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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 04:49 PM
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368. Please consider an article that focuses everyone's...
...attention on the fact that our ability to express our intent and be assured that our intent is recorded accurately, does not exist.

Rather than focus on 'proof of fraud' or 'proof that the election was stolen'; why don't you and your colleagues focus, first, on the real story -- none of us has a clue what happened to our vote.

Why not focus on the fact that our participation in OUR franchise is 'the bunk' -- the core of our Constitutional rights, our contract with each other in the formation of our government has systematically been rendered invalid. We have no clue what happened to our vote; we have no clue who accesses the central tabulating systems in each county in each State.

Why not focus next on the fact that we have SoS Powell and Senator Lugar and others claiming fraud in the Ukraine based on exit polls and yet, with analysis from Freeman, now extended by TIA to 16 US States, either a miracle happened sometime between ~ 6pm EST on 2 Nov and ~ 1am on 3 Nov 2004, or we have had widespread 'vote mis-tabulation.'

By tightly linking the above, one can offer a compelling suggestion, in headline format to every reader of both major and local newspapers , namely "Prove My Vote Counts, Now -- Why Not?"

It is not a matter of 'if fraud happened.' It is not a matter of 'was the election stolen.' No, what all of you should be writing is the real story -- We have not had a valid election because the means to validate it to each citizen of the franchise intentionally has been avoided.

The real story, the story that is not just analysis but what great and vital journalism must bring to our current Constitutional crisis -- a plea to act now to save our Constitutional contract of how We The People form our union with one another must be protected, now, before it is extinguished.

That's the real story -- the story to call "Halt and Audit"; the story to call all citizens to the defense of their Constitution; the call to all Americans to exert their sole and sacred authority to defend the American branch of the franchise of Democracy -- that's the story all of you should have been writing since 3 Nov 2004.

If you don't want to write it, then how about just cutting and pasting the above and publishing it. No pride of authorship on the part of this citizen -- just tag it 'an American."

"It's about America" -- currently on life support and in need of immediate, heroic treatment.
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