An Exposee about the ommissions of certain Candidates and the clearly partisan practices during the Presidential Debate. A statement that this is to assist the theft of an election and to censor free speech/free coice. A request for people to step forward with complaints, boycotts, exposees and class action lawsuits. A reprimand to the Media in general for trying to pick our next president---and American policy---for us.

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Dear ABC News:

I am a concerned citizen writing an open letter to you and the public, to remind you that it’s time for you to wake up and smell the business losses. There is a reason why people are increasingly turning to alternative news media, and it’s time for you to rethink your policies.

A) To exclude Any Candidate from the Presidential Debates is to confess your intention to underwrite American policy and to attempt to steal the election. This is a crime against the Constitution and the American people. I will put it in no softer terms than that.

It also is an unprecedented, unashamed attack on free speech. It weighs equally in the balance as an attack on free choice on the part of the American people, to choose their own favored President instead of your choice for us/them.

B) It so happens that Kucinich, who you excluded from tonight’s presidential debates (1-5-08), is the one Candidate who put impeachment back on the table. He and others who you discriminated against (such as Ron Paul) not only voted against the rise of the police state (Patriot Act), but also oppose a war declared based on criminal lies. Kucinich sought and got healthcare for the Vets when Congress was neglecting them, and contrary to the lies of the polls Kucinich is winning as much as 77% of the Democratic votes in independent polls.

Your attempt to assist the stealing of the election from the Democrats and the individual censored Candidates could not be any more clear. Your partisan bias could not be any more clear. Your agenda for war and against civil liberties is spelled out almost in stone.

Oh, and where were Gravel and Hunter during this debate? They sure weren't included by ABC "news" .

C) The reporters you rounded up to write about the campaigns of the Republican Candidates covered only four out of the six Candidates. The two Republican Candidates for whom you provided zero reporter coverage were Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.

During the entire Republican debate, the very ethical and humanely concerned Ron Paul was always asked every question last of all, and given the least amount of floor time. Your very bad judgment mistake in ostracizing those among the most ethical of all the Candidates is a bad reflection on your news entity, and is a confession of your true intentions.

The fact that your reporters covering the individual Candidacies were more of a cheer-leading team than neutral, unbiased sources of information, proves ABC to be a non-credible source of news.

D) The question you asked of the Republican Candidates which amounted to how they each could tear Obama down, is tacky, malicious and biased. I retired early so I do not know if you did the same thing during the Democratic debates: Let me assure you that I would say the same had you done that mud-slinging to a Republican Candidate.

E) Your presentation about the smuggling of nuclear devices into American ports shows you to be pro-fear and pro-war. We Americans are tired of being played like a fiddle, and especially to the tune of fear, fear, fear. Bad choice, ABC.

Are you funded by Haliburton? Do you have a pro-war agenda? Once again your credibility comes up for question, based on this presentation as followed by your querying of Democratic Candidates about their “Strong on Terror” positions. Are you playing into the typically Republican tactic of portraying Democrats as “Soft on Terror” ?

F) Any time any Candidate, of any partisanship, said anything negative---and true----about Bush or Cheney or the Administration and its policies, they were interrupted. Once again your partisan politics are obvious, and your credibility as a source of unbiased news is no longer even up for question. It is gone, in a puff of smoke.

G) Last but not least, during the Republican debates all Candidates except two---the two dignified and professional men (Romney, Paul) who you chose not to have reporters cover and whom you tried your best to leave out of the debate---behaved like a dysfunctional family of young children. Interruptions and put-downs abounded, to the extent that one could barely catch any thread of conversation, and your Master of Ceremonies participated in that dynamic a-plenty. It was a turn-off and very unprofessional: Does that build your credibility?

How dare ABC pick the next President for us, considering all that is on the line?

How dare ABC pick the next President for us, even if there was nothing on the line?

How dare you play partisan politics and call that “news” ? How smart is that, even?

ABC, it is time for me to break news to you.

We, the People are not only going to boycott you, but are a) spreading word far and wide b) are very much inclined to file a class action lawsuit against you.

No Media has any right to assist the rigging of an election; to cut out Constitutionally protected free speech of Any Candidate of Any Partisanship or Any Position and for Any Reason; to whisk away the power of choice from the people by exclusion of individuals from debate; to assist the brainwashing of a nation for personal self-gain; and to tout war without end based on profits and deaths for lies. OUR OWN KIDS are dying for these lies, and you choose to keep promoting those lies with fear, fear and more fear. Just so we can send our kids to die for more lies while we pay for that “privilege” with our tax dollars.

I am carbon copying this open letter to seven different on-line news sites, each of which are the biggest on the Web. I also am forwarding this letter to every one of the Candidates named in this letter, and to their Campaign websites. I am asking readers of this letter to send out letters to the editor everywhere, calling for boycotts, phone calls, faxes, and class action lawsuits. And I wish you luck in standing up to an entire nation of furious people.

You reap what you sow. Your choice. Your mess to clean up.

I bookend this letter with a very clear statement: Wake up and smell the business losses.

And I want to see ABC paying Kucinich, Gravel, Hunter, Paul and Romney ample financial restitution and providing them with over-abundantly extra, unbiased coverage from now until election day. Short of such restitution and extensive unbiased coverage, I want to see ABC paying the American people, en masse, restitution for the losses of lives of their kids, for the losses of civil liberties, and the losses of their power of choice. Because you have deliberately excluded the one Candidate, Kucinich, who happens to be on the morally and legally correct side of the street, for all those very serious matters above. And you have chosen to minimize the participation of others (Romney and Paul), provided zero reporter coverage for them, while also excluding two more Candidates (Gravel, Hunter) from the "news" "debate". Therefore we hold you responsible, legally, for what you illegally and unconstitutionally have chosen to censor, and for the effects of that censorship in harming the quality of American lives. Thank you, ABC “News”.

PS Dear readers, you have my permission to send this open letter to any websites and friends you wish. Please distribute widely. Use my talking points: There is no need to quote me. This is about the public best interest, and that's the sole interest here. It's about time the mainstream media "gets it" that they've got to shape up. Thank you!

Authors Bio:
This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism:

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul Revere, House of Commons