November 12, 2004

The BuzzFlash Mailbag

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Re: Back In The Ring, by Sally Kohn

Ms. Kohn, along with virtually all of left leaning punditocracy, is angry at the Democrats, and/or John Kerry.

This is, unfortunately, the ultimate 'blame the victim' mentality.

It is the American political equivalent of the Taliban stoning a woman to death for the indiscretion of having been raped. (It was the saucy way she wore that burqa, no doubt.)

I'm not sure which is lazier, an American electorate which will not even acknowledge the blatant election fraud foisted on them, again, or the so-called professional journalists who vigorously ignore the mountains of evidence of that fraud, while busily blaming the Democrats for not being more on message, as if that would have stopped voting machines from being hacked. 

It is, after all, so much easier to haul out one of the many, many articles blaming 2000 on Gore and just change the names and dates. Never mind that Gore won and that voter fraud was rampant in Florida. The history has been written. It was Gore's fault. Now it's Kerry's fault.

No, it's our fault, because we are letting them get away with it while we write and read little distracting articles that ignore the rape of the most sacred civil right any American has - our vote.

I may not be a professional journalist, but I was in the polls in Florida in 2000 and again in 2004 and I am telling you that it doesn't matter what message the Democrats have. It doesn't matter what strategy the Democrats have. It doesn't matter how many voters the Democrats get to the polls. And it most definitely doesn't matter what  profound, thoughtful words are written about the election by paid thinking heads. None of it matters if we aren't willing to stand up as Americans and do something about the fraud being perpetrated on us by those who are willing to desecrate our electoral system for their political gain.

Subject: Walmart

Please ask your members to check out the upcoming PBS frontline special on Walmart. If you look at the PBS website you will see that it should be really informative. I think that the "Walmartization" ranks up there with global warming as a threat to our way of life. Thanks for all of your really great work. I have referred all of my progressive friends to
your excellent web site.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Oh my, Ohio!

Dear member of the media,

I am very happy to see that David Cobb and Michael Badnarik, the 2004 presidential candidates for the Green and Libertarian parties, today announced their intentions to file a formal demand for a recount of the presidential ballots cast in Ohio. Widespread reports of voting irregularities all over the country during the last Presidential Election, and the eyebrow raising letter of the CEO of Diebold with a promise to "deliver Ohio to the president," have been a constant reminder of how tenuous our democracy really is, and how careful and vigilant all of us need to be to uphold its values and integrity.

It was extremely disappointing to me that John Kerry conceded such a tight election on the very next morning after John Edwards had calmed concerned voters with a promise that every vote would be counted. It's bad enough that nearly half the population doesn't vote, but at least we should do justice to the ones that do.

I hope that you will follow this continuing story closely and report promptly on voting irregularities and any findings of the recount in Ohio. This story deserves a prominent position in your news stories. This country prides itself on its continued efforts to spread democratic values across the globes, but we need to be sure to uphold those same values at home.

Kind regards,

Edwin d'Haens
San Francisco, CA

Subject: A suggestion

Hey Everyone,

I love the ideas about protesting Bush’s Inauguration as in www.turnyourbackonbush.org. Here’s some other thoughts:

Even more, try to look “Republican.”

For women, dress up. Wear either a strand of faux pearls or better, a cross on a chain necklace.

Be sure to curl your hair, wear make-up and lipstick. Carry a purse and a bible (having just come full of joy from a prayer meeting for the President). The June Cleaver look is in with these people.

For guys, for sure wear a suit, tie, have your hair cut short, start now growing that goatee beard thing, and be sure to have a flag in your lapel by all means. A flag-type tie or a red one is preferred. Memorize the names of the local republicans from your home district, your state representatives, and other familiar stuff like that, such as the name of your local Baptist church and its minister, etc. If you have kids some “W04” stickers on their strollers are a nice touch. Memorize the names of some of your Republican representatives, and who you “especially” admire for his/her stand on ________. Learn phrases such as “He’s going to restore America to what it was.” Or “I pray for our President and his family everyday,” (These phrases are lots of fun, and you can learn them easily, and might consider having a party with games and prizes to help others learn the language, which is of the “utmost” importance.)

