RB

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Subject: Athan Gibbs and Tru-Vote systems

I want to thank you, BuzzFlash, for keeping me up at night, wondering if I will be the change I want to see in this world....

Put this link on your site, and I will donate 200.00 to your incredible cause. Athan Gibbs died trying to make sure all votes were counted...read this and pass it on. Tru-Vote systems. Pass it on. Write your senator, congressman.

He wanted every vote to matter; Athan Gibbs, Sr. dies in crash (The Tennessean, 3/14/04)

I believe this man died because someone didn't want his dream to be realized.... I will not stop until all my friends and family know that THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THIS MESS.......TRU-VOTE SYSTEMS!

LET EVERY VOTE COUNT.

Pete G.

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Subject: Do The Math--Demand a Paper Re-Vote

On November 3rd, I felt like an Austrian must have felt when the Nazis were about to take over. Maybe I saw "The Sound of Music" too many times. The headlines yesterday should have read "America Chokes on Its Words," instead of "America Speaks."

So why will nobody comment about the obvious number discrepancy in the US Election? Tuesday night, I noticed the tally numbers given in Ohio and Florida, where there was a much larger difference between the number of people voting for President only, compared to other state-wide Senate races and Amendments. BuzzFlash printed my November 3rd letter about a Huge President/Senate numbers problem, and here is my follow-up research, starting with Florida:

Florida President:

Bush 3,836,216

Kerry 3,459,293

Nader 32,036

Badnarik 11,746

Perouta 6,530

Cobb 3,876

Brown 3,495

Harris 2,735

TOTAL 7,355,927

Difference from Senate Turnout 171,537

Florida Statewide Senate:

Martinez 3,551,627

Castor 3,470,400

Bradley 162,363

TOTAL 7,184,390

Difference from Highest Other Turnout 208,475

Florida Statewide Amendments:

#1 Teen Pregnancy: Yes 4,495,784; No 2,450,261; TOTAL 6,946,045;

#3 Medical Malpractice: Yes 4,435,179; No 2,540,736; TOTAL 6,975,915*

Difference from President: 380,012

*highest turnout of other statewide elections

#5 Minimum Wage Increase: Yes 4,958,726; No 1,960,438; TOTAL 6,919,164

Why would 380,000 people go to all the trouble of voting an incomplete ballot? Why would 208,000 people only vote for President? From this data (Source: Yahoo Election: Results, 11/3/04; my math), it is apparent that "Ghost Votes" were inserted into the Senate Race numbers of voters, most likely credited to Martinez. The scariest part is that over 380,000 "Ghost Votes" were credited to Bush there, leading over Kerry by 376,000 votes.

Did Kerry really win Florida by 4000 votes? Does Florida even have 9 million registered voters, considering they reported over one million Absentee ballots that had yet to be counted, if at all? I'm also counting spoilage, and Provisional Ballots in this 9+ million.

Next is Ohio:

Ohio race for President, 11477 of 11477 precincts - 100 percent

x- George W. Bush (i) Rep 2,796,147 - 51 percent

John F. Kerry Dem 2,659,664 - 49 percent

Michael Badnarik NP 14,331 - 0 percent

Michael Peroutka NP 11,614 - 0 percent

Total: 5,481,756

Difference from Senate Turnout 193,540

Ohio race for U.S. Senate 11477 of 11477 precincts - 100 percent

x- George Voinovich (i) Rep 3,380,364 - 64 percent

Eric Fingerhut Dem 1,907,852 - 36 percent

Total: 5,288,216 / Difference from other turnout 27,891

Ohio Amendment 1 Define Marriage 11477 of 11477 precincts - 100 percent

x- Yes 3,249,157 - 62 percent

No 2,011,168 - 38 percent

Total: 5,260,325

Difference from President 221,431

I can't find any statistics for numbers of voters typically ignoring the entire ballot other than the Presidential race. All the other States have varied numbers among voters, but I did check the eleven states which also elected a Governor (DE, IN, MI, MT, NC, ND, NH, UT, VT, WA, WV). All eleven combined only show a difference of 156,622 between those voting for President, but not Governor (although why would they want to do that?).

