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Several have asked that this letter be it's own thread
so here it is

From : Carol Sterritt <cjsterritt2@yahoo.com >
Sent : Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:59 PM
To : wiley54@hotmail.com
Subject : Could you post this to Democratic Underground for me?


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Hi Wiley

Thanks for the important heads up on this issue.

I wrote the following and will be faxing it off to the Tribune today.

Could you kindly post it to the Democratic Underground. For some reason, they will not let me come aboard there (something to do with their not liking my yahoo address....)

Also I understand if you can't do this due to your life being busy or whatever.

Thanks,
Carol

Re: Wycliffe and his attack on Bob Koehler
From Carol Sterritt, Staff Reporter for The Coastal Post
WARNING - This article is politically incorrect -
it uses the Word "Theft" rather than "Fraud." Tribune editors are advised to seek parental guidance

This morning I sit here at my computer, and I am REALLY REALLY angry. The last time that I was this mad, I was sitting inside the chambers of the California legislature, listening to lobbyists for the MTBE industry tell the audience that MTBE was so safe that their children brushed their teeth with it each night.

Because of Sen Mountjoy (CA-Rep), and because of tens of thousands of Californians who were willing to be labelled "conspiracy nuts" we finally got Gov Davis to take action so that MTBE would be banned.

Now as a nation, those of us in the know face the same uphill battle. This time it is not the health of ourselves and our children, this time it is the health of our democracy. The entire idea that in this age of corporate domination it is suitable for the American people to have corporate-controlled electronic voting machinery in place to count our votes is a dangerous, scary and absolutely insane idea.

When I first heard that Bob Koehler was going to have his article published in the Chicago Tribune, I was aware that the Newspaper Association of America would be meeting the following weekend. News from that convention was rather dismal for the newspaper industry as a whole. The Internet Rocks! It is taking away those who normally would be sitting inside a newsroom writing copy, and it is taking away the readers as well.

When readers go away so do subscription and ad revenues. We have seen before what a new media does. Radio rocked the print world back in the thirties - and now the Internet is kicking butt over the print, radio and television medium. Traditional media whimpers the same song that was once sung against radio - not legitimate, not real news, not properly vetted, etc.

But we the readers beg to disagree. And when the Tribune launched Koehler's article, I assumed that maybe the Tribune was starting to realize that if it granted the same freedom and independence were on its pages, maybe the Trib would have a shot at gaining back some readers and just as importantly, some credibility.

For one thing, the story of the stolen election is of more momentous import than almost any other story I can think of. And a conspiracy theory becosmes valid when there is so much observable material to serve as proof of the pudding. It is not the proverbial pony lurking hidden in the room of debris - it is the Loch Ness monster. There are so many facts and so many figures, so many stories, that to simply shut the door on the discussion can only reveal a person as being either of a moronic intelligence base, lacking any imagination, or of being bought out by a higher bidder. (There is little money and quite a bit of expense in dealing with this tale.) If you do feel that mere stories are not enough, consider the affidavits filed by thousands of voters across the country.

At least three percent of those who were registered to vote on November 2nd 2004 inside the state of Ohio were denied the ability to do so. This three percent is in addition to those whose vote was flipped from the Kerry column to the Bush column. Enough inconsistencies existed that many people shut down their own lives in order to stand with Bob Fitrakis, Susan Truit, Andy Stephenson, and thirty-four others and fight the good fight.

Number One: they attempted to record all of the illegalities, inconsistencies, and outright illegalities that occurred that day. Among these items was the salient fact that even the Ohio recount was tainted by a computer expert who came into one county and inserted programming code into the software.

Number Two: They brought about Court Actions to accent the problems of fraud. For this purpose, they were thwarted by the interwoven connections of high ranking judges who represented the Republican party and who ruled on the issue despite an
obvious conflict of interest.

Then we have the situation in Warren County, Ohio. This county's vote on election day was brought to its knees by a "lock-down" that supposedly came from Homeland Security and the FBI. The action was due to alleged "terrorist" threats even though later on it was revealed that neither the FBI or Homeland Security had issued orders regarding this, or had any knowledge of these activities.

According to Richard Phillips, who investigated the Ohio vote count, "Not all the trends were looking good for George W. Bush on Election Day, according to the unofficial numbers. Of the 142 precincts in Warren County that existed in 2000, Bush was winning a lower percentage of the vote in 37 precincts than he had four years ago, and percentage of voter turnout was lower in 20 precincts than it had been four years ago. How, then, could Bush have increased his margin of victory by 12,816 votes? The only possible answer would be a tremendous increase in voter registration during the past four years."

After Phillips carefully examines each and every factor and figure involved, he concludes that only through vote rigging was the victory possible for George W Bush.

Across the nation, at least 400,000 people reported the difficulties that they had experienced on election day. Among those complaints, a full 50,000 instances were outright malfunctions of voting machines. And in each of these 50,000 instances
the vote went to Bush. If election day machine malfunctions were random, then logic dictates at least sometimes Kerry would have to receive the benefit of the machine failure.

Right now one of the problems those who refuse to examine the question of the election day theft need to consider is this: some polls TODAY show that Bush has a 43% satisfaction rating. His inauguration was only three months ago - already we hate him? Do you really believe that people voted for this man in overwhelming proportions? Only to reject him 90 days later? What's going on here?

Anyway, my hat remains off to Bob Koehler. I don't mean my tin foil hat, Bob. Just as I watched the "big media" reject my stories on MTBE some eight years ago (and in my naivete, I never realized that they were rejected because of Big Oil's influence but that is a story for another day,) so i watch mainstream media go limp when it comes to opposing hte popwers that be and taking a stand on the voting machinery.

Eventually the truth will out. And the other thing I learned is that once the truth outs, even those who initally opposed the truth will brag about their early efforts. "Why I wanted to nominate that Koehler boy for the Pulitizer!" someone in Trib headquarters will be saying two or three years from now. "Imagine where this great nation of ours would be if that guy hadn't stood so steadily by the truth." And they will say it enough that many will believe that there was hardly ever a struggle.

I remain convinced that this day will come.

- posted by Wayne @ 7:16 PM