Like most of you, this is my first experience as an activist and I am learning as I go. FYI, my son informs me that in spite of its convenience, electronic petitions/mail campaigns aren't as effective as the old fashion written method. In particular, use of web-based free email addresses (e.g. hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc), because they are easily used by hackers to generate lots of "fictitious" messages, have the least impact on petitions/emails. So for electronic actions, use a "real" email address whenever possible.
First the action items.
The need for a full hearing of the House Judiciary Committee Democrats regarding the myriad "irregularities" in Ohio bears repeating. Conyers has asked for one million emails demanding a full hearing. Take action, demand a full hearing, pass it on.
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>My Message: "It is imperative that the House Judiciary Committee hold full
>hearings into the irregularities of the 2004 election. Only immediate official action by
>responsible government officials can restore voters' confidence in our democratic
>process. I am old enough to know the cost if a citizens' uprising must be waged to >secure the attention of our elected representatives. Please act NOW."
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The link to email the House Judiciary Committee Democrats is:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.htmlThe next action priority focuses on the Congressional ratification of the Electoral College vote on January 6. If one Representative of the House and one Senator contest the vote of the Electoral College, it will bar "automatic" approval of the vote. We have a Representative willing to contest, so the focus is on getting a Senator to contest the vote. The following link regards this issue. Sen. Boxer is being targeted, but I urge you to contact as many Democratic members of Congress as possible. They owe it to us, and to the country they claim to represent. They owe it to us for their cowardice in the 2000 election, and for their poor performance in the 4 years since then. Tell them that if they don't show some courage and start standing up to the extremists, we will have no reason to vote for them, and they might as well quit. It would mean that representative government is dead in this country and we are right back where we started in1773. You know what happened then.
http://www.contestthevote.org/The next action item regards mainstream media coverage of the rape of our election process. Using the following link, you can send emails to up to 391 national media outlets. Select a subject line (of ~30), start your email client, copy & paste one of two message texts (or better, write your own), put your own address as recipient and copy and paste (each set of) media addresses into the Bcc: line of the email.
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htmOn to news/developments; a real whistle blower's affidavit, Ohio affidavits of
activities by voting machine vendors in Ohio recount, ethics violation by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice, and lawsuits galore.
If any of you still doubt that this is the "next time", please check the Vanity Fair story on the 2000 election referenced in the following link.
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/12/ana04030.html
The actual Vanity Fair article (two PDF files):
http://www.goldsteinhowe.com/blog/files/VFPart1.pdf
http://www.goldsteinhowe.com/blog/files/VFPart2.pdf
I reported earlier about Clint Curtis blowing the whistle on a Florida Republican Congressman who, in 2000, had him build rigged voting software prototype, as referenced by Wayne Madsen. Madsen's conspiracy story is still shy on evidence that would cause it to be taken seriously, but Curtis' story looks very much like the real deal. Curtis testified before Conyer's hearing and was later interviewed by the FBI. His ("rediscovered") story and a new affidavit was broken by The Brad Blog. Links follow:
http://www.bradblog.com/
Actual affidavit:
http://www.rawstory.com/images/pdfs/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf
The following links all refer to the election/recount morass in Ohio:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041126155819559
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2004/12/news-election-2004-study-shows-that.html
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_14464.shtml
http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/986
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_121604Z.shtml
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=163172
http://captnjaq.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/15/62938/008
http://www.votecobb.org/recount/daily_update/
RNC whistle-blower? http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MEN412A.html
I understand that most of you cannot spend the enormous amount of time I have to dig into these matters. It is unfortunate that so many people (including relatives on both sides of my family) consider my efforts as evidence I've "gone around the bend". Now, many of these people consider themselves intelligent, well informed and would never condone massive vote fraud; but can't even take the time to read the information I've dug up and served them on a platter. The information is compelling, so I know they haven't read it or they would be questioning what happened and not my state-of-mind. In spite of the fact that I am not given to flights of fancy, am grounded in science and fact-based reality and am smarter than your average bear, it is more comfortable for them believe that what has happened is "business as usual", and that all aberrations in our nation are self-correcting. Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and the failure of so many to understand that the global tragedy that grew from very similar activities in Germany can happen here! The USA has no natural immunity to the same machinations that befell Germany.
Please help me save our country. Open your mind, help others to open theirs.
Additional targeted Senator info:
You can look up information about your own US senators at:
http://www.senate.gov.
Contact information for selected US senators follows:
Barbara Boxer, (D-CA)
http://boxer.senate.gov/contact
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-0505
Phone: 202-224-3553
Fax: 202-228-3972
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
http://byrd.senate.gov/
http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html
311 Hart Senate Office Building, Suite 2630
Washington, DC 20510-4801
Phone: 202-224-3954
Fax: 202-228-0002
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
http://clinton.senate.gov/
476 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-4451
TTYD Number: 202-224-6821
Fax: 202-228-0282
Fax: 202-228-0121
Mark Dayton (D-MN)
http://dayton.senate.gov
SR-346 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2305
Phone: 202-224-3244
Fax: 202-228-2186
John Edwards (D-NC, leaving)
http://edwards.senate.gov/
225 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC, 20510-3306
Phone: 202-224-3154
Fax: 202-228-1374
Russell D. Feingold, (D-WI)
Russell_feingold (at) feingold.senate.gov
506 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4904
Phone: 202-224-5323
TTYD Number: 202-224-1280
Fax: 202-224-2725
James Jeffords (I-VT)
http://jeffords.senate.gov/
http://jeffords.senate.gov/contact-form.html
413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4503
Phone: 202-224-5141
Fax: 202-228-0776
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
senator (at) kennedy.senate.gov
http://kennedy.senate.gov/
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-4543
Fax: 202-224-2417
Carl Levin, (D-MI)
senator (at) levin.senate.gov
http://levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
269 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2202
Phone: 202-224-6221
TTYD Number: 202-224-2816
Fax: 202-224-1388
Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)
http://leahy.senate.gov/
433 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4502
Phone: 202-224-4242
TollFree: 800-642-3193 (VT only)
Fax: 202-224-3479
Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)
http://lieberman.senate.gov/
706 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-0703
Phone: 202-224-4041
Fax: 202-224-9750
Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD)
http://mikulski.senate.gov/
senator (at) senatorbarb.com
709 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2003
Phone: 202-224-4654
TTYD Number: 202-224-5223
Fax: 202-224-8858
Barack Obama (D-IL, incoming)
http://www.obamaforillinois.com/ (then click on "Contact Us")
M114 Capitol Building
Springfield, IL 62706
Phone: 312-427-6300 or 217-782-5338
Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
http://schumer.senate.gov
313 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6542
TTYD Number: 202-224-0420
Fax: 202-228-1218
Dianne G. B. Feinstein
http://feinstein.senate.gov/
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3841
TTYD Number: 202-224-2501
Fax: 202-228-3954