These 11 states have a combined voter turnout of 14,332,606, making the total percentage of extra votes slightly over one percent; Utah had the largest (37,124 out of 857,062 or 4.5%), followed by Washington (30,768 of 1,987,491 or 1.5%) and North Carolina (22,177 of 3,421,477 or .65%). Remember Florida (380,012 out of 7,355,927 or .05%), but just enough to put Bush ahead? How about Ohio (193,540--way more votes than Kerry needed to win) or any of the other states with electronic or optical scanners?

These are questions worthy of careful scrutiny by published, investigative journalists, and not just some woman in Atlanta, as one of my friends pointed out. I hope at least one of you investigative journalists thinks so, too.

Susan Jolly
Atlanta, GA
Coppertop1019@aol.com

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Subject: A telling map of Florida

You published the reply from Anthony Lappe along with my information on Broward county voter suppression. I agree with Anthony that the voter registration lists don't show the sweeping Dixiecrat effect. However, the way the pieces were juxtaposed, it looked like he was saying that my analysis was part of the registration conspiracy theory.

This is not the case.

I believe the voter registration data and rural swing from Dems to Reps is real except possibly in Hardee county. I come to this conclusion by mapping gradients of vote swing from Dem to Rep. My map shows a few islands of staunch Democrats in university and large city type counties of the panhandle and armpit of Florida, in a sea of Republican drifting rural counties. As you move south, the effect is reduced until you get to the major southern cities where Democrats actually increased their dominance over Republicans.

My point is that Collier and Broward are both in the same area and have exactly the same increase in Republican turnout while there is a vast difference between them in Democrat turn out. This cannot be a Dixiecrat effect since Collier county, the more rural, actually saw a 46% increase in Democratic votes. Broward, a bastion of Democrats, showed only a 16% increase in Democratic votes.

The rural counties are a cup of gnat urine compared with the elephant's wash room of south Florida. If Broward had the same vote swings as the demographically and spatially similar Collier county, Kerry would have 140,000 more votes. Such a figure alone swamps the rural vote.

Ian W.

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Subject: Dark Age

HOLY WAR AGAINST SATAN IN FALLUJAH

A BuzzFlash Reader

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Subject: Good news for a change...forwarded by a friend

The Low Down on Ohio

I just got off the phone with the office of the Ohio Secretary of State and was told the following:

-Kerry's concession has no legal bearing on who wins the election.

-Ohio has been using and counting provisional ballots the exact same way for the past 10 elections.

-Ohio and Federal law dictate that the state will wait 10 days and then begin counting the provisional ballots. AND THE UNCOUNTED OVERSEAS BALLOTS. (?)

-All valid provisional ballots will be counted.

-The winner of the state of Ohio shall not be considered official until such time as all provisional ballots have been counted.

-*If* Kerry is found to win Ohio, regardless of his public concession, he will win the election.

The woman I spoke with asked that people post this information far and wide because, for whatever reason, the media aren't reporting it.

A BuzzFlash Reader

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Subject: The Media - - Missing In Action

It has been a week since the "election" and I am stunned to see the media's reaction to Bush's surprising victory. Every day reporters muse on the failure of Exit Polls -Republicans were reluctant to say who they voted for; the early polling was predominantly Democratic; there's been a major shift towards moral issues that pollsters didn't pick-up on - in short, every possible explanation except the only one that makes sense. The actual voting was
corrupted and fraudulent.

Why is no one asking how the Exit Polls got it right in the precincts that depended on paper ballots but significantly wrong in the precincts that depended on electronic voting? In fact, why is no one asking why exit polling that has worked perfectly well in every election before 2000, has not performed accurately since?

Why is no one wondering how a President who lost the last election's popular vote by over half a million votes (another 2.8 million if you consider Nader); who in the many months before the election never got above 48% approval ratings; who has painfully mismanaged a war that he lied to get us into; whose vice president's company stands accused of illegally receiving military contracts and then bilking the taxpayers with inflated invoices, picked up 8 million new votes in this election? Why haven't you posed the question that if recorded new Democratic registration was up by 250% in Ohio and Republican registration was up by only 25%, how it is possible that all the new voters in Ohio seemed to suddenly discover their religious concerns and voted for Bush at the polls?