The same holds true in the months ahead for attending any meeting, speeches, and other Republican functions. It is simply useless to go and protest now. You only get pulled out/away without hearing any information which could benefit the left side. We tried Protesting for 4 years and they continued on anyway, then won, really. It only made us feel better. So what? Time and money are now going to have to be better spent. What good does it do to get into a secret planning session, or the AEI or Heritage Meetings, to then say, Ha! I am really a Liberal to only get hauled off? Go in and take notes, a hidden camera, tape recorder, etc., make connections, sign up with your Republican name to your Republican address for mail, is much, much better.

Also, for sure get a P.O. box (not gov’t or franchise type) which uses a street address and start giving small sums of money (ugh) in your alter ego’s name (like Luke Reagan Reynolds, or Matthew Joseph Johnson, or Rachel Elizabeth Thomas, etc.) mailbox to the ultra conservative causes, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, etc. Be sure to join the national Republican Party (easy) so you can have a Republican Membership Card in your Republican wallet which you will carry to these events to show at all times. Don’t use your home address for security reasons, but also because you will eventually, with little financial investment, have tons of mail (information) sent directly, daily. And it will never stop. It is simply fascinating.

If you don’t want to carry a bible, bring along a copy of one of Ann Coulter’s books or Bill Bennett’s or some other right wing kook’s book, which you can easily get at a Half Price Book Store (don’t buy new). But bring some kind of right wing book. This is a must accessory. And put on that happy face, with all joy, praise, and gratitude!

Everybody has got to wear flags; jeweled eagle broaches are a nice touch, too (just tell yourself you are getting together a Halloween costume so it will make you feel o.k. about spending the money on things you wouldn’t).

Have the Republicans ever protested? When? Nope. Can’t remember ever. What I am trying to say is I am in total agreement with this type of protest at the Inaugural, if it can be done. After that, enough of protests everywhere! They are now a waste of time and money at this point! Get organized to form, create, and legislate a National Voter System. Voting can no longer be done state by state because too many people move all the time in this new century, as never before, and for other obvious reasons, duh. That is the first and only place to start, seems to me.

Maybe this is at least one thing we can have fun with each month…and thanks to turnyourbackonbush.org for an excellent idea!

Betsy

Subject: re Pageantry Planned for Bush Inauguration (AP/Yahoo)

here's an idea:

HOW ABOUT A TAX REVOLT....OR/AND OUR OWN INAUGURAL! Of the rightfully elected Senators Kerry and Edwards!

I'm sick to death of these wealthy smucks who take from the poor and middle class... where's Robin Hood for God's sakes?????

Or a strike...TURN OFF THE TV ....make ratings drop through the floor....

Or we could have a party in Philadelphia for Freedom and Democracy in spite of the Smirkin' Chimp and Kid Vicious!

D. Shatin
Levittown, PA

Subject: Go read a history book

As a southerner that campaigned and voted for Kerry, as quite a few of us did, I feel that I should point out a few problems with your essay. Several of the founding fathers you claim as your own were Southerners and also slave owners. Several of the thirteen original colonies were Southern states. They are backwards ass places like Virginia and the Carolinas where quite a few of the Liberal Elite of your frozen ass northern states are relocating to in search of a decent place to raise their kids (see Research Triangle area of North Carolina and the banking capitol of the south, Charlotte). Florida is nothing but rich, elitist retired Yankees, so don't give me that crap about it being a Southern State. And they didn't vote with their values, they voted with their wallets. The Tennessee Valley Authority that you seem to believe Northerners single-handedly paid for in order to give us here rednecks electricity was actually developed during the depression to generate jobs for the unemployed of the era, who were shipped down from the Northern states to work!

