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You can lead a republican to the truth, but you can't make him think it...

I've seen a preview screening of this movie and it covers people right there on the ground in Ohio. While a lot of time is spent covering dumpster diving, the movie effectively chronicles the efforts of active citizens who wouldn't stand idly by as electoral misconduct proliferated.

If you happenstance to peruse Nancy Skinner's website, you will quickly learn that she is not afraid to speak the truth and has gonads bigger than Dennis Hastert.

Replace those responsible for U.S. missteps. In order to win back the trust and respect of the world community, we must hold accountable those leaders who have put us in this situation. A new team be brought in, one with fresh ideas and a willingness to engage other leaders in constructive problem solving.

Let's give Nancy a vote of confidence. A response to my comment here and a little coinage her will go along way to seeing accountability and justice reestablished in OUR nation.

All three of these candidates deserve to win and would be a great addition to Congress.

The Dems need to take action on this latest threat to democracy from the e-machine voting machines: 'Just Push the Yellow Button and Vote as Many Times as You Want' on Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines! Brad reports:

..."Just push the yellow button and you can vote as many times as you want," Tom Courbat, an Election Integrity advocate from Riverside County, California informed The BRAD BLOG tonight. Not that we're in any mood to report more such stories, but this seems to be a big one. A very big one.

It seems there's a little yellow button on the back every touch-screen computer made by Sequoia Voting Systems, that allows any voter, or poll worker, or precinct inspector to set the system into "Manual Mode" allowing them to cast as many votes as they want..."

American Blackout

'American Blackout' is one of the most important of the deluge of political docs that have flooded the cultural landscape over the last several years. Kicking off with the detailed argument that black voters in Florida were systematically disenfranchised in the 2000 presidential election, the film then pulls double duty: It,s a fine-tooth examination of both the continued, unconstitutional marginalization of black voters in America and the attempts by various political and media machines to crush McKinney in retaliation for her outspokenness on that subject and on the illegality of the war in Iraq.

Lou Dobbs
- Citizen Activists care more than Congress.
- Special Interests control campaigns/election process

Thanks, Congressman JC. I will support all three.

Off topic. Another article about Bush and his recent bill signings that bring us all that much clower to Martial Law and why we need to vote for a Democratic House and Senate. I ESPECIALLY do not like the part in the article about the Halliburton subsidiary detention camps.

Bush Puts America One Step Closer To Martial Law

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A friend of mine put this together. Thought I would share.

Bush invokes Insurrection act.... whats up his sleeve

President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."

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Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is an ominous assault on American democratic tradition and jurisprudence. The 1878 Act, which reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both," is the only U.S. criminal statute that outlaws military operations directed against the American people under the cover of 'law enforcement.' As such, it has been the best protection we've had against the power-hungry intentions of an unscrupulous and reckless executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce its will.

Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse comitatus, along with American democracy, a near fatal blow. Consequently, it will take an aroused citizenry to undo the damage wrought by this horrendous act, part and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of abuses and outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.

Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's governors."

Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."

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The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night, which gives Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished fact.

The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct role in martial law operations. Title XIV of the new law, entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions," authorizes "the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense (DOD) processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local first responders."

In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control" technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local militarized police units. The new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer" agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)

It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.

Entire article at link.

They say the Titanic sunk not because of an ice burg, but because the rivets that held it together, were torn away. Do we need a run away, self described Unitary Executive Decider ripping the rivets out of the Constitution that holds these United States of America together? Aren't the Bill of Rights the sole delineation OF what makes America, America? What are we when those fundamentals are ripped out of the hull that keeps us afloat? But sunk.

The President, acting as the Captain, insists on running below deck to assist the iceberg at its devilish deeds. He must be stopped least the ship he sails, America, is sunk.

U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer
By WILLIAM J. BROAD

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to "leverage the Internet" to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq,s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.
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You can lead a republican to the truth, but you can't make him think it...

Congressman Conyers - everyone... alert! Problems with the voting machines are being reported far and wide with early voting that is happening throughout the country.

Early voting may save the day!

Call your election officials or party to see if you can be a "poll watcher" even at this late date.

