CompuServe Messages

Dear John, I love the episodes of the Freedom Fighter living on the edge of cyberspace. Your creativity and humor is a blessing. Let's channel it wisely. This whole split looks like it was a contrived deceit. Where do you guys find the time to generate so many messages? Kennedy climbed all over me for doing what you guys have been doing more recently as a group. You babel on like madmen. The charter has never been ratified. And the vote on the survey meant nothing, considering there was no authentification of the identities of the voters. What is called for is organized leadership. The way you guys have been carrying on, I'd have trouble following you anywhere. There are enough weird things happening in this world. Let's provide a focus, okay? We can clear up a lot of the confusion and concerns about commercialism. But we have to act as a team. A person should not be denied an opportunity to make money in this world. This world functions on the distribution and redistribution of wealth. We all need to keep the lights on. As an example, and perhaps only because it was on A&E as I typed these words, Pope John Paul has made $8 million from the sales of his book. He has donated that money to charity. The program was ending and I changed the channel. I landed on CNBC. There was Charles Grodin, whose style I've compared with Kennedy's. Grodin was talking about his new book, "We're ready for you Mr. Grodin." He explained in a couple of lines what the book was about… and then in all earnest, Grodin said that if he made any money off of the book, he would donate it to helping the homeless. He said, "I'm serious," and humorously referred to Paul Newman's line of spaghetti sauce. He pointed out that Newman, too, donates proceeds from his products to charities. Ross Perot is an example of another person who has spent a personal fortune trying to address injustice and correct the worlds ills. His work on behalf of education, veterans, prisoners of war, and in the political realm is indicative of a person who cares and is willing to share. These are right minded thinkers. I want to work with these kinds of people. Not pirates who hoard, while others suffer. "Thou shall not covet," says Charlton Heston, to Charles Grodin, in the interview that continues in the background. Grodin is humorously badgering Heston about his role in the movie, "The Ten Commandments." "Thou shall not kill," Heston replies to another of Grodin's questions. We are distributors of information. Knowledge is empowerment. Collectively, working as a team, we are powerful. "God can wear a sandwich board too," continues Grodin. Sheryl Crowe is on tv now. She's talking about how she and other female rockers have banded together to address the problem of breast cancer in women. Oh. Oh. Now the Red Hot Chili Peppers are singing, Give it away, give it away, give it away now. Give it away, give it away, give it away now….. Great Works Are Being Done. And There Is Great Work For Us To Do. Let's Get Busy. Kevin -= A grain of sand =-