It is hard enough to champion liberal causes in the South and defend the ideals of the Democratic Party without BuzzFlash granting publicity to a foul-mouthed, uneducated, bigoted, elitist child from one the Northern States, who has offered up an essay that validates all of the prejudices my conservative friends hold dear. Thanks a lot.

A. W. Hart

[BuzzFlash Note: Points well taken. FYI, our staff is a mix of easterners, southerners, westerners and midwesterners. The essay author is a BuzzFlash reader.]

Subject: Counter Coronation in the planning

Activists out of DC are planning a Counter Coronation with activists from across the nation! Bring your video cameras. Let's see the 4000 troops of the New World Order.
They stole the election twice. What are we waiting for? Get on the list and plan to attend.

http://www.counter-inaugural.org/

Theresa
Houston, TX

Subject: 22% of the population in Tennessee will lose some or all of their health care benefits.

22% of the population in Tennessee will lose some or all of their health care benefits. How many of them would you guess voted for Bush? Moral values?

Tennessee to End Expanded Medicaid Program (AP/Yahoo)

Jo Ann D.

Subject: Pragmatism - hey Soros, buy Diebold

It's time Democrats stop with the idealism and start with the pragmatism.

Republicans have been able to highjack this election because a decade ago they got smart and pragmatic and (1) bought media outlets, (2) bought voting machine companies, (3) identified wedge issues that would mobilize small groups of hate-based voters, and (4) started changing the FCC rules on media ownership so they could lock us off the public
airwaves.

Democrats stupidly stood by and let this happen at a time when we had control over much of the government. It's time for Democrats to get equally as pragmatic. Our goal should be to reverse each of these things.

First, let's get Soros and some other wealthy progressives to buy up voting machines companies and media outlets. Pragmatic and effective.

Second, let's identify our own issues that will mobilize enough small groups of new voters to counter the new hate-based voters Rove has mobilized.

Third, let's start a media campaign through Move-On or other organizations to show people how bad consolidated media ownership is for us. (It's why we never hear the bad news of the Bush programs until it is too late.)

Pragmatic, folks. The Republicans didn't change their existing platform. They pragmatically bought the companies that affect our democracy, such as TV outlets and voting machine manufacturers. The played massive PR games with words to reframe their issues. They identified issues that would mobilize small groups of non-voters and get them to the
polls and added them into the existing platform.

No matter what you think of Republicans' philosophy, it was a series of smart, pragmatic moves that put them in total power while Democrats fiddled around and let this happen. I'd like to think we are equally as smart and can counter those moves now.

So, what do you say, Soros and friends? Want to buy a voting machine company? Move-On, how about a non-stop campaign of anti-discrimination and other progressive ideas?

A BuzzFlash Reader

Among those traditions are: a preinaugural church service for the incoming president and first lady, a congressional escort to the Capitol for the public swearing-in, a presidential inaugural address that sets forth a vision for the new term, a luncheon in the Capitol's famed Statuary Hall and a 1.7-mile procession along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House before a massive, cheering crowd.

Though the media did not give it any airplay, those of us who have seen Fahrenheit 9/11 know that when Bush was inaugurated in 2000, his procession was NOT greeted by a massive, cheering crowd, but instead by a very angry, egg-throwing crowd, forcing the Presidential motorcade to speed off. Why does your article ignore that fact?

I also wonder, with all the mention of heightened security, whether any protestors will even be ALLOWED near the procession this year. Maybe that is something your reporters should look into. Will this be a staged event, like all of Bush's campaign appearances, where only fervent supporters can attend, or will the voice of dissent be allowed to be heard?

Sincerely,

Craig Schott
Redlands, CA
VOTER

Subject: Re the death of democracy

To Whom It May Concern,

Your headline today says that Democracy died when the Supreme Court appointed bush in 2000. Personally I think that history will show that democracy died when President Kennedy was killed and the Executive Branch was given to the military-industrial complex. What we are seeing now is the inevitable result of actions taken in 1963.

Obviously our history books won't tell this story because the way American historians are telling the story puts our version in the 'fiction' section. But world history eventually will tell the true story.

