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14 December 2004
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice
of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of
increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror
to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
– Harry S Truman1) Will Kerry fund real probe as House member seeks Ohio elector challenge?- - Kerry lawyer to see ballots * 62,000 phantom absentees?
- - People's Email Network - Kerry starting to do something
- - Revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote
- - Law suit contesting 2004 elections?
- - Democracy Now! | Was The 2004 Election Legitimate?
- - Conyers Hearings - A Blog by William Rivers Pitt
2) 9/11 News - Vancouver Sun reviews The New Pearl Harbor
3) MIT's Role in Missile Test Fraud by Theodore A. Postol
4) "Masters of War" - lyrics by Bob Dylan
Editor's Notes:The big question is where is John Kerry and what will he do to contest the election. Is Kerry lining up his ducks to really contest this issue of Election fraud, or is he in hiding? There is no doubt about it – it is dangerous to confront desperate men with nuclear ambitions, and with deadly corrupted interior government controls. Yet one would think that he opposed the war after returning from Vietnam, and his and ours soldiers are dying each day, and the oath that military personnel, intelligence agencies, and the President take is to uphold and defend the principles in the US Constitution – Yet it seems that it is rare when something is written in stone, and we can only wonder and maintain a growing awareness about a dictatorship that has seized USA democracy. The second item is an excerpt and link to a review of The New Pearl Harbor book that was recently published by a Vancouver newspaper. It sums it up in clear language questions still remaining on the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Item 3 is a recent article in the Boston Globe written by Theodore A. Postol on MIT's role in missile test fraud. The corruption goes deep and way up.. Yet – change, one way or another, [in a big way], is on the verge of happening. Stay Tuned ~ Take Action ~ for more ideas, see Campaigns, Actions, & Events @
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1) Will Kerry fund real probe as House member seeks Ohio elector challenge?- - Kerry lawyer to see ballots * 62,000 phantom absentees?
- - People's Email Network - Kerry starting to do something
- - Revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote
- - Law suit contesting 2004 elections?
- - Democracy Now! | Was The 2004 Election Legitimate?
- - Conyers Hearings - A Blog by William Rivers Pitt
Will Kerry fund real probe as House member seeks Ohio elector challenge?
by
Tom Flocco [EXCERPT]
Washington -- December 13, 2004 -- TomFlocco.com -- After listening to unofficial but stunning testimony concerning evidence of state-wide vote fraud during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on 2004 election irregularities in Ohio, ranking Democrat John Conyers (D-14-MI) was asked whether he would consider challenging the seating of Buckeye state electors on January 6 when Congress opens the presidential electoral college vote certifying the election of George W. Bush.
Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and senior committee member who convened the Ohio voting aberrations hearing held last Wednesday in the House Rayburn office building, replied, "We are now."
Many Democrats now consider John Kerry's premature concession to George Bush a costly mistake which constitutional scholars say could ultimately affect the rigor, intensity and thoroughness of state and federal judges adjudicating the ongoing Ohio election litigation--a series of unpublicized lawsuits which could augur potential criminal prosecutions.
Except for some post-election reporting by MSNBC Countdown cable TV host Keith Olbermann--who has ceased covering the story in recent days--there has been a curious mainstream television and radio news black-out regarding the state's explosive and expanding electoral conundrum since November 2.
Conyers had expressed concern to Olbermann that "evidence can be moved or changed if it's not kept properly until we can get the Government Accounting Office to investigate," referring specifically to Canton, Ohio's Diebold Corporation--a major flashpoint in the vote scandal, while further emphasizing the necessity for proper and immediate impounding of Ohio machines.
Stanford computer science professor David Dill also told Olbermann "I know there are a lot of different ways to hack the machines, and the auditing we ought to be doing to catch it is...not being done," adding "...those exit poll companies owe an explanation to the American people. And they owe us the release of the data, so that independent experts can check their claims.
The allegations in Ohio but also in Florida are significant because a change in the election results in either state would cause a new slate of Democrat electors to shift the final electoral college count in Kerry's favor; and there is still time for a full recount before Congress certifies the electoral results on January 6, 2005.
When the righteous triumph, there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power, men go into hiding. Proverbs 28:12
Will Kerry fund real probe if House member seeks Ohio elector challenge?
by Tom Flocco
Washington -- December 13, 2004 -- TomFlocco.com -- After listening to unofficial but stunning testimony concerning evidence of state-wide vote fraud during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on 2004 election irregularities in Ohio, ranking Democrat John Conyers (D-14-MI) was asked whether he would consider challenging the seating of Buckeye state electors on January 6 when Congress opens the presidential electoral college vote certifying the election of George W. Bush.
Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and senior committee member who convened the Ohio voting aberrations hearing held last Wednesday in the House Rayburn office building, replied, "We are now."
Many Democrats now consider John Kerry's premature concession to George Bush a costly mistake which constitutional scholars say could ultimately affect the rigor, intensity and thoroughness of state and federal judges adjudicating the ongoing Ohio election litigation--a series of unpublicized lawsuits which could augur potential criminal prosecutions.
Except for some post-election reporting by MSNBC Countdown cable TV host Keith Olbermann--who has ceased covering the story in recent days--there has been a curious mainstream television and radio news black-out regarding the state's explosive and expanding electoral conundrum since November 2.
Conyers had expressed concern to Olbermann that "evidence can be moved or changed if it's not kept properly until we can get the Government Accounting Office to investigate," referring specifically to Canton, Ohio's Diebold Corporation--a major flashpoint in the vote scandal, while further emphasizing the necessity for proper and immediate impounding of Ohio machines.
Stanford computer science professor David Dill also told Olbermann "I know there are a lot of different ways to hack the machines, and the auditing we ought to be doing to catch it is...not being done," adding "...those exit poll companies owe an explanation to the American people. And they owe us the release of the data, so that independent experts can check their claims.
Kerry's recount cash
The allegations in Ohio but also in Florida are significant because a change in the election results in either state would cause a new slate of Democrat electors to shift the final electoral college count in Kerry's favor; and there is still time for a full recount before Congress certifies the electoral results on January 6, 2005.
"Evidence can be moved or changed if it's not kept properly until we can get the Government Accounting Office to investigate" Rep. John Conyers
According to pre-General Election filings and the Center for Public Integrity (11-1-2004), the Kerry Campaign has $51.6 million cash-on-hand--more than enough for recounts, legal battles, voting machine tabulator analysis and other investigations in Ohio in order to make a clear-cut case for vote fraud.
But the senator's failure to forcefully seek legal redress to investigate the allegations will make Conyers' position that much more problematic in front of the House and the Senate in January.
According to George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley, "On December 7, the electors are certified under federal law and on December 13, the electors actually vote...but those votes are not opened by Congress until January 6. Now, if there are controversies such as some disclosure that a state actually went for Kerry, there is the ability of members of Congress to challenge."
Turley continued: "It requires a written objection from one House member and one senator. If that objection is recorded, then both Houses separate again and they vote by majority vote as to whether to accept the slate of electoral votes from the state in question."
Turley said "over 70% of Ohio's votes were done with punch cards. We know that when you challenge those, they tend to turn over. So there is still room for challenge in Ohio...but without the [major] candidate [the one who suffers the most irreparable harm], judges don't really work that hard."
A post-election Associated Press (AP) report provided evidence that Kerry did not intend to fully use his massive campaign war-chest, as an inner-circle campaign aide said the cash should have been spent in late July to build political organizations in Ohio and Florida--the key states where voting irregularities may have been employed to win enough electoral votes to tip the balance.
Other senior campaign aides told AP reporter Ron Fournier that Kerry wanted to save the money in the event of a recount, legal challenges or other unforeseen bills. Investigative analysis of electronic voting machines and central tabulators was not mentioned by the AP.
In Cleveland's Cayahoga County alone, 29 separate voting precincts show 93,000 more votes than registered voters
The testimony Conyers heard represented more disputed votes than Bush's 136,000 margin and the House Ranking Member promised to hold congressional hearings in Ohio to question the election's legitimacy and whether President Bush was entitled to the state's 20 electoral votes from 5.8 million ballots cast--the closest winning margin by a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson
Kerry also declined to forcefully promulgate state-wide evidence of vote fraud before the American people which would have magnified the importance of a full and thorough Buckeye recount while also forcing television coverage, thus convincing Ohio judges--but also Supreme Court Justices watching from the sidelines--that Kerry was dead serious about exposing voting machine technical secrecy and corporate privatization of the American election process.
Kerry's curious recalcitrance
The Democrat standard-bearer has also received much criticism from party faithful for allowing independent candidates to struggle to accumulate a few hundred thousand dollars in small contributions for state-wide recounts from many of the same voters who originally financed the Kerry-Edwards campaign.
With substantial evidence pointing to stolen Buckeye electoral votes, Kerry has failed to marshal his substantial election recount war-chest for the purpose of financing battleground state lawsuits, impounding electronic voting machines and county-wide central tabulators, employing computer experts for forensic analysis of computer hard-drives and software, hiring expert courtroom witnesses, researchers and investigators, and seeking the initiation of a criminal investigation for credible evidence of vote fraud and denial of equal protection under the law.
