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Update on Pending Ohio Recount ...

By Murshed Zaheed
Posted on Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 08:23:25 AM EST

Cliff Arneback, Chairman of Legal Affairs Committee of Common Cause Ohio ("CCO") has been leading CCO's charge on all recount related activities. Keith Olbermann tonight on his blog took note of Cliff's efforts. Note Cliff is also a national officer in the Alliance for Democracy. Here is Keith on Cliff's effort in Ohio and how the recount story is slowly creeping into the mainstream press (MSM):

The Glibs' recount effort was underscored last week by their letters to Blackwell insisting he hurry up and finish certifying the count well before the announced deadline of December 6, because otherwise, there won't be enough time for the recount before the voting of the Electoral College on December 13. The Alliance attorney Clifford Arnebeck told The Columbus Dispatch that his quite separate legal challenge to the election must be addressed immediately because "time is critical." The local Democrats haven't been commenting on their low-flying suit - more about that later. They're just smiling quietly to themselves.

Cobb, Badnarik, Arnebeck, and everybody else actually has more time than they think. I addressed this topic with the wonderfully knowledgeable George Washington University Constitutional Law professor, Jonathan Turley, back on Countdown on November 9th. He noted the election process is a little slower - and has one more major loophole - than is generally known. It begins on December 7th, the date "when you essentially certify your electors... it gives a presumption to the legitimacy to your votes. And then, on the 13th, the electors actually vote."

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The Ohio newspaper coverage suggests that even the mainstream media is beginning to sit up and take notice that, whatever its merits, the investigation into the voting irregularities of November 2nd has moved from the Reynolds Wrap Hat stage into legal and governmental action. Tripe does continue to appear, like Carol Pogash's column in today's San Francisco Chronicle. Its headline provided me with a laugh: "Liberals, the election is over, live with it." I've gotten 37,000 emails in the last two weeks (now running at better than 25:1 in favor), and the two most repeated comments by those critical of the coverage have been references to the ratings of Fox News Channel, and the phrase "the election is over, (expletive deleted), live with it. I hesitate to generalize, but this does suggest a certain unwillingness of critics to engage in political discourses that don't have no swear words in `em.

More from the Clevleand Plain Dealer on the pending Ohio recount:

Columbus- A trio of activist lawyers armed with mysteriously wrong exit polls and hundreds of voter horror stories announced plans Friday to contest Ohio's presidential election as soon as the vote is official. Their challenge could lead to widespread reconsideration of dozens of alleged election irregularities around the state - from reported computerized voting glitches to provisional-ballot mishaps to unusual incidents involving voter rolls, poll workers and machine technicians.

Columbus attorney Cliff Arnebeck, a national officer in the Alliance for Democracy, could not predict exactly when members of the coalition will be ready or able to file their request.

And, after they do, the Ohio Supreme Court would have to rule in their favor.

Again to echo the quotes from one the attorneys mentioned in the Plain Dealer article, "Ohioans need to make sure their vote was properly counted."

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Update on Pending Ohio Recount ... :: 15 Comments

Ohio recount

Before the election, it was commonly accepted that 'they will do whatever it takes to win.' Now that they did, it is accepted that they 'stole it fair and sqaure.' WHAT HAPPENED? Thanks for all the voices of sanity I find here. Will we ever know?

seedswest

by Anonymous Citizen on Wed Nov 24, 2004 at 12:08:25 PM EST

Re: Ohio recount

We are working very hard in uncovering all information re. election irregularities and the problems with our voting system. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment on our site.

by Murshed Zaheed on Wed Nov 24, 2004 at 04:07:12 PM EST
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election 2004, Ohio, Florida etc.

Let's all take heart from the election in the Ukraine... Let's not be afraid of ridicule for voicing we smell a rat within our own election this year. So easy to go back to the sitcoms, business as usual etc. We have no Democracy if we don't fight the obvious fraud on principle this time. The mass media must be held more accountable for ignoring the issue raised by those of us concerned with the irregularities of polling places within the swing states. (I'd imagine elsewhere too.)
(Maybe we should just boycott the major networks entirely...)

