Date:

08 Sep 2001

Time:

05:14:39

Comments

I wanted to be the first to congratulate you on a great site! Best wishes and let's get those yellow ribbons going!

Rob Moitoza Seattle, Wa.

Date:

09/09/01

Time:

04:58 AM

Comments

This is a very good idea...........but we also need to put those yellow ribbons on our car or P/U antennas. If the highways of America had hundreds/thousands of cars with yellow ribbons.............the story could not be hidden. Bette Ok

Date:

09/09/01

Time:

03:50 PM

Comments

Great idea, Matilda and Kevin! What a wonderful logo. Images of America being held hostage to special interests, led by a "president" appointed by a conservative supreme court! Here's an idea: perhaps we could start a movement to tie ribbons around flagpoles (city, county, but especially federal offices) around the land. That would catch the attention of every local news outlet and perhaps grow to regional or national after a while. What do you think? Steve Francis (in South Bend, IN)

Date:

09/09/01

Time:

04:55 PM

Comments

A site for sore eyes! What a wonderful place to surf into on a Sunday afternoon. Thank you, Democratic Underground, for the link and thank you, Matilda, for the site!

Mary P. Tucson, AZ

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

12:03 AM

Comments

The yellow-ribboned flag image is worth a thousand words. Let's hope the Chimp in Chief can understand what it means.

Yours in Exile, Chris Whitehouse Hong Kong

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

01:42 AM

Comments

MagginKat was here! Nice site...will return.

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

05:33 AM

Comments

Great site - and thank you for expressing how I and many other fellow Americans feel about this surreal nightmare we are living in since our presidency was stolen by corporate, religious and ultra-right wing nut jobs. Unpresident Bush is coming to Sarasota on Tuesday and I will be protesting with "Bush stole the election". Keep up the good work - I will re-visit your site. 
Thank you Democrats.com

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

01:43 PM

Comments

I am going out to buy Yellow Ribbons today. I hope to be waving all over at my soulmates across the city of Chicago. Of course mine will be attached to my bicycle. WENDy

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

01:50 PM

Comments

Everyone should get this week's copy of Newsweek. Read the sad story of the stolen election, then put up those yellow ribbons.

Now, the Democrats would come out with some strong messages - like how the republicans are stealing our freedoms, that would help.

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

02:14 PM

Comments

Get over it, losers.

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

02:26 PM

Comments

I think this is a good idea, however I should not get my hopes up that the media will ever mention it. One must not assume that the media is unbiased, and merely hasn't seen any "good stories" yet. Bush, Scalia, Rehnquist, and all the other parties involved in the coup have been greeted by massive protests wherever they go, and these are never reported by the news. The secret service has obligingly moved these protesters out of the views of cameras, which is exactly the way the media wants it. They want pomp. They want dignity. They want patriotic zeal. Anger doesn't sell products, and they will never show it. They are more than hungry for profits, they are owned by the enemies of the people, and they are deliberately stifling all protest, because they WANT Bush to remain in power, they LIKE his ideology, and they laugh in scorn at any such idealistic hogwash as journalistic integrity and the Fourth Estate as watchdog of the government.

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

02:52 PM

Comments

I live in the most conservative county in CA. Tie a yellow ribbon to my tree or my car? It would be like identifying myself as a Jew in Nazi Germany. Write my congressman? This man is as fanatic a right-winger as they come. These people are scary.

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

04:26 PM

Comments

I like your comments and agree with most of what you say. Based on what you have on the first page of your website, you must be about the same age as my father. He passed away about eight years ago, and it is a good thing that he was not around to see what happened in December of 2000.

We are now truly living in a fascist dictatorship, with an illegally elected leader. While your idea of a yellow ribbon is moving, it will do us no good. I urge everyone who is outraged by the present administration to work feverishly to register voters and get people out to vote in the 2002 Congressional elections and the 2004 Presidential election. I plan to go door-to-door and work till I drop to get this illegitimate imposter out of the White House!