One (Cleveland) precinct with 558 registered voters cast nearly 9,000 ballots Zogby.com
Voter turnout exceeds number of registered voters
In Cuyahoga County, home of Cleveland, Ohio's huge minority population, 30 precincts recorded over 100,000 more votes cast than the County's 251,946 registrations--equaling a 39% over-vote, an incredibly shocking statistic deserving a serious investigation for fraud by any fair-minded legislator. In a few of the precincts the over-vote was 100%, as one precinct with 558 registered voters cast nearly 9,000 ballots, according to Zogby.com.
The evidence of fraud is so obvious--so blatant, one would think that if Kerry and Democratic legislators refuse to press for a criminal investigation, they would at least divert some of the senator's enormous sock of leftover campaign cash toward a down payment to purchase their own electronic voting machine corporation.
They could start to compete with machines and software owned or controlled by Republican backers, Bush "Ranger" and "Pioneer" contributors--and incredibly, U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel.
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To read the complete article, see:
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- - Kerry lawyer to see ballots * 62,000 phantom absentees?[EXCERPT]
From
danielpwelch.comThree interesting items: First, Kerry's lawyer asks for visual inspection of the 92,000 spoiled ballots; Werner Lange's study provides an ominous pattern if widespread; and last, Blackwell doesn't help himself by locking out volunteers, removing ballots from public view, etc.
FROM: Ohio News Network
www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2682767Kerry lawyer asks for visual inspection of some Ohio ballots
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Democrat John Kerry is asking county elections officials to allow his witnesses to visually inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded, a Kerry lawyer said Sunday night.
The request is one of 11 items that Kerry is asking for as part of the recount that Ohio's 88 county boards of election will begin this week, according to a letter sent to the boards over the weekend.
"We're trying to increase the transparency of the election process," said Donald McTigue, the lawyer handling the recount for the Kerry campaign.
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McTigue said the visual inspection is allowed under state law. The goal is to look for potential votes that were not registered by the tabulating equipment.
Other requests include the use of independent experts to check the programming and calibration of the election equipment, something McTigue said has never been allowed.
McTigue also asked that counties accept the help of a group called Votewatch to determine which precincts will be chosen for that part of the vote that will be counted by hand. McTigue said using the group will ensure that the ballots are selected using a valid random sampling method.
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Suspicious Behavior by Ohio Sec. State Blackwell
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danielpwelch.comEditor's Note: Daniel Welch was also an active participant in the former campaign to nominate Dennis J. Kucinich for US President. Like many progressives, and unlike Michael Moore, Danny is delving into the critical next step for democracy, which is really about its first steps, counting votes accurately. ! ! !
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- - People's Email Network - Kerry starting to do something
Some of you may have already participated in an issue question on The People's Email Network. We had 12,000 submissions to the Kerry campaign, the DNC, and the GAO on election fraud and as to whether he should join the recount effort.
Now Kerry is starting to take the initiative. Did our 12,000 voices speaking together have an impact? The fact is that he is acting.
But the electoral college has already voted and the recount is just starting. Are your representatives standing up for your rights the way you want them to? If there was ever a time to speak out, this is it. Members of congress are calling for your emails now in the millions to tell them what you want them to do. Here is a new one click page that looks up your senators and house representative and sends your personal message to them and the minority House Judiciary Committee, all at the same time.
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- - Revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio voteStartling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote
by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
December 13, 2004
[Excerpt]
Startling new revelations about Ohio's presidential vote have been uncovered as Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee join Rev. Jesse Jackson in Columbus, the state capital, on Monday, Dec. 13, to hold a rare field hearing into election malfeasance and manipulation in the 2004 vote. The Congressional delegation will include Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, and others.
On Sunday, John Kerry spoke with Rev. Jesse Jackson and urged him to take an more active role in investigating the irregularities and ensuring a fair and impartial recount. Kerry said there were three areas of inquiry that should be addressed: 92,000 ballots that recorded no vote for president; qualifying and counting provisional ballots; and supported an independent analysis of the software and set-up of the optical scan voting machines.
What follows are excerpts from some of the affidavits for the election challenge.
For the complete article, see:
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- - Democracy Now! | Was The 2004 Election Legitimate?Friday, December 10th, 2004
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- - Conyers Hearings - A Blog by William Rivers PittConyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage
A Blog by William Rivers Pitt
www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml
2) 9/11 News - Vancouver Sun reviews The New Pearl HarborA Theologian Asks the Hard Questions About 9/11
By Douglas Todd
The Vancouver Sun
Dec 11, 2004
David Ray Griffin is one of the most respected philosophers of religion in North America. He is the author or editor of more than 24 academic books, including works co-written with the deans of world religions, Huston Smith and Martin Marty. He has lectured around the world, including at UBC.
