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Here's a (sarcastic) letter from this morning's Anchorage Daily News re coverage of the election fraud:
"Thank goodness our Constitution includes a free press to fight fraud"
Whoever said that the war on terror was a contradiction in terms was absolutely right! The fact of the matter is, war is terror.
Prior to the general election, there didn't seem to be a day that this "contradiction in terms" wasn't mentioned in news reports on how the war was going in Iraq. Perhaps that is because the White House held so many press conferences on the issue that it begged the question of whether or not this was actually a foreign policy strategy. If it was, White House staffers weren't all too familiar with Albert Einstein's quote, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Now the general election is over and the state of Ohio is in the middle of a statewide recount of thousands of irregular, untraceable electronic votes. The news media -- our government's unofficial, self-elected fourth branch of government -- is sure to have its hands full reporting on this issue. How ironic it would be if democracy was to prevail and we found ourselves thanking our unofficially elected fourth branch of government for uncovering any election fraud that might have existed.
Election fraud is another form of terrorism. Thank goodness we have the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (a free press) -- a real national treasure -- to help us fight it!
---- Gregory Nothstine
Anchorage
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