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"We don't know who discovered water but we can be pretty sure it wasn't a fish" -- Marshal McLuhan This means YOU!
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"THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES WON'T DEFEND IT SELF, THAT IS THE JOB, THE DUTY, THE RIGHT OF EVERY CITIZEN! "... Carl Gross Jr.
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"Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.It works every time."
Herman Goering at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Check out lord vishnu cia mystery man
Now they call it Euroland...
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"Officers who think they will be at home watching their own children and spouses are wrong. Once the N.W.O. is set up in the year 2000 (just a couple of years away) you, officer, guardsman, and soldiers, will be in other countries . Foreign police troops will be guarding and enslaving your spouses and children in the U.S.A. [see diagram in
printed manual]"
Editors note: On this You & I agree and it didn't tale Foreign troupes just the National guard troupes from Hicksvill USA squinting down there noses at every body like they want to ask you hey you enigmas you got a passport ?
I must say three fully loaded automatic assault rifles, three wire frame tinted yellow "marksman glasses" wearing blackjacked “foreign troops” from Outa’work Kentucky Handgun Mississippi & Clan-Paw Georgia ( come up here to help out with 911 bringing all of the cruelty and stereotype racism of by gone days) instill all of the confidence I need in NYC mass transits Subway station at 3 AM Just what we need in every station
to create “Home Land Security”...
Would it be besides the point to tell You while You were hating O. J.
for all black people & while you were making the excuses for the 26
full grown adult men using Tasers & Steal toe Boots Butt Kicking and Clubbing Rodney King were setting the stage for so called Marshal
Law, I think its funny...
YOU of all people are complaining, welcome
to Hell You cooked it YOU eat it...
Or is there still time for equal pay for equal work & one person one vote?
Global Justice ?
True peace?
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Germany China France Japan Russia
Italy Switzerland Liechtenstein South Africa
Revolutionaries in government have created economic chaos, shortages in food and fuel,
confiscatory taxation, a crises in education, the threat of war, and other diversions to condition
Americas for "The New World Order."
The technique is as old as politics itself. It is the Hegelian principle of bringing about change in a
three-step process: Theses Anti-thesis and Synthesis.
The first step (thesis) is to create a problem. The second step (anti-thesis) is to generate opposition
to the problem (fear, panic, hysteria). The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the
problem created in step one, - change which would have been impossible to impose on the people
without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages one and two.
Applying the Hegelian principle, and irresistible financial influence, concealed mattoids seek to
dismantle social and political structures by which free men govern themselves - ancient landmarks
erected at great cost in blood and treasure.
Their objective is to emasculate sovereign states, merge nations under universal government,
centralize economic power, and control the world's people and resources.
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Be afraid be very afraid...
Fresh from Notorious
Subject: - twenty months after September 11 -
03:47:32 -0400
Ouch news:- \-- Not only the Saudis and Pakistanis (via the notorious ISI, internal
security agency) seem to be funding the Taliban; strong rumors that
the Chinese and Iranians are, too.
A rumor I consider to be probably reliable says that Karzai has been
so starved financially and militarily that he was last week reduced to
negotiating with the Taliban.
-- Smoke has been coming out of the DPRK Yongbyon reactor since
last week.
Viktor Gubarov, former GRU analyst now of Stratfor.com, says gravely,
"We cannot exclude all-out war. . . . They may be developing nuclear
weapons
for the purpose of attacking US troops in South Korea and Japan, as
well as the US fleet. We could almost say that the DPRK is trying to deliver nuclear weapons to the US West Coast." (Scuds, which they
have, have a maximum range of 600 miles; a lot of DPRK materiel and
systems simply don't work.)
-- It's said that Syria is bringing Hezbollah into its regular forces rather
than let the Palestinians dissolve their ops groups.
-- In my last note, I mentioned that the smugglers who regularly run
heroin from China down the Mekong have created 400 cases of SARS
in Cambodia (new strain).
