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Whitewash in Ohio
What is the Role of Media in Our Elections? What Are Our Alternatives? Also, What’s the Money Party? And Who’s a Member? Journalist, Michael Collins, TONIGHT on Voice of the Voters
Wednesday, September 26
8pm ET 1360 AM and on the Internet
Citizens in a democracy rely on no institution more than a free press. Tonight on Voice of the Voters, journalist Michael Collins will discuss what makes media free and effective guardians of a democracy.
What changes have American media undergone? How is the traditional media able to help and hurt our elections? And what can citizens to do get all the information they need about stories that affect us all?
Mr. Collins was one of the first reporters to tie election fraud to the US Attorneys firing scandal. He’ll talk about that story and election fraud specifically tonight.
Also: Do we already have a third party that’s more powerful than the two we know about? What is “the Money Party”? Who are its members and where do their priorities lie?
Listener call-in number: 856-227-1360
Voice of the Voters is Heard on
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and the Internet (http://wnjc.duxpond.com/ )
Wednesday, September 26 — 8PM ET
or through www.voiceofthevoters.org
(archives, podcast; recent shows)
Michael Collins’ Selected Bio:
Michael Collins is a writer who focuses on U.S. elections and the violation of our rights by government. His article Fired Federal Prosecutors and Election Fraud 12 Mar 2007 was one of the early markings of the fake ?voter fraud? scam and the political use of U.S. Attorneys. He ended the series on the U.S. Attorney scandal with some predictions of where an impeachment action might focus, if Congress ever gets around to it, Impeachment: Where we are headed July 31, 2007. The interview will focus on how our rights are removed, the motives behind this, and how we have to become our own information sources to protect our rights and assume our role as citizens in charge of their own fate. His most recent article is titled Things Congress Instead of Getting Us Out of Iraq
Coalition for Voting Integrity
Dear Reform Activists:
If you are interested in election reform, media reform, or judicial
reform, you might want to check out Dr. Jim Fetzer’s radio show on
the Genesis Communications Network on Wednesday, September 26, 2007.
I will be a guest, and we will be discussing the need for election
reform, the Holt bill, and the failures of the courts and Congress to
allow a full and complete investigation of the contested 2006
elections. His show runs from 5:00 to 7:00 PM Eastern on Tuesdays
through Thursdays. The link to the web site is
http://www.gcnlive.com/ and you can listen live at
http://www.gcnlive.com/listenlive.htm
I represented Clint Curtis, John Russell, and Frank Gonzalez in
contesting their alleged losses in 2006 in Florida State court and in
the U.S. House of Representatives. Our contest was instrumental in
exerting the pressure to pass a paper ballots law in Florida which at
least gives us something to count if someone can find an attorney who
will file a lawsuit or a contest. However, these contests were
dismissed WITHOUT any review of the evidence and contrary to the law
as well as the rights of the candidates and voters to have the votes
counted.
If you are wondering why you didn’t hear about this, it could be due
to the media cartel’s refusal to cover election fraud and judicial
corruption. If you want judicial reform, you need to realize that
without assurance that the votes are counted, you will not be able to
elect leaders who will respond to your demand that judges should
follow the law or be removed from power. Finally, if you want media
reform, you need fair elections to elect leaders who will help break
up the media cartel, but you can also help by turning to independent
media sources like OpEdNews.com and Genesis Communications Network
and spreading the truth about what is really going on.
Do you want to restore and preserve our democracy, or do you want to
entrust it to those who would continue to use secret vote counting
machines which are unreliable, expensive, and unnecessary? If you
are for the Holt bill, think about your position and how easy it
would be to restore and preserve our democracy with a bill mandating
paper ballots and public vote counts. If you are for fair elections,
spread the word like Paul Revere before Holt passes and the powers
that be claim that they have “fixed” our elections. (Imagine Bush,
Cheney, et al., smiling like the Grinch and laughing sinisterly every
time they hear this repeated.)
For more information, please see my commentary on Op Ed News about
How to Take Action on Holt and Fix Our Elections and see how easy it is to let your Congressional representatives know that you want to restore fair and verifiable elections.
Thanks,
Mark A. Adams JD/MBA
P.S. Please pass this along to your contacts.
Blondie, Hangin’ On The Telephone from 1978…
Time to hit the phones again, gang. And hit them hard.
Hans Von Spakovsky — yes, the same one that Jane flagged back in 2005 – is up for a vote on Wednesday in the Senate Rules Committee for an appointment to the FEC (Federal Election Commission). Adam Lambert at ePluribusMedia has a three-part series on Mr. Von Spakovsky and why he is utterly wrong for America. And in this DKos diary, Adam covers a potential backroom deal with Reid and Schumer on allowing the Von Spakovsky nomination through…sense my disgust. Maha covers a McClatchey piece and some other background on Von Spakovsky’s minority voter suppression activities. BradBlog has even more on the voter suppression nastiness. ThinkProgress has a letter from six former DOJ employees imploring the Rules Committee to vote “NO†on this nomination, for all our sakes.
