"A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy." Robert F Kennedy Jnr. BBC Newsnight

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00168.htm">BBC-TV: "Set up to steal it again." Is 2008 already fixed?

by Greg Palast

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"A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?" Well the answer is, we don't! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004,and they’re all set up to steal it again!" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight.

On Friday at 6pm and 10pm Eastern Time, BBC America will bust open the story of the systematic attack on US voters that could easily cost Barack Obama the White House.

Watch it, beginning Friday night, at www.Gregpalast.com.

Newsnight investigative reporter Greg Palast travels from the Native pueblos of New Mexico to the war-zone of the 8 Mile neighborhood of Detroit to meet some of the three million voters who have been disappeared by a GOP campaign draining voter rolls of the victims of the economic collapse.

_In Detroit, Palast is bounced out of the local McCain headquarters - housed under the black flag (literally) of foreclosure profiteers. We meet Robert Pratt, a union worker, who fears he will lose his home - and his vote. Are the Republicans turning a economic devastation into an electoral bonanza?

BBC Reporter Palast follows the path of investigation laid out by civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - encountering along the way the Republican Party lawyers, funders - and Karl Rove. The GOP charges that the Democrats have registered five million fraudulent voters, a claim backed by a recent US government report. Palast meets the report's author - who claims her words were turned upside down. And they went to court to stop her from speaking out.

Democrats don't have clean hands either, as Palast discloses: from the Acoma Pueblo, we find Natives (almost all Democrats) who've had their ballots illegally junked by local Democrats.

_But whichever party attacks the poor, it's McCain that's the winner.

_Newsnight is the British Broadcasting Corporation's premier current affairs show. Broadcast earlier this week in London, it exposed the story of the mass purge of voters in Colorado, re-reported in the New York Times.

The show will be repeated 8am Eastern on Sunday.


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Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are co-authors of "Steal Back Your Vote" the investigative comic book and voter guide - available at http://StealBackYourVote.org. Jesse Jackson says "download it - NOW!"

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[flvegan]

1. I look forward to someday casting a vote for RFK Jr for president.

[althecat]

2. Always seemed to me he would have been he ideal vice presidential candidate for this election...

Maybe he could stand for Veep in 2012, and the follow President Obama into office in 2016 once peace has been restored and the great depression of the 2nd millennium has been adroitly navigated.

:)

[flvegan]

3. Thing is, he has no "position"

He's not a Senator, House Rep, Governor, etc. They'd go after that "experience" issue.

Give him 4 years as a Senator and that, combined with that name, and he's in.

[althecat]

7. Funny how under that rubrick Pallin qualifies in terms of position....

...but RFK Jnr doesn't.

[EFerrari]

8. Maybe Americans really ARE crazy after all.

:)

[althecat]

13. So says Obelix

[Swamp Rat]

15. Yo amo Asterix!

:D

[RadicalTexan]

4. A lot of Americans wonder why Americans are so crazy

nt

[Shanti Mama]

5. and Asians.

[althecat]

6. And pacific islanders...

[asteroid2003QQ47]

9. The "stolen elections" scapegoat doesn't make Americans uncrazy! n/t

[althecat]

10. You might well say that, I couldn't possibly comment.....

Obviously there are lots of uncrazy Americans around these here parts.

[TheWatcher]

14. It's not a scapegoat.

I know, I know, it's completely incompatible with the false paradigm that you need to live in so that everything is nice and neatly organized.

Keep sleeping. Hell, at this point you're probably better off than the rest of us.

If the Final Curtain of Fascism falls in this country, at least you won't feel a thing.

[blm]

16. No - it makes previous DNCs in charge of 2000, 2002, and 2004 appear COMPLICIT

in allowing the theft in many states where they oversaw the collapse of crucial party infrastructure over the years - as in Florida and Ohio.

[althecat]

11. Good morning kick...

Wellington NZ 7.10am Tomorrow. Monday 13 October

[althecat]

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