DAY-17 CHASE BANK PROTEST, making plans to gear up full speed again.

So Wednesday was a day of trying to figure out what to do next. Not just about my Chase Bank protest, but about my life and what career path I will take. I took care of my parents for the past 16 months, but I will be the first to say they took care of me even more.

Once dad stopped driving, I took him and mom everywhere, and I wish I could relive every one of those days.

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I understand numbers very well. I want to be a paid gadfly, paid by the credit card industry, to tell them when their ideas are bad, or when they are OK.

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Before taking care of my parents, I did video camera and editing work. Unless I could design my own non linear editing platform, (and I could design one that would be simple to use), I don't see myself editing anymore.

I think I have a pretty good eye for framing and lighting, so I may do digital still photography, but not for events such as weddings.

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When it comes to the Credit Card Industry, I am concerned about the public display of glad handing that will be made by the politicians after they pass their credit card bill. However, there still will be no consumer advocate gadflies paid for by the credit card industry to balance out the boardroom greed that is ever present.

The media chose to talk about Pirates, Craigslist Killers, Child Abduction, Tea Party Protests, but they pretty much left alone the credit card industry, their theft of frequent flyer miles from the consumer, and the misery they are causing many many people by changing terms on existing debt.

I will not forget however, and I will continue my protest.

If there is no creation of a real consumer watchdog person or group, paid for by the credit card industry to watch over the credit card industry, we will fall short in what is good and right to do.

DAY-16 CHASE BANK PROTEST, Paying respects to my Father.

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I had recently second guessed myself that maybe a couple of years ago my dad should have had chemotherapy. However, in 2007 his first BONE SCAN had just come back negative. Looking at the picture of my father up above from around that time my dad still looked like his prostate cancer was just not advancing that fast.

My father at least one other bone scan several months later. and it was negative, yet his prostate cancer was actually advancing to other places, everywhere but his bones. Yet we never told that other tests might have given us a better understanding of his cancer was advancing.

I only recently learned that CAT SCANS, not Bone Scans are more expensive and more definitive in tracking how far and fast prostate cancer has actually spread outside of the prostate but not reached the bones. However, that does not necessarily mean that one can treat prostate cancer and stop it once it has left the prostate even if it is detected earlier.

It is actually possible that if my father had been given chemo when he was still a robust man 2 years ago that maybe it would have knocked him and the cancer down, temporarily, and then the cancer would have roared back and did him in anyways, with the additional issue of him feeling bad from the time he got his chemo until his eventual demise.

Fair Warning, bone scans may reveal no cancer in the bones yet the prostate cancer is still steadily advancing towards other organs such as the liver, colon, or lungs. It is possible that watchful waiting may produce a better, as good, or worse result than chemotherapy. If anybody has their own experience with a family member they want to share, please do so. Everybody's situation is different. Maybe the doctors did us favor by only focusing on Bone Scans, I just don't know.

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If you have a place you can post a Daily-Protest.com sign, please do. Just be safe and post it where it can't fall on anyone, distract anyone that is driving, or have sharp edges. Tell me what town you live in (via email), and I'll let you know if it generated any hits. I don't who or where someone is, the stat counter just tells me what city.

DAY-15 CHASE BANK PROTEST, analyzing my Chase Credit Card Bill.

My Chase bank credit card bill still has my old terms on it. Sure I'm glad. But can I really rest knowing that I don't even have opt out rights for when Chase does change terms. My other Chase bills did have changes. Fortunately those are for far less amounts, but they still misrepresented what the new terms would be and they had to send out a letter restating what the terms now are.

All I know is that I still have two Chase credit card bills that used to have a 5.99% interest rate for the life of the loan, and now they are 7.99% even though I was never late with a payment. Please read the mission statement of this blog to see that I cannot stop protesting until Credit card companies are fair and intelligent in the products they offer their customers.

Consumers MUST have the right to "OPT OUT' when terms are changed.

