Visit your State Capitol Sunday 12 December 2004

http://www.51capitalmarch.com/
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...protest the theft of our votes and our voting rights in the 2004 election.
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http://www.51capitalmarch.com/

Goering

Learn the Nature of the Problem

"The Corporation" opens at Tampa theatre on December 10th

http://www.thecorporation.com/

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http://www.thecorporation.com/

"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.." -- Adolf Hitler

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/12/far04041.html

"God Is With Us": Hitler's Rhetoric and the Lure of "Moral Values" by
Maureen Farrell

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/12/far04041.html

Aren't politicians civilians?

"There should be a federal investigation of the vote count in Ohio, with the partisan secretary of state removing himself from the scene."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse30.html
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Something's fishy in Ohio

November 30, 2004

BY JESSE JACKSON

In the Ukraine, citizens are in the streets protesting what they charge is a fixed election. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell expresses this nation's concern about apparent voting irregularities. The media give the dispute around-the-clock coverage. But in the United States, massive and systemic voter irregularities go unreported and unnoticed.

Ohio is this election year's Florida. The vote in Ohio decided the presidential race, but it was marred by intolerable, and often partisan, irregularities and discrepancies. U.S. citizens have as much reason as those in Kiev to be concerned that the fix was in. Consider:

In Ohio, a court just ruled there can't be a recount yet, because the vote is not yet counted. It's three weeks after the election, and Ohio still hasn't counted the votes and certified the election. Some 93,000 overvotes and undervotes are not counted; 155,000 provisional ballots are only now being counted. Absentee ballots cast in the two days prior to the election haven't been counted.

Ohio determines the election, but the state has not yet counted the vote. That outrage is made intolerable by the fact that the secretary of state in charge of this operation, Ken Blackwell, holds -- like Katherine Harris of Florida's fiasco in 2000 -- a dual role: secretary of state with control over voting procedures and co-chair of George Bush's Ohio campaign. Blackwell should recuse himself so that a thorough investigation, count and recount of Ohio's vote can be made.

Blackwell reversed rules on provisional ballots in place in the spring primaries. These allowed voters to cast provisional ballots anywhere in their county, even if they were in the wrong precinct, reflecting the chief rationale for provisional ballots: to ensure that those who went to the wrong place by mistake could have their votes counted. The result of this decision -- why does this not surprise? -- was to disqualify disproportionately ballots cast in heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County.

Blackwell also permitted the use of electronic machines that provided no paper record. The maker of many of these machines, the head of Diebold Co., promised to deliver Ohio for Bush. In one precinct in Franklin County, an electric voting system gave Bush 3,893 extra votes out of a total of 638 votes cast.

Blackwell also presided over a voting system that resulted in quick, short lines in the dominantly Republican suburbs, and four-hour and longer waiting lines in the inner cities. Wealthy precincts received ample numbers of voting machines and numerous voting places. Democratic precincts received inadequate numbers of machines in too few polling places that were often hard to locate; this caused daylong waits for the very working people who could least afford the time.

In Ohio, as in Florida and Pennsylvania, there was a stark disconnect between the exit polls and the tabulated results, with the former favoring John Kerry and the latter George Bush. The chance of this occurring in these three states, according to Professor Steven Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania, is about 250 million to 1.

In one of dozens of examples, Ellen Connally, an African-American Supreme Court candidate running an underfunded race at the bottom of the ticket, received over 257,000 more votes than Kerry in 37 counties. She ran better than Kerry in the areas of the state where she wasn't known and didn't campaign than she did where she was known and did campaign.

There should be a federal investigation of the vote count in Ohio, with the partisan secretary of state removing himself from the scene.

In Cleveland, as in Kiev, Ukraine, citizens have the right to know that the election is run fairly and every vote counted honestly. Citizens have the right to nonpartisan election officials. Citizens have the right to voting machines that keep a paper record and allow for an independent audit and recount.

This country needs no more Floridas and Ohios. This shouldn't be a partisan issue. We call for a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote for all U.S. citizens and to empower Congress to establish federal standards and nonpartisan administration of elections. Harris and Blackwell are insults to the people they represent, and stains upon the president whose election they sought to ensure. Democracy should not be for export only.
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse30.html

Take ACLU pledge : Refuse to surrender your Freedom

Join the ACLU in Refusing to Surrender your Freedom
http://www.aclu.org/refusetosurrender/

http://www.aclu.org/refusetosurrender/

moveon petition to investigate the vote

http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
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Questions are swirling around whether the election was conducted honestly or not. We need to know -- was it or wasn't it?

