116 posts tagged “government”
A grand jury in Texas indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The official website of US President-elect Barack Obama for his transition to the White House, www.change.gov, went online on Thursday inviting users to offer their ideas for the future of the country.
Please sign this petition! If you're having problems voting and feel your voting rights were violated go to The Election Violation Report Site and file a report. A list of telephone numbers by state is available at NASS's State Voter Hotlines
Sign the online petition at http://www.iacenter.org/stopvotersuppression
Online Petition Text:
To: President Bush, Senator McCain, Governor Palin, Attorney General Mukasey, Governors of Key States, Congressional and Republican Party leaders and members of the media
In the days leading up to a historic election, there has been a massive, illegal attempt to suppress votes, particularly among the poor, communities of color, and students.
These tactics include:
--In Ohio, the Republicans attempted to illegally challenge the registrations of 200,000 new voters.
--Voters, like in West Virginia counties, have reported that electronic voting machines visibly changed their vote to John McCain when they tried to cast their vote for Barack Obama.
--Students in Colorado, Virginia, and South Carolina were told that they would lose their scholarships and that their parents could no longer claim them as dependents on their tax returns if the students voted in their college towns.
--In Georgia more than 50,000 voters were improperly purged from the voting rolls, a clear violation of federal laws that prohibit massive purging within 90 days of an election. Approximately 4,500 of them have been wrongly identified as “non-citizens”.
--In Indiana, Republican officials filed a lawsuit to close down early voting sites in three key Indiana cities—Hammond, Gary and East Chicago. Indiana’s population is only eight percent Black, but Black voters are heavily concentrated in the three cities targeted by the lawsuit.
--In Florida, Ohio, Nevada, Virginia and Wisconsin, right wingers are using the Jim-Crow practice of 'caging,' where they send out mass mailings to low-income neighborhoods. If the letters come back unopened, then those voters are challenged at the polling place.
These are just a few of the tactics that have come to light in the recent period which are part of an ongoing pattern of racist disenfranchisement--an illegal campaign to deliberately deprive people of the hard-won right to vote.
I demand:
• Stop police intimidation of voters.
• Keep polls open until everyone has the opportunity to vote.
• Full emergency staffing of polling places to meet the widely-expected massive turnout.
• STOP all voter suppression – count all ballots.Make your voice heard NOW!
Sign the online petition and send a strong, clear message to the White House, Congress, Governors of Key States, and the media.
You can sign online at http://www.iacenter.org/stopvotersuppression
I've been watching the news for the last few days (or maybe the last week) and frankly the fact that any intelligent idea actually gets out and discussed in the national media seems far-fetched and impossible. According to right wing talkers/news outlets, Obama is a socialist and that's bad. Unfortunately, the real socialists are the Republicans.
TOKYO (AFP) – The next US president, be it Barack Obama or John McCain, should get to work immediately to jump-start Middle East peace talks, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said here Thursday."Whoever will be the next president of the United States, whether Mr. McCain or Mr. Obama, they must immediately engage and continue their engagement and no time should be wasted," Erakat told reporters.
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video testimonial from Vince Peppard, another San Diegoan who faced trouble
from border agents. Peppard said he was stopped at least 20 miles inside the
border on a return trip from Mexico. He refused to open his trunk "on a matter
of principle" and was detained for about 30 minutes."I didn't feel like I was in
the United States," he says. "I felt like I was in some kind of police
state."The ACLU posted a video of Peppard on YouTube:
Everyone agrees that we need cheaper, better, easier care for everyone. You know it. The guy heading to the White House knows it. Congress knows it. But knowing and doing aren't necessarily neighbors in Washington, D.C.
Yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported on the Republican voter registration outfit who had allegedly been illegally changing thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican.
Last night the head of that GOP backed group, Mark Anthony Jacoby of Young
Political Majors (YPM), was arrested by the California State Election Fraud
Taskforce and Oxnard, CA Police.According to CA SoS Debra Bowen's press release, Jacoby himself had
committed voter registration fraud and perjury by lying on his own voter
registration form. (That's similar to what Ann Coulter did, though she
not only committed felony voter registration fraud, she also committed actual
voter fraud, as well, even though such fraud is exceedingly rare.)
Bowen's press release, just out, on Jacoby's arrest follows in full...
Try Bush for murder
Vincent Bugliosi lays it out
You can make this happen.
Charlotte Dennett is running for Attorney General of the State of Vermont.
If she wins, she will use her office to indict George Bush for the murder of the citizens of Vermont who were killed in his fraudulent war.
You can support her efforts here:
http://www.charlottedennettforattorneygeneral.com
Forget impeachment.
Try Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and all the rest for murder.
Former LA Deputy District Attorney, who successfully prosecuted, dozens of murder cases, makes the case that George Bush is indictable for murder.
Any state or city that had a citizen killed in the course of the Iraq War is eligible for pressing charges and bringing these lying psychopaths to justice.
This is not a pipe dream. The law exists to indict Bush and his co-conspirators on murder charges the minute he is no longer president.
Nothing could possibly be more important for the future of this country than to bring these criminals to justice.Indict Bush for murder
Florida's governor says his fellow Republicans may be exaggerating claims of voter fraud. Crist said in the closing days of any campaign "there are some who sort of enjoy chaos." There may be more of that going on than fraud, he said.
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