Columbus Day 2005 Marks the Recent Discovery of a Reliable National Media Outlet for Government Whistleblowers

Columbus Day 2005 marks the recent discovery by government whistleblowers of a sure voice through “Diogenes”, the quarterly magazine of National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. (NJCDLP). As a Greek philosopher known for his “uncompromising zeal for exposing vice and conceit and stirring men to reform”, Diogenes is a most appropriate namesake for the featured magazine of NJCDLP. It debuted at a summit hosted by the nonprofit, legal reform organization and WHEAG, Whistleblowers for an Honest, Efficient, and Accountable Government, at the historic Watergate Hotel in Washington, D. C. on September 23, 2005. Plans are underway to develop “Diogenes” into more of an advocacy tool for classic government whistleblowers as well as legal/judicial reform activists.

(PRWEB) October 9, 2005 -- The peoples’ right to know. America’s government system of checks and balances, fortified by the watchful eye of major media. Civic-minded Americans undoubtedly find comfort in these principles and platitudes. Yet they too often ring hollow for government whistleblowers as they struggle for expression through the press. Columbus Day 2005 accordingly marks their recent discovery of a sure voice through “Diogenes”, the quarterly magazine of National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. (NJCDLP).

Diogenes was a Greek philosopher, known for living by his principles, not all of which were particularly admirable by today’s standards. Yet his “uncompromising zeal for exposing vice and conceit and stirring men to reform” makes Diogenes a most appropriate namesake for the featured magazine of NJCDLP. The nonprofit legal reform organization debuted its publication at a summit for government whistleblowers at the historic Watergate Hotel in Washington, D. C. on September 23, 2005. In attendance were scores of reform activists, including representatives of the D. C.-based No Fear Coalition, National Whistleblower Center, Government Accountability Project, and law office of Jason M. Zuckerman, as well as the Taxpayers for Government Accounting Reform, Bill of Attainder Project, and Affiliation of Christian Engineers. The successful event was hosted by NJCDLP and WHEAG, Whistleblowers for an Honest, Efficient, and Accountable Government.

Zena D. Crenshaw is a founding director and the acting executive director for NJCDLP, a member of WHEAG, and a co-managing editor of “Diogenes”. She is the designate of WHEAG to testify before Congress about tactics used in attorney disciplinary proceedings, including her own, that thwart even properly stated standards for regulating the First Amendment activities of lawyers and judges when criticism of the judiciary is involved. Balancing Zena’s perspective in producing “Diogenes” is among others, her co-managing editor, veteran journalist and publisher June Maxam. June publishes “The North Country Gazette” which operated as a weekly newspaper for over 14 years and is now available on-line at http://www.northcountrygazette.org Busy bee that she is, June is also co-publisher of “The Empire Journal”, an on-line newspaper at http://www.theempirejournal.com , and has several published articles in major periodicals and a book to her credit.

Plans are underway to develop “Diogenes” into more of an advocacy tool for classic government whistleblowers as well as legal/judicial reform activists. Representatives of the No Fear Coalition and the Government Accountability Project have pledged to help flood Capitol Hill with the publication. Undoubtedly other activists and groups that convened with NJCDLP and WHEAG at the Watergate Hotel will join in the process. Their keynote speaker for the evening, Jesselyn Radack, committed to write an article for “Diogenes” which will likely relate to her exposure of alleged improprieties by the U. S. Justice Department in the case of “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. No Fear Coalition directors Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and U.S. Marshal Matthew Fogg (INA) are brimming with allegations of equal employment violations to report.

“Diogenes” represents a unique blend of magazines like “Time” and “Life” as well as publications like the “National Law Journal”. While the magazine should entertain and inform all of its readers, it is not strictly geared for government reform communities. Most of their members, collectively numbering in the hundreds of thousands if not millions, remain abreast of what matters to them through internet exchanges. As a traditional magazine, “Diogenes” reaches civic-minded audiences receptive to, but unlikely to scout out government reform messages in cyberspace. Current negotiations should lead to the placement of “Diogenes” on newsstands and in libraries, coffee houses, bookstores, places of worship, medical facilities and the like, all over the United States. In deciding whether to purchase the magazine, government reform activists are asked to consider whether they “want it read” more than whether they “want to read it” as they are stakeholders in the national media outlet that is “Diogenes”.

For additional information on the quarterly magazine, “Diogenes”, please visit http://www.njcdlp.org/DIOGENES.html or contact Zena D. Crenshaw or Andrew D. Jackson of NJCDLP.

National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. is an Indiana based nonprofit organization that develops in whole or part and helps implement customized, multi-discipline advocacy strategies on a case by case basis for victims of apparent judicial collusion. It sponsors WHEAG, Whistleblowrs for an Honest, Efficient, and Accountable Government which is a coalition of government whistleblowers.

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