Dear Governors of California, New York, New Mexico:

I hope this e-mail finds you all well and healthy during these hectic times in our nation. 

As the state representatives in your home states whom I've been working with the past 3+ months know by now, I'm not some politician who gives into the peer pressure of rich donors who fund our elected officials (in this case I'm referring to the Hollywood Studios). Rather, I'm a filmmaker with a good heart trying to be on the right side of history with passing Halyna's Law nationwide.

My original goal was to get legislation proposed that will protect the safety of crew members working in our dysfunctional film industry in your individual states. These below the line crew members deserve to go home after a hard days work and not be murdered while doing their job. It's bad enough they are working 18+ hours a day, is it too much to ask that there aren't real guns and bullets being fired towards them as they're doing their job?
 
After speaking at length with various politicians and journalists the past week and a half in your home states, I've come to the troubling conclusion that my efforts to get legislation proposed for Halyna's Law, which would ban the use of real guns and live ammunition on film and television sets, has failed due to the Hollywood Studios tight grip over the politicians in your states. I feel as though I've wasted three months of my precious time trying to get state legislation proposed, and in return, have been lied to and led on by our elected officials. I could have spent my time going the federal route (which I am currently doing now).

Hollywood Studios, along with those in power in our film industry (deep pocketed donors, along with various other rich people who fund these state politicians campaigns for election and re-election) have more power than I had ever anticipated. I have been working tirelessly, often times 16-18 hours a day, in my activism efforts to prevent Hollywood from contributing to the violence that is plaguing our nation.

Hollywood's obsession with producing content that glorifies violence has led to our streets becoming a war zone. It's bad enough that they are producing this violent content, but to use real guns and live ammunition while doing so is unfathomable. Just a few weeks ago in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I went to buy a pack of smokes and a grocery store clerk was robbed and shot point blank in the head while I was in line. This is just another statistical example of the violence that is plaguing our nation due to the content that Hollywood is producing. 

Prior to the start of the New Year, I felt as though I was making tremendous progress with your home states in terms of getting legislation proposed that would finally ban the use real guns and live ammunition on film and television sets. I was being led on and lied to by the senators I've been working with. It seems as though the Hollywood Studios won't allow that to ever happen.

These elected politicians (not just in your states, but throughout the nation) are simply just puppets who respond to the Hollywood Studios needs. They simply do whatever they say because of their contributions to their election campaigns. This is basically the equivalent of living in a corrupt 3rd world country (let's use Colombia for example) where political leaders are bribed by the drug cartels. In this case, the Hollywood Studios are the cartels. 

I have uncovered much political corruption during my months long journey to get Halyna's Law proposed and passed in your states. I will be sharing that moving forward with all the press interviews I do, along with the political leaders in Washington D.C whom I'm currently speaking with. I intend on pursuing federal legislation for Halyna's Law since our local state officials are too easily bribed by the Hollywood Studio system and easily give into their demands. 

I've already reached out to Senator Chuck Schumer's office in D.C along with other federal politicians whom I'm currently speaking with regarding Halyna's Law. If local state politicians won't do the morally right thing and change Hollywood's obsession with glorifying violence with the content they produce in film and television, then perhaps the President of the United States will finally sign Halyna's Law once it's proposed in D.C and make into a national mandate where real guns and live ammunition will no longer be used on film and television sets. 

Over 116,500+ middle class American voters throughout the nation have signed my petition on www.change.org/HaylnasLaw along with more than a dozen A-list celebrities in Hollywood who can easily reach millions of voters with their voices. They they have entrusted me with getting this law passed and believe in me and my passion to do so. They are baffled that real guns are being used on movie sets while creating entertainment for others. 

Numerous people are afraid that I will be canceled in Hollywood and never work in the film industry again. For those people, I tell them that it is not a realistic possibility. I'm not a famous A-list filmmaker working within the Hollywood Studio system. I make independent feature films, financed by a very close group of investors whom I personally know (and who have known me for decades) and who have deep respect for me and the content I create which doesn't involve violence. I have zero desire to ever make a Hollywood Studio feature film. Therefore, I have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by getting this law proposed and passed nationally.

A human life is not worth the fictional entertainment for others pleasure. I feel as though we are living in the times of the Roman Empire, when gladiator matches would take place in a coliseum and patrons would be cheering as the fighters would get slaughtered and killed, all for the sake of entertainment.

I am now urging all of my supporters for Halyna's Law to contact their federal state senators and let them know that they support this proposed legislation, which will ban the use of real guns and live ammunition on film and television sets, along with demanding better crew working conditions. These supporters are all voters who will eventually decide the course of both the mid-term elections and the next presidential race.

Due to this setback I've encountered on the state level, I now have more passion than ever before to get this law proposed and passed federally throughout the nation. After I'm done with getting this law passed in the USA, I will be pursuing legislation in other countries throughout the world (I've been talking with numerous politicians in France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, etc...). 

I'm not under the spell and mind control of the Hollywood Studios. I'm an independent filmmaker from Brooklyn who has had a troubled past and whom is trying to heal his deep emotional wounds by making a positive change in our nation with this law. We need to end Hollywood's obsession with guns and violence depicted in film and television series.

We need to spread love, not violence. Please join me in being on the right side of history.

Sincerely yours,

Bandar Albuliwi
@HalynasLaw (Twitter)