DREs, magic and other sleights of hand

Recount-Audit Observations
Franklin County, Ohio
December 2006

The evidence adduced during post election review of the results demonstrate(s) unequivocally that by reason of stunning violations of Ohio law and complete disregard of mandatory election procedures established by the Ohio Secretary of State and the Ohio General Assembly… [t]he deviations are so pronounced that the results of the election are uncertain.

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Not even the sense of a duck

The president of the United States does not have the sense God gave a duck -- so it's up to us. You and me, Bubba.

            I don't know why Bush is just standing there like a frozen rabbit, but it's time we found out. The fact is WE have to do something about it. This country is being torn apart by an evil and unnecessary war, and it has to be stopped NOW.

            This war is being prosecuted in our names, with our money, with our blood, against our will. Polls consistently show that less than 30 percent of the people want to maintain current troop levels. It is obscene and wrong for the president to go against the people in this fashion. And it's doubly wrong for him to send 20,0000 more soldiers into this hellhole, as he reportedly will announce next week.

            What happened to the nation that never tortured? The nation that wasn't supposed to start wars of choice? The nation that respected human rights and life? A nation that from the beginning was against tyranny? Where have we gone? How did we let these people take us there? How did we let them fool us?

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Plato matters when matters matter

Form plus function,
Equals matter,
If the function of the form is not known,
It’s a case of anti-matter,

Ignorance of the eyes,
Illusion on Vision causes,
State of Beliefs and Opinions,
Matter functions change forms,

Logical math addition,
Elements of induction,
Patterns form repetition,
Matters empirically not deduction,

Cycles of motion,
Through Beliefs and Opinions equal emotions,
Knowledge is the magic of the Reason portion,
Vision beyond the eyes with no distortions,

The Form to perceive matters,
Ignorance and Emotion shatters,
Knowledge and Comprehension matters,
Vision of two dimensions intrinsically betters,

Form minus function,
Differs to matter,
If the intention and purpose emotionally evoked,
Matters start to matter,

All Beliefs and Opinions of the mind,
Susceptible, as subjected to a need of leaders,
For guidance and direction of accepted find,
Irreversible state of emotional prisoners,

Freedom of Character, Illegal Thoughts

(13 Poems to self assess your Beliefs, Values, Reason and Intellectual Integrity)

Illegal Human being

We in the land of the free,
In God we export democracy,
You, illegal human being,
No rights to feed your off spring,


We in the Eurotopia community,
Intellectuals think about humanity,
You, illegal human being,
No rights to feed your off spring,


We in the First World have intellectual integrity,
Human, Animal, Insect and Vegetable rights are priority,
You, illegal human being,
No rights to feed your off spring,


You, illegal human being, we have to teach you,
Everything about Freedom, Democracy and Human rights,
Et sur La liberte', l'e'galite' et la fraternite',
Until we colonize your country, go back,


Because you still don't understand about human rights.




Within the Walls of Freedom

Within the Walls of Freedom,
The sun shines so bright,
The colors are so many,
It all seems so right,


So many Arena Heroes,

Yellow Ribbons

I want the yellow ribbons back,
But this time around,
It should be upside down,
Supporting me back home, please, right now!

It's very easy for you,
A sticker to pull off your car,
To trash your shame,
And hide that you were fooled by far,

But I am here,
Under the bullets rain,
Your moral support brought me here,
And you don't have to deal with this pain,

Like you I believed in it too,
A noble cause for me and you,
Please don't hide your shame,
Help me to come home, cause we now know who's to blame...

Julian Bravo, May 2006

I had a nightmare

I had a nightmare,
That the people of this Nation,
For the first time ever,
Will be in real despair,

That one day we will be judged,
By the color of our words in flair,
And not the contentment,
Of our characters, yes, I had a nightmare,

That this Nation,
Will rise a new Emperor,
Off its common sense,
From a ghost of terror,

In blood it will be spelled,
Over the Legislative walls,
Strokes of Judiciary Bush,
Demon-cracy for all's.

Julian Bravo, June 1st, 06.

Within the walls of freedom

Within the Walls of Freedom,
The sun shines so bright,
The colors are so many,
It all seems so right,

So many Arena Heroes,
So many Stars and Gold Icons,
Synthetic worship awards to all,
And to the most overplayed songs,

Good evening from the World News' big three,
Crafted news with intrinsic values it's all you see,
There is no evidence that blood will ever smell,
And last, a cat on a tree almost fell,

Belittle and ignore, but monitor any noise,
Of all and any alternative voice,
Financially honor the educated mercenaries with a degree,
That for a buck or two,  muffle you and me,

Social engineers of the veggie brain,
Forcing our thoughts to pace in pain,
In the greatest ever freedom of speech,
We speak our minds about chicken processed peach,

And one last award to the newest breed of the human race,
The thesaurus intellectuals of this social disgrace,
Where the idea serves as the vehicle for ancient words to expose,
A pretentious sign of intelligence in self divine verse and prose,   

International delegation travels to Guantanamo, Cuba to protest infamous US prison

Delegates include mother of current prisoner, former Guantanamo detainee, and high-level US peace activists

On January 9-13, a first-ever international delegation of former prisoners, families of current prisoners, US lawyers and human rights activists will travel to Guantanamo, Cuba to hold a conference on prison abuses and march to the Cuban-side security gate of the US Naval Base to call for the closure of the illegal prison. The protest in Cuba is part of the January 11 International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo, the day that marks the 5-year anniversary of the first prisoners being sent to Guantanamo.

"I am traveling all the way from Dubai because by heart is overflowing with grief over the abuse and ongoing detention of my son," says Zohra Zewawi, who claims her son has been tortured and blinded in one eye during his detention, and has never been charged or tried. Her son was imprisoned in September 2002 and is still a prisoner in Guantanamo.  Asif Iqbal, a former detainee who was freed on no charges after years of abuse, is coming to show his support for the basic rights of detainees.

Missing votes in Ohio call races into question

While Democratic Party supporters celebrate their success in Ohio, where their statewide candidates won four out of five executive offices and they now control both the U.S. House and Senate, they are ignoring massive and verifiable irregularities in the 2006 election. Similar irregularities – including missing votes, undervotes and overvotes – may come back to haunt the Democrats in the 2008 general election.

The only statewide partisan loss for the Democrats was also the closest contest. Republican Mary Taylor defeated Democrat Barbara Sykes for State Auditor by an official vote of 50.64% to 49.36%. Taylor prevailed by 48,826 votes. The Columbus Dispatch’s final poll, usually the most accurate in the state for candidate races, predicted Sykes would win by 10%.

An analysis by the Free Press documents massive discrepancies between the unofficial turnout reported by Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell immediately following the election and the official general election turnout numbers reported in December 2006. These discrepancies may help explain Sykes’ unexpected loss.

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