What `October Surprise' might be in store for Americans this fall?

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Diebold Election Systems fixes the vote in battleground states.

Johns Hopkins' Information Security Institute issued a July 23, 2003, report asserting that Diebold's voting machine software contained "stunning flaws" and that vote totals could be modified by remote access. California recently decertified all electronic touch-screen voting machines in the state and may bring criminal and civil charges against Diebold for using uncertified software. But here's where the story really gets interesting. In a 2003 invitation to a Bush fundraiser, Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell stated, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." O'Dell was named a pioneer by the 2004 Bush campaign, having raised at least $100,000 in campaign contributions so far.

Vote is threatened by terrorist attacks, vote suspended due to red alert.

Can't you just imagine Attorney General John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge announcing that the alert level is being raised to orange in September? Then a red alert in October? In a 2003 interview, Gen. Tommy Franks ran the martial law flag up the pole, stating that a major terrorist attack might mean discarding the Constitution in favor of a military government. You can check out this option in an article called "When the War Hits Home: U.S. Plans for Martial Law, Tele-Governance and the Suspension of Elections" by Wayne Madsen and John Stanton at www.counterpunch.org/ madsen0514.html.

Major terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

It's likely Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida could assure the reelection of Bush by carrying out another horrific attack on American soil prior to the election. Given such an incendiary action, citizens would rally round the president once again. Don't discount this possibility too quickly, because, let's face it; bin Laden needs a fanatical foe against whom he can unite his true believers. And, similarly, Bush needs the fear that bin Laden evokes to maintain his facade as the forceful war president.

Osama bin Laden captured.

This would be the pice de rsistance for the Bush administration. In fact, maybe bin Laden has already been apprehended and incarcerated. Then, at just the right moment (based on data from polling and focus groups), his capture will be revealed to the American public on prime-time TV. This ploy was chosen by more than 37 percent of respondents in the poll. You can cast your vote for the October Surprise you think is most likely at www.october surprise.net/poll.php. But regardless of the tactics the Bush campaign uses, they've already cried "wolf" too often. In this immensely important election year, we won't get fooled again.

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1. bin Laden and AQ need Bush

they could decide to influence the election in order to deliver it to Bush.

nothing better for AQ and like-minded groups than the incompetent bunch who are running the US right now.

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2. the release of F9/11 on DVD

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3. It's all happened before.

See my tagline.

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4. it's troublesome that we have come to expect it

for sure, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson ... and, knowing to be on alert is good, but it's sad that we know it has happened; that it can happen again; that we expect it to happen; and, that it has happened before by the same people who MIHOP, at least, twice already - 1980 and 2000 ...

Diebold technology enables it to happen easier ... if it happened pre-digital/computerized world, with analog type machines, it had to be more difficult to cover-up ... if the VoteScam investigations by journalists James and Kenneth Collier are spot-on ... it may have happened under less obvious situations.
http://www.votescam.com/home1.php

What can happen and what the BFEE (to use a collective point of reference)is capable and willing of doing is frightening ... they don't care about honesty, fair play, life or death, the Founding Principles ... it's possible that multiple "October Surprises" could occur ... some may have already occurred ... some may be occurring as we speak ... the GOP seem to enjoy us living in fear ..... which is ... tyranny ... and tyranny is terrorizing its citizens ...

We know, for example, what a energy grid failure can do ... was what happened last year a test run? and, considering the last one was traced back to Ohio, a battleground state ... well, it's worth a thought ...

The blackout that hit the northeastern United States and parts of
Canada yesterday exposed the steadily growing vulnerability of the nation's nearly 200,000-mile network of high-voltage transmission lines, say experts. The North American Electric Reliability Council (NAERC) -- the industry advisory and watchdog group over the transmission system -- warned last year, "The nation is at . . . a crisis stage with respect to reliability of transmission grids."

David Cook, NAERC general counsel, told Congress two years ago:

"The question is not whether, but when, the next major failure of
the grid will occur."

Electricity deregulation over the past decade dramatically increased the volume of power flowing on the grids -- however, investment in transmission lines dwindled.

http://nuclearsafetyculture.freeyellow.com/GRIDFAILUREPREDICTED.htm


My concern is that there will be so many poll problems nationwide that, especially in states too close to call, that no 'winner' can be determined ... what does our history and experience tell us to do in such a situation? I'm sure Greaseman and Bush frontman James Baker and henchman Karl Rove have the process mapped out ... for whatever happens, or they MHOP ...

The BFEE and their enablers have pushed this Nation to the point of constitutional crisis more than once ... as if they have familiarized their strategies around weaknesses in our Constitution or areas of our Constitution which have yet been fully vetted or tested by precedent ... e.g., Cheney's residence in 2000, Texas v. Wyoming certainly tip-toed around Constitutional requirements for a president and vice president; and, they got away with it. Odd that at the time that Cheney was registering to vote in Wyoming, he, also, was serving as a Trustee for the Poppy Bush Presidential Library Foundation, where his residence was listed as "Texas" ...... don't worry, he's not a Trustee this year ... so, they've cleaned up their tracks ...

The biggest "October Surprise" will be if there is none.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson

Such an absence could only be preparing a future "October Surprise" hoping we let our guard down in 2008.

I won't trust the system until there are some felons and traitors behind bars ... the names are too numerous ... but, they're all out there on the stage ... and, affecting our destiny.



Notable Votescam quotes:

"I don't want to get caught up in this thing!" -- Joyce Dieffenderfer, former president of the League of Women Voters, after admitting the TV networks lied about hiring the League on election night.

"You'll never prove it, now get out!" -- Elton Davis, TV network computer programmer responsible for magically "projecting" 100% accurate vote results.

"This may be the biggest vote fraud scandal ever to rock the nation!" -- Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" upon reviewing the Votescam evidence. However, after meeting with his higher-up's, Mr. Wallace dropped the issue like a vial of Anthrax.

"When you're dealing with the networks, gentleman, you're dealing with a shadow government." -- ABC Supreme Court correspondent, Tim O'Brien, explaining why the station refused to run video taped evidence of vote fraud.

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