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Posts: 735 11/03/08 23:55:51	Tags : None On the eve of this historic election November 4th 2008, this is probably the last message I will send out before America as we know it changes significantly. There's a strong possibility we will will have our first African American president who wins by a landslide and with that victory a number of important messages will be sent. Some will see his victory as the start of a new stage in this country's imperialist endeavors. This time the slave is now sitting at the head of the table still owned by the slave master. In short, Obama will be the new handsome Black face in charge of the empire. His ascension will have millions buying back into a system that they were distancing themselves from. If such is the case we will have our work cut out for us. We can not allow that to happen. Not on our watch and not in our name. Others will see an Obama win as the start of a new era. It'll be the changing of the guard as new, young, energized voters eked out a victory in spite of the odds. Those in power will be angry and vengeful and we may experience a backlash of sorts as those who were once counted out and marginalized will quickly have to learn how to deal with winning and at the same time not get too caught up in themselves and the situation because much work is needed to be done and there will be a bunch of seething folks in both high and low places gunning for us. I was talking with Bun B last night and he told me how he was seriously concerned how in places like Jena, Louisiana, Paris, Texas, Beaumont, Texas and other areas an Obama win might really result in physical attacks jumping off by those who could never stomach a Black man running the country. Racism is real and in a date and time where the economy is falling to pieces folks are looking for a scapegoat, why not take it all out on so called 'elitist Negroes' and who throw dollars bills at TV cameras in their videos and win the white house. Are we prepared for that anger? Will it come in the form of a one on one confrontation or a domestic terrorist attack where the perpetrator never gets caught? It won't be the first time Black neighborhoods were bombed and we found ourselves under massive attack. Talk to the folks in Tulsa, Oklahoma when Black Wall street was destroyed in the early part of the 20th century. Or talk to the folks in Philly in the early 80s when a Black mayor sat in office while a devilish white police chief named Frank Rizzo dropped a bomb destroying a city block. Hell look at how we dealt with places like Grenada, Haiti and other places where we tried to step it up and assert our independence. Look at all the former Panthers and other freedom fighters languishing in jail and still being hunted down 30-40 years after the fact. What the hell, just look at Sean Bell or Amadou Diallo. The racist Minute men organization which is rooted in the White Power movement announced that they will be monitoring the polls in San Diego today. Where's the outrage from our elected officials? Where's the assurance to our Brown, brothers and sisters that they have nothing to worry about? And while Latinos are contending with Minute men in San Diego, Black folks are dealing with so called fundamentalist Christian and family value type cats who wanna demand all sorts of IDs and proof of residence or even citizenship as has been the case in Georgia while they themselves go untouched and unchallenged. If McCain somehow wins, you can expect widespread anger and distraughtness as people will become forever cynical not just in American politics but even in the world around them where they felt that somehow, some way, someday wrongs would be righted. An Obama loss especially if it appears to be under shady circumstances may have us all questioning everything around us and resulting in many just checking out for good. Who knows what will go down tomorrow. One thing I will say is that come tomorrow all of us will have to grow up and be forever responsible for our destinies. Our parents have just lost their life savings have seen their respective worlds come apart as we have just witnessed the biggest hiest in history by those we allowed to be in charge. We have folks who are guiding the ship, completely drunk with power to the point that they have become nihilistic and unless we step up and fight shit will negatively impact us for the next 20-30 years. Tomorrow is not simply about McCain or Obama, its about you. Its about us. It's about the first step we take to a new beginning or the last step we take a dead end we can't escape. Will there be long lines today at the polls? Will there be drama? Will there be uncouth and over the top behavior? Will there be major inconvenience? Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes. But we should endure this and promise ourselves that this will never happen again. It will be our challenge for this point in time. 40 years ago, our folks were enduring bullyclubs, firehoses and beat downs from police and vigilantes. Their hope was to bring about a better tomorrow. Their mistake was letting down their guard and celebrating the minor victory of a voting rights bill being passed and not the long term victory of seriously controlling the power at hand. Its not about just putting Obama into office its about claiming a victory and putting our collective feet down to a bunch of madness that needs to cease once and for all. If Obama wins tomorrow don't take that victory and squander it by not rising up and being the leaders that the world has been waiting for. Do not sit back and call it a day and go