I urge every caring American to work like a dog to defeat the forces of fascism. This is our America, not theirs!

Zinsky

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

04:44 PM

Comments

Dear Matilda, I did the math, and that makes you 80 or thereabouts. I turned 60 a couple of weeks ago. I too have felt hurt, despair, frustration and general powerlessness. It's kind of late in life to lose faith in your government, for both of us.

Many thanks for your comments and ideas. I'm out the door in a little while to Wal-Mart, where I'll buy the biggest, widest spool of yellow ribbon I can find. I've forwarded your website to some like-minded friends.

Massey Lambard Foley, Alabama 

p.s. Back from WM and my ribbon's up. Right on, Matilda!

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

07:00 PM

Comments

I believe we should be using *ORANGE* ribbons (preferably neon). Yellow ribbons are already used to welcome home servicemen, so we need to differentiate our statement. I suggest orange because it is a reminder of Florida. It also has the advantage of being highly visible. Anybody agree?

Jeanne Godley-Davis

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

08:06 PM

Comments

Dear Matilda and Kevi

What about locating a source for cheap yellow ribbons (maybe even plastic, to withstand winter weather) with your website printed on them? People could order them online and any profits could go to support website maintenance. You could have a live link to the ribbon site so people could purchase them for their community and then post themselves on your site as place for locals to get the ribbons.

Great Site. Thanks for having the vision to do it!!

Feeny Lipscomb Taos, NM 87571 Feeny@allonetribe.org

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

08:51 PM

Comments

Thank You, Mike Malloy, for recommending this site. 

Paul Huntington Wds., Mich.

Date:

09/10/01

Time:

09:40 PM

Comments

BRAVO! i'm headed to walmart to buy all they have, and trust me, they have TONS!

go with the site and the philosophy!

thevodun florida

Date:

09/13/01

Time:

07:42 PM

Comments

What a terrible turn of fate that we have this horrendous terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (with far reaching waves that will affect many, many others) just when our appointed, non-democratically elected president's policies since sworn into office, have seemed an effort to alienate the majority of our allies, to enflame the middle-east by refusing to give an ear to legitimate Palestinian grievances, to side with Israel, even when they are conducting the most horrific acts against the Palestinians, and to refuse to entertain any kind of support for talks between the two until they stop the violence, is almost inviting a broader conflict to occur.

But isn't military involvement and war what his administration has hoped and worked toward before and since his election? His biggest monetary supporters were those corporations in the military/industrial complex who would reap huge profits from building the machinery for another war. In a state of war, citizens don't think about balanced budgets; only an assurance that their country will be adequately defended.

Ah, yes, the terrorists, whomever they are, have given GW Bush a huge gift. He now has real justification for increasing the military budget and rewarding his supporters with big tax-payer paid for contracts.

Let's take a look at patriotism here. I hear calls from everywhere in the press-including our ex President and Vice President--to stand behind Bush, our current and illegitimate Commander in Chief. I'm sure these two men who formerly led our country, and in whom I have more confidence than I do in our current resident, are only voicing these opinions in an effort to keep the country united. BUT I have to tell all politicians and journalists that the American people have ways of uniting against an attack, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the man currently in the Oval Office.

I disdain and disrespect the current occupant of the White House. I feel he lied and cheated to get there, and has no 'moments of conscience' that he was ushered into the office by a partisan Supreme Court vote, even though he lost the popular vote nation-wide and probably would have lost Florida if not for voting fraud and irregularities.

Anyone who can walk into such high elective office with those clouds over his head, and behave as if he has received a mandate to do whatever he wants, has a serious problem with deceit, untruthfulness and irresponsibility.

I've had a sign in my front window, put there on the day of the Supreme Court decision on Dec. 12, 2000 which reads, "W (in a circle with a single stroke cross over it)--NOT MY PRESIDENT."

