Dear Obama and Michelle: I would like to start by saying I loved Michael Jackson too, and I’m truly saddened to share the unfortunate truth with you of his recent passing. I think it may have been God talking when I suggested the idea of writing Amendment 27 (on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet). Slavery procurement laws have been hurting me and my family since I graduated modeling school in 1987 in Wisconsin and was told that I would need to go to the big city to be procured. This was, unfortunately, after my family already paid thousands and thousands of dollars with my grandfather’s (a doctor in the US military) inheritance money to my mother for 34 different acting and public schools, including several performing arts schools. I hope you both understand that we may have been able to save Michael Jackson had we enacted God’s request to make (slavery) procurement laws optional. Something we should all wish to consider: Would Michael Jackson still be alive today had we made slavery procurement laws “optional” just by adding one sentence to the US Constitution to protect him from the lashings of poorly written slavery procurement laws? We need Amendment 27 written to protect: artists, musicians, writers, entertainers (like Michael Jackson), directors, actors, models, comedians, magicians, dancers and other artists from slavery procurement laws that were written poorly many years ago and still exist as they were then, today. Michael Jackson may still be alive today had we enacted Amendment 27 six months ago: FACT. This is what I believe Amendment 27 should say: “SLAVERY PROCUREMENT IS OPTIONAL FOR EVERY US CITIZEN, IN EVERY STATE, WHETHER A UNION MEMBER OR NOT.” I truly believe this one sentence added to the US Constitution for the protection of artists and entertainers could have saved Michael Jackson’s life. With all due respects, I understand people are really sensitive about this, but I believe this is God talking through me, reaching out, and trying to save future artists, entertainers and their family members from being murdered as slaves or as family members of slaves in the future. If we enact Amendment 27 as soon as possible, it will help to protect the lives of artists and entertainers (and their family members) in the future. To help everybody understand, the reason I’ve been writing about making slavery procurement laws optional (according to the US Constitution) for the past six months (on Obama’s Facebook, etc.) is because I am Dean’s Honor List and a straight ‘A’ student—one who has been an artist in the entertainment industry since 1977. My portfolio is online at: http://www.geocities.com/joematters/portfolio.html). Now that I have been travelling across the country since 1993 to work as an actress in TV and films, I recently learned in school (just graduated in 2008 with my third college degree with Honors) that the slavery procurement laws written in 1954 regarding Brown vs. Board of Education (the cause of officially declaring slavery illegal in the United States) DID NOT FREE ALL THE SLAVES! This explains why I was told in 1987 that I needed to be procured—as a slave—in the big city. Brown vs. Board of Education did not free the enslaved (slave) entertainers in 1954 that were entrapped by poorly written state procurement laws. In many states across the country, these slavery laws were never changed as a result of “Brown vs. Board of Education” and they continue to hurt people very badly to this day. There are many states which still have procurement (slavery) laws and rules that require human beings to be slaves in this country. Slavery is currently required through “procurement” laws that are written poorly in many states. We need Amendment 27 added to the US Constitution to free the slaves that are binded by State Labor Codes that currently keep people as human slaves in the United States. This is because in 1954 when Brown vs. Board of Education was enacted, it did not free the slaves bound by slavery procurement laws hurting the slaves bound by state procurement laws that still exist! ASK YOURSELVES, PLEASE: Were all the slaves freed as a result of Brown vs. Board of Education? NO, THEY WERE NOT. Had they been, Michael Jackson may still be alive today. We’ve got to do something about this and it has to be done on a nationwide level. California Labor Code 1700 which clearly states slavery procurement is required is not written the same as the slavery procurement laws requiring/allowing artists to be slaves in New York or other states. This is why it needs to be written on a nationwide level. Please see my posts in Obama’s Facebook from the past six months for further support of this subject. It may be so that God was working through me to try to protect Michael Jackson’s life. I INSIST, WE MUST GET THIS AMENDMENT WRITTEN TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF ENTERTAINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES BEFORE ANYONE ELSE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY IS MURDERED, THREATENED, LYNCHED, WHOOPED OR BEATEN AS A PROCURED SLAVE IN THIS COUNTRY, EVER AGAIN! If you don’t believe me, please print out a copy of California Labor Code 1700 and see for yourself the rules regarding “procurement” and it is when you do this that you should Honor the remembrance of Michael Jackson. The meaning of procurement is slavery, is it not? It needs to be made clear not just in California, but in every state in America. For your consideration: With deep sadness, yet hope--that we can get this written and added to the US Constitution before any more slaves are murdered or get their asses whooped, EVER AGAIN, BY ANY PROCURER!!!!!! PLEASE HELP US. Andrea Calabrese http://www.joematters.com