From our Mailbag 09/20/03 - 09/27/03




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THE WORLD - From Steven C., Taipei, TAIWAN:

Keep up the good work Rod, and best of luck with the day in court. We all appreciate your hard work with G21.

Steven C.
Taiwan


ROD RESPONDS: Steve,

Thanks for taking the time to write me. It's appreciated.

As you can see, I'm back in the saddle and vindicated.

Cheers,
Rod


From Behnam D., Tehran, IRAN:

Dear Sirs/Masdames:

Having been introduced to you, we kindly request your advice regarding the following matter: We are at the moment in search of our elder brother "Bahman D----" (or perhaps spelled D-----), born in January 1959.

He entered the U.S.A. in September 1977 with his educational visa, and started his higher education at Boston University in the field of computer science. We are aware of his becoming a U.S. citizen and changing his name.(Probably to :Robert D----). (and probably he live at now in california ). He lost all his contacts with his family in Iran, and since then we have not heard from him. His father passed away a few years ago and his mother is ill. We are in desperate need of finding him for the purpose of some legal procedures set by the iranian government according to legacy acts. You are kindly requested to advise us our eventual actions appropriate to be taken in this regard and possible sources we can contact for receiving response and help to our request. Your help would bring about a great relief to his worried family, so please give us your advice.

You are kindly requested to advise us our eventual actions appropriate to be taken in this regard and possible sources we can contact for receiving response and help to our request. And If you have any information about this person kindly please send me a note to me. If there is any charges must be paid for your services , it's impossible to send dollars through bank systems from Iran. But I can send books , timbers , handicrafts , rugs, carpet ,... If you do me a favor and agree.

Yours truly,
Behnam D.


ROD RESPONDS: Behnam,

My sympathies are with you but you request is beyond our resources as a small independent magazine.

What I would advise is getting in touch with the Immigration & Naturalization Service of the United States. That seems the most likely place to begin your inquiries. I hope this helps you.

Best Regards,
Rod Amis

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From Robert D. P., (No City Provided), PA, USA:

SUBJECT: G21 #366: The Leopard's Spots

Rod:

Congratulations on the dismissal of your case -- bittersweet though it is. How nice to suffer the indignity of arrest, a thoroughly unpleasant stay in the lockup, legal fees you can't afford, a notoriety that will leave some people always convinced that you did something wrong, and the perpetual anxiety that you might have to endure a full trial on these bogus charges -- just so that you can hear the prosecutor apologize. ("Never mind," I can hear Emily Litella say with her forced smile.)

Glad you're finally off the hook.

--Bob


ROD RESPONDS: Bob

Many thanks! Now it's my turn to take them to court, the cops, the Police Department, the City, as soon as I land another attorney since my old one wants to go to the Dark Side.

Wish me Luck!

Cheers,
Rod


From Robin Miller, Bradenton, FL, USA:

SUBJECT: My threats to NO officials

I am 100% certain that my sarcastic notes to Your Mayor and several other local officials threatening to move the OSDN site director's conference currently scheduled to take place in NO on Nov 17 - 19 to a less assholish city had nothing to do with charges against you being dropped.

I mean, shit. What if Debbie and I (she's coming) want to go out for a drink with you? In a brand-new, flashy red car*? Man! You'd be busted as a pimp, she'd be run in as a ho, and I'd... hell, I don't know. Grabbed for inpersonating a journalist when they spotted the SPJ card in my wallet. Or something.

I mentioned in my polite note that, unlike Amis, I have a corporate attorney behind me, plus funds and time to sue NO officialdom's nasty asses in federal court until they were bleeding, plus lots of friends at big-time news outlets...

Hope to see you then. And not in a holding cell, either. :)

- Robin

*I bought Debbie a Hyundai. Not expensive, but tres cute/sporty.


ROD RESPONDS: Robin,

Thanks! Could be!

Anyway, I'm hoping to find an attorney to help me sue the hold suiting match. Not that I expect to ever collect - it takes ten years from what I hear - it's just the principle.

See you in November. I'll prolly still be working construction during the day, but I'll be free every night.

