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in this together. (".... or we shall all hang seperately....")
MWFox - matfox@gmail.com
Dear Senator X,
On January 6, 2005 a joint session of Congress will be held in which
you will be called upon to vote to certify the 2004 Presidential
Election.
Please, please, do NOT vote to certify that election. It was stolen
from the American people. The evidence of electoral fraud is
overwhelming, specific, and widespread. It is not a scheme cooked up
by "sore losers" or the feverish imaginings of paranoid "conspiracy
theorists." The vote rigging, voter suppression, and discriminatory,
predatory chicanery was very real, and it almost certainly did turn
the election in favor of Bush and Cheney, and most likely worked in
favor also of dozens of other Republican candidates whose chances of
winning in a fair election would have been slim.
The case for election-turning fraud is best established in Ohio, where
it has been set on a sound legal footing by an impressive team of pro
bono lawyers, Cliff Arnebeck and Susan Truitt among them, wholehearted
grassroots progressives, fighting for Ohioans, civil rights, and
genuine American interests. The case Moss v. Bush was filed in Federal
Court on Dec. 13. The widespread evidence for fraud has been gathered
by the courageous and inspiring efforts of everyday Ohioans, and
volunteers from other states, for the last six weeks. They have
struggled to find justice for the outrages they have suffered before,
on, and after election day. Some of them have suffered violence and
intimidation (like being run off the road in the dark of night, and
having their tires slashed) because they have tried to see a
legitimately called statewide recount through to completion.
But the fraud was not limited to Ohio. In all likelihood it spread
across the country, wherever local party members involved in elections
at precinct or county levels, acting either independently, or in small
or larger groups of knowing participants, were willing to cooperate
with election systems technicians who had both party and profit
motives to rig machines to favor Republican candidates, and
principally George Bush.
It is a fact that 80% of the votes cast on 11/2/04 were counted by
machines from the two largest vendors, ES&S and Diebold, both of which
have very deep and publically documented connections with the the GOP.
80%! Now that is FAR in excess of the margin of difference in nearly
every race in this country. Can we really be expected to trust the
results of such election?
I am asking you, as one of many thousands, perhaps millions, of
Americans, DO NOT trust this election. Please make this courageous and
patriotic stand on behalf of democracy and transparent government in
the nation. Vote AGAINST certifying the presidential election results
on January 6, 2005.
Then, when the uproar settles and the Senate convenes to regroup
around this new political reality, a true setback to the rutting,
rampaging elephant that is set to stampede through the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, Social Security, the US tax code, and public legal
protections (so-called "tort reform"), then you can hold your head
high, march straight down those Capitol steps, and stand at the
microphone before the crowd that has promised to be there on that day.
Tell them that you just bravely stood up for free and fair elections
in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Tell them that you for one won't stand by any longer as Americans of
color, as young Americans, as lower and middle class Americans of all
ethnicities and backgrounds, get their basic civil rights and even
international treaty rights for a fair election trampled on by
partisan hacks and corrupt politicians.
Tell them that you for one, even if your party will not, are standing
up and speaking out in defense of American democracy, of the principle
that America is governed by the people, not by corrupt "leaders"
usurping power through sham legal decisions (Florida 2000) and through
outright fraud and election theft (Ohio 2004).
Then tell them that you will lead the charge to take back elections
from the private corporations. That our citizenship will not be
outsourced and digitized in the name of convenience and ease of
counting, and so that corporations can profit from our electoral
system while they jerryrig their systems to install candidates in
office who will support their anti-social and destructive policies of
world pillage and private greed.
Tell the Senate NO, you will not certify this sham "election" for
George W. Bush, and tell the people YES, you will stand up for
democracy in 2005.
Your country needs you. Will you accept the call?
An optimistic fellow American,
Matthew Fox, Ph.D.
Princeton, NJ
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