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Tragic, tragic.
I agree with you, and just cannot believe people can be so dumb.
Sincerely,
John Wiseman
I agree with you, and just cannot believe people can be so dumb.
Sincerely,
John Wiseman
Thank you for printing Fitrakis and Wasserman's article on electronic vote shenanigans. It is critical that we raise a cry about this. It is absolutely unbelieveable that the American people have accepted this.
Even more alarming is this little story I will relate to you.
Even more alarming is this little story I will relate to you.
Cathy, Jimmy, All,
I concur from California on the opposite side of the country from Maryland. Same truth though. Yes, the old Republic is dead. It is up to us to fight for it and get a real democracy back. [with proportional representation, too.]
It is a fight to the finish against the so-called authoritarian NeoCons. They were just simple fascists 60 years ago known as German Nazis. America's "Greatest Generation" almost wiped them off the face of the Earth. Too bad, they missed a few.
A rich and privileged remnant remained in, of all places, the United States of America. Growing like a cancer from such people as Prescott Bush, grand father of the current appointed administrator in the house of white in DC, they have now returned with the most successful fascist empire of all time; and, with the most lethal military in the history of Warfare.
Yes, it is up to us to bring them [NeoCons] down. They must be replaced. This fascist government cannot stand. The Oceans will run red with the blood of millions unless the real Americans arrest and try every one of the fascist NeoCons for treason, a death penalty offense.
I concur from California on the opposite side of the country from Maryland. Same truth though. Yes, the old Republic is dead. It is up to us to fight for it and get a real democracy back. [with proportional representation, too.]
It is a fight to the finish against the so-called authoritarian NeoCons. They were just simple fascists 60 years ago known as German Nazis. America's "Greatest Generation" almost wiped them off the face of the Earth. Too bad, they missed a few.
A rich and privileged remnant remained in, of all places, the United States of America. Growing like a cancer from such people as Prescott Bush, grand father of the current appointed administrator in the house of white in DC, they have now returned with the most successful fascist empire of all time; and, with the most lethal military in the history of Warfare.
Yes, it is up to us to bring them [NeoCons] down. They must be replaced. This fascist government cannot stand. The Oceans will run red with the blood of millions unless the real Americans arrest and try every one of the fascist NeoCons for treason, a death penalty offense.
In self-fulfilling prophetic bravado, this President creates what he decries. The most dangerous person on the earth is not now Bin Laden, it is George Bush with Dick Cheney embedded in the hunch on his back. Bin Laden knocked off a few embassies, a large boat and the twin towers maybe. Bush, on the other hand ,entirelly blew out a capital (Bagdad), napalmed Fallujah, and bombed and burned many other cities. Entire cities. He took out a regime he didn't like, he laid the foundation for civil war. He started a war in a country that did not attack us. He created mayhem, destruction, flying limbs, burning babies and toppled hundreds of buildings to dust.
Dear Sirs,
I just finished reading your most recent article (http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559In), and I am appalled, to say the least. Not for your article, mind you, but for the truth about our elections you have once again made crystal clear. Our American Democracy. I am afraid to say, may be lost. The Republican Party has apparently determined that Ohio and Florida are THE vulnerable states for election manipulation, and have all the equipment and personnel in place to insure future victories in elections in spite of the will of the people.
I just finished reading your most recent article (http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559In), and I am appalled, to say the least. Not for your article, mind you, but for the truth about our elections you have once again made crystal clear. Our American Democracy. I am afraid to say, may be lost. The Republican Party has apparently determined that Ohio and Florida are THE vulnerable states for election manipulation, and have all the equipment and personnel in place to insure future victories in elections in spite of the will of the people.
This article makes a true point about American "democracy." But it is not a new point.
John Kennedy won by vote fraud in Illinois and Texas. Lyndan Johnson's Congressional career was littered with vote fraud. Richard J. Daley's machine was expert at twisting elections.
Kerry has always been an uninteresting and rather cowardly politician. Nothing, absolutely nothing, would have been gained by his election.
If Americans want democratic elections, they should seiously limit the role of money in elections. Eliminating the ridiculous 18th century Electoral College from the Constitution would help clarify Presidential elections.
Important too is eliminating all the barriers and special privileges of the two national parties. They dominate politics and effectively suppress much decent and honest political activity. The Democrats today are barely distinguishable from the Republicans.
John Kennedy won by vote fraud in Illinois and Texas. Lyndan Johnson's Congressional career was littered with vote fraud. Richard J. Daley's machine was expert at twisting elections.
Kerry has always been an uninteresting and rather cowardly politician. Nothing, absolutely nothing, would have been gained by his election.
If Americans want democratic elections, they should seiously limit the role of money in elections. Eliminating the ridiculous 18th century Electoral College from the Constitution would help clarify Presidential elections.