We cannot roll over and play dead... Exit polls don't lie but Diebold do, do, do. Come on everybody... It's gonna take all of us raising our voices as sanely and reasonably as possible. Keep pointing to the evidence when your loved ones say "Get over it!"... The fraud here was just as blatant as in the Ukraine recently... Enough already! Let's be real and call a spade a spade. The truth hurts, but ultimately it's all we've got.

by Anonymous Citizen on Tue Nov 30, 2004 at 01:53:18 PM EST

Re: election 2004, Ohio, Florida etc.

guess what...exit polls do lie, I know cuz uhm gee I lied to one. Yeah voting is a private matter. So when I was approached I made it look loke I supported Longface, sorry Kerry. We got together and decided to throw a monkey in the works. There were close to 70 of us that if asked would yes, oh yes pull a Clinton and tell a bold faced lie.

by Anonymous Citizen on Sun Dec 12, 2004 at 08:53:41 PM EST
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It ain't over yet

Many are saying, "it's over - get over it." There are still a few post-election threads to cling to for the hopeful, and this is one. The vote happened, the counting's almost done, but there's a legal phase to the election, so when we get passed that, only then will I get over this election.

by Anonymous Citizen on Thu Dec 02, 2004 at 11:04:35 PM EST

swapped ballot orders

You guys paying attention to the mutliple precincts per polling place problems, and how people were given the wrong instruction booklets to vote? Different precincts have the candidates in differnt orders, but if they're all at the same place, they can be given to the wrong voters. See http://dailykos.com/story/2004/12/2/44647/2043 . That's what explains the artificially high number of votes for Petroutka and Badnarik in some precincts.

by Anonymous Citizen on Thu Dec 02, 2004 at 11:34:05 PM EST

HOUSE JUDICIARY DEMOCRATS ASK BLACKWELL TO EXPLAIN

PRESS RELEASE

Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
Fourteenth District, Michigan
Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary
Dean, Congressional Black Caucus
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
December 2, 2004
Dena Graziano (202) 226-6888

CONYERS, AND OTHER HOUSE JUDICIARY DEMOCRATS ASK BLACKWELL TO EXPLAIN ALLEGED OHIO ELECTION IRREGULARITIES

In response to information obtained as part of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff's ongoing investigation of election irregularities in the 2004 election, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee along with Representatives Jerrold Nadler, Melvin Watt, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, William Delahunt, Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, Anthony Weiner and Linda Sanchez, wrote to Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell requesting that he respond to reports of election irregularities in the state of Ohio.

[b]The Members wrote to Blackwell: [/b]

"Collectively, we are concerned that these complaints constitute a troubled portrait of a one-two punch that may well have altered and suppressed votes, particularly minority and Democratic votes. First, it appears there were substantial irregularities in vote tallies. It is unclear whether these apparent errors were the result of machine malfunctions or fraud.

Second, it appears that a series of actions of government and non-government officials may have worked to frustrate minority voters. Consistent and widespread reports indicate a lack of voting machines in urban, minority and Democratic areas, and a surplus of such machines in Republican, white and rural areas. As a result, minority voters were discouraged from voting by lines that were in excess of eight hours long. Many of these voters were also apparently victims of a campaign of deception, where flyers and calls would direct them to the wrong polling place. Once at that polling place, after waiting for hours in line, many of these voters were provided provisional ballots after learning they were at the wrong location. These ballots were not counted in many jurisdictions because of a directive issued by some election officials, such as yourself.

We're sure you agree with us that regardless of the outcome of the election, it is imperative that we examine any and all factors that may have led to voting irregularities and any failure of votes to be properly counted."

Among other questions, the Members asked Blackwell to respond to the following:

Why did Warren County officials exclude members of the press from observing vote counting on election night, claiming an FBI agent had warned of a terrorist threat that was a "10" on a scale of one to ten, but the FBI has no knowledge of such a warning?
Why did precincts in Perry County apparently record more votes than voters?
Why did Butler County and a number of other counties record more votes for an underfunded Democratic candidate for State Supreme Court than were recorded for the Democratic Presidential candidate?
Why did historically Democratic precincts in Cleveland record up to twenty-two times more votes for the Constitution Party Presidential candidate than all third-party candidates combined received in the 2000 election?
Why did voters in Mahong County report that when they attempted to record a vote for John Kerry their vote was displayed as being cast for George W. Bush?
Why did there appear to be a shortage of voting machines in traditionally Democratic precincts on election day, causing up to ten hour delays for voters, while there was an apparent surplus of voting machines in traditionally Republican precincts?