Tonight, 12 May midnight EST, Senator Parris Chang, chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee of the Taiwanese parliament, said:
"Taiwanese intelligence reports that one of the first deaths from SARS
was a PLA [Chinese Peoples Liberation Army] Lieutenant-General who
fell ill.
He was taken to Hospital 301 in Beijing, a military hospital, where he
fared poorly. He was removed to (military) Hospital 302, where he
died in March."
....................
1. Confirm that Lieutenant-Generals do not travel by public transportation
or wander around public bazaars. I point out regretfully that, if Senator
Chang's report is true, it lends credence to the idea that SARS came
from a Chinese military lab. US intel reported about a month ago ago
that SARS was in a leadership compound.
2. (Btw, Sen Chang is also professor emeritus [poli sci] at Penn State.
On Friday, he'll be in Geneva at the UN petitioning WHO to admit Taiwan
over the protest of the PRC. At present, WHO can't approach Taipei
directly, has to send staff in to accompany CDC. This is an imperfect
way of obtaining needed health reporting in an age of new, hyper-
transmissible viruses.)
3. This extraordinary information, that one of the earliest SARS deaths
may have been a high-ranking member of the Chinese miitary, needs to
be distributed to press everywhere. If you have one or two connections
whom you can call, please do so.
If a journalist needs to be in touch,
please give him/her
Thanks.
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/ plasmonics the cover story for this week's new scientist
Ratsoutofthebag # 2
"First thought best thought" May 1, 2003
Where is Alan Ginsburg when you need him?
This would be treason not to report this to someone ASAP.
Like now!! Or at least call a lawyer Now ~!!!
My guess is "This would be treason not to report this to someone !" NOW!"
Are you sure its not idle boasting ? Or like the Elvis sightings?
#1 Did you think more on this ?
You don't say. 
"In my opinion It will beTreason
not to report the facts such as they may be to the proper authorities. "
Perhaps an open letter to the NY Times Or a CIA correspondent (some Village Voice reporter.)
Free speech issues aside there are many major legal and moral issues.
As to my pontificating on them, I will respectfully decline.
Bust the guy and take the reward, or suffer perhaps a US military Court Trail (Kangaroo to be sure)
and run the risk of being summarily executed for withholding (What one must assume is ) crucial
evidence ( you claimed you have ) that may lead to the capture or whatever fate OBL has waiting
for him.
The law is clear and the concept that some one/s have the same information does not remove it from the realm of legal evidence and therefore obstruction, during a time of war requires the highest penalty
(death) they don't talk about it much and its not good to equivocate thinking YOU know more than some one else is one thing but smug
self interest in this case may get you an untimely end.
I don't wish to know that you though you knew better what to do with this factoid that you e-mail me I must categorize it as Idle prattle.
If it is a fact that YOU Know the whereabouts of any one that is wanted for any crime ( any fudigitive or fellon) don't ever tell me!!
Because that would be stupid treason to sit on it !!
Because You think "they already know" and you are so cool about having the information about such and such the web is crawling with such pompous inflated & self important tips and rumors.
Is your sense of citizenship such that the safety of others comes
after your own notion of Your superior intelligence If in
KNOW something and say nothing you are an Accessory after the fact.
I had better plans for my summer.
The art of dispatching a person such as he exist, although I have only the press reports of war
in his name and that not in any detail required for an in person final debriefing but I can imagine.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I had better plans for my summer.
So...
As you may have seen on my web site the notion that the entirety of the OBL family should be held
under house arrest at a Holiday Inn some where near Ohio Or NJ Turnpike with no room service no
phones No TV etc. until he gets the picture and gives himself up to save All of his otherwise Nobel
family members such an ignoble fate...
I believe as they say it's Doable under the existing Recco Statutes.
As to aiding and abetting,
DON’T DELAY !
I fear dire consequences await any one who may procrastinate or vacillate as to weather this
miscreant should be appended .
