From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #65 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Thursday, January 28 1999 Volume 01 : Number 065 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:39:07 -0500 From: Rosalie Tyler Paul Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure Thank you - Peace Action Maine would like to start with 50 and may well want more after seeing them. Please send them to Peace Action Maine, POBox 3842, Portland, ME 04104. Rosalie Paul, Chair. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:42:02 -0600 From: Sean Donahue Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: criminal defense] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------1C93274561EF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sean: Please distribute the following as widely as you can, along with my e-mail address. Thanks. I represent several people who peacefully went on the property of a defense contractor to protest the company's manufacture of war machinery. In a state court trial for trespass, they attempted to assert as a defense an obligation to do such acts pursuant to international law and the provisions of several treaties. The defense was not allowed. I am handling the appeal, and am looking for cases where such a defense was asserted, whether successfully or not. Any help is appreciated. Law Office of Joshua Gordon 26 S. Main St., #175 Concord, NH 03301 (603) 226-4225 e-mail: jlgordon@totalnetnh.net - --------------1C93274561EF Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from server.totalnetnh.net (server.totalnetnh.net [216.64.14.16]) by igc7.igc.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06817 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:43:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from pionex (s6.terminal1.totalnetnh.net [216.64.14.36]) by server.totalnetnh.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01307 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:12:47 -0500 Message-ID: <000e01be49ff$fab979a0$240e40d8@pionex> From: "Joshua Gordon" To: "Sean Donahue" Subject: criminal defense Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:16:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sean: Please distribute the following as widely as you can, along with my e-mail address. Thanks. I represent several people who peacefully went on the property of a defense contractor to protest the company's manufacture of war machinery. In a state court trial for trespass, they attempted to assert as a defense an obligation to do such acts pursuant to international law and the provisions of several treaties. The defense was not allowed. I am handling the appeal, and am looking for cases where such a defense was asserted, whether successfully or not. Any help is appreciated. Law Office of Joshua Gordon 26 S. Main St., #175 Concord, NH 03301 (603) 226-4225 e-mail: jlgordon@totalnetnh.net This message may contain attorney privileged information. Please keep confidential. - --------------1C93274561EF-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:58:17 -0800 From: Harry Rogers Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure Carolina eace Resource Center would like 50. Thanks Harry Rogers Carolina Peace Resource Center 305 South Saluda Ave Columbia SC 29205 - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:33:53 -0500 From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews (US): 1/27/99 - Oak Ridge; Livermore plutonium in park; WIPP; TX - --=====================_14587180==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from Ohio http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm 2. Tests confirm metal at park. Questions on source of plutonium remain http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm 3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments Until Permit OK'd http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm 4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml - ----------------------------------------- 1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from Ohio http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/021400.htm OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP January 26, 1999) -- Oak Ridge could be a temporary storage site for 3,800 metric tons of uranium that the U.S. Department of Energy must remove from an Ohio plant by Sept. 30. The uranium is now at DOE's Fernald site near Cincinnati. The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and the East Tennessee Technology Park at Oak Ridge are possible sites. DOE's uranium-processing plant at Paducah, Ky., and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, also are alternatives. A DOE environmental impact investigation is under way to look at each possible site. Y-12 is the principal site for storing weapons-grade uranium in the United States. The technology park at Oak Ridge, formerly known as the K-25 site, has millions of pounds of uranium hexafluroide once used in preparing uranium for fuel in nuclear reactors. Steve Wyatt, a DOE spokesman at Oak Ridge, said some of the Fernald uranium is depleted, which means most of the material that could cause the chain-reaction release of energy known as fission has been removed. Other stocks are enriched, which means they have more than the normal amount of U-235, which can create fission. Wyatt said DOE is looking for an indoor storage site for a couple of years until other uses can be found for the uranium. Fernald processed uranium and other materials for nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1989 and the uranium is left over from that program. Plant workers have been working to clean up the plant and nearby areas polluted by the operations. - ----------------------------------------- 2. Tests confirm metal at park Questions on source of plutonium remain http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/plutonium26.htm January 26, 1999, San Jose Mercury News BY ANDREA WIDENER Contra Costa Times Plutonium is laced throughout a Livermore park but at levels that should not threaten local residents' health, test results released Monday confirmed. The study found that contamination at Big Trees Park, less than a mile from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, did not exceed health standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Discovered in 1993 The plutonium was discovered in 1993 as the EPA took samples to determine the amount of plutonium in the soil. It found in some parts of the park 1,000 times more plutonium than was expected -- higher than expected background levels but not within any danger range. The new testing was recommended by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to determine the extent of contamination. Lab scientists say the study's results support their theory that plutonium-laced sludge was used as mulch because the highest levels are around the park's shade trees. But community groups and other state and federal agencies say further data analysis is needed to answer the more vexing questions: how the plutonium got there in the first place and what, if anything, should be done about it. Theory challenged Marylia Kelley, president of the lab watchdog group Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, doesn't subscribe to the lab's theory. She said the results are above background levels throughout the park and do not conclusively point to the sludge as the source of contamination. State and federal agencies say they will have to analyze the data