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Okay Jim, here's my letter in an email to Autry. Hope it has your stamp of approval.

City of Fresno
Major Alan Autry

Mr. Autry,

As a long term citizen of Fresno and a member of the group Free Republic I can verify that Free Republic is not a hate group. I don't hate anyone.

I also invite you and anyone else to check out the website at FreeRepublic.com. Since this is an open bulletin board there are on occasion, an inappropriate comment posted onto the site. Jim Robinson has moderators that are able to delete those comments and will ban the individuals if they continue to cause problems on the site.

Due to the slanderous press release from the Human Relations Commission of the City of Fresno I demand that this group be disbanded. I also demand that the Human Relations Commission and the City of Fresno send retractions with apologies to Free Republic and to all the sources that the original news release was sent to.

I also demand that there be a complete police investigation into this whole matter. I believe that Ms. Debbie Reyes used her city position and influence for the political purpose of harassment of private citizens that disagree with her own closely held beliefs on the war with Iraq.

I am outraged that my taxes were spent to harass me because I support the President of the United States and our military personnel in the Middle East. As a female veteran who has a husband currently serving in the military it is my God given right to support our military. I believe that my First Amendment rights were violated along with everyone else that participates in our Friday night rallies.

I would like to see that Ms. Reyes is financially to be held responsible for the payment of the Fresno Police officer's salaries that were assigned to our rally. There were 2 to 3 squad cars positioned in the Blackstone/Shaw area from 5 until 7 P.M with each squad car having 2 officers. I believe that the Fresno Police Department has more valuable use for their officer's time and resources.

The group that I believe that Debbie Reyes is associated with a group called Peace Fresno. Peace Fresno has repeatedly used the Fresno Police Dept. as a tool to harass us at our Friday night rallies. We have had no recourse until now.

Thank you for your time and your stance on this issue.