Showing posts with label Boss Tweed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boss Tweed. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

America Hasn't had a Legally Elected President in this Century

     Imagine the best and wised person you have ever known on Earth.  Now imagine that this person suddenly came into possession of a magic box that gave him the power to change the course of history at will.  How long do you think it would be before this person became completely corrupted by this power?
     Now imagine that a magic box of this sort fell into the hands of someone who has been caught lying time and again.  Imagine that this person has been caught in criminal fraud and who had paid millions of dollars to settle accusations out of court.  Imagine also that he claimed the right to keep absolute secrecy about anything he did with the box.  Do the words "menace to society" come to mind?
     There's not a doubt in my mind that the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen, mainly by the means of the "magic box" I've just mentioned.  The magic box in question is electronic voting programs, which election officials are forbidden to investigate.  They have some power to investigate the results of votes but not how the votes are tabulated.
     Without my usual comments, I'm posting here, in nine parts, the video Hacking Democracy for your viewing.  If you're pretty short on time, I suggest you go to part 8 and take it from there.
     Part 1 of 9:
     Part 2 of 9:
     Part 3 of 9:
     (Take a good look at the weasel they interview on this clip.  He has a face only Lindsey Graham could love.)
     Part 4 of 9:
   Part 5 of 9:
     Part 6 of 9:
     (In this clip, investigators show that Florida election officials violated voting laws.  While this, by itself, doesn't prove fraud, it shows a lack of respect for legal accountability to the voters.)
     Part 7 of 9:
     (When a recount is demanded, Florida election officials fall back on a law allowing only 3% of the votes, randomly selected, to be recounted.  Under this law, if irregularities are detected, only then can the other 97% be investigated.  The catch was, election officials defined the meaning of the word random.  They were, in fact, selected from precincts in which no irregularities were detected.
     Part 8 of 9:
     (The face you see below is that of an election official in a neighboring Florida county.  He is instrumental in helping the protagonists uncover the means by which voting fraud is taking place.  The weasel I mentioned earlier swore before a hearing that there was no executable program on Diebold's memory cards.)
    Part 9 of 9:
     With the help of a computer geek and the aforementioned Florida election official, we are shown how easy it is to steal an election without any trace of fraud.  They convincingly show that the weasel lied both about the executable program and its potential.
     Even after Diebold's duplicity was revealed to Ohio officials (the 2004 election was stolen in Ohio), Ohio spent millions of dollars on Diebold equipment.
     During the nineteenth century, courageous newspaper reporters reported that the Tammany Hall political machine headed by "Boss" Tweed was stealing a million dollars a day from the city of New York.  When confronted with the evidence and asked if it were true, Tweed supposedly said, "Even if it is, what are you going to do about it?"  New Yorkers found their cajones and sent Tweed and his gang to prison.
     It appears that, in our generation,  the votes of a hundred million Americans are being stolen. Our future is being stolen from us.  We must take "Boss" Tweed's words as a challenge: "What are you going to do about it?"