If people were wrongly prevented from voting, or if legitimate votes were mis-counted or not counted at all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and to help prevent this from happening again.
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http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/

Are you skeptical?

Would you like to believe that all is well in the good ole' U.S.A.? Would you like to think that we're sending our boys "over there" to spread freedom? Would you like to believe that our government is of, for and by us? Would you like to believe that the persons who are in charge of our government have nothing but the preservation of our freedom, our constitution, our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness as their top priorities?

Well, so would I.

But I don't.

I urge you to speak out. This is not the time to stand by idly. Write a letter to your newspaper. Here are some points of contact:

St. Petersburg Times, Florida
http://www.sptimes.com/letters/

PetitionOnline.com
http://www.petitiononline.com/

New York Times
letters@nytimes.com

USA Today
editor@usatoday.com

Washington Post
letters@washpost.com

Here's some additional research I recommend:

http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/

...we see the mainstream media still ignoring the largest story out there, the potential theft of a presidential election.

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4478
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by Anthony Wade

Silence. That is all we continue to hear from our media. There was a time in America when the media would actually practice journalism. They would investigate. They would corroborate. They would scrutinize. In modern day America , this must be proving to be too daunting for our faux media. It seems to be easier to create news, based on what is fed to them. It must be far simpler to just accept what the administration says, instead of actually digging a little to find out if the facts coincide. The problem is that the American people deserve better. They deserve the truth, not parroting of created news stories. Votergate 2004 continues to swell all around us, yet the silence remains deafening. It is beyond silent, it is insulting
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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4478

A Petition to Congress requesting an investigation into the Presidential Election of 2004

http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html
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To: United States Congress
TO: All members of the Congress of the United States of America; all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives

A Petition to immediately and without delay open a joint investigation into potential wrongdoing in the Presidential Election of 2004, specifically to investigate the potential of voting machine manipulation or purposeful malfunction, especially electronic voting machines manufactured and supplied by Diebold, Inc.; Electronic Systems & Software (ES & S); Sequoia Voting Systems, and others, and also to identify and investigate all allegations of improper conduct by election officials, workers, observers, challengers and operatives and employees of both major parties concerning the voting process including intimidation, dissemination of improper information, manipulation of registration records, improper handling of actual voting ballots and, in general, any and all potential improprieties which could have led to improper or inaccurate election results.

Such inquiries should not be limited to any particular state, precinct or district but strive to examine the voting process in any and all areas in which there is even the slightest indication of impropriety, but especially in the states of Florida, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and New Hampshire, and not limit such investigation, and expand such investigations to cover Senatorial races as well, especially those in Kentucky, Florida and South Dakota.

We, the undersigned, request that our elected representatives act in accordance with the Constitution of the United States of America in a legal, impartial and expedient manner for an open hearing before the people of the United States and if such wrongdoing, illegal practices, manipulation of voting records or processes is of such a nature to indicate egregious or extensive tampering, alteration or misappropriation of the voting process that the violators be brought to justice and remedies, potentially including a nationwide audit, recall, recount or new election be imposed by your bodies.

We feel it is our patriotic duty to request such action from you, our elected officials, and your duty to respond in a responsible manner.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned



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http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html

We demand clean elections.

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4306
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Why signing the Petition to Congress requesting an investigation into the Presidential Election of 2004 is vitally important

Rick Gagliano | November 13, 2004

While the media overlooks the obvious - that six Congressmen have called for a GAO investigation into electronic voting, that Ralph Nader has initiated a recount in New Hampshire, that the Green and Libertarian candidates are pushing forward with plans for an Ohio recount, that Bev Harris at BlackBoxVoting.org has filed a massive Freedom of Information Act request - the petition, started less than a week ago and already having garnered the support of 35,000 signers, may be America’s best hope discovering just exactly what went wrong on November 2nd.

The recounts are well-intentioned, but they may fail. The GAO investigation may take months even to get started and there’s no guarantee that it will result in full blown Congressional hearings. The FOIA requests will provide information - actual data on voting, but has no prosecutorial power.

For those reasons and others, that is why I wrote the petition in the first place and directed it to the full Congress. The petition (included below) calls for a complete and sweeping investigation and doesn’t stop at just electronic voting, but asks Congress to examine what went on before the election as well - to seek information relating to registration problems, disinformation, long lines at the polls, intimidation, and other tactics that were implicitly designed to keep people from voting.