back to ignoring the politics, economics and social systems of our society. Time for us to seriously step up and own that victory. If he loses do not take that defeat lying down. Read the article and below by Greg Palast and understand this is about power and who ultimately controls it.. Davey D Nov 4th 2008 It's November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the "Bradley effect": Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack Obama turned up with 6 million votes less than calculated from the exit polls. Florida came in for McCain and so did Indiana. Colorado, despite the Democrats' Rocky Mountain high after the Denver convention, stayed surprisingly Red. New Mexico, a state where Anglos are a minority, went McCain by 300 votes, as did Virginia. That's the nightmare. Here's the cold reality. Swing state Colorado. Before this election, two Republican secretaries of state purged 19.4 percent of the entire voter roll. One in five voters. Pfft! Swing state New Mexico. One in nine voters in this year's Democratic caucus found their names missing from the state-provided voter registries. And not just any voters. County by county, the number of voters disappeared was in direct proportion to the nonwhite population. Gore won the state by 366 votes; Kerry lost it by only 5,900. Despite reassurances that all has been fixed for Tuesday, Democrats lost from the list in February told me they're still "disappeared" from the lists this week. Swing state Indiana. In this year's primary, ten nuns were turned away from the polls because of the state's new voter ID law. They had drivers' licenses, but being in their 80s and 90s, they'd let their licenses expire. Cute. But what isn't cute is this: 566,000 registered voters in that state don't have the ID required to vote. Most are racial minorities, the very elderly and first-time voters; that is, Obama voters. Twenty-three other states have new, vote-snatching ID requirements. Swing state Florida. Despite a lawsuit battle waged by the Brennan Center for Justice, the state's Republican apparatchiks are attempting to block the votes of 85,000 new registrants, forcing them to pass through a new "verification" process. Funny thing: verification applies only to those who signed up in voter drives (mostly black), but not to voters registering at motor vehicle offices (mostly white). And so on through swing states controlled by Republican secretaries of state. The Ugly Secret Here's an ugly little secret about American democracy: We don't count all the votes. In 2004, based on the data from the US Elections Assistance Commission, 3,006,080 votes were not counted: "spoiled," unreadable and blank ballots; "provisional" ballots rejected; mail-in ballots disqualified. This Tuesday, it will be worse. Much worse. That's what I found while traveling the nation over the last year for BBC Television and Rolling Stone Magazine, working with voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This we guarantee: there will be far more votes disappeared by Tuesday night than the three million lost in 2004. A six-million vote swipe, quite likely, shifts 4 percent of the ballots, within the margin of error of the tightest polls. Begin with this harsh statistic: since the last election, more than ten million voters have been purged from the nation's vote registries. And that's just the start of the steal. If the noncount were random, it wouldn't matter. But it's not random. A US Civil Rights Commission analysis shows that the chance a black voter's ballot will "spoil" or be blank is 900 percent higher than a white voter's. Does that mean the election's stolen and you should forget voting and just go back to bed for four years? Hell, no. It means you vote and vote smart, learn how to pry their filthy little hands off your ballot (there's a link at the end). How to Steal an Election in Five Easy Steps Here's how they can pull off the steal. Take out your calculator and add it up. Step One: The "Dumpster" Vote - Purge Voters, Provisional Ballots Ten million voters purged? What the hell is going on here? Why are we removing millions from the voter rolls? The answer is the GOP's secret weapon, the Help America Vote Act, signed by George Bush in 2002. When Bush tells us he's going to help us vote, look out. But Democrats didn't. They signed on to the GOP bill, believing this "reform" law would prevent "another Florida." Instead, "Help America Vote" Floridated the entire nation. Here's how: Help America Vote empowered secretaries of state to remove fraudulent and suspicious voters from the voter registries. It was the trick used by Katherine Harris in Florida in 2000 when she purged "felon" voters. Except they weren't felons. And now her GOP confrères are doing it in dozens of states, calling folks felon voters, "inactive" voters, suspect voters, whatever. Take Colorado. The GOP didn't exactly trumpet it's erasing 19.4 percent of voters' names. It was, as detectives say, "hidden in plain sight," buried deep inside a US Elections Assistance Commission administrative report, among tables of mind-numbing stats through which I was trawling some months ago. (I used to teach statistics at Indiana University, so I enjoy reading matrices like others enjoy novels. ) For BBC TV and Rolling Stone, I asked the current Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, "Why all the purging?" No answer, not a word, stonewalled even when I flew into Denver and stood outside his door. He was, I guess, too busy preparing to count his own votes as Republican candidate for Congress. So, where are the Democrats? That's the really scary part. I spoke with Paul