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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (210319)	12/15/2001 2:40:14 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Do you think that this "media event" gives you any special insight into what is really going on in the world.?>> Yes. bia

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (210319)	12/15/2001 3:40:22 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

OT(?) FAIRBANKS ~ BILL OF RIGHTS DAY PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, our Nation and our Commonwealth were founded upon, and operate according to, certain principles regarding the basic rights of all people; and WHEREAS, in 1776, George Mason, a Virginia farmer and lawyer, recognized and identified those rights, drafting the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of Virginia; and WHEREAS, in 1789, James Madison, a Virginia representative, used the model of Virginia1s Constitution and proposed Constitutional amendments to Congress that preserved the rights of individual citizens; and WHEREAS, the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America were ratified by Congress on December 15, 1791 to identify and preserve certain inalienable rights of all people and the rights of citizenship; and WHEREAS, the Bill of Rights affirms the freedom and equality of all Americans and clearly establishes the protection of these essential human liberties as the founding basis of our Government; and WHEREAS, our forefathers and generations succeeding them to the present day have suffered and many have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend the principles laid out in the Bill of Rights; and WHEREAS, the bright history of our Commonwealth and our nation has been guided and blessed by the ideals expressed in the Bill of Rights, and their conservation is essential to a future of continued progress and prosperity for all Virginians and all Americans. NOW, THEREFORE, we, Steve M. Thompson, Mayor, City of Fairbanks; Rhonda Boyles, Mayor, Fairbanks North Star Borough; and Jeffrey Jacobson, Mayor, City of North Pole, Alaska, by virtue of the authority vested in us do hereby proclaim Saturday, December 15, 2001 as "BILL OF RIGHTS DAYî in the commonwealth of Fairbanks, and I call this observance to the attention of all our citizens. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our Hands this 10th day of December in the year of our Lord Two Thousand One. Steve M. Thompson, Mayor City of Fairbanks Rhonda Boyles, Mayor Fairbanks North Star Borough Jeffrey Jacobson, Mayor City of North