Reply #104: I totally agree that Bush was a puppet. It's intersting, too, that George Schultz also met with

[Peace Patriot]

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ken Lay in a Los Angeles hotel in mid-May 2001, to arrange for Schwarzenegger to be Diebolded into the CA governor's office--in the weird recall election in 2003 (with 125 candidates on the ballot, and Time mag and Larry King giving famous actor Schwarzenegger millions of dollars in free, extra publicity), in order to protect Enron's theft of $10 billion from CA--CA's entire budget surplus (built up by Dem Gov Gray Davis). Greg Palast reported on this meeting. Of course the corpo/fascist press never mentioned it. That Recall election was the first all-Diebold election in CA, with absolutely no audit/recount controls (hardly anyone understood the technology at that point*). CA was a pre-cursor, and state level version, of what the Neo-Con, Puke fuckwads were about to do the U.S. of A.--bankrupt the country. Steal everything not nailed down. And steal all future monies unto the 7th generation. They did it to CA first.

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*(At least now we have a paper trail. Long story to that. Schultz & cabal also went after the good Dem CA SoS who was elected in 2002. The previous Puke SoS had Diebolded the state, then went to work for one of the e-voting corps. But the good SoS, Kevin Shelley, had barely had time to put his name on the door, when the Recall was sprung on us. He later became suspicious, and sued Diebold and demanded to see their source code, six months prior to the 2004 election. He also tried to get us a paper ballot backup, for '04. They drove Shelley from office--on entirely bogus corruption charges--just after the 2004 election, probably to protect the '03 Recall, and the '04 election, from any investigation, and to retain the ability to fix CA elections. Kerry won CA but by not as much as he should have, and I believe a big chunk of stolen votes went to pad Bush/Cheney's national popular (phony) majority. Also, a bunch of Pukes got 'elected' in CA. After they got rid of Shelley, Schwarz appointed a Diebold shill as SoS. We recently managed to elect a better SoS, but she is merely patching up our broken election system--for instance, enforcing a paper ballot backup rule--not fundamentally challenging it. It is still very riggable, just slightly less so than about half the systems in the country, which have no paper trail whatsoever.)