Reply #8: A Tennessean's letter to all US Congresspeople [View All]

Saturday night and (very early) Sunday morning, as I was getting ready for our second Gathering To Save Our Democracy in Nashville, I received two letters -- one from a Wisconsin friend who had participated in the Ohio recount and the other from a North Carolina retiree who had hoped to attend our rally but was being kept away by the bad weather. Their letters were so frightening and so moving that I decided to write every Congressman and Senator I could to share their letters with them. (I will finish that task tonight.)

The following is my introduction to that letter, excerpts from the Wisconsinite and North Carolinian letters, and my closing statement. We ALL need to be filling the emails of all our elected leaders these days. I hope what follows stimulates some of you to do the same. (BTW, I cc'ed all national MSM outlets with this letter.)
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To our Congressional leaders:

Good Sunday morning. We are in the first stages of the second American Revolution. The integrity of our election process is in grave peril. You know it, and very soon, so will all the American people. What you do as an elected leader now to overcome the 2004 election fraud and theft will determine your political future and the future of our country.

Last Sunday, gatherings in almost 40 state capitals brought people together to speak out against this election fraud and theft. Today, in Nashville, Tennessee, we will meet again on the steps of our State Capital, and we expect many more people (and more media outlets) to join us. While it's unlikely that any of you will be there, I thought that each of you should read a report from one of the Ohio volunteers who drove from Green Bay, Wisconsin to western Ohio to participate in the so-called "recount" there. Her letter to me is a chilling documentation of at least two election laws violated with impunity and collusion during the "recount" by Ohio election officials. You will fear for our country as you read her letter.

But you may also be emboldened by the second letter I received this evening from a North Carolina retiree, who had hoped to drive eight hours (one way) to join us today but who may be kept away by the bad weather. When a gentle, elderly woman says that she will stop paying her taxes because she believes that the Bush administration holds power illegally, that should make all of us understand the gravity of what we face. Please join us as we fire our own rhetorical opening rounds in the second American Revolution, collectively and with conviction.

If you are a Democratic House member, please get behind the efforts of Representative John Conyers to demand full hearings on the massive evidence of election fraud and theft. If you are a Democratic Senator, please announce NOW your intention to stand in opposition to the highly questionable Electoral College results that will be presented to you on January 6.

If you are a Republican in Congress, please join with your colleagues in the House and Senate to demand an investigation of this election fraud and theft and to block the seating of a second (un)elected Bush administration whose power certainly is not derived from the "consent of the governed" (unless you consider electronic voting machines to be "citizens" with full voting rights now).

All of you have to decide whether you stand for democracy at this critical hour or whether you will be labeled by history as, at best, cowards and, at worst, accomplices in the highjacking of our election process. It's your choice. Now please read the two letters below (the names of the women who wrote me have been changed to protect them, but both of them will be happy to speak with you or your staffs if it will prevent the loss of our country to unelected election thieves.)

We will take our country back. Whose side are you on?
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Excerpts from the Wisconsinite's letter:

Nevertheless, it is striking that the volunteers were indeed able to compile evidence of numerous incidents that would lead any rational person to conclude that the Ohio election was riddled with fraud. Let's just begin with the illegal withholding of the poll registries. Ohio state law specifically states that such refusal to permit examination of these documents constitutes prima facie evidence of electoral fraud. Every county board of elections director in Ohio was ordered to commit this illegal act. As far as I know, all complied with this order, thus willingly becoming perpetrators of a crime that counts every American citizen as its victim. It may come as no surprise that every director with whom I had dealings was a Republican....

The most startling conversation I had was with the county prosecutor, who was present "to represent the county" at the recount I attended.... I was told by the prosecutor that the company supplying the tabulating equipment and software was Triad Systems. Here's the real shocker: Triad Systems had a technician in this particular county office the morning of the recount, before it started. He had disassembled the tabulator, and replaced "a switch" that had supposedly malfunctioned. He was lurking in the hallway outside the counting room during the entire recount....

Need I tell you that our observers were denied the right to inspect the voter registry from any precinct in the county, including the one used for the 3% sample? I think this may be a good thing, since this violation of law basically means that no valid recount took place.

I can't help but think that these types of scenarios were playing out all over Ohio this week, and that the discovery process in which we were engaged has surely produced enough evidence to establish probable cause in legal terms. I would be very surprised if there were not multiple suits filed at the county level in the coming weeks....
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Excerpts from the North Carolinian's letter:

The evidence of Electoral Fraud throughout the Nation on November 2, 2004 is overwhelming and irrefutable.

I like to believe I am well informed. I knew the Fox News Network was ideological. I knew about Sinclair. But not until the media blackout of one of the biggest stories in history; proof of massive election fraud in what was once the greatest Democracy in the world, did I fully appreciate the catastrophe that has occurred. It would be impossible to overstate the gravity of the situation.

Tens of millions of our Countrymen have no idea what has happened. We have to find a way to tell them and the ability to do so is available to us. One of the most simple and direct methods of communicating with others is for EVERY ONE OF US to put a sign in the rear window of our car declaring ELECTION FRAUD IN U.S. or even just VERIFY THE VOTE, with at least one website reference....

There isn't much time before this fraudulent election must be challenged. I believe the evidence is being amassed as quickly and thoroughly as possible to establish the basis upon which the Ohio Electoral Votes and the Election itself will be Contested in the Congress on or before January 6th, 2005. However, if this fraudulent election is not contested, if all our leaders fail us, then it will be in our hands, and ours alone, to do what must be done....

On April 14, 2005, if this unelected government remains in place, I will not pay my taxes. One of the most basic principles of the United States of America is "no taxation without representation" and I will be eager to engage the Internal Revenue Service in the courts to prove the American People are not represented by this government and present the extensive evidence of Election Fraud to prove it.
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My closing statement to the Congresspeople:

I can't think of anything in your entire political career that is more important than to honor the courage and the spirit of these two women by thwarting this nationwide election fraud and theft and helping us take our country back. Whose side are you on?