Do you want someone who merely scratches the surface, or someone who gets to the heart of the matter? If you just want the former, stick with Greg; if you want the latter, read my work.
Peace, Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author http://www.truedemocracy.net the home of The Journal of History (Le verdad sobre la democracia) Click on the icon that says Magazine. The 11th edition is about election reform and has articles in it by Brian Downing Quig. Remember him? Password for 2006: message -----Original Message----- >From: Eco Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 9, 2006 9:29 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL >PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL >PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL >PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL >PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Left-leaning voters scrubbed from lists. >Mexico election. > >It is much harder to change cannabis and drug policy if these coup d'etats >continue in elections in the USA and Mexico. In Mexico we need more honest >elections and more honest voter registration and more voting machines in >poorer Mexican neighborhoods (sound familiar?) and more voting machines along >the border. Also, simple runoff election would solve many problems, too. The >Mexican election vote was divided mainly between the 3 main candidates. A >runoff election between the top 2 candidates would elect the left leaning >candidate. > > In Canada the Conservative Party only won a minority of the votes but now > its leader is the Prime Minister. The other parties to the left of the > Conservative Party had far more votes, but the lack of runoff voting, and the > screwy system for selecting the Prime Minister means that Canada also has > been taken over by the War Corporatists, Big Oil, and the Prison Industrial > Complex. > > They all kiss George Bush's butt, and want more war, more unfair trade, less > wages, no adequate increases in the minimum wage, more prisons, more wasteful > government spending, huge deficits, more pollution, more Big Oil instead of > Big Ethanol, etc... > > > From the July 8, 2006 Guardian article below: > "As we found in Florida in 2000, my investigations team on the ground in > Mexico City this week found voters in poor neighbourhoods, the left's turf, > complaining that their names were "disappeared" from the voter rolls." > > > -------July 8, 2006 Guardian article begins---------- > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1815601,00.html > > > Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat > >There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key >electoral lists in Latin America > >Greg Palast > >Saturday July 8, 2006 > >The Guardian > > > There's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling > party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party (Pan), proclaimed > yesterday their victory in the presidential race, albeit tortilla thin, was > Mexico's first "clean" election. But that requires we close our eyes to some > very dodgy doings in the vote count that are far too reminiscent of the games > played in Florida in 2000 by the Bush family. And indeed, evidence suggests > that Team Bush had a hand in what may be another presidential election heist. > > Just before the 2000 balloting in Florida, I reported in the Guardian that > its governor, Jeb Bush, had ordered the removal of tens of thousands of black > citizens from the state's voter rolls. He called them "felons", but our > investigation discovered their only crime was Voting While Black. And that > little scrub of the voter rolls gave the White House to his brother George. > > Jeb's winning scrub list was the creation of a private firm, ChoicePoint of > Alpharetta, Georgia. Now, it seems, ChoicePoint is back in the voter list > business - in Mexico - at the direction of the Bush government. Months ago, I > got my hands on a copy of a memo from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, > marked "secret", regarding a contract for "intelligence collection of foreign > counter-terrorism investigations". Given that the memo was dated > September 17 2001, a week after the attack on the World Trade Centre, hunting > for terrorists seemed like a heck of a good idea. But oddly, while all 19 > hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, the contract was for > obtaining the voter files of Venezuela, Brazil ... and Mexico. What > those Latin American countries have in common, besides a lack of terrorists, > is either a left-leaning president or a left candidate for president ahead in > the opinion polls, leaders of the floodtide of Bush-hostile Latin leaders. > It seems that the Bush government feared the leftist surge was up against the > US's southern border. As we found in Florida in 2000, my investigations > team on the ground in Mexico City this week found voters in poor > neighbourhoods, the left's turf, complaining that their names were > "disappeared" from the voter rolls. ChoicePoint can't know what use the Bush > crew makes of its lists. But erased registrations require us to ask, before > this vote is certified, was there a purge as there was in Florida? > Notably, ruling party operatives carried registration lists normally in the > hands of elections officials only. (In Venezuela in 2004, during the special > election to recall President Hugo Chavez, I saw his opponents consulting > laptops with voter lists. Were these the purloined FBI files? The Chavez > government suspects so but, victorious, won't press the case.) There's > more that the Mexico vote has in common with Florida besides the heat. The > ruling party's > hand-picked electoral commission counted a mere 402,000 votes more for their > candidate, Felipe Calder�n, over challenger Andr�s Manuel L�pez > Obrador. That's noteworthy in light of the surprise showing of candidate > Se�or Blank-o (the 827,000 ballots supposedly left "blank"). We've > seen Mr Blank-o do well before - in Florida in 2000 when Florida's secretary > of state (who was also co-chair of the Bush campaign) announced that 179,000 > ballots showed no vote for the president. The machines couldn't read these > ballots with "hanging chads" and other technical problems. Humans can read > these ballots with ease, but the hand-count was blocked by Bush's conflicted > official. And so it is in Mexico. The Calder�n "victory" is based on a > gross addition of tabulation sheets. His party, the Pan, and its election > officials are refusing L�pez Obrador's call for a hand recount of each > ballot which would be sure to fill in those blanks. Blank ballots are > rarely random. In > Florida in 2000, 88% of the supposedly blank ballots came from > African-American voting districts - that is, they were cast by Democratic > voters. In Mexico, the supposed empty or unreadable ballots come from the > poorer districts where the challenger's Party of the Democratic Revolution > (PDR) is strongest. There's an echo of the US non-count in the > south-of-the-border tally. It's called "negative drop-off". In a surprising > number of districts in Mexico, the federal electoral commission logged lots > of negative drop-off: more votes for lower offices than for president. Did > L�pez Obrador supporters, en masse, forget to punch in their choice? > There are signs of Washington's meddling in its neighbour's election. The > International Republican Institute, an arm of Bush's party apparatus funded > by the US government, admits to providing tactical training for Pan. Did Pan > also make use of the purloined citizen files? (US contractor ChoicePoint, its > Mexican agents facing arrest > for taking the data, denied wrongdoing and vowed to destroy its copies of the > lists. But what of Mr Bush's copy?) Mexico's Bush-backed ruling party > claims it has conducted Mexico's first truly honest election, though it > refuses to re-count the ballots or explain the purge of voters. Has the Pan > and its ally in Washington served democracy in this election, or merely > Florida con salsa? � Greg Palast is the author of Armed Madhouse: > Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08 > and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War >gregpalast.com > > > --------end of Guardian article-------- > > > -------------- > > >MMM (Global Million Marijuana March): >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction >Newsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36: >"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died >in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that >suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' >and 'blunt force injuries.' ... A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal >broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi >support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. >Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ------------------------ Yahoo! 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