Reply #9: Any decent, trustworthy newspaper would have fired this crew long ago.

[Peace Patriot]

They let a "Mata Hari" who was conspiring with the Bush junta publish lie after lie on the front page of the NYT throughout the leadup to the Bush assault on Baghdad in which one hundred thousand innocent Iraqis died from the initial bombing alone.

Now this--conspiring to keep this criminal gang in office!

What they have done is in fact far more disreputable even than the above. It is false to think that any issue robbed Kerry of the election. How he got robbed is in the story they black-holed--the Bushite corporate takeover of our election system, during the 2002-2004 period, in which extremely insider hackable electronic voting systems were installed throughout the country--vote recording and tabulation systems run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls.

That was a fascist coup. And I can only think that these sons of bitches were in on it. Why didn't they warn American voters of the egregious violation of the security of our election system by pals of the Bush junta at Diebold and ES&S? What happened to our Democratic Party leadership during that period? What happened with election officials around the country, who were lavishly lobbied with junkets to the Beverly Hilton and bribed and lured by the power of secrecy, creating a culture of secrecy, collusion, and privatization thoughout our elections? And what of the main engineers of the Congressional bill that provided a $4 billion electronic boondoggle that would corrupt our election system from one end of the country to the other? Tom Delay and Bob Ney--both now resigned in disgrace over bribery scandals! The so-called "Help America Vote Act" was passing over Bob Ney's desk at the same time as the Abramoff bribes.

Where is investigative reporting in this country? Where is journalism? What the hell's wrong with these people?

And here are some other things they never warned us about...

DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and

ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things).

These are the people who "counted" 80% of the votes in this country in 2004! And you heard not one breath of this tremendous scandal in the NYT or anywhere in the war profiteering corporate news monopoly press.