they are calling it a lie on some conservative
forums.
it is however the absolute truth.


“Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. You must be eating some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.”
Malcolm X
Speech, April 3, 1964,
“The Ballot or the Bullet”

I write this with a broken heart. I write this with a wounded soul. The pain I feel is the pain of enduring the kind of racist incidents that I had expected to know only vicariously, through the historical recollections of my grandmothers. Today, I have learned that history repeats itself. I now have my own tragic stories to tell about the recurring African-American nightmare that still plays on inside the American dream....

About how one moronic bastard and millions of his allies stole a presidential election...About how a Supreme Court dispensed supreme injustice by telling victims that there were constitutional problems with recounts, while implying that there were no constitutional problems with the gross violations of civil rights that made those recounts necessary...About a thief who appealed to that court which houses an inept, unqualified Supreme House ****** named Clarence Thomas (Uncle Thom), who is reportedly married to the thief’s first cousin and who the thief’s own dad appointed to that court...About how Uncle Thom earns his keep by perpetually swinging 5-4 votes to the side of racist wrongs, as he proudly disgraces the righteous legacy of Thurgood Marshall...About a racist serial killer named George W. Bush (Shrub), who became the Chief Executive Officer of the country that my grandmothers built!...About a Supreme Court that is more concerned with time clocks than time warps at polls...

There is a level of evil that transcends race. When Republikkkan racists began sabotaging black and Latino voters nationwide in 1993, they were arrogantly ignorant enough to presume that no white or Jewish voters would dare to rebel against being snared in those same traps. The Republikkkans are to be admired for a patient and strategic eight year politrick that has exposed the fact that racial divisions in America are wider than ever before. Before the millennium, African-American voters were abused exclusively. Now, as America rapidly becomes less white numerically, the stakes are higher, and the racist ruthlessness has intensified to the degree that even whites will be sacrificed so that all others may perish (See Amerikkka 2000 herein.).

The brazen Bushes have actually stolen this election, just as they planned. Note to the most evil and politically powerful family in America:

THIS WILL NEVER BE OVER!!! YOU WILL NEVER BE MY PRESIDENT!!! THIS IS BIGGER THAN A GIFT THAT YOU HAVE PURCHASED FOR YOUR SHRUB. THERE WILL BE NO PLANTATION POLITICS IN AMERICA WITHOUT ETERNAL NOISE FROM NEW AFRIKAN REBEL SLAVES. AS YOU EXECUTE YOUR COUP WITHIN THE BIG HOUSE, REMEMBER THAT ALL ACROSS AMERICA, WE ARE IN THE SHEDS. WE ARE STRIKING MATCHES, AND WE ARE PRAYING FOR STRONG WINDS. YOUR KARMA WILL FORCE THEM TO BLOW ACROSS OCEANS OF TIME...
We angry African-Americans are no longer alone. Rebel slaves represent racial rainbows in 2000. They extend far beyond Jewish Holocaust survivors who were mechanically duped into voting for Pat Bukkkanan, a less kind and gentle Nazi than Shrub. They extend far beyond whites and Latinos who are equally determined to emancipate themselves from the shackles of the New World Order. All of the traps that rabidly racist fools like the Bushes dare to devise will continue to backfire upon them.

Our African-Holocaust is ongoing... What happened in Florida happened nationwide, though racist news editors insisted upon depicting Florida as some exception to a fictitious rule. Hundreds of thousands of votes for Al Gore were never counted nationwide. This fact will never be reported. Just as the Revolution that the Bushes have energized will never be televised. As always, those who dare to seek real news, will continue to do so beyond corporate owned and controlled media networks...

In 1993, Republikkkans were so angry that their red faces matched their necks. They were riled about the Motor Voter Law. Why? Because it would allow too many Democrats easy access to voter registration. When Republikkkans failed to thwart that law, they went into a quiet turbo mode to sabotage voters. Election 2000 is the putrid fruit of that strategic and long-term political labor. Republikkkans collectively toiled to return Amerikkka to 1900. Their “Contract on America” became a Hit on American Voters. Like Wyclef Jean laments: Someone please call 911, and tell them we have been shot down!....And the bullets sprayed ballot boxes nationwide!!!

The Republikkkan’s victorious execution of a national voter apartheid is proof of their superior organization. Never again doubt that there are powerful racists in Amerikkka. They are hell bent on securing white supremacy by any means necessary. They will sacrifice white voters to slay black voters, outlaw affirmative action to secure affirmative discrimination, outlaw abortions to mandate the births of white babies, use the CIA as slave catchers, use crack as slave ships, use prisons as plantations, etc...

Shrub is petrifyingly moronic. In fact, his glaring mental retardation made it impossible for him to resist exposing his own Republikkkan conspiracy on election night. When exit polls revealed that he had, in fact, lost the state of Florida, Shrub dared to calmly and confidently tell CNN: “My brother Jeb promised me Florida...” This shocking truth may be the only one he has ever uttered.

Jeb Bush’s curious clairvoyance seems to be genetic. Ironically, only moments later, Fox TV began to suddenly challenge what the other networks were projecting. Later, we were made aware that Shrub’s cousin, John Ellis, was the CEO of Fox TV. And, we learned that he was working overtime as he moonlit as executive producer of that contradictory election coverage.

Perhaps the only act bolder than stealing a national election, is actually expecting and demanding the throngs of persons that you steal it from to concede defeat in silence. Yet, Shrub and his posse have done precisely that. The Supreme Court has decided that it is just for Shrub to sign hand counts into law in his own state of Texas, yet dare to proclaim the illegality of such counts only when they threaten his theft of a national election in Florida. This evil and duplicitous illogic constitutes justice in America. So, Shrub has nullified our votes. Now we must make him recognize our vengeance!

It is unfortunate that Jeb’s clairvoyance is as retarded as Shrub’s mental capacities. Jeb should have been able to foresee Shrub’s blatant confession of their collective national conspiracy. He should also have foreseen the multi-racial rage and rebellions that their treason would evoke.

Clearly, Shrub has told millions of us that he could not care less about our audacity to protest his theft. He has told us that we and our votes do not matter. That is the power of elitist white supremacy in action. Just as all quality black programming is canceled and black viewers are blamed, irrespective of the fact that Nielsen boxes are distributed via apartheid, black voters are similarly blamed for their own eradication and abuses at polls nationwide.

Shrub has been coddled by the media that his daddy and his peers own. That is why no one ever called him or Jeb on his accidental confession of conspiracy in this election. That is why no one has asked him to explain the racist and elitist serial killing he has done and continues to do in the state of Texas. That is why no one has questioned all of the other elections that this successful national Republikkkan conspiracy may have rigged. That is why Shrub’s latest murder victim is democracy.

