Good Friday Morning, Bob.
Now all we need are some good answers. Answers are always the stickler.
As for your feelings about being a White Man, I can only tell you what
I feel about my Whiteness. I had no control, no say in the color of
the skin I was born in. Nor did I pick my parents or the economic
status in which I found myself. Indeed, my parents turned out to be
ammeters in the profession of child rearing. Yet, they did something
that many of my friends parents failed to do. They challenged me to
think for myself.
So many of my school chums had their lives laid out for them. These
were children of up coming mid management fathers and stay-at-home
mothers. They went dutifly off to Yale and Stanford and USC and even
a few headed for Harvard. Their expenses were paid for by their
loving parents. But they were never allowed to deal with the real
world.
Because my parents expected me to explore and experience the world, I
tried many things that other children around me did not have the
opportunity to do. Some of these experiences were not open for
discussion here. But many of them, actually all of them, had a part
in my becoming who I am today. As well as who I might be in ten
years...other than 91.
I tried being a Democrat, and finally decided that this organization
did not have my best interests at heart. I immersed myself in
Religion, despite my dad's anguish, and found that Religion raised far
more questions than could be answered, and demanded blind Faith.
Having had two parents who not only brought me into this world, but
brought me in with a brain, I finally had to toss in the towel and
admit that blind Faith did not fit with an exploring curiosity.
Later, as a blind man, I embraced the National Federation of the
Blind, only to finally find that the leaders were as demanding of
blind Faith as had been the Church.
Since weening myself from the Democratic Party, I have not been able
to embrace any organized political party.
But the bottom line is this, Bob. I am proud to be Carl Jarvis...a
work in progress. I do not apologize to anyone, let alone to myself,
for the many mistakes and miss assumptions I have made as I explored
life. All that exists is open to question. I do not believe in any
absolutes, so far as Man's rules and laws and dogma is concerned. The
one absolute I do accept is that one day I will no longer exist. So
while I'm here, I plan to never waste my time feeling guilty or
ashamed over who I am or what I've done to become the person I am.
And that, my good friend, is the short version.
Carl Jarvis
On 9/1/16, Bob Hachey <bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Carl,
Excellent questions.
Frankly, there are times, (and it's happening more often recently, when I'm
almost ashamed to be a White American.
Bob Hachey
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 11:26 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Wanna-Be Presidential Assassin Hinkley Goes
Free, Leonard Peltier Left to Rot and Die in Prison
If only Leonard Peltier were the only political prisoner wrongly accused and
convicted and left to rot.
I was born White, through no fault of my own, and raised in a day and place
where most everybody around me was White. It is very hard for a young child
to think in terms of living a privileged life. Especially a White Child who
is raised in near poverty while living in an affluent community. Still, I
took for granted that I could go out and hire onto many jobs. I could
attend the University of Washington without ever wondering why so many
People of Color were missing.
Even after I became blind, I attended a training center for the blind, and
never noticed that there were only two persons of color attending with me, a
native Alaskan and a Chinese American woman.
How could I even begin to understand that my life was set in place by White
Racists who made certain that the laws and privileges were there to be
enjoyed by other White Racists?
It has taken a lifetime for me to begin to understand, and to make sense out
of the world I accidentally entered back in 1935. How do I know if I've
been successful in becoming rid of my Racist conditioning, when I still
travel through Life as a White man? And how do I begin to "educate" those
others around me, when they are contented to live as one of the privileged?
Carl Jarvis
On 8/31/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Excerpt: "This is a clear example of the dual standard of justice when
it comes to American Indians versus non-Indian people. And here we
have a man, Hinckley, who was an obvious attempted assassin: they
caught him in the act.
And we have the contrast of Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison 40
years, 10 more years than Hinckley, and they've never convicted him of
the actual shooting."
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist and member of the
American Indian Movement (AIM). Here he is pictured in prison. (photo:
Unknown)
Wanna-Be Presidential Assassin Hinkley Goes Free, Leonard Peltier Left
to Rot and Die in Prison By Dennis J Bernstein, Reader Supported News
31 August 16
AIM founder Bill Means talks about our racist double standard Once
again, the bold expression of American racism and the racist double
standard of the U.S. justice system send shock waves through the
Native American community. In early August, John Hinckley Jr., who
came an inch or two away from assassinating President Ronald Reagan
and his press secretary, James Brady, was released in an act of mercy,
so that the man who managed to put a few bullets in the beloved 40th
president of the United States was able to return home to his mother,
now terminally ill and dying, according to public reports.
