THE MEDIA ARE NOT ON OUR SIDE. THE POLITICIANS ARE NOT ON OUR SIDE.

Just wanted everyone to remember that FACT, Kster

The silent scream of numbers
The 2004 election was stolen — will someone please tell the media?

By ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Tribune Media Services



As they slowly hack democracy to death, we’re as alone — we citizens — as we’ve ever been, protected only by the dust-covered clichés of the nation’s founding: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

It’s time to blow off the dust and start paying the price.

The media are not on our side. The politicians are not on our side. It’s just us, connecting the dots, fitting the fragments together, crunching the numbers, wanting to know why there were so many irregularities in the last election and why these glitches and dirty tricks and wacko numbers had not just an anti-Kerry but a racist tinge. This is not about partisan politics. It’s more like: “Oh no, this can’t be true.”

I just got back from what was officially called the National Election Reform Conference, in Nashville, Tenn., an extraordinary pulling together of disparate voting-rights activists — 30 states were represented, 15 red and 15 blue — sponsored by a Nashville group called Gathering To Save Our Democracy. It had the feel of 1775: citizen patriots taking matters into their own hands to reclaim the republic. This was the level of its urgency.

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col290.htm

Let's give these Politician's a FIGHT, that they wont forget!!!

Koehler is cool.

F*ck do these Politicians think they are F*King with? They need to stick their little secret vote counting machines UP THEIR ASS!!

Because soon, we will do it for them!!

I'll even use KY.

After all, left-wingers are compassionate.

OH OK, I know he's not a politician, but I know he likes to fight, or atleast likes our kids to fight in Iraq, I think my fat ass could take him, if not he'll, sure go home knowing that he was indeed in a fight.

I'm tired off his silence when it comes to the secret vote counting machine, by the way its not illegal to challenge someone to fair and square, one on one street fight, is it?



I still have to PICK MY POLITICIAN.

Miserable bastids.

I speak metaphorically. (It's METAPHORIC K-Y, Agent Mike.)

anyone named Kster, can not make a challenge, it would be just like that punk bitch :rofl:

A gift to the new revolutionaries from the late Michael O'Donoghue (and me)

Don't Tread on Me

In some old dusty attic
Undisturbed for many years
There lies a tattered banner
That is stained with blood and tears
By men who knew that freedom
Must be fought for by the free
And died to save a ragged flag
That said Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on Me
I'm a rattlesnake with
Diamonds down my back
When other men retreat
That's just the time that I attack
Because a dream that's worth defending
Is a dream that's bound to be
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Two hundred years of glory
And the glory's just begun
We may have lost some battles
But these colors never run
We drew the line at Valley Forge
We held at Bunker Hill
The cannon smoke is lifting
I can see that banner still

Don't Tread on me
I'm a mountain lion
And courage is my name
I tamed a wild country
But I'm wild just the same
And from that rocky Boston harbor
To the California Sea
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

This nation isn't what we've done
It's what we've got to do
Remember that United States
Can only start with you
We better be recalling
What this country's all about
And rally round that ragged flag
And hear the people shout
Don't Tread on Me
I'm a grizzly bear
That's not afraid to bite
I don't look for trouble
But when trouble comes I fight
Because my daddy taught me freedom
Has no lifetime guarantee
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

The winds of change are blowing
And they're sure to shake this land
We stood all we can take
And now it's time to take a stand
Let's tell the men who make the laws
In Washington D.C.
Unfurl again
That ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on me
I'm an eagle
Who is clawing at the sky
I want that banner waving up
Where eagles dare to fly
And blazing in the sunlight
So that friend and foe can see
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on us
We're Americans
And we were born to lead
Our skin is every color
And our faith is every creed
We are 300 million people
But on one thing we agree
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

BLM,

I don't know if Michael O'Donoghue (and yourself?) had a tune in mind when you wrote this, but I have one that Mike probably knew and it fits the words. In fact, as I read it, I heard the words singing the tune in my mind.

It is called "A Forgotten Hero" and was written by Andy Irvine and sung on the Irish album "Patrick Street". Give it a listen at

http://play.rhapsody.com/patrickstreet/irishtimes/aforgottenhero?didAutoplayBounce=true

and see what you think.

For Michael's memory this really should be recorded. If you don't have someone, I do. Let me know.

Slan agat,

galloglas

Tried to access the song, but couldn't.

Michael already had usic for it and has been recorded. I still have some cases of 45s of it back when the 45 was in its last throes.

Bob was one of the many highlights at the National Election Reform Conference in Nashville. We remain thankful that we were able to organize and sponsor the conference and that so many country-loving people "showed up".

For those of you who missed it, I would strongly recommend that you obtain a copy of "Eternal Vigilance: The Fight to Save Our Elections". You can view five clips from the film and order it at www.eternalvigilance.us There is also considerable footage from the conference in Richard Van Slyke's "The Right To Count", another excellent documentary. You can obtain that film at www.therighttocount.com .

If we never stop fighting, we cannot lose.