This is a copy of the letter I have sent to Al Gore. (FYI) I demand that the Vote NOT be certified on January 6th. This country is going to get cleaned up with or without the help of the media.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Howell
Timonium, Maryland

Subject: A Call for New Elections

Dear Buzz,

Given the new revelations of illegal activity and cover ups in the bush administration there should be widespread demand for new primary elections and a new general election.

George Bush and his cohorts have used the coercive power of their offices to commit grievous crimes far beyond the "high crimes and misdemeanors" provided for in our Constitution for impeachment and removal from office by the congress.

As an electorate we were not sufficiently aware of the nature of these crimes to make an informed decision. George Bush and Dick Cheney are criminals and therefore not qualified to hold office.

Further Detainee Abuse Alleged: Guantanamo Prison Cited in FBI Memos (Washington Post)

President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore should be reinstated in the interim as though the bush administration never existed.

Tim Mooring

Subject: my opinion--To: Maureen Dowd, Re Christmas Eve of Destruction By Maureen Dowd (NY Times 12/23/04)

Ms. Dowd:

I wish to take exception to your characterization of the American People as having "decided" to live in a theocracy. It is quite clear to many of us that the majority of Americans – especially republican Americans – do not yet know, i.e. are not yet aware of the fact that we are no longer a democracy!

Instead of waggling your finger at us for being uninformed and, therefore, unable to have intelligently "decided" anything about our current form of government, I would suggest that you turn your finger 180 degrees the other way and point at yourself and your colleagues with the question, "Why didn’t you sound the alarm that something so catastrophic was happening right under our noses?"

Like any other communal animal, take the prairie dog for example, certain of the members of the community accept responsibility for alerting the colony when there is a predator skulking in the bushes or in the air above their heads so that they can dive for their holes and, therefore, not get eaten alive. The media was supposed to have been our watchdog. WHERE WERE YOU?

The New York Times, especially, holds much of the responsibility for our current state of affairs because it was The New York Times that arbitrarily decided to withhold information following the 2000 election and subsequent appointment of GWB to the presidency by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the fact that Al Gore actually won sufficient electoral college votes and could have supplanted Bush as President for the past four years -- if we had only been told!

Where is the big media coverage about Conyers and his struggle to get the votes properly counted in Ohio?

Where is the big media coverage about the fact that Bush used napalm on Falluja? Every other country in the world has outlawed the use of napalm because its action of gluing fire to flesh is so inhumane. Not so the U.S.; i.e., Bush.

Where is the big media coverage about our government’s plans to legalize GMO (genetically modified organism) pollution of world food crops because Monsanto wants to make more money and doesn’t care if their Frankenstein crops are not adequately tested to determine their effects on people before being loosed upon the world! In fact, according to Organic Consumer Association, Monsanto is actively suppressing information regarding their GMOs.

WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE!

Joyce Zborower
Tempe, AZ

Subject: fox news and "good" news

I sent the following to Fox News yesterday after I heard Rumsfeld make comments about none of the good things being reported in the media -- wonder why Fox isn't reporting on all the "good" things either. I suggest a write-in campaign to Fox and ask the same question.

Roma Pelegrino

Subject: Re: Rumsfeld's visit to Mosul (as sent to LA Times)

Donald Rumsfeld's visit to the troops in Mosul fits the pattern of how this administration treats the troops, and average Americans in general. After that soldier asked why he had to dig through garbage to find armor, Bush responded by saying Rummy has "a good heart," prays for the troops, and visits the wounded in the hospital. This is all nice but symbolic gestures that cost nothing.

Looking at their decision-making process and spending priorities paints a very different picture.

While planning the war, they ignored the uniformed military's assessments of whether Iraq was a threat, what the outcome of an invasion would be, and even the number of troops that would be needed. Instead they listened to the advice of a handful of ideologues who never got closer to combat than a tough game of croquet at the country club.

Armor for the troops and their vehicles, combat pay, and medical care for veterans moved to the end of the budget line behind no bid contracts in the billions for Bush cronies. And those cronies threatened to stop feeding the troops when the Pentagon asked too many questions about their accounting practices.

Perhaps worst of all, they continue to hold soldiers on active duty after the end of their enlistment contract to avoid the political fallout of the only other way to get more bodies on the field: a draft.