Day-14 Chase Bank Protest, Thanks for the Referrals in other articles around the web!

Daily-Protest.com is pleased to discover that others are providing a link to this blog in the comments section of articles about the credit card industry. Maybe some writers will see that it is ok to be brave and truthful about how wrong the credit card industry by raising interest rates, especially on their programs that promised life of the credit card loan low interest rate loans.

I won't be able to start protesting against Chase Bank until Wednesday, April 22, 2009 because my father's funeral is on Tuesday. However, I plan on coming back strong.

Please refer to prior articles to learn the various ways you can help. Daily-Protest appreciates it every time this blog is mentioned in the comments section of articles that discuss the credit card companies. Thanks again!

DAY - 13, CHASE BANK PROTEST, More Freeway Driving with the Daily-Protest.com sign in the Back Window of the Car.

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I have decided to preserve my voice for my father's funeral services. When I protest, I yell my slogan, CHASE BANK, KEEP YOUR WORD! I can yell pretty loudly. I actually can lose my talking voice but still be able to yell. However, if I lose my talking voice before my father's service that would be a bad thing. I don't want to be in the position of not being able to talk, but being able to yell at my father's funeral service.

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Our family was blindsided by the pre funeral arrangements that had been made and pre-paid for several years earlier. My father thought he was paying for everything, until it actually came time to call and make the arrangements for his funeral. We had to scramble to find an alternative casket, mortuary, and then church because the original contract and salesman had completely mislead us.

I won't go into the details but I can now offer you all some very important advice about pre-paying for your funeral plot, tomb, or mortuary services. When someone passes and a "conventional" funeral has been planned, there are several distinct steps that have to be taken. Body pick-up and transport to the mortuary, embalming, make-up and dressing, casket selection, viewing time, church time and the necessary personnel, religious speaker fee, death certificates, stationary, flowers, dvd photo montage, police escort, transport to burial, entombment or burial, plaque or headstone, engraving, vase, long term care and maintenance. I've probably forgotten a couple as well.

Funeral and mortuary facilities can deceive people by SOMEby having their sales person assure the family that everything has been paid for. Years later, when it is time to use the pre-purchased plan, all of the things that were verbally promised are no where to be found on the contract.

This type of cemetery and mortuary scam could easily be stopped if all funeral and mortuary contracts listed ALL OF THE NECESSARY STEPS that will have to be paid for are actually pre-printed on the contract. Then the salesman has to initial the printed items that are actually being purchased.

If any of you have parents or you yourself have already purchased your burial spot and seem to think you have paid for everything, the odds are that you have probably only paid for a small portion of everything you will need. Review your contract NOW. If the sales person hand writes onto your contract what you are buying, what they are really doing is not revealing what you still have to buy. This is fraud and deception and can set you up for a false sense of security and a huge financial obligation when you can least afford it.

Chase Bank Protest - Day 12, Taking it to the Streets and Freeways of Los Angeles.

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Today was spent making funeral arrangements for my father.

I put the DAILY-PROTEST.com sign in the rear window of the car and we drove 80 miles in Los Angeles traffic going to our appointments for the day, most of the driveway was freeway driving. A bunch of it in stop and go freeway traffic. (for safety reasons I am not advocating anyone else do this).

It appears DAILY-PROTEST.com picked up a few Southern California hits as a result! I drive extra carefully because the Daily-Protest sign does take up space in the back window so I am not advocating anyone else do this. I take many more quick glances out of both side view mirrors to make up for having less viewing area in the back and this safety technique is not something I can easily teach to others.

If you want to help reverse Draconian Credit Card decisions made by Chase Bank boardroom numbskulls who have no faith in the american people and are instead trying to capture as much of our wealth as soon as possible, rather than free it up, then join my protest, it's easy.