When you consider all the conservative pundits, all the conservative newspapers and magazines and all the moderate Republicans who publicly jumped ship to endorse and vote for Kerry, Bush's win seems like a mathematical feat of heroic proportions. Yet no one is asking why. It really begs the question, what is wrong with our media, and where are today's Woodward and Bernstein?

Sincerely,

Carole Simon Mills
San Rafael, CA

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Subject: Exit Polls

Dear Friends,

Frank Luntz, a Republican Pollster predicted every race correctly except Bush v. Kerry. He got that Martinez would win in Florida, Salazar in Colorado and other races too. People and pundits (Including the execrable Ann Coulter) brush off the Kerry poll results by saying
that voters lied about who they voted for to influence voter turnout.

Let's examine this... Most people are proud of who they voted for and are happy to say it. Others prefer to not reveal their choice, but to lie about it? Does it really make sense that proud honest Bush voters, those "moral values" true, patriotic Americans, are going to lie and tell an exit pollster that they voted for Kerry?

The polls were correct. It was the vote counting that was screwy.

Leslie Crabtree

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Subject: pdf Cuyahoga County Precincts

I read were there are PDF's of web pages to preserve data on Florida Department of State Elections that show more votes in presidential election than reported citizens.

Other article on BuzzFlash on Cuyahoga County Precincts in Ohio over 93,135 extra votes beyond 100% of precinct.

Could you or direct someone else who knows how to transfer the data of Ohio Department of State Elections onto a PDF file in case the information disappears?

Certainly would appreciate it since I think if it important and I don't have the knowledge to do so.

Thanks,

M. Evans

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Subject: "Fixing Fallujah": BBC Radio Orwell Reporting for Duty

"Fixing Fallujah": BBC Radio Orwell Reporting for Duty by William Bowles 8/11/04

Under the headline "Fixing the Problem in Fallujah," the BBC Radio 4's Web site (7/11/04) tells us "Troops say they are ready to reclaim Falluja for its citizens."

That is, what's left of Fallujah and its citizens after almost continuous pounding by the US since last April. So as far as the BBC is concerned Fallujah is merely a 'problem' that has to be fixed, what like a leaky pipe?

Archived at: http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0284.html

http://www.williambowles.info

William Boyles

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Subject: We demand a halt to all official certifications of votes in all states!

I am writing to demand a halt to all official certifications of votes in all states due to the mounting evidence supporting the probability of fraud in the presidential election of 2004. The ballots are evidence of possible foreign intelligence, terrorist, or domestic criminal interference in a USA national election.

www.blackboxvoting.org/dcforum/DCForumld4347/2.html shows that only exit polls conducted where Optiscan machines were used were different across states. Other machines and methods of voting fit exit polls - only Optiscan machines did not. This strongly suggests the Optiscan tallies were either wrong or hacked. Exit polls are used with great statistical certainty in many countries. This is the first time that exit poll numbers have disagreed with actual results, and evidence suggests that the votes in certain areas - and not the exit polls - were not recorded properly.

I have been an Information Technology professional for the past two decades, and have worked with Microsoft Access databases for the past 12 years. As a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer who designed, programmed, and implemented scores of Access databases, I can say with authority that this product is not suited to the transmission and storage of sensitive information, such as one of the assets Americans hold most valuable, their private vote.

Optiscan machines are vulnerable to outside hacking because they transfer balloting results through common modems to central tabulating machine - an unprotected Windows PC. The votes themselves are stored in unprotected Microsoft Access databases, which can be easily hacked through the same modem or by simply using the central tabulating PC. This was dramatically illustrated during a program on MSNBC which featured guest host Howard Dean and BlackBoxVoting.org's Bev Harris. The video is available on www.blackboxvoting.org.

As this is a crisis with tremendous implications for our electoral system, and is of a time-sensitive nature, I urge you to publicize this information immediately.

