Editor, the News-Herald:

Right on.

We agree completely with you, see article &uot;A vote for evil?&uot; today’s (9/5/04) issue.

I want to tell you about an alternative that has been presented to all of us and that’s (don’t laugh, everyone does, and then says fantastic) a write-in vote for Mel Gibson.

Please see the website www.writeinmelgibsonforpresident.org http://www.writeinmelgibsonforpresident.org .

It’s for real.

We’ve had hundreds and hundreds of responses.

Approximately two thirds of the responses are positive.

Now let me be right up front.

We do not expect Mel Gibson to be elected president, he doesn’t want the job and has made it clear that if such a thing happened he’d be &uot;bumped off&uot; in three days.

But we are trying to use him as a standard bearer, after all he is the most popular man in America right now.

Plus he is a man of convictions and courage.

The purpose of this endeavor, if we can get enough people to help us, is to shake up the establishment.

Certainly a man of your knowledge understands vote fraud.

Certainly you understand that the presidential candidates are hand picked by the powers that be and they really don’t care if Bush or Kerry wins.

The present neocons may be out of jobs for a day or two if Bush loses, but that’ll be about it. They’ll be taken care of, you can bet on it.

Surely you know both Bush and Kerry are &uot;bonesmen.&uot;

That should tell you everything you need to know.

So why not write-in Mel, especially since write-in votes have to be hand counted and posted at the local level.

New York has already outlawed the write-in votes and you can be sure why.

Give it some thought Mr. Prutsok.

This could at least be fun, and with politics so depressing these days, we could use a lift.

Thanks for your time.

Judith Sharpe

Suffolk