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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:06 AM
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A Lifelong Republican Speaks Out (IWT News) *** Outstanding Interview***
IWT News interview with Pamela de Maigret...

Description:
Pamela de Maigret is a filmmaker, producer and journalist. Previously a foreign correspondent and US Congress liaison, she is currently writing a book about the disenfranchisement of the moderate center in American politics, drawing on her experience as a life-long Republican activist.

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15:57

http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/pamela_de_maigret/dialup (Dialup)

http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/pamela_de_maigret/broadband (broadband)


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Journalist, film-maker and life-long Republican activist Pamela de Maigret: "I think you have to ask the question, do we have free elections in this country? I don’t think we do. And the media is not covering this. This is one more of those stories that Independent World Television needs to stick with."

"I can tell you from my own experience that fraud took place in Florida, that I saw it with my own eyes, that I was threatened with arrest by the police, that the polls were manipulated, that the voting machines would stick or they would skitter. They weren’t taken offline when they didn’t work. I can go on with this long litany about what was wrong with the election."

"It was very hard for me not to come back from Florida absolutely paranoid. I mean, everything that I was seeing was, at best, the worst kind of mix up and confusion. And that would be at best. And at worst it was straight fraud. I can’t believe that the machines that are made by the same companies that make our ATM machines cannot get it right. I just don’t believe it, it’s not possible."

"I was a loyal Republican, I grew up with a loyalty to the Republican Party, and now I’m extremely critical of these people in Washington who call themselves Republicans and they aren’t. They’re radicals, they’re not Republicans."

http://www.yuricareport.com/Media/PamelaDeMaigretInterview.html
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:24 AM
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1. great interview!


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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:31 AM
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2. Absolutely! A life-long Republican activist telling the truth!!!
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 10:07 PM
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25. She witnessed voter crimes and didn't report it? Disenfranchisement?
Tampering with votes? Aren't these all Federal crimes?
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:34 AM
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3. Surprise! They are really Republicans. eom
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:54 AM
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4. BRILLIANT!
She ends her interview explaining the word "idiot" from ancient Greek

The word IDIOT is derived from the Greek word ιδιωτης, idiôtês, "a private citizen, individual", from ιδιος, idios, "private". In ancient Athens, an idiot was a person who declined to take part in public life, such as democratic city government. Since such activities were honorable and could directly affect all citizens, idiot was a term of derision. See Athenian democracy. http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Idiot





:kick:
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 12:45 PM
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5. kick
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 01:00 PM
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6. Memo to Pamela: Stay out of small planes
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 01:14 PM
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8. Can you explain?
I know a bit of that theory, but not much. Can you educate me?
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 02:30 PM
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13. See: Gov. Mel Carnahan and Sen. Paul Wellstone.
At least, I think that was the allusion.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 05:38 PM
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18. That was definitely the allusion. These bastards kill. Just ask the
2986 individuals that died as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
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hopeisaplace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 12:20 AM
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28. I'm hooked on
your penguins...:)
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 12:23 AM
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29. Welcome to DU!
:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 01:13 PM
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7. I'm not clear which election, 2004 or 2000?
I admit I just skimmed it. Seems like a very promising talking point with my RW colleagues!
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 01:50 PM
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9. I think it was 2004, but she didn't specify in the interview
She went to Florida as an election protection worker (West Palm Beach), and was an eyewitness to the events there.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 01:56 PM
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10. I doubt they felt it necessary
for election protection in 2000. We were "virgins" then.
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yowzayowzayowza Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 03:12 PM
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15. Yea, it seemed to be election 2004. n/t
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 02:08 PM
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11. Note: Pamela de Maigret is a member of the IWT News Founding Committee...
Edited on Fri Oct-14-05 02:12 PM by Sapphire Blue
Check out the list of members of the founding committee, board, staff & consultants @ http://www.iwtnews.com/people ... Quite impressive!

Edited to add: Other videos are available @ http://www.iwtnews.com/videoindex
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 02:17 PM
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12. just keeping this kicked
:kick:
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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 02:51 PM
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14. Kick!! n/t
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 04:00 PM
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16. another kick
:kick:
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 04:39 PM
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17. Punt....
eom
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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 06:55 PM
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19. thank you
this IWTnews sounds promising. Pamela is certainly convincing that she really gives a damn about the election system. Refreshing.
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:23 PM
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20. Kicked & nommed.
n/t
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 08:30 PM
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21. kick
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Bill Bored Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 09:17 PM
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22. Thanks so much for posting this!
Next time please cross-link to the Election Reform Forum because we almost missed this and it was great!

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203>
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 10:36 PM
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26. You're welcome, will do, and thanks for posting it over there!
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ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 06:50 AM
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34. Yes, Thank You and especially THANKS to IWT News! n/t.
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 09:27 PM
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23. More cowbell.
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Melissa G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 09:56 PM
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24. Thanks! BB is right . please cross post to Election reform!
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 12:15 AM
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27. kick
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 01:16 AM
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30. Very good article...
I wish more people on the RW side would stand up to GWB, because GWB is not a republican in the least bit...
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 01:20 AM
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31. Night kick!
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 01:54 AM
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32. Wowwee-kazowee!
I love these kinds of articles.

I'm so effing tired of being told I'm nuts because I can see that the elections have been tampered with. First it was "get over it." now it's "you're a conspiracy nut." or "we can't do anything about it."

AAaaarrrrgh! Grrrr...etc,.

Please tell me this isn't some kind of cruel hoax.
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democracy1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 03:53 AM
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33. Thanks for the link
Really enjoy that interview,always looking for people with courage.
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:52 AM
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35. Welcome to DU!
:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:30 AM
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36. kicking it up again
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