Sincerely,

Shaun Toole
Houston, Texas

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Losing's bad

Losing when you won is worse

Losing when you won followed by indifference is really bad

Losing twice in a row when you won followed by indifference is the worst

Michael Barry
Reston, VA.

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Subject: overcounts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio

29 localities in Cuyahoga County which the Board of Elections results indicate had more than 100% voter turnout, with a total of some 96,000 "extra" votes at a minimum.

This web site points to the data, and summarizes the results:

http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html

The data comes from the BOE's current results page. To be fair, the BOE canvas report

http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/BOE/results/canvas.htm

has these figures, but also a different set of precinct by precinct figures for Ballots Cast (some of which also have peculiarities such as Parma Precinct 5-E). The BOE turnout figures are based on these latter numbers. But at the minimum, these results indicate that the BOE can't be trusted to add two numbers together, and an audited recount should be
done.

Hope you publicize this,

Cyrus Taylor

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Subject: letter from a fan -- A People Divided

In my protest days in the 80's (against Reagan and Bush I's atrocious AIDS policies), we use to chant "The People, United, Will Never Be Divided."

In light of the past election, I urge the 48% of my fellow Americans who voted for change, to adapt that phrase to "The People Divided, Will Never Be United."

After the diabolical plot by the Bush Administration to divide this country on highly charged emotional issues (gay rights, abortion, stem cell research) for the sole purpose of political gain, to then have the audacity after the election to call for unity is the most heinous, insidious abuse of power I have witnessed.

I will not go quietly into this immoral abyss created by this administration and I urge my fellow Americans, all 48% of our voting citizenry who know this is our country too, to SPEAK UP! FIGHT BACK!

Michael Freed
Santa Fe, NM

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Subject: Please! Stop siding with the Republicans!!

I keep seeing Democrats on TV and newspaper editorials giving the Republican slant on the election! STOP IT!!

John Podesta, Sunday on CSPAN, was wringing his hands and gnashing his teeth about how Democrats have to find some way to get the people to support them and their causes! Say again!? Not a WORD about election fraud. Merely a whisper about rigged electronic voting machines.

Hardly any mainstream Democrat is touching voter fraud post election. On the Center for American Progress homepage, there isn't even an obscure link to Blackbox Voting. I think they must be a secretly Republican group intent on subterfuge through misdirecting Democrats to small (however meaningful) inequities and injustices.

Get real, guys. We won the popular vote. We won the electoral vote. We got the people to the polls. We clearly have a LOT more votes than the Republicans do, at least for the office of President. Flailing at philosophical differences isn't the important thing. We have to stop Republican vote rigging. It doesn't matter if we have 99% of the votes so long as we allow the Republicans to simply throw a switch and put them in their column. Trying to get more votes is a counterproductive waste of our time when our focus should be on counting the votes we have.

James Tims

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This is to Barbara:

  Brava Barbara - Keep up the fantastically good work and commentary.  I am with you a trillion percent!  Moral Majority my ass.  These guys are neither moral nor a majority (to recoin an old phrase) - they are wicked, evil thieves! 

Sincerely,

Gail Henigman
San Francisco

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Subject: Keith Olbermann BELTS IT OUT OF THE PARK!

Friends,

The first segment of tonight's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," on MSNBC, was an extraordinary piece of TV journalism. It was a vivid and hard-hitting exposé of the whole pattern of electoral fraud, as represented especially in Ohio and Florida. It wasn't just a summary of others' stories, moreover, but included some amazing scoops. KO also had Rep. John Conyers on, to talk about the glaring need for a full-scale investigation by the GAO. (Three more congressmen recently have signed on to the petition, which now has
six signatories.)

It was a glorious moment for the First Amendment, and a powerful blow for the reclamation of American democracy.

Olbermann is going to stay on the story. We must therefore support him loudly, thank the network ostentatiously, and pointedly urge other congressmen and women to sign on as well. We want to make sure that MSNBC does not decide to fire him, and that all Democrats, and all honorable Republicans (there are still some in office), add their names to the list of righteous signatories.