No one would care how gruff Rumsfeld was or if he signed letters by machine if the substance of how he did his job showed respect for the troops. But he treats them the way the Bushies treat all of us: with platitudes, a pat on on the head, and smirking contempt.

Michael D.

Subject: A Day In The Life Of Joe Republican

The best pro-union ad I saw at a huge rally in Victoria, BC...

Ed

Subject: comment about Man of the Year

Hi,

I was absolutely flabbergasted when I saw who had been chosen as Man of the Year 2004. Was I reading the same news as Time Magazine? Was it a joke? Or just bad taste? After all, this man just managed to kill over 100,000 Iraqi civilians in 18 months.

As man of the year, a better choice (I think) would have been that Iraqi civilian from Abu Ghraib, who stood on a box with a pointed hood on his head and electrodes on his arms. This is what should have been chosen. Just lift his arms a bit and you get the image of Christ on his cross.

Americans say they are attached to values. Choosing Bush as Man of the Year is just another missed opportunity to show the world that it is true.

Sincerely,

Jean-Luc Fallecker
France

Subject: When are we going to GET GOING?

OK, time for the whining to stop. When are we going to start hitting back? What team will dig up the dirty secrets of the Repugs? When are we going to tell the DNC that we have had enough of their weak replies? When are we going to demand that people like Howard Dean play a pivotal role? When are we going to acknowledge that we've been damaged by people like Terry McAuliffe -- and, yes, I'm going to say it: 'those who were more interested in promoting Hillary in 2008 than in winning NOW. As a supporter of the Clintons, I am extremely disappointed at the handling of the Democrats -- with voices like that of BuzzFlash and others, big money was raised and masses of voters turned out. What is really behind our losing?

RioRita

Subject: Rummy In Iraq

Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq on Christmas eve is particularly interesting. He traveled around the area in highly protected and secured means of travel. Wouldn't it have been nice if he had traveled in one of the many un-armored Humvees that remain, due to his lack of priority? It could have been a great boon to the troops to know that their SecDef would ride in one of the machines that is good enough for them. Of course, had he done so, the chances of his having become hamburger from an RPG or an IED would have been higher, but a brave and decisive leader such as he could have shown his true colors. Too bad he didn't think of it, because if he had, I am certain he would have leapt at the chance to show his macho. What a guy!

Ron Weinert
Buhl, Idaho

Subject: Stand and Fight

I’ve had enough of the radical right, vote suppression and the failures of our current government. For me, it’s time to do something about it.

Starting in early January, I am putting progressive issue ads on WGY, an AM radio station in Albany, New York. Anyone who wants to do the same (in Albany or anywhere else) is welcome to use the ads I’ve created.

It isn’t difficult to put an issue ad on the radio. All it takes is an e-mail address, a credit card, and access to a fax machine.

Progressive Issue Ad Topics:

1. DEFICIT SPENDING

2. INCUMBENCY/REDISTRICTING

3. JUSTIFICATION FOR WAR

4. RIGHT TO VOTE

5. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

6. DISSENT

7. CHRISTIANITY

I believe that the ideas expressed in these 30 second recordings will resonate with anyone who values fair play and good government. And to repeat, they are available to anyone. My one condition for use is that any spot must be played in its entirety, other than that; I offer them for public use.

If this idea appeals to you, send me an e-mail and I will send all 7 audio files to you in mp3 format. Your return e-mail must be able to accept attachments totaling 3.25 MB. And if you like them I invite anyone to post them on a web site for public downloads.

We are in a war of ideas, and fair play is a potent idea.

Please forward this message,

Robert Millman
r.millman@att.net

Subject: Guantanamo and US torture

When in god's name are the so-called christian right wing-nuts going to make a statement on the torture that is being used by this "christian" administration? This is rampant and from reading many articles it was condoned by the president and by his appointed attorney general.

What in hell is wrong with all of you? Can't anyone call the sin a sin? AND this one is more than a "mortal" sin. No, we allow the idiots (fox news) manage the news on whether to say merry christmas or happy holidays.

I refuse to capitalize anyone's proper name...don't deserve it and yes, at one time I was a roman catholic...

SHAME ON ALL RELIGIONS OR SECULAR GROUPS FOR THEIR NEGLIGENCE ON THIS BARBARIC PRACTICE.

