Excerpts from RFK Jr.'s Rolling Stone Exposé on Stolen Election 2004!

[BradBlog]

Extended Excerpts from Robert Kennedy's Rolling Stone Article on New Evidence Suggesting a Stolen 2004 Presidential Election

As reported yesterday exclusively by BRAD BLOG, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Rolling Stone exposé, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" on the gaming of the 2004 Presidential Election would be dropping today.

The BRAD BLOG now has extended excerpts from the remarkably detailed article featuring new evidence suggesting massive Election Day fraud seems to have been committed by Republicans.

Republicans derided anyone who expressed doubts about Bush’s victory as nut cases in “tinfoil hats,” while the national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of the election. The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as “conspiracy theories,” and The New York Times declared that “there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.” But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004.

Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad never received their ballots – or received them too late to vote – after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations. A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states, was discovered shredding Democratic registrations. In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment – roughly one for every 100 cast.

The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush’s victory in the Electoral College. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. A precinct in an evangelical church in Miami County recorded an impossibly high turnout of ninety-eight percent, while a polling place in inner-city Cleveland recorded an equally impossible turnout of only seven percent. In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count.

Much more posted at the following URL...

EXTENDED EXCERPTS:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002896.htm

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[Sadie5]

1. It runs in the family

Back in the 60s Bobby Kennedy was concerned that Black folks in the South would be cut off from their taxpaying right to vote. But I'm wondering why he didn't say something before now.

[fooj]

2. Truth is our most powerful weapon!

Thanks for posting this.

[Mandate My Ass]

3. Glad to hear it.

I went to a talk by Mark Crispin Miller, whose book "Fooled Again" is a scathing endictment of the electoral fraud perpetrated by Repubs. He couldn't get on any talk shows and he said even "The Daily Show" turned him down but they had Rick Santorum on to promote his loony tunes book. He was extremely frustrated. Everybody just ignored him but luckily the story isn't going away.

[CottonBear]

6. He was on CSPAN WJ. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

8. Mark Crispin Miller will be vindicated. But the question, "Why now?" is

a very good one, and requires us to take off our rose-colored glasses, and stare the cold truth in the face: "Why now" is because it's now time for our Corporate Rulers and our War/Corporate Democratic leaders to reap the benefits of Bush's horrors. The War/Corporate Democrats will not have to be progressives any more--or even pretend to be. All they have to do, to look good, is NOT wage unilateral war, NOT give the super-rich any MORE tax cuts, NOT torture prisoners (or at least not so many), NOT spy on Americans (or at least no so much), NOT loot Social Security (although, with a $10 TRILLION deficit, who knows?), and they can sit back, fat and happy, with their own tax cut profits and taxpayer-supported benefits packages, and toy with how to "help the middle class" with a budget that now--NOW!--MUST be "balanced." Don't you know? We MUST have a "balanced budget"--now that all the "horses" are out of the barn.

Further, they likely feel that American leftists will NOW SHUT UP about global corporate predators, free trade piracy, the World Trade Organization, NAFTA and all the rest. They didn't like what they saw in Seattle in 1999--50,000 trade unionists, environmentalists, humanitarian groups, religious groups, and all sorts of folks acting as one to PEACEFULLY shut down the WTO meeting (yes, we did--and peaceful it was, all day long, even under brutal police assault--something that only those who were there, and the people of Seattle, know). Really, I sometimes think the Bush junta has been deliberate punishment for Seattle '99. ("We'll teach you to LOVE your Corporate Rulers, or else....").

Our job is to NOT let them get away with it--to relentlessly demand COMPLETE REFORM of this political system, from top to bottom, so that a Bush junta coup CAN NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. 1) Ban all private money in political campaigns. Period. Fini! Enough is enough. Public financing of political campaigns. 2) Bust up any corporations that have been war profiteering (including oil corporations), and seize their assets for the common good. 3) Bust up the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. 4) Reduce the military budget to a true defensive posture (90% cut?)--no more wars of choice! 5) National, popular vote for President (end the Electoral College), and instant runoff voting, so that a vote for Nader, say, in 2000, would have gone to Gore, once Nader had been eliminated. (This encourages coalition building--rather than fights to the death--and opens up the political process to new ideas.)

That's for starters.