Donald W. Smith
Battle Ground, WA

P.S. I love your site. I bought and distributed over 100 of the "are you better off now" postcards that I purchased from your site. Keep up the good work.

Subject: On Iris Chang's Death

April 14th of this year, I was slated to hear Iris Chang at the New York State Writers Institute at the State University in Albany. I wish I had gone.

Iris, according to the Los Gatos police, shot herself off of Highway 17 just south of my home on Tuesday.

The 36-year-old writer and journalist, who chronicled the rape and massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians at the hands of Japanese troops before World War II (and produced the most amazing bio of Tsien Hsue-shen*, the father of China’s space and missile programs), was found dead in her car on Tuesday near the town of Los Gatos, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of San Francisco. (*See 95's Thread of the Silkworm.)

Anyone (politically conscious) who's lived in Japan for any length of time is likely to have immediately thought that former Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Kunihiko Saito* (or his followers...or his overlords) had some inside dope on what she was working on of late...and set it all up. But, admittedly, such speculation probably has much more to do with the sorrow of the moment coupled with...nowhere to go. (*His condemnation of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997), a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace and International Cooperation Award winner, is legendary.)

I fear there was some deep sadness, unrevealed to others, that drove Iris...to want to leave us. It is something we should all ponder. What do we do to others? What do we not do with them? Where are we in all this? Like my partner once asked me when I was screaming over some petty family argument, "Why are you here?"

True to her fiber, her spine, she refused to cave to demands for changes in her Rape of Nanking that Kashiwa Shobo, her Japanese publisher, created a furor about in public. That led to a 1999 cancellation of her contract in Japan, cutting her off from readers who were important to her.

Still, that's but a branch of what she held out.

She was the Organization of Chinese American Women's "Woman of the Year" in 1998, but she could surely have won that accolade more than once...rules and traditions permitting...for her many unsung contributions.

Life is filled with mysterious omissions. Missed opportunities.

Blessings in solidarity with Iris in mind,

Richard Oxma

Subject: An Open Letter to the Moveon.org Team on the Topic of Investigating the Vote in US Presidential Elections 2004

Dear Moveon.org team, Carrie, Joan, Lee, Marika, Noah, Peter, Rosalyn, and Wes,

Please permit me to explain why I will not be signing your petition to "urge" my US congresspersons to investigate the vote.

In my mind, your petition reflects a passion for ending election fraud that is both too little, and too late. The petition is dated November 11th. Where were you on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and all days since, to denounce major media's blackout on obvious levels of widespread fraud? Where were you to help American citizens say "NO!" Bush does NOT have a mandate to impose a neo-conservative agenda of perpetual war and mass poverty and joblessness, when major media talking heads made these pronouncements? Where were you to say the levels of fraud in elections 2004 make elections 2000 look like child's play?

You state in your petition that demanding an "investigation" is necessary because "To keep our faith in democracy, we need to know the facts."

In all due respect, based on our constitution, every human being is born with faith in democracy, a passion for realizing our inalienable Creator-given rights to freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

In fact, it is because we have and should stir continuous faith in democracy, therefore, that we must denounce all of the smokescreens used, such as token opposition, token investigations, token laws, and so on, in attempt to persuade us otherwise, and thereby thwart us from realizing democracy and social justice.

We the people must remain watchful and dissatisfied with any congressional investigation, such as the one you describe below, that, once carefully read, admits its purpose is merely to "prevent this from happening again"!

How many times have we heard these words since election coup 2000? We have been there, done that. Our experience tells us that, not only were no improvements made after the discovery that our elections were contaminated with practices that allowed for systematic disenfranchisement of Black, Hispanic and "poor" voters, but instead legislation was passed and signed by Bush, namely the Help America Vote act, which made it easier to commit mass fraud and mass cover up in elections 2002 and 2004.

The 9-11 investigations were another example. In every case, the expenses of these campaigns for mass legitimating [sic] of a ruling few are charged to tax paying citizens!