I've had so many people go out of their way to tell me they liked my sign. I also have a car sign, picked up at the protest against the coronation on Jan. 20th in DC, that reads "Illegitimate Son of a Bush" I get a lot of positive comments on that as well.

Despite this call, in times of crisis, to support our president, more people should consider that we've been HAD, and that wiser minds than our pretenders' need to be at work here.

WE DIDN'T ELECT THIS GUY AS PRESIDENT; THE SUPREME COURT CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY BY 5-4, SELECTED HIM AND WIPED OUT AND NULLED MILLIONS OF VOTES FOR AL GORE IN THE PROCESS--THE VOTES THAT GAVE AL GORE A POPULAR WIN IN THIS COUNTRY OVER BUSH.

That unfair and partisan Supreme Court decision has turned this country and our democracy on its ears. Constitutionally, our Supreme Court was never given the power to decide a Presidential election. They overstepped their Constitutional bounds by becoming involved in the Florida election and interfering with that state's Supreme Court decisions.

And the saddest thing is that our Supreme Court members who ruled to stop the Florida vote recount, knew that they had no legal precedent to do so--they were inventing a one-time opinion to aid Bush in winning the decisive Florida electoral college votes.

All I can say is that the Supreme five's decision on this will live in legalistic infamy, and I can't imagine any legal historian seeing their judgment as anything but partisan.

Jo Ann Simon Camden, ME

Date:

09/14/01

Time:

07:57 AM

Comments

I guess the rule of law means nothing to people anymore. Go back and view the timeline. Go back and look at the chronology. Go back and read the statute. Understand that the Supreme court HAD step in and grant the rulings it did because we are a country of laws. The Supreme court ruled because thugs in the democratic party threatened to break the law in the full light of day and behind closed doors to steal the election. The Electoral College is the electing body in this country because it is our LAW. Men of intellect and integrity crafted these laws but If you don't like it then act as a change agent. But d don't take the common, lazy, childish, and mean spirited democratic party's modus operandi which is to attack that which is disagreeable to your wishes. Remember that the recount showed Bush to be the winner in those Florida counties, no matter how much bitching you do you can't change that. Oh, and by the way, Read a ballot before voting on it please? Ask a question or two while standing in line. If you get involved in the Process BEFORE you vote, then you are more likely to be taken seriously when you have a grievance.

Date:

09/14/01

Time:

05:01 PM

Comments

To the person who posted a comment on 9/14 (which called Democrats name after nasty name)

>Understand that the Supreme court HAD step in and grant the rulings it did because we are a country of laws.

If you truly advocate following laws, don't try to pick which ones you'd like the country to follow. As has been pointed out countless times, Florida already has a law in place to re-count ALL the votes in certain events. Remember the line, "states rights"? That's what Florida attempted to enact until the Supreme Court - in an unlawful act - stepped in and usurped the lawful authority of the State of Florida.

>The Supreme court ruled because thugs in the democratic party threatened to break the law in the full light of day and behind closed doors to steal the election.

The only THUGS in question were paid operatives from the offices of RePUBLICAN Washington DC representatives sent down to Tallahassee to disrupt the orderly, lawful procedure. The buses that transported these disrupters were paid for, rounded up, and fed by those same Republican congressmen.

>The Electoral College is the electing body in this country because it is our LAW.

And Florida has in place voting laws (that you apparently like to quote so much) to place electors in that body.

>Men of intellect and integrity crafted these laws but If you don't like it then act as a change agent.

Which I, like so many others, are doing.

>But d don't take the common, lazy, childish, and mean spirited democratic party's modus operandi which is to attack that which is disagreeable to your wishes.

Now, you've lost all credibility.

>Remember that the recount showed Bush to be the winner in those Florida counties, no matter how much bitching you do you can't change that.

That is completely untrue.

>Oh, and by the way, Read a ballot before voting on it please? Ask a question or two while standing in line. If you get involved in the Process BEFORE you vote, then you are more likely to be taken seriously when you have a grievance.