Florence Murphy
Grand Rapids, MI

Subject: Bush Tries Again on Court Choices Stalled in Senate

If one thinks about it, it would be very difficult to comb the dregs of the "eligible" jurists to meet the criteria Bush has no doubt set: anti-abortion, anti-poor people, quietly racist, tendencies towards repression, fond of torture, willing to allow elections to be rigged and not a disbeliever when it comes to putting religion in government where they believe the forefathers meant for it to be. One would really have to look far and wide and dig into the most murky depths of the pool to come up with even one. Is it no wonder he is recycling the rejects?

Linda

Subject: remember the Florida Fourteen

Fourteen courageous members of the House of Representatives stood up to reject the illegal Florida electors. They did this on January 6, 2001. Although many of us called several Senators, not one Senator would support them. Thus, Bush is in the White House. Thus many young men and women died needlessly in Iraq, to say nothing about thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqis. Will the Senate sit quiet this time too?

mev

Subject: election fraud (as sent to media outlets)

Dear Journalists:

Irrespective of party or candidate preference, all citizens of any enduring democracy should be appalled, alarmed and outraged if a vote is rigged or fixed. Athletes are expelled from their sport for such conduct. We sneered at Iron Curtain and "banana republic" countries for such political conduct. And yet, Jimmy Carter recently stated that U.S. elections fail to meet international standards and that the Carter Center would decline to monitor our elections due to their huge methodological deficiencies. We allowed right-wing Republican business owners to design, manufacture, and program electronic voting machines used throughout the country, machines without paper verification that have been proven by computer experts to be easily vulnerable to hacking. We fail to require independent, non-partisan voting boards and officials. We fail to provide standardized, tamper-proof and manipulation-proof voting procedures. And as a predictable result, we are now faced with massive testimony regarding voter suppression in Ohio and overwhelming statistical evidence of vote tabulation fraud in Ohio, Florida and other states. This evidence has convinced me and millions of others beyond a reasonable doubt.

And I'm a Ph.D. scientist, not easily sold. I'm also a psychologist. This scenario may appear unthinkable and wildly unlikely to many citizens, but as a psychologist I find it not only likely but probable since vote fraud perfectly fits the enduring Bush/Cheney/Rove behavioral pattern. With nearly four years for the right-wing foxes to play unsupervised in the electronic voting henhouse, and in the light of Bush's personal history and his administration's record of flagrant, continuous violations of rules, truth and law, how can any sensible person believe that the vote wasn't rigged? Why else would a company that makes ATM machines design voting machines without paper receipts? It would have been entirely out of this administration's character to passively allow a fair contest. The long Bush history of outright deception, bait-and-switch campaign tactics, and manipulation through false appearances, described by Kevin Phillips - a former Republican - as "the politics of deceit," is extensively documented in at least a dozen meticulously detailed books by authors of unimpeachable integrity over many years. The neocon strategies and attitudes are unapologetically Machiavellian and their style secretive and authoritarian in the extreme. An extensive reference list on these matters, issue summaries, and links to web sites documenting vote fraud are provided on our site, www.squadron13.com. Everyone resents being conned, treated with contempt, and played for a sucker. But that is exactly what the Bush administration has done to the American people repeatedly, habitually, and at enormous cost in lives, dollars, risk to our people, and risk to the world. The media have failed miserably to present salient facts to the American population shown elsewhere throughout the world (e.g., massive killing of Iraqi civilians, destruction of Iraqi homes and communities, and understandable motives of the "insurgents").

In our 2004 election we see what I devoutly hope is the final straw that, once fully exposed, will collapse this corrupt and unprincipled regime. The heretofore unfailingly accurate exit polls indicate that Kerry won. The same pattern of evidence was enough to trigger a revote in the Ukraine. The Ukrainian election rigging, evidenced by exit polls showing 54% for the loser, has received extensive press coverage while the identical pattern in Ohio, where exit polls showed between 51% and 53% for Kerry, has been almost totally ignored by the U.S. mainstream media that have reportedly "locked down" this story. By the twin criteria of citizen demand and press support for honest elections, Ukrainian democracy appears considerably more advanced than our own.