Hultin, appointed by Colorado's Democratic governor to the state's Election Reform Commission. Hultin's a terrific attorney. He knows, and says, that Help America Vote was a law "born in corruption," but he's spent his time on Colorado's voting machines, which he knows are busted. He's the Democrats' expert, and he didn't know that a fifth of his state's voters had vanished from the voter rolls. Well, don't worry. Hultin's official committee will be holding hearings on the voting debacle in Colorado ... on November 19. Then there's New Mexico, with those one in nine Democrats missing. I spoke with San Miguel County elections supervisor, Democrat Pecos Paul Maez, who was none too happy that 20 percent of his voters, the majority poor and Hispanic, were not on the voter rolls, especially because he was one of the missing. He blamed the state for using a suspect contractor to tag names for the Big Purge, as required by the Help America Vote Act. The contractor that conducted the New Mexico purge, Electronic Systems and Software (ES&S), was founded by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. The company and state choose the purging "algorithms," those mathematical formulae that, depending on how you tweak them, can go through a voter roll like a hot knife through cream cheese. So, what happens to the purged voters? They're told to scram when they arrive to vote or, if they squawk, they get a "provisional" ballot on which they can pretend to vote. Now, here are the facts about provisionals: they don't get counted. And there are lots of them. The great unreported story of the 2004 election was that there were more than three million voters shunted to provisional ballots. Over a million (1,090,000) were never counted, just chucked in the dumpster. That's what caused Kerry to lose New Mexico, Iowa and Ohio. This time, because of Help America Vote and a Republican campaign to challenge voters, the number of provisionals will rise, as will rejections. Whatever keeps you from getting a real ballot - purged name, for example - keeps you from having the provisional counted as well. That's because Democrats won the right of every voter to get a provisional ballot, but not the right to have that ballot counted. And how many will go uncounted? Double the 1.1 million loss in 2004 - not just because of the GOP's purge-mania, but because of a vicious little codicil in Help America Vote that went into effect since the last election ... Step Two: "Verification" (and Elimination) of New Voters For the first time in US history, new voters will face special new obstacles to voting. When we say "new" voters, let's be clear - we mean Obama voters. A Wall Street Journal poll shows new voters prefer Obama by an eye-popping three to one (69 percent to 20 percent). So, the Republican game plan is simple: don't let new voters vote. There are three steps to this block-and-steal tactic. First, under the new law, states can deny new voters registration on the grounds their names can't be verified against government data files. Sounds reasonable, but it's not, because we don't have Soviet-style citizenship files in the US. The Social Security Administration is rejecting nearly half of the names submitted because there is no multi-state compatible tracking system. Of course, the Republicans know that. New voter verification losses are huge. In California, a Republican secretary of state rejected 42 percent of new registrations, a trick discovered by his Democratic successor, Debra Bowen. She told me most of the rejected vote applicants had Hispanic, Vietnamese, Islamic and other "odd" names - odd, that is, for Republicans. It used to be that you filled out a registration card and, bingo, you were registered. Not any more. That's also what happened in Florida to the 85,000 new registrants. They were victims of strict "matching" algorithms. Other states are also playing the "match" game. The result is voters will find themselves simply missing (or in some states, required to show extra ID - another horror show we'll discuss below). But don't worry, a of couple million new voters will get provisional ballots. That way, they can practice filling out their ballots for the day when democracy returns to America. Step Three: New ID Laws Karl Rove said, "I go to the grocery store and I wanna cash a check to pay for my groceries I gotta show a little bit of ID. Why should it not be reasonable ... at the voting place they ought to be able to prove who they are by showing some form of ID." And so, while buying his Pampers, Rove came up with a game-winner for the GOP. Karl, let me answer your question. The reason, according to several studies by the Bush administration itself, is that lots of folks don't have government ID. Some are nuns, some are poor, lots are brown or old. I was on Fox TV with Lady Rothschild a couple of weeks ago. The lady, a McCain supporter, approved of the ID requirement - and was truly surprised to find out that some poorer Americans don't have passports. "Why don't they?" her Fox-mates asked, incredulous. Well, not every barrio kid has just returned from his estate outside London. Rove knows that. He certainly knows that, for example, Professor Matthew Barreto of the University of Washington found that 10 percent of white voters in Indiana don't have the needed ID. And, for blacks, it's about double - 19 percent lack the ID required to vote. New ID laws will add to the turn-aways, provisionals and rejecteds on Tuesday by at least two million - and that's way conservative, assuming the new laws in swing states are only one-fourth as restrictive as Indiana's. Step Four: Spoiling Ballots