All voters who were sabotaged across all racial and socio-economic boundaries are being told that they are to blame for virtually every blatant abuse they have endured. Every broken machine, every rigged ballot, every synchronized martial law enforced roadblock, every illegal ID request, every illegal poll change, every sudden poll closing, etc...Republikkkans dare to blame all of us for perishing in the snares they set. Yet, like a “white majority”, their habitual blaming of victims is merely a collective delusion.

Gore has been legendarily wronged and unfairly attacked. And, he has been shamefully and disrespectfully silent. All those fools who slander him as a “sore loser”, fail to recall that he voluntarily and prematurely phoned Shrub to concede defeat on election night, before the Republikkkan conspiracy to steal the election was revealed. Gore never once publicly acknowledged the racist and national abuses of black voters. He owed us more than safe and cowardly silences as we fought bravely for his victory. Gore’s reticence assisted all media as they ignored millions of votes that were never counted.



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Rigged Elections: Ballot tampering, elite selection of candidates, and the vanishing illusion of democracy

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A very American coup: touch screen ballot machines, plane crashes and lone gunmen
http://oilempire.us/2004.html
the next Presidential sElection http://oilempire.us/ballot.html - computerized voting machines were used to steal the 2002 Senate race - we need paper ballots counted by hand
http://oilempire.us/coup.html - JFK, MLK, RFK, Carnahan, Wellstone: how the empire tampers with elections http://oilempire.us/elections.html
the 2000 and 2002 rigged elections, part of the historical pattern (they merely got caught in Florida)
Pretenders to the Throne: the 2004 Democratic candidates for Emperor
Carol Mosley Braun - business deals with Nigerian dictatorship Wesley Clark: war criminal in Yugoslavia, linked to drug money laundering in Arkansas Coward Dean: the doctor for the Death Penalty, a pro-war "peace candidate"
John Edwards and Dick Gephardt: the stale and boring department of the Democratic Party (pro-war, pro-"Homeland Security") Bob Graham: met with Pakistani intelligence chief during 911 attacks (dropped out of race) John Kerry: blood brother of George W. Bush in Skull and Bones secret society
Dennis Kucinich: the peace candidate www.kucinich.us
www.kucinichdeancompare.com Joe Lieberman: crypto Republican warmonger Al Sharpton: decent humanitarian, least likely to win, no campaign presence in early primary states
Blood in the Water: Watergate II http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/071503_watergate_II.html

OCTOBER 20, 2003 BEYOND BUSH II by Michael C. Ruppert
Peak Oil Dominates --The Takedown of George Bush Continues - Wesley Clark Connected to Drug Money, Al Qaeda, Waco and Another War Waged Over Fraudulent Evidence - Is Dan Sheehan Sabotaging the Kucinich Campaign? - Why Is Everyone After Howard Dean? A Look at the Democratic Challengers Who Will Bring Us More of the Same - Democracy Terminated in California Recall as Compromised Software Becomes Standard in US and Energy Looting Continues... The long awaited sequel to Beyond Bush I is here!
Read Now: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html

Hasta la Vista, California http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr44.html
President Schwarzenegger http://www.counterpunch.org/hand10092003.html




the 2000 Presidential sElection

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
-- Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, about Chile prior to the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected government of socialist President Salvadore Allende in 1973 (now these tactics are coming home to use on the US)

"This is totalitarianism! It has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican. These five Supreme Court Justices belong behind bars!"
–Vincent Bugliosi on FOX "NEWS", May 2001, prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution. Bugliosi's similar article in The Nation drew the largest reader response in its 136-year history.

"It seems to me the rulers of the Cherokees have sufficient intelligence to see the utter imbicility of placing any further reliance upon the Supreme Court."
—Governor Wilson Lumpkin, Georgia 1831

Within American politics there is now such a similarity between the two parties that in elections the race is usually close enough to permit almost any single bloc to swing it one way or the other.
-- Malcolm X, 1964




In the 1940s movie, "Key Largo", with Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, Robinson, playing the gangster, makes an interesting speech to Humph:

"Let me tell you about Florida politicians. I make them. I make them outta whole cloth just like a tailor makes a suit. I get their name in the newspaper, I get them some publicity and get them on the ballot. Then after the election we count the votes and if they don't turn out right, we re-count them and re-count them again until they do."





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an excerpt from former CIA agent Phil Agee's book "CIA Diary" (1975) on how Mexico picked its President years before the actual "election" (Agee was at the US embassy in Mexico ...)

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_Diary_Agee.html


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"The other day a RYBAT cable arrived from Mexico City showing how the system works there. The Chief of Station advised that Luis Echeverria, the Minister of Government (internal security), told him he has just been secretly selected as the next Mexican President. Echeverria is now the famous tapado (covered one) whom the top inner circle of the ruling party, the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), select well in advance to be the next president. Although Echeverria said it in a somewhat discreet manner, the Chief of Station has no doubt that he was intentionally being let in on the secret -- even though the elections won't be held until 1970.

"The information in the cable is extremely sensitive, not so much because it's a secret but because presidential succession in Mexico is supposedly a decision made by a broad representation within the PRI. For years leaders of the PRI have been denying that presidential succession is determined secretly by the incumbent, ex-presidents, and a few other PRI leaders -- they even have a nominating convention and all the appearances of mass participation. The Mexico branch Reports Office sent a "blue stripe" report (very limited distribution) over to the White House and the State Department on Echeverria's good news." -- October 25, 1966



It seems that George W. Bush's selection as President is analogous to that of Echeverria's - he was picked well in advance of the 2000 election. That could explain the lackluster performance by Al Gore during the campaign, and Gore's willingness -- at the end -- to let the victory be stolen from him (he knew those who own the country wanted Shrub, not Gore). However, Shrub had to steal the election in full view of the whole world, he didn't get to actually "win" the "election" as planned. While ballot stuffing and other forms of election tampering have probably always existed as long as there have been elections, the 2000 election was blatant enough - and the outcome close enough - that the fraud was widely seen.

Any examination of the 2000 Election should begin with a review of the investigations that Greg Palast did in Florida http://www.gregpalast.com, author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."

In a similar manner, Bush's attack on Iraq has also been planned for years, yet world public opinion has finally coalesced enough that the US demand for United Nations endorsement of the destruction has been denied.