Based upon exit polling data on November 2 after the polls had closed in the three key swing states, the unerringly accurate Zogby poll was calling 313 electoral votes for Kerry, even in the face of massive Republican voter suppression. Suddenly, like magic, the vote count turned toward Bush - but only in jurisdictions with electronic voting, a mean disparity of 6% between exit polling and reported results, all favoring Bush, in the three key states. In jurisdictions using paper ballots, the vote counts closely matched exit poll data (less than 1% disparity). The likelihood of this occurring by chance has been calculated by a University of Pennsylvania statistics professor at one in 250 million, a conclusion confirmed by re-analysis at MIT.

Thus, these data cannot be casually dismissed as paranoid delusion, wishful thinking or a fanciful "conspiracy theory" by sore losers. Especially after the outrageous 2000 voter manipulation and suppression in Florida that revealed the unconscionable Republican desperation to win at any cost to our system.

As a veteran who has walked among the vast sea of graves in the American cemetery at Normandy, I know that they did not die on the beaches of France for future leaders who, after avoiding personal risk in time of war themselves, would steal the votes of their countrymen. In the names of all those Americans who have left their lives and their limbs on a battlefield, and those who have carried lifelong visions of horror locked in their nightmares and intrusive memories, we are entitled to demand a full investigation and a relentless media spotlight upon these grave, unanswered questions that it is the constitutionally protected duty of a free press to provide.

If found true, hell should have no fury like that of a democracy deceived. And if found true after being concealed or ignored by the media, our fury will be directed at you, and justly so.

Jack Dresser, Ph.D.
Capt., Medical Service Corps., U.S. Army, 1962-65
Springfield, Oregon

Subject: DeLay always asks privately before going public?

What he is saying to the parents of kids killed because of a lack of armor is, "Stifle Yourself, Rumsfeld is perfection personified. You are not allowed to disagree." Ollie North? The guy who got by with dealing arms for hostages in Iran, the next Bush target for nation building.

I don't often agree with Tom DeLay, but considering Rumsfeld's performance, I find it completely unbelievable that he did it either. It is incredible that the USA would attack without an imminent threat, without sufficient forces and without an exit plan.

Particularly the last 3 years, Tom? He has only been at the DoD for 4 years.

Yes, Tom, I recall how often you went quietly to the Democrats, when they were in charge, before blasting them in the media. Hell, yes. Like the time you aired Jerry Falwell's fantasy, "The Clinton Chronicles," the night before the impeachment vote and when you sent federal forces to gerrymander Texas.

Which part of the national media is he talking about? I don't recall even one national newsperson who questioned the attack at all. A lot of democrats voted against the war, Tom? Name 5 who didn't vote to give Bush the power to use force. We went to war in Iraq without an ounce of provocation on purely fictitious justification.

Stifle yourself Tom.

DeLay Blasts Rumsfeld's Critics (newsmax.com)

Karen W.

Subject: bush to "adjust" Iraq Elections?

2nd part of article -- scroll down

if he did it here -- why not there?

Iraqi: We won't adjust vote results (Philadelphia Inquirer)

White House Proposes Guaranteed Sunni Role in Iraq, Election Committee Rejects Proposal (Al-Jazeera)

Iraqi exiles win right to vote in January poll (The Herald)

A BuzzFlash Reader

[BuzzFlash Note: Because we could no longer find your excerpt from the Seattle Times, we provided the other links.]

Subject: Bush says we are going to send aid to natural disaster victims

Bush says we will send aid, but Rumsfeld says Iraqis will have to clean up the mess left by the un-natural Bush disaster victims. We will clean up God's disasters and everyone else will clean up our disasters.

Travel problems are the result of a sick out and have nothing to do with the sick management idea of betting employees will continue working without their needs being met. Give it a rest and next time do something about employee needs before the holiday.

They do the same to health care workers and school teachers. They are supposed to continue working without proper health care benefits and income for their own families because they are dedicated and the scrooges at the top blame them.

NO:
C heney
A shcroft
R umsfeld
B ush
Speak up or they assume you agree!!! ABB

Karen Webb
Moore, Ok

Subject: On the cusp of a New Year

Dear BuzzFlash and Buzzers-

The Beatles sang...another year older and what have we done. BuzzFlash and Buzzers can be proud of all we worked so hard to accomplish in 2004...that energy is not lost. We represent the dominate spirit of the world that wants to rescue the light of humanity from those who hijack and harness it to self-serving, evil ends.

Thank you for being an island of sanity in the midst of Bush madness. Let's hope and pray that 2005 is truly a New Year, with a New World begun.

All good wishes.

Suzanne
San Francisco