Thus, from experience we see there are countless schemes--we must remain alert to--devised by a wealthy self-appointed ruling few to rob people of their money, thereby, exploiting our human passion for taking action to improve life for ourselves and our loved ones--for all.

This must be stopped. And a good start would be informing the public about the methods used to invite them into participating in their own oppression. Yes. Oppression in America.

Properly framed, for example, the questions in any genuine investigations are not whether the elections were fraudulent, but rather WHAT are the countless methods that have been used to ensure our elections remain unnecessarily complex, which, in turn, guarantee they can be controlled by a wealthy few who, then, get to say WHO the candidates will be, WHAT issues will be debated, and WHO will win. High levels of orchestrated complexity, chaos ensure mass voter confusion.

One of these schemes have been the mass media campaigns, which have NARROWLY conditioned the American public to define "morality" in terms of sex drives, sex preferences, sex organs, and the like. In actuality, morality covers every aspect of human behavior toward other human beings and the environment. Poverty is immoral! Joblessness is immoral! Homelessness is immoral! Slave labor is immoral! Outsourcing middle class jobs is immoral. Wasting our resources is immoral. Every child not having a quality education is immoral! Fear-mongering is immoral! Duping citizens to "manufacture consent" is immoral! Violence for the sake of subjugation and oppression is immoral! War-profiteering is immoral! Destroying the air people breathe is immoral! Contaminating the water people drink is immoral! Terrorizing American citizens who organize to promote peace and civil rights is immoral (i.e., FBI program COINTELPRO)! Dismantling democracies to impose totalitarian corporate-military rule is immoral!

A government that permits all of the above (to maintain oligarchic rule of a few) commits immoral acts. These social problems and injustices are easily addressed by the restoration of a government to its people. And, the first step is the guarantee of every single citizen's right to vote in free and fair elections, 100% publicly financed, national registration of all citizens of age (simple, one vote for each, based on SSN!).

The biggest and perhaps main problem democracy has always faced is how to guarantee that big money may not, just because they can, use their power and means to sabotage democracy, infiltrate and control vital social institutions, bribe and hire agitators (to promote the rule of few lie that "self-governance" is absurd, impossible, unnatural, and thus, leads to "immorality" and "chaos").

In contrast to the present structure of our elections, which guarantee only that the "winner" will be a pro-perpetual war and world domination player--you can be certain that, in a government truly of, by and for the people, with only a fraction of the money used currently to impose corporate-military rule around the world--every citizen's right to vote would guarantee every citizen's universal human right to a quality education, work, living wages, free press, build vital relationships and communities, live free of fear, breathe clean air, drink uncontaminated water, eat healthy nutritious natural food, and create a deeply satisfying life of meaning and purpose.

Best wishes,
Tina Staik

Subject: sick of this

I'm about as sick of all this as anyone can be. The feeling and often-stated response to November 02 is, "we'll get 'em next time!" or "wait until 2008." "Let's reorganize and who will be our next candidate (quarterback)?" "Whoop de doo!"

A CLUE: this is not a football game. People have struggled, suffered and died for what little has been accomplished. Committed, responsible people are buried in mass graves under mud damns in Mississippi while Republicans grope themselves and shoot birds.

So, assuming we could actually get a good quarterback and win next time, what do we do? Everything has been gutted. There's no money for social programs, for education, for anything. More tax cuts coming, others made permanent. The safety and well-being of the whole world is seriously jeopardized. Supreme Court stacked. FBI headed by someone who advocates torture.

WORSE, underlying all that is the national mood in which ignorance, vulgarity, crude and sub-human values have not only been validated but elevated to cultural ideals. Has anyone see the Big and Rich video, "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)"? Yet the left embraces Larry Flynt and Howard Stern. What better proof is there that America is doomed and that, in big ways, it is well-deserved.

Move to Canada and buy a flak helmet. That's the right solution. It's done! There's nothing left but the screeching of tires and the big crash, taking us all with it.

Bob D.