Final Florida Recount Establishes That Al Gore Won The Election
On October 9th [2001], the Miami Herald published the results of the final, and universally recognized as the most accurate, recount of Florida votes in the 2000 election. The BDO Seidman manual recount established that Al Gore won the state of Florida by 662 votes.
Do not waste a second asking if things would have been different under a Gore Administration. Ask yourself instead if the now illegitimate Bush Administration can afford not to complete its seizure of power.
- Mike Ruppert
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html



http://www.politicalstrategy.org/2003_09_23_weblog_archive.php

ELECTION THEFT 2000! A NEW BOMBSHELL!: A Diebold Voting Machines in Volusia County, Florida Tallied a Vote-Count of -16,022. That's NEGATIVE 16,022: When will this all-important story break out in the US mainstream press? When will the Democrats confront the issue? What is at stake here is the future of democracy.
Diebold Internal Support Memos
[The original article to which this post refers was originally published on November 29, 2000 in USA Today by Philip Meyer. When I did a search for the article on the www.usatoday.com website I came up with this page which clearly provides the details of the article and even offers a link to a free preview of the article. However, when you click on the link, it gives you a page void of the article. What happened to it? One can only speculate. Nevertheless, I have obtained the original article and am printing it here (below the post) in its entirety as a matter of public record.]
A remarkable exchange concerning Diebold's voting machines in Volusia County, Florida. On January 17, 2001, Lana Hines, a county elections official sends out an inquiry as to how Al Gore ended up with a vote-count of -16,022. That's NEGATIVE 16,022—which just happens also to have been the total number of votes cast for various independent and third-party candidates who also ran. (It was the largest number of such votes cast in Volusia County's history.)
Pay close attention to the final entry, from "Tab"—that is, Talbot Iredale, Vice President of Research & Development at Global/Diebold. The most troubling of his statement is in bold below. Iredale writes:
...the error could only occur in one of four ways:
1.Corrupt memory card. This is the most likely explaination for the
problem but since I know nothing about the 'second' memory card I have
no ability to confirm the probability of this.
2.Invalid read from good memory card. This is unlikely since the
candidates['] results for the race are not all read at the same time and
the corruption was limited to a single race.There is a possib[ili]ty that
a section of the memory card was bad but since I do not know anything
more about the 'second' memory card I cannot validate this.
3.Corruption of memory, whether on the host or Accu-Vote. Again this is
unlikely due to the localization of the problem to a single race.
4.Invalid memory card (i.e. one that should not have been
uploaded). There is always the possib[i]lity that the 'second memory card'
or 'second upload' came from an un-authorised source.
And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
When will this all-important story break out in the US mainstream press?
When will the Democrats confront the issue? What is at stake here is their future as a party—and ours as a democracy. -



Original USA Today Article
Glitch Led to 'Bush Wins' Call
By Philip Meyer
Democrats have been on the defensive ever since Fox News Channel declared George W. Bush the Florida ballot winner in the wee hours of Nov. 8 and the other networks fell into line like baby ducks, prompting Al Gore's premature concession.
From then on, nothing Democrats could do would overcome the appearance that they were trying to steal the election on technicalities. And nothing Republicans could say would overcome the suspicion that they had planned the whole thing. That a cousin of George W. Bush was working the Fox decision desk added fuel to the conspiracy theories.
But the fact is a computer glitch and a failure to get the word out in time are what caused the trouble.
Deanie Lowe, Volusia County elections supervisor, spotted the problem. In her county, an Accu-Vote system uses a scanner to read a voter's mark - made with a pen, not a punch - and advances a counter in an electronic storage device. Results are sent to county headquarters by modem.
Precinct 216 had modem trouble, so workers fed its memory card into the headquarters' central computer. "Gore just went backward," an election watcher said.
"You're tired," Lowe replied. "You must be seeing things." Then another observer chimed in: Gore's count had gone backward.
Lowe ordered all of the precincts reviewed. At 1:24 a.m., the review showed that 412 of 585 registered voters in Precinct 216 had cast ballots - but that they had given 2,813 votes to Bush! Gore had a negative vote: minus 16,022. Ralph Nader's negative vote was even greater. The problem was traced to an error in the memory card.
Bad information means bad call
Meanwhile, the decision desks of the five networks and The Associated Press, owners of Voter News Service (VNS), were looking at models that included the negative Gore count. "That contributed to a statewide number that made it look like Bush was more than 50,000 ahead of Gore, with 97% reported and about 180,000 votes still to be counted," recalls Warren Mitofsky, who headed the CNN/CBS decision desk. "You can't make up 50,000 out of 180,000. I would have made that call without hearing anybody else's call."
Mitofsky is the dean of election-night estimators. His moves are watched by the other decision desks. "Warren is just so knowledgeable, you do take that into consideration," says Paul J. Lavrakas, who has been an election consultant for VNS.
But what none of the decision-makers knew was that Bush's lead then really was closer to 30,000. The estimation model correctly was forecasting it would drop by 30,000, so the right number would have projected a tie - which in fact it did later in the morning after the Volusia error was fixed.
The real vote in Precinct 216 was 22 for Bush and 193 for Gore. Nader got one.
Not all made the call
The VNS side of this story has yet to be told. VNS' head, Murray Edelman, gave a previously scheduled talk after the election to the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, but would not discuss the case. That's a pity, because both VNS and the AP deserve credit for never jumping on that early morning Bush bandwagon. We'd all like to know what they saw that the networks missed.
When they created VNS, the networks intended it to do everyone's calls. But in 1994, the AP and ABC jumped ship, with each doing its own projecting from the pooled data. The others followed - at the cost of disconnecting analysts from their data.
Networks do check each other. But they all feel the same pressure: If viewers are scanning channels, who are they watching? The anchor with the winner's name or the one who admits he hasn't figured it out yet? With a system like that, we don't need a conspiracy theory.
Philip Meyer, who holds the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina, is a USA TODAY consultant and member of its board of contributors.





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The Supreme Court did not actually Select Bush as Resident
of the White House - Congress Did by Ratifying the Electoral College

While the Supreme Court received much publicity for its notorious Bush v. Gore ruling regarding the rigged 2000 Presidential Election, the Supreme Court did not actually select George Bush as Resident of the White House. That decision was actually made by the US Congress on January 6, 2001, when they performed the Ratification of the "Certificates of Ascertainment" in the Electoral College. The rules state that one Senator and one Representative are needed to begin a debate on the legitimacy of any State's slate of Electors - and while about two dozen Members of the Congressional Black Caucus argued that the Florida Electors were picked fraudulently (for many reasons, including the deliberate disenfranchisement of African-American citizens), no Senator supported them. Not one. This was particularly perverse, since on January 6, the new Senate had already been sworn in - and the balance was 50 Democrats, 50 Republicans, and Vice President Al Gore presiding as President of the Senate (and tie-breaker, if need be). In other words, a Democratic controlled Senate voted 100 to zero to confirm George Bush as President! Perhaps future historians will reveal what behind the scenes machinations occurred to enable the loser of the election to be selected with Democratic complicity: bribes, threats, the de facto merging of the two parties, the probable selection of Bush as President by the nation's elites long before the actual election ...

