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Dear Doug, Alamo-Girl, et al,

Addressees--your screen names were pulled from some of these Skullery threads. If you want ON or OFF the ping list for the FREECARDS, please send me FREEPMAIL one way or the other.

JIM ROBINSON, What guidance, suggestions, parameters etc would you like to offer/apply/require at this time?

I'm all for that.

But I STILL BELIEVE we ALSO need to do the common 3X5 card version. I think the numbers are likely to be much greater if SOME FREEPERS can print them on their own printers etc.

For various human psychology/sociology/economic reasons, I believe SOME FREEPERS would be more likely to do that than to pay for preprented versions. But we could certainly poll on the subject.

MY goal would be MAXIMUM exposure REGARDLESS of the version. Could we agree on that?

What should the next step be?

How about calling for a team of 8-24 editors. Alamo-Girl has declined. I'm happy to be one. I prefer someone else to be in charge of the editing task. I'm happy to oversee the whole project in a casual, loose, family, more or less consensus sort of way. Perhaps someone with published experience in the political field would be best to oversee the editing/selection process, if possible.

It may be that we'd also do well to have different versions. I can imagine a TRUCKER'S version. Perhaps some other VERSIONS to have would be somewhat like CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE . . .

CHRISTIAN WOMEN
TECHIES
FARMERS
INTELLECTUALS
BLACKS
NATIVE AMERICANS
HISPANICS
ASIANS
WASPS
UNEMPLOYED
ELDERLY
COLLEGE STUDENTS
ATHEISTS/AGNOSTICS
SOUTHERNERS
NEW ENGLANDERS
CALIFORNIANS
etc.

BTW, IF this gets going as IT OUGHT TO if we do our jobs right--we may have to contend with publicity. We ought to plan that well. I would PROPOSE that none of us involved with it disclose our identities. And, that we force any media types wanting to interview us to do it by FREEPMAIL or some such. AND that we force them to be able to cite 5-8 FREEdomCARDS/FREECARDS/FREEPCARDS to earn the right to interview any of us. What you think about that?

I think that would be prudent for our sanity as well as our safety. It might be tempting to have 10 minutes of fame but I assure you it's not worth it and the hazards would definitely not be worth it.

I think later, I'll draw up some GOALS AND OBJECTVIES and a mission statement. IF YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD SUCH, PLEASE POST THEM HERE OR FREEPMAIL ME.

PLEASE PASS THIS TO WHATEVER PING LISTS and individual FREEPERS YOU THINK FITTING.

As a NAME for the cards--I THINK FREECARDS would be best. FREEPCARDS has a nice homey familiar feel to it and might do just as well. But it's a bit hard to say smoothly and quickly. BESIDES, FREEDOM IS THE POINT and FREECARDS sort of has a slight edge of emphasis on that score IMHO.

TO THOSE WHO READ THIS, PLEASE SEND ME YOUR POLL ANSWER. HONESTLY, WOULD YOU BE MORE LIKELY TO:

1) A) use preprinted cards OR B) 3X5 cards printed on your printer?

2) Approximately how many of your friends, associates, acquaintances and people in shops, on the street and on buses etc. could you REALISTICALLY IMAGINE yourself passing such cards out to?

3) Would you be interested in collecting such cards?

4) Would you be interested in buying a set of say 25, 50, 100 cards for certain high priority people in your life as education or as a collector's item? How many such people could you imagine giving a set of cards to vs an individual card?

PLEASE FWD THE POLL ANSWERS TO ME BY FREEP MAIL.

PROSPECTIVE VOLUNTEERS. If you are able to contribute small bits of time faithfully over many weeks, that's fine. Not sure a flash of 15-30 minutes one time would be worth bringing people on board for but I'm certainly not likely to be rigid on it. I just want to emphasize that IF THIS IS TO SUCCEED, WE HAVE TO TREAT IT AS A VERY SERIOUS PROJECT OF GREAT IMPORT IN BEHALF OF KEEPING SKULLERY OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE AGAIN AND HELPING TO PRESERVE THE CONSTITUTION ETC. It's not something we decide to do occasionally & half-heartedly because we're bored.

I'd also like to emphasize for Christians that prayer is more impactful than anything else we can do. Yet, this still seems exceedingly worthwhile as a contribution of putting legs to our prayers.

Wellllllllll this about sums up my added thoughts at the moment--please fwd to those FREEPERS you feel would like to be a part or know about it.

Blessings,