I say as RR and John Wain might were they with us . Hang um Hang um high or at least deal with
them. It looks like there is room in our hearts for Sammy The Bull Gerivanno to go for it. Perhaps
he can cut a deal with the Opium trading assholes.
Love CM3
Mr. Meyeniana
PS: This would be treason not to report this to someone NOW!!!
but that’s your choice !! I will likely post it as an urban legend HOAX!
THE CLOCK IS TICKING!
Noshit shilock!Dept.:
Subject: - query -
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 00:04:42 -0400
From: Mickey1 <?.com>
To: <Whatthefukover.com>
C --
Late last night, this came in from a reliable fellow I've known for a decade.
He's been trekking and working around Afghanistan for about thirty years.
fwd:
Hi ,
After two weeks of always on the move in Pakistan/Afghanistan, having some
bad food and then returning with 60 hours of airplanes and airports my
system is in another time zone. Anyway, an Afghan General, one Commander,
one secret police detective and an Afghan police commander all said OBL is
in a wooded area near Chitral. When I asked a member of the Pakistan
Higher Court why Pakistan was doing nothing to capture OBL, I was told that
ISI had the power and the president of Pakistan was helpless in this matter.
There are still OBL tee shirt "The Great Mujahid" selling in Peshawar.
Personally and disgustedly I think there has been some deal cut. OBL makes
no more problems and he is left alone! Just my guesstimate!
Politics be Dammed!
.. ... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. ...
His report corresponds with a lot of what we hear, of course.
What I see as possible reasons for Washington's just leaving him alone
(sort of) are:
1. If he dies a natural death, he's not a martyr.
2. US is using him to track his minions.
3. If Bush felt very threatened (for example, by the rather intimate relations of the
Bush family with the Bin Ladin family over years), Bush would have him shot.
Any other thoughts?
You Bet
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The Lawful Path http://lawfulpath.com
Narrow is the Path to the Truth
TREASON AND SEDITION
Operation Vampire Killer 2000 - The Lawful Path
DEFINITIONS:
In defining "treason" and "sedition" we look to the Fifth edition of Black's Law Dictionary. pg.
1345, and pg. 1218
TREASON: The offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to
which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power.
SEDITION: ...knowingly becoming a member of any organization which advocates the overthrow
or reformation of the existing form of government of this state by violence or unlawful means.
The facts and information about some of the persons and their actions listed in this special report is
prima facie evidence of their long involvement in activities directly designed to overtly overthrow
the lawful, constitutional government of the United States of America. These individuals thus hope
to deliver the People of the U.S. into the hands of a foreign power known as the United Nations,
which is actually an oligarchy of the world's super-rich, who have no allegiance to any one nation
and who control the U.N. from behind the scenes.
The Lawful Path http://lawfulpath.com
Narrow is the Path to the Truth
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#3 ©2001 chadsux
In This Edition
Scott Morschhauser gives us a view of the end of liberty
in, "Protests Are Out And We Will Decide What You Can
Investigate."
Greg Palast goes on the BBC to explain the, "Theft Of The
Presidency!"
Patty Goldman explains, "Fast Track A Way To Dump
Democracy."
Joe Conason reports on the NYC mayors race in,
"Hevesi’s Lame Defense Offends Common Sense."
Gene Lyons takes a break in, "Best Part Of A Summer
Vacation: No News."
The Associated Press reports on, "Von Rumsfeld Defends
Missile Defense Funds."
Carol Schiffler tells tales of conspiracy in, "Only The
Wind."
Robert Scheer says Smirky gets rather kinky in, "Bush
Binds Us Into A Fiscal Straitjacket."
Bill O'Reilly wins the Vidkun Quisling Award
Molly Ivins says, "Laissez Ain't So Fair After All"
Tally Briggs tells smirky that, "The World Has Moved
On."
And finally in "Parting Shots" Bryan Zepp Jamieson
explains Republi-con double-speak in, "A River Runs
Through It" but first Uncle Ernie reviews, "The Godfather
Part IV Fredo Meets Johnny Ola."
