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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 12:18 PM
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The American People are Beginning to Get It.
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The American People are Beginning to Get It.
by Ernest Partridge | Nov 14 2007


Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

And at last, the truth may be overtaking the propaganda and the lies.

In the new edition of his riveting book, Fooled Again, Mark Crispin Miller describes a public groundswell that should have Bush, Cheney and the Busheviks very worried.

Truth, having been ground to earth, is rising again.

Despite compelling statistical, circumstantial, anecdotal and eyewitness evidence that two presidential and numerous congressional elections have been stolen, this evidence has been discounted, ignored and ridiculed by the mainstream media and, amazingly, by the victimized Democratic Party and its defeated candidates and even by some progressive publications.

Even so, a sizeable and growing portion of the American public isn’t buying the official and bi-partisan assurances that the US elections are, by and large, on the level, and that the Bush/Cheney regime is therefore legitimate. For example, an August, 2006 Zogby poll reports that only 45% of the population is “very confident” that Bush and Cheney won re-election “fair and square” in 2004. About a third were “not at all confident.”

In the “Afterword” to Fooled Again, comprising one hundred pages of new material, Miller chronicles the determined and persistent resistance of “official Democrats” to the very idea that they were the victims of massive election fraud. Astonishingly, progressive publications (yes, there are still a few), such as The Nation, Mother Jones, and the liberal websites, TomPaine.com and Salon.com, have all published caustic articles debunking thoroughly researched and scrupulously argued accusations of election fraud. Familiar ad hominem rebuttals are trotted out: “get over it,” “sore losers,” “conspiracy theorists.” Far more often, the fraud issue is denied even the dignity of mention and rebuttal. With the noteworthy exception of Catherine Crier and Lou Dobbs, the issue is virtually ignored on cable “news,” and, on network TV news, the embargo is total.

Meanwhile, the evidence of fraud remains on record and it accumulates. Extreme exit poll anomalies, with final totals shifting to the GOP with statistical improbabilities of millions to one. The widespread use of unverifiable paperless “touchscreen” voting machines, secretly programmed by GOP partisans. Unsecured access to these machines. Lost, uncounted, and illegally destroyed ballots. Precinct returns in excess of registrations. (For the specifics on all this and more, read Miller’s book and visit the numerous websites devoted to election fraud. Among them, bradblog.com, blackboxvoting.org, www.votetrustusa.org, and uscountvotes.org. Caution: be sure to order the second edition of Fooled Again. Amazon and Barnes and Noble are listing the first edition).

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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 12:20 PM
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1. Conspiracy theorists...who gave them a bad name?
Themselves or the CIA?
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 12:25 PM
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2. Ya the ones who call conspiracy theorists and tinfoil hatters
makes ya wonder if they are either brainless or just hypnotized by the propoganda machine

I'm a tinfoil hatter and proud of it

:tinfoil:

Conspiracy theorist thats me and I'm damn proud of it

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zonmoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 01:06 PM
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5. as am I.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 01:20 PM
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6. yeah, I have these conversations will people who have
told me I am too paranoid, far fetched theories, etc etc etc--from the 2000 election on and now they can't believe EVERYTHING that has gone down for the last 6 years was, essentially: discussed and predicted EARLY on in our long, national, (continuing) nightmare.
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ray of light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 12:30 PM
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3. the opposition is "coincidence theorist" meaning
all these weird anomalies are just coincidences but nothing more. That means you have to put aside ALL kinds of facts in order to believe it's only a coincidence.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 12:38 PM
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4. I've noticed that most people don't understand the meaning of "conspiracy theorist"
or just how common actual conspiracies are in business and politics.
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