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Politically Fiscal David vs. Goliath

"William Greider maintains that the policy directions of the Democratic Party are now largely set by six Washington law firms that specialize in selling political influence to monied clients and in raising money for Democratc politicians. Working closely with Republicans as well, these firms are in business of brokering power to whomever will pay their fees. This is the sorry state of American democracy." David Korten

To talk about the 2004 elections, just around the corner and perhaps already decided, we need first talk of the 2000 elections.

Seems too many people find it more comfortable on the path of least resistance and feel we should just put the past in the past, looking forward to the future, and don't want to hear that the person sitting in the white house, the person who has shamed this country beyond all record, who has crippled us domestically - was NOT elected by us - the people of the United States.

In fact it was known before the Supreme Court had to step in and hand the presidency to Bush, that Florida's election wasn't even close, Gore had easily won in Florida by several times the amount Katherine Harris - secretary of state of Florida, a loyal Bushitte - claimed for g.w., if you took into account all the people stripped of their constitutional rights to vote; estimates as high as 90,000.

Minority Reports

Florida has backward laws that are founded back to the days following slavery. Florida does not allow ex-felons to vote. This was originally put in place to restrict Blacks from voting, as many Blacks who had tried to escape slavery were convicted felons. When the Blacks got their "freedom", their "Iraqi liberation" the Blacks that served time as felons were denied a right to vote.

In fact the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965 assumes that Florida has not evolved beyond aryan delusions of grandeur - KKK hopes & dreams - and will use every means available to stop Blacks from voting. So they demand that Florida "pre-clear" voting operation changes with the U.S. Justice Department headed at the time, of the 2000 elections, by the clearly inept attorney general Janet Reno and as poetic justice would have it had her Governor bid in Florida cut short by the process she happily let slide by.

For the 2004 elections the constitutional rights of minorities in Florida and across the nation are secure in the hands of attorney general John Ashcroft - that'll help you sleep easy at night.

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There is of course the 15th amendment to the constitution that guarantees Blacks the right to vote, but Blacks still find it very difficult to vote in the "Sunshine State" (a phrase I'm sure has hit the top ten on some Orwellian Glossary list somewhere on the web). Florida can skirt around that 15th amendment because Blacks' right to vote in Florida - contrary to what some silly conspiracy theories might suggest - is not oppressed because they're Black, it doesn't have to do with color as it has to do with restricting the rights of any individual in Florida that refuse to vote for Jim Crow-Peckerwood Republicans. It's merely coincidence that large numbers of people who won't vote for political candidates draped in white linen hoods tend to have a dark complexion conveniently living close to one another, so it only appears racial to those that are overly sensitive in that respect - get over it put the past in the past and look forward to the future.

When Florida stopped the count Katherine Harris handed George W. Bush the state and the election deciding that her bosses' brother was leading by 537 votes. Five-hundred and thirty-seven an important number to keep in mind as this story unfolds.

Although it's Florida law not to count votes of felons, it's federal law that if you're from a state where you were convicted of a felony and after serving your time have your rights restored, you have the right to vote in ALL states. The federal law trumps the state law, or is suppose to.

This story bubbled to the surface with 8000 names gathered by DBT a subsidiary of a company called ChoicePoint - a company under fire for misuse of personal data in state's computers in Pennsylvania home to then governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge, and bed-fellows of the republican party. This list of names to be scrubbed from voter registries was sent to Florida's governor Jeb Bush, by the governor of Texas George W. Bush as a list of - supposed - out of state felons. This list of 8000 to be scrubbed was in complete error. Remember the number 537?

This inconsequential story was revealed by the great investigative journalist Greg Palast, as the rest of the specifics in this "Minority Reports". His full story in all of it's eloquent detail - and much more - can be found in his much recommended book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". This book is so good it should be burned, personally, by attorney general John Ashcroft.

For the record, Florida said they corrected this 8000 name error. For the record they have admitted to all the wrong doings and illegalities surrounding the 2000 election in suits brought on by the NAACP.

So the 8000 were allegedly corrected, what about the 57,700 citizens purged from voter registries of supposed homegrown felons. Some real dangerous criminals that shouldn't be allowed to vote, among the usual suspects was the Madison's County's elections supervisor. While others on the list were convicted of crimes in the future, one man on the list was convicted for a crime he committed in the year 2007, in fact there were 325 time bandits on the list. In fact incredible sources have suggested this was the inspiration for the action-packed Tom Cruise psychological thriller "Minority Report" and one could follow the falling dominoes from there.

This list of 57,700 provided by ChoicePoint was 90.2% wrong. Almost 57,700 - over half black and hispanic - were illegally stripped, knowingly denied their right to vote.

For the record ChoicePoint would have known the error margin of their list and has admitted to as much, they were merely providing what Florida paid them to provide which was a specialized minority report destroying many innocent people's right to vote.

A close election indeed - over 50,000 votes in Gore's favor until another 40,000 almost all Democrat votes were located. More felons from out of town who had their rights restored were illegally barred from voter's booths on explicit orders from governor Jeb Bush's office.

And for Black's that successfully made it inside a voting booth many a journey was spoiled by fixed machines; "in white Leon County, voting machines automatically kicked back faulty ballots for voter correction; whereas in Gadsen County, very Black, the same machines were programmed to eat mismarked ballots."

This all is just a taste of the corruption needed to place g.w. bush in the white house. It's scary when you think of all the laws broken, constitutional rights stepped-on to place this president - and the election was still close. The people clearly did not want this fool anywhere near the nation's capital.

What is even more worrisome is the depths they will have to dive to get him re-elected. The most obvious condition for his re-election would be a state of emergency, better keep the duct tape handy -

---We ain't seen nothing yet.

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