Your chad gets hung. The touch screen doesn't like your touch. Or, your paper ballot had that extra mark that made the machine spit out your ballot like day-old beer with a cigarette floating in it. In the last election, 1,389,231 ballots were zeroed-out, "spoiled," because the machines lost them, couldn't read them, mangled them or simply didn't register them. But it's not random, not by a long shot. In New Mexico in 2004, I found that 89 percent of blank and spoiled ballots were cast in minority precincts - a sum of uncounted ballots way over the Republican "victory" margin in that state. Another study shows that Hispanics' vote choices are six times as likely to fail to be recorded when they vote on computers versus paper ballots. In the primaries and in 2006, the "spoilage" and blank ("undervote") totals were horrific. There is every reason to believe the "spoilage" total will be as high as in the 2004 election. That is, no less than one million votes, overwhelmingly in minority districts, will just vanish. ("Spoilage" is not the same as vote tampering. There is the concern that "black-box" computers will switch your vote via an evil software hack job. That's another matter completely - and more votes lost if it happens, a sum I'm not including here. ) Step Five: Rejecting Mail-In Ballots You've mailed in your ballot. Last time around, over half a million mail-in ballots were junked: everything from postage due to not liking your signature to a circle checked, not filled in. Mailing in a ballot is playing Russian roulette with it. About a tenth get junked. This time, the GOP has a new game for trashing your absentee vote. In states like Florida, some FTFs (First-Time Federal voters) will have to include a photocopy of their ID in with the absentee ballot. Bet you didn't know that. They're counting on you not knowing that. In Florida, for example, you have to place the ID photocopy outside the inner envelope, but inside the outer envelope - Got that? - or your vote is toast. I've spoken to one student voter, who lost his vote for failing to use the two envelopes - though he only received one. (Have a mail-in ballot in hand? Then, for God's sake, walk it in to the polling place or local board of elections. Sign, seal and deliver it in person. ) You may get it right, but historic data suggest that, when combining the FTF games with the usual mail-in cock-ups, Obama will lose another million votes to mail-in disqualifications. Exit Polls and Exit Stratagems These millions of uncounted ballots - spoiled ballots, provisional ballots rejected, absentee ballots disqualified - fully explain the difference between exit polls (which, for example, gave Kerry Ohio in 2004 and Gore a win in Florida in 2000) and the official count. Exit pollsters ask, "Who did you vote for?" They never ask, and can't know, "Did your vote count?" How would they get away with it? Well, they begin explaining away how the "pollsters" get it wrong, how pollsters didn't figure the "Bradley Effect" of lying, racist voters. They'll tell us the new, young and Black Obamaniacs gave money, went to rallies - but never bothered to vote. But the real reason will never be whispered: They cast votes that just weren't counted. Will the election be stolen on Tuesday? No, it's already been stolen. That is, several million voters are doomed to lose their ballots; most won't even know it. Overwhelmingly, they are the poor, minorities, new voters - Obama voters. Does that mean McCain's got it in the bag and you're helpless? Not at all. Don't Steal Your Own Vote In 2004, I and other investigators wrote, long before Election Day, "Ohio's stolen." We were deadly right. It's happening again. For six years, the Democratic Party has been snoozing through a quiet, brilliantly executed Republican operation to block, stop and purge voters by the millions. As New Mexico voting rights attorney John Boyd put it, "I don't think the Democrats get it. All these new rules and games are turning voting into an obstacle course that could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states. " Karl Rove once said, "We have elections like those run in countries where the guys in charge are, you know, colonels in mirrored glasses." He wasn't complaining; he was boasting. I know that the Obama campaign is not happy that I bring up the issue of a possible theft of the election. They fear voters will be "discouraged" by the possibility that the election is fixed. Well, frankly, if you're too bummed out by this recitation of facts and statistics to vote, then maybe you don't deserve to vote, or to drive or to reproduce. Did Martin Luther King say, "I have a dream ... so I'm going back to sleep"? Votes can't be saved by "hope" alone. There are simple ways to protect your own vote, from walking in your "mail-in" to refusing a provisional ballot. (You can download the list at StealBackYourVote. org, written with Bobby Kennedy, a professor of law. ) It comes down to this: Can the margin of trickery, vote suppression and ballot destruction - three to six million votes - be overcome? Yes. Because they can't steal all the votes all the time. Two days before the election, John McCain is down by only 4 percent in some polls. But these are polls of "likely" voters. They exclude first-time and many low-income voters. So, the answer to vote suppression is for something unlikely to happen - for the "unlikely" voters to simply overwhelm the statistical assumption of their laziness. As I'm sure Mr. Obama, a professor of constitutional law, could tell you: the best legal response to systematic vote suppression is to get off yo' ass! -------- Greg Palast is the co-author of "Block the Vote," in this month's Rolling Stone Magazine, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Palast and Kennedy are also co-authors of the investigative comic book, "Steal Back Your Vote. " Palast, who reports on election fraud for BBC Television, is a Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation fellow for investigative reporting. Prior to his becoming a journalist, Palast was a forensic economist, fraud investigator and taught economics and statistics at Indiana University. palast@gregpalast. net Return to Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