This week we spotlight the cartoons of Bill Deore with
additional cartoons from Kwawin, Carlson, Tom
Tomorrow, BushBeer.net, Rayberry, Trucards, Destonio,
Chris Whitehouse, GWBush Art, Political Strikes and
Chadsux.
Plus we have all of your favorite departments! Welcome
one and all to "Uncle Ernie's Issues & Alibis." We hope
you enjoy your stay!
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The Godfather Part IV
Fredo Meets Johnny Ola
By Ernest Stewart
I guess if you live long enough you will eventually see
everything. I'm still having trouble believing my eyes after
this Labor Day meeting between Smirky the Chimp and
Don Jimmy.
It was only a matter of time until the Crime Family Bush
got together with the Crime Family Hoffa. The sons of two
famous crooks should have a lot in common after all. As
the smirkster's corporate shills and media whores try and
prevent any truth about last Decembers Coup De' Etat
getting into the minds of main stream America just as
Jimmy is trying to get the governments watchdogs to turn a
blind eye to the Teamster shenanigans. It was certainly a
match made in heaven, unless of course you're a
Teamsters member or an American citizen.
While this joke was going on tens of thousands of union
members were marching along with Democratic
candidates for the coming fall elections. The several
hundred who showed up for the "Teamster Picnic" looked
to be the typical secret service group who brought the
wives and kiddies along with them to give the state
controled media some bodies to photograph to show that
we're all behind the traitors. Of course there were no
protestors allowed as we all know that protesting must be
done far away from the cameras lest they mistakenly
photograph the people. The Detroit media which is owned
and operated by that group of Nazi's (Knight/Ridder) from
Florida failed to get a single picture of the tens of thousand
that lined the unions parade route or the tens of thousand
of union workers who marched in the parade.
In case you haven't noticed only certain news events are
reported on since the Coup De' Etat went down.
I'll grant you that symbols are for the symbol minded but
even still symbolism of these two criminals and their
respective crime families was even too much for this old
reporter to bare. The reason I left politics in the early 70's
i.e. the lack of concern by the American public, the far
right shift in all American politics that cost the democrats
an easy election victory last November and made it
possible for the RNC to destroy the last remnants of the
old Republic. I hear way too much about how we're going
to get rid of them in the next election and everything will
be ok. BULLSHIT oops thats BUSHIT!
Care to take a bet on the Florida Governor’s election?
Instead of having a seat in ‘Ole Sparky’ I'm willing to bet
Jebbie is reelected in Florida. And to make it even worse
he will probably be legally elected. Janet Reno has tossed
her hat into the ring and I actually have a better chance of
being elected in Florida than she does. Janet doesn't need
any Clinton baggage to keep her from being elected as she
has more than enough of her own. She spent 8 years acting
like a Nazi from her murder of the Waco children to her
"Jack-Booted Thugs" 'rescue' of the Cuban kid. Florida is
wall to wall with Nazis and Anti-Castro Cubans to begin
with. So Jeb is going to get away with Treason and
Sedition but I think we all knew that to begin with didn't
we?
A lot of liberal sites have closed down recently and with
good reason. They waited for the Democrats to begin
raising hell but so far all they have done is helped their
Nazi pals across the aisle. All I hear from people who
should know better is that they can't raise hell or else
they'll seem like poor losers. Say what? Where in the hell
are the 50 million people who got ripped off in Debacle
2000? You’d think that they would be mad as hell and out
causing riots in the street.
A lot of people have had nasty things to say about Darth
Nader, I know I certainly have but that was because we
bought the Nader myth. I didn't buy Gore's nonsense so I
wasn't disappointed or surprised when he bent over for the
Nazis and gave away an election that he had won and left
us all to the mercies of the Rethuglicans.