"I'm very glad this happened after Mrs. Reagan passed on," said Ed
Rollins, campaign manager for Reagan's re-election bid in 1984.
Rollins suggested that Nancy Reagan might have been a little bit upset
had she learned that the person who nearly killed her husband, and
devastated - left wounded for life - his former press secretary, was
shown mercy by the Obama Justice Department.
Upset would definitely not cut it when it comes to the outrage native
leaders in the U.S. have expressed about the treatment of Leonard
Peltier, whose health is failing. I spoke to Bill Means about the
mercy granted Hinckley and the dual standard of justice when it comes
to Native Americans, like Peltier, who has now spent over 40 years in
jail based on what many feel was a travesty of justice - a trial
wrought with injustice, fatal breaches of his civil rights, false
testimony, and massive intimidation of witnesses brought forth by the
defense.
"They said Orlando was the largest massacre in the history of the
United States," Means told me in a recent radio interview. "That shows
you how much the Americans have forgotten about their own history,
that we have had countless massacres, including Sand Creek, including
Wounded Knee."
Bill Means is a co-founder of the American Indian Movement, also known
as AIM, and sits on the board of the American Indian Treaty Council.
Dennis Bernstein spoke with Means in Rosebud, South Dakota.
Dennis Bernstein: Welcome back to Flashpoints, Bill Means. Well, John
Hinckley Jr. is free to go, and Leonard Peltier is still being tortured.
Double standard?
Bill Means: Yes! This is a clear example of the dual standard of
justice when it comes to American Indians versus non-Indian people.
And here we have a man, Hinckley, who was an obvious attempted
assassin: they caught him in the act. And we have the contrast of
Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison
40 years, 10 more years than Hinckley, and they've never convicted him
of the actual shooting. He was convicted of aiding and abetting. The
FBI admitted in court that they don't know who shot the FBI agents.
So we have this type of evidence that continues to burn the conscience
of the justice system of America where it says that all people have
equal access to due process, etc. However, we see a man like Hinckley
who actually shot a president - I don't know if you could put a price
on a president versus two FBI agents - but first of all you have to
realize the circumstances of Peltier not being convicted of actually
shooting the agents. The evidence itself in the two cases is totally
opposite, in terms of the shooter and the conviction of the shooter.
We have Leonard Peltier sitting in jail for 40 years, for a crime he
didn't commit, and we have Hinckley, who shot a president of the
United States plus his press secretary by the name of Brady, I
believe, who has been in a wheelchair since that time. Also, we have
the only substantial firearms reform law, called the Brady Bill, as a
result of the shootings. The after-effects even touched something that
all our school shootings, or assassinations, or various types of gun
violence hasn't affected, because of the tremendous lobbying power of
the NRA. And here we have the Brady Bill, which stands as a living
monument to Brady, the press secretary of Reagan who was shot. So you
have all these extenuating circumstances which show again the racism
and the double standard of justice when it applies to American Indian
prisoners.
DB: We also have to say a word or two about how unbelievably corrupt
and questionable the government's case was. And the behavior of the
FBI. Could you just remind us of a little bit of that, Bill? Because
we know that Hinckley got a fair trial.
Means: Well of course in Leonard Peltier's trial there was evidence
presented at several appeals, in which he was ... his witnesses, in
terms of the prosecution, some of whom were mentally ill and coerced
into saying ...
and later these people, witnesses they used against Peltier, in his
case, later recanted their story. And then we have the idea that the
FBI agents themselves, every time he comes up for parole, send letters
into the U.S.
federal parole board, which doesn't exist anymore. But they have
mounted several campaigns in the past, even as far as marching visibly
in front of the Supreme Court, when his case made it to the Supreme
Court.
