Can you guys tell me what you think of my first newsletter to friends

family? I posted it on this thread and then realized I should have posted it here. I value your opinions as a whole.

original thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=310497&mesg_id=310497

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I would be grateful fto anyone that posted the link to Conyers report for me so I can add it to the list.

Hello everybody!

Due to the recent sucesses of many citizen grassroots organizations and a few emerging Democratic leaders involved in the fight to restore our democratic process I have been inspired to write a letter to my friends and family in the hopes of providing them with legitimate information regarding the true state of this country.

Many of you already realize the threat of reinstating the draft is looming on the horizon; Social Security is being targeted as a free-for-all, get-rich-quick scheme for America’s already corrupt corporate elite; Americans are increasingly being stripped of the ability to pay for heath care and prescriptions; Government employees and ordinary citizens are threatened with job loss by the tens of thousands; The war in Iraq is not the huge success our administration keeps trying to convince us it is; Our civil rights have been and continue to be stripped bare by our administration; And whether you believe the charges or not MANY have come forward to expose the 2004 election as a complete and total failure, rife with fraud and almost completely controlled by partisan Republican owned and operated manufacturers of machines that are vulnerable to hacking and contain programs that are proprietary and can be easily manipulated. On top of all this, there is seemingly no mainstream media outlet willing to release the truth to the American public.

Many Americans have turned to the internet as their main source of news in order to try and find the truth about our situation. Unfortunately, a small percentage of the Republican party has resorted to calling these truth seekers everything from “conspiracy theorist” and “x-filers” to American “dissidents.”

While I don’t deny there are quite a few conspiracy theories flying around out there in cyberspace, I believe, the true x-filers, conspiracy theorist, etc., etc. are not the majority of “dissenters” and in fact are, in most cases, the very members of the Republican party that are making the accusations. These neo-conservatives are a nasty bunch of EXTREME right-wing Republicans and for some inexplicable reason our president seems to be up to his eyeballs in their delusional view of the world.

There is, however, a great deal of hope that American citizens and a growing number of Washington politicians are starting to have some success fighting back. While the movement has been around for many years, the first real success of this movement occurred on January 6, 2005, when Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D) of Ohio and Senator Barbara Boxer (D) of California formally objected to the certification of the Ohio electoral results and subsequently forced the Senate and House to hold a two hour debate which was publicly broadcast by C-span and woefully under-reported by the American mainstream media. This is only the second time this nation has undergone a formal objection to the results of an election. It is for this reasons that I feel it is essential to make sure my friends and relatives have the essential information and the power to join the fight to take back our democracy. The following information is a list of websites, stories, politicians, and grassroots efforts that have become the driving force behind all these efforts. The tiny blip they have produced on the American radar screen is truly

becoming a powerful force to be reckoned with. Even mainstream media has begun to recognize this fact.

History of electoral challenge:
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h221.html
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/USA/1877Comp.CP.html
http://www.factsonfile.com/newfacts/Pdfs/46271/6-01.pdf


Information on the Ohio electoral challenge:
http://www.williambowles.info/us/house_dems.html

Information on pending lawsuits and allegations regarding the 2004 election:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE501A.html
http://www.votersunite.org/info/outsourcedemocracyno.asp
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jan05/295308.asp
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/01/ale05018.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=7
http://www.stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html#media
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001122.htm
http://www.flcv.com/ussumall.html
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/
http://blatanttruth.org/
http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/


This guy deserves his own special category since he is a life-long Republican that is very willing to admit the 2004 election has not been resolved and election reform is a MUST:
http://www.chuckherrin.com/sinceyouasked.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/evotingquestions.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevoteFAQ.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/E-voting.htm



This site contains the complete congressional records. These records include transcripts of what is said and other information:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord/index.html








Contact information of all State and Federally elected officials, laws, bills, committee, PAC fund records, and much, much more can be found here:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
http://www.senate.gov/



This group led the charge for the protest on inauguration day in Washington D.C:
http://www.answercoalition.org/

(In case you missed it this was televised on C-Span and is still available for viewing there I believe. It was approximately three hours of speakers from all over the nation that are working on leading the movement for election reform, criminal prosecution of officials, ending the war in Iraq and much more.)



Information about the Iraqi “election” and opinion can be found in these recent articles:
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10330&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=455514&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312



This group is my favorite. The citizens on this site are a VERY powerful grassroots group. They have been quoted in many local and national newspapers and media outlets. They currently are the tie the binds all the other groups together.. Their letter writing, email, faxing, and other combined efforts are astounding and have been credited with being the reason Senator Boxer signed the objection to the Ohio electoral certification. Word of warning…Liberals of all kinds are represented here and they know their stuff. Some of them are more radical than others but they all seem to be able to agree and act simultaneously when it is needed. This is a fantastic website, but if you are a Republican and intend to argue with them you will be toast in a matter of minutes. Every issue you can possibly imagine is researched, discussed, debated, and acted upon within this forum. In fact since I posted this forum I have no need to post anything else. Anything you wish to accumulate more knowledge on and where it can be found is available to you through this site.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Happy hunting to all of you!

Wow! Very comprehensive list of links. (I am saving these for myself to use. Good work!)

Let us know what you get as feedback. I was telling my 76 year old mother about the election fraud issues yesterday. She hates * and believes that his people would do something like what happened in Ohio. Not everybody is so easy to convince, by a long shot. Let us know what you hear.

I'm going to bookmark this thread.