Save the TV Show Futurama 92,817, Return CDR Scott Speicher 1,415

Petition Online ^ | March 22, 2002 | Nikki Mendicino

[Slam]

Unbelievable.

Please tell me what we have to do to get 60,000 Freepers involved?

Here is an authentic email from Scott's niece...dare you to check out it's authenticity.

At the least drop Mary a line.

From: Mary Cunningham Mary.Cunningham2@aventis.com
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:13 AM

Subject: Please make one phone call for my uncle!

This e-mail is to ask for your help regarding my uncle, Navy Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher.

Scott was shot down over Iraq while serving our country on January 17, 1991. Soon thereafter Scott was listed as KIA (Killed In Action) by the U.S. Government. Over the following ten years enough evidence was gathered, including the recovery of Scott's intact plane and flight suit in the Iraqi desert, that the U.S. Government changed Scott's status from KIA to MIA (Missing in Action) in January 2001.

Recently, compelling new evidence has come from Dutch and British intelligence services suggesting that Scott did, in fact, eject safely from his plane and is today being held by the Iraqis as a Prisoner of War. Yet Washington politics has still prevented our government from doing everything possible on Scott's behalf.

Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas is leading the charge to help Scott, but we need your help also. The National Alliance of Families has declared the next seven days as "Bring Scott Speicher Home Week".

I am asking each one of you to please call the White House message line at 202-456-1414 and demand that POW/MIA Michael Scott Speicher be brought home. Just a brief phone call.

Before you delete this e-mail please ask yourself whether a few minutes of your time in making this call is more valuable than Scott's service to his country over the last eleven years, and that of his wife and children, now ages 12 and 14.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Mary

[Arioch7]

This is very important people. I am almost starting to feel ashamed at this forum.

Lets get that guy HOME!!!

[Arioch7]

Another punt just for kicks! :D

[Timesink]

I interpret this as Futurama fans being stupid enough to believe anything filled out at Petition Online will have one iota of success, whereas Freepers are smart enough to know it's a waste of time where people like to sign their names as Ben Dover and Hillary Clinton.

[Arioch7]

So... you are doing something more worthwhile like calling the whitehouse?

Look, I am not a gullible person and I realize that online petitions are not the greatest tool in the world.

They do look a lot better with more signatures though.

I will also point out that the FreeRepublic ALWAYS slams Dem polls and they do it by the tens of thousands. Is it more worthy to slam Dems online then to ask for the return of our pilot?

God, it takes two seconds. Also, Slam put quite a few links in his article and you can write letters, call do whatever you like. If you all just bumped the previous thread, you could read about EVERYTHING going on about this situation and how to participate if need be.

Instead of basking in the glow of your superiority comapred to us simple folk maybe you should just try caring a little bit. Is that so hard?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Mary, ping the Admin. moderator and ask him/her to change the title, or repost with the real title. Freepers will most definitely sign this petition.

[Arioch7]

I bump the actual title several times a day. I am thinking of letting the business run on auto-pikot and bumping it every damn second! Just kidding, but I do bump it.

[Slam]

Thanks. Count me as enlightened.

[Slam]

For the last two days I have run it straight. Tried it out "of the box" to see how it would "play." I respect you very much and will run it straight tomorrow...so we shall see.

A good, concerned, active American started that petition with only the best of intentions.

And she did so without any fear whatsoever of paranoid cynics.

[Slam]

Check your Freepmail wildman.

[Snow Bunny]

I agree with your post Ragtime Cowgirl.Good idea.

Hi Slam and Ragtime Cowgirl.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"I interpret this as Futurama fans being stupid enough to believe anything filled out at Petition Online will have one iota of success, whereas Freepers are smart enough to know it's a waste of time where people like to sign their names as Ben Dover and Hillary Clinton."

Timesink, if it were not for the Petition Online petitions the farmers in Klamath would not be getting their water next month and the WTC statue would have been made to some PC concerns.
There is a reason Jim Robinson links to Petition Online Petitions on the front page of FR.
They Work!

[Slam]

Bingo. Graci.

Additionally, anyone with internet access and a basic understanding of english can see what they might perceive is really important to Americans.

Then based on cultural orientation (a reference plane, uh which may be different from ours) may possibly think about it, compare, contrast and then conclude...

...hopefully don't decide that we are satanic idol (the TV) worshiping infidels that value entertainment and fantasy over the lives of real life heroes (martyrs).

What is mostly apparent is that a lot of folks (crazy or not) take the time to go to that site....and express themselves by name.

[strela]

I've read this post repeatedly, but must be having a brain freeze or something. Maybe somebody can help me understand ...

What does a cartoon have to do with this US POW?

[Slam]

Nah. Not your fault. Mine. A point is sometimes only as good as it is taken. My poorly made point is that more people are voting to save a televison show than to save or demand accountabilty for an American hero.

Weak attempt to incite interest in what I feel may be one of the most important issues out there. I will repost it later today after a little Gulf kayaking, a good cigar and some awesome Pyrat rum...and I will feel guilty and thankful because its folks like Scott who pay for my right to recreation just wish he was enjoying himself too...?

Thanks for stopping by. Send Mary an email and tell her you support her.

[strela]

I understand now - thanks for the explanation. Sometimes you have to use a bigger 2 x 4 on the more thick-headed mules such as myself.

Email proudly sent.

[Arioch7]

Bump!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Ping. Thanks for your efforts. Some petitions have been bumped and promoted for weeks, so you aren't alone. We all want our POW home, but I would recommend you clarify your headline for Freepers quickly scanning the latest posts. Most probably see "Futurama" and skip your thread because, unlike most Americans, we aren't so obsessed by TV.

[Slam]

Thank you. Will do.

[Slam]

Done as you suggested. Thank you.

For the Return of Commander Michael Scott Speicher, Day 8