November 21, 2004 7:39 p.m. PST
Hello Dear Friends and White Knights,
It looks like some of us are not the only ones who have realized the "Bush regime" has tried to "fix" their second presidential election. The similarities of election fraud carried out in Ohio this month to the election fraud carried out in Florida four years ago are too many to be ignored.
Below are two articles addressing the Ohio issues and below these articles, a very good review of the "2K Coup" which put Bush Jr. into the White House. I remember a few years ago I suggested people read this "2K Coup" by John Dee, but numerous people were not ready to face the facts a few years ago. John Dee tells us that a man, who served under President Ronald Reagan and VP Bush Sr,. actually wrote a "handbook" on how to carry out a political coup. John Dee teaches us some valuable lessons about how political coups can be pulled off and how the Bush family pulled off the "2K Coup". Perhaps someone will write a similar in-depth report about the same tactics giving Bush the Ohio electoral vote this year.
The numbers of officials who are resigning from the Bush government makes one wonder what Bush has planned for a second four years, but it certainly cannot include good news for Americans or the world's people. My sources say Bush Senior is insisting that "hardliners" replace those who are "resigning". This means only one thing: the Bush family is planning even worse things for Americans and the world if Bush Jr. is allowed to stay in the White House.
This is the ideal time to bring NESARA to announcement. The greater the fraud found in Ohio, the better; the blatant fraud is a great motivator for those who have the ability to move NESARA forward to announcement. As the truth is uncovered in Ohio, it adds fuel to those who want Bush removed and to those who support NESARA.
NESARA Now!
Blessings and Love,
Dove of Oneness
Executive Director,
NESARA Take Action Teams
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111604W.shtml
Recount in Ohio a Sure Thing
t r u t h o u t | Press Release
Monday 15 November 2004
Green Party Campaign Raises $150,000 in 4 Days, Shifts Gears to Phase II
WASHINGTON -- November 15 -- There will be a recount of the presidential vote in Ohio.
On Thursday, David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 presidential candidate, announced his intention to seek a recount of the vote in Ohio. Since the required fee for a statewide recount is $113,600, the only question was whether that money could be raised in time to meet the filing deadline. That question has been answered.
"Thanks to the thousands of people who have contributed to this effort, we can say with certainty that there will be a recount in Ohio," said Blair Bobier, Media Director for the Cobb-LaMarche campaign.
"The grassroots support for the recount has been astounding. The donations have come in fast and furiously, with the vast majority in the $10-$50 range, allowing us to meet our goal for the first phase of the recount effort in only four days," said Bobier.
Bobier said the campaign is still raising money for the next phase of the recount effort which will be recruiting, training and mobilizing volunteers to monitor the actual recount.
The Ohio presidential election was marred by numerous press and independent reports of mis-marked and discarded ballots, problems with electronic voting machines and the targeted disenfranchisement of African American voters. A number of citizens' groups and voting rights organizations are holding the second of two hearings today in Columbus, Ohio, to take testimony from voters, poll watchers and election experts about problems with the Ohio vote. The hearing, from 6-9 p.m., will be held at the Courthouse, meeting room A, 373 S. High St., in Columbus. The Cobb-LaMarche campaign will be represented at the hearing by campaign manager Lynne Serpe.
A demand for a recount in Ohio can only be filed by a presidential candidate who was either a certified write-in candidate or on the ballot in that state. Both Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik will be demanding a recount. No other candidate has stated an intention to seek a recount and no other citizen or organization would have legal standing to do so in Ohio. The Cobb-LaMarche campaign is still exploring the possibility of seeking recounts in other states but no decision has been made yet.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/
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Ohio Voters Tell of Election Day Troubles at Hearing
By Reginald Fields
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sunday 14 November 2004
Tales of waiting more than five hours to vote, voter intimidation, under-trained polling-station workers and too few or broken voting machines largely in urban or heavily minority areas were retold Saturday at a public hearing organized by voter-rights groups.
For three hours, burdened voters, one after another, offered sworn testimony about Election Day voter suppression and irregularities that they believe are threatening democracy.