And Digby has a run-down on Spakovsky, the Rules committee, the politics in play…and the best headline of the bunch. And if that isn’t enough, Working Assets has even more on the odious Mr. Von Spakovsky.
Here’s the Rules Committee membership list, direct dial numbers, and some toll free ones as well:
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (202) 224-3841
Chairman
Robert Bennett (R-UT) (202) 224-5444
Ranking Member
Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) (202) 224-3954
Ted Stevens (R-AK) (202) 224-3004
Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) (202) 224-3934
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (202) 224-2541
Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT) (202) 224-2823
Thad Cochran (R-MS) (202) 224-5054
Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) (202) 224-6542
Trent Lott (R-MS) (202) 224-6253
Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) (202) 224-2152
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) (202) 224-5922
E. Benjamin Nelson (D-NE) (202) 224-6551
C. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) (202) 224-3521
Harry Reid (D-NV) (202) 224-3542
Patty Murray (D-WA) (202) 224-2621
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) (202) 224-4944
Chuck Hagel (R-NE) (202) 224-4224
Mark L. Pryor (D-AR) (202) 224-2353
Toll-free numbers to the switchboard (via katymine):
1 (800) 828 – 0498
1 (800) 459 – 1887
1 (800) 614 – 2803
1 (866) 340 – 9281
1 (866) 338 – 1015
1 (877) 851 – 6437
You can see why I want you to hit the phones, can’t you? Please, for the love of all that is the rule of law and the Constitution, call these people today. I beg you. No, Hans Von Spakovsky. Just…NO.
PS — Per perris’ request, if everyone could please be sure to call Harry Reid’s office on this one, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!
Source: http://www.firedoglake.com
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Police state in Toledo
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**Press Advisory**
For Immediate Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .September 19, 2007
Contact: Julie Hurwitz, attorney. Phone (313) 567-6170.
Terry Lodge, attorney. Phone (419) 255-7552.
News Photographers Face Trial in Toledo for Covering Nazi Rally
Two professional news photographers are scheduled to stand trial in Toledo, Ohio, on September 26 following their arrests nearly two years ago while covering a rally by a small group of Nazis outside the Government Center building.
Both were arrested as they photographed the events of December 10, 2005, including not only the Nazis and the noisy but peaceful crowd of anti-Nazi protestors, but also the actions of the police officers. Police from 13 Ohio jurisdictions were mobilized to present, in the words of Toledo officials, a “show of force†with “zero tolerance†for the day. With nearly 1,000 members of law enforcement present, many on horseback, the police outnumbered both the Nazis and the protestors by approximately five-to-one. “The arrests were an attack on freedom of the press,†said the photographers’ attorney, Julie Hurwitz. “We believe the evidence will show that these professional journalists were arrested not because they violated the law, but because they were photographing an overly aggressive police response to citizens exercising their fundamental constitutional rights to protest. As a result of being arrested, they were prevented from doing their jobs of being the ‘eyes of the world,’ and fulfilling their roles as an integral part of our communication system by which the public obtains the necessary information to be informed participants in a democracy.†Hurwitz said, “my clients are guilty of nothing other than what New York Times editor Bill Keller said of the Times research assistant Zhao Yan, recently released from a Chinese jail, namely the ‘offense of practicing journalism’â€]
The photographers, Jeffrey Sauger of Royal Oak, Michigan, and Jim West of Detroit, are both professional freelancers with many years’ experience working for a wide variety of national newspapers, magazines, and photo agencies. At the Nazi rally, Sauger was working for the European Pressphoto Agency, which distributes photos to newspapers around the world. West was working for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization which, among other things, tracks hate groups across the country and publishes the highly respected magazine Intelligence Report, to which more than 60,000 law enforcement officers nationwide subscribe.
Sauger was arrested on a charge of “criminal trespass†as he stood in a media en
closure carrying professional cameras and lenses photographing the scene. Po
lice charged that he lacked a “temporary media permit†that had been issued to some journalists earlier in the day. Arriving later, carrying his own press credentials, Sauger said officers had told him he didn’t need the pass.
West was arrested as he stood, alone, taking photographs near a line of horses that was being ridden past and through counter-protesters. He was charged with “failure to disperse.â€
Charges of disorderly conduct against a third news photographer, Jeffrey Willis of the Toledo Journal, have been dismissed. Willis was also arrested while photographing the police response to a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters.