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You can download the letter at
http://www.spidel.net/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf
or
http://www.dakotatechnics.com/downloads/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf

Kevin Spidel and Tim Carpenter (former Kucinich staff members) went to DC this week and met with Conyers this week for Progressive Democrats of America, (PDA).. He had them visit with the Minority Legal Council, who informed them about hearings on the irregularities in Ohio being held by the House Judicial Committee this Wednesday.

Conyers' staff has invited PDA to attend these hearings on the Hill on behalf of the thousands of grassroots activists who have been writing and asking PDA to put pressure on the Democrats. Rep. Conyers and his staff have been allies all along. PDA will be coordinating efforts to assure your voices are heard during these hearings.

http://www.pdamerica.org

by Anonymous Citizen on Fri Dec 03, 2004 at 02:08:11 AM EST

I sent this to Kerry the day after the election

Ohio is a Kerry state and the republicans are making out that things are steering towards republican domination and they are wrong. I was voting , because of where I live, in a very high dollar area, so there were many, many more republicans at the polls. I had to make a fuss just to get my chance to vote. I had to yell and scream at the polls because they were sending me from station to station within the poll place because they claimed I was in the wrong place! This happened all over the country sir! Thousands of votes were lost because of this republican machine and their intimidation tactics! I was not in their books! Forget that the board of elections told my wife two weeks ago I would be in the rolls at the location they sent me to, but I also called twenty minutes beforehand to double check and they told me the same thing. They said I was on the roll at the board of elections where I called in so I was on the roll at the place they told me to vote at the church of the lakes on Fulton road in North Canton. I was NOT!!!!! They said since I wasn't on the roll I HAD to vote provisional! As a matter of fact a man at the polls told me I was at the wrong place and had to leave to vote somewhere else. I told him I wasn't leaving. The board of elections told me to come there, and this made him very mad, and he wasted ten minutes of time time trying to convince me I wasn't supposed to be there, but if I decided I would vote provisional then my vote would be counted. I think that my vote was filed in the dumpster behind the church!!!! I was interviewed by the press when I came outside after my 35 minute ordeal! The republicans were running the show in North Canton, Ohio today! I'm disgusted! I have voted in three of the last four elections, counting tonight's fiasco! I showed up with my voter registration from when I registered originally. I had my I.D. and they still wouldn't let me vote. I had to vote on a different ballot, and I was singled out and profiled right before everyone's eyes! It was an embarrassment and a disgrace! President Kerry I implore you sir it's not too late! You can still come out on top. With stories now coming out of the Carolinas that the machines were faulty and many votes were lost due to pre-set number restrictions (probably to limit the number of Kerry votes) and with the provisional ballot problems here in Ohio and across the nation an investigation MUST be made. "Of the people, for the people, and by the people!" This president has made the people out to be idiots again, and stolen another election from the rightful winner, the people, he has seriously tarnished the image of America here and abroad and the people have had enough. It is becoming increasingly clear that tampering and thug tactics were used yet again in this election. I was not surprised to hear the republicans had demanded the chance to contest people's right to vote and they were granted this right by the courts. This is a shame sir and now millions of American's will be sandbagged yet again, and many, many, many more will be left to die in the sands of some middle east country because the Bush's coffer's after four years of tyranny are still not fat enough in their opinion! The American people came out in droves President Kerry, we assembled and supported you, staking the future of our children on your words and promises, so for you to roll over and take if from this administration with no Vaseline is a travesty and a heartbreak for us! We fought for you! Please stand up and fight for us! Demand a recount, hell demand a revote because of tampering and you'll get it! The American people love you and we know that Bush has tampered with things again this time around, make this your swan song if you must! Stand up to these bully's and show the American people and the rest of the world there is still a shred of dignity in the highest office in the land! I don't know if your blood ties are that strong as some suggest, and I don't know of any oaths you may have sworn in secret meetings with the bastardized jesuits who call themselves skull and bones. I do know sir that your withdraw from the race the day of the election was hasty! I could see honest passion and emotion in your speech sir and I beg you, implore you, and ask you sir to please fight this! Show the American people there are still those in the highest offices of the land willing to stand up and fight for what's right! If you don't you are effectively telling the American people you're a coward and in the same bed with the republicans! Don't just roll over President Kerry! America needs you! The obvious fix has been discovered! Votes were lost everywhere by design! Accuse this administration! Make the bastard's deny it! I think if there were a revote that you would see an even bigger turnout than before in support of you! Show America and the world you are the better man by unmasking this mass deception that's been perpetrated on the American people yet again and claim your right at the head, or remember this: You won the election fair and square and the only thing that kept you from it was personal fear and a half-wit you're losely related to! The fix was in president Kerry, this president has once again tampered with the election process and unless you stand up to him he'll get off scot free! Make the son-of-a-bitch resign like Nixon if you have to and expose the evil scum for what they really are! We need you president Kerry! Your country needs you! Stand up for us and demand a recount!!! You will not make us weaker! You will make us united and stronger than ever before by showing us you really do care about America and it wasn't all just some political game to you! Show we the American citizens your conviction and we WILL get behind you! I know you come from money president Kerry, but I don't, my wife and I make less than $30,000, but in you I see greatness, because after the wealth and power are attained and your comfortable on the material plane that leaves only the spiritual side that needs to feel fulfilled! Was dropping out of the race the other morning and admitting defeat to the rest of the world fulfilling to you? I heard your tone and I saw your love for the American people radiating from you during your brief speech! Go back to the trenches for us one more time sir! Please demand a recount! Don't go to the mat like a boxer in a fixed tenth round, come back up swinging and accuse, accuse, accuse, because when the investigation begins a myriad of skeletons will be found in the Bush closet! Show America and the rest of the world you're not on the take and expose these vile liberty-raping scum for the beasts that they are! You are the rightful president Mr. Kerry, and to let that just slip away....well.......I guess us stoopid amerikan sheep had you pegged wrong when we decided to get behind you and believe again! We put our faith in you sir...how about putting your faith in us!
With undying love of liberty and respect
EJB

