Rapid Response Alert: Lies and Limpness

Sent to reporter Noam Levey, LA Times, and Oregonian:

Dear Mr. Levey,

Thank you very much for your story on the controversy over electronic voting machines, which I read in today's Oregonian. This has been a neglected topic and I hope very much the Times and the Oregonian will continue to cover it.

However, I think the problem is far more serious than you paint it in this article. It is not just "alleged" that electronic voting machines are unreliable and vulnerable to hacking--this is a fact that has been demonstrated multiple times. There were more than just "scattered problems" in the 2004 election--in Ohio alone there were many serious issues, not just related to the electronic machines malfunctioning but also related to voter registration and disenfranchisement of black voters. Also, I would hope to see a fact check or an opposing comment regarding the quotes from Diebold executives characterizing the demand for a paper verification of one's vote as resistance to technology. (Even ATMs provide a paper receipt--why not voting machines?)

No, I am not claiming that the elections were stolen or that there was an organized conspiracy to hack the machines. But I do feel very strongly that a privatized election system, with software that is not subject to public oversight, and machines with documented reliability/security issues, is not acceptable and is a threat to our democracy.

Please keep up the reporting on this crucial issue. Thanks very much!

That's a smart letter. Sometimes there is a way to go on the offensive, if there is a handy reference for prosecuting argument.

LINK example

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&fo...

Coalescing Evidence of Massive Voter Registration Fraud in Ohio 2004

More and more evidence continues to accumulate that Voter registration fraud was responsible for a great deal if not the total Bush vote margin in the 2004 Presidential election. The latest evidence comes from Mark Crispin Miller, as documented in his recent book, “Fooled Again – How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They’ll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)”. Added to previously existing evidence, the evidence presented by Miller makes it all but incontrovertible that massive voter registration fraud was a major factor ...

Until the newspaper can defend the official election false totals, and rebut the arguments in the book, (or whatever reference document has evidence and argument), until disproven the reasonable conclusion is a fact to state -- election fraud makes Bush illegitimate in office, and stated as fact -- the newspaper (piece) is a lie.

Harbored Republican felons groups all the people labelling themselves 'conservative' Bush-friends, who defraud USA and extort taxpayers' money, hanging together in one 'pinata bubble' which faces the continuing threat of any vigilante citizen mob that wants to kill traitors.

That is worded to sound harsh, even terrifying, to say that Bush-conservatives face the continuing threat of being wrongfully killed by mob-riot Americans. The GOP is a huddle writing a list of lies together. Lowry is one of them. Reinhard is another one of the Bush bubbleheads, and I copied from him the threatening violence-to-his-group tone of words, like Reinhard copied the threatening violence-to-Americans tone of voice that Bush (and Reinhard) acidly throw in the faces of 'constituents,' as Reinhard (1/5/06) re-runs "Bush said" (1/2/06), his 'nation ... faces the continuing threat of an enemy that wants to kill American citizens.'

I and ordinary Americans hate the illegitimate poserdent who dwells ad nauseum on imagined threats in his mind to scare his fellow citizens to death. And Reinhard repeats the fear-stabbing words. (And Lowry repeats the fear-stabbing words.) In YOUR face, Reinhard, in YOUR faces Bush-pushers, YOUR LYING WORDS right back at you as individually threatened with death by unseen murderous stalkers targeting your group GOP.

Destitute street mobs'll be the judge of whose necks are severable, .may . . be. . .yours, liar Reinhard. I mean, 'bub.'

Two completely imaginary spectres -- lies -- phantasmagoria -- drive the Bush-pusher whack-worded speechifying: 9/11 and al'Qeida. (Multiple spellings defeat searches from finding all references; and multiple 'possible answers,' or 'possible culprits,' is the trademark of confusion for intelligence subterfuge, always.)

This time, I elucidate the al'Qeida lie. Al'Qeida, means 'base' and is a short form of the Arabic words al'Q eidat ilmu'ti'aat meaning 'database.' The word 'al'Qeida' first circulated among computer programmers logging a list of names of Middle Eastern activists, mostly religious conservatives (Muslim), mostly mercenary military, collected in Afghanistan / Pakistan affairs, for the CIA in 1980-89's armed conflict in that region.
[LINK]
______Al Qaeda -- the Database
by Pierre-Henri Bunel, November 20, 2005

Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan ...

