It's All About Me, Man: [ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: It's Already Stolen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast

Sunday, October 19, 2008

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: It's Already Stolen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast

This is a great list, where you have real free speech, and you can hear all 13 sides of any given argument. It's great to see the petty crimes of the dems covered in such detail, but they are mere retail criminals, if you look at the Repuglicans, you get wholesale criminality - the following points out a pretty good example. Some people strain at an acorn, but swallow an elephant!

and what's that jibba jabba about Kennedy - who cares what he says our duty should or shouldn't be - there was a guy who only ever put himself and his own selfish agenda first every time. In WWII when he was working for the armed forces information, he was dating a Nazi spy. Of course, he's been surpassed by Bush and McCain when it comes to fuckuppery in service, but nobody wants to know the truth about these clowns, they only want the spin!

Spin on America, spin on - right down the drain. Or wise up and vote for the only sensible candidate - Rick Reed for President. Because he's milder. Much milder.

PERSONAL NOTE: For the election of 2004 I went to Florida to work for the "Election Protection" group at the polls in Palm Beach and Broward County. There were 8 of us who met there and stayed together from all over the country. The Republican election offical of Broward sent out 58,000 absentee ballots on the SATURDAY before the election on the following TUESDAY. This made it impossible to vote except by "provisional" ballot if you could get to the polls. One of the voting locations I was observing was in a black neighborhood. One woman came and said that her husband was an invalid who had not received his absentee ballot until that morning and could not get to the polls to vote. This was happening all over Florida and many overseas voters did not receive their ba llots in time as well -- including the military. That official was not subject to any punishment for having "lost" 58,000 absentee ballots. Her excuse was she forgot.

In addition, although there were hundreds of lawyers covering the polls in Florida, the police kept many of them an unreasonable distance from the legal distance allowed for them to observe whether or not voters were being treated appropriately. I witnessed this happening and also got to type a complaint on behalf of two women lawyers who were thrown in jail when they had not broken any election laws.

If you think voters aren't being prevented from their legal right to vote -- THINK AGAIN!

Regards, T.

http://www.gregpalast.com/rolling-stone-its-already-stolen/#more-2118

ROLLING STONE: IT'S ALREADY STOLEN

Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast released today

Don't worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.

- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.

Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.

- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.

Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.

- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent."

- Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging" ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.

There's more:

- Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious 'list management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their rolls."

Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the state's purging his registration was particularly shocking - he's the county elections supervisor.

The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably purged voters recently reported by the New York Times.

"Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are "systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats."

The investigators level a deadly serious charge:

"If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering."

Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media enquiries - Dave Falkenstein, Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via interviews@gregpalast.com.]

Note - Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with the Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the vote-theft 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book, Steal Back Your Vote, which can be downloaded or obtained in print from their non-partisan website, StealBackYourVote.org

For updates and video reports, go to RollingStone.com, www.GregPalast.com and StealBackYourVote.org.