Another Connection
Connections, I just can't make no . . .
Oops, let me turn down the Stones. But I've always found making connections to be very rewarding and satisfying. There's some almost endorphin trigger for me in synapsing a couple people, two like concepts, a person and a book I know they'd bond with, and so forth.
This post is about someone else making a connection. I'd not but should have thought of this. Duhh.
Caution: do not read further those of you so deaf, dumb, and blinded or emotionally frail that you cannot tolerate any further discussion of vote fraud in the 2004 election. Vote fraud happened. Enough to change the outcome? Can't say, but it's a strong possibility. The majority of the post-election analysis for 2000 strongly suggests that Gore would have won if the votes had been counted fairly in Florida, instead of having the US Supreme Court step in and usurp the state's rights. With that precedent and all of the republican lying and mis- and malfeasance that followed, it seems extremely likely that the Abramoff-Bush-DeLay-Rove-Norquist-Cheney-Rumsfeld machine would have found a little 2004 election cheating like stealing penny candy after robbing Fort Knox. It's bad enough that we allowed the original thievery to go unchallenged. 2004 was the year when the old saying came home to roost:
Shame on us.
Bob Fitrakis connects the dots:
What do we make of the President boldly proclaiming that he has “spy powers?” Does he have X-ray vision too?
When he and his cronies crawl up into Cheney’s bunker with the sign on the door “He-man Woman-haters Club. No Girls Allowed (except Condi),” do they synchronize their spy decoder rings and decide what new absurd folly to unleash on the world?
Illegal invasion of Iraq, suspending writs of habeus corpus, secret CIA torture dungeons, or election rigging? Most people outgrow such childish games and fantasies by the time they’re ten years old. And by age twelve, most understand that the President is not a king. Or a dictator. That U.S. citizens have inalienable rights.
That there are such things as search warrants. If the executive branch of government is going to conduct surveillance on the American people, they have to get a warrant from the judicial branch specifying what they’re looking for and the reasons for the search.
The Bush administration’s utter contempt for the U.S. Constitution and the specific information we now know about its use of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance network should further call into question Bush’ 2004 presidential “election.” In a recent revelation, we have learned that the NSA shared the fruits of its illegal spying on behalf of Bush with other government agencies.
What are e-voting machines and central tabulators that pass the voting results over electronic networks from the internet to phone lines? No more than data easily spied on and tapped into. The Franklin County Board of Elections, for example, tells us that it was a “transmission error” in Gahanna Ward 1B, where 638 people cast votes and Bush, the Wonder Boy, received 4258 votes. It’s not magic, nor is it an accident or an act of God. If the vote total wasn’t so hugely illogical, no one would have caught it.
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This is precisely the type of game George W. and his He-man authoritarian boy’s club would engage in. Recently, Professor Steve Freeman of Penn spoke at a New York election reform forum and told the audience that a third of the Kerry voters who showed up in exit polls in rural Republican-dominated areas simply don’t show up in the actual vote tally. Not just in Ohio, but throughout the nation.
Would a president who believes he has spy powers, the right to torture, the ability to wage illegal wars based on bogus, manufactured intelligence reports, simply refuse to spy on Kerry and rig an election electronically? In Ohio, two burglaries occurred against the Democratic Party in Lucas County and Franklin County just prior to 2004 election involving computer theft.
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Oops, let me turn down the Stones. But I've always found making connections to be very rewarding and satisfying. There's some almost endorphin trigger for me in synapsing a couple people, two like concepts, a person and a book I know they'd bond with, and so forth.
This post is about someone else making a connection. I'd not but should have thought of this. Duhh.
Caution: do not read further those of you so deaf, dumb, and blinded or emotionally frail that you cannot tolerate any further discussion of vote fraud in the 2004 election. Vote fraud happened. Enough to change the outcome? Can't say, but it's a strong possibility. The majority of the post-election analysis for 2000 strongly suggests that Gore would have won if the votes had been counted fairly in Florida, instead of having the US Supreme Court step in and usurp the state's rights. With that precedent and all of the republican lying and mis- and malfeasance that followed, it seems extremely likely that the Abramoff-Bush-DeLay-Rove-Norquist-Cheney-Rumsfeld machine would have found a little 2004 election cheating like stealing penny candy after robbing Fort Knox. It's bad enough that we allowed the original thievery to go unchallenged. 2004 was the year when the old saying came home to roost:
Shame on us.
Bob Fitrakis connects the dots:
What do we make of the President boldly proclaiming that he has “spy powers?” Does he have X-ray vision too?
When he and his cronies crawl up into Cheney’s bunker with the sign on the door “He-man Woman-haters Club. No Girls Allowed (except Condi),” do they synchronize their spy decoder rings and decide what new absurd folly to unleash on the world?
Illegal invasion of Iraq, suspending writs of habeus corpus, secret CIA torture dungeons, or election rigging? Most people outgrow such childish games and fantasies by the time they’re ten years old. And by age twelve, most understand that the President is not a king. Or a dictator. That U.S. citizens have inalienable rights.
That there are such things as search warrants. If the executive branch of government is going to conduct surveillance on the American people, they have to get a warrant from the judicial branch specifying what they’re looking for and the reasons for the search.
The Bush administration’s utter contempt for the U.S. Constitution and the specific information we now know about its use of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance network should further call into question Bush’ 2004 presidential “election.” In a recent revelation, we have learned that the NSA shared the fruits of its illegal spying on behalf of Bush with other government agencies.
What are e-voting machines and central tabulators that pass the voting results over electronic networks from the internet to phone lines? No more than data easily spied on and tapped into. The Franklin County Board of Elections, for example, tells us that it was a “transmission error” in Gahanna Ward 1B, where 638 people cast votes and Bush, the Wonder Boy, received 4258 votes. It’s not magic, nor is it an accident or an act of God. If the vote total wasn’t so hugely illogical, no one would have caught it.
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This is precisely the type of game George W. and his He-man authoritarian boy’s club would engage in. Recently, Professor Steve Freeman of Penn spoke at a New York election reform forum and told the audience that a third of the Kerry voters who showed up in exit polls in rural Republican-dominated areas simply don’t show up in the actual vote tally. Not just in Ohio, but throughout the nation.
Would a president who believes he has spy powers, the right to torture, the ability to wage illegal wars based on bogus, manufactured intelligence reports, simply refuse to spy on Kerry and rig an election electronically? In Ohio, two burglaries occurred against the Democratic Party in Lucas County and Franklin County just prior to 2004 election involving computer theft.
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