- "This thing is bigger than both of us, baby. We
knew it all along."
- -- "Bigger Than Both of Us," Beier
and Kane (2000)
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- Here - let me be the first to say it: The Ron Paul R3volution
is dead.
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- No, that isn't the end of it. In fact, it
is just the beginning. The real beginning. Let me also be the
first to say, "Long Live the Revolution!" I have written
before as to why it must be so.
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- I haven't given up on Ron Paul, but I admit to having
been convinced by him that he cannot become America's President. It took
a long time. I don't know how often I've heard him tell reporters or interviewers
that his followers "have cured (his) skepticism." I wince
each time, because I know he doesn't mean it. Too bad.
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- Yesterday, Dr. Paul issued a statement that
he would not challenge the obvious (my word, not his) vote fraud that took
place in New Hampshire (and Iowa, for that matter). "I
am convinced that vote fraud played no role in this result," said
Dr. Paul. I'd like to think that simply was his diplomacy talking. Problem
is, this is no time for diplomacy.
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- A manipulation of 2 or 3 percentage points, which is
all that statistical analysis shows is likely to have occurred,
would make little difference to the outcome, putting Dr. Paul ahead of
the execrable Rudy Giuliani but still trailing Huckabee, Romney and McCain
(there is one web site with analysis suggesting Dr. Paul would
finish third). However, demanding that the record be set right would have
made all the difference in the world to those of us who knew it was coming.
Knew it because we've seen it happen before - in Ohio last time, in Florida
the time before that and in too many places to be counted, all places where
the Diebold electronic voting machines hold sway.
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- The outcry began almost immediately, when members
of a single family who voted lockstep for Ron Paul found, the next
morning, that their entire community had tallied precisely zero votes for
him. And theirs is not the only community in New Hampshire saying the
same thing. Even so, one can infer manipulation from variations between
pre-primary and exit polls and the final vote, of course. As noted, variation
from the poll figures took place only in those New Hampshire
counties in which Diebold machines were used. Elsewhere, the final (hand-written
and hand-tabulated) votes tracked almost perfectly to the pre-primary and
exit polls.
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- You have to wonder: Without all the pre-primary dirty
tricks (phony polling, stacked "debate" questions, debate
exclusion, debate marginalization, false media, no media, ridicule by other
candidates and questioners) and with an honest vote count, might Dr.
Paul actually have won New Hampshire outright?
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- Obama - Less of a Loser Than You Might Think
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- Even more badly aggrieved (and strangely silent on the
issue of vote fraud) was Democrat Barack Obama, whose victory in New Hampshire
blatantly was stolen for Hillary Clinton in precisely the same manner as
was Dr. Paul's placement stolen. Where the votes were hand written and
hand counted, Obama won, consistent with his pre-election and exit
polling. Only in the Diebold-counted counties did things turn around -
and so dramatically that the final result overall was a bare win by Clinton.
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- Pre-primary polls showed Obama winning with 38% to Clinton's
30%. Normally super-accurate exit polls were a little different, with
Obama at 39% and Clinton up to 35%, which exactly matched the results reported
by precincts doing hand counts of hand-written ballots. Diebold precincts
turned it all around: 40% for Clinton and 35% for Obama, thereby allowing
Clinton to edge Obama 39% to 37% with the overall totals. Just like George
Bush pulled it out, time and again, eight years ago and, yet again, four
years ago. Now you know why Hillary Clinton has been getting special briefings
from the White House and why Bush I and Bill Clinton are such hard and
fast pals.
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- I have explained before why they will not allow
Obama to win this thing, even though the CFR has him in hand. Obama's
sudden show of broad-based voter support makes it highly possible, if not
likely, that he would defeat any of the current Republican front-runners
in next year's election. Can't have that, of course. Never will
Hillary Clinton defeat even the third-rate "leaders" now vying
for the Republican nomination, so it is going to be another Republican schlep sworn
in as, perhaps, America's last President.
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- Needed: A Boston Diebold Party
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- It could have been so much different.
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- Challenge the New Hampshire results and prove the
vote fraud in little towns where voters can testify in numbers greater
than were recorded for Dr. Paul. Show it to be more than a simple "transfer
error" on the part of a couple of clerks. Turn us loose to protest
it. Sue everybody in sight, especially Diebold. File suit in upcoming
states to force paper ballots that can be audited. Demand that the US
Supreme Court immediately assume jurisdiction upon proving any irregularity,
no matter how small.
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- Boston Tea Party? Hell, let's have a Boston
Diebold Party! A little civil disobedience is just what we need
at this time. They can't manipulate machines at the bottom of lakes, rivers
and bays, after all.
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- Do the things I have outlined and we all would be in
it for the long haul. What's more, exponentially we would increase our
numbers through the outrage thereby generated. We could have swept through
the rest of the primaries, gaining strength and momentum with each stop.
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- Auditing - Just Another Word for Pointless
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- I have a Master's degree in Accounting. I have done
accounting auditing. I took an extra year at Cal Berkeley and very nearly
double-majored with a Master's in Information Science (computers), as well.
I have worked as a Systems Analyst, designing and fixing complex computer
software systems. I understand what is involved with computer auditing.
Auditing these Diebold-based elections is pointless.