HOWEVER, I want to place a qualification on my Dark Scenario above--that the War/Corporate Dems have just been lurking under their desks, waiting to benefit--and to benefit their Corporate sponsors--from Bush's ill repute. After all, taking off one's rose colored glasses is a bit extreme. Reality is some kind of mix of stark reality and dreams and ideals and hope and love. Part of it has to do with RFK. I don't think he would play such a game. It may be that Rolling Stone is being dictated to by the DLC. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. Or, RS editors have sniffed the wind, and now deem our egregiously corrupted and NON-TRANSPARENT election system to be a safe topic. But I don't believe that of RFK. I've heard him enough on the radio to know that he's true blue.

So, like everything in life, we have a mixed bag in the Dem Party--of the cowardly, the corrupt and the good and courageous. And it's sometimes wise to let the cowardly and corrupt turn around--even if it makes you sick--and act like the good guys. That's what peace treaties are made of. That's what diplomacy is for--to help people, even bad people, save face, and thus back off of being so bad.

It's wise though--for the sake of the fight ahead, the fight for saving our country and our democracy, and passing it on to the future, if not improved, at least in tact--to take those rose-colored glasses off, from time to time, and face ugly truths. Then try to re-kindle your love for the human race--and your love for your country--into a burning passion for the greatest ideals of this revolutionary land.

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Note: RS shows their ignorance of the topic, in their editorial, when they state the "hanging chads" lost Gore the election. Don't they know ANYTHING?

[Mandate My Ass]

9. Well said!

I agree with you and Molly Ivins. This is not the time to pussyfoot around hoping to "not offend anyone." Now is the time to get hopping mad and demand our party start acting like an opposition party.

You can't be a little bit corrupt in the same way you can't be a little big pregnant. They either owe their allegiance to us or to their corporate sponsors. Let them pay their retirement and health benefits. I'm tired of supporting both the corporate welfare state and the politicians who do their bidding at my expense.

[Lefty-Taylor]

14. Peace Patriot, I've been reading your posts for years and

I think this is one of your best. Thoughtful. Intelligent. Rational-Yet-Passionate. (And I agree that run-off voting is key to a real democracy and the best way to bring in third party candidates.) Keep up the good work, and thanks for your post!!

[xxqqqzme]

16. Have you been reading David Sirota's

Hostile Takeover?

[Ezlivin]

4. Does anyone think that this information will change things?

Look, I'm trying not to be too cynical, but after reading the full article I wondered about our ability to effect change.

For the past six years this administration has been involved in outrageous criminal acts, many of them clearly unconstitutional. Yet there are no investigations, no outcry and not a single word from our so-called free press.

We can be as pissed off and outraged as we want, but if no one ever knows, will it matter? If a million citizens take to the streets and the evening news (with perky Katie Couric) makes no mention of it, did the protest happen? (This is akin to the saying "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?")

I'd write my representatives, but they are Republican and have no desire to examine corruption emanating from their own party.

I fear that in November the Ohio ballots will be shredded and all the evidence we need to prove a crime will be forever gone.

Just like our freedoms and liberty.

[lagavulin]

5. Maybe this is the wrong board to say this....

...but I don't trust Old Politico-Families.

I know it sounds jaded and cynical, but I've always suspected that when the worst came to worst and the PTB felt they may not be able to hold their Globalization-Military-Industry-Dollar-Inflation plans together any longer, they'd sweep in with a Democratic Hero, throw G.W. and Boys out on their asses and then declare "Huzzah, the People Have Triumphed--It's a New Age for America!".

And then they could continue with business as usual for a few more years...

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. I just don't trust anyone anymore. Sad, isn't it.

[reprehensor]

10. Excellent.

Keep it coming.

Truthapalooza.

[Peace Patriot]

11. Look, it's up to US, the citizens of this country and NOT to the RFK Jr.'s

of this world, to change our election system. I happen to think that RFK Jr. is one of the good guys. But he CAN'T SAVE OUR COUNTRY. All he can do is get information out--when and where he can. He's been on AAR dismantling the Corporate Rulers for at least two years now. He took up the topic of election fraud 3 or 4 months ago (to my hearing--that's the first I heard it on his show, Ring of Fire). We cannot know WHY. Just like we cannot know what-all went into Kerry's decision to concede when he did. Maybe it was fear. Maybe the Bush junta made threats. I tend to think it was lack of support in the Dem leadership. (Hostile Congress, hostile news media, hostile Sup Court, obviously hostile White House, and no party support--resulting perhaps from corruption and/or cowardice in the Dem Party). We can only vet people as best we can. And WHATEVER anybody's motives are--the Dem powers, RS, RFK, the NYT, and all who are now, finally, speaking about this black-holed topic--WE know what OUR intentions and the needs of the country are, from our perspective.