The hearing, sponsored by the Election Protection Coalition, was to collect testimony of voting troubles that might be used to seek legislative changes to Ohio's election process.
The organizers chose Ohio because it was a swing state in the presidential election as well as the site of numerous claims of election fraud and voter disenfranchisement.
"I think a lot of us had a sense that something had deeply went wrong on Nov. 2 and it had to do with the election process and procedures in place that were unacceptable," said Amy Kaplan, one of the hearing's coordinators.
Kaplan said the hearing gave everyday citizens a chance to have their concerns placed into public record.
Both a written and video report on the hearing will be provided to anyone who wants a copy, especially state lawmakers who are considering mandating Election Day changes, Kaplan said.
Many of the voters who testified were clearly Democrats who wonder if their losing presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, was able to draw all the votes that were intended for him.
"I call on Sen. Kerry to un-concede until there is a full count of the votes," said Werner Lange of Trumbull County, who claimed that polling places in his Northeast Ohio neighborhood had half the number of voting machines that were needed.
"This caused a bottleneck at polling stations, and many people left without voting," he said.
Others said they were testifying not on political grounds but out of concern for a suspicious election system that should be above reproach.
Harvey Wasserman of Bexley said he tried to vote absentee with the same home address he has used for 18 years but was told he couldn't because his absentee application had the wrong address.
"But the notice telling me I had the wrong address arrived at the right address," he said. "I wonder, how many of these absentee ballots were rejected for no good reason?
"My concern is not out of the outcome of the election," Wasserman said, "but that this could go on and an election could be stolen. And we simply can't have that in a democracy."
http://www.lumpen.com/coup2k/framer.html?pg=1
COUP 2K
By John Dee
It was the Republicans who first bandied the term "coup d'etat" to describe the 2000 presidential election. Jack Kemp, Dole's running-mate in 1996, flat-out called Florida Supreme Court rulings that ordered the votes should be counted a "judicial coup d'etat." The theme was soon echoed in a chorus that included Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and other right-wing propagandists.
Since then, observers ranging from Studs Terkel 1 to the London Observer 2 have turned the tables and labeled the Bush victory a coup. But how much of this is merely rhetoric?
During the election crisis, the absence of "tanks in the streets" was often cited as a sign that however wacky things were, democracy was still intact. And indeed, the popular conception of a "coup d'etat" is of a violent uprising, usually by the military, with shooting in the streets, mass arrests, secret executions and torture. Sometimes even the presidential residence is blown to smithereens.
In reality, this perception of coups is somewhat mistaken. Strictly speaking, that sort of military overthrow is more characteristic of a "putsch." Coups are often a different breed of covert action altogether, and often much quieter.
In fact, much of what we just witnessed not only matches historical examples from the CIA's past history of election rigging and outright overthrows, but can be found in a respected coup "manual" authored by a one-time advisor to President Reagan. While a detailed analysis of the election along these lines would easily fill an entire book, here are some key points for consideration.
What is a Coup d'Etat?
One of the landmark studies of the mechanics of coups d'etat was first published in 1968 by Harvard University. "Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook" was written by Edward Luttwak, a conservative scholar with a long career in the national security system. During the Reagan-era, he served as a "consultant" to the National Security Council and the State Department. Currently, Luttwak is senior fellow of "Preventive Diplomacy" at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think-tank with close ties to US intelligence. He is also a member of the National Security Study Group of the Dept. of Defense. 3
In his study, Luttwak writes that while a coup may have characteristics of other, more violent forms of extra-legal seizure of power, "the coup is not necessarily assisted by either the intervention of the masses, or, to any significant degree, by military-type force." 4
But if a coup does not use warfare or a mass uprising to seize control, then where does it get the power to do so? "The short answer," Luttwak says, "is that the power will come from the state itself... A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder." 5
Normally, a coup does not seek to destroy the basic structure of the existing government, which is more typical of a revolution or a war for liberation. Instead, Luttwak explains, those undertaking a true coup d'etat "want to seize power within the present system, and [they] shall only stay in power if [they] embody some new status quo supported by those very forces which a revolution may seek to destroy." 6 (Emphasis in original.)