E-mail Olbermann at KOlbermann@msnbc.com.

E-mail MSNBC news at World@msnbc.com.

And check out Olbermann's blog at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/.

A BuzzFlash Reader

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Subject: ReCall the Fraudulent Count . . .

BuzzFlash,

As Congress sits by and allows the "third finger salute from Bush," we, the people and proud citizens of Democracy for the US, need to demand a recall and we need to pursue jail time for this fraud.

People, maybe a "normal" person would respect the Americans who did not vote for him and his war, but Bush has proven over and over again, that he "doesn't care what any of us think" and he will . . . as I predicted before the 2000 election on some web site . . . end up killing us all.

There are a number of leaders in the world with a personality defect who would use preemptive strike and get away with it.

We need a recall and we desperately need to act with or without a Congress. If every person who voted against Bush could rise up . . . maybe we could change this. If our votes are not made to count . . . nothing anyone does will make any difference. Our votes need to count now.

The Republicans have used recall for vengeance . . . why not a recall for honesty? We have to stand up and be counted until we are sure our votes are counted or just count this Country out for generations to come.

Thanks BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith

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Subject: RE: George, John, and Warren (Keith Olbermann)

Mr. Olbermann:

I wholeheartedly agreed with the bulk your column titled "George, John, and Warren." You pointed out a whole host of voting irregularities that should be national headlines and subject to intense inquiry.

I have read dozens of accounts of vote tabulation problems with electronic voting machines and optical scan machines. There are precincts in Ohio that magically tabulated thousands of extra Bush votes out thin air, you have (as you pointed out) areas in Florida that the Bush tally far exceeded Kerry votes in areas with a large majority of registered Democrats. I have seen reports that some of these Democratic areas in Florida had Bush votes increase upwards of 400%(!) over the expected average, while Kerry votes were off ~60% from the expected.

And you are right in wondering whether these votes were tabulated correctly; was there some sort of orchestrated vote count manipulation?

But I lost you as soon as I read your bulleted question, "Who fixed the Exit Polls?" After ALL you just pointed out, isn't the more OBVIOUS and pertinent question, WHO FIXED THE VOTE?

There are articles out there by people who have done some statistical analysis of the accuracy of Exit Polls around the country. Apparently, the Polls are quite accurate in states that don't rely mainly on computerized voting and very wrong in the areas that have computerized voting. For instance, how is it that the exit poll errors ALL FAVORED BUSH??

Personally, I find the probability that in all the precincts in Florida that had voting discrepancies from the expected to the "actual" "result," nearly ALL FAVORED BUSH by wide margins highly unlikely. And nearly all of the battleground states that Exit Polled in favor of Kerry somehow all fell towards Bush? DOESN'T THAT SEEM ODD TO YOU??

Then there is the matter of Karl Rove calling all his "connections" on election day. I saw a segment on CNBC with Gloria Borger on November 3rd or 4th, relaying how Rove was confident Ohio and Florida would come around for Bush despite what the Exit Polls were showing, and that he was on the phone all day "getting out the vote." She said this with a straight face that Rove somehow could have a real impact on voter turnout on election day by making phone calls.

In another article, from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3987237.stm), this account resembles the comments by Gloria Borger. Here's an excerpt:

I would like to know how it is that a President's political advisor would have access to real-time vote tabulations from around the country?

I would like to know if it is ethical or even legal for Mr. Rove to have such intimate access to vote totals and individuals counting votes.

An article titled, "Evidence Mounts that the Vote May Have Been Hacked" (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm) highlights how all the vote totals are compiled and stored on regular PC computers and these machines are very easily hacked.

Now you might find this far fetched, but I would like to know -- given if it is TRUE that Karl Rove had access to real time vote tallies (that is he was tied into the machines that stored the totals) -- Is it possible that Karl Rove himself manipulated the data? He is already a possible figure in the CIA agent outing of Valerie Plame, why not this too?

Sincerely,

Andy P.

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Subject: 2004 ELECTION FRAUD!