Just make signs with the words DAILY-PROTEST.com and put them somewhere where others will see them. Just make sure your signs won't fall on somebody or into traffic. Your signs should not have sharp edges nor should they distract people who are driving or otherwise moving, or obsruct other people's view. Make the letters nice and thick so they are more visible. Hand made or designed on a computer, either is fine. Perhaps you can leave them on a bulletin board where you work, or on a counter-top. If you own your own business, it would be amazing if you could put a Daily-Protest.com sign in your store window.

If dozens of people put these signs up, this site would probably gain 50 hits a day, or more, and that's 50 more people a day we can educate about Chase Bank and their racketeering ways. I did not come up with the phrase racketeering. I told a doctor what I was doing and why, and they used the term "racketeering" to describe Chase's tactics, and I agree. Changing terms on an existing account and not allowing the customer the opportunity to say "I opt out" is racketeering in my opinion.

Chase Bank, soon to be known as Change Bank (as in the bank that changes terms, leaving their customers with only the change in their pocket) if they don't reverse what they have already started.

Chase Bank Protest - Day 11, Van Nuys Post Office on Sherman Way Pre-midnight and after midnight Protest against Chase Bank.

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My father passed away this morning, now it was 12 hour later and at 11:30PM I was mailing my IRS payment at the Van Nuys station. Since I was already there, I decided to hold up my CHASE, KEEP YOUR WORD, protest sign along with my Daily-Protest.com sign for a while. It was a half hearted effort at best. I couldn't stop thinking about my Dad and my overwhelming guilt that I didn't slobber him with kisses and tell him how great a dad he had been.

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I made sure not to clog last minute traffic. I had a very carthartic talk with the hospice driver who came to pick the bed, oxygen machine and wheelchair.

If you want to help keep the protest going over the next couple of days, please make a sign that says Daily-Protest.com and put it somewhere where it can be safely viewed and won't fall on anybody or into traffic. Make sure the sign doesn't have sharp edges either.

No matter where you live, if you put up a couple of signs in a storefront or a parked car that is visible to others (please don't drive with the sign in the back window as that could be risky), I might be able to track if I get any hits from your city and let you know not who, but how many hits you helped generate.

Chase Bank Protest-Day 10, My Dad Passes and it was painful for me.

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My Father passed away yesterday. Even though I was with him most of the time over the past 2 months, I made a huge mistake and I will never forget it, and it hurts. I wanted to give him a ton of kisses to make up for the unnecessary guilt that others in our family had chosen to heap on him. However, I was afraid that by doing that, I would be telling him to die, that this was it. So I waited so as not to hasten his death.

He had to be changed that last night and he was so weak that he just sank into the air mattress. It took me half an hour to change him and I was so exhausted by then that I fell asleep sometime around 3 in the morning? When I woke up he was gone. I wanted him to know one final time how grateful I was for him and for being his son and to counter the stress, anxiety and guilt that he felt based on the narcissistic judgement by others of his life, and I failed.

My father thanked me several times over the past couple of months and said he wouldn't still be alive if not for my efforts. For me it was not an effort,I was grateful to be there when he needed a sip of water or had a special food craving, but I just wanted to him know one last time in no uncertain terms how much he meant to me.

A big part of my grief involved trying to file my nightly story for this blog even as he lay just three feet from me and was only hours away from dying. Filing my nightly stories is important to me because we have to fight back against paper violence. Paper violence is when some schmuck in a corporate board room makes a callous, uncalled for numerical decision that instantly causes grief and hardship to thousands of people, such as what Chase is doing with their Change in Terms on already existing agreements. These Change in terms involve raising monthly minimum fees 250%. Yet there was my father, and I blew it his final night and I am sitting here in tears as I write this.

As at peace that I am that I did everything for my father that I could, I feel I blew it the final night of his life, big time, and I blame Chase bank for that. I would protest 8 hours a day against Chase, every day, if I could earn a wage doing it. In the meantime, I will probably post less often over the next week as I prepare for my fathers funeral. Thanks Dad, thanks for my life and for you being in it.