Is America worth fighting for? I'm beginning to have my
doubts about that. The only ones I see and hear raising hell
are a few liberals (mostly fighting amongst ourselves)
while the vast herd of American sheep keep lining up to be
sheared and slaughtered. Before you join them ask the
Jews about what happens when you start getting into lines.
© 2001 Ernest Stewart
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Protests Are Out And We Will Decide What
You Can Investigate
By Scott Morschhauser
The Bush administration has brought two concepts to the
forefront of the nation's consciousness. One, you are no
longer allowed to protest, and two, they will tell you what
you can and cannot investigate. The examples of these two
themes are currently being exposed in the sub-news stories
(the news stories that do not make the sound-bites, but
with a little digging are readily available in larger
newspapers or on the Internet).
Let's start with protesting. It has become apparent that you
are no longer allowed to partake in this constitutionally
protected form of free speech. A few months ago,
protesters in Florida were arrested for holding 8 * by
11-inch signs with anti-Bush messages while those holding
the same size pro-Bush signs were perfectly within their
rights.
I will be attending a protest rally in Washington DC on
September 29 and have already received word that nine
foot walls will be constructed for the event.
Protesting, although always an annoyance and hassle for
law enforcement agencies, is a right guaranteed Americans
by the Constitution. A generally complacent public may
not see the danger in giving up this right. Some may argue
that this form of government strong-arming is for
"protection." I'd have to agree. There is nothing more
dangerous to a non-elected government posing as a
democracy than good old American muckraking and
outward protest. If you are a history buff, you can't help
but notice the similarities to the rise of other fascist
regimes. Stifle the protesters, control the media, then
control the military. The protesters and media take on as
important a role, if not more so, than the military. The
message is clear. You are no longer allowed to protest.
Well, if we can't protest, at least we can follow the news
and learn about corrupt actions taken by the Bush
administration and the rest of their political party. Then we
can vote them out in four years, right? Wrong. Without
even going into the problems that have surfaced with
voting in the world's "greatest democracy," this scenario
hinges on a media that will investigate and report on the
actions of our government. But it has become apparent
that certain stories will be investigated and certain stories
will not.
The example that I will use to prove my point will be the
massively-dead-horse-beaten story of Chandra Levy and
the possible relationship to Congressman Gary Condit.
Currently, the nation just can't get enough of this story.
The story is pursued relentlessly, even though there are no
suspects, not even Congressman Condit, because the
police have no evidence of foul play. I understand that the
public likes a sensational crime. I don't condone it, but I
understand. Yet, in this case there is theoretically no
crime. There is no corpus delicti as it were.
But what if there had been a known crime? Can you
imagine if Gary Condit was an actual suspect? Obviously
the American public would be ten times more interested
than they already are, right? Wrong again, because there
was a body of a young female aide found dead of
unknown causes in a congressman's office. But the
congressman was not Gary Condit or any other Democrat.
The congressman is Florida Republican Joe Scarborough,
and the unfortunate woman was 28-year-old Lori
Klausutis.
Mrs. Klausutis was found dead on July 20 in Scarborough's
Fort Walton Beach office. On August, Associate Medical
Examiner Michael Berkland announced that Mrs.
Klausutis had a previously undetected heart condition that
caused her to collapse. Berkland said that Klausutis
collapsed, hit her head on the desk on the way down,
suffered a blood clot and died.
According to the Northwest Florida Daily News, official
statements originally said that there was no sign of trauma,
yet Berkland is now citing an "obvious injury to Mrs.
Klausutis' head." The police will not release the autopsy
because Berkland has not yet completed and filed the final
copy. He claims that he has been too busy.
Now where's the real story? Gary Condit? I don't think so.
This is a terrifying case of hypocrisy. Both stories involve
a male U.S. congressman, two females—one an intern for
the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the other a constituent
services aide. Only one has a body and the medical
examiner's statement that the death was accidental.