So we have this active protest by FBI agents against the release of
Leonard Peltier, every time even the thought comes up. But yet we have
Hinckley, who's been convicted, and nobody from the FBI says anything,
at least not yet. So again, when the evidence was overwhelmingly ...
you know there were so many contradictions.
There was one case that went to the Supreme Court that involved the
weapon that was used. It turns out that this famous FBI lab, which has
been used to convict many people charged with a crime by the FBI,
well, their evidence was corrupt. And even they said that they were
allowed to use this evidence that this was the gun that killed the
agents when it turned out, in court, that it was impossible, that the
firing pin evidence didn't match. And so they used, in order to sway
the jury, false evidence. And there's many, many other examples, if
you read up a little bit on the Leonard Peltier case, even his
extradition from Canada, where they used false testimony and coerced
testimony to bring him back across the border. Several federal judges,
including in Canada and in the U.S., have indicated that Peltier
should have at least gotten a new trial, based on the evidence not
based on coerced testimony, false testimony, and manipulation of the
evidence.
DB: Bill, this has got to go into the extreme racism file when there's
sort of like "red lives don't matter, white lives are exalted," even
if they're people who tried to kill the president of the United
States. I mean, the standard here, the dual standard here ... this is
sort of consistent with the fact that this is the government that
committed genocide against the Indian people. And this setup of
Leonard Peltier is in the context that you were a part of, the first
time ever in modern history that the indigenous community stood up at
Wounded Knee. So this is that ongoing 40-year lesson, right?
Continuing lesson, to the Native American community, the indigenous
community: "We will do whatever it takes to shut your ass down." I'm
really amazed at this one. Your thoughts on that part of it.
Means: Well, of course, we have in the case of the Black Lives Matter,
and the issue of what happened in Orlando, Florida, in the nightclub,
so many people were killed. They said Orlando was the largest massacre
in the history of the United States. That shows you how much the
Americans have forgotten about their own history. We have had
countless massacres, including Sand Creek, including Wounded Knee,
including many, many others, throughout the continental United States,
where masses of Indians ... We have a grave on our reservation, seven
miles from my home community, at a little hamlet called Wounded Knee,
in which over 300 men, women and children are still buried, in a mass
grave. Same with the Cheyenne people, when they were attacked by a
Methodist minister acting as a military leader - his name was Colonel
Chivington - down in Colorado.
So we have this history that's very well documented, and very well known.
Matter of fact, at Wounded Knee they gave away, I believe, over 20
Medals of Honor for the massacre of our people. So this is kind of
like the extreme method of racism, of perpetrating the lie of the
history of America.
And now we have Hinckley being released, and then we have this idea in
the Black Lives Matter movement, and all these other various killings,
they've pushed aside the evidence about Indian people's history, and
how many of our people have been massacred throughout the years. And
so it's just ... it's just an insult to the intelligence of the
American Indian that this could go on in this day and age.
DB: And, of course, there's the ongoing oppression, the ongoing
racism, the economic racism, the kind of racism that continues to be
practiced against Indians, Indians on their land, their land being
stolen, their children being stolen. You were a part of bringing the
United Nations to the communities in North America, on the
reservations, where literally the representatives were weeping, based
on the conditions, and this is the sort of the real underside of this
story.
Means: Yes, it is. Because throughout the involvement of the
International Indian Treaty Councils since 1974 at the United Nations,
we have continued to document the poverty-stricken condition of Indian
people, the violation of treaty rights, the violation of human rights,
and we finally got passed in 2007 what's called The Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous People, in which the United Nations finally
recognized Indians as humans. So it took us
30 years working at the U.N. just to allow the United Nations, in
opposition to the United States by the way, to pass a basic standard
of human rights for indigenous people all over the world.
What happened here, in this country, to indigenous people, has indeed
happened around the world, in terms of human rights, in terms of the
avarice and greed for the minerals that are on indigenous peoples'
lands, worldwide.
This little, small act of releasing infamy brings up all these various
histories of indigenous people around the world, where indigenous
peoples have been persecuted, murdered, buried in mass graves, and nobody
cares.
But yet they can release this one man, Hinckley, who actually shot the
president of the United States, and act as if it was a misdemeanor. Or
as if he were some type of mentally ill person, which gave him a
reason to shoot people. So this is probably the ultimate miscarriage
of justice in the history of U.S. jurisprudence.