Griffin is one of those profiled in the prestigious volume, A Handbook of Christian Theologians. He's painstakingly probed countless philosophical challenges, from the question of why there is evil to the relationship between science and religion, for which he's won numerous awards.
So why did this soft-spoken professor from the high-ranking Methodist-rooted School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., feel it necessary to risk his hard-earned reputation as a religion scholar to write one of the most incredible -- in all senses of the word -- political books of 2004?
Because no one else in mainstream America seemed prepared to do it...
The result? Griffin's book, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Interlink Publishing, $22.50) has already sold an astonishing 80,000 copies.
Griffin's unflinching analysis of the unanswered questions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington has made Amazon.com's bestseller list despite receiving virtually no reviews in North America's mainstream media. That's unlike in Britain, where he's had solid coverage, including a three-page spread in London's mass-circulation Daily Mail.
Personally, when people ask how a group of Muslim extremists could have pulled off the devastating suicide attacks against the U.S., in spite of the country's global intelligence network and massive defence arsenal, I tend to side with the German philosopher, Goethe, who once said: "Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much?"
But when Griffin, who's known for his careful approach to philosophical problems, poses a series of questions suggesting the administration of George W. Bush had been warned about the terrorist attacks and did nothing, it's enough to make you shudder. The implications would make the Watergate scandal look like a Sunday brunch.
In effect, The New Pearl Harbor fleshes out in 214 pages the question asked in the final moment of Michael Moore's Academy-award-winning documentary, Fahrenheit 911. That's when the filmmaker wonders aloud: What exactly was Bush thinking as he sat in front of a bunch of school children reading a book titled My Pet Goat, knowing two jetliners had been flown into the World Trade Center?
Griffin's book is titled The New Pearl Harbor for two reasons. One, because that's what Bush wrote in his diary on the evening of Sept. 11: "The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today." But also because members of the Bush administration in 2000 helped author the document, Project for the New American Century, which opined it would be difficult to galvanize Americans to support military expansion in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere unless a "new Pearl Harbor" occurred.
Here are a few of the questions Griffin looks into: * Why did the Bush administration say it didn't anticipate the Sept. 11 attacks when the CIA and FBI had repeatedly told it al-Qaida was planning to hijack planes and fly them into U.S. targets, including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?
* Why were standard procedures that could have prevented the tragedy not followed when the four hijacked planes went off course, including immediately sending up jet fighters to shoot down passenger planes that fail to obey orders?
* Why has there been no physical evidence a jet plane crashed into the Pentagon? Independent onlookers say they saw a missile fly into the building. Video evidence shot by a nearby gas station's security cameras was confiscated by government officials.
* Why did Bush, despite knowing about first one, then two, World Trade Center crashes, delay his response to them for up to 30 minutes and instead continue to read a children's book? Why was he not whisked away by his security agents, who are trained to believe he's a logical target of terrorists?
* Who made tens of millions of dollars by betting on the stock market in the weeks before Sept. 11 that shares in the two airlines that owned the hijacked planes were about to plummet?
The Bush administration has brushed off all such questions. For his part, Griffin doesn't argue the Bush administration was actually complicit in the attacks. Some of the professor's fans have regretted his cautiousness, because he won't compile a grand theory about why the attacks may have been allowed to happen. He consistently avoids inflammatory rhetoric.
For the complete Vancouver Sun review, click the following link for a septembereleventh.org posting:
~ The New Pearl Harbor ~
3) MIT's Role in Missile Test Fraud by Theodore A. PostolPublished in the Boston Globe, Monday, December 13, 2004.
MIT's Role in Missile Test Fraud
by Theodore A. Postol
[EXCERPT]
After more than 3 1/2 years of foot-dragging, excuses, and violations of federal regulations, MIT announced last week that it could not investigate credible evidence of possible scientific fraud in fundamental National Missile Defense research being done at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. The reason outgoing president Charles M. Vest gave is that the Pentagon had classified everything about the investigation.
The allegations of fraud involve the critically important Integrated Flight Test 1A, or IFT-1A, in June 1997. Its purpose was to determine if the currently deployed National Missile Defense could tell the difference between warheads flying through space and simple balloons designed to look like warheads. If the IFT-1A experiment could not demonstrate that the weapon could perform this task, the weapon could never have a realistic chance of working in combat.
In May 2000 I sent evidence to the White House that, despite the claims of unqualified success by the Pentagon, the IFT-1A had in fact been a total failure.
For the complete article, see:
www.commondreams.org/views04/1213-27.htmTheodore A. Postol is professor of science, technology, and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
4) "Masters of War" - lyrics by Bob DylanCome you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
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