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CONSUMER STORIES OF CITIZEN WARRIORS The purpose of this web site is to seek input from fellow CITIZEN WARRIORS who have crossed swords with major corporations or government departments, and who have the documentation - back and forth snail mail correspondence, form letters, e-mail, on line chats etc., that tells the story of their battle or battles. I am writing a book on the subject, basically

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BATTLING THE BEHEMOTHS INTRODUCTION When historians look back at the twentieth and twenty first centuries, what seminal moments do you think they will record? What would be the things, the events, the thoughts and words that changed the history of our times? What will be the moments that the history writers will look back at and say - from this point on, it was never the same? Wars will be on the

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The Confounded Cable Caper's Opening SalvoIn the summer of 2001, I had three telephone lines in my house, plus one fax machine and one computer. The fax machine was a primitive early model without bells or whistles that we'd received as a gift and was almost never used. It usedto be used on occasion when someone wanted to send us a letter in a hurry instead of sending it by snail mail , but that

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FUN AND GAMES WITH THE LITERARY GUILD November 1988 to May 1989 Random House Inc/Doubleday Beware the Literary Guild my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! If Lewis Carroll hadn't died in 1898, the second verse of his famed Jabberwocky poem might well have been written this way. In fact, he might have called it

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HERZOPOLYSeptember 1974 to January, 1975 THE HERTZ CORPORATION/ AMERICAN EXPRESS/ DINERS CLUBIt was back in the nineteen seventies when I first began to collect and catalogue my own records of battles with behemoths. I had had earlier run ins with large corporations and with various branches of government, but it was an experience in 1974 that started me down the road that ultimately led to

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ABOUT THE AUTHORActually, it would be more accurate to describe me as a budding author because although I've done some writing, this is my first attempt to put together a "real" book In the past however, I've been a television producer and director, a producer, writer and distributor of numerous nationally syndicated radio programs, a producer and distributor of medical news and educational

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WHERE’S GEORGE WASHINGTON WHEN YOU NEED HIM?THE BRITISH ARMYI think it would be fair to refer to my childhood as strange or unusual. Actually, those a very mild term to describe some of the things that happened to me while I was trying to grow up, but there’s no need to recount them here. The specific details aren’t relevant to the subject matter of this book, except for one. In 1944 I was

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FOOD & WINEAMERICAN EXPRESS PUBLISHINGThe following was originally written in 1985A few years ago, my wife got an intriguing letter from American Express. It told her that she had very likely won the right to charge a huge amount of money on her American Express card without ever having to pay the bill. Well, it didn’t exactly say "very likely" but it was so darned positive, that was the

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