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RedEagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 10:55 PM
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44. AmyCrat, tell me how you would "beat" the system?
For example, the voting issue was labeled "conspiracy" just as soon as someone began looking into it and got press on it. Bingo. Put that label on it and used it from there on.

We don't control the press. Journalists don't control what they get to report.

Rebecca Mecuri and Peter Neumann spent 10 years trying to make headway on the dangers of computerized voting. They worked the "system," just like they were supposed to and got little notice.

Please tell us how to beat they system when the system is used for containment?

Follow the directions, do it properly, .... all the "right" ways of trying to make progress- tell me how to gain ground in a system that is meant to contain, delay, discourage, and empty pockets before any ground is gained?

They WANT you to follow procedure, behave like nice citizens, believe that you can work through the system, their way with their protocals, to justice.

And five years from now, when you're only half way through and the government is controlled by one party, the courts are packed, and the media is even more consolidated and "on message," what will you have gained?

Please, I need some specifics, timelines and what you expect to accomplish in the better way that you see.

After over two years, lots of evidence, and the recent multitudes of problems with the last election, the media is still not investigating, not reporting.

If we can't get the media moving on that, how are we to get them on "our side" at all?

If you have a plan, I'd like to hear it.

I'd also like to hear how you would control spin, since, I assume, you don't control the media. How do you get your message out if you can't control how the media delivers that message, won't present both sides of the issues?

How do you control spin that is used against you no matter what, how, when, where, or when you do someting?
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