The petition also names many states individually, in addition to Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, where many suspect tampering, but also in other states where odd discrepancies between exit polls and actual votes occurred and where voting patterns suddenly changed direction as the nation watched.

I was especially attuned to potential fraud in this election. I had been keeping up on electronic voting during the six months before the election and suspected that there would be tampering and that it may be difficult to detect. On election night itself, I paid attention to reports from Cleveland and elsewhere of long lines at the polls, computer glitches and other assorted oddities. But mostly I was paying attention to the projections by the networks. Early on, the race between Bush and Kerry was said to be "too close to call" in states that we’re even the so-called "battlegrounds" - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and later, Missouri, Arkansas, Nevada and New Mexico. I was also shocked to watch the Kentucky Congressional race turn around, from a slim, but comfortable lead for challenger Democratic Daniel Mongiardo to an eventual victory for incumbent Jim Bunning. From 7:30 pm to the final tally there was a 5% swing in the vote. Bunning won by 2%.

When I finally went to bed on election night, the presidential race was still in doubt, but my suspicions over the propriety of the entire process were growing. On Wednesday, November 3, Kerry conceded and the nation breathed a collective sigh of either relief or exasperation.

In the aftermath of the election, stories began to pop up on the internet. Some of the made valid claims, others were hysterical and without merit. Still others began to examine how the election was won or lost, depending on perspective. By Sunday night, I had seen enough articles on the internet to convince me that there was at least enough REASONABLE DOUBT into the fairness of the election. Even though the mainstream press was in denial and had not even begun to report on most of the allegations being circulated, and had dismissed the glaring discrepancies between the exit polls and the final count with a glib consensus that "the polls were wrong," without any evidence on which to make that claim.

I worded the petition in such a way as to call attention to all aspects of the voting process and made it clear that the entire Congress needed to look into these allegations and get to the truth.

This petition also instructs Congress to bring any violators to justice and to provide appropriate remedies, which could include a nationwide audit, recount, recall or new election. The Congress is empowered with sweeping authority to investigate and bring criminal charges. They have at their disposal the Depatment of Justice, the FBI, the GAO in addition to subpoena powers and their own investigative tools.

Since that time over 35,000 concerned Americans have signed, but we need more exposure and more signatories. Not a single mainstream journalist has so much as mentioned the petition, though I have continually, throughout the past week, written articles and updates and sent emails to various news organizations as, I’m sure, did many others.

Time is growing short. A copy of the petition and the names of the signers must be delivered to Congress reasonably before December 7, the date by which states must determine any controversy relating to the appointment of electors. The electors will meet and the vote will be final a week after that on December 13.

That is why I have set a target date of December 2nd for delivery of the petition to Congress. It gives them a number of days to respond and also may raise enough doubt that the electors determine that there is indeed sufficient controversy to delay their vote until issues are resolved.

Please join me and other honest, concerned Americans in this effort to compel Congressional action, investigate the election in open hearings and take back our nation. This petition may be our last, best hope.

Much work needs to be done. Awareness of the existence of the petition needs to be at a much higher level. The printing of the petition and list of names needs to be printed and transported to Washington, D. C. The host of the petition, petitiononline.com, has conveyed costs to me for printing and they assure me that it will be professional and legally valid. These costs, must be paid, and while they are not overwhelming, I cannot bear them myself, though I gladly would if able. Of course, additional copies directed at every Senator and Member of the House - even though these could be simply the petition itself and the names by reference - will take time, effort and money to distribute properly.

But most importantly, more people must sign the petition.

Congress needs to know that the American people will not stand for lies, injustice and fraud in any aspect of our government. We must show, by force of numbers, that we will not sit idly by and have our rights abridged, trampled and destroyed.

I am not affiliated with any party. I am a citizen of the United States of America and proud of it. I did not write and post this petition for any kind of personal gain. I have no agenda other than to find the truth about what really happened on, before and after election day. These are dangerous times for America and we need to be courageous, righteous and above all, united.

Rick Gagliano
Downtown Magazine, Rochester, NY
dtmagazine.com
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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4306

Join us in petition and rallies against fraudulent election

http://www.petitiononline.com/rdb1104/petition.html
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We call upon federal, state and local law enforcement officials to investigate these crimes against democracy, and to use their subpoena power and other investigatory tools to break the conspiracy of silence.