The grip on what will and what will not be reported will
grow tighter very soon. On September 5, the Senate
Intelligence Committee will hold a one-day hearing on an
official secrets act, which will then be poised to pass
Congress this fall. President Clinton vetoed this bill, but, if
it passes again, George W. Bush will most definitely sign
it.
With an official secrets act, any government employee
who discloses unauthorized information will be subject to
criminal prosecution, even if the material does not
endanger national security—and, if it is anything like
Britain's Official Secrets Act, journalists and anyone else
who gains access to information that falls under the act
will also be subject to prosecution and imprisonment. The
Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Iran-Contra? Forget about it.
This pretty much would put the lid on investigating the
federal government, since most journalists rely on inside
information to expose corruption. I'd advise calling your
senators and voicing your concerns.
Add to this the recent trend to jail journalists and/or
confiscate their materials and the message from our
current government is quite clear, "We will tell you what
you can and cannot investigate."
There you have it. These are, in my humble opinion, the
two key ingredients to forming a fascist government.
Disallow protest and control what the media can and
cannot report. I find it incredibly sad how easy we're
making it for them.
© 2001 Scott Morschhauser
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"Theft Of The Presidency"
BBC-TV Newsnight
GREG PALAST: Washington, the marine band plays 'Hail
to the Chief' for George W Bush, 43rd President of the
United States. But in Florida, some are singing 'Hail to the
Thief'.
COUNTRY SONG: After hundreds of lies Fake alibis
PALAST: We are coming into Tallahassee. We want to
know whether George W Bush won the election or did
brother Jeb steal it for him? Our investigation suggest the
answer lies in this shuttered building and in a very
expensive contract between Governor Jeb's division of
elections and a private company named DBT, which
accidentally wiped off the voter rolls thousands of
Democratic voters. 18th floor division of elections, we
have come to ask Mr Clayton Roberts, the director, a few
questions. Roberts agreed to talk, but became a bit
uncomfortable when he learned that we had obtained the
secret DBT contract, and asked him if he knew what DBT
were up to.
CLAYTON ROBERTS: Florida Director of Elections No,
I didn't ask DBT. They do what we contract them to do.
We have a statute that says we have to have a private
company to do this. We put it out for bid, we put it out for
bid, and I think I'm done with this interview.
PALAST: Let me just show you the contract if I could Mr
Roberts. It says here in the contract that the verification is
supposed to be done by DBT. That you paid them $4
million. It could look to others don't you think that you
paid $4 million to purchase this election for the
Republican party. 95% wrong on the felon list. Mr.
Roberts, could you answer the question regarding the
contract... Instead, Mr Roberts called out State troopers.
It's interesting here?
STATE TROOPER: Oh, man! Never a dull moment.
PALAST: I don't know why he had to call the police. We
hadn't gotten to our difficult questions yet! The difficult
questions are: Did Governor Jeb Bush, his Secretary of
State Katherine Harris, and her Director of Elections,
Clayton Roberts, know they had wrongly barred 22,000
black, Democrat voters before the elections? After the
elections did they use their powers to prevent the count of
20,000 votes for the Democrats? The Democrats say the
answers to both questions are yes.
COMMISSIONER: In any other country in the world, if
this had occurred, there probably would have been riots or
military troops throughout the streets.
PARTY CHAIRMAN: Al Gore won the election. He won
the popular vote and he won the vote in Florida. I think
that that's pretty clear.
VOTER: It wasn't done fairly. They shouldn't allow you to
contest an election then give you no way to contest it.
LEGISLATOR: Jeb Bush promised his brother he was
going to deliver Florida. I believe the Republicans strategy
was at all costs we deliver Florida.
CAMPAIGNER: Were people taken out of polls and
stopped from voting? Yes, I think that was not right. I
smell a rat!
PALAST: This is Database Technologies. This is the
company that the state of Florida hired to remove the
names of people who committed serious crimes from the
voter lists. I have obtained a document marked
"confidential and trade secret". It says the company was
paid millions of dollars to make telephone calls to verify
they got the right names - but they didn't. There is nothing
in the state of Florida files that says they made these
telephone calls. So the question remains, why did the
Republican leaders of this state pay millions for a list that
stopped thousands of innocent Democrats from voting?