themselves before taking a position. After an initial study of the area, the health investigators suggested the plutonium may have come from the laboratory through the air or water. Plutonium is a radioactive heavy metal that isn't naturally occurring in the environment, but it has been used for years at the laboratory as part of its nuclear weapons work. Lab researchers countered with their own explanation that the plutonium was carried into the park as mulch after an accidental release into the city's sewer system. - ----------------------------------------- 3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments Until Permit OK'd http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news01-26.htm The Associated Press / Albuquerque Journal, January 26, 1999 A group that has long fought the federal government's plan to bury nuclear waste in salt beds near Carlsbad is repeating its contention that no waste should go to the repository until it has a state permit. The Southwest Research and Information Center, in a brief filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., asked U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn to prohibit shipments from Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant if no permit is in place. The filing by the Albuquerque-based group and three other environmental groups came in a lawsuit that has been pending for most of the decade. In 1991, then-Attorney General Tom Udall and the environmental groups sued the U.S. Department of Energy. The next year Penn issued an order preventing the DOE from opening the repository without environmental controls beyond what the agency proposed. That order remains in place. The DOE concluded last year some drums of waste at Los Alamos contain only radioactive elements, rather than being mixed with hazardous chemicals, and that those drums can be shipped to the $2 billion WIPP without a state permit. The state has jurisdiction over so-called mixed waste but not over waste that contains no hazardous chemicals. The state Environment Department plans to issue a permit for mixed waste between July and September. Nathan Wade, a spokesman for the Environment Department, said last week the agency would not try to stop limited shipments from Los Alamos but might take action if the Energy Department tried to increase shipments before the state permit was issued. The environmental groups argued Monday that shipping waste to WIPP before it has a permit would undermine any permit because the presence of waste beforehand would hamper the state's ability to regulate it. The DOE disagrees, arguing that shipping radioactive waste would have no impact on a permit for mixed waste. On Friday, Attorney General Patricia Madrid, who took office this month, announced she's trying to settle the lawsuit. Penn agreed to delay the deadline for filing briefs until Feb. 1 so Madrid's office and the DOE could negotiate. Don Hancock, head of the Southwest Research and Information Center, said Monday his group "is proceeding full speed ahead regardless of what the attorney general is or isn't doing." While campaigning last year, Madrid said she would not continue Udall's battle over opening WIPP and would try to get more compensation from the federal government. Eventually, DOE plans to dispose of 850,000 drums of rags, tools and debris contaminated with plutonium from defense work. Waste would be entombed in rooms excavated from salt beds 2,150 feet underground. - ----------------------------------------- 4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump http://www.expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/guerra/2601bcja.shtml San Antonio Express - January 26, 1999 As the nation's second most populous state and home to some of the world's most advanced medical complexes and a rapidly growing industrial hub, Texas is the nation's second-largest producer of radioactive waste. But we don't have our own nuclear garbage dump. Sunday, I reported a proposal was filed to create such a dump in West Texas, near Andrews, that is already taking nonradioactive hazardous waste. This isn't the first proposal for a Lone Star nuclear dump. Plans for a low-level radioactive disposal facility in Sierra Blanca were scrapped last year after locals complained they weren't given say in its creation and scientists argued the site was on a dangerously unstable geological fault. But others labeled it environmental racism because Sierra Blanca residents are primarily poor, politically powerless and Mexican-American. And the Mexican government protested that the site was within the border zone where nuclear waste disposal sites are prohibited by treaty. In truth, Sierra Blanca was chosen because in the early 1980s, the Legislature specified a nuclear waste disposal facility could only be established within a 400-square- mile area in sparsely populated Hudspeth County. Alpine Rep. Pete P. Gallego of Hudspeth County has filed a bill to establish a radioactive waste dump in Andrews County. But unlike the Sierra Blanca facility which would have been owned and operated by the state Gallego's bill would allow for a dump to be privately operated. Upon receiving its license to accept nuclear waste, however, ownership of the dump and presumably, the liability for any mishaps that might occur on it would shift to the state. This has led to charges of "privatizing profits while socializing long-term responsibilities." Gallego explains he filed his bill with several purposes in mind. "It's a starting point for a conversation because there are a lot of big, long-term public policy decisions that will have to be made along the way," he says. "I wanted to start early so we wouldn't get a bill (to establish a nuclear dump) at the last moment and have to make a rushed decision on it. "We've got some preeminent facilities that are major producers (of radioactive waste)," he says, referring to Texas' growing cancer treatment facilities, "and we have to provide for them so they can keep on developing." As for a private party operating it while the state assumes liability, he says: "We've made no policy decision on who needs to own the license or the site; nobody's married to it or tied to it." What is he committed to? "We've got to have a fear opening up a site that's open to everybody's waste, so we're trying to figure a way to keep it (just) for us." And why is he pushing a plan that would put the nuclear dump in Andrews County, a community he doesn't even represent? "Where it goes is another policy decision that has to be made," he answers, but adds Andrews' residents seem to welcome the facility. "My feeling is that if you have a willing seller and a willing buyer, and the geology is right in Andrews and the people there want it, fine. "My priority is to get it out of Hudspeth," he adds. "At least it gets it out of a county I'm responsible for representing." To leave a message for Carlos Guerra, call ExpressLine at 554-0500 and punch 4410, or e-mail cguerra@express-news.net _____________________________________________________________ * NucNews - to subscribe: prop1@prop1.org - http://prop1.org * Say "Please Subscribe NucNews" NucNews Archive: HTTP://WWW.ONELIST.COM/arcindex.cgi?listname=NucNews since January 13, 1999; for earlier editions - write prop1@prop1.org --------------------------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: _____________________________________________________________ - --=====================_14587180==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from Ohio

