Koch Group Kicks Off Massive Voter Mobilization Effort; Summons Tea Party to Country Club, Outs...
Source: The Nation
[font size="1"]full headline -- Koch Group Kicks Off Massive Voter Mobilization Effort; Summons Tea Party to Country Club, Outsourcing Center[/font]
...Its the beginning of an extremely well-planned get-out-the-vote effort that duplicates what an entire national party would attempt. And its been four years in the making.
...Koch’s unique, outside-the-GOP voter mobilizing system is called Themis, named after the Greek god of divine order. It carries a similar name to the Themis project by the US Chamber of Commerce’s partners exposed for planning to hack and sabatoge liberals and some union groups, but it is not related.
...Too much attention is given to the television ads. The Koch network, which is actively training Tea Partiers, via a partnership with True the Vote, to harass and intimidate voters, may tip the scales in this election. And you won’t see their work on television, or through FEC disclosures (they refuse to register their grassroots electioneering as independent expenditures). Like Wisconsin, liberals might see the ground shifting beneath them, and wonder what happened.
Read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/170103/koch-group-kicks-massive-voter-mobilization-effort-summons-tea-party-country-club-outsou
Please read the full article -- there's info there which should not be overlooked.
Koch's group is sneaky/dangerous (see what they did in Wisconsin).
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Sure would like to check out that crowd.
I'm not a lawyer, but I am guessing thru amendment, so you are probably right on the money about the red states. I am all for Scalia retiring, but not sure he's in any mood to. It sure would be nice if he would though, I'm all for Obama getting the opportunity to appoint to SCOTUS again (I'd really like to see him get a couple more). Re: voter suppression, I was actually thinking in more general terms, as in the intimidation factor (real or perceived). If Koch/Tea Party tries anything, I want them to pay a stern price for that nonsense. Thanks for the comments/disucssion. 
"by the US Chamber of Commerce’s partners exposed for planning to hack and sabotage liberals and some union groups, but it is not related."
That doesn't seem very prudent of them. I'd also guess that they have never read any Greek mythology, and the fact that most (if not all) of the gods and titans were dualistic in nature. Whatever positives they found in the definition of Themis will also include negatives, or aspects contrary to the primary ones. Such as:
Themis was the Titan goddess of divine law and order--the traditional rules of conduct first established by the gods. She was also a prophetic goddess who presided over the most ancient oracles, including Delphoi. In this role, she was the divine voice (themistes) who first instructed mankind in the primal laws of justice and morality, such as the precepts of piety, the rules of hospitality, good governance, conduct of assembly, and pious offerings to the gods. In Greek, the word themis referred to divine law, those rules of conduct long established by custom. Unlike the word nomos, the term was not usually used to describe laws of human decree.
I) THE PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF THE TITANES
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 206 ff (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"I {Prometheus}, although advising them for the best, was unable to persuade the Titanes, children of Ouranos (Heaven) and Khthon (Earth); but they, disdaining counsels of craft, in the pride of their strength thought to gain the mastery without a struggle and by force. Often my mother Themis, or Gaia (Earth) (though one form, she had many names), had foretold to me the way in which the future was fated to come to pass. That it was not by brute strength nor through violence, but by guile that those who should gain the upper hand were destined to prevail. And though I argued all this to them, they did not pay any attention to my words."
I can see the Koch brothers thinking of themselves as modern day Titans, thus my inclusion of the prophecy
I also can't believe the average bible-thumping teabagger would go along with having a Greek God overseeing their gatherings. Then again, I wouldn't expect them to read about the Greeks, either
We need to see what her prophecy foretells of them and their ilk.