The first list from DBT included 8,000 names from Texas
supplied by George Bush's state officials. They said they
were all felons, serious criminals barred from voting. As it
turns out, almost none were. Local officials raised a ruckus
and DBT issued a new list naming 58,000 felons. But the
one county which went through the whole expensive
process of checking the new list name by name found it
was still 95% wrong. Reverend Willie Whiting was one of
those removed from voter roles after DBT wrongly
labelled him a serious criminal.
REVEREND WILLIE WHITING: I have never spent a
night in jail.
PALAST: Were you ever busted?
WHITING: No. I had a speeding ticket probably 25-30
years ago, I guess, but that's about it.
PALAST: Do you think you should be allowed to vote if
you had a speeding ticket?
WHITING: Absolutely.
PALAST: The Florida legislature likes to see young
prisoners paraded in front of the capital in old cavalry
uniforms.
PRISON GUARD: Me and superman had a fight
PRISONERS: Me and superman had a fight
PRISON GUARD: I hit him in the head with some
Kryptonite
PRISONERS: I hit him in the head with some Kryptonite
PALAST: More often than not in America, the prisoner's
colour is black. Because of the way DBT generated the
list, every genuine black felon in the United States could
knock out every black voter in Florida with the same
surname and similar date of birth. That's why the NAACP
is suing Florida for violating voters' civil rights.
LARRY OTTINGER: Lawyer for NAACP Governor
Bush, the Secretary of State Katherine Harris, Clayton
Roberts, the head of elections, all knew or should have
known in advance that certain election policies and
practices would disproportionately impact low-income
areas, and in particular black citizens and other minority
citizens, and that this would disproportionately impact
Democratic voters, based on historical voting trends.
AL GORE: Thank you, Florida!
PALAST: Altogether, it looks like this cost the Democrats
about 22,000 votes in Florida, which George Bush won by
only 537 votes. The US civil rights commission is also on
the trail. They called in Bush, Harris and Roberts. Bush
did not convince his critics.
UNNAMED MAN: You screwed up this state. You sealed
the ballot.
PALAST: Commissioner Edley and his colleagues will be
in Miami tomorrow to hear from voters wrongly
disqualified.
DR CHRISTOPHER EDLEY: US Civil Rights
Commissioner If you are going to do it, by all means as a
matter of due process and fairness, it's got to be done with
excruciating care. It's a democracy, the vote counts. There
is a lot of public concern that the contractor selected is a
firm that seems to have ties to the Republican party.
PALAST: They will be putting our evidence to Database
Technologies. Their vice-president told us that "manual
verification by telephone calls" does not mean ringing
people up to check they have got the right person. So were
they paid to produce a list which they knew would name
thousands of innocent black people? In fact DBT told
Newsnight that Clayton Roberts and the State of Florida:
"... wanted there to be more names than were actually
verified as being a convicted felon." So did they use their
powers to prevent the count of 20,000 votes for the
Democrats? You don't have to be black. In Palm Beach,
America's privileged nurse their tans and their anger.
UNNAMED WOMAN: I thought I voted for Al Gore but
unfortunately I voted for Pat Buchanan, and I wasn't
happy about that, because I am a Jewish voter and he
would have been the last person in the world I would have
voted for.
PALAST: Whacky butterfly ballots caused thousands in
this Democrat town to accidentally mess up and they were
refused replacement ballots promised them by state law.
JOANNE CARBONE: From the time the elections started
until that awful decision that the Supreme Court made, I
came across hundreds of people who made a mistake and I
saw over 13,000 complaints filed by people who live in
Palm Beach county.