2. Tests confirm metal at park. Questions on source of plutonium remain

3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments Until Permit OK'd

4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump

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1. Oak Ridge possible temporary storage site for uranium from Ohio


OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP January 26, 1999) -- Oak Ridge could be a temporary storage site for 3,800 metric tons of uranium that the U.S. Department of Energy must remove from an Ohio plant by Sept. 30.

 The uranium is now at DOE's Fernald site near Cincinnati.

 The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and the East Tennessee Technology Park at Oak Ridge are possible sites. DOE's uranium-processing plant at Paducah, Ky., and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, also are alternatives.

 A DOE environmental impact investigation is under way to look at each possible site.  Y-12 is the principal site for storing weapons-grade uranium in the United States.  The technology park at Oak Ridge, formerly known as the K-25 site, has millions of pounds of uranium hexafluroide once used in preparing uranium for fuel in nuclear reactors.

 Steve Wyatt, a DOE spokesman at Oak Ridge, said some of the Fernald uranium is depleted, which means most of the material that could cause the chain-reaction release of energy known as fission has been removed.

 Other stocks are enriched, which means they have more than the normal amount of U-235, which can create fission.

 Wyatt said DOE is looking for an indoor storage site for a couple of years until other uses can be found for the uranium.

 Fernald processed uranium and other materials for nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1989 and the uranium is left over from that program. Plant workers have been working to clean up the plant and nearby areas polluted by the operations.

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2. Tests confirm metal at park Questions on source of plutonium remain


January 26, 1999, San Jose Mercury News

BY ANDREA WIDENER Contra Costa Times

Plutonium is laced throughout a Livermore park but at levels that should not threaten local residents' health, test results released Monday confirmed.

