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If Franklin is ever going mainstream, and still make a difference, it's going to be now. I'm forwarding this on behalf of Nick Bryant, and recommending you carry it to your other social networks.



EMERGENCY: Child Sex Abuse Situation NEEDS YOUR E-ACTIVISM, NOW!

You can do something, right now, to help rip the lid off the cover-up of one of the biggest child sex abuse scandals, EVER.

It's a huge, creepy story, and people died in the cover up. (The Washington Times had this on their front page, before the story totally disappeared. See it here: http://www.sanderhicks.com/franklin.html)

My friend Nick Bryant just pulled off the impossible, and published an authoritative book on this, called "The Franklin Scandal." (Trine Day, 2009). He took a lot of heat to get this book out. Now he needs your help.

The GOP's Lawrence King was never prosecuted for sex abuse. Nick and I just found out that King's still active in the DC Suburbs, publicly speaking at after school programs at the Granville Academy! We were apoplectic!

Yet, progressive media leaders tell Nick they lack "the fortitude" to publish about this in their magazines.

Nancy Grace has a show on CNN, and she focuses on child sex abuse. Perfect. Let's get Nick and the Franklin Scandal story on her show.

YOU CAN JOIN THE DISCUSSION, and vote against the cover up. Please post a word of support for coverage of this important new book, The Franklin Scandal. Please put it into your own words, speak from the heart, and be positive.

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?81

Then, please spread the message far and wide to friends and associates through email, social networks, and word of mouth.

Got the book, sent the email, gonna pass this onward and upward.

Yes!

Other things you can do:
1. If you have a blog, do a post about Nick's book with photo and link to his site http://franklinscandal.com

2. Write a review of his book at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Scandal-Story-Powerbrokers-Betrayal/dp/0977795357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256148843&sr=8-1-spell

Or on Barnes & Nobel
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Franklin-Scandal/Nick-Bryant/e/9780977795352/?itm=1&USRI=franklin+scandal

3. Contact Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! and encourage her to have Nick on her show.
http://www.democracynow.org/about/contact

4. If you have any contacts in the media, or if you can think of anyone in print, on web or tv who might be open to covering the book and the scandal, write to them, and contact Nick to let him know about your contact.

Amy Goodman had people on Democracy Now talking about Dyncorp/UN Bosnian child sex abuse and of course Blackwater child prostitution. So there is precedent.

Sucks this discussion usually is kept in the basement ghetto of "CT" fringe arenas.

The media is always going ape over "to catch a predator" stuff, yet they wont TOUCH the Dyncorp, UN, Blackwater, Franklin Coverup, Finders, etc stuff. Youd think theyd WANT a big story.

Jeff?

Do you know how or why Nancy Grace's show was selected as the venue of choice by whoever's calling the shots wrt the astroturfing campaign for this book? I'm not asking because I suspect hijinks or anything. On the contrary, imo, there's not only nothing wrong with making coordinated PR a part of the overall sales and marketing strategy for your book, there's everything right about it. It's just that in conjunction with lbo's similarly worded post to the activism subforum last Friday, the OP does suggest that whoever coordinated this one did decide that targeting Nancy Grace was the way to go. And....Okay. Since I've been totally at a loss wrt whether to write this post and in what terms to couch it for practically an hour now, I'm just going to spit it out. And if despite my best efforts and most heartfelt wishes to the contrary, I end up hurting, offending or antagonizing anyone to whom I never want to be anything other than a rock solid source of support and comfort, I very much hope that they'll forgive me for it. But I have a concern that I feel obligated to express.

And it's more or less this:

It's purely a judgment call, but fwiw, it's my seriously considered opinion that when it comes to advancing the cause of justice for abused, exploited and suffering children anywhere or, for that matter, everywhere, Nancy Grace is to cable television roughly as Ted Gunderson is to private investigation. And granted, that's a pretty meaningful "roughly," in view of the different roles they play and the significantly different types of risk that they accordingly represent. Nevertheless. She has a habit of leaving the scene of every crime on which she's ever condescended to focus her attention mired in confusion, battered by ill will and covered with muck for some of its key details ever to be very easily or clearly perceptible to whoever might be looking at them for the first time, from that moment onward and until the end of all time.

I mean, I'm not saying that it's flat-out impossible to step up to the platform she provides and use it as a bully pulpit for your own agenda without getting permanently trapped in the raging shitstorm of sanctimonious, spiteful, and self-aggrandizing hypocrisy that it's Nancy Grace's very special talent to brings with her wherever she goes. That would kind of depend on your agenda, your strength of purpose, and how well you'd packed for the weather when you first set out, among many other things. But she really seems to me like the absolute worst not the absolute best PR opportunity imaginable for Nick Bryant. The specifics of her track record wrt confabulating intense emotional drama practically couldn't be better-suited to undermine the credibility of his story if they'd been custom-ordered for that purpose. And her lack of any and all scruple or restraint wrt to whether she's practicing journalism or simply in the business of exciting the most voyeuristic instincts of her audience by showing a special interest in the plight of whatever badly wounded, vulnerable and poorly defended victims of sexual predation happen to have the attributes most culturally likely to be viewed salaciously doesn't exactly augur very well for it either.