You are to be taken seriously when you stop your childish attacks on the intelligence of the American voter, when you stop your ranting and raving and quoting of such radio stars as Rush Limbaugh. Please line up your facts before you spew.

Julia Jennie Gillespie Austin, TX

Date:

09/14/01

Time:

05:03 PM

Comments

Ms. Miranda, thank you for this space. If, like the earlier writer said, you are 80, good on ya! My mother, staunch Democrat from NYC (89th street back in the 30s)

Date:

09/14/01

Time:

05:08 PM

Comments

Jo Ann linked this site at salon.com's TableTalk. Glad she did. It's good to know you're out there Matilda, and I thank you for your efforts now and in the past.

Although the horrible events of Sept. 11 still have me in a state of shock, in a way I'm still in shock from the horrible event of Dec. 12, 2000. It is appalling to have a bogus POTUS in this time of international threat. He comes across as an empty shell, with as much compassion as a wooden puppet. And now the drums are beating, and this imposter says he will "rid the world of evil." It is frightening.

Date:

09/15/01

Time:

12:56 PM

Comments

My dear friends, We have all been stunned, even numbed, by the horrendous destruction which took place in our country this week. Obviously, our "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" campaign has taken a back seat for the time being. But we will not give up on our drive to unite our country behind a movement to reclaim it from the usurpers who are presently making the decisions. The terrible aggression from without has not erased the aggression we suffered in December of last year. When the dust clears, we will continue our efforts, and we will post messages for you from time to time. Please stay in touch. 

Matilda Lipscomb

Date:

09/16/01

Time:

01:34 AM

Comments

Great Site...Unfortunately we will not be able to address these issues for a long time.

We are entering another long and most terrible war. We will probably not ever see our social security since all the Big Corporations are now beating down the door of Congress for tax handouts (guess they figure they better get theirs before we are bankrupt). This falls right in line with Treasury Sec.O'Neil and V.P. Cheney's push to eliminate corporate income tax completely. O'Neil told an International Consortium that it would be eliminated within 2 years.

Our 401K...won't see the light of day for decades.

The most educated and prosperous generation in American history has been brought to their knees and wiped out with what will be a protracted defense.

May God have mercy on our souls. Bonnie -FL

Date:

09/18/01

Time:

06:05 PM

Comments

Nice work. I worked in the U.S.A. in the Spring and Summer of year 2000 and after the initial culture shock had abated, I was continuously impressed by the friendliness of 'my' Americans, D's and R's alike. I was even more amazed at how these human gems could have built and maintained such a seemingly enslaving society, where people have to work their behinds off just to pay for the mortgage.

Now, I am not one for communism. I like making my own fortune and my own future. I don't believe in pulling the sleigh together with mentally challenged individuals, unless the cause be REALLY good, and not for long anyway. But I do believe in responsibility. I do believe in providing minimum care for those in my society who are less able than I. Because if I don't, am I not psychotic then? Uncaring? Inhuman?

I am not sure if this is what Georgie Boy meant with the trophy topic 'Compassionate Conservatism'. I would have presumed so, but obviously my English may not have been quite up to the task of grasping his meaning.

How did it go; 'Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' - or was it 'Land of the Greed and the Home of the Slave'? Frankly, I am not all that sure anymore. But it seems like Georgie Boy is.

God Bless America. If God is listening after all the grief we have caused him, that is.

Helge, Denmark

Date:

10/08/01

Time:

09:27 AM

Comments

Having just been pointed to this site, I have to say that I am impressed and we use the links that have been posted on it. We have got to get our message of sanity out there in this insane world.

Regards, Mary!

DEMOCRACY DIES, ONLY IF YOU LET IT. I CHOOSE NOT TO LET IT.

