Supporter (non-victim) Membership Card
Following is the original email annoucing these cards: From: raven1@bestnet.org Subject: Membership cards BCC to: @ALLVIC.PML Send reply to: raven1@nas.net Date sent: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:19:47 Hi - The President, Cheryl Welsh, and current board member of CAHRA (Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse) would like to offer each victim and supporter a small token of victims' struggle and supporters' gracious help in the form of MEMBERSHIP CARDS in CAHRA. The current "voting" members are: - Cheryl Welsh, President - John Ginter, Treasurer - Steve Deleno, board member - Eleanor White, board member What we offer [you, the victim] is an ID card which symbolizes your suffering, which encourages mutual support, and which may be useful when accosted by the authorities. I find that carrying one is very uplifting - it says an organization exists in this movement and I'm a member. If you would like one mailed to you, please email me a short request with the address for mailing. In my local experience with my own cards, though they won't actually keep you out of mental hospital (for example) health authorities and police DO take notice. At least the existence of an organization makes them stop and think a bit. We canNOT provide services similar to those of organization where dues are paid and energetic staff are available. You the applicant agree to the above description of CAHRA membership, which is sometimes described as "associate" or "non-voting" in other organizations. If we ever get blessed with a reduction in torture or a financial windfall, the non-voting relationship may change, but we all know that isn't likely. There are no dues. A requirement of membership is to supply a real name and mailing address for the card. Mailing address updates are optional, and the mailing address will not be printed on the card. This does NOT have to be your own residence address. These mailing addresses will be kept in an encrypted DBASE file, however, no encryption scheme is safe from our tormentors' unlimited intelligence resources. Another requirement is that a CAHRA board member must have personally reviewed a brief testimony statement and be satisfied that the applicant is a victim of involuntary human experimentation, of the MKULTRA or neuro-electromagnetic type. If your children are targets too, please let me know and I'll make them a card. ** DO NOT SEND me testimonials. I know many of you as do Cheryl and the other board members. ** Please spread the word to victims who are not on my emailing list or don't have Internet access. If I'm unclear about your being a true victim of neuro-electromagnetic experimentation, I will email you a 1-page survey form for you to check off with an 'x' each symptom that applies to you. I will also furnish a similar card which instead of "Associate" membership will indicate "Supporter". A recommendation and a "second" from two valid associate members will be required for me to issue these supporters a card. A "supporter" NEED NOT be a powerful professional - a family member or friend who is FULLY AWARE of the danger of supporting one of us but still does anyway is elegible. I'd appreciate a ONE page writeup of the activities of supporting members who are not widely known to our group. (For example, Dr. Nick Begich is known to all as the professional who was instrumental in getting the European Parliament to make resolutions about "weapons of political control", and certainly qualifies for a supporter card. Dr. Begich's activities need no writeup.) A membership number will be assigned by Eleanor White, who will fill in the business-card-size ID and mail it back. Applicant addresses will be available only to CAHRA staff and board members and will not be published. !!!! IMPORTANT: I am personally paying for the production and mailing of these cards, so allow plenty of time - I can't afford to mass produce and mail them. If you fear imminent involuntary mental hospitalization, I will put you at the head of the line. (If you are just generally afraid of this, please let me proceed on a first come first served basis.) *** I am going to post a card image, which will NOT show much detail so the image will load fast on my web sites. The page containing the card references will be: http://home.nas.net/~raven1/card.htm (NO www) ...or http://www.bestnet.org/~raven1/card.htm It may be a couple of days before I get the first associate card posted. You will be able to see the text on the card image. The actual cards will be a nice clean 1200 dots per inch resolution image. Those who have my phone numbers, please do NOT phone me. Write or email instead. Reason is there are now at least 270 victim claimants and I can't take a fraction of that many calls at work or at home. I don't know how you-all feel about this, but in all historic uprisings, which is what we are hard at work to accomplish, symbolism and solidarity have counted a great deal. Let's hope this will be true for us as well. Eleanor White, P.Eng., Technical Advisor Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse 430 Cumberland Ave. #312 Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8M 3M9 raven1@bestnet.org