" ... two files were kept in one file called in Arabic 'Q eidat ilmu'ti'aat' which is the exact translation of the English word database. But the Arabs commonly used the short word Al Qaida which is the Arabic word for "base."

"In the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in computer and dedicated to the communications of the Islamic Conference's secretariat.

"In the early 1990s, I was a military intelligence officer in the Headquarters of ..." - -snip- -

Al'Qeida is not a group that meets like the Boy Scouts or the church congregation. Rather, al Qeida is a list of names in a computer database, like a list of newspaper subscribers and with about as much 'meeting' in groups. In large measure, al'Qeida is simply, wholly, the Afghani / Pakistani population census data. Base.

That's truth. Reinhard, (Lowry, Bush-pushers) intentionally avoids true wording, uses false word lies on purpose, to get readers looking for a phantom floating in the smoke and mirrors face-on, then (1/5) sinisterly insinuates there's "al-Qaida types," and "communications," (basely referring to the Afghanistan phonebook), following that in craft-a-lie cadence with citation of a (12/28/05) "Rasmussen Report" false poll, saying '2-out-of-3 people see the scary deathmask monster furious . in . your . FACE !' It's a lie.

So al'Qeida is a list of names, mostly past CIA operatives or assets. The other conjured ghost too, 9/11, is a hoax. Cheney did it: mass-murdered 3000 Americans. If that sounds curtly conclusive to your ear, it is no different from hearing repeated the flat-out lie that '19 fanatical hijackers' out of a vague group "that wants to kill American citizens" did it, mass-murdered 3000. People repeat it, from others who repeat it, from others who repeat ... back to what must be assumed is someone who saw it, although no passenger with a hijacker name bought a ticket, had a reservation, or checked in at the boarding gate, according to airline paperwork records. I repeat what I say -- Cheney did it: mass-murder -- from reading a book documenting the evidence substantiating that conclusion. (Crossing the Rubicon:, by Michael C. Ruppert.) Cheney should say which evidence, if any, falsely accuses him.

I endorse the Rapid Response network tactic of 'firing back' counterpoints to lies. It should only take a central supply of counterpoints copied to all involved blogs, to foil the traitorous 'GOP conservatives' doing the same thing: Neo-con Center supplying Talking Points copies into computerized scripts of puppet columnists -- Reinhard, Lowry, et al..

And all those 'et alii' who are paid to 'catapult the propaganda' in mass media, their names and records of their lying and the counterpoints of truth against them, are collected in a central powerhouse of Rapid Response data, (that would be 'Talking-back Points,' I suppose), based at Media Matters.org The blogosphere's own Q eidat ilmu'ti'aat, you could say.

Rapid Response Network sites might all keep Media Matters for America in their reference LINK lists. Here as an example, is a compilation of Top 12 media myths and falsehoods on the Bush administration's spying scandal. A rapid Rapid Response for the newspaper's daily lying NeoCon columnist, could simply copy-and-paste a listed torpedo for each subterfuge, as fast as the paper sinks itself in its ink. Without even needing to name the GOP stooge who scribed the frights that day.

In passing glance it seems Reinhard was 2-for-12 and Lowry was 6-for-12, if that's the ranking system for anti-societal misfits. Scoring for each deceit plagiarized, in Media Matters' list of 12 Bush-pusher lies, media myths and falsehoods:
1: Timeliness necessitated bypassing the FISA court
2: Congress was adequately informed of -- and approved -- the administration's actions
3: Warrantless searches of Americans are legal under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
5: Only Democrats are concerned about the Bush administration's secret surveillance
etc.

But even tit-for-tat tug-of-war, fighting copy-and-paste with copy-and-paste burning all the media oxygen, can never settle the stalemate after the initial moves to hide the 9/11 crime evidence, (one ground zero pit foreman says, under oath, he witnessed federal agents remove blackbox cockpit recorders, into Top Secret hiding, e.g.); nor budge the blame, after precluding diplomacy, for the bloody moves into Iraq behind known and blatant lies by Bush-pushers; nor can we resolve the political corruption, ultimately, until the proposition of debate is moved and does stand.