I don't understand what recommended the choice to whoever made it, in a nutshell. In some vaguely objective way, I know that it's probably not that big of a deal, but it's been niggling at me all day. I'm afraid of it. Literally, though perhaps not rationally. Thinking about it makes me fear for the safety of children.

That's ridiculous, right?

I don't understand what recommended the choice to whoever made it, in a nutshell. In some vaguely objective way, I know that it's probably not that big of a deal, but it's been niggling at me all day. I'm afraid of it. Literally, though perhaps not rationally. Thinking about it makes me fear for the safety of children.

That's ridiculous, right?

Have you purchased or read the book? Just wondering. I believe they're talking Nancy Grace because with a book like The Franklin Scandal, outside of "Hey, It's The NWO Wing Nut Hour!" or "Get yur David Icke News here", you TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET to get it to the masses. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of room for niggling persnicketiness.* However, if your convictions about Grace are indeed so strong, please DO write to Nick and let him know. His email is prominently dislayed on his website.

In the interim, just keep being the good concerned citizen you are and send it to your very own personal favorite media and or blogger person(s). Thanks, from all of us, because, Nick's cause is our... or rather mine too, at least. I think he's actually a real life hero, and I never say things like that.



*Has NOTHING to do with the book, simply with the fact that Nick himself has related how difficult it's been to get the story covered, and well, we have enough theories about the compromised media around here to suffice.

Edited to clarify *

Okay, I did all that, but now c2w's line of thought is eating at me. Is the message in the OP originating from and/or endorsed by Nick Bryant? Enquiring minds who already followed nameless orders want to know.

c2w, thanks for that.

Nick called me a couple of days ago asking for my help with this. Oprah's show had been considering the book, until last week, and I believe Grace's was next on the list because it's perhaps the next most notable platform that might give attention to a work like this.

Everything you say about Grace is true, or at least rings true for me. And yet, I'm not convinced that greater harm could come to the truth of Franklin if she gave Bryant air time. The scandal's been a Gunderson Stew for 20 years already, and Bryant strikes me as someone who would approach a Nancy Grace appearance well prepared and with his eyes open, and in the back of his head, too.

Better, though, IMO, would be if the book were reviewed. But I don't know how likely that is before someone like Grace takes notice.

I went on line and asked Oprah to consider the book for her Oprah book club read picks. The books she endorses in this club usually get a lot of attention.

Project Willow wrote:

I don't understand what recommended the choice to whoever made it, in a nutshell. In some vaguely objective way, I know that it's probably not that big of a deal, but it's been niggling at me all day. I'm afraid of it. Literally, though perhaps not rationally. Thinking about it makes me fear for the safety of children.

That's ridiculous, right?

Have you purchased or read the book? Just wondering. I believe they're talking Nancy Grace because with a book like The Franklin Scandal, outside of "Hey, It's The NWO Wing Nut Hour!" or "Get yur David Icke News here", you TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET to get it to the masses. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of room for niggling persnicketiness.* However, if your convictions about Grace are indeed so strong, please DO write to Nick and let him know. His email is prominently dislayed on his website.

In the interim, just keep being the good concerned citizen you are and send it to your very own personal favorite media and or blogger person(s). Thanks, from all of us, because, Nick's cause is our... or rather mine too, at least. I think he's actually a real life hero, and I never say things like that.



*Has NOTHING to do with the book, simply with the fact that Nick himself has related how difficult it's been to get the story covered, and well, we have enough theories about the compromised media around here to suffice.

Edited to clarify *

Well....That was the reaction that made me hesitant to post at all. I have the book, and although I haven't yet read it, I don't and didn't question its quality or its author's integrity at all in the post to which you're replying or in any other. Furthermore, I both will and wish for Nick Bryant's book to thrive and flourish on a pretty much constant conscious basis every waking second of the day, Willow. As I pretty much have to do for each and every truth denied of the kind it represents at this point. I root for them as I root for life. In the realm of pure feeling they're not parts to me, they're one whole. I have no feeling of any kind that's any more basic or any less voluntary than that. It's just what being conscious feels like to me. So you really could not have chosen to slide that stiletto between my ribs with any more viciousness than you did by throwing a transparent veil over the contempt you so successfully aren't really trying to conceal behind that "Just wondering." Because you really could not have conveyed the sense of superiority with which you barely tolerate what you perceive as my dull and unfeeling primitive sensibilities. Thanks so much for not recognizing my humanity in a way that really puts me in touch with my utterly worthless side.