"Homeland Security" as a term started under Clinton, not pResident Bush.

Edward Herman co-authored a book nearly two decades ago titled "Demostration Elections" about phony elections in US client states (El Salvador, Vietnam, etc). These rituals were intended to legitimize US military support for the dictatorships under the guise of helping our democratic allies. Perhaps a sequel could be written about the US - since we do not have legitimate elections in our own country.

For future "elections," assuming that this ritual will be maintained to preserve the illusion of democracy, it is incumbent upon progressive Democrats (now just another Third Party), Greens, Republicans with consciences, and others to focus on the myriad ways that elections are not free and fair: electronic voting machines that are made by Republicans, the role of the secret government (CIA, etc) and other related issues in addition to campaign finance reform. Otherwise, the 2004 election will be a farce, not worthy of being considered "democratic."



Bush's confirmation by Congress as winner of the Electoral College -- despite the obvious, blatant vote fraud -- was the logical extension of his poor scholastic record in regular college (where he was not allowed to flunk out due to his family ties). Bush may have gotten C's at Yale (because he wasn't allowed to be flunked) but he got an A from the Electoral College (a stolen grade, not earned fairly).






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A few final thoughts on the 2000 election
Gore won, but he was a lousy candidate
(his best moment in the campaign was withdrawing his concession on sElection night)



Gore won the 2000 election
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/111201a.html




a billboard company in North Carolina claimed that they made a mistake "when it comes to the policies they believe will keep Americans employed and the nation prosperous, they could just as well be running on the same ticket."
-- USA Today, June 26, 2000, "When it comes to economics, the differences are hard to find" (front page article with photo of Gore and Bush's faces merging into a single image)

"Agricultural biotechnology will find a supporter occupying the White House next year, regardless of which candidate wins the election in November..." Monsanto's electronic newsletter www.monsanto.com Oct. 6, 2000


Ralph holds up a copy of Business Week that confirms his concerns





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"The only difference [between Gush and Bore] is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock at the door."
- Ralph Nader
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After 9-11, a lot of people questioned whether this claim was still true. But most of those who urged Greens to vote for Gore to defeat Bush (Bush didn't win anyway) have been strangely reluctant to probe into the deeper issues of 9-11. If one looks closely at 9-11 and the preparations for it, it is likely that a Gore administration would not have been much different regarding 9-11 - and is a moot question, anyway.

First, the powers-that-be clearly decided that Bush was the annointed one, regardless of whether he won or not (Gore won the election, even in Florida). The Supreme Court and the Congressional ratification of the Electoral College (fraud) is an affirmation of this. Gore's decision to go along with the fraudulent outcome is evidence for this, too.

The original WTC attack in 1993 occured shortly after Clinton and Gore came into office. Like 911/2001, it could have been prevented, if the FBI had wanted to. It was allowed to happen, despite the warnings of an informant in the group that perpetrated it.

www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/wtcbomb.html FBI prior knowledge of 1993 WTC bombing
The FBI had an informant in the group that committted the 1993 attack. The informant told the government about the plans in advance, and asked for permission to interfere with the attack by ensuring that the bomb wouldn't work. The informant was told - don't interfere. This article cites testimony as reported in the New York Times.

T H E N E W Y O R K T I M E S
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Thursday October 28, 1993 Page A1
"Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart
Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast"

By Ralph Blumenthal
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building
a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center,
and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting
harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after
the blast.
The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb
and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by
an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer,
Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said.
The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of
hours of tape recordings that Mr. Salem secretly made of his
talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as
being in a far better position than previously known to foil
the February 26th bombing of New York City's tallest towers. ...

An example even worse than the 1993 WTC attack of Clinton/Gore administration complicity in terrorism was the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. There is a large amount of evidence that Oklahoma City was known in advance, that certain officials in the building made sure not to be there when the explosion occurred, a bomb squad was on the scene in advance, and McVeigh had accomplices who were not caught. Worse, General Benton Partin, who ran one of the Air Force's main centers for weapons development, analyzed the explosive pattern on the building and concluded that there were secondary explosives placed inside the building, which renders the official story impossible. see http://www.oilempire.us/parallels.html#oklahomacity and http://www.oilempire.us/demolition.html#partin



It is fascinating that those moaning loudest about "Nader spoiling the 2000 election" are largely silent on

that Gore won the election, even in Florida
that the Democrats "lost" far more votes to Bush than to Nader
the rigged nature of the 2000 election (Bush was picked in advance of the vote) and the Senator Wellstone "plane crash" last fall
the fact that a Democratically controlled Senate voted 100 to zero (January 6, 2001) to confirm the Florida Fraud, despite efforts from the Congressional Black Caucus to open a debate on the legitimacy of the Florida electors (it takes on Representative and one Senator to do this, and no Senator, not even Wellstone, would agree to this - thus confirming Bush as Resident of the White House)
Bush's "Reichstag Fire" (911) and the anthrax sent to the Democrats in the Senate from the military
the electronic ballot machines that stole the Senate in 2002 (can't blame THAT on the Greens)
peak oil as the reason for Bush's world war, which "will not end in our lifetimes" according to President Cheney
If Bush is really the ogre that we were warned about in 2000 (and the reality is worse!), then why are people who are still blaming Nader for the 2000 selection not focusing on the full scope of the threat and supporting several construction suggestions, including the demand for paper ballots counted by hand for 2004 (so there might actually BE an election) and helping us all to unite for Kucinich, the only serious candidate for environmentalists, peace advocates and civil libertarians.

In May 2003, CBS aired a remarkable film titled "Hitler: the rise of evil" that was a docudrama of how the Third Reich came to be. One part of the film posed the question "People don't want to read anything that they might have to do something about," which reminded me of the Navajo proverb that it is hard to wake someone up who is pretending to be asleep. A part toward the end of the film depicted the "Reichstag Fire" - an event not generally known to US citizens, not even most participants of peace rallies. In 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power, the Nazis burned down the Parliament (the "Reichstag"), blamed it on the communists, and used it as the pretext to destroy civil liberties and impose dictatorship. The parallel isn't exact, but it is probably the closest historical analogy to 9-11 and the USAPATRIOT act.It must be more satisfying to complain about tertiary issues (Greens who couldn't stand Gore's betrayals of democracy and the environment) rather than have to actually do something constructive. That's one of the reasons why we are losing.