When you go to the polls, bring all the tools possible to document problems. Check out blackboxvoting.org for a list of items you may use to document. Scan through Black Box Voting's "Citizen's Tool Kit" chapters 12 through 15 for an idea and PICK JUST ONE AND DO IT. Imagine if each person picked just one item? We'd have some voting protection all covered.

Note: Black Box Voting has a list of states where you do not need to have a second party's permission to audio record - otherwise, in a few states, you need that second party permission. Florida is one of those states you need the second party's permission.

Raw Story reports that the Washington Post writes: Heads up - Maryland Democrats say GOP to block voters.

This sounds like, smells like, and looks a lot like propaganda to me.

RAWSTORY

"The fact that the online population is more heavily composed of Republicans than Democrats is principally a function of the Republican party's higher composition within the overall electorate," analyst Ken Cassar states in the press release. "This is exacerbated by the fact that online penetration continues to be deeper among affluent households, which have historically skewed Republican."

In a stunning public repudiation of George W. Bush, the United States military,s four major papers are demanding the firing or resignation of Donald Rumsfeld. The Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Times will confront the Chickenhawk-in-Chief with what amounts to an ultimatum just one day before the Midterm elections:

"Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt. This is not about the Midterm elections. Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7, the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth: Donald Rumsfeld must go."

Spin THAT, Tony Snow, you blow-dried smart ass. It seems that America,s generals have finally seen enough and have at long last resolved to confront Bush and his scheming Republican hacks. What compelled them to take such unprecedented action on the very eve of the most crucial Midterm election in American history?

The reasons are stark, ominous, and comprehensively incriminating.

1) Bush and his partisan hacks ignored warnings in the summer of 2001 that Al Qaeda would attack the United States.

2) The misconduct of Bush and his partisan hacks on the days before 9/11, on 9/11 itself, and in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was treasonous.

3) Bush and his partisan hacks refused to deploy the 10th Mountain Division to Tora Bora in December of 2001, and Bin Laden escaped.

4) Bush and his partisan hacks conspired to launch an illegal war against Iraq, unleashed that illegal war in defiance of international law, and have conspired to conceal their treachery ever since.

5) Their illegal occupation of Iraq has inflicted more than twenty-three thousand American casualties, has cost $400 billion dollars, and has increased terrorism.

6) Bush and his partisan hacks destroyed a covert CIA network working to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

7) Bush and his partisan hacks have abandoned Afghanistan to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

8) Bush and his partisan hacks are decimating the finest volunteer army ever fielded, and Cheney just vowed to continue this decimation "full speed ahead."

9) Bush and his partisan hacks are presiding over and directing a war profiteering binge of staggering proportions, while the families of American soldiers have to wait in line for food donations on bases all across this country, and must borrow from predatory lenders so they can pay their bills.

10) Bush and his partisan hacks have already lost two wars, but are plotting to attack Iran because their war profiteering binge thus far has only whetted the appetite of their corrupt defense contractor co-extortionists.

11) Bush and his partisan hacks have seized control of the National Guard from state governors, in violation of the Constitution.

12) Bush and his partisan hacks have implemented the Military Commissions Act, in violation of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution.

13) Bush and his partisan hacks have published atomic bomb making information on the Internet, thus escalating the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack on the United States.

14) Bush and his partisan hacks have eliminated the last remaining oversight capacity of Congress and have thus ensured that billions more dollars will vanish into the bloody, bottomless pit of Iraq.

15) Bush and his partisan hacks have vowed that Rumsfeld will remain in power at the Pentagon until the end of Bush,s presidency.

If this simmering revolt in the Pentagon is any indication, the end of Bush,s presidency may come sooner than the Chickenhawk-in-Chief and his F-Troop ass kissers in our hijacked White House and on Corruption Hill think it will. When that end comes, it won,t be a minute too soon for our soldiers in the blasted wasteland of Iraq, for this humiliated country, and for this fearful world.

The Midterms and ensuing investigations may hasten that end, but if yet another election is stolen by Bush and his partisan hacks, the sight of Abrams tanks on the South Lawn of the White House may greet us one winter morning when we turn on the news. After the surreal six years we,ve just been through, who among us can say it won,t happen?

Cross-posted at Soapbox4Truth