Cheers,
Rod


From Dahrl S., Tampa Bay, FL, USA:

SUBJECT: Whew! Finally! Congrats!

or

IT"S ABOUT DAMN TIME that the NO authorities got their heads out of their asses and admited that they made a mistake. Damn it all to hell. Sorry I've been remiss in sending anything for the defense fund. Maybe we will be able to send a little for a celebration party instead. (If you're not already too hung over to have one) :)

See from column's roblimo quote that he lives in Bradenton. I didn't know that. I thought he was a Long Island type or somesuch. (Bradenton is just across the Sunshine Skyway bridge from me. The wife and I came up through there after staying a couple days on Lido Beach in Sarasota a couple weeks ago. My oldest daughter was born in Bradenton (39 years ago last month); the ex moved back there last year I understand.

Take care of yourself
dc


From Bob Powers, Marietta, OH, USA:

SUBJECT: CONGRATS!!!

Dear Rod,

There's only one way I could be happier. And that would be that the court in New Orleans had dismissed a case against me.

Providence or God or whomever has taken up your side. The weeks of worry and fret have ceased. Hooray!

Your columns during this seemingly unending stretch of weeks have been models of intelligence. You have shown strength and character. May the tides reverse in your favor for months and years and decades to come.

Congratulations!
Bob


From Mike M., San Francisco, CA, USA:

Hart,

We never met or communicated but that was a great look back. Warren was a pretty boy indeed.

When I watched Shampoo in the back of my parents car (63' Buick Wildcat 390, 4 barrel), at the Geneva Drive - In, San Francisco-Daly City, CA, boderline; in the back of mom & pa's car, I was lost. Boring. I was young dumb and not full of much cum, I guess.

But on second thought I think a year or two earlier I had one of my first "wet dreams" falling in "tru luv" with his sister in the Apartment. Forget the girl next store, how about the girl at the office that everybody loves but the dickhead boss is fuckin, only because he's "THE MAN". My "THREE SON'S MY ASS", FRED never played such a louse.

Have you ever wanted to make luv to a "NUN", TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARAH, give it a watch.

> I hated Warren, until I saw him chasing Halle through South Central. I very much liked that movie. Didn't love, but very much liked.

Then you look back, (and like I guess you did) and Warren isn't so bad. Great Bonnie & Clyde. Great cast, especially the guy who played "Baby Face Nelson" like role. I believe he appeared on early Star Trek as leader of mutant youth gang.

Heaven Can't Wait: another great cast. Jack Warren as asst. coach, come on OSCAR. Julie Christie, cute but to skinny. I had my second "wet dream" in Doctor Z. when she wears the all fur outfit with those blue eyes and lushes lips driving in a sled with the late Rob Steiger to some Kiev ' wine & cheese ', okay, ' vodka and herring ' cocktail party. Not to mention Gary Grant's EX: as the cheatin wife, and your other eyeless underated wonder Charles G., who also gets overlooked.

Your unto something.

ARNOLD FOR GOV. IN STEPFORD CALIFORNIA. WAS THAT CALI-FORN-YA ARNIE. Gray you insensitive bastard you. Where was that fight, that drive, that attitude that was needed to deal with those ' thee-ven' TEXANS, when they were over billing you?

Sorry HART. But maybe no recall then.

Anyway. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

MIKE


TOM RESPONDS: Glad y'all liked the article. As Hollyweird is usually the topic of a lot of my pieces -- and I allus see them types in the newspaper of record, the National Enquirer -- I guess I'm the most qualified one in these parts to talk about the movie folks. All of 'em ain't bad. Warren Beatty seems like a keeper to me.

As to your man Ah-nold out in the land of Fruits and Nuts, well -- folks say we gets the politicians we deserve...


From Bob Powers, Marietta, OH, USA:

SUBJECT: All's Well

Raheem,

An excellent column this week and it's been too damned long since I've taken time to assert that fact. You are a fine writer, fellow scribbler for the Rod Man, and may you continue to entertain devotees of G21 for umpteen years into the dark and mysterious future.