by Anonymous Citizen on Fri Dec 03, 2004 at 04:01:11 AM EST

Re: I sent this to Kerry the day after the electio

Who the hell are you ?
Why do you make me weep from your message ?

I fear for my country; my family.
If we do not right this wrong, the world community will do it for us.

by Anonymous Citizen on Sat Dec 11, 2004 at 12:50:45 PM EST
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Re: I sent this to Kerry the day after the electio

I'm just a concerned citizen who's watched from the sidelines as the current administration uses it's muscle to dominate and destroy the very ideals I was taught made America special. What would those men who died in WWII say about what's happening in this country, or how about those brave boy's who died in viet-nam so similarly to the way our boy's are now dying in the sand? I wonder if they'd be happy they gave their lives for this? It makes me sick to my very soul to see so many thing's brought out by the true patriot's about what the Bush family has done to this country, and then I watch as it's swept neatly back, beneath the rug from whence it came! I am apalled that the people of this great democracy are willing to trade all of their right's as citizens for a sense of false security in a war the Bush family started. And who is still getting rich off the blood of America and her children? Who's still making million of dollars? The Bush family and their cronies that's who, but be careful who you tell that to or you'll be labled unpatriotic for not supporting the Bush family's right to make millions of dollars off the blood of America! Like a cancer their nazi ideal has spread to the highest offices in the land. Now the image of america has been tarnished! Now the safety and security of America has been breached! Now the lines have been drawn between the rich and the poor! Now the Bush family has divided America! Was this part of their plan all along???
I wonder what Abbie Hoffman whould have to say about what's taking place in this country ruled by devouring pigs? I don't think he'd say anything because if he did he'd get a free lifetime pass to Guantanamo Bay and his own special cage! An interesting side-note, during Clinton's time in office, near the end, we were ousting Milosavic for stealing a presidency and performing an ethnic cleansing and we deemed him and his countrymen violent enough to take out! I wonder what the rest of the world is thinking right now? I don't have to wonder! They hate and despise us for letting our leader do as he will. "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." A. Crowley. Interestingly the humanists believe the same thing only worded a little different. I will not cast judgment on these men, as the punishment from God will be swift and harsher than anything I can put into words, but I can point out the obvious! These BUSINESSMEN do not deserve to walk in the offices they occupy! We are a country of poor men ruled by the out of touch rich! The true sons of liberty need to rise up and help to hasten the day of the coming of the Lord! False spiritual fire and strange God's have invaded America, and now we are feeling the woes of a Godless nation! Hypocrites, eating at the table of the demons they serve, God is watching! Jesus is coming!

by Anonymous Citizen on Thu Dec 16, 2004 at 02:19:32 AM EST
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Here's the diagram of the scam!!!!

