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HomerRamone Donating Member (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 08:32 PM
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"Open Letter to the Media": Your blindness to election fraud is killing us (MUST-READ)
by Jonathan Simon

How does the Big Lie flourish and prosper? By being criminal beyond belief. By operating in safety behind a towering
“never happen here” wall of denial. By a foolish assumption of immunity. By being too big a story to be a story within the
bounds of journalistic decorum.

The gruesome truth is that American elections can be rigged and are being rigged because the American media treats
election rigging as something that—all evidence notwithstanding—could never happen here. Period, end of story, move
on.

<...>

 2011: There is a story in Wisconsin. It’s a miracle! 7583 votes magically found for the Republican candidate
(found by a former employee of that candidate) in another “proxy” election with seismic implications. Just
exactly enough votes to dodge the mandatory recount that would have revealed . . . who knows? Yet another
coincidence? There’s a story in Wisconsin. It has the potential to blow the lid off the Big Lie. Anyone want to
cover it?

I think that brings us up to date, though so very much has been left out in deference to time, space, and the modern
attention span. We whose work is elections forensics have gathered data, performed analyses, presented evidence,
proposed solutions, and begged for action for nearly a decade. The American media has covered its ears or, if it has
listened at all, has, with a very few brave exceptions, scoffed. We are here at this “Reform” conference against our better
judgment, trying perhaps one last time to open eyes to a reality none of us wishes to contemplate, but no less a reality for
that. A threat of such enormity demands unblinking investigation, sustained rather than desultory attention, and
individual and collective courage. Anything less and the Big Lie continues to flourish, corroding and destroying all that we
are so proud of in our history.

MORE: http://markcrispinmiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/OpenLetter4-5-11.pdf
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 08:34 PM
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1. They've gotten away with it again and again.........
They're just become more blatant about it. It's a bloody charade.

I think it may be time for a class revolution.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 08:38 PM
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2. The MSM is controlled by whom? can't imagine this being a non-story by Chris Mathews, Maddow?!
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 08:43 PM
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3. The 14,000 votes in Wisconsin were not magically found.
Folks in Brooksfield voted, the votes were counted and tallied, then the total was transmitted to the County Clerk.
There was an error of omission on the part of the County Clerk - she found the error when 'all zeros' showed up for Brooksfield on the print out.
That is all. There is not fraud and no conspiracy.
The reason there is a canvassing day AFTER the election is to catch any errors - and that is what has happened in this case.

There is NOTHING fishy going on with the 14,000 Brookfield Wisconsin SC votes, here's why...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x841430

p.s. Think about it this way:
If you put $10,000 in your bank account and then forget to write the deposit down in your check register - you still have $10,000 in your account. Writing down a total somewhere doesn't void the actual money (OR VOTES).

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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 08:45 PM
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4. Joe Scum said that morning that he had no doubt that
liberals would find some conspiracy theory.


Ah well. Kathy sure makes lots of mistakes - damn!!

Go Rachel!!
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 08:55 PM
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5. KICKIN...
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 09:20 PM
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6. "Only puny secrets need protection. . . .

Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity." – attributed to Marshall McLuhan, http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/poster.html
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denvercougars Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-11 10:49 AM
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7. Better Media
Well said. I, too, find it infuriating that the American media has "covered its ears" to this and other important issues! I was just on the Free Speech TV website, and was watching some clips of speakers talking about how we all need to learn how to hold the media more accountable, and fight for a free, fair, and open internet. You should check it out, it's really interesting. Here's the url http://www.livestream.com/freespeechtv/video?clipId=flv_c6dc59dd-a319-4ac4-af81-b0bca0743fe0
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