Important too is eliminating all the barriers and special privileges of the two national parties. They dominate politics and effectively suppress much decent and honest political activity. The Democrats today are barely distinguishable from the Republicans.
The special prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame
Wilson is trying to determine whether Deputy White House chief of staff Karl
Rove lied to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents about his role
in the case in October 2003, attorneys close to the case said.
News reports in recent weeks have suggested that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has narrowed his criminal inquiry into whether Rove purposely failed to tell the grand jury hearing evidence in the case that he spoke with Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in July 2003 and revealed the identity of the undercover CIA agent.
But Fitzgerald hasn't resolved another important element in the case: what appears to be misleading statements Rove made to FBI investigators on Oct. 8, 2003, less than two weeks after the Justice Department announced that it had launched a criminal probe into Plame's outing, the attorneys said.
News reports in recent weeks have suggested that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has narrowed his criminal inquiry into whether Rove purposely failed to tell the grand jury hearing evidence in the case that he spoke with Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in July 2003 and revealed the identity of the undercover CIA agent.
But Fitzgerald hasn't resolved another important element in the case: what appears to be misleading statements Rove made to FBI investigators on Oct. 8, 2003, less than two weeks after the Justice Department announced that it had launched a criminal probe into Plame's outing, the attorneys said.
In today's article, you state that we still have no credible explanation for why Kerry conceded as quickly as he did.
I think the answer is in the newly released Italian documentary "Fallujah--The Hidden Massacre". In this documentary, an ex-Marine is interviewed and says that it was widely understood that the troops were standing ready to attack Fallujah and were told not to go in until after the election--until after they had heard that "Bush won".
If you haven't already watched this, please do.
Carol Bronder
St. Paul, MN
I think the answer is in the newly released Italian documentary "Fallujah--The Hidden Massacre". In this documentary, an ex-Marine is interviewed and says that it was widely understood that the troops were standing ready to attack Fallujah and were told not to go in until after the election--until after they had heard that "Bush won".
If you haven't already watched this, please do.
Carol Bronder
St. Paul, MN
How much more will the American people endure?
"Find out just what people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
---Frederick Douglass, African-American slave, and abolitionist
229 Years Later Have Passed and True Freedom Still Eludes Most of Us
In support of the brave and intelligent citizens of Vermont who recently passed a resolution to secede from the union, I decided to update and modify our Declaration of Independence to fit the circumstances we are facing in 2005. Despite the numerous distinctions between then and now, in some significant ways, little has changed. Like our Founding Fathers, I enumerated grievances of the Oppressed in my version of the Declaration, and many are similar to those spelled out in the original version drafted in 1776. Even the name of the lead Oppressor remains the same.
"Find out just what people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
---Frederick Douglass, African-American slave, and abolitionist
229 Years Later Have Passed and True Freedom Still Eludes Most of Us
In support of the brave and intelligent citizens of Vermont who recently passed a resolution to secede from the union, I decided to update and modify our Declaration of Independence to fit the circumstances we are facing in 2005. Despite the numerous distinctions between then and now, in some significant ways, little has changed. Like our Founding Fathers, I enumerated grievances of the Oppressed in my version of the Declaration, and many are similar to those spelled out in the original version drafted in 1776. Even the name of the lead Oppressor remains the same.
Today, a little noticed vote took place in the Senate.
S.AMDT. 2476 was killed on a what was essentially a
straight party line vote. That amendment to the 2006
defense authorization bill, sponsored by Byron
Dorgan(D-ND), would have established a Special
Committee of the Senate on War and Reconstruction
Contracting, similar to the Truman Commission which
oversaw US contractors during WW II. That commission
saved US tax payers the equivalent of billions of
current US dollars.
Given the number of unbid contracts granted in Iraq, and elsewhere, not to mention the $8.8 billion in taxpayer dollars that simply disappeared during J. Paul Bremer's tenure as Proconsul in Iraq, it would behoove Congress to begin taking its oversight duties seriously. That the Republicans in the Senate, decided to kill the amendment raises serious questions. Not the least of which is, "Just what are you trying to hide?" Indeed, what is it that you don't want found out? Don't you think that we, the people deserve some accounting as to how our tax dollars are being used, abused or outright stolen?
Given the number of unbid contracts granted in Iraq, and elsewhere, not to mention the $8.8 billion in taxpayer dollars that simply disappeared during J. Paul Bremer's tenure as Proconsul in Iraq, it would behoove Congress to begin taking its oversight duties seriously. That the Republicans in the Senate, decided to kill the amendment raises serious questions. Not the least of which is, "Just what are you trying to hide?" Indeed, what is it that you don't want found out? Don't you think that we, the people deserve some accounting as to how our tax dollars are being used, abused or outright stolen?