DB: And to be very clear, Leonard Peltier was part of a movement to
resist the oppression, the racism, and the slaughter that has finally
been recognized by the world through the United Nations. So that is at
the heart of the matter of why they have to keep a leader, an exalted
leader, who means a great deal to his people, in jail like a criminal.
And it's clearly a political act of injustice, wouldn't you say, Bill?
Means: Well, I think throughout the history of this country when
people have stood up, especially Indian people, they have been
immediately criminalized and treated as sub-standard human beings.
Remember, the largest mass hanging in the history of the United States
was 38 of our Lakota people in Manteno, Minnesota, in 1862. We could
go into atrocity after atrocity to show how the United States has
continued to use Peltier as an example to all people that Indian
resistance will not be tolerated. And they don't even have a case as
strong as against Hinckley.
They don't have a case with the evidence to give him ... they're
scared to give him a new trial, first of all. But he has served more
than any other federal prisoner in the modern history of the United
States. So I think he has suffered enough. It's time for a little
humanity. That's the reason they're releasing Hinckley, they said in
the press, to be with his mother who is very ill, at the end of her
time on this earth. But what about Leonard Peltier? They have a chance
to redeem themselves through the president of the United States
offering clemency. Of course this one act can not redeem the history
of the United States' treatment towards Indians, but at least let the
man who served longer than any other Indian in history, or for that
matter most federal prisoners, who don't even serve half his sentence.
The average time that a federal prisoner given life serves is between
16 and 18 years. And now we have him doing 40 years only because he's
an Indian. What has to be brought out is the injustice and the dual
standard of justice, because Leonard Peltier deserves to be with his
family for the rest of what little life he has left.
________________________________________
Dennis J Bernstein is the executive producer of Flashpoints,
syndicated on Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of a 2015 Pillar
Award for his work as a journalist whistleblower. He is most recently the
author of Special Ed:
Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
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Wanna-Be Presidential Assassin Hinkley Goes Free, Leonard Peltier Left
to Rot and Die in Prison By Dennis J Bernstein, Reader Supported News
31 August 16
AIM founder Bill Means talks about our racist double standard nce
again, the bold expression of American racism and the racist double
standard of the U.S. justice system send shock waves through the
Native American community. In early August, John Hinckley Jr., who
came an inch or two away from assassinating President Ronald Reagan
and his press secretary, James Brady, was released in an act of mercy,
so that the man who managed to put a few bullets in the beloved 40th
president of the United States was able to return home to his mother,
now terminally ill and dying, according to public reports.
"I'm very glad this happened after Mrs. Reagan passed on," said Ed
Rollins, campaign manager for Reagan's re-election bid in 1984.
Rollins suggested that Nancy Reagan might have been a little bit upset
had she learned that the person who nearly killed her husband, and
devastated - left wounded for life - his former press secretary, was
shown mercy by the Obama Justice Department.
Upset would definitely not cut it when it comes to the outrage native
leaders in the U.S. have expressed about the treatment of Leonard
Peltier, whose health is failing. I spoke to Bill Means about the
mercy granted Hinckley and the dual standard of justice when it comes
to Native Americans, like Peltier, who has now spent over 40 years in
jail based on what many feel was a travesty of justice - a trial
wrought with injustice, fatal breaches of his civil rights, false
testimony, and massive intimidation of witnesses brought forth by the
defense.
"They said Orlando was the largest massacre in the history of the
United States," Means told me in a recent radio interview. "That shows
you how much the Americans have forgotten about their own history,
that we have had countless massacres, including Sand Creek, including
Wounded Knee."
Bill Means is a co-founder of the American Indian Movement, also known
as AIM, and sits on the board of the American Indian Treaty Council.
Dennis Bernstein spoke with Means in Rosebud, South Dakota.
Dennis Bernstein: Welcome back to Flashpoints, Bill Means. Well, John
Hinckley Jr. is free to go, and Leonard Peltier is still being tortured.
Double standard?
Bill Means: Yes! This is a clear example of the dual standard of
justice when it comes to American Indians versus non-Indian people.