Dear Sirs:

A gentlemen working with a team of people from OSU in Ohio has personally asked me to ask you for your help. They need you to do your thing. Please read it, understand it, spread it around. So the rest of the country knows. I would encourage you to investigate this immediately--in Ohio and in all other
states. Here are the links to this news story:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html

http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm

http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2524952

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041105/ap_on_el_pr/voting_problems

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1104-07.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/5/175844.html

http://www.blackboxvoting.org

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/1513252

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4175

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041106/NEWS02/111060040/-1/news

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=31&contentid=1642

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_13375.shtml

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html

http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~asatanov/fraud/

http://www.ultimatetaxi.com/board/messages/389.html

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/11/05/a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html

http://www.alternet.org/election04/20416/

Sincerely,

Doug McLaughlin

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Subject: Wag the dog

Wow, after months of Rumsfeld missing in action, he's suddenly all over the evening news. The Bushes must have been hiding him from the electorate all this time. And how about the timing on this whole Falluja thing? How coincidental that the military wasn't ready for the assault until AFTER the election. I mean, I'm sure little prince george never considered how American casualties would look to the voting public if the assault had been launched prior to November 2. Nonetheless, it appears he is back on track for his goal of sending more Americans to their deaths than Osama Bin Laden.

Oh, by the way, I heard on an NPR report this morning that "thousands" of Iraqi soldiers deserted yesterday prior to the attack. Why isn't that getting a little more airtime? Certainly, this isn't the
"highly-trained" military force the Commander and Thief bragged about in the campaign, is it?

Civil disobedience . . . it's time.

A BuzzFlash Reader

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Subject: Why did CNN change the election results for OH?

Thank you for your posting. I thought I was crazy. I saw your 1:05 am result at midnight, and the 6:00 result was already posted at 3:00 am. I have asked CNN why they altered the results, and why won't they release the real exit poll data by precinct so it can be statistically analyzed to see when (e.g. what types of machines) are associated with inaccurate results compared to the final count?

Rick Kohn
Maryland

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Subject: A New Party For Liberals

To my daughter, an activist in the Los Angeles Area.

Pam:

I received information directing me to a new web site (below) from Kerry-Edwards disciples this morning. Just like I was saying on the phone to you the other day; these people still don't understand what happened to them on November 2nd. There wasn't enough 'moderates' or 'progressives’ to go around and most of the so called moderates voted for the village idiot, Bush. Now they are trying to promote a new web site dedicated to moderates, progressives and independents.

CommonGroundCommonSense.org

LIBERALS have to recognize that the Democratic Party no longer represent true liberal causes. The DNC has tried to position the 'party of the people' as progressive or moderate in an attempt to distance itself from the L-word. Now is the time for true Liberals to distance ourselves from the Democratic Party. It has twice failed to win the day against a sorry candidate that should and could have been beaten. Liberals need a new party, new leadership and new champions. As much as I respect Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy; just to name a few, I do not want their moderate views in a new Liberal Party. Moderation, middle-of-the-road politics will not put a Liberal president in the White House or place a majority of Liberal representatives in the legislature.

Pam. Remember the analogy of the pendulum. Conservatism has swung the pendulum so far, so high while collecting a huge amount of energy that when it begins to fall, momentum is going to swing it to new heights of liberalism. Liberals, with a new Liberal party in place, need to be aware of this process and enjoy the wild ride that they will be taken on. We also need to allow a few well placed conservatives to see the inside of a jail cell for their parts in the manipulation of the American election process in the past three major elections.

All my love,

Dad

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Subject: The American peasantry (more placards)

Hi Buzz,

Like everyone else I am shocked and saddened at the thought of four more years of Bush. I do want to point out though that Bush and his friends are going to have to take the entire blame for the dreadful decline our country is in. The Europeans are mostly relieved that they do not have to support this war, something they were very likely going to have to do if Kerry went in. It is not all bad. Just hold on and watch.

I was also thinking about history and how throughout history the peasants have revolted. In America our peasantry is a wonderful mixed bag and all of us come from the same stock. If you do genealogy long enough you realize that we are all cousins. Probably we are even related to Bush.