Date:

10/08/01

Time:

10:27 AM

Comments

Thank You for this wonderful sight. A very dangerous corporate coup has overthrown our U.S. Constitution. Yellow ribbons are an excellent idea, but how do we get through to a society brainwashed by a bloated and brazen crazy corporate media? Most Americans think it is unpatriotic to value the very laws of our own United States Constitution. Most Americans think that if we don't bear our muskets and rush off to kill someone that we are unpatriotic. Many Americans don't even realize how lucky we were to have experienced 8 yrs. of peace and prosperity under the last elected President of The U.S.A. In fact many seemed anxious to shed liberty and civil rights in order to accept an illegal resident, appointed by 5 corrupt judges. How do we undo the coup if our own elected Democratic representatives are too timid to resist the fascist bully pit?

Date:

10/09/01

Time:

07:08 AM

Comments

Sept. 11th 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When ? September 11th? Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America. Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal Budget Deficit September 11, 1990

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Date:

10/10/01

Time:

11:00 AM

Comments

That you for this site!! I'm so glad I have found another site and people who are watching with wide open eyes Bush and his henchmen take away our civil rights and essentially take it upon themselves to become the policemen of the world, hunting down terrorism all over the world, even if it means breaking UN International Laws, which they are doing and invading countries who have not asked for our help. How dare he..Who the heck does this dimwit think he is. Killing innocent people, both foreign and American soldiers with MY tax dollars and in MY name in a *sometimes secret war* - his wording, a war which can never be won..You cannot get every terrorist in the world and what is Bush's definition of terrorist anyway?? Anti war protestors?? People who do not back his policies?? To my American brothers and sisters who are following along like sheep, wake up before its too late!! Bush is evil, he even stated he wants a *new world order*. Those words chill me to the bone..Our forefathers who founded this wonderful country are probably spinning in their graves!! I LOVE AMERICA, I AM THE PATRIOT, I am one of thousands upon thousands trying to rein in this mad man and get America back on course..This is a wonderful site..Lets hope the censors of the illegal administration do not find a way to take it down like they have at least two others so far..Ginger

Date:

10/10/01

Time:

01:44 PM

Comments

Great site!

The only suggestion I have is printing & passing out flyers to get the message out to people that don't have computers. Even if they watch the news or read newspapers they aren't going to hear/see the truth of what's going on, for the news stations & newspapers aren't any help. They're just covering up, and I'll never understand why.

Even my representative. I sent that auto. e-mail to him about opposing Ashcroft & 5 months later I got the DUMBEST 2 page letter from him ( J. D. Heyworth (sp)) that mentioned Ashcroft & WHY he wasn't going to oppose him which made NO sense at all, which told me Heyworth does what HE wants, not what his people want. (As I had suspected, but I tried. That's why I don't remember the spelling of his name, for I have no respect for him at all!)

Yellow ribbons were to bring our servicemen home safely, weren't they?

How about a dark Grey, like we're in mourning, for we are, if they succeed in taking away our way of life - freedom - that we're used to.

That's just my 2 cents.

Date:

10/15/01

Time:

12:04 AM

Comments

Thank you for a great site, Matilda. May we all draw strength from each other, knowing that there will always be some for whom the truth must be protected and shared, at all costs.

Lisa Thomas

Date:

10/17/01

Time:

05:11 PM

Comments

I think this anthrax that is spreading around our country is from some farright such as the Religious Right or some other extreme rightwing group. The reason I think this is because they have targeted women's clinics & Democrats (that have helped women in women's issues) & I think Ben Laden is more interested in destroying our whole country. What does the rest of you think?

Date:

10/18/01

Time:

12:06 PM

Comments

To the person who wrote in about the Anthrax scare: I couldn't agree with you more!! Looks like the work of some loonies, and it's also a good way to keep people worked up about the "evildoers"...thus making sure that the present administration will be able to maintain its ridiculously high support. But we mustn't despair...sooner or later the truth WILL come out. And when it does, the Bush supporters will HAVE to see how wrong they were, whether they admit it or not.