Subject: The math is as if Bush did it! Let Americans know! THEY are home, TROOPS wounded

Military officials said 18 troops had been killed in the battle for the rebel-held city west of Baghdad, with another 178 injured....

Two aircraft carrying 102 injured soldiers arrived yesterday. Another 125 injured arrived earlier in the week and more were expected today.

American injury toll grows amid fierce resistance: Military says hundreds of militants killed (The Guardian)

Then, the article goes on to say that only "seriously" injured soldiers were sent to Germany.

102 + 125 = 227 + "more" (so what does the "178" injured mean?) and if 227 "seriously" injured were transported to Germany, with more coming, and others were LESS seriously injured, how many were ACTUALLY injured?????

Several soldiers needed intensive care, with brain or spinal injuries or limb amputations, including at least eight of yesterday's arrivals.

(And if it is unpleasant for Americans to see news on TV or read about spinal injuries (paralysis) and limb amputations while enjoying their veterans day holiday, THEY are safe at home!!!!)

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Asscrotch

If John is resigning-he should either pay for or be required to remove the shroud he placed on the Justice figure in the Justice Dept!!!

Seig Heil and thanks.

Ralph Dunaway
Astor, Fl.

Subject: Time to Push Back?

Boy. Social Security may be on the way out. Ditto Roe v Wade, our civil liberties and elections we can trust. And Bush doesn't have anything standing in his way. Seems like there should be something we could do to keep him a little off-balance.

Boycotting his enablers in the media might be a good starting point. If one web site would call for a boycott it would probably catch on like wild-fire. How hard could it be to get 100 protesters in front of CNN? Then you have Bush's big contributors: Home Depot, Chevron-Texaco, Phillips-Conoco.

Helpful Household hint: I don't buy Newsweek anymore. A boycott of print media is felt immediately.

R. David Goldberg
Vancouver Wa
Someone sensible,
Mikhail Gorbachev in '08

Subject: tax exempt for Churches

We must demand that NO CHURCH continues to have tax exemption since they have decided to be so active in politics.

Jocelyn
Miami, Florida

Subject: The coup d'etat

Coup d'['e]tat [F.] (Politics), a sudden, decisive exercise of power whereby the existing government is subverted without the consent of the people; an unexpected measure of state, more or less violent; a stroke of policy.

It is becoming apparent that this presidential campaign was an exercise in futility. I am waiting to hear an outcry in defense of one of the founding principles of this country: the separation of church and state. The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of a
national religion. The founders of this nation intended that principle to protect religious freedom for everyone. Democracy is gone.

America is now a theocracy, fast becoming the counterpart of the theocracies in the Muslim world. President Bush, Richard Cheney, John Ashcroft and other cabinet members, several members of congress, the so-called "neo-conservatives," Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, "evangelists" like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, "evangelicals" and "pentecostals" are Dominionists who subscribe to the tenets of Machiavelli and Strauss.

In the Dominionists' world, the end justifies the means. Among their beliefs is the notion that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted in accordance with their interpretation of biblical (Old Testament) law. For example, they believe the death penalty is justified and should be employed to punish just about everybody who is outside their "elect" circle, not just Islamic terrorists, but also "secular humanists,""liberals," "intellectuals," dissenters, homosexuals, effeminates, adulterers, fornicators, thieves, coveters, drunkards, revelers and swindlers.

They believe that any means to achieve power over this country and the world (which would include, of course, lying and rigging elections) is justified in order to establish God's kingdom on earth. Ann Coulter actually said that liberals (meaning democrats) should be hung as traitors. Coulter has said that whenever this country is attacked from without or within, liberals always side with the enemy. The unbridled rantings of the insufferable Rush Limbaugh and those who call in to his radio show are frightening.

Dominionists are bigots and white supremacists and the new masquerade of the ku klux klan. They are not in deed followers of the "philosophy" of Jesus Christ as was claimed by
George W. Bush, and presenting themselves as Christians doing God's will is the ultimate lie.