"The integrity of the environment is not just another issue to be used in political games for popularity, votes, or attention. And the time has long since come to take more political risks -- and endure much more political criticism -- by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactment."
-- "Earth in the Balance" by Al Gore (1992)



Waste Technologies, Inc. (WTI)
Al Gore's first (broken) environmental promise as Vice President:
toxic waste incineration in East Liverpool, Ohio (opened March 1993)

www.greenpeaceusa.org/wti

www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND93/davis.html

www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/prevention/wti/jennl.html
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37d95a0809ce.htm
http://prorev.com/hillary2.htm

www.mindspring.com/~montepaulsen/9308granola.htm - the "Granola Commandos" - Greenpeace versus toxic waste incineration in cement kilns - a mention of Hillary Clinton's ties to the hazardous waste incineration industry (but she claims to care about health care)



Clinton's Region 3 [mid-atlantic] EPA Administrator - Peter Kostmayer, a
democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania who lost his seat in 1992 (he'd
introduced legislation to ban new incinerators) - was fired for opposing the
Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed $1.5 billion 118 mile
"Corridor H" superhighway through the mountains of West Virginia and the
water discharge permit for the Parsons & Whittemore paper pulp mill in Apple
Grove, WV, on the Ohio River (the mill would be the largest in the country,
and would dump dioxin into the river). West Virginia Governor Gaston
Caperton and Senators Byrd and Rockefeller complained to Clinton (the paper
mill contributed to West Virginia politicians and to the Democratic National
Committee), who complained to EPA Administrator Carol Browner, who fired
Kostmayer.

Hillary Clinton helped incorporate WTI while at the Rose Law Firm and served
on the board of LaFarge Cement, which operates a cement kiln in Alpena,
Michigan on Lake Huron that switched from natural gas to burning hazardous
wastes (used motor oil, solvents) in the mid-1980s.

Perhaps Bill Clinton can urge neighbors of the WTI incinerator not to inhale.