In other words, the coup takes advantage of the governmental structure itself, as well as the bureaucratic nature of modern governments. There is an established hierarchy, an accepted chain of command, and standard procedures that are followed when instructions come down this pipeline. So long as the instructions come from the appropriate source or level of authority, they will almost always be followed even if from a new, and illegitimate, holder of that authority.
Luttwak explains that a coup "operates by taking advantage of this machine-like behavior: during the coup because it uses parts of the state apparatus to seize the controlling levers; afterwards because the value of the 'levers' depends on the fact that the state is a machine." 7
Thus, by gaining control over a few carefully selected pivotal points of power within the government bureaucracy, the plotters of the coup can effectively gain control over the entire "machine" of state.
During the presidential election, the key pivot points proved to be quite limited in number, not to mention patently obvious. The first was the state government of Florida, the second the US Supreme Court. But of course, every puppet needs a puppeteer.
The Godfather
Whatever his strengths might be, no one seriously believes that George W. Bush has the acuity or connections necessary to plan...well anything, really. Although he was conspicuously absent throughout the entire campaign, it goes without saying that GW's secret patrone was one of the best in the biz: his father, George Herbert Walker Bush.
These days, the Bush "pater familias" is a fairly well-known quantity. As the first director (DCI) of the CIA to be elected President, not to forget (or belittle) his eight-year tenure as VP, GHW Bush's crimes are now legendary. Over the years he formulated, directed and otherwise facilitated brutal guerilla wars, coups, death squads, propaganda operations, money laundering, assassinations 8 , and drug smuggling 9 . And that's just for starters.
Most importantly in our context, GHW Bush has a documented history of using former and active-duty CIA agents in election campaigns.
During his 1979 bid for the presidential nomination, Ray S. Cline, former Dep. Director of the CIA, spearheaded an effort to form a "loose organization" of former agents and spooks to back the ex-DCI. 10 It didn't take much work; the agents flocked to the cause. They hated Carter. At least 30-40 "retired" agents joined up, and that's not counting the 190 members of the Assoc. of Former Intelligence Officers who sported "Bush for President" buttons at their annual convention. 11
But it wasn't just "retired" spooks who "helped" Bush during the 1979 campaign. Angelo Codevilla, an early Bush supporter, told a 1984 House investigation in a sworn affidavit that he was "aware that active duty agents of the Central Intelligence Agency worked for the George Bush primary election campaign." 12
When Reagan ultimately won the nomination, an old Bush family friend - William Casey - convinced him to name Bush as his VP. Casey was not only Reagan's campaign manager, he was himself a former OSS 13 officer and soon-to-be head of the CIA. With Bush on the ticket, the spies climbed aboard.
What followed was a slew of partisan covert operations that are now largely forgotten. But the most important one is still remembered today as "The October Surprise." 14 It was a covert operation by the Reagan-Bush campaign that secretly forged a deal with the Iranian radicals who, after overthrowing the US-backed Shah, were holding 52 Americans (including several CIA agents) as hostages. In exchange for holding the hostages until after the election, the Reagan-Bush team offered the Iranians millions of dollars in arms, material, and other considerations. Sure enough, the hostages were held until minutes after Reagan's inauguration, then "suddenly" released.
Bush and Casey personally participated in the secret negotiations. James Baker, who would be Reagan's chief of staff and Bush's Sec. of State, was also involved. To this day, Bush et al. vehemently deny the plot, but their alibis don't hold up to scrutiny and just such secret arms shipments undeniably took place. Most damning is the fact that other participants, including senior Iranian government officials and intelligence operatives from several countries, have publicly confirmed they were involved in secret deal.
Further confirmation came in 1993, in the form of a six-page Russian intelligence report that corroborated much of the story. The sensitive report was released by Russia's prime minister as a gesture of post-Cold War cooperation, in response to a request for information from a US Congressional task force investigating the charges. 15 But the report was suppressed, task force chairman Rep. Lee Hamilton (backed by Henry Hyde) sandbagged the rest of the inquiry, and the final verdict was that there was "no credible evidence" of a secret deal. The "investigation" was such a sham that Hamilton publicly exonerated Bush (by then the president) before it even started. 16
By engaging in renegade "foreign policy," the Reagan-Bush team undercut President Carter's own secret efforts to free the hostages and thereby stole the White House. It was, in fact, a coup d'etat.