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Our Valley of Decision

     In a separate article, I wrote that businesses, society, and the environment are mutually dependent. I argued from that that the most sustainable model for businesses as well as for society and environmentalists is one that recognizes this fact and seeks a dovetailing of interests.
     That’s the way things work for most businesses anyway. As long ago as 1776, Adam Smith wrote that, when businessmen and politicians converse, corporate social responsibility is the furthest thing from their minds.
     Our history books tell us that from 1869 until 1877, William Magear (“Boss”) Tweed and his cronies stole an estimated $200 million from the city of New York. In today’s dollars, that would be around $2.7 billion.
     Just think of how much they could have stolen if they’d been in control of something larger than a city—say, the United States Treasury. Hmm. Just how did they do it?
     Well, pretty much the same way that Dubya Bush did it, and Mr. Obama is doing it now. Bush, Cheney, Emanuel, and Obama didn’t invent such embezzlement schemes as bid-free contracts, or regulatory waivers that favor friends and shut out competition, nor did they invent economic blackmail. They did, however, perfect them and come up with a few ideas of their own.
     By comparison, Boss Tweed was practicing a life of austerity and self denial. The Bush-Obama Administration has stolen more than $14 trillion from America’s taxpayers, and there’s no end in sight.
     They get away with it because we let them. Oh, worse than that; we rewarded them after they had done it, thereby encouraging them to steal ever larger sums of money and further violate our liberties.
     In the year 2000, Bush stole the presidential election and employed fraud to launch—not just one, but two—wars that have been highly profitable for himself and his cronies. Some 1.5 million innocent Iraqi civilians were killed as a result, but what’s a couple of million Iraqis compared to trillions of dollars in stolen assets?
     Under the laws of every jurisdiction in the United States, it’s a capital crime to commit a felony that results in a death. Fraud is a felony in every jurisdiction in America, and thousands of Americans died as a result of that fraud.
     According to noted court attorney Vincent Bugliosi (http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/ ), any district attorney whose jurisdiction had been the home of a serviceman killed in Iraq can bring capital murder charges against George W. Bush.  In Texas, Bush’s home state, governors are especially fond of the death penalty.
     It would have been poetic justice for Bush and Cheney to suffer a lethal injection by means of a flu shot made by Baxter. http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/08/vaccine-deaths-and-injuries-skyrocket.html    Instead, the American people re-elected Bush President. 
     Bush and his cronies rewarded American gullibility by getting greedier and more brazen. In just one day in late 2008, they stole $1.2 trillion, with no accountability as to where the money went.
     As you will recall, it was informally called the Bankster Bailout Bill. The banksters had made home loans to people who they knew could not repay the loans, then they took their homes away from them, then the fraudsters cried poverty. Not one homeowner was saved by the Bankster Embezzlement Bill.
     Obama was elected on the promise of Hope and Change. What he delivered was a seamless transition. The only way you can tell the difference between Obama’s policies and Bush’s before him was by the date that the crimes were committed.
     I’ve recently learned that Obama’s embezzlement has gotten even greedier and more brazen than I could have previously imagined. Let me give you a preview:
     With no legal authority to do so, Obama has ordered standards that no coal-fired electrical plant in America could possibly meet. In the same act, he has given General Electric a waiver. One of the consequences of this deed is that the City of Austin, Texas, has to buy electricity from Mexico at premium prices. Who do you think owns that plant in Mexico? General Electric; that’s who.
Please take a look at the following video:
     For a video that’s both entertaining and infuriating, see Max Keiser’s take on a wide range of embezzlement issues over the past ten years:
     During the 1870’s, Boss Tweed and his cronies were limited to stealing everything they possibly could from one city: the City of New York. During our time, high-level gangsters are using national leaders to steal everything they can from all of America and many other nations.
     The Truth is a powerful weapon against these robbers and mass murderers. Boss Tweed and his cronies were ousted by an informed public. The Truth—reliable information—can save us in our time as well.
     Don’t expect that a change of political parties can save us. Only this month—February 2011—Republicans in the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to extend the so-called USA PATRIOT Act, the measure that shredded the Bill of Rights and ushered in rendition and torture of political opponents, electronic strip searches at airports, warrantless wiretapping of our citizens, and too many other abuses and usurpations to count.
     How did your congressman (I won’t call them representatives) vote? Here’s a link to how they voted: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll026.xml
     Americans who had already kept themselves informed didn’t believe for a minute that a change in party leadership in the House of Representatives would signal a return to liberty. For the banksters and their kleptocratic henchmen, it’s business as usual.  Remember that the election of Obama was largely a reaction against the robber Republicans, and that didn't work for us either.
     Don't expect any other quick fixes such as a constitutional amendment or a Constitutional Convention either.  There is no quick fix that will free us from the responsibility of safeguarding our liberties.
     To oust the kleptocrats and restore the Bill of Rights, we don’t have to go as far as Egypt and Tunisia did, nor must meekly submit to being herded to the FEMA camps. Peaceful resistance is still an option in most countries. There are countless reliable web sites informing us as to how we can protect ourselves and how we can restore our freedoms.
     Scroll to the top of this page and find the link for Recommended Web Sites. That’s a start. Find the Table of Contents at the top of this page and read other articles telling people how systems really work, as opposed to how most people think they work. Stop buying into the kleptocratic lies that divide Democrats against Republicans, conservatives against liberals, native-born against immigrants, straights against gays, blacks against whites, Christians against Muslims—well, you get the picture.
     There are 307 million of us in America (6.7 billion in the world) and only a few thousand of those gangsters. The criminal sociopaths at the top know that they can succeed only if they keep us divided against one another. If we stand united in passive non-cooperation, they are powerless against us.
     By all means, pray; but roll up your sleeves and pray on your feet.