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Pittsburgh City Paper
July 21-27, 1993
"WTI: The election connection"
Observers called it the most ingenious protest they had ever seen. At noon
on Monday, May 17.[1993] in Washington, D.C., a yellow truck pulled up
outside the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue and stopped in the middle of
the street. Within a minute, a metal stack had been erected on the top of
the truck and 50 protestors had handcuffed themselves together around it,
some to the axle underneath, others with their hands thrust through the
sides of the truck, literally, then cuffed to blocks of concrete.
The protestors blocked traffic for six hours that afternoon while D.C.
police tried to extricate them from their mobile fortress. As smoke rose
from the stack of the mock toxic waste incinerator, other protestors on the
sidewalk erected a banner facing the White House that read "You promised"
and chanted, "If you can't stop WTl, how on earth can you save the planet?"
WTI (Waste Technologies Industries), the nation's newest toxic waste
incinerator, began operating this year in East Liverpool, 30 miles upwind
from Pittsburgh. The 50 arrested protestors included actor Martin Sheen
(whose mother-in-law lives in northeastern Ohio) and residents of the
community surrounding the Ohio River valley town. The taunts were aimed at
Al Gore, who promised that the Clinton administration would shut down WTI.
And the smoke pouring from the top of the stack unintentionally symbolized
the smoke screen behind which the Clinton administration has betrayed the
trust of these people, who believed Clinton and Gore would keep their word.
The protest, which attracted national media attention, was intended to
convince Clinton and Gore to fulfill the promise they made last December 6
to temporarily shut down WTI and launch a full investigation into
allegations of permitting violations and health risks to the local
community. The incinerator sits on the banks of the Ohio River within the
flood plain, 400 feet from a dense residential neighborhood and 1,100 feet
from an elementary school, in an area prone to air inversions that will trap
toxic pollutants in the valley.
Clinton and Gore gave the protestors no points for creativity, however. Not
only have they taken no action against WTI, but they allowed the U.S. EPA to
issue a permit for limited commercial operation on July 8. Some critics
count this as simply another example of Clinton's political indecisiveness.
But to local residents who can look out their windows and see the plume of
toxins released from the incinerator's stack, it is literally a deadly betrayal.
Unanswered Questions
A year ago, Clinton and Gore sang a very different tune. In July, 1992, when
they visited Weirton, West Virginia, on a campaign bus tour, Gore freely
spoke out against the WTI incinerator. "The very idea of putting WTI in a
flood plain ... you know it's just unbelievable to me," Gore told the crowd.
"I'll tell you this, a Clinton-Gore Administration is going to give you an
environmental presidency to deal with these problems. We'll be on your side
for a change instead of the side of the garbage generators, the way
[previous presidents] have been."
Local opponents were elated. "We felt that this ushered in a new era in
national politics," said Alonzo Spencer, an East Liverpool resident and
president of Save Our County. "People here who were never involved in
politics became active in campaigning for Clinton and Gore."
Gore's announcement on December 7 [92] seemed to verify his commitment to
stop the incinerator. "Until all questions concerning compliance with state
and federal law have been answered, it doesn't make sense to grant any
permit," said the Vice President-elect in a press release.
Among the unanswered questions addressed by Gore: Was the permit issued
legally by the EPA?
Is the incinerator safe for the environment and the health of the local
residents? After years of name changes and buy-outs among the original
owners, who now owns the facility, and who is responsible for its operation?
These were questions that incinerator opponents had been raising for years.
Finally, they thought, someone was listening.
By March, however, WTI was burning toxic waste to test the facility, and
Clinton and Gore, having answered none of these questions, had done nothing
to stop WTI. Instead, they deferred to legal obligations from eleventh hour
decisions made during Bush's last days, ostensibly preventing them from
taking action.
"First of all," said Gore at a "town meeting" on March 10 in Omaha,
Nebraska, "the decisions relating to this particular permit were made
principally and almost exclusively during the last administration and that
incurred certain legal obligations toward the company that had invested tens
of millions of dollars." After only two months in office, the
environmentalist Vice-President was waxing apologetic for the hazardous
waste industry.
What happened? Did Clinton and Gore change their minds? Or are they really
fulfilling legal obligations? Environmental consultant Lynn Moorer doesn't
think so. "From the moment Gore and Clinton took their hands off the Bible,
they could have revoked WTI's permit," she said.
In a letter to Gore, Moorer cited federal laws and regulations that grant
the U.S. EPA authority to revoke or suspend a hazardous waste permit at
their discretion, at any time in the permitting process. "With respect to
the handling of WTl," said Moorer, "the Clinton EPA is no different from the
Bush EPA. They both blink at blatant violations of federal laws and
regulations."
Follow the Money
On some points then, Clinton and Gore appear to have changed their minds.
The question that WTl opponents are asking is not >why did they change their
minds but who changed their minds?< Opponents have long referred to a
driving force that has allowed WTI to begin operating despite over a decade
of legal challenge and public protest. Hugh Kaufman, Assistant Director of
the U.S. EPA Hazardous Site Control Division and whistle-blower of the Love
Canal case, has worked with opponents in investigating WTI and helped them
identify this force. "Follow the money," he told them.
When they did, they discovered that the same man who founded the WTI project
was also the largest financial backer of Bill Clinton's [92] presidential
campaign. The money trail leads all the way to Little Rock, Arkansas, to
the doorstep of billionaire investment banker Jackson Stephens, whose
investment firm, Stephens, Inc., is one of the wealthiest outside of Wall
Street.
Stephens raised $100,000 in contributions for Clinton during his 1992
campaign. He also supplied a $3.5 million line of credit through Stephen's
Worthen Bank, at a time when Clinton's campaign was starved for cash,
according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Though sold out his proprietary
interest in WTI in 1990, Stephens arranged the $128 million financing for
the incinerator through the Union Bank of Switzerland the sane year. The
bank made the loan in anticipation that Ohio would issue tax-free municipal
bond: as bridge financing to pay back the money until the incinerator began
operating.
Shortly after, when the state discovered that WTI had lied to them about
their ownership, Ohio denied the application to issue the bonds, according
to Kaufman. With no means to repay the loan until commercial burning began,
WTI faced the threat of foreclosure. Union Bank never did foreclose, but it
put WTI under more pressure to start burning waste as soon as possible.
Stephens must have felt this pressure. Besides the percentage of profits
that he probably earns from royalties, his reputation as a financier is
clearly at stake if WTI is closed down.
The King Maker
Besides financial brokering, Stephens also excels as a power broker. For
decades, he and his brother Witt, who together built the family's investment
empire, were recognized as kingmakers in Arkansas politics, and the most
powerful members of the state's oligopoly of corporate interests. According
to The American Spectator, Orval Faubus, Arkansas' segregationist governor
in the '50s and '60s, remembered the two as the state's "most powerful
single political force."
In the 1970s, Stephens became a national political fund-raiser for both
parties, and has had continual access to the White House since. He was a
business partner of Bert Lance, Carter's controversial Budget Director, and
was Carter's roommate at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. During the
Reagan-Bush years, Stephens was a major contributor to the GOP. and his
former wife, Mary Anne, served as co-chair for Bush's presidential campaign
in Arkansas in 1988.
In 1987, Stephens arranged the bail-out of a small Texas oil company, Harken
Energy, from near bankruptcy. The bailout created a scandal for the Bush
administration when uncovered by the Wall Street Journal in 1991. It seems
Bush's eldest son, George W. Bush was a director and stockholder of Harken.
During Bush's presidency, Harken won the rights to a potentially lucrative
contract to drill offshore wells for the government of Bahrain, though
Harken had never drilled either offshore or overseas. When Iraq invaded
Kuwait, just before Harken's stock dropped drastically, George W. sold
two-thirds of his stock for a significant profit. The Wall Street Journal
speculated that the investors made the deal to cosy up to the President
through his son.
The Bank of Crooks and Criminals
This was not the first time Stephens served as the catalyst behind a
political scandal. The biggest controversy surrounding him involves what
New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau called "the largest bank fraud
in world financial history." Morgenthau was referring to the Bank of Credit
and Commerce International, a "criminal enterprise" that catered to drug
smugglers, arms dealers and money launderers, and bribed bankers and
government officials to gain power and money worldwide. Investigators have
dubbed BCCI the "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International."
Among those currently under indictment are Clark Clifford and Robert Altman,
accused of receiving tens of millions of dollars from the corrupt bank for
their part in its illegal schemes. Although Clifford and Altman are the
most prominent figures in the BCCI scandal, it was Stephens and Bert Lance
who were widely recognized as introducing BCCI to the U.S. banking industry.
In 1978, Stephens and Lance brokered deals through which BCCI secretly
acquired control of several banks in the U.S. Stephens, Lance and BCCI were
indicted in the same year for violating U.S. securities laws when they
attempted a secret takeover of First American Bankshares, the largest bank
in Washington, D.C.
These charges were later dropped with the defendants agreeing to obey
securities laws in the future - which did not stop BCCI from secretly taking
control of the bank four years later. Though Stephens' relationship with
BCCI ended after their indictment, BCCI went on to systematically loot
billions of dollars of deposits in banks they controlled and bilked
thousands of American shareholders out of their investments before the bank
collapsed in 1991. Stephens still maintained business relations with one of
BCCI's partners, Union Bank of Switzerland - the bank which bailed out
Harken Energy, and which lent WTI the money to build the incinerator.
Presidential Crony
Five years ago, Stephens relinquished control of Stephens, Inc. to his son,
Warren. Today, perhaps as compensation for his high-profile influence
peddling, Stephens maintains a low public profile. Once a golf partner of
Dan Quayle's, Stephens will never be seen jogging with Bill Clinton or
hugging trees with Al Gore. But the political and financial ties that bind
Clinton and Stephens, fellow Razorbacks, are the strongest by far that
Stephens has made with any president.
Besides funding Clinton's presidential campaign, Stephens has supported
Clinton in every gubernatorial campaign as well as his run for attorney
general. Thomas McLarty, White House Chief of Staff, is the former CEO of
Arkla, Inc., Arkansas' largest natural gas utility, which Stephens owned
until the mid 1980's and in which he still has a sizeable interest.
Many other high-ranking members of the Clinton administration represented
Stephens while partners of Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, including Vincent
Foster, deputy White House counsel, William Kennedy, associate White House
counsel, Webster Hubbell, associate Attorney General, and Hillary Clinton.
To further consummate the relationship, their former boss, Rose Chairman
Joseph Giroir, who hired them and made them partners, is the former director
of the Stephens family's Worthen Bank.
Business As Usual
Stephens has never been accused of wrong-doing in connection with WTI, nor
is there any evidence that Clinton has ever acted under Stephen's advice
during his administration. The only evidence lies in what Clinton and Gore
have and have not done since their inauguration.
Though Gore did authorize a federal investigation, whose results are not
expected to be released before the end of the summer, they have never
fulfilled their promise to stop WTI. In fact, Clinton and Gore announced in
April, when the incinerator began operating on a commercial basis, that they
would not block its operation. Two weeks ago, they allowed the U.S. EPA to
issue the permit for commercial hazardous waste incineration.
Nor has Clinton restructured the EPA to reflect any change in policy on WTI
from the Bush years. After taking office, Clinton fired and replaced all
regional directors of the EPA except one - Region V director Valdus Adamkus,
under whose jurisdiction WTI falls. Adamkus has been responsible for issuing
every federal hazardous waste permit to WTI.
Since her confirmation bearings, EPA Director Carol Browner disqualified
herself from WTI- related decisions because her husband works for a national
environmental organization [Citizen Action] whose state affiliate in Ohio is
involved in the issue - at best a tenuous conflict of interest. Instead of
choosing a neutral party to act on her behalf in the public's interest,
however, Browner chose someone with strong ties to the chemical industry.
She appointed deputy Administrator Robert Sussman as public liaison on the
WTI case. Sussman, it turns out, is a former attorney for the Chemical
Manufacturers Association, where he represented the interests of Dupont,
BASF and other chemical giants who are the largest toxic waste producers in
the country. Sussman was hand-picked for the administration by Hillary Clinton.
After stacking the EPA's deck in WTI's favor without removing the jokers,
Clinton gambled away the future health of tri-state residents by refusing to
even acknowledge that the incinerator had failed its test burn in March.
The EPA reported that WTI emissions of mercury, dioxin and carbon
tetrachloride exceeded federal limits. Clinton subsequently gained the
dubious distinction of being the first president whose EPA issued an
operating permit to a toxic waste incinerator that had failed its trial burn.
White Collar Crime
Opponents contend that Clinton's EPA not only has the authority to shut down
but the legal obligation to do so. They point to a massive body of evidence
that proves that WTI's permit is invalid, including an illegal air permit,
an incomplete permit application and alterations to the permit by WTI's
lawyer Charles Waterman, who at one point whited out the issuance date on
the permit and wrote in a new one, according to Hugh Kaufman.
The incinerator no longer even has a legal owner, according to Ohio Attorney
General Lee Fisher. Fisher's office released the results of an investigation
of WTI on June 30, concluding that the original permit was issued in 1983.
The investigation, which lasted two years while Fisher's attorneys searched
through a labyrinth of name changes and ownership transfers, gives credence
to opponents' claims that the owners of the facility have engaged in an
elaborate corporate shell game to intentionally disguise their own
identities in the event of an accident. This pattern of confused ownership
is exactly what the SEC alleged was central to the indictment of Stephens
and BCCI in 1978.
Moreover, since the current owner of WTI - Von Roll America, Inc., a
subsidiary of a Swiss engineering firm - is not the same entity to which the
original hazardous waste permit was issued, Von Roll has no legal permit to
operate the facility. Clinton's EPA, however, took none of these
illegalities into account. A week after the Attorney General released this
report, the EPA issued WTI a permit for limited commercial operation.
Clinton's EPA has continued the legacy of past administrations concerning
WTI, critics claim. "The EPA has done everything they can to permit the
incinerator," said Terry Swearingen, director of the Tri-State Environmental
Council. "They've done everything they can to work hand in hand with WTI,
regardless of the law."
Hugh Kaufman expressed a more sweeping indictment of the EPA. "Everyone
involved with issuing WTI's permit to burn toxic waste is potentially liable
for criminal prosecution," he said. Kaufman, a former investigator with the
EPA, added that, "WTI is the best white collar crime case I have ever seen."
Winners and Losers
The winners in this case are clear. Von Roll will reap huge profits from the
incinerator, and Jackson Stephens, who has seen his baby WTI grow from
conception to delivery, retains his reputation as one of the country's top
financiers. The losers are tri-state residents, who are being exposed to as
much as 762 tons of toxic pollutants that WTI is permitted to release into
the air annually. These include tons of mercury and lead, as well as
substances like dioxin that are considered among the most toxic elements
known. [ed: dioxins are compounds that are created by burning chlorine
containing wastes]
The protestors, for their part, will continue fighting. Over a hundred,
including local members of Pittsburgh Against Toxic Incineration, showed up
again last week in Washington, D.C. - this time in front of the Swiss
Embassy, where 23 were arrested for blocking the embassy's entrance. One of
the arrested, Alonzo Spencer of East Liverpool, said, "We will go anywhere,
appeal to anyone to stop the illegal burning of toxic waste at the WTI/Von
Roll incinerator." They have already proved that, indeed, they will.
Clinton and Gore will probably lose very little. At worst, a few critics
will count them among the ranks of past administrations who compromise their
morals by playing stooge to corporate interests. Certainly, many tri-state
residents who had faith in Clinton during the campaign no longer view him as
a "people's president." To them, Clinton and Gore's broken promise will
remain over their heads like a toxic cloud.



