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...understand what kind of position Congressman Conyers may have been in, on the phone with this guy. It was likely a diplomatic gesture--on Conyers' part--and I wouldn't want to undermine Conyers. So I don't quite know what to do with this request. Obviously, it's a way for this private, pre-agendized "commission" to easily shove aside all election reform activist and citizen input and comment, and possibly deep-six it.
One thing I would say is, keep a record of your input--email logs, fax logs, registered letters. This may be useful later in establishing what the "commission" was apprised of (and what they ignored), in whatever "report to Congress" they finally issue.
Paper backup is always good--and the more papery the better (registered letters, FedEx records, etc.).
But we're dealing with an unofficial, private "commission"--overwhelmingly stacked against election reform and election fraud evidence. They have already removed elections from the public venue--with private BushCon companies counting the votes in secret. It just gets worse and worse. Why isn't this a Congressionally appointed "commission"? (It's not as if the BushCons couldn't stack that, too--but at least the stacking would have been more visible, and Democrats and others would have had an opportunity to object.)
We have NO RIGHT of input. That's what I'm getting at. It's PRIVATE. They don't have to keep records of anything. They don't have to do public notice or open meetings. They are not even beholden to the people in the tenuous way that Congresspeople are beholden.
I've dealt with privatization schemes as a public interest advocate. And one thing I've learned: You must challenge the venue, and the denial of the public right to information and notice FIRST AND FOREMOST, before anything else is said. Who has the power? Who selects who is going to have power? And who has the right to information? (And, often, who is paying whom?).
These are vital issues. This playing field (the "commission") is already tilted at a 90 degree angle, with us having been kicked clean off the field into oblivion right from the start. We, the citizens, the voters, the victims of election fraud '04, don't exist. All we can do is yell from the black hole we have been consigned to.
So--after we did a bit of yelling from that black hole, to the utter surprise of our betters--to now be further blackholed into a special email file, that will be tossed in after us, is egregiously insulting. (--not on Conyers part, but on the part of Pastor and his bosses).
They have us where they want us, and where they planned all along for us to be: off the playing field, with no rights whatsoever, even if we crawl through the event horizon, at peril of our lives, and bloodied and smashed to bits, pull ourselves together, don uniforms, rally our team and consider ourselves players--they have the right to grind their cletes into our hands, as we crawl through that hole, kick us in the groin, and shove us back off the playing field into the black hole, at their whim.
Bullies. Cheaters. Lords of the earth.
And, in the end, they are going to nationalize elections under their control. (That's my read on it.) So what do we do with this matter of...ahem...public input?
I am just saying to them: Tell Bush to enforce the Voting Rights Act! Tell Congress to rescind HAVA (stop bribing the states to purchase insecure, partisan-controlled election systems; and stop corrupting our local officials). And get the Bush Cartel the hell out of election reform. Then dissolve your private "commission" and go home. We don't trust your membership selection or your pretense of being an official body while the public has no rights whatsoever in your process.
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