Reply #98: There's a tale about Paul Revere that, when he arrived in Lexington, on

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his hell bent for leather midnight ride to alert the colonists that "the British are coming," a local politico just then staggering out of the Cat and the Fiddle, took his horse by the reins, and drunkenly called up to him, "Not to worry, Paul! Don't get all in a lather. Those Brits don't mean to attack us. They're just transporting some tea to replace what we lost in the harbor!"

Not being a damned fool, Revere pushed the man off, alerted Lexington, and rode off to Concord, and into history.

We would be damned fools NOT to alert the populace that they have been ATTACKED IN FORCE by the hackers of George II, and that unpatriotic corporate criminals are WELL ON THEIR WAY to destroying the American Revolution, once and for all, with their goddamn SECRET programming!

And you can bet that there were BLIND people like you, back then, on the eve of the Revolution, who were STILL talking about "productive" discussions with the representatives of King George, and complaining that the debate was being "hijacked" by those "revolutionary firebrands" (read "Diebold people") Tom Paine, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Nathan Hale, and Thomas Jefferson.

What would Thomas Jefferson be saying about Diebold? Hm-m-m? That we're just using it as a "crutch" to explain all those bad taxes and other oppressions that we are suffering? That, if only the Revolutionaries had run a better campaign to convince the British not oppress them, maybe they wouldn't have had to overthrow them?

You have to attack oppressive rule at its heart. The heart of THIS oppressive rule is NON-TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS--in 2002, in 2004, and forevermore, if we don't stop it.

You can talk all you want about better campaigns of persuasion, and representing the majority, but if you CAN'T SEE HOW THE VOTES ARE COUNTED, you are MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO LOSE. Better campaigns MIGHT overcome the fraud by sheer numbers of votes (and I think this was true of the Kerry campaign), but you can be sure they are already working to improve their fraudulent election SYSTEM so that it can reverse massive voter rebellion.

See Bob Koehler's column on the 60/40 flipover that was just done to the Ohio ELECTION REFORM initiatives:
http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?custid=67&catid=1824.

This MUST be stopped! Without TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS, we DO NOT HAVE a democracy!