Banana Repugnant
On election day 2000, after Florida was first called for Gore, candidate Bush was indignant while speaking with reporters. It was just impossible, he said. His big brother Jeb had "promised to deliver" the state for him. More telling words are rarely spoken.
Consider, if you will, the history of John Ellis "Jeb" Bush. 17 This is no Jeb-come-lately: not only is he a party veteran, but his documented ties to covert operations are worthy of his family heritage.
During the mid-'80s, while head of the Dade County Republican Party, Jeb served as a secret White House liaison to Contras and allied anti-Castro Cubans operating out of Miami. Jeb publicly denied any such connection, telling the Washington Post in 1986 that while he supported the Contras, "I have not been involved in aiding them directly." 18 Of course he had to deny it: at the time supporting the Contras was against the law.
But less than a year later the Miami Herald uncovered a letter he had written in 1985 to Dr. Mario Castejon, a right-wing Guatemalan politician who was seeking to establish a medical brigade for the Contras. "My staff has been in contact with Lt. Col. North concerning your projects," Jeb wrote. He also named a member of his own staff, dedicated to Contra liaison, whom Castejon could contact directly. It was further revealed by the Herald that Jeb was routinely forwarding similar contacts directly to his father who, as Vice President, was secretly in charge of managing all US covert operations. 19
During the same period, Jeb was involved in a different, elaborate scheme that was a combination covert medical effort for the Contras, Mafia-backed bust-out, and "fundraising" scam for right-wing Cuban exiles. It involved a billion-dollar HMO called International Medical Centers (IMC), which at the time was one of the largest in the country. Headed by a right-wing Cuban named Miguel Recarey Jr., the HMO became embroiled in a dizzying array of criminal activities: international money laundering, massive Medicare fraud, bribes to government and union officials, and even gun running. Even legendary Mafia kingpin Santo Trafficante Jr. was an "investor" in the HMO. Strangest of all, IMC was a veritable den of spies. According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, IMC "engaged at least a dozen people who had worked in foreign intelligence," including one fellow whose resume "claimed training by both the CIA and the KGB, plus work for the Cuban DGI." 20
Jeb's role with IMC was tailor-made for the son of a Vice President. In exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in "consulting fees", he helped to smooth things with nosey regulators and secured special exemptions to bothersome rules. Naturally, he also served as a secret conduit to the Reagan White House.
In a separate case, federal prosecutors tied Jeb Bush to a Contra cocaine smuggler named Leonel Martinez. While it is not certain whether Jeb was fully aware of Martinez's drug activities, there is no question that he gave over $10,000 in "contributions" to Jeb's party coffers, a Bush-run PAC and the 1987 Bush for President campaign. 21
There is also the matter of Jeb's open support for admitted anti-Castro Cuban terrorists, Orlando Bosh and Luis Posada - two of the bloodiest anti-Castro terrorists around. Most of their activities have had the backing, tacit or otherwise, of the CIA. They were also deeply involved in the CIA-assisted plot to assassinate Orlando Letelier, the foreign minister to overthrown Chilean president Salvador Allende, who was killed by a car-bomb in downtown Washington, DC. As the CIA director at the time, the elder Bush had played a key role in the plot. 22
In 1988, Bosh was convicted on bail-jumping charges stemming from a 1968 terrorist attack and sent to a Miami prison. In 1990, Jeb Bush took it upon himself to lobby his father for Bosh's release. Naturally, the pleas were well-received and Bosh was once again free to kill innocent people (and help the CIA).
The current relevance is that two Bosh comrade, Posada and Guillermo Novo, were recently arrested in Panama in a foiled plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during a Latin American summit. They, along with two others, were apprehended on Nov. 17 - only 10 days after the US election. Posada has now confessed they had planned to do the hit with a car bomb (ala Letelier) but aborted at the last moment, supposedly because "too many innocent people would be hurt." 23 We are to believe that the unexpectedly-contested election of their familia especiale had nothing to do with it.