Sadly, directives to vote for Bush and Cheney were issued from the pulpits of tax-exempt churches, flagrantly defying the law. President Bush has been allowed to establish and
fund his "faith-based initiatives," giving tax dollars to "christian charities." In doing so he is establishing a national religion - his brand of christianity - as well as buying support for the GOP.

America needs leaders and representatives who will stand up to defend our Constitution and speak out against this "coup d'etat" loud enough to be heard by everyone.
 
A report on the Dominionists: The Despoiling of America:  How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State (Yurica Report.com)

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Waxman

Dear BuzzFlash,

One of the few people to consistently stand up for the American People is Henry Waxman.
Why isn't he running for president instead of these losers we keep getting?

Rob Moitoza
U.S. Navy Veteran
Seattle, WA

Subject: reply to mailbag on Constitutional Amendment

Have you thought that this Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage might have another unforeseen consequence?

If the Bush Administration can pass this, why couldn't they also revoke the one banning the President from serving more than two terms?

Mike Curtis
Greenbrier, Ark

P.S. If that happens, then we will have to get Clinton to run again.

Subject: Something to post regarding our future interest in helping Dems and the DNC: please read

Dear DNC and possible future Democratic candidate:

Do not expect one thin dime from me or any volunteer help unless you help straighten out the voting confidence gap, which is about as big as the Grand Canyon! There is a reason that the Internet is on fire on the subject of voter fraud, and it's called Diebold Machines and the electronic machines that can only hold 3,000 votes when 10,000 are submitted. It is the wet ballots in Florida. It is the 4,000 people who voted for Bush in a precinct of less than 800 people. These are the "mistakes" that were caught.

We have worked hard for Democrats. We have given money, time, energy and faith. Now it is time to show that you were worthy recipients of our efforts by fighting against Diebold and paperless ballots and fighting in Ohio and Florida to do complete re-vote by mail, as is done in Oregon. Since the machines were incapable of keeping track and so many voters were turned away, the best recourse is to do it all over again. If Bush wins again, then at least we know he won fairly, not "fairly."

In two years, we will be haunted once again by the suspicious actions of the Republicans, but in two years, people will not forget your inaction on voter fraud issues.

You promised that if we went out to vote that our votes would be counted. Now we are asking that you fulfill that promise, or no money, no help no nadda. This is a kingdom now, Don't you get it? Why bother trying to elect people when the votes can so easily be rigged?

Mary Jacobs

I agree with the above letter-no money unless you help the United States Citizens have confidence in the voting system again!

Your Name

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Subject: How to bring liberal influence to bear

I'm reading a lot about how liberals and Democrats must take back the House & Senate, how we must stop the Bush administration from doing this or that awful thing; however, no one is coming up with any really useful methods for doing so.

I believe that since we have a corporate controlled government, we must go after the corporations who support Bush and his cronies. We attack what they care most in the world about--their bottom line!

There are 55 million citizens who voted for Kerry. If only half of these voters can be organized to boycott Rupert Murdoch's media empire advertisers, we could force some real changes in Fox News.

We know which corporations and industries support Republicans and Bush. If we target these corporations and industries by boycotting them, we may, through them, be able to force our demands for election reform, environmental reform, etc.

We all know Wal-Mart is a big Republican supporter. I've stopped shopping at Wal-Mart because they are bad for small businesses and for communities all across the country. They force their suppliers to outsource jobs to China in order to keep the cheap goods flowing onto Wal-Mart shelves. What if 55 million shoppers boycotted Wal-Mart and demanded they change their evil ways, that they allow their employees to unionize, to put more U.S. made goods on their shelves, etc.?

One by one we attack these corrupt corporations where it hurts. We put pressure on them and they in turn put pressure on the government.

I don't know whom to contact to get this idea out to the public. I know we're all mad as hell and would be willing to boycott till it hurts. We just need someone to get us organized. Maybe someone in your organization could float the idea to those who have the means of starting a boycott movement.

Thank you,

C.A. Watt