Also, please allow me to return the collective gratitude that you so graciously made a slight pretense of actually feeling. Having done nothing to earn it other than have the genuinely decent nature that I was born with and can't really do much to rid myself of, I just don't feel comfortable about accepting it. Especially when there are plenty of more deserving people out there whose good conduct really can't be had in exchange for less than fair market value. I can just slip it under the velvet rope of your exclusive clubhouse and slink away at your convenience. No, really. I want to, it's no trouble at all.

Incidentally, I really don't need to be told how to get a message to the masses. The dollar worth of my opinion on the merits of a promotional campaign is a commodity that has a real market value, due to the known rate of return on investment. Technically, since I'm no longer interested in selling it on those terms. But fwiw, if I were being paid for my advice, I'd phrase it differently, but apart from that I'd say the same fucking thing for the same fucking reason. It's in the best interests of the fucking book. Just to reiterate the good advice that prompted you to give me the pat on the head and the knife to the heart: Doing Nancy Grace as she exists in reality has some inherent potential risk attached. That potential might or might not remain latent if you just refused to acknowledge it. However, you'd be a fucking fool to do that, because at the very least, you'd lose nothing by admitting it. And you almost certainly gain something valuable simply by going through the process of preparing to accommodate it. Even if the need to go to Plan Z never arose. In any event, you should never let the interviewer drive, no matter who he or she is, and no matter what he or she asks. You have to know what you want to say and you also have to know how to appear not to be ignoring the questions when you make damn sure that you don't say anything other than exactly that. Media fluency isn't difficult to attain, but it has nothing to do with non-artificial communication skills and very few people are unnatural enough to be naturally fluent in it. It sounds like regular language, unless it is regular language, in which case the masses won't even remember they heard you say anything five minutes after the outro.

Please do not speak to me of good citizenship as if you were old money and I was the help again. It's an insult to us both if your condescension is false. And even if it's not, you'd still be treating yourself with less respect than you deserve if you don't know that you stand too high on natural merit that you can stoop to patronize me without lowering yourself too. Which is your business not mine, either way, I suppose. But since I'm free to resent it on your behalf as well as mine, I do. And on my own behalf alone, I'd also appreciate a little more courtesy. Whether you have to go out of your way to show it or not.

compared2what? wrote:Well....That was the reaction that made me hesitant to post at all....

C2W, your opinion of me must be very low indeed for you to read that level of nastiness in my response.

Now that I read over it, I can see how it could be interpreted on a chat board sans body language and voice inflection. OK, yeah, I'm an ass.

FWIW, let's go over it. I'm going to insert my thought/feeling behind my words when I wrote them.

Have you purchased or read the book? Just wondering.

Would actually like to hear your take on it.

I believe they're talking Nancy Grace because with a book like The Franklin Scandal, outside of "Hey, It's The NWO Wing Nut Hour!" or "Get yur David Icke News here", you TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET to get it to the masses.

Slightly embarrassed myself of the request and trying to explain the state of affairs. I thought my wing nut show titles were kinda funny.

Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of room for niggling persnicketiness.*

Referring to my own qualms there again in language I thought would make you giggle.

However, if your convictions about Grace are indeed so strong, please DO write to Nick and let him know. His email is prominently displayed on his website.

Seriously , I mean it, I think the guy can use as much feedback and help as possible. Jeff has it right though, I've heard him briefly on a couple of more ct or right wing shows and he does a real good job of side stepping bad messages.

In the interim, just keep being the good concerned citizen you are and send it to your very own personal favorite media and or blogger person(s).

Obviously that is a failure at expressing sincere thanks for your concern, as it does make it sound very insincere.

Maybe my newly assigned task from the bad guys is to alienate people. I wouldn't be surprised.

[quote="Project Willow": Maybe my newly assigned task from the bad guys is to alienate people. I wouldn't be surprised.[/quote]

Willow, it's not just about alienating; if you truly feel you're not responsible for what you write, it might be a good idea to have someone else read before you post something potentially hurtful or demeaning.

Not sure its worth the efforts, but I can PR the book in Israel> If the writer is interested he can snailmail the book (or email PDF, if he has one), and I will try my best, first to read it (seems like a nasty chore, emotionally) and peddle. It would benefit to know whether the affair has any ISraeli angle (i dont think so but i really know nothing about it, i hardly browsed the thread here).
his aids can PM me here.

[quote="Jeff": The GOP's Lawrence King was never prosecuted for sex abuse. Nick and I just found out that King's still active in the DC Suburbs, publicly speaking at after school programs at the Granville Academy! We were apoplectic!.[/quote]

In addition to promoting the book, what about protesting Lawrence King's participation in events that include youth (or can that lead to a potential lawsuit?)? If not following are contacts for the Granville Academy Northern Virginia:

Michael Artson, Pres., & CEO
Post Office Box 505
Occoquan, VA 22125-0505

Phone: 571.229.0707
Email: mikeartson@yahoo.com

Cordelia wrote:Willow, it's not just about alienating; if you truly feel you're not responsible for what you write, it might be a good idea to have someone else read before you post something potentially hurtful or demeaning.

Thanks for the hurtful and demeaning advice!