Anyone got info on the brownshirts in FL (2K)?

I was kind of apolitical at the time and...I suppose I feel too good and want to be depressed and angry. I don't know. Got 411?

Again, I was apolitical. They were recounting Miami/Dade (would that have gone our way...lot of Cubans) and these idiots managed to stop the recount by just being loud and obnoxious!? Where is this Emily Miller character?

You can use what you find there to search around for more:

http://dir.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/miami/index.html?pn=1
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/080502a.html
http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=3517
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20001208BrownshirtRoadtrip.html

I think that's the one which has the famous hallway picture, with details (names, jobs, who their boss is).

This is available on DVD, and the footage is freeze-framed to show various Washington staffers, their names and affiliations. Front and center is one of DeLay's little bots.

I was outside the Broward County Courthouse, just north of Miami Dade, carrying my Gore/Lieberman sign, when I saw bus loads of people coming into the area. I ask one of the people getting off a bus where they were from? I was smiling as I asked. This person looked at me with such hate that I stood there stunned. These were bus loads of people from all over the U.S. that were paid by the Republican Party to come down and disrupt our county's and Miami/Dade's county's RIGHT to have a manual recount. Then someone in our crowd started talking about what was going on in the Miami/Dade Courthouse where they were trying to do their recount. The hallways were filled with what I called "beige shirts", honestly, they were all dressed about the same, and they were jumping up and down, pounding on the doors where the recount was taking place and being exremely threatening. Their Nazi tactic worked. Miami/Dade stopped their recount.

I knew then, that whatever I had thought about my country, the United States of America, a country that I had served in the military, where I had cried several times while saluting the flag, WAS GONE.

It's the main image that stays in my mind about the day our wonderful, if not always successful attempt at Democracy, was completely destroyed by a obviously stolen election. Not wanting to pretend that we have been perfect and there hasn't been stolen elections before, but also realizing that these were images I had seen in movies while growing up. The repulsive German Nazi tactics of World War II. I've won't even begin to recover from this nightmare until this administration is out of office.

I am not thrilled with Kerry. I know a lot of Democrats might feel the same way. But, BushCo has got to go. For those of you who aren't aware of what went on in South Florida in 2000 ( doubt there are many on this board that aren't) it was like being in a time warp. It was like actually being in one of those WWII movies. Try watching Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" and seeing it as a comedy.

It was, to me, the worst time this country, as a Democracy, has ever experienced.

And to think it was only the beginning.

Skarbrowe

I had no idea. I feel like crying. How can we beat this? I don't know if we can organize like that. We have discussed many times why the right is successful, their single-mindedness, their meannness. Would Kerry fly people to...Wisconsin to battle in the streets?

then we demand investigations and prosecution of everything going back to the 2000 election.

-election fraud and interference
-supreme court corruption
-Lies Lies and More Lies
-Murder, Mayhem and War Crimes.
-Wholesale pillaging of Ameicas wealth.
-Corporate corruption.

Time for a spring cleaning.

...most people in this country don't know or don't want to know how democracy was assassinated. Shot, dead through the heart. And yes, the parallels to ernst roehm's brownshirts give me the heebie-jeebies.

The Miami Dade incident is the only one that the press really covered. However, the brownshirts showed up all over the state in precincts where the votes were in question.

That was the day America died.

and then when the SCOTUS stopped the counting i was filled with dread.

took me 2 years to get mad enough to get active, but here i am, a card carrying member of the Democratic Party working 5-20 hours a month to educate, inform and register voters.

nt

...she was one of the repug brownshirts...now she's powell's "minder" (stay on the message... stay on the message... stay on the message...)

Thanks Jdolsen!
I've posted several times on the DU, but this site moves so fast and I'm one of those post and run people. <big-grin> Most of the time I've forgotten all the places I've put in my 2 cents.

Skarbrowe

and see which have replies by clicking the "My Posts" icon on the front page of the forums :)

I'll try to use that My Post thingie. Usually I can't even track down my glasses. :)

Skarbrowe