The first step goes to the proposition. Hiding under 'GOP conservative' garb and gab is essentially this: Proposed: That American foreign policy declare impolitic military empire to control any and all crude oil on Earth, or other natural resources. The proponents are the cons. The taxpayers for the appropriations of empire have never in deliberative body established the proposition. The Bush-pushers have planned and acted the proposition not lawfully established, as foreign policy, in which they committed war crimes and Constitutional harms.

Some refined overviews present examination of absolute corruption in empowered political partisans, their plans and acts, dating from precedents more than 60 years ago and since involved in, (really, consumed in), global politics singularly of the proposition. With links to the overview political tracts, Debative Response might veritably arrest the misbegotten stealth premise of rightist subversion, in its credo to false representation, from which and covering which the tangled web of lies extends and extends further, now in daily mass media. Where Rapid Response burns to cauterize those tips.

Rapid linking together -- packaged Response and Propose, words for the day and words for the way -- is a mechanism to amass the gravity that eventually pulls thinking voters to the set side of the proposition, and takes the balance. (I've known thinking people who tried not thinking for a spell, and they mostly went back to thinking; I've known not-thinking people who got to thinking, and none of them ever went back.)

This 'amassing the gravity' idea is why this comment is so massive. Introducing this LINK to the briefest thorough overview I have seen, (excerpt below), aligning ALL the inexplicable or unnatural events of these many years with one consistent purpose tracing back, pre-1945, in the designs of the people at the time of unleashing atomic force.

A sketchy narrative of how politics led We, the American, into this situation today, may see the supremacist fascism partisan, that mastermind dementia, did not die with Hitler, and in tens of thousands of Germans emigrated from their devastated land into American living and production, came the designs capitalized and resurgent, in new ways with new means, for the proposition
That American foreign policy declare impolitic military empire to control any and all crude oil on Earth, or other natural resources.

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[ . Global Research.canada . ]
The Anglo-American War of Terror: An Overview
by Michel Chossudovsky, December 21, 2005

Paper presented at the Perdana Global Peace Forum 2005
Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14-17 December 2005

The debate regarding war and Militarization raises the broad issue of national sovereignty.
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Concluding remarks

The so-called "War on Terrorism" is a lie.

Amply documented, the pretext to wage this war is totally fabricated.

Realities have been turned upside down. Acts of war are heralded as "humanitarian interventions" geared towards restoring ‘democracy’.

Military occupation and the killing of civilians are presented as "peace-keeping operations."

The derogation of civil liberties under the so-called "anti-terrorist legislation" is portrayed as a means to providing "domestic security" and upholding civil liberties.

Meanwhile, the civilian economy is precipitated into crisis; expenditures on health and education are curtailed to finance the military-industrial complex and the police state.

Under the American Empire, millions of people around the world are being driven into abysmal poverty, and countries are transformed into open territories.

U.S. protectorates are installed with the blessing of the so-called "international community." "Interim governments" are formed. Political puppets designated by America’s oil giants are casually endorsed by the United Nations, which increasingly performs the role of a rubber-stamp for the U.S. Administration.

Reversing the tide of war can not be limited to a critique of the US war agenda. Ultimately what is at stake is the legitimacy of the political and military actors and the economic power structures, which ultimately control the formulation, and direction of US foreign policy.

While the Bush administration implements a "war on terrorism", the evidence (including mountains of official documents) amply confirms that successive U.S. administrations have supported, abetted and harbored international terrorism.

This fact, in itself, must be suppressed because if it ever trickles down to the broader public, the legitimacy of the so-called "war on terrorism" collapses "like a deck of cards." And in the process, the legitimacy of the main actors behind this system would be threatened.

How does one effectively break the war and police state agendas? Essentially by refuting the "war on terrorism" which constitutes the very foundations of the US national security doctrine.

A war agenda is not disarmed through antiwar sentiment. One does not reverse the tide by asking President Bush: "please abide by the Geneva Convention" and the Nuremberg Charter. Ultimately a consistent antiwar agenda requires unseating the war criminals in high office as first step towards disarming the institutions and corporate structure of the New World Order.

To break the Inquisition, we must also break its propaganda, its fear and intimidation campaign, which galvanizes public opinion into accepting the "war on terrorism".

Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best seller "The Globalization of Poverty " published in eleven languages. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization which hosts the critically acclaimed website: www.globalresearch.ca . He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.