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Alizaryn

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Thu Dec-09-04 01:14 AM
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OUR PLEA TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Edited on Thu Dec-09-04 01:57 AM by Alizaryn

(continued from the IDEA thread)

If I heard the committee today correctly they attempted to communicate the absolute necessity for us to:

1.) Remain vocal and energetic
2.) Express our views regarding the situation in Ohio and the election system in general to the "other" members of the government who have chosen to ignore or dismiss the issue.
3.) Continue to gather FACTS regarding irregularities.
4.) Encourage the media to cover the facts of the situation, in hopes to at the very least embarrass those ignoring the issue to become involved.

What if….

Since the MSM is not covering the situation as strongly as they reasonably should be, my proposal is for "us" to compose a press release type synopsis of the irregularities, the response by our government (The Conyers’ Forum with refusals of the republican members to attend), the coverage or the Ukraine Election irregularities by MSM vs. their coverage of our irregularities.

We could then swamp the foreign press sources with this "press release" asking for help. I find it hard to fathom how our MSM and those republicans dismissing this issue could rationalize the world becoming our watchdog while they sleep.

This might just be what the committee meant when "mentioning" the possibility of embarrassing the sleeping majority party into action.

Ideas?

This is the letter we came up with so far.

Dear Friend,

This is awkward but we need to ask for your help. Many of us are frustrated and coming up short on getting the “free press” in our country to cover the travesty that is being called a fair election in our country (some wonder if they have been silenced). No, we are not from the Ukraine, the Ukraine’s election irregularities receive ample coverage here, we are citizens of the United States of America. The 2004 election was contaminated.

The situation we now find ourselves in is one where the Democratic Head of the Judiciary Committee has formed a group with other congressmen to objectively examine the irregularities the citizens of the nation have communicated to them. Representative Conyers is a brave man as are his colleagues. Today they held a forum “ Judiciary Democratic Forum Preserving Democracy - What Went Wrong in Ohio” in Washington DC. Many statements were gathered regarding: Voter intimidation, Exit Polls vs. Actual Vote Numbers, (Same thing our administration had such a fit over in Ukraine), Citizens being disenfranchised through allocation of polling machines, Faulty election machines and areas where Election observers and the press were locked out from being able to view the counting due to claims, later proved untrue, that the FBI and Homeland Security had declared the area a high risk. These are a few of the statements, there are MANY more.

We are saddened to say that not one Republican committee member joined the process to listen to the people’s voices although Representative Conyers invited them.
We are saddened to say that not one Main Stream Media Station covered this forum, and thankful to CSPAN and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC for doing so.

The recount in Ohio will begin soon and many investigators feel that there is a real chance for the final total to show that the wrong man conceded. In addition, election fraud is suspected, and evidence for this fraud will be part of the litigation that is being filed in Ohio. The committee formed by Representative Conyers has promised to go to Ohio and hold hearings however, without the Republicans joining the effort the perceived legitimacy of the hearings will be weakened. Without the MAINSTREAM media covering it, ir will be difficult to force the Republicans to be accountable to this process. Then they (Republicans) and much of the public the will ignore the whole situation. This situation is dangerous, not only with respect to the integrity and validity to the results of this election, but also to all future elections in our country. OUR DEMOCRACY IS IN CRISIS... therefore our plea to your journalists.

We need your help to look at AND research the story and use your free press to speak for us while our press sleeps.
Further, we need your help to use your free press to ask why it is that this current administration in the United States can find the election process in the Ukraine abhorant, yet choses to ignore potentially widespread election irregularities in the United States.

We need your help if you can find it within yourselves to give. If you have any questions or need for information we will be glad to help.

Sincerely,

(A link to Rep Conyers Committee and a decent list of some irregularities) http://www.independentmediasource.com/
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/index.html

http://www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml

Vote Integrity Under Reported Articles
http://www.independentmediasource.com/election_art_1128...

113 articles (so far) with permanent links to the full article . It starts on 11-2, and ends ? (I update it nearly daily).

Voting Fraud Resource Center
http://www.independentmediasource.com/evotingfraud.htm
A lot here, but no time to update all the pages, since the email blasters you find on this site consume most of my time.

Pay particular attention to the:
Voting Fraud - Web sites page
http://www.independentmediasource.com/evotingfraud_webs...