But our rural people, our peasants, revolt in a very backwards fashion. I can just envision a cartoon and if anyone wants to steal this idea and draw this they are welcome to do so.

The American peasants gathered in mass, shaking their placards and banners:

DON'T EDUCATE US! KEEP OUR WAGES LOW! DON'T GIVE US HEALTHCARE! FORCE US TO HAVE UNWANTED BABIES! TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS! SEND US TO WAR! MISINFORM US! DISINFORM US! GIVE US ONLY JUNK NEWS! LIE TO US! BREAK OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES! RIDICULE US! FORCE US INTO CHURCH! EXPLOIT US! WE LOVE GLOBAL WARMING! INCREASE THE GAP BETWEEN YOU AND US! USE US AS CANNON FODDER! NO SEX! RIG OUR ELECTIONS! PUT KOOKS AND GOONS AND FOOLS IN HIGH PLACES! WE LOVE INANITIES! SUPPORT THE ENDARKENMENT! NO TO JUSTICE!

All the best,

Linda Deak
American Abroad
Wassenaar, the Netherlands

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Subject: Florida Pan Handle Votes

Rebuttal to the republican disinformation on the Voter fraud allegations in the Florida Panhandle. You are going to get some Republican responses stating that the area is 'Democratic' in name only, claiming that theses are actually 'Reaganites' and have been voting republican that way ever since. Something about history and having only one party back when to register as, and that happened to be Democratic. They will tell you to look at the last election in 2000 voting patterns for the area ..... don't buy into it ..... In fact all that would tell me is maybe the area was rigged in 2000 also, just to a lesser extent.

Fact is that Dixie County, Franklin County, Calhoun County, Taylor County, Wakkulla County, Levy County, Leon, County, Jefferson County, Gladden County, Madison County, Citrus County, Gilchrist County, Hamilton County, and more around the corner of the bend of the Panhandle were Blue Counties for President Clinton in 1996. And that pattern was actually increasing from the 92 Election. Anyone can go to the Florida Elections Web site and see the numbers. The argument of this area having some sort of Orwellian populace which registers overwhelmingly in one party (Democratic) and somehow votes for the other guy since the dawn of time just doesn't hold water.

As a side note .... if anything, with Clinton going out campaigning as he did this year after OPEN HEART SURGERY .... well I think that in itself would have fired this area up, ya think?

No Retreat, No Surrender .....

MB

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Subject: Need Birth Control? Good Luck!

Below is a link to a news story I read at Prevention.com. Apparently there is a large and growing group of doctors and pharmacists who refuse to prescribe or dispense birth control pills because they believe them to be abortifacients. Is this the first salvo in the war against abortion? Is this a test balloon before they go after Roe v. Wade? This is a huge story and it needs to be told. Thank you in advance for bringing the important stories to the American people.

http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-1-93-35-4130-1,00.html

Lorri Talley

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Subject: Fwd: Why? Why? Why?

Hi BuzzFlash,

After listening to Air America, watching Keith Olbermann, and reading various web bloggers, there can be no doubt that the Repuglicans again have tried to steal this election. Given this fact, I have several questions that I would like answered:

Why did John Kerry concede this election less than 24 hours after the polls closed?

Why did John Kerry concede this election before all Ohio and Florida ballot counts were completed?

Why did John Kerry concede this election when loads of verifiable examples of voter intimidation and fraud were occurring during the election?

Why did John Kerry concede this election knowing the Democratic Party had accumulated over $20 million in litigation funds? (What happened to this money?)

Why did John Kerry concede this election when most exit polls in most states had him winning by a comfortable margin?

Why did John Kerry concede this election knowing that the final national vote count would not be officially certified until December 12, 2004?

Why did John Kerry concede this election when the youth vote broke all records, despite what the Repugs want us to believe?

Why did John Kerry concede this election when every bit of historical data indicated he should win?

Why? Why? Why?

