Update: This makes us sound looney

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In the not too distant future, when you are standing in line to receive your “Mark of the Beast” tattoo and microchip, scratching the lesions on your arms to remove the fabric-like fibers caused by the Morgellon’s disease caused by the genetically modified food being fed you, and contemplating your next 20 straight hours of slave labor, courtesy of the international bankers, I hope you’ll remember fondly those you met in the “End the Fed” movement, and how just a handful of your fellow countrymen tried to prevent what is happening to you, and just how you responded.

LOL the story reads like Homer Simpson wrote it. Let me summarize. "Hey i'm journalist what's your story? Oh never mind gotta go the crosswalk light just changed do-duh-do. Hey that guy spelled Bernanke wrong kekeke. I'll take a picture of that, that's news worthy! A DVD? Two DVDs? Really? For me? For FREE??? Well yeah I'll take 2 free DVDs what good consumer wouldn't? (Yawn) I don't have time for this. I wonder if I can get the short version on the internet? Oh yeah here we go, some short videos that's just perfect for... I wonder what the t-shirts look like? I'm tired of researching this endthefed thingy I still haven't found out a thing I guess I'll just publish it anyway."

It's articles like that, that make me cynical. Because you know aside from trying to save ourselves and our families we are trying to save these cornholes too. My liberty depends on your liberty... Everybodies liberty depends on everybody elses liberty and of course most people don't even know the meaning of the word and of course they aren't gonna stand up for you let alone themselves. So really what hope do we have? We're dealing with a siciety that thrives on it's own self-inflicted wounds.

"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."

I'm writing in response to your post, "This makes us sound looney."

I'm one of the editors at MPLSMirror.com and I'd like to clarify the goal of our on-line news magazine. It was created by my friend and former coworker, Terry Yzaguirre, to fill a void she perceived in Minneapolis' public dialogue. The MPLSMirror is a forum for news, views and opinions of ordinary people. We have maintained from the beginning that all contributions should pertain to Minneapolis in some way. On rare occasions, I've managed to convince Terry to allow me to deviate from our Minneapolis focus, but that was the exception rather than the rule.

While looking at our tracking report, Terry noticed that we were getting several visitors from Daily Paul. It didn't take me long to figure out why. I emailed Nick to alert him to the attention his work had attracted and he took it upon himself to respond to your post.

I'd like to clarify that Nick a.k.a. Mr. Pulsey, sent me his photos of "End the Fed" along with some pithy comments, after coming across the protest while biking. He told me at the time that he shot some photos and talked with some of the protesters. Nick regularly contributes photos and occasionally adds his own comments with them.

Most of our content is editorial in nature, but until that contribution, his photos had been edited into montages, so we'd never had occasion to use his observations. Other than photos, we edit very little, if at all, of our contributions. As I stated, our goal is to give voice to 'regular' people who are rarely ever heard, and Nick is no exception. We stand behind him and his work. Our writers' work is seen by thousands daily, from all over the world. I've never understood why people from Japan or Russia or even New York would be interested in Minneapolis crime and politics, which is our primary content, but they obviously are.

Let me also state for the record, I like Ron Paul's message. Given the chance, I would have voted for him. I was very disappointed when his voice was squelched during the RNC, especially when John McCain's candidacy seemed so weak and unfocused. When Ron was in town for the RNC, one of our regular contributors attended an event at the Target Center where Paul spoke. Much to my disappointment, he never wrote about it; I would like to have shared his message with our readers. I believe that Ron would approve of our mission, even though he might not agree with every view. We have no objections to anyone wishing to contribute their views on the Fed, Ron Paul or any other subject, providing it isn't slander and that it relates to Minneapolis.

I regret that anyone took Nick's work as a personal attack on their intellect, but I offer them an opportunity to articulate their viewpoint, in their own words, providing they can "make it local."

We encourage anyone wishing to contribute "news, views and opinions" pertaining to Minneapolis by emailing them to: mplsmirror@mplsmirror.com

Ray Neset
MPLSMirror.com

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