"Al Gore: A User's Manual"
www.counterpunch.org/goremanual.html

"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul." -- Edward Abbey

The Tenth Edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines greenwash (n) as "Disinformation disseminated by an organisation so as to present an environmentally responsible public image. Derivatives greenwashing (n). Origin from green on the pattern of whitewash."




www.billionairesforbushorgore.com




and on the Republicrat side:

"if you believe there is no such thing as a winner in a nuclear exchange, that argument [of nuclear overkill] that argument makes no sense. I don't believe that. You have a survivability of command and control, survivability of command and control ... industrial potential, protection of a percentage of your citizens, and you have a capacity that inflicts more damage on the opposition than it can inflict upon you. That's the way you can have a winner [in a nuclear war]"
-- George Bush the first, quoted in Robert Scheer, "With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War" (1982)






http://www.eugeneweekly.com/views.html#viewpoint Eugene Weekly, January 4, 2001
What's to Spoil?
2000 election exposes institutional corruption.

Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke received the ideal number of votes to keep either corporate-funded presidential candidate from a clear-cut victory. If liberals nervous about Bush hadn't held their noses and voted for Al Gore, George W. Bush would have received more votes than Gore. If Nader hadn't inspired as many citizens to vote their consciences, Gore would have been in a transition office, not in the courts.

During the campaign, Nader was repeatedly asked if he was a "spoiler" and replied, "you can't spoil a system spoiled to the core."

The campaign's corruption didn't start with the vote frauds in Florida, it was corrupted by obscene amounts of cash, party primaries decided long before votes were cast, and the exclusion of dissident voices from the mass media and pseudo-debates. Even worse, the permanent government of corporate lobbyists and the military-industrial-media-financial complex has more power than the temporary occupant of the Oval Office. (Green perspectives on ballot rigging are at www.prorev.com/votecount.htm and www.commondreams.org.)

Like Spruce Houser ("Squandered Power," Nov. 30), I also attended the 1991 national Green Party convention. Spruce's suggestion that Greens should have endorsed an architect of NAFTA and the World Trade Organization ignores Gore's legacy of greenwashing destructive corporate agendas. The gory details are described in the book Al Gore: A User's Manual by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair ( www.counterpunch.org ).