PALAST: In all, Palm Beach voting machines misread
27,000 ballots. Jeb Bush's Secretary of State, Katharine
Harris, stopped them counting these votes by hand. She
did the same to Gadstone, one of Florida's blackest,
poorest and most Democrat counties, where machines
failed to count one in eight ballots. Again Harris stopped
the hand count. This alone cost Gore another 700 votes, in
an election in which Harris declared George Bush winner
by only 537 votes.
KATHARINE HARRIS: In accordance with the laws of
the State of Florida, I hereby declare Governor George W
Bush the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes for the
President of the United States.
PALAST: Harris was a busy woman. In charge of Florida's
vote count and co-chair of Bush's presidential campaign.
LOIS FRANKEL: Had she really been unbiased? Wouldn't
the appropriate actions for her to be to say - let's really get
to the bottom of this election and let's make sure every
vote is counted.
PALAST: Lois Frankel represents Palm Beach, in the
State legislature where she leads the Democratic
opposition.
FRANKEL: She wanted George Bush to win. She
interpreted every rule, every law in a way to help George
Bush.
PALAST: We are driving down to Miami to witness an
American ritual. In Britain, you count the votes, then
announce the winner. In Florida they declare the winner
first and here we are, still counting the votes.
WOMAN'S VOICE: She is showing the ballot in front of
the light. They can see the light through where the chads
have been punched through. Then she holds it in front
because sometimes you can see things in different light.
They have a whole column.
PALAST: Normally these are machine-read, right?
UNNAMED WOMAN: Right.
PALAST: They are carefully going through the 179,855
uncounted ballots that Harris did not want tallied. They'll
know the winner next month. Sources tell Newsnight that
Gore's ahead by 20,000 votes. The Biltmore, grandest
hotel in Miami. Democrats are upstairs eating with their
richest friends charging $5,000 a plate. Let's see if we can
get in. Not far away from the millionaires on the balcony a
voter had taken hostages at gun point protesting against
the election fraud. But here it is back to champagne
politics as usual. One Democrat whispered they would
have done the same as Katharine Harris if they had the
chance. But another, party chairman, Bob Poe remains
bitter about this.
BOB POE: Chairman, Florida Democrats Jeb Bush,
Katharine Harris, Clay Roberts did everything they could
to stop every legitimate count of the vote. And that's what
did us in.
PALAST: All fingers point to the Jeb Bush crew in
Tallahassee. Investigators want to breakthrough the iron
shutters.
EDLEY: I have to say that thus far we have been
disappointed by the explanations, or perhaps I should say
the lack of explanation provided by the state officials.
When we spoke with the Governor and the Secretary of
State and even with the Director of the Bureau of
Elections underneath the Secretary of State, they were
pointing fingers at everybody else, saying "look it wasn't
our responsibility", they were in charge, which is a
disheartening disquieting thing for us to hear - who should
be held accountable for what clearly was a system that
broke down.
PALAST: State officials point the finger at the counties
and say it is their responsibility to check if the names on
the list are real felons before disqualifying them. Clayton
Roberts says his job is just to pass on the list. Roberts now
admits he didn't bother to check with DBT, if innocent
people were on it.
ROBERTS: Please turn off that camera.
PALAST: Off camera he said: We did not call and say did
you check the list again... the whole tenor of this is like
OK you screwed up you didn't check with DBT and if you
want to hang this on me that's fine. It is certainly fine for
George W Bush. Even if investigators conclude that Jeb
Bush and the Republicans conspired to steal this election,
the man in that house for the next four years will be
George W Bush.
© 2001 Award-winning investigative reporter Greg Palast
writes, Inside Corporate America, fortnightly in the
Observer (London), Sunday paper of Britain's Guardian.
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Fast Track A Way To Dump Democracy
By Patti Goldman
A little more than a year and a half ago, thousands
marched in Seattle to demand that trade institutions, such
as the World Trade Organization, respect the world
environment and the creatures that inhabit it.
Environmentalists joined unions, family farmers and
religious leaders to complain that the WTO has put our
laws to prote