The study found that contamination at Big Trees Park, less than a mile from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, did not exceed health standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Discovered in 1993

The plutonium was discovered in 1993 as the EPA took samples to determine the amount of plutonium in the soil. It found in some parts of the park 1,000 times more plutonium than was expected -- higher than expected background levels but not within any danger range.

The new testing was recommended by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to determine the extent of contamination.

Lab scientists say the study's results support their theory that plutonium-laced sludge was used as mulch because the highest levels are around the park's shade trees.

But community groups and other state and federal agencies say further data analysis is needed to answer the more vexing questions: how the plutonium got there in the first place and what, if anything, should be done about it.

Theory challenged

Marylia Kelley, president of the lab watchdog group Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, doesn't subscribe to the lab's theory. She said the results are above background levels throughout the park and do not conclusively point to the sludge as the source of contamination.

State and federal agencies say they will have to analyze the data themselves before taking a position.

After an initial study of the area, the health investigators suggested the plutonium may have come from the laboratory through the air or water. Plutonium is a radioactive heavy metal that isn't naturally occurring in the environment, but it has been used for years at the laboratory as part of its nuclear weapons work.

Lab researchers countered with their own explanation that the plutonium was carried into the park as mulch after an accidental release into the city's sewer system.

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3. Opponents: WIPP Must Wait Groups File Brief To Block Shipments Until Permit OK'd


The Associated Press / Albuquerque Journal, January 26, 1999

A group that has long fought the federal government's plan to bury nuclear waste in salt beds near Carlsbad is repeating its contention that no waste should go to the repository until it has a state permit.

The Southwest Research and Information Center, in a brief filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., asked U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn to prohibit shipments from Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant if no permit is in place.

The filing by the Albuquerque-based group and three other environmental groups came in a lawsuit that has been pending for most of the decade.

In 1991, then-Attorney General Tom Udall and the environmental groups sued the U.S. Department of Energy. The next year Penn issued an order preventing the DOE from opening the repository without environmental controls beyond what the agency proposed. That order remains in place.

The DOE concluded last year some drums of waste at Los Alamos contain only radioactive elements, rather than being mixed with hazardous chemicals, and that those drums can be shipped to the $2 billion WIPP without a state permit.

The state has jurisdiction over so-called mixed waste but not over waste that contains no hazardous chemicals.

The state Environment Department plans to issue a permit for mixed waste between July and September.

Nathan Wade, a spokesman for the Environment Department, said last week the agency would not try to stop limited shipments from Los Alamos but might take action if the Energy Department tried to increase shipments before the state permit was issued.

The environmental groups argued Monday that shipping waste to WIPP before it has a permit would undermine any permit because the presence of waste beforehand would hamper the state's ability to regulate it.

The DOE disagrees, arguing that shipping radioactive waste would have no impact on a permit for mixed waste.

On Friday, Attorney General Patricia Madrid, who took office this month, announced she's trying to settle the lawsuit. Penn agreed to delay the deadline for filing briefs until Feb. 1 so Madrid's office and the DOE could negotiate.

Don Hancock, head of the Southwest Research and Information Center, said Monday his group "is proceeding full speed ahead regardless of what the attorney general is or isn't doing."

While campaigning last year, Madrid said she would not continue Udall's battle over opening WIPP and would try to get more compensation from the federal government.

Eventually, DOE plans to dispose of 850,000 drums of rags, tools and debris contaminated with plutonium from defense work. Waste would be entombed in rooms excavated from salt beds 2,150 feet underground.

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4. Solon answers criticism over nuclear dump


San Antonio Express - January 26, 1999

As the nation's second most populous state and home to some of the world's most advanced medical complexes and a rapidly growing industrial hub, Texas is the nation's second-largest producer of radioactive waste.

But we don't have our own nuclear garbage dump.

Sunday, I reported a proposal was filed to create such a dump in West Texas, near Andrews, that is already taking nonradioactive hazardous waste.

This isn't the first proposal for a Lone Star nuclear dump.

Plans for a low-level radioactive disposal facility in Sierra Blanca were scrapped last year after locals complained they weren't given say in its creation and scientists argued the site was on a dangerously unstable geological fault.