In Germany, the Greens got the Social Democrats to agree to phase out nuclear power in exchange for their support in a coalition government. In contrast, Gore's "New Democrats" spent the past eight years breaking countless promises to environmentalists and labor constituencies as they transformed the Democratic Party into "Republican Lite." A coalition between Gore and the Nader-ites was not possible, since the Democrats were demanding capitulation, offering no policy changes in return. Lieberman's selection demonstrated that Gore was not interested in offering even token gestures to progressives in return for their votes.

I voted for "Earth in the Balance" in 1992, hoping that Gore, despite being a militarist and a social conservative, would act to slow ozone depletion and climate change. Instead, we got a continuation of Reagan/Bush policies such as "free trade" and "welfare reform," not atmospheric protection.

In 1996, David Brower concluded that Clinton and Gore had done more damage to the environment than Reagan and Bush, and he helped persuade Nader to run for President. The day before Brower died, he voted absentee for Nader.

National Sierra Club Board member Chad Hanson said before the election that Bush is twice as bad as Gore on the issues, and Gore is twice as effective at enacting bad policies as Bush, because, "The national environmental groups are notorious for looking the other way when a Democrat president they helped get elected sells out the environment." Monsanto Corporation stated in October that "Agricultural biotechnology will find a supporter occupying the White House next year, regardless of which candidate wins the election." Gore and Bush both support nuclear power, food irradiation, Star Wars, increased military spending, the war in Columbia, prison expansions, the death penalty, NAFTA highways, inaction on fuel efficiency standards, corporate welfare, gutting the Kyoto climate change treaty and Justice Antonin Scalia (Senator Gore voted for his confirmation, which he probably regrets now). USA Today editorialized June 26 that "when it comes to the policies they believe will keep Americans employed and the nation prosperous, [Bush and Gore] could just as well be running on the same ticket."

Gore should have been 20 points ahead of Dubya, not in a virtual tie. Nader was astonished that Gore couldn't achieve a "slam dunk" against the Texas governor, considering Bush's horrible record and lack of qualifications. The Green Party didn't make Gore ignore key Democratic constituencies for eight years or wage a lousy campaign -- only Gore is responsible for that.

Congressman Henry Gonzalez (D-TX), who died Nov. 28, 2000, introduced bills to impeach Reagan in 1987 for Iran-Contra and in 1991 to impeach George the First for the Gulf War. No Congressional Democrat co-sponsored his effort. If they had, George W. would not be in politics.

Because Shrub got the job due to a popular vote/Electoral College split (and vote fraud), there will be intense pressure to abolish the anti-democratic Electoral College, potentially the 2000 campaign's most important legacy. Proportional representation and "instant run-off" voting are also getting unprecedented attention (see www.fairvote.org for details). If we're lucky, the Democrats won't vote for Bush's phony bipartisanship and George the Second will wreck the Republican Party just like Pat Buchanan just wrecked the Reform Party.

Far more Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader. Nevertheless, Gore's proxies berated Greens for "stealing" votes from their candidate, ignoring how all candidates must earn their support from citizens. Many people were disgusted by the false choice between competing political dynasties, which resembled a choice between the electric chair and lethal injection. The "none-of-the-above" outcome publicized serious flaws in our electoral system that must be fixed for true democracy to exist.

Mark Robinowitz was a volunteer with the Lane County Nader campaign.

its very simple really.

jeb bush, the governer of florida, used the felony exemption roles to illegally exlude 87 thousand blacks from even voting.

They did this by turning over the roles to a
company whose job was to randomize the data and use
"false positives" with the intention of denying
87 thousand blacks the vote.

You can rant and rave all you like that it isn't so...
you can call it a lie and you can call me anything...
but you can't change the factual truth that we do in fact now know;

bush is only the commander in theif;
Al Gore is the rightful president of the USA.

Now, the plot can thicken from there if you like it.
We can have dozens of sites to pull proofs from.

We can even go a little off topic into the more general truth that bush and co are frankly fascist.

I'd like to think that "conservative" doesn't mean merely "towing the lie towing the line" And that for
all of that moral indignation and moral superiority
conservatives seem to be so into, that they can face
harsh realities that are less than pleasant to what
they want to be true or would hope to be true.

I'd like to think theres integrity in being a conservative...
but thats going to have to be something you folks proove to me.

As long as we are at proofs;
run a search engine;
"unprecedented"
"votescam"

its really been going on quite some time.

What does conservative mean? The moral high road?
Or dupe to the grand poobah of all con jobs?
I happen to think that both may be true depending
on who we are talking about in particular.

But lets face facts. You don't know about the truth
in this case because it doesn't jive with your preconcieved notions. You want the lie; its convenient
to you politically. So can you wake up and have integrity yet? Are conservatives fascist lemmings?
Will they simply follow the cult of evil over the precipice? Or will they wake up and shake it off?

All this talk whilst i have been surfing;
all of this angst against "liberals"
Liberals are stupid and liberals are anti american
and so on and so on...

I think that "conservative£ is half cult of angst and fear and i think in all probability some of you do know the truth...but that doesn't slow you down any because so what if he rigged the election? I mean, thats no big deal right? He did it for the conservatives...They couldn't have those stoopid liberals running things....

Bush is a hero even if he did rig the elections...
Right?

no matter what, keep believing the lies....

And when we come to the end of the game, the sheep
will be very confused about the true nature of the slaughterhouse.

On the other hand, theres still time to change the road your on.

A site dedicated to free speach. How nice.
Lets see if its real or just another conservative
lie.

All this crap about suffering African Americans is a lie along with the ballot tampering and such. U have no proof. Gore may have one the popular vote but bush was smart enough to win the electoral vote which he will win again in the election this year. Many Americans think he's doing a good job even a lot of African Americans. I have many African american friends that aren't in poverty and are actually sitting pretty good financially. The African-Americans that are still in poverty are only in it because they haven't even made a try to get out, they don't go to school instead they are out on the street stabbing someone, stealing something, or snortting cocaine and then when a democrat sees them they say take this money to better yourself and they use it on drugs. There is nothing we can do for them unless they try to get off the streets and get a job. Gore was an a-hole just like any other democratic canadite is and will be. I mean the donkey is the perfect animal for them, Republicans can help them put there tails on (Pin the tail on the donkey)and steer them in the right direction but if you leave a donkey to do something by itself it'll make the same mistake over and over again and never will change it's mind or realize the consequences that it has created.

So,every election you lose-which,historically,in the 20th century,is MOST of them-will they be "stolen"?Or do you just despise democracy,when the will of the people is expressed,yet does'nt suit YOUR agenda?

Go back to eating your pubic hair and stop annoying these people.

This is simple...You lost and we won......Get over it!!!!!!!