For all WE know, the sudden opening up of this topic may be part of a plan, among benign forces, to get the Bush junta out. I cannot rule that out, at this point, having closely followed Kerry's statements since the election, for instance. There were all kinds of hints and rumors that he had a "plan." Maybe this is it. And maybe it had to be premised on a whole lot else happening FIRST--such as the first Fitzgerald indictment, the retired generals speaking out, various scandals and whistleblowers emerging. All we can do is take this gift and RETURN TO THE FIRST PRINCIPLES of our democracy: our right to vote, transparent elections. FIRST, we want democracy restored. THEN we'll have the luxury of evaluating all sorts of things, including our Dem Party leadership.

Here are some practical helps for restoring transparent elections and our right to vote. Don't expect Rolling Stone to do it. WE have to do it!

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OVERVIEW: AMERICAN REVOLUTION II

What we now have --in addition to outright illegal suppression of Democratic votes by Bushite election officials and other operatives--is several big electronic voting corporations with very close ties to the Republican Party and rightwing causes--Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia-- 'counting' all our votes with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it--with virtually no audit/recount controls. This is the result of the infamous "Help America Vote Act" of 2002, a $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle engineered by the biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (and abetted by Bilderber 'Democrat' Christopher Dodd).

Our elections are now NON-TRANSPARENT and UNVERIFIABLE, and under the control of partisan corporations. The $4 billion and millions in lavish lobbying were also used to corrupt election officials from one end of the land to other. And those they have not been able to corrupt, they have driven from office (Kevin Shelly in California), or sought to intimidate (Ion Sancho in Florida, and others). Corruption or bullying by the Bushite Feds has resulted in the widespread purchase of this extremely insecure, unreliable and hackable--and very expensive--election theft machinery.

Restoring TRANSPARENT elections is a MUST DO, PRIORITY ONE, MATTER, if we want our country back. Without the right to vote, we can do little or nothing to restore lawful government. We can protest. We can be appalled. But if the will of the majority--which has always been for peace and justice, and good government, consistently over the last six years, in ALL the issue polls--cannot be enforced, then we might as well be shouting to the wind.

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SOME RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN REVOLUTION II:

Practical suggestions for the immediate future:

1. ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTING. Promote absentee ballot voting. It's not the ultimate solution, by any means, but it at least provides a tangible paper record for challenging suspicious election results, and for recounts and investigations. (Absentee ballots were a great help to investigators in 2004.) Absentee ballot voting is also a form of protest against the machines. 50% of Californians are now requesting Absentee Ballots. If enough people do it, the machines will be obsolete; then we can work on getting rid of the central tabulators.

2. MONITOR THE ELECTIONS. Join with others to closely monitor the coming elections and gather and document evidence. See www.UScountvotes.org, and other resources, below. UScountvotes.org needs donations!

3. DEMAND INDEPENDENT EXIT POLLS. Demand that the Democratic Party fund INDEPENDENT EXIT POLLS. Exit polls are used worldwide to verify elections and check for fraud. The war profiteering corporate news monopoly exit polls cannot be trusted (they are doctored to match the results from the voting machines' secret programming code; rather than being used to verify elections, they are used to confirm NON-TRANSPARENT "official results"). The Democratic Party owes us, big time, for their lack of vigilance--and in some cases corruption--on electronic voting. This is one critically needed thing that they can do to help.

4. THINK LONG TERM. Saving our democracy promises to be a long hard struggle. We obviously can't get rid of these machines before the '06 elections, so focus on doing our best with the Diebold/ES&S handicap (a 5% to 10% "thumb on the scales" for Bushites and warmongers), and getting rid of these machines afterward, for '08 and beyond.

5. TELL PEOPLE THE TRUTH. They NEED to know it. Engage them in the fight. Bumper sticker: "Help Us Beat the Machines--VOTE!" There is nothing more demoralizing and disempowering than constantly losing and not knowing WHY. There is evidence that the machines CAN be beaten by massive turnout. Get people involved! Help them to SEE what's happening! THEY will solve the problem, ultimately--if they can only IDENTIFY what it is!

