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http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html

On the 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Washington Monument, BushFlash's Eric Blumrich has released, "Grand Theft America." The two-minute flash animation stars Katherine Harris as the leader of the gang that purged Black citizens from Florida voter rolls by the thousands, handing the White House back to the Bush family. Watch it, download it, pass it on at http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html

Plus: Yes! Magazine is publishing Palast/Howard's latest warnings on the computer virus known as "Dubya," programmed to disenfranchise Black voters before the 2004 election. Here's a taste of it ...

LYNCHING BY LAPTOP
by Greg Palast and Ina Howard

At the dais, Martin Luther King spoke with the marchers: “We ask a simple question. Do African Americans have the right to vote in the United States of America?”

We have to blink. Speaking is Martin Luther King THE THIRD, son of the late Nobel Laureate—and the year is 2003. Meeting in Birmingham in May, in the run-up to the 40th anniversary celebration of his daddy's "I Have a Dream" speech, King was warning that the man in the White House was hacking the computers - and the result is a legalized attack on the Black voter that could steal away 40 years of blood, sweat, tears and civil rights victories.

In 2002, with little public notice, Congress passed and the president signed the “Help America Vote Act.” When the Bush family wants to "help" us vote, look out. Hidden behind the apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time-bomb.

The new law to “Help America Vote” will eat up $3.9 billion of taxpayers’ money, partly to tempt states and counties to adopt computerized ‘touch-screen’ voting. Why is King worried? The first elections with computers produced vote-count horror shows that make one yearn for hanging chads. In 2002, Comal County, Texas, tried out new computer voting machines—and three Republican candidates each won their respective offices with exactly 18,181 votes. “Isn’t that the weirdest thing?" County Clerk Joy Treater asked at the time. “We noticed it right away, but it is just a big coincidence.”

Just down the road in Scurry County, Texas, two unexpected landslide wins for Republican candidates struck election clerks as just one coincidence too many. That county’s clerk, Joan Bunch, investigated and found that a "faulty" computer chip had caused the county’s optical scanner to record Democratic votes as Republican instead. After two manual recounts and one electronic recount using a replacement chip in the scanner, the Democratic candidates were found to have won by large margins and the original results were overturned.

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Click in, sign on … to ML King’s voting rights petition at http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition.cfm?itemid=14993

Get a printable, mail-in version of King’s voting rights petition at http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=228&row=1

http://www.gregpalast.com/

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1. lets do it the old way

if they did'nt have so much shit piled on these ballots we could just make a x and it would be over , now everything from xmas to thankgiveings is on the ballot , i hate to go vote anymore , but i do , these dam people have made voteing just a confusing as doing our taxes

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2. flash animation kick

if you like this flash animation - kick this thread for others

http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html

BushFlash's Eric Blumrich has released, "Grand Theft America." The two-minute flash animation which 'stars' Katherine Harris as the leader of the gang that purged Black citizens from Florida voter rolls by the thousands

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3. one last kick

"Grand Theft America" two-minute flash animation stars Katherine Harris

http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html