How I wish everybody would stop accepting the fact that the moron won. Bush will not be certified (he should be; crazy!) the winner until Dec. 12, 2004. Why aren’t the Democrats spending that $20 million right now? Each day brings more evidence that this election was thrown and the best the dems can do is to concede this loss and give us “Wait till 2006 or 2008.” Bullshit! If the party goes down now without a fight, we’re stuck with the moron for 4 more years, Jeb Bush for the next eight years after W, and Barbara or Laura Bush for another eight years after that. Hello! If that thought doesn’t motivate someone, I don’t know what will.

Lord, what’s wrong with this freakin’ Democratic Party? The repugs and the media are trying to tell us that it was a “values” thing. That’s called “framing”; which serves to take our mind off this stolen election. And, oh yeah, let's not forget the attack on Fallujah the day after the election. That’s another frame to take our mind off an election stolen right from under our noses. And we’re buying this load of crap hook, line and sinker, accepting the fact that Bush won?

Why? Why? Why? Please somebody; give this 71-year-old life-long Jewish democrat some answers -- so he won’t have to aggravate himself about the possibility of having to wear a yellow armband in the years left to him.

Howard from Phoenix

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Subject: Actions

Please request that your readers contact democrat U.S. Senators and ask that they stand to "contest" the 2004 Presidential election. Evidence of black box irregularities and other cases of fraud and intimidation in the last election is mounting. There must be an official investigation to insure the integrity of the voting process itself which is the very heart of democracy in America. The only way to draw enough attention to the issue and insure that there is an actual investigation is to "contest" the election. To do this we would only need to convince one, single U.S. Senator to join us. We already have members in the House of Representatives who will contest. This is a time for urgent action.

Please announce plans for major protests on inauguration day. Thanks.

A BuzzFlash Reader

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Subject: re Evangelicals

Brokaw said on Letterman, 43% of the voters are Evangelicals.

Maureen Dowd, this morning on Meet the Press, said their campaign for Bush was brutal, like a jihad--and Bush was one of them, not just a leader.

Are we seeing a pattern here? A cult, that has flown under major media radar? And how much influence do they have when the voters (and most of the workers and tax payers) in big cities who are voting Democratic but have no say in their government.

I think it is time to put some SPOTLIGHTS on this group, their leaders and what they actual stand for. I'm told by some friend in rural communities it is not just religion, it is all about THEIR GOD, THEIR RELIGION AND THEIR WAY OF LIFE AND NOTHING ELSE IS ACCEPTABLE.

I think this is a group that needs major focus--starting with some things they have said about their power and what they are going to get from Bush. I think your web site would be a great beginning because from what I see--the things they are saying are quite frightening for a country built on freedom.

A BuzzFlash Reader

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Subject: voter fraud?

Why are the left organizations like moveon.com and United for Peace ignoring this issue? What is wrong with a left that goes 99% there, and then gives up. Why won't the organized left join us in this mission to save our democracy?

I am so frustrated with these professional losers! And what about John Kerry? He "had my back." Oh? Why haven't we heard from him? Is he on vacation? There will be no unity! There will be no protest in the streets of most of America either. Why? Because the American left are so used to losing
that they can't even recognize when they won.

John Y.

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Subject: Media, Heal Thineself

BuzzFlash,

We have had a week of mainstream election analysis telling us that the Democratic Party has to change. It has to get with twenty first century values. It has to appeal to the theocrats in the South. Separation of Church and State is passe. The Bill of Rights is passe. The Geneva Conventions are passe. Freedom of Speech is passe. Loyalty oaths are in. Innocence before proven guilty is out. Jailing dissidents without trial is in. Constraining cruel and unusual punishment is out. Torture is in.

Media pundits stop wagging your finger at the Democratic party; You who self-censored stories critical of the Bush administration. You who repeated every slimy lie of the Bush administration as if it was worthy of You who substituted polls for news analysis. You who called Fahrenheit 9-11 Liberal propaganda even though it contained factual information that you were afraid to present. You who wondered how Germany could have ignored Mein Kopf, yet ignored The Project for the New American Century, available on the web for over four years

Media pundits, wag thine finger at thineself.

Larry,
Maryland

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