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Dear Mr. Fitrakis and Mr. Wasserman:
I am writing in response to your recent article. I am not a "leftist." However, I was an election protection attorney in Toledo and spent four days there during the 2004 election.
I saw, first hand, the stealing of an election. I saw the long lines, the broken machines , the challenged voters, the misinformation, and more. Like you, I do not understand why the press did not extensively cover what happened and still do not understand why the American people, and especially the Democrats, aren't doing anything about it.
We can't "unelect" W, but we darn well better do something to prevent the Right Wing from hijacking all future elections!
Amanda D. Howland, Esq.
I am writing in response to your recent article. I am not a "leftist." However, I was an election protection attorney in Toledo and spent four days there during the 2004 election.
I saw, first hand, the stealing of an election. I saw the long lines, the broken machines , the challenged voters, the misinformation, and more. Like you, I do not understand why the press did not extensively cover what happened and still do not understand why the American people, and especially the Democrats, aren't doing anything about it.
We can't "unelect" W, but we darn well better do something to prevent the Right Wing from hijacking all future elections!
Amanda D. Howland, Esq.
America's warmongers have always run afoul of their own evil nature, greed and arrogance... they never know when to stop... the tragedy is that the human herd has always allowed such monsters to rise to power with their fearmongering followed by their warmongering followed by their soothing words that only the monsters can save the herd from stampeding over some imaginary precipice...
I think the answer lies in the body politic of the Democratic ( so called ) Leadership Council.
I remember reading someplace that Felix Rohatyn said.....fifteen years or so ago...
A great infusion of extreme right money was being poured into Republican coffers, and the Repubs were "following the money." At taht point, the democrats gave up being the opposition party, and smelling all that money, learned the financial advantage of SHARED POWER with the Rebublicans.
The DLC now, as I write this, gets vast monies from the extreme right.....
Only the grass roots ( old Deaniacs, faithful to Howard dean and his vision) keep any hope of taking our country back....We cannot and must not follow the DLC'ers.....the grass roots will have to put of their own candidates , support them, and get them elected.
I remember reading someplace that Felix Rohatyn said.....fifteen years or so ago...
A great infusion of extreme right money was being poured into Republican coffers, and the Repubs were "following the money." At taht point, the democrats gave up being the opposition party, and smelling all that money, learned the financial advantage of SHARED POWER with the Rebublicans.
The DLC now, as I write this, gets vast monies from the extreme right.....
Only the grass roots ( old Deaniacs, faithful to Howard dean and his vision) keep any hope of taking our country back....We cannot and must not follow the DLC'ers.....the grass roots will have to put of their own candidates , support them, and get them elected.
Whoa boy, put down the bong. It's not a good idea to get so shitfaced and start writing those wacky hate W screeds. Lordie, could you sound any more stupid?
Just a thought asshat.
Mattei
Just a thought asshat.
Mattei
Dear Losers,
Your capable of reading and writing, but not of reason - - a very seriously demented article. Your ideas lost - - yes LOST - - in the domain of public opinion. Americans don't want the intolerant ideas you spew. I love seeing liberals literally go crazy - - time to get professional help.
Mike Palvic
Carmichael, CA
Your capable of reading and writing, but not of reason - - a very seriously demented article. Your ideas lost - - yes LOST - - in the domain of public opinion. Americans don't want the intolerant ideas you spew. I love seeing liberals literally go crazy - - time to get professional help.
Mike Palvic
Carmichael, CA
Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller acted as a "middleman"
between an American military unit and the Iraqi National Congress while she
was embedded with the U.S. armed forces searching for weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq in April 2003, and "took custody" of Saddam Hussein's
son-in-law, one of 55 most wanted Iraqis, RAW STORY has found.
Moreover, in one of the most highly unusual arrangements between a news organization and the Department of Defense, Miller sat in on the initial debriefing of Jamal Sultan Tikriti, according to a June 25, 2003 article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28385-2003Jun24?language=prin…) published in the Washington Post.
Moreover, in one of the most highly unusual arrangements between a news organization and the Department of Defense, Miller sat in on the initial debriefing of Jamal Sultan Tikriti, according to a June 25, 2003 article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28385-2003Jun24?language=prin…) published in the Washington Post.
As the New Orleans disaster recedes from the headlines, citizen activists
face a choice. We can focus exclusively on other newer issues. Or we can
work to make the disaster one of those key turning points with the potential
to transform American politics. For this to happen, we need to consciously
create new dialogue, reaching well beyond the core converted.
If we think back to the 9/11 attacks, which have shaped American politics ever since, a brief window of critical reflection opened up in their immediate wake. Middle East experts critical of U.S. policies had op-eds in our largest newspapers and appeared on network TV. Ordinary citizens mourned the victims, while asking what would make the attackers so embittered they'd be willing to murder 3,000 innocent people. The next day, when I spoke about possible root causes, with even more frankness than usual, at a community college in the overwhelmingly Republican suburbs just north of Dallas, the response was amazingly receptive.
If we think back to the 9/11 attacks, which have shaped American politics ever since, a brief window of critical reflection opened up in their immediate wake. Middle East experts critical of U.S. policies had op-eds in our largest newspapers and appeared on network TV. Ordinary citizens mourned the victims, while asking what would make the attackers so embittered they'd be willing to murder 3,000 innocent people. The next day, when I spoke about possible root causes, with even more frankness than usual, at a community college in the overwhelmingly Republican suburbs just north of Dallas, the response was amazingly receptive.
Just a salute to you guys for your continuing efforts
to delve into voting irregularities in Ohio.
I also fear that we have entered into a new political age where Republicans will simply steal close elections from a supine democratic party.
I am absolutely stunned by the inability of the so-called democrats--and even large parts of the progressive left--to grasp the implications of the massive evidence of vote fraud. How could any politcal party, for instance, permit companies with intimate ties to the opposition party count the votes? It seems almost too absurd to contemplate, and yet it is just one of the major toxins now poisoning our dying democracy.
Please keep up your great work.
Regards, Randy
I also fear that we have entered into a new political age where Republicans will simply steal close elections from a supine democratic party.
I am absolutely stunned by the inability of the so-called democrats--and even large parts of the progressive left--to grasp the implications of the massive evidence of vote fraud. How could any politcal party, for instance, permit companies with intimate ties to the opposition party count the votes? It seems almost too absurd to contemplate, and yet it is just one of the major toxins now poisoning our dying democracy.
Please keep up your great work.
Regards, Randy
Dear FreePress:
It would be great if all who agree with your detailed findings would make themselves known. I believe every single outrage you have uncovered. Going to bed on the night of the election (in Berlin, Germany - keep in mind the time difference), as the postive trend began to turn and realizing that the Republican-owned voting machine companies had indeed done their work well, I too am convinced that most Americans' refusal to admit the cleverly, brazenly stolen election spells Doom for Democracy as we have known it in the US. That utterly sick feeling hasn't left since.
It would be great if all who agree with your detailed findings would make themselves known. I believe every single outrage you have uncovered. Going to bed on the night of the election (in Berlin, Germany - keep in mind the time difference), as the postive trend began to turn and realizing that the Republican-owned voting machine companies had indeed done their work well, I too am convinced that most Americans' refusal to admit the cleverly, brazenly stolen election spells Doom for Democracy as we have known it in the US. That utterly sick feeling hasn't left since.