But others labeled it environmental racism because Sierra Blanca residents are primarily poor, politically powerless and Mexican-American.

And the Mexican government protested that the site was within the border zone where nuclear waste disposal sites are prohibited by treaty.

In truth, Sierra Blanca was chosen because in the early 1980s, the Legislature specified a nuclear waste disposal facility could only be established within a 400-square- mile area in sparsely populated Hudspeth County.

Alpine Rep. Pete P. Gallego of Hudspeth County has filed a bill to establish a radioactive waste dump in Andrews County. But unlike the Sierra Blanca facility  which would have been owned and operated by the state  Gallego's bill would allow for a dump to be privately operated.

Upon receiving its license to accept nuclear waste, however, ownership of the dump  and presumably, the liability for any mishaps that might occur on it  would shift to the state.

This has led to charges of "privatizing profits while socializing long-term responsibilities."

Gallego explains he filed his bill with several purposes in mind.

"It's a starting point for a conversation because there are a lot of big, long-term public policy decisions that will have to be made along the way," he says. "I wanted to start early so we wouldn't get a bill (to establish a nuclear dump) at the last moment and have to make a rushed decision on it.

"We've got some preeminent facilities that are major producers (of radioactive waste)," he says, referring to Texas' growing cancer treatment facilities, "and we have to provide for them so they can keep on developing."

As for a private party operating it while the state assumes liability, he says: "We've made no policy decision on who needs to own the license or the site; nobody's married to it or tied to it."

What is he committed to?

"We've got to have a fear opening up a site that's open to everybody's waste, so we're trying to figure a way to keep it (just) for us."

And why is he pushing a plan that would put the nuclear dump in Andrews County, a community he doesn't even represent?

"Where it goes is another policy decision that has to be made," he answers, but adds Andrews' residents seem to welcome the facility. "My feeling is that if you have a willing seller and a willing buyer, and the geology is right in Andrews and the people there want it, fine.

"My priority is to get it out of Hudspeth," he adds. "At least it gets it out of a county I'm responsible for representing."