And here we have a man, Hinckley, who was an obvious attempted
assassin: they caught him in the act. And we have the contrast of
Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison
40 years, 10 more years than Hinckley, and they've never convicted him
of the actual shooting. He was convicted of aiding and abetting. The
FBI admitted in court that they don't know who shot the FBI agents.
So we have this type of evidence that continues to burn the conscience
of the justice system of America where it says that all people have
equal access to due process, etc. However, we see a man like Hinckley
who actually shot a president - I don't know if you could put a price
on a president versus two FBI agents - but first of all you have to
realize the circumstances of Peltier not being convicted of actually
shooting the agents. The evidence itself in the two cases is totally
opposite, in terms of the shooter and the conviction of the shooter.
We have Leonard Peltier sitting in jail for 40 years, for a crime he
didn't commit, and we have Hinckley, who shot a president of the
United States plus his press secretary by the name of Brady, I
believe, who has been in a wheelchair since that time. Also, we have
the only substantial firearms reform law, called the Brady Bill, as a
result of the shootings. The after-effects even touched something that
all our school shootings, or assassinations, or various types of gun
violence hasn't affected, because of the tremendous lobbying power of
the NRA. And here we have the Brady Bill, which stands as a living
monument to Brady, the press secretary of Reagan who was shot. So you
have all these extenuating circumstances which show again the racism
and the double standard of justice when it applies to American Indian
prisoners.
DB: We also have to say a word or two about how unbelievably corrupt
and questionable the government's case was. And the behavior of the
FBI. Could you just remind us of a little bit of that, Bill? Because
we know that Hinckley got a fair trial.
Means: Well of course in Leonard Peltier's trial there was evidence
presented at several appeals, in which he was ... his witnesses, in
terms of the prosecution, some of whom were mentally ill and coerced
into saying ...
and later these people, witnesses they used against Peltier, in his
case, later recanted their story. And then we have the idea that the
FBI agents themselves, every time he comes up for parole, send letters
into the U.S.
federal parole board, which doesn't exist anymore. But they have
mounted several campaigns in the past, even as far as marching visibly
in front of the Supreme Court, when his case made it to the Supreme
Court.
So we have this active protest by FBI agents against the release of
Leonard Peltier, every time even the thought comes up. But yet we have
Hinckley, who's been convicted, and nobody from the FBI says anything,
at least not yet. So again, when the evidence was overwhelmingly ...
you know there were so many contradictions.
There was one case that went to the Supreme Court that involved the
weapon that was used. It turns out that this famous FBI lab, which has
been used to convict many people charged with a crime by the FBI,
well, their evidence was corrupt. And even they said that they were
allowed to use this evidence that this was the gun that killed the
agents when it turned out, in court, that it was impossible, that the
firing pin evidence didn't match. And so they used, in order to sway
the jury, false evidence. And there's many, many other examples, if
you read up a little bit on the Leonard Peltier case, even his
extradition from Canada, where they used false testimony and coerced
testimony to bring him back across the border. Several federal judges,
including in Canada and in the U.S., have indicated that Peltier
should have at least gotten a new trial, based on the evidence not
based on coerced testimony, false testimony, and manipulation of the
evidence.
DB: Bill, this has got to go into the extreme racism file when there's
sort of like "red lives don't matter, white lives are exalted," even
if they're people who tried to kill the president of the United
States. I mean, the standard here, the dual standard here ... this is
sort of consistent with the fact that this is the government that
committed genocide against the Indian people. And this setup of
Leonard Peltier is in the context that you were a part of, the first
time ever in modern history that the indigenous community stood up at
Wounded Knee. So this is that ongoing 40-year lesson, right?
Continuing lesson, to the Native American community, the indigenous
community: "We will do whatever it takes to shut your ass down." I'm
really amazed at this one. Your thoughts on that part of it.
Means: Well, of course, we have in the case of the Black Lives Matter,
and the issue of what happened in Orlando, Florida, in the nightclub,
so many people were killed. They said Orlando was the largest massacre
in the history of the United States. That shows you how much the
Americans have forgotten about their own history. We have had
countless massacres, including Sand Creek, including Wounded Knee,
including many, many others, throughout the continental United States,
where masses of Indians ... We have a grave on our reservation, seven
miles from my home community, at a little hamlet called Wounded Knee,
in which over 300 men, women and children are still buried, in a mass
grave. Same with the Cheyenne people, when they were attacked by a
Methodist minister acting as a military leader - his name was Colonel
Chivington - down in Colorado.