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- It doesn't matter if the two minor candidates now demanding
recounts get them. How do you audit electrons that are long gone? The
machines, well recognized to be sloppily designed and security nightmares,
can be checked over. The programming can be checked if you get the source
code (which Diebold will not release). The memory cards can be verified.
But, there is nothing to audit. Once you change the vote inside the machine,
there is no record, either internal or external, of that change. In accounting
terms, there is no "audit trail."
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- A change can be forced by original programming, by external
command via modem (yes, the machines are accessible by telephone line),
by a flash-memory-based program that physically is in and out of the machine
in less than a minute, leaving no trace, and by other means even more arcane.
The point is: With Diebold voting machines,there is nothing to recount.
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- So why do I think it is such a mistake for Dr. Paul not
to have demanded a recount? Because the statistical inconsistencies and
the testimony by voters whose votes got cast for other candidates would make
a difference, open the dialogue in the public eye and provide a basis for
legally challenging the machines. Because the US Supreme Court is the
ultimate political creature, an order disallowing Diebold machine usage
in the face of growing public outrage is not at all out of the question.
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- Did you know that the Diebold voting machines are made
in Israel? Did you know that an Israeli company was in charge of tallying
the Iowa caucus results? Did you know that Israel, like the Council on
Foreign Relations, has blessed every Presidential candidate except Ron
Paul and Dennis Kucinich (Kucinich is one of the fellows demanding a recount
in New Hampshire)? Make of those facts what you will. I'll save what Imake
of them for another day.
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- You Could'a Been a Contender
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- Here's the message you just delivered, Dr. Paul: If
you will sit still for vote fraud in New Hampshire, you will tolerate it
elsewhere, too. Besides, your post-New Hampshire primary statement made
clear your intent to be satisfied with merely helping to set the agenda
for the remainder of the contest. You never thought you
had a chance, but we knew you did. You could'a been
a contender. No - you could have beenPresident.
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- If you are content merely with influencing the campaign
dialogue from here on out, then you seriously misread those of us out here
in the trenches. We didn't come to be satisfied with second place, even.
If Ron Paul does not become our President, then we have lost. What's
more, we have lost our last chance to work within the system.
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- The powers that be seem not to have gotten the message
(about our working within the system just this one, last time), in light
of the obvious vote fraud that took place in both Iowa and New Hampshire. They
will learn, too late, what a monumental mistake that really was.
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- Though correcting the New Hampshire result may not seem
to be worth the effort, had we immediately raised holy hell about the vote
fraud, filing lawsuits left and right, calling press conferences, demanding
recounts (using the money we already gave) and organizing protest rallies,
possibly we could have salvaged this campaign.
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- Now that they know they can get away with it, they are
going to keep manipulating votes through the Diebold machines, guaranteeing that
we lose. At least, by drawing the line in New Hampshire and anywherethat
questionable vote counts emerged, we could have gone down swinging for
the bleachers.
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- No More Money Bombs
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- There will be no more "money bombs." Had you
taken even second place in New Hampshire, Dr. Paul, then all the money
you possibly could spend - ever - would have been made available
to you. All without asking, just as you have not had to ask before. Had
you actually won New Hampshire, as some think you could, if only
you had you spent all the money we gave you so far, we now would
be discussing how best to keep them from killing you, but that no longer
is an issue. I'm glad for that, at least.
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- I will hear none of this carping about paid election
staff members, either, which has been going on for some time. Dr. Paul
chose them. Dr. Paul chose to keep them in place. Dr. Paul would be the
first to accept full responsibility for their failings.
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- Make no mistake: We still love you, Dr. Paul -
and we always will. You didn't break our heart by failing to give it your
all, but now there isanother crack in it. That is nothing, compared
to what so many others before you have done, however. We'll get over it.
We always do.
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- You really should have committed 100% to your own "R3volution,"
Dr. Paul, because we believed enough for you, too. Together,
we could have moved mountains. Together, we could have changed America.
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- Long Live the Revolution
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- But, we still can change America and change
her we will. And you still will be the grand old man of the New Revolution,
Dr. Paul. You were there at the beginning, after all. The times picked
you for us, as they always have picked their own agents of change. But
you no longer are setting this beast's agenda. It has taken on a shape
and a mind of its own now. It will pick up speed and choose new leaders
as it mows down everything in its path. The times make the men, after
all is said and done, not the other way around.
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- Let them disallow Ron Paul a level playing field. Let
this play out and let them screw him every which way they can, with vote
fraud, phony polling, stacked "debate" questions, debate exclusion,
debate marginalization, false media, no media, ridicule by other candidates
and questioners, recount trace kickover, etc. That merely will serve to
open the eyes of those who have chosen to support him and, thereby, greatly
increase our number.
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- Based upon reports I have received from those attending
big-city rallies, rallies that the controlled media does not report, things
are moving a bit faster, even, than I long have anticipated. I always <http://www.defensiveracism.com>thought
and said that it will take obvious and widespread economic carnage
and pain - plus our government actually shooting us down in the streets
- before Americans get up off the couch and demand real change.
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- Already, though, the demand for real change can be heard
bouncing off the canyon walls in New York City and Chicago and wherever a
critical mass of these too-young Ron Paul "meet-up" supporters
assemble: Neocons out! Change now! Listen carefully. Can
you hear it building in the distance? I can!
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- Itz coming!
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- New America. An idea whose time has come.
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- My name is Edgar J. Steele. Thanks for listening. Please
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