Comments on: The Thomas Tamm Legal Defense Fund

By: GloryDays

GloryDays — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:49:04 +0000

I signed up just to say…please, please, please create a Paypal or some such secure location where we can send money!

I am a single mother to 4 children and would consider this the best money spent in a long time! :o)

By: gorjan2

gorjan2 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:16:00 +0000

I suspect Mr. Tamm would cringe a little at being called a patriot but he certainly is. The minute I can send some financial support on a secure website, it will be on its way. I only hope he will realize how many people respect what he’s going through.

By: gcozette

gcozette — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:55:02 +0000

Tom, thank you for upholding the Constitution by exposing the illegal surveillence by the Justice Dept ordered by President Bush. It is Mr. Bush who should be prosecuted, not you. You are a true American patriot. I heard about your defense fund in the Newsweek article. I add my $250 contribution to the others. I also struggled through depression, but have found positive results after consulting with my physicians and others who have gone through it. Keep you spirits up. We respect and appreciate you.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:38:16 +0000

Heh, long as it is there, we won’t quibble about the location! Thanks wc4d.

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:29:36 +0000

ummm, your left… my dyslexicalicious right. •sigh•

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:28:40 +0000

Mr. Tamm was on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight. When you go to that link, check out the Thomas Tamm Legal Defense Fund info just to the right of Ms Maddow’s smile. You can watch the video clip there.

After watching their exchange live, I was delighted to find this discussion here. Check’s on its way in tomorrow’s mail (as long as we don’t get more Midwest snow… here in Portland, OR. Our high was freakin’ 23°F today!!!!)

By: nextstopchicago

nextstopchicago — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:25:06 +0000

Heh. I also hadn’t yet noticed that it wasn’t care of is attorney, but simply going to the Bank of Georgetown. I guess it’d probably get deposited, but no, I don’t think I’ll just send cash.

By: nextstopchicago

nextstopchicago — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:37:20 +0000

I’m in. I was about to send an e-mail asking Marcy if she knew these people well enough to think that sending cash was safe, because I AM a little worried about having a check with my name on it cashed by a guy who has brought down the wrath of the security state on his head (god, that sounds like purple prose except it’s real.)

Then I realized, hell, they’d probably have the e-mail to Marcy anyway, so what’s the eff-ing point!

My parents’ phone always had weird little beeps during the mid-80’s, when my dad was a member of Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. How long do I have to wait before requesting his file and finding out whether we were surveilled? And where would I ask?

I remember a great story. Somehow, I found myself in the backyard of Studs Terkel at a long ago birthday party (because of a woman whose campaign I worked in — sheer luck, and not because I knew the Terkels.) Anyway, Studs and Ida had just requested their FBI files (I think it had just become legal and possible to do so), and much to the chagrin of the great socialist and spurner of all that is right-wing, his wife’s file turned out to be much bigger than his.

Anyway, going to get my checkbook - $100. It’s my standard Christmas charity check.

By: sojourner

sojourner — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:37:13 +0000

He gets my support! Let us know if and when a PayPal site goes up…

By: LabDancer

LabDancer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:48:32 +0000

I think that “rejoin” should be “join”.

In either event, Tamm looks like the real deal: a true American go-to-work fight-the-enemy-because-someone-has-to hero, in the mold of what Gary Cooper and James Stewart used to portray - and hopefully there are enough who can see this as plainly as bmaz has put it here, and others are putting it at the Mothership and over at the Great Orange Satin and elsewhere across the human parts of the ’sphere that the pains that Tamm has been put to are eased and his example receives its just reward.