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   Dredd said on 7/4/2007 @ 6:48am PT: [Permalink]

   John,

   A veteran was reflecting on an interesting 28 to 10 vote:

   This charge has the additional advantage of precedent. It was included in the second (of three) Articles of Impeachment voted against President Richard Nixon by a 28 to 10 vote by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 27, 1974.

   That charge was “electronic surveillance of private citizens“ in violation of the law and similar illegalities. Impeachment Article 2 stated that for these abuses:

   “Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.”

   (Unimpeachably Impeachable, emphasis added).

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   Dredd said on 7/4/2007 @ 9:01am PT: [Permalink]

   John,

   On this 4th I wanted to point out some similarities in the EI movement and the 911 truth movement. They both have significant “conspiracy theory” connotations.

   The electronic voting machine (EVM) watchdogs twenty years ago were saying what was said before a committee recently (1988 Article).

   You can shock the hell out of the EVM audience with these quotes from a 1988 official report:

   4.13 Summary Of Problem Types

   4.13.1 Insufficient Pre-election Testing
   4.13.2 Failure to Implement an Adequate Audit Trail
   4.13.3 Failure to Provide for a Partial Manual Recount
   4.13.4 Inadequate Ballots or Ballot-Reader Operation
   4.13.5 Inadequate Security and Management Control
   4.13.6 Inadequate Contingency Planning
   4.13.7 Inadequate System Acceptance Procedures

   …

   Concern had been heightened by a series of articles published in the summer of 1985 in the New York Times. The articles cited statements by two computer experts reporting that a computer program widely used for vote-tallying was vulnerable to tampering. Several elections were identified in which losing candidates claimed that it would be possible to fraudulently alter the computer programs that were used in their contests.

   (NIST Report 1988, bold added). A bit more shock and awe concerns the story about the single tester of EVM’s (The Lone Tester).

   NIST has had an “official attitude” but that may be changing:

   NIST exploring 9/11 conspiracy theory for WTC-7: New witness confirms Scholars previous findings: Madison, WI (OpEdNews) 1 July 2007 ““ The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) appears to be moving in the direction of a “conspiracy theory” about the destruction of WTC-7 on 9/11 just as a new witness has emerged reporting extensive destruction inside the building many hours before it would be demolished. According to James Fetzer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, these turns of events provide further confirmation for the conclusion that WTC-7 was brought down by a controlled demolition at 5:20 PM/ET. “Anyone who googles WTC-7 will see an event that looks exactly like a controlled demolition, just as Peter Jennings and Dan Rather reported at the time. That is why this event makes NIST so uncomfortable.”

   (NIST Changing?).

   Perhaps some of the changes are because official scientists are debunking the official conspiracy theory:

   Former Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering and Assistant Dean at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology. (PhD in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering, Cal Tech). Director of Advanced Space Programs Development under Presidents Ford and Carter. U.S. Air Force fighter pilot with over 100 combat missions. Also taught Mathematics and English at the University of Southern California, the University of Maryland, and Phillips University.

   That guy is Col. Robert Bowman, PhD, U.S. Air Force (ret). He says this about the matter:

   “A lot of these pieces of information, taken together, prove that the official story, the official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is a bunch of hogwash. It’s impossible. “¦ There’s a second group of facts having to do with the cover up. “¦ Taken together these things prove that high levels of our government don’t want us to know what happened and who’s responsible.”¦

   Who gained from 9/11? Who covered up crucial information about 9/11? And who put out the patently false stories about 9/11 in the first place? When you take those three things together, I think the case is pretty clear that it’s highly placed individuals in the administration with all roads passing through Dick Cheney.

   I think the very kindest thing that we can say about George W. Bush and all the people in the U.S. Government that have been involved in this massive cover-up, the very kindest thing we can say is that they were aware of impending attacks and let them happen. Now some people will say that’s much too kind, however even that is high treason and conspiracy to commit murder.”

   (Link to Video, emphasis added). If officials doubt the official government conspiracy theory, why would they not listen to election conspiracy theories?

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   Galileo said on 7/6/2007 @ 6:51am PT: [Permalink]

   If someone turned off the fire alarm in Building 7, then that, by definition, is an inside job.

   Isn’t this the building that was housing the CIA, the FBI, the NSA,and military intelligence?