To leave a message for Carlos Guerra, call ExpressLine at 554-0500 and punch 4410, or e-mail cguerra@express-news.net 
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_____________________________________________________________ - --=====================_14587180==_.ALT-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:32:03 +1100 From: hcaldic Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure Harry Rogers wrote: > > Carolina eace Resource Center would like 50. > Thanks > Harry Rogers > Carolina Peace Resource Center > 305 South Saluda Ave > Columbia SC 29205 > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. Dear Harry, I know this is off the point but I am organising a symposium called Nuclear Y2K on March 8 in the Canon Caucus Room in the Congress dealing with potential problems in both the global nuclear reactors and weapons systems. For more information you can call Carrie Clark on 5164320655. All are welcome at this really important event. Sincerely Helen Caldicott - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:06:33 -0800 (PST) From: Clayton Ramey Subject: (abolition-usa) Something fun to read while you're in the trenches, furiously fighting against the ruling (cl) asses - --=====================_917558236==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > - --=====================_917558236==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="CLINTON2.TXT" The First draft of President Clinton's State of the Union Address, announcing the historic NATIONAL HAMBURGER INITIATIVE >> >>Good evening, my fellow Americans, and Sammy Sosa, too: >> >>I'm pleased to address you tonight, and to reassure you that the State of our Union is strong- provided, of course, that we keep it a Union, and that none of you entertain the idea that those folks in Puerto Rico will ever get to become something other than a colo.. that is, a Commonwealth. >> >>With the help of Vice President Gore- a man of the people, a man of dynamism, vision and humor, who, contrary to some opinions is not nearly as stiff as former President Richard Nixon is right now- I'm pleased to announce a revolutionary initiative that will propel our great nation to new heights, more vitality, and the good, solid, meat-driven aggression that makes us the only superpower in the world This great and revolutionary federal initiative is the National Hamburger Initiative, or the N.H.I. >> Beginning in June, 1999, and for a period of not less than twenty years, our great government, bolstered by a budget surplus of billions of your income tax dollars, will subsidize the purchase of unlimited hamburgers and french fries, available at absolutely no cost to every American citizen over the age of 10 !! ( Proof of citizenship will be required). That's right- FREE BURGERS! And I'm pleased to further announce that, in keeping with our record levels of military spending and even more spending than the Pentagon is willing to ask for, we're going to devote all of our excess Pentagon appropriation to free and unlimited milk shakes, and those cute little apple pie things, for our fighting men and women- and even our fighting men who fight women-as a small token of our national esteem for these brave troops, especially those who risk their very lives to push those buttons that send those brave cruise missiles that blow up all of those bad hospitals and grain silos and water treatment plants in the land of that treacherous and very bad guy, Saddam. >> >>Yes, my fellow Americans. Burgers are good. Burgers are American. They make people happy. Our wondrous technology can grow a cow on hormones and food additives, kill her, grind her up, and make a product that any American would be proud to consume. The whole free world loves our hamburgers. As most of you can tell, I love 'em too. >> >>But our enemies hate hamburgers. And that makes hamburgers even better. Just think about it, my fellow Americans: There are no burger joints in downtown Baghdad or Pyongyang, or even in Havana. That must tell you that God is on our side in this great venture. >> >>And think of the economic benefits to all Americans when this plan is fully implemented! Millions more cows will need to be raised to supply the demand for this beef- and the big cattle ranchers will profit. Millions more acres of potatoes will need to be planted - and the big farmers will profit. Millions and millions of extra gallons of gasoline will be needed to fuel the trucks that speed these beef burgers-well, at least partially beef- to your designated food outlets. And the big oil companies ... well, you get the picture. >> But just as important, our National Hamburger I initiative will create JOBS! Yes, we calculate that at least 5 million new jobs, all at a pay scale that's absolutely not less than minimum wage, will be created as a result of this tax-subsidized program. Jobs for inner city kids, jobs for unemployed white kids from rural America, jobs for Native American kids on reservations, jobs for seniors who are tired of eating cat food ( and FREE burgers for them, too)... even jobs for our record number of incarcerated citizens. These jobs, of course, will be far below minimum wage. But after all, they are in jail, aren't they? >> >>Jobs. Food. Happiness. And all from those surplus tax dollars that you've been faithfully sending in to out Treasury department, each and every year. >> >>Now before we go on, I want to acknowledge that all of you may not be pleased with plan. You vegetarians, for one, won't want to eat the burgers. You Jews and Muslims won't be too thrilled, either, because we'll be adding.. well, pork- into the meat mix to keep the pig farmers happy about this little gift to our beloved citizens. And you environmental extremists who keep babbling about animal waste in your drinking water, huge amounts of grain for animal feed, and hormones in the meat supply.. well, too bad. But you can be good, loyal Americans by just eating the fries. Just go along with us on this one, OK? OK. >> >>Yes, we'll be bigger and fatter as a nation. Yes, the rate of cardiovascular disease in America will undoubtedly go up. Yes, our health care system, for those of you who can afford it, may be under a little more pressure to treat those extra cases of illness. >> >>But this great National Hamburger Initiative will make us a happier nation. And a happy nation is a good thing, especially when, after all, when you getting it for FREE. >> >>But there is one final thing that I must tell you. After extensive consultation with my economic advisors, my administration has concluded that we owe it to you, our taxpayers, to distribute this free food in the most cost effective way possible. So we have decided that a subsidiary of a.. umm.. Japanese corporation- Mitsubishi will be responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the outlets for the National Hamburger Initiative. We understand that corporations like Burger King and McDonalds may suffer from, well, some temporary market pressure, since they'll be trying to sell something that your government will be giving away for free But them, as they say, is the breaks of our marvelous free enterprise system. Or is it our free enterprise-government subsidy system? Or our monopoly capitalist system? I dunno. But sorry, anyway. >> So I conclude, my fellow Americans, with this prayer: May the God of American Free Enterprise and Abundant Fat Caloric Intake bless us in this noble venture, May he strengthen those who defend our shores from the military threat of Cuban and Iraqi and Libyan nuclear weapons. May he bless those noble immigrant folk who toil in our fields, almost for free, to put huge quantities of meat on our tables. >> Moni..I mean, Hillary, and I, wish all of you, happy, happy, eating, and we thank you, again, for the tax dollars that will make this enterprise the envy of all human civilization. >> >>Good evening. God bless you all. 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