Silence is Consent

If you don't speak up you accept what is happening. This site was born out of the mainstream media's inability to cover the news. I am just an American cititzen trying to spread the word in the era of FCC consolidation, post 9/11 Patriot Act hysteria, hackable voting machines and war without end. I rant and post news items I perceive to be relevant to our current situation.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

Social Security is not broken and therefore does not need to be fixed

So Called Social Security Crisis (SCSSC)

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Monday, April 12, 2004
 
Today I'm going a different way. I am very worried about the upcoming election. The reason I'm worried is not because I'm afraid that the American sheeple are stupid enough to (s)elect this pResdent for another term. The reason I'm worried is because no matter who we think we have voted for it will not be counted correctly. There is not a more important subject than this. I know that they got us into Iraq. At minimum allowed 9/11 to happen. Alienated us from the rest of the world. Given us an economy of, by and for the corporation. Ran the deficit up to record numbers. Lost the most jobs of any administration in history. Media consolidation, etc.... As horrible as all of this stuff is it can be rolled back with a change in leadership. I'm not just talking about the President. Also hanging in the balance in the next election is both houses of Congress. But maybe even more important than that is the Supreme Court. During the next term at least three justices will retire. But all those in power now can be voted out. Unless the votes are not counted as cast.

A good article to get you up to speed
How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
In January 2003, voting activist Bev Harris was holed up in the basement of her three-story house in Renton, Washington, searching the Internet for an electronic voting machine manual, when she made a startling discovery.

Clicking on a link for a file transfer protocol site belonging to voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems, Harris found about 40,000 unprotected computer files. They included source code for Diebold's AccuVote touch-screen voting machine, program files for its Global Election Management System tabulation software, a Texas voter-registration list with voters' names and addresses, and what appeared to be live vote data from 57 precincts in a 2002 California primary election.


Go to the new Black Box Voting link and read the book for the full story.

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