And let us not forget Florida Sec. of State Katherine Harris. Within days of the election, Governor Jeb recused himself to avoid the "perception" of a conflict of interest. At that point, Harris became the single most important member of the Florida executive branch as far as the election was concerned: she had the sole authority to certify the winner.
Harris herself had overwhelming grounds for recusal. Not only did she co-chair the Bush 2000 campaign in Florida, but it was well-known that she was under serious consideration for a cushy ambassadorial post in Europe. All the negative publicity may have soured that prospect, but post-election press reports indicate she is still in the running for a Latin American posting.
But would the sudden absence of a key player like Jeb Bush have a negative impact on a coup plot? Not necessarily. As we have seen, absence of an overt role in no way precludes a covert role. Plus, as Luttwak explains in his study, having an identifiable (or even titular) leader is actually a disadvantage during the active phase.
With detailed planning, there will be no need for any sort of headquarters structure in the active stage of the coup; for if there is no scope for decision-making there is no need for decision-makers and their apparatus. In fact, having a headquarters would be a serious disadvantage: it would constitute a concrete target for the opposition and one which would be both vulnerable and easily identified....The leaders of the coup will be scattered among the various teams, each joining the team whose ultimate target requires his presence.... 24
Party Allies Wrongly Purged 'Felon' Voters
Since the Reconstruction, any Florida resident with a felony conviction is stripped of the right to vote, regardless of where the conviction occurred. After serving their sentences, felons can only be re-enfranchised after filling out mountains of paperwork and then winning the approval of the governor and two state representatives.
In June, between 8,000 and 12,000 Florida voters were wrongly purged from the voting rolls as felons. Many of those disenfranchised had never even been arrested; one was even a sitting judge. Meanwhile, hundreds of genuine felons were not purged and according to post-election analysis by the press were able to illegally cast votes, thus further muddying the election results. 25
The Florida State Government uses an outside contractor to vet their voter rolls; it is the only state to do so. In 1998, the $4 million contract was awarded to a Boca Raton company called Database Technologies (DBT). Earlier this year, DBT was acquired by an Atlanta-area company called ChoicePoint Inc. According to SEC documents, ChoicePoint's acquisition of DBT was completed on May 15, just one month before the grossly inaccurate "purge lists" were turned over to Florida election officials. 26
Curiously, it turned out ChoicePoint had obtained this false list of "felons" from the state of Texas. 27 Yes, Texas. According to the company, a list of Texans convicted of misdemeanors had "somehow" been added to the Florida lists as felons. Some effort was made to contact those who had been wrongly purged, but most did not find out until they had arrived at their polling place only to be refused ballots.
Curiouser and curiouser, it turns out that ChoicePoint is closely tied to the Republican Party, and that its top executives and board members include many high-dollar donors. Among them is billionaire Ken Langone, who served as Rudolph Giuliani's fund-raising chairman in his aborted Senate run against Hillary Clinton. When Guilani dropped out of the race, Langone donated some $250,000 to support his replacement, Rick Lazio. 28 According to Federal Election Committee records, between 1997 and 1999 Langone donated at least $54,000 to Republican committees in campaigns. According to the most recent records available at press time, Langone gave another $29,000 or so within the last year, using multiple addresses and jobs to skirt federal limits. Ken's wife Elaine, who lists "homemaker" as her profession, gave another $8,000 to the Republicans just in the last year. 29 Not bad for a mere homemaker.
Another Giuliani politico at ChoicePoint is former NY Police Commissioner Howard Safir. ChoicePoint's lobbyist, former congressman Vin Weber, has donated over $48,000 to the Republicans in the last three years. 30 Company founder Rick Rozar himself donated $100,000 to the party just before his death in 1998. 31 Other ChoicePoint employees and executives, or at least those who could be identified in the FEC database, have donated an additional $30,000, and probably a good deal more.
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