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Posts: 4 11/04/08 08:42:04	I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS...
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Critical Eye	Thanks for the article Davey and Greg. . .	#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 21 11/04/08 18:19:38	Hello Bro. Davey D and the Davey D audience: Thanks always for what you do, and also for sharing the truths from Tim Wise and Greg Palast. Those are two White Men I gotta give mad props to, especially Greg Palast: he walked up into the offices of Database Technologies in his documentary, "Bush Family Fortunes", and shoved a list of purged Black names, in the face of one of the head honchos. For those of y'all that don't know, Database Technologies was one of the companies contracted by Bush & Co. (namely former Senator-turned Board of Elections head, Katherine Harris) to falsely classify tons of Black Florida residents as felons, thereby stealing their votes. Upon seeing that list, Greg was asked to get the cameras out and was kicked out. It didn't matter though, because Greg had his evidence and showed and PROVED it thoroughly. Tim Wise has also gotten up in the face of white supremacy racism and those that espouse it. If this was the 1800s I'm sure they'd roll with John Brown at Harpers' Ferry, and the enslaved Africans he helped arm in their insurrection. Which leads me to my next point: with all due respect to you, Davey, Bill Maher, and several others, how can we actually be called guilty of allowing something to happen which we had not the slightest amount of control over in the first place? In other words, how can we be rightly accused of voting for, and electing in, the racist and lapdog lackey dumbasses we've had in office for the last 8 years (or the last 400 for that matter - yes, I went there) if it was largely attributed by our votes being stolen by forces that we do not own, operate, control, or have the ability to COUNTER with armed protection? Last time I checked, WE do not own Database Technologies, Choicepoint, Diebold, and the other voting companies that make the voting software and machines that is used to turn elections into SElections; we do not have our own armed forces to ensure that our votes won't be stolen or that our collective interests are actually heeded to by this two-faced, seven-headed, fork-tongued octopus beast (and when I speak of armed forces, I'm NOT talking about the Navy, Air Force, Army, or Marines, but something more along the lines of what M-1 and SticMan have talked about several times in their rhymes and interviews), WE do not run the supreme KKKourt (Clarence Thomas doesn't count), WE do not run the eleKKKtoral KKKollege, and the other forces and offices in on this whole presidential SElection scheme. Now, while we do own some of the blame, let's be real: these "mishaps" (I call them that because I don't believe they are mishaps, but DELIBERATE ACTS) that happen with voting machines, and votes do not happen in a vacuum, and neither did our situation in this country. What solution should we look towards or come up with? Personally, and I know this may sound idealistic, maybe we should get those of us together with the right mindset, and come up with our own system of government. Quite frankly, I really have no more patience for a system that refuses to rehabilitate itself and have no patience for people that do not see the interests of me, mine, us, and we as valid human interests. I have no patience for a system that will never really admit to, and repent itself of, the atrocities it has and STILL commits in this continent and the world, and then forces a candidate to quickly denounce someone who speaks the truth about said atrocities - and before some of y'all jump to the conclusion that I didn't vote, slow your roll: I voted for Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente. Why? The reasons are several, and I'm not going to list them now, as I'm already gotten really long-winded. Anyway, unlike the 2-party system, Cynthia and Rosa aren't funded by corporations and are not afraid to hold a mirror up to the ameriKKKan establishment in regards to how ameriKKKa has acted toward its own and others on the globe. Now, while some may call me a dumb ass for voting for those two, I really don't give a damn. I've always marched to a different drummer, from preschool, through kindergarten, high school, college and up to now and never once have I been fixated on that popularity contest bullshit. Sorry for my profanity, but that's how I feel, and before some of y'all get pissed at what I stated, asked yourself this: besides you getting upset, what's worst: what I've said or the conditions that exist, and more significantly, one of those conditions being a unwritten mandated mindset stating that thinking, critical analysis, knowledge, and the application of those things, is illegal? Hmmmmmmmm. . . Last Edited By: Critical Eye 11/06/08 23:45:45. Edited 1 time.
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