So we have this history that's very well documented, and very well known.
Matter of fact, at Wounded Knee they gave away, I believe, over 20
Medals of Honor for the massacre of our people. So this is kind of
like the extreme method of racism, of perpetrating the lie of the
history of America.
And now we have Hinckley being released, and then we have this idea in
the Black Lives Matter movement, and all these other various killings,
they've pushed aside the evidence about Indian people's history, and
how many of our people have been massacred throughout the years. And
so it's just ... it's just an insult to the intelligence of the
American Indian that this could go on in this day and age.
DB: And, of course, there's the ongoing oppression, the ongoing
racism, the economic racism, the kind of racism that continues to be
practiced against Indians, Indians on their land, their land being
stolen, their children being stolen. You were a part of bringing the
United Nations to the communities in North America, on the
reservations, where literally the representatives were weeping, based
on the conditions, and this is the sort of the real underside of this
story.
Means: Yes, it is. Because throughout the involvement of the
International Indian Treaty Councils since 1974 at the United Nations,
we have continued to document the poverty-stricken condition of Indian
people, the violation of treaty rights, the violation of human rights,
and we finally got passed in 2007 what's called The Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous People, in which the United Nations finally
recognized Indians as humans. So it took us
30 years working at the U.N. just to allow the United Nations, in
opposition to the United States by the way, to pass a basic standard
of human rights for indigenous people all over the world.
What happened here, in this country, to indigenous people, has indeed
happened around the world, in terms of human rights, in terms of the
avarice and greed for the minerals that are on indigenous peoples'
lands, worldwide.
This little, small act of releasing infamy brings up all these various
histories of indigenous people around the world, where indigenous
peoples have been persecuted, murdered, buried in mass graves, and nobody
cares.
But yet they can release this one man, Hinckley, who actually shot the
president of the United States, and act as if it was a misdemeanor. Or
as if he were some type of mentally ill person, which gave him a
reason to shoot people. So this is probably the ultimate miscarriage
of justice in the history of U.S. jurisprudence.
DB: And to be very clear, Leonard Peltier was part of a movement to
resist the oppression, the racism, and the slaughter that has finally
been recognized by the world through the United Nations. So that is at
the heart of the matter of why they have to keep a leader, an exalted
leader, who means a great deal to his people, in jail like a criminal.
And it's clearly a political act of injustice, wouldn't you say, Bill?
Means: Well, I think throughout the history of this country when
people have stood up, especially Indian people, they have been
immediately criminalized and treated as sub-standard human beings.
Remember, the largest mass hanging in the history of the United States
was 38 of our Lakota people in Manteno, Minnesota, in 1862. We could
go into atrocity after atrocity to show how the United States has
continued to use Peltier as an example to all people that Indian
resistance will not be tolerated. And they don't even have a case as
strong as against Hinckley.
They don't have a case with the evidence to give him ... they're
scared to give him a new trial, first of all. But he has served more
than any other federal prisoner in the modern history of the United
States. So I think he has suffered enough. It's time for a little
humanity. That's the reason they're releasing Hinckley, they said in
the press, to be with his mother who is very ill, at the end of her
time on this earth. But what about Leonard Peltier? They have a chance
to redeem themselves through the president of the United States
offering clemency. Of course this one act can not redeem the history
of the United States' treatment towards Indians, but at least let the
man who served longer than any other Indian in history, or for that
matter most federal prisoners, who don't even serve half his sentence.
The average time that a federal prisoner given life serves is between
16 and 18 years. And now we have him doing 40 years only because he's
an Indian. What has to be brought out is the injustice and the dual
standard of justice, because Leonard Peltier deserves to be with his
family for the rest of what little life he has left.
Dennis J Bernstein is the executive producer of Flashpoints,
syndicated on Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of a 2015 Pillar
Award for his work as a journalist whistleblower. He is most recently the
author of Special Ed:
Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work.
Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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