6. PRESSURE LOCAL/STATE ELECTION OFFICIALS. Right now, the best place to fight this fight is at the state/local level, where ordinary people still have some influence. Bush's Congress is NOT going to give us back our right to vote--they are the ones who took it away (with the collusion of some corrupt Dems). Don't look to the Feds--look to your local county registrar, your state election boards, your secretaries of state. Demand TRANSPARENT elections. Also educate and mobilize your local Democratic Party groups.

The first priority in this historic fight for American democracy is restoring our right to vote--the mechanism by which we exercise our sovereignty as a people. Without it, we have no power. We MUST change this.

Never give up on our right to vote! NEVER!

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN REVOLUTION II:

Hopeful signs - latest news:

California voters sue the state over Diebold:
www.VoterAction.org is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "certification" by Schwarzenegger appointee Bruce McPherson.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496
Seven of these counties have promised the judge they would use PAPER BALLOTS, and were dismissed from this lawsuit (4/27/06).
http://kcbs.com/pages/29285.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2249205

Maryland rejects Diebold:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418263

Florida - anti-trust accusations against Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, re: heroic Florida election official Ion Sancho:
(FLA AG subpoenas the companies)
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,110192,00.html
http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/MGBKSY8W8LE.html
(info & discussion)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2183630

Utah county clerk fights back!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x419226

(Tide turning?) New York Times: "New Fears of Security Risks in Electronic Voting Systems" (5/12/06)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2278829

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INFORMATION AND ACTIVIST RESOURCES for American Revolution II:

www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections--they need donations)


(Activist sites with links to state activist groups or info)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.votersunited.org (good general info, and state links)
www.verifiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)

www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)
Provisions of the PA lawsuit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x423739

The Voter Confidence Resolution
http://tinyurl.com/rlnr2 (“We Do Not Consent”)
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com (GuvWurld blog main page)
http://tinyurl.com/amryg (Voter Confidence Resolution

www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)

*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477

Congressional bills:

Russ Holt's HR 550 requires a real paper ballot, bans secret software in "voting machines", and has more than 170 co-sponsors, but the audit required is too weak, it promotes electronic voting and centralized power, and the secret software might be permitted to continue in the central tabulators (the bill is not clear). At lot of discussion at DU of the loopholes/pitfalls in HR 550 (many DUers support the bill):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x422926
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x421136
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=422967&mesg_id=422967
To sign the HR 550 petition: http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html

(Note: Senate Bill-SB 330 and House-HR704 simply require a "voter verified paper audit trail" (VVPAT), which may be best for the moment.)


Also of interest:

Michael Collins (Autorank)'s searing election reform article for New Zealand's Scoop.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x971363

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy! Title: "Poll Shock" 11/24/05)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm

Bob Koehler's latest: "Trust us: Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm
More Koehler:
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk

Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

HOWARD DEAN remarks on electronic voting machines 04/06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x994507

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and ALL election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." --Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

[Blaze Diem]

12. If there was ever a MAN on this planet to speak ' truth to power',

while garnering the undivided attention of an international audience, it will be Bobby Kennedy jr. This great man has done more for humankind than all the bushbots put together.
He is bright, articulate,& passionate for "the cause", and can easily peel back the layers of disguise that hide the truth of Bush & Co.

He is a Very Powerful Man..
So was his father.

Thank You Bobby Kennedy jr.
Can't wait to read the article.

Blaze

[msmcghee]

13. Thanks for posting this. But, Bradblog sucks IMO.

I have tried several times, but it's almost impossible for my eyes to read yellow text on a black background. If what bradblog has to say is important (as I'm sure this is) he doesn't need to use razzle-dazzle unreadable graphics to say it.

My 2 cents.

[petgoat]

15. I'd submit that Brad's work is important enough to be worth

cutting and pasting into a wordprocessing file for reading if you need to.

Do you use the Firefox web browser? If you use that, if you hit Ctrl and
the += key it will increase the size of the type; Ctrl and the _- key
shrinks it back down again. That might help.

[Wilms]

17. K&R n/t

[genieroze]

18. These scum off the bottom of my shoes will do it this year too.

I just walked the dog and stepped in a pile of them.