The Honorable Reginald C. Lindsay
United States District Court
1 Courthouse Way, Suite 2300
Boston, Massachusetts 02210

Re: Howe vs BIS  
00 CV 12485 RCL

Honorable Sir:

This letter is written to submit a short excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech of June 16, 1858:

We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen - Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance - and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few - not omitting even scaffolding - or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such a piece in - in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.

Respectfully submitted,

JOSEPH NICHOLAS TLAGA, Pro Se
2060 South-West 81st Avenue
North Lauderdale, FL 33068
954 718-2118 tlaga@shadow.net

November 6, 2001
c: All Counsel