq to Honduras to Libya to Syria… You can make 'one law for me, another for thee' your credo, but you can't be too surprised when others are unimpressed."

And Jackson added: "Whatever story there is to be told about Russia and the 2016 election, corporate media have squandered the credibility it would take to tell it."

Now, a crucial choice is right in front of the progressive groups and commentators who've been echoing the anti-Russia barrage from U.S. mass media. Staying on course will help to undermine civil liberties at home and will help to escalate conflicts with Russia that could end with nuclear war. Doesn't sound "progressive" to me.

Norman Solomon is executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, where he coordinates ExposeFacts. Solomon is a co-founder of RootsAction.org.

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Manny Herrmann, MoveOn.org Political Action <moveon-help@list.moveon.org> wrote:
The Electoral College is meeting in six days to decide who will be the next president of the United States, and we have a critically important decision to make before that happens.

Hi Justin—I just wanted to make sure you saw Anna's message. There's still time to cast your vote!


Dear MoveOn member,

The Electoral College is meeting in six days to decide who will be the next president of the United States, and we have a critically important decision to make together before that happens: Should MoveOn call on the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump as president of the United States?

This would be a big step for us, but the CIA's reported conclusion that the Russian government actively interfered with the U.S. presidential election—with the goal of helping Trump win—is a big deal.

Before we decide whether to enter this fight, we need your input: Should MoveOn call on the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump as president of the United States?

Yes, MoveOn should call on the Electoral College to reject Trump.

No, I don't agree with this.

Note: Your vote must be received by 11:59pm E.T. on Wednesday, December 14 to be counted. Only your first click will be recorded, so please take care in making your choice.

There were many arguments for the Electoral College to reject Trump, even before the CIA's revelations.

Ethics experts—Republican and Democrat—say that Trump's business entanglements with foreign governments will put him in violation of the U.S. Constitution the minute he's sworn in.2 He has now delayed giving any answers on how he will (or won't) resolve these conflicts until after the Electoral College votes.3

Already, one Republican elector from a state Trump won has said that he will not cast his vote for Trump—and he says there are others who will not either.4

Several lawsuits have been filed to allow electors to vote their conscience without facing fines or legal punishment. A bipartisan group of electors has sent an open letter to intelligence agencies requesting access to classified information on Russian interference in the election—a request that MoveOn is actively supporting.5 And this weekend, Representative Jim Himes became one of the first members of Congress to call for the Electoral College to reject Trump.6

Let's be clear:

  • The MoveOn community overwhelmingly wants to abolish the Electoral College. We believe in "one person, one vote."
  • Given that the Electoral College does exist, there's a strong case that it should serve its constitutional purpose. The Electoral College "was primarily designed to stop a demagogue—a tyrannical mass leader who preys on our prejudices—from becoming President."7 And, as spelled out in the Federalist Papers, to prevent "the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils."8 That's what we will urge the Electoral College to do, if MoveOn members vote to move ahead with this effort.
  • The odds of this effort succeeding in denying Trump the White House are exceedingly small. It would take 37 "conscientious electors" from states that voted for Trump to defeat him.
  • But that doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't try. Even a small number of electoral votes against Trump will send a strong message that he does not have a mandate. It will remind Americans that Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million votes. It could embolden lawmakers to investigate Russian meddling in the election. And it could strengthen the movement against some of Trump's most shocking nominees, including Rex Tillerson, the long-time CEO of Exxon Mobile, who has deep ties to Vladimir Putin, and John Bolton, the extreme hawk who's being proposed as Tillerson's deputy.

If two-thirds or more of MoveOn members vote "yes," we will mobilize our resources in the remaining time we have—joining with protests in state capitals around the country next Monday, organizing our members to call on specific electors to reject Trump, and more. And in any scenario, we will continue to call for electors to be fully briefed on what the CIA knows before they are asked to vote.

With just six days until the Electoral College meets to elect our next president, we need to decide NOW whether to join the movement calling on the Electoral College to stop Trump. Will you tell us what you think?

Yes, MoveOn should call on the Electoral College to reject Trump.

No, I don't agree with this.

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Sources:

1. "Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says," The New York Times, December 9, 2016 
http://act.moveon.org/go/7134?t=8&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

2. "'It's Like a Powder Keg That's Going to Explode,'" Politico Magazine, December 11, 2016 
http://act.moveon.org/go/7135?t=10&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

3. "Donald Trump delays announcement on separation from business ties," CBS News, December 12, 2016 
http://act.moveon.org/go/7140?t=12&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

4. "GOP elector: Not all of us are voting for Trump," The Hill, December 9, 2016 
http://act.moveon.org/go/7137?t=14&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

5. "Bipartisan Electors Ask James Clapper: Release Facts on Outside Interference in U.S. Election," Extra Newsfeed, December 12, 2016 
https://act.moveon.org/go/7138?t=16&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

6. "Tweet by Jim Himes," December 11, 2016 
https://act.moveon.org/go/7139?t=18&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

7. "The Electoral College Was Created to Stop Demagogues Like Trump," Time, November 17, 2016 
http://act.moveon.org/go/7141?t=20&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

8. "Virginian-Pilot editorial: Russia's influence in election needs strong inquiry," The Virginian-Pilot, December 12, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/7148?t=22&akid=174743.35566440.uaJTJi

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Friday, December 09, 2016

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Re: Ask ICC to prosecute US war crimes

 

did you only just now discover that the US is committing war crimes, when Obama has been at it for 8 years?  Now you want justice when the tormentor-in-chief is almost out of office?  and you are more worried about the war crimes that Trump MAY commit in the future than the ones Obama has already committed?

You neoliberals make me sick.

Don't worry about prosecutiing another African, Trump was wrong about that.  He's not Kenyan, he's American, so throw the book at him, he deserves it.


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While the United States has not joined the International Criminal Court, the ICC can prosecute U.S. crimes that occur in its member states, such as Afghanistan. The ICC has released a preliminary report on U.S. crimes there.

Thus far, the ICC has only ever indicted Africans, a trend that is leading African states to pull out of the ICC.

Click here to sign a petition we will deliver to Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, which reads in full:

We encourage you to also prosecute war crimes by non-Africans including by U.S. war criminals.

The ICC is degrading rather than enhancing the idea of international justice by giving a free pass to Western war makers. The United States has itself given a free pass to its war makers, kidnappers, torturers, and assassins. The U.S. president-elect and his advisors openly plan to violate laws against war, torture, and the targeting of civilians.

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>> New York Times: U.S. Forces May Have Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan, Prosecutor Says
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