After thinking about this for awhile following my debacle at the polls on the 2nd of last month I think I may see the diagram and equation the Bush juggernaught used to steal yet another election from the people. Aside from the thug tactics and misinformation they ladled like gravy over us at the polls and leading up to the rigging of the election, this is the math behind it. (#1) The machines used in many places were manufactured by Diebold, a company which had already, before the election ever happened, GUARANTEED a Bush victory. In Ohio, and the Carolinas etc... the machines were faulty, and it is my charge that this was by design. How else can you explain irregularities like that in southern Ohio where a county of less than two-thousand ended up with a split of just under three-hundred votes for Kerry and some four-thousand votes for Bush! The fix was in electonically and there can be no denying this, as Ohio was not the only place this happened! (#2) The provisional ballot scam! I have never had to vote provisional before ( I voted in 3 of the last four elections), and was literally forced to vote that way this time around! I'm fairly certain this provisional ballot scam was the way the republicans stole the election! One of my brothers was also forced to vote provisional this time around, because some scumbag at the polls contested his vote and then after he cast his provisional ballot it went into a special box just for the provisional ballots! A provisional vote is a vote that only gets counted if it makes it through the chain of chaos! This is wrong, and for me it was the last straw! The American people's right's were raped as a whole and now Bush will claim four more years following another thievary of astronomical proportions. The figures of provisional ballots in my state of Ohio are shakey at best! Because I charge that many of those provisional ballot's cast on election day are now landfill! I don't believe a large portion of them were ever counted and now an even larger portion of them will be LOST, MISPLACED, and/or DESTROYED!
so there you have it: MACHINE IRREGULARITIES (fraud)+ FORCED PROVISIONAL VOTING (x) the number of states voting = FOUR MORE YEARS OF GREED, RAPE AND DEATH!!!
EJB

by Anonymous Citizen on Fri Dec 03, 2004 at 04:26:13 AM EST

I am going to be sick

You need to get a life, people! George W. Bush is President of the United States of America!!!!! There are no conspiracies that were put in place to elect George W. Bush President. The majority of the people wanted him. Get over it. You people are DIVIDING this country with your talk to law suits and such. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You are trying to PREVENT democracy. Communists!

by skwurlygurl on Sun Dec 12, 2004 at 03:20:27 PM EST

Re: I am going to be sick

Blind! Just because you love the matrix that hugs you and have no problem swallowing their lies with a spoon does not make us communists. We are excersising our right to free speech and stating the obvious facts that the media refuses to cover. You're obviously some soccer-mom who's hubby makes $200,000 a year and you don't want to let this go! Your stupid words will not effect this blog. Why don't you go shop for some clothes at wal-mart or something. The democrat's believe in democracy and embrace the idea of freedom in this country! It is the Republicans who are mucking thing's up and taking the freedom from the people. It is the republicans who are robbing from the poor and giving to the rich! You call us communists, well I say you disgust me boot-licker. Adolph Hitler would be pleased to see his nazi dream is still alive and well in America!!!

by Anonymous Citizen on Wed Dec 15, 2004 at 10:37:14 AM EST
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Re: I am going to be sick

I'm too am going to be sick but it isn't because of something you said, it's because I just saw this unelected president is going to come out with a full military presence on his false inauguration day! Anyone else notice the day after the election when Bush claimed victory he neglected to thank GOD! The man the moral majority supposedly got behind, stood their and thanked HIS ARCHITECT ROVE and never once thanked God! He thanked everyone but the academy and never once said a thank you to God! Ever heard this man mention the name of Jesus outside of a fundraising luncheon! No! He is a member of a cult that gathers in the redwoods. He is a member of the Bohemian Grove, and he made his announcment of Cheney as his right hand man after a trip to the grove. They worship and owl at Bohemian Grove, but the owl is but a symbol of Moloch the Summerian God of war! The owl see's 360 degree's meaning they're always watching! This man lies and say's there are many roads to heaven, opposing Jesus who said that the road is narrow! Deception, lies, cover-ups, rigging, manipulation, murder, greed, and death are the tennants of this nazi regime which has rooted itself in the Amerikan political system! The spider has three bellies that feed it and Hitler knew and practiced this, and George Bush Jr. is taking up where hitler left off! The spider has three bellies feeding it! The MAFIA, THE POLITICAL MACHINE, AND THE CHURCH!!!!!!! THESE THREE COMBINE TO PUMP MONEY AND LIFE INTO THE BEAST! American servicemen and women are dying for a cause falsified by the Bush family and dying for money instead of freedom. Bush said on the night before going to war that we were going to war for WMD's has everyone forgotten this!!! There were no WMD's it was a LIE! He DECIEVED us! Now we Americans are being made out to have a bloody mouth because of this Nazi regimes lust for wealth! Whats happening is a Jihad and a Jihad is a holy war! This is a Holy war! Not a war for oil. The muslim extremists and fundamentalists are attacking us because of the games the Bush family has played in the middle east! And something to remember! They will never defeat the terrorists. They use the word Al-quida like it has card carrying members or something. Al-quida is a state of mind, kinda the way the american indian nations still carry their tribes within them, and wherever they are then their nation is! The only way Al-quida could be defeated is if all muslims were exterminated in a mass ethnic cleansing, and while they're doing their best to make this so, they will not defeat it! The battle between the muslims and the jews goes back a ways. The battle of the house of Jacob and Isaac, and God said that this would happen til the end and now you have Bush saying we'll defeat this enemy as though he were some kind of saviour! Bush is not Jesus! Jesus is the one who will stop the madness! Just because this unelected president was able to queer another of our elections does not mean he's Jesus, but many of the sheep in the flock have been decieved and now the shepherds are leading the flocks to blood!

