Message From the Executive DirectorMay 12, 2001 - Credits and AcknowledgementsUpdated October 6, 2002 
I founded People Aligned To Replace Injustice & Cruelty with
Knowledge - P.A.T.R.I.C.K. in 1996, with the help of four special
friends.
One of those friends was Marla Mazoch and her help and suggestions were invaluable. It was Marla who created the name PATRICK Crusade and I developed the meaning, making PATRICK an acronym, for I wanted our human rights organization to be for all people, and not just for my beloved husband, Patrick, though his plight is the inspiration for creating The PATRICK Crusade. Another friend was Candyce Hawk, without whom, The PATRICK Crusade would not be as great as it is today. The third friend was SiteMistic, our first webmaster who donated a website and his time to us for the first year. The fourth friend was John Hammar, who counseled many members when they were feeling very lost because of the injustices they were experiencing in their lives. I am sad to say that today, that as of this writing, none of those friends are with our organization. Marla, Candyce and SiteMistic went on to other avenues, and John was killed in an auto accident. We all mourned greatly, then together we made a special memorial page for John, and then we kept on going. I am very grateful to these four wonderful people for their tireless contributions toward helping us build a worldwide organization that has become a Force with which to be reckoned. As an update of particular delight, I am very pleased to announce that in 2002, Candyce Hawk rejoined us and she is even more powerful now than she was when this acknowldgement was first written. In addition, I am very grateful to PATRICK Crusade Member, Rick Jackson, who donated his time to develop our new website, after SiteMistic closed us down. Rick was our fearless webmaster for 4 years. We could not have done this without you, Rick. I want to thank so many other people for helping us along the way, but there are too many names to write them all down here. These people know who they are and to all of you please know how grateful I am for all of your hard work. I also want to thank each Member of The PATRICK Crusade for just being there, reading, writing, listening, telephoning, faxing, emailing, praying, marching and rallying on behalf of all the prisoners and their families in the United States of America. Many of our members are from other countries, and we are proud to have all of you in our camp to help us awaken the American People to the fact that Prison is BIG business, that it's about money and not justice. I hope you find our pages worthwhile, helpful in your research, and informative. I hope you find the cases we cite outrageous and compelling. When you see the truth, you cannot walk away from it and sleep well at night. Your Higher Self knows that something is terribly wrong when the American People allow the American government to treat its own people as shown in the stories within these pages. Remember always: If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. God bless us all, |