“This case is important because the news media was targeted for reporting on questionable governmental activities,†said Hurwitz. “One thing that distinguishes a democratic country is the fundamental right to freedom of the press. When that goes, our basic liberties are at stake.â€
The trial will be held before Judge Lynn H. Schaefer. Jury selection will begin Wednesday morning, September 26, in Courtroom 7 of Toledo Municipal Court, 555 North Erie Street in Toledo. The trial is expected to last two to three days.
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Diane Farsetta, CMD, (608) 260-9713
Craig Aaron, (202) 265-1490, x 25
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 24, 2007
The Internal Revenue Service has told a prominent Pasadena church that it has ended its lengthy investigation into a 2004 antiwar sermon, church leaders said Sunday.
But the agency wrote in its letter to All Saints Episcopal Church that officials still considered the sermon to have been illegal, prompting the church to seek clarification, a corrected record and an apology from the IRS, the church’s rector told standing-room-only crowds of parishioners at Sunday’s services.
The church also has asked the Treasury Department, which oversees the IRS, to investigate allegations that officials from the Justice Department had become involved in the matter, raising concerns that the investigation was politically motivated.
FROM MY FRIEND, BILL BETZ:
My friend John Bowe will be appearing on the Jon Stewart show tonight to talk about his new book, “Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.” The book’s focus is on the plight of Mexican and Central American farm workers in Florida, East Indian labor abuse in Tulsa and Asian “guest worker” abuse in Saipan, an American territory in the Pacific Ocean. John is an award-winning (and excellent) writer. The book demonstrates how “globalization” and the labor abuses (i.e., slavery) that result have had the effect of degrading not only foreign workers who are abused in the U.S. but also the character of our society as a whole. It’s important for anyone who cares about the cause of human dignity.
Watch if you have the chance.
Bill
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON – In sharp contrast to the lionization of General David Petraeus by members of the US Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus’s superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad in March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.
Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be “an ass-kissing little chickenshit” and added, “I hate people like that,” the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior. That extraordinarily contentious start of Fallon’s mission to Baghdad led to more meetings marked by acute tension between the two commanders. Fallon went on to develop his own alternative to Petraeus’s recommendation for continued high levels of US troops in Iraq during the summer.
From Alan Dechert:
Dear Friends of Open Voting:
On Friday, I received a call from John Wildemuth, staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. I explained what we have done in San Francisco to get officials receptive to an open source voting solution.
Today, his article appeared in the Chronicle, “S.F. supervisors blamed for blocking new voting system.” He did not publish anything I said. He mostly presented the point of view of Mayor Newsom. The monied interests are winning today.
We need your help now to counter this misinformation. Please write to the Chronicle.
You can reach the author here: jwildermuth@sfchronicle.com and/or call him at 415-777-7159
Also write to the editors: letters@sfchronicle.com
Newsom says the board made a mistake in rejecting the Sequoia $12.6 million contract. We don’t think so.
* Newsom implies that buying Sequoia would mean SF would “get it right.” The Secretary of State’s top-to-bottom review uncovered a litany of problems with the Sequoia system. Is this what the Mayor means by getting it right?
* A new voting system based on open source software would be much better, fully transparent, and far less expensive. The could open the bid for such a system at any time. Even though no such system is currently certified, that work could be included in the bid. Here’s an example of a system that uses FREE software based on an international standard.
But if they don’t like that one, it doesn’t matter. Any vendor could provide a system to meet the bid requirements. We recommed that the bid specify OPEN SOURCE so everything is open to public scrutiny.
* When the Mayor advocates for Sequoia, he is advocating for private ownership of information that should all be public. This is wrong.
Here is a sample written by Alec Bash.
John Wildermuth’s “S.F. supervisors blamed for blocking new voting system” ignores the key issue, that we need to be confident that every vote has been counted accurately.
We have grown accustomed to instant election returns, but are also finding that electronic voting machines can be hacked and elections stolen.
San Francisco is doing absolutely the right thing to not spend $12M on new Sequoia voting machines. They will soon be obsolete, because they cannot be trusted as long as secret,
proprietary source code is embedded in every machine. By blocking the new Sequoia voting system, San Francisco now leads the nation in demanding public disclosure of the source
code in voting machines. Open source code must come next.
Let’s not forget Ohio and Florida when we think about honest elections. Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s review of all voting machines in the State shows that safequards are
needed. We all want our votes to be counted, and that’s exactly what Bowen is trying to ensure.
To help speed the vote count San Franciscans should vote by absentee ballot to the maximum extent possible, so that their ballots will be counted as the polls are closing on Election Day.
Alec Bash
San Francisco CA 94114
Please write and/or phone the Chronicle now.
Thank you and best wishes.
Alan Dechert
http://openvoting.org
tags: mark crispin miller, american politics, voting machines, sequoia, election fraud, san francisco chronicle
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