We respectfully request that should the evidence of direct and deliberate involvement in an attempt to mislead the American people into believing they had chosen a candidate who did not, in fact, legitimately secure the presidency, that the criminals who conspired should be charged with treason against the United States of America.

Further, we respectfully request that the provision in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution on the disenfranchisement of citizens be invoked, so that states that deliberately prevented citizens from casting ballots for the presidency or deliberately miscounted or misreported those votes should lose representation in the U.S. Congress in proportion to the number of citizens disenfranchised.
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http://www.petitiononline.com/rdb1104/petition.html

Ukraine? What about U.S.?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704D.shtml
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Watching the newsreels of Ukrainians taking to the streets by the hundreds of thousands to protest an election they believe was fraudulent, one has to wonder what Americans are thinking and feeling.
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What do Ukrainians know that Americans don't?
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But what are the implications of ignoring electoral corruption?
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Like the Ukrainians, some Americans predicted our election would be stolen and even outlined how it would be done.
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The battle which must be fought is one to save representative democracy from the final death blow that will be dealt by ignoring the widespread electoral problems of the past two presidential elections.
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We still cling to the myth that
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we are permanently immune to tyranny
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We ignore millennia of history demonstrating that powerpaths will pursue whatever schemes necessary to maintain power. Indeed, they typically usurp power incrementally, pushing the envelope and testing the boundaries.
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Considering the relative ease with which the Bush administration stole the 2000 election, deceived the congress and American people, and impudently committed crimes against the international community, why wouldn't they take steps readily available to them (via Diebold, Jeb Bush, Kenneth Blackwell, et al.) to stay in power by stealing another election?
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We can inundate Congress with demands for investigations.
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We can pressure news media to stop marginalizing election reform efforts by telling us to move on.
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Proprietary trade secrets of Diebold and ES&S must be smashed in the courts and the legislatures lest democracy be smashed in the wake of the incestuous marriage of right-wing government and corporate power[read: FASCISM].
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[We must] demand uncompromising reforms to our electoral system before it becomes irrelevant. It would be an abandonment of principles and duties to country if we didn't. Indeed, it would be unpatriotic.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704D.shtml

Help audit the election

http://www.blackboxvoting.org needs volunteers to do research, data entry and number crunching.

Where Is The Airplane...That Crashed into Pentagon???

Where Is The Airplane...That Crashed into Pentagon???
Click on the below website and watch this film (http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php#Main )...do it quickly as it has been pulled off several websites already ... and YOU'LL SEE WHY! At the end of the film click on HOME
(or go to http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/)for more comments.

What do you think? Maybe it's worth asking some questions?

"It's not over until it's over."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112204A.shtml
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Blackwell, who oversaw the election in Ohio, also served as co-chair of the Ohio Bush-Cheney reelection campaign.
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all of the so-called "anomalies" in the voting results favor Bush.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112204A.shtml

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I Voted?

Stupidity Kills / Monopolized Media

http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2026

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The best question asked in the aftermath of the 2004 US election came from a British newspaper, The Daily Mirror, which inquired over a picture of George W. Bush, "How can 59,054,087 be so dumb?
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is it really appropriate to compare the United States in 2004 with a warped media market like South Africa during apartheid days?

Actually, the comparison may be a bit unfair to South African media in the apartheid era
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Years of consolidation and bottom-line pressures have forced even once responsible media to allow entertainment and commercial values to supersede civic and democratic values when making news decisions.
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a lot of Americans voted for George W. Bush on November 2 on the basis of wrong assumptions.
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a lot of what Americans know is wrong.
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only 31 percent of Bush supporters recognized that the majority of people in the world opposed the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq.
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Only 9 percent of Bush backers correctly assumed that Kerry was the world's choice.
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72 percent of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq had actual WMD (47 percent) or a major program for developing them (25 percent)
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75 percent of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda
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tendency of Bush supporters to ignore dissonant information
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good citizens who consume American media come away with dramatic misconceptions
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Fox warps facts intentionally
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CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, USA Today, the New York Times and the Washington Post
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fed the American people an inaccurate picture
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without aggressively and consistently challenging
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misstatements of fact
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taken as a whole, US media--with its obsessive focus on John Kerry's Vietnam record, its neglect of fundamental economic and environmental issues and its stenographic repetition of even the most absurd claims by the president and vice president--warped the debate in 2004.
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Some of those 59,054,087 Bush voters may have been dumb.

But a far better explanation for the election result is summed up by the Weekly Guardian's observation that, "Maybe it's the papers they're reading."

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http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2026