by Anonymous Citizen on Wed Dec 15, 2004 at 10:56:22 AM EST
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Thank you Mr Arneback!!!

I would like to take this moment to thank Mr. Arneback for stepping to the plate for us! If only more men in positions of power would weild that power as Mr. Arneback has for something good, just, and right! A true patriot Mr.Arneback has stepped before the Bush machine and dared to spit into the eye of Goliath! Thank you very much sir! Now reports are coming out about how this is going to be one show of serious fire-power come inauguration day. This last election, like the one preceeding was a test of the American people, and again we failed miserably! The rest of the world is watching us trip over our feet over and over to the tune played by the doofus boy king! I heard the rev. Jesse Jackson has become involved and I see this as a stroke of brilliant good fortune for the recount cause. Anyone connected in any way with politics know's that the African American's have gotten the rawest deal from this administration as far as the election problems in Florida and now in Ohio go. Disenfranchised is not even the word. Treated like slaves without rights! Now that is a better word! The Bush administration has treated them like fools and buffoons! And where are the black panthers when you need them? They are busy embracing the tenants of Islam! This division within the black community and it's patriots is a large part of the reason the black community hasn't been able to stop the steamroller crushing them! This dividing of the ranks is a benefit to the rich, white, swine who are currently taking the pie of america and cutting big sloppy chunks for themselves and ignoring the hungered cries of the inner cities! It's time for america to again become United! The Bush family succeeded in shattering the fragile unity we did have, with their involvement in the drug trade in Afghanistan and the oil business in Saudi Arabia and the middle-east, and the subsequent event's surrounding 9/11! It's time for us to become United again in the cuase of truth and liberty! The American people deserve to know the truth of what's been going on! The American people deserve to know who it was that decieved them. Tarring and feathering for Rumsfeld, Cheney, and the Bush family. They deserve to be ridden out of Washington on rails, and then put on public display! The rest of the world need's to be shown that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is still the template, and that we do indeed still know how to take care of our own problems! The display of military power in January is as much a flexing of muscle to the American people as it is a display for the rest of the world. Inauguration day will be the boy king showing off his long arm of the marshall-law to the American people, so demonstrator's stay away from parade route, and make it look as though everyone is happy with the boy king's swearing in again! You can bet the streets will be packed with supporters,volunteers, and undercover police and military personell who all helped in the theft of another election.
I am a white nigger! I have been downsized! I believe in freedom and innocense until proven guilty and for that my government see's me as a threat! I am a Christian and therefore a member of the fastest growing minority,those who believe in Jesus Christ! I love my fellow American's and I pain in my spirit for the children of this country who will inherit the disease we have helped to spread in our complacency and denial. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISABLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL! I remember saying this everyday and thinking it meant something, and now the pledge is gone and been rplaced with: I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE DOLLAR OF THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE ELITE, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION WITH MANY GOD'S, IN DIVISION, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR THE RICH
EjB

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Update on Pending Ohio Recount ...

By Murshed ZaheedPosted on Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 08:23:25 AM EST

By Murshed Zaheed
Posted on Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 08:23:25 AM EST