Bob Powers


RAHEEM RESPONDS: Thank you, kind sir! A brother needs to get some "Attaboys" now and again to feel like folks ain't only readin' him when they stumble to the wrong page. I wasn't sure how people were gonnah take that particular article of mine, so it's good to hear somebody liked it and could relate to where I was comin' from.

(Enjoy reading you every week, too. Wish I could be as prolific as you and the PubMan seem to be.) Peace.


From Jamie Menutis, New Orleans, LA, USA:

SUBJECT: your case

Rod,
I just read the good news you had in court today. You must be feeling a sigh of relief!

Don't you find it strange that all of this happened and now you will be writing for Gambit?

I can't help but think that this experience has given you both a real insider's viewpoint along with an forum for you to affect further change.

Once again. I am sure you are feeling relieved. I am glad its over with.

Jamie


From Lynda D-M, (No City Provided,) VT, USA:

SUBJECT: Hurrraaaahhhh

Finally. Geez. Well world citizen, last minute reprieves are MUCH more fun to read about than they are to LIVE through, I'll wager. Life is a hassle, but consider the alternative. he he hee. I am so glad for you and wish i could transport you out of that pickled place. But I can't. Hurraaahhh! and a twist of the ear from

Lynda DM


From Lars K., New York, NY, USA:

SUBJECT: Freedom!

Hi Rod:

Congrats on charges dropped. I became aware they were pending only a week ago.

I wonder, do they give you internet access in the slammer?


From Mike M., San Francisco, CA, USA:

SUBJECT: Fwd: Letter of Support to forward to Judge Camille Buras

R.

I don't know if it helped but I sent this out to the Judge about ten days ago. I know that everyone thinks SF politics and its players are a bunch of "loonies", but who knows even in N.O. you might find someone who has a fond memory of the "city by the bay".

Dear Ms. Atkins,

I'm writing to ask you to forward this electronic "correspondence of support" for a dear friend and former workmate, Rod Amis.

I don't know if you are familiar with his case considering the case load you must handle in your daily duties. However,İMr. Amis case is getting attention in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as on the Internet, and in the press in New Orleans.

Rod was arrested by two New Orleans Peace Officers for selling, I believe Cocaine. Without getting into the details of the case, Rods arrest seems to have taken place without cause.

I rather take this time to tell you about Rod. He is possibly the brightest individual I have ever met. He is aİNationalİMerit Scholarship award winner. A graduate ofİWesleyan [University] where he excelled in the study of English and Theology.

Rod worked with me in San Francisco as a unpaid full-time intern for the President of the Board of Supervisors. Rodİalso worked with me on various campaigns such as former Supervisor Kevin Shelly's race for President of the Board of Supervisor.İMr. Shelley knows Rod personally and Mr. Shelley isİpresently Sec. of Stateİin California.

Rod also worked with me on the campaigns of Mayor Willie L. Brown, State Senator Pro.Tem John Burton and many others.

Rod laterİfounded and started a Non-Profit with myself in San Francisco's Mission District. We ran an after school programİand a MID-NIGHT Soccer Program that kept the teenage kids of the Mission District off the streets an out of gangs and off drugs.

I am the son of the former Presiding Judge of the Municipal Court of the City and County of San Francisco, William J. M. I have worked as an aideİto the President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and an aide to the Mayor of San Francisco, Willie L. Brown.

I can write to you with full confidence and tell you that Rod Amis doesn't sell drugs. He is a hard working, extremely giving and caring man that is foolish enough to befriend someone who obviously should have been able to clear Rod by telling the two officers the entireİdetails of what took place.

Why would a man sell drugs to his room-mate on the streets in the presence of aİmarked patrol car? Why would that same man only haveİ$11 dollars on him after the sale? Why would a drug dealer have only 1 item to sell (one bag, etc.)?

It does not make sense that he was arrested.

Thank you for your time and consideration to this matter.İAgain, Rod Amis is anİexceptional man. You might want to invite him into chambers and talk to him, you would beİin for quite a surprise and pleasant experience.

Thank you again.

Sincerely,
Michael P. M.

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