Date:

10/19/01

Time:

01:18 AM

Comments

Thanks Kevin & Matilda for your help. I think I've finally figured things out. My daughter is having a baby possibly by tomorrow & when everything settles down I'll be putting up yellow ribbons & telling my children to do the same. So many of the Democrats that are in Congress seem to be selling us out. I hope I'm wrong as we really need them now. Sometimes I wonder if someone is putting fear in them.

Date:

10/21/01

Time:

02:19 PM

Comments

For those of you who may have doubts about the magnitude of the corporate control of the American media, I suggest you consult this URL: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/10/11/17799.html
It's a real eye-opener!!

Date:

11/14/01

Time:

07:00 PM

Comments

Isn't it interesting how the endless war we have entered and its bioterror ingredient will benefit only the arms manufacturers and drug companies,i.e. W's support base, not to mention Cheney's oil company new pipeline across Afghanistan! The surplus evaporated and now Bush wants an open checkbook like uncle Ronny had to further stick it to the people. In less than nine months our great country has gone to shit. The overvote fraud stank from day one. We were victims of the simplest and most obvious electoral fraud. How did these Gore votes become overvotes? Who put an extra mark on them? These are tactics used in elections all over the world. Extra marks on ballots suddenly appear, just in time to invalidate that vote. Most foreign headlines called it a fraud because they knew what had happened. They have seen it happen in their country, and they never thought it would happen here. Why did we allow it? This is the real question. Exit polls were never wrong before! Lets learn from the mistakes of our political naiveté and apathy. We vow to never let this happen again. Yellow, Orange and Gray ribbons on every car and in a central location in every city until we take O'four for Gore and get our rightful government back!!! It's the right thing to do. A patriotic citizen of the USA, the greatest country in the world!!!

Date:

11/18/01

Time:

07:29 PM

Comments

Matilda:

You're old enough to be my mother and I'm proud to know you're out there somewhere!

I live on a farm in the middle of the Bible Belt. I'm surrounded by Republicans who register as Democrats so they can vote in the primary! Everyone is invited to do that when they register to vote!

I'm a Navy vet, too, but a little later than you. Kennedy was my Commander in Chief. Truman was the President of my childhood.

The situation in the US is very serious and very scary. I'm an old history teacher and I must say we have been let down by our educators who, seemingly, have not taught US History very well, or they haven't felt obliged to determine that their students learned the important parts.

We've been let down by Christians who have remained silent in the face of the Christian Reconstructionists, like Robertson and LaHaye and Kennedy.

We've been let down by the Democratic Party, which has shifted so far to the right that they don't have a toenail on the left side of the line. They don't support us, but continuously ask us for money to support them.

I've been online for years and only discovered your website this evening, but I've downloaded all your flags and ribbons. I'll use one of them on every email I send from now on. Tomorrow, I'll go to Wallie World and Kmart and buy all their yellow ribbon and place ribbon on every fence post on this farm as well as every tree that is visible to the public. I'll also tie ribbon to every flag pole I see. I don't desecrate flags by flying them on my car, but I'll have so much yellow ribbon on my car tomorrow everyone will think I got married in my old age! ;o)

Earlier in this madness, back in Dec 2000, someone online suggested that we write sentiments about the faux election on our money. I'm going to start writing "America Held Hostage" on my money. What was the date of the so-called Patriot Act? Was it Oct 31? I'll have to try to check that out. That will be a good date...Halloween!

Thanks for putting up the website and thanks for all the good articles you have written. I've shared them all with friends, sent the URL for your site, and suggested they buy a lot of yellow ribbon.

I've been pretty angry about people desecrating the flag. I've stopped several times and pick them up off the roadsides. I hate seeing them ripped to shreds on the interstate! This yellow ribbon campaign will make me feel a lot better.

Barb Ransdell/KY

Date:

11/19/01

Time:

07:19 PM

Comments

Hi Matilda,

I love the yellow ribbon idea. I have to get a new flag. I've been ashamed to fly a flag since George Bu$h seized the White House & America sat on their collective backsides and whined "there's nothing we can do".