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   Floridiot said on 10/10/2008 @ 7:20pm PT: [Permalink]

   Same here John, but there is no going back now.

   Keep up the good fight man

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   Floridiot said on 10/10/2008 @ 7:26pm PT: [Permalink]

   A little tuneage fur ya John

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   Agent 99 said on 10/10/2008 @ 9:08pm PT: [Permalink]

   Don’t encourage them, John! 😛

   Stiff upper lip….

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   John Gideon said on 10/11/2008 @ 8:20am PT: [Permalink]

   Floridiot, thanks for the tune man. Mucho appreciated.

   Last night I got an email from a “Daily Voting News” subscriber in Florida. She thanked me for my work and said that I needed to remember that we are doing all of this for “them”. Below her signature line were three names:

   Michael Schwerner James Chaney and Andrew Goodman

   She’s right of course. It is about them and all of the rest of the activists who came before us. All the way back to the activists in the colonies who spoke and acted out against tyranny.

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   David Lasagna said on 10/11/2008 @ 9:29am PT: [Permalink]

   Dear John,
   For what it’s worth–
   I have not been doing this full time as you have but I have been obsessed with election integrity issues since the 2000 election was stolen. For the last eight years I’ve been trying to spread the word on the reality of electile dysfunction in the U.S.A. My fiendish studies on the subject have brought me the clarity and understanding I sought but as you note there is a loss of innocence. With understanding comes a sense of urgency to spread the word on this most unwelcome of subjects. Discussing this with the uninformed whether it’s my representative Barney Frank, Josh Marshall at TPM, or friends, enemies, or family is not just swimming upstream, it’s swimming upstream in a lead straightjacket. Add to that the sometimes abysmal statements and actions of Obama, the only candidate we have, like the FISA capitulation, the bailout travesty, the notion that nuclear power, offshore drilling, and increasing troop levels in Afghanistan are all good ideas and sometimes I just have to give up. I mean why bother. Nobody wants to hear what we have to say and the candidates are both behaving like nightmares.
   But then I see Dennis Kucinich fighting on. A Don Quixote elf in our own time! I see Secretary of State Brunner fighting the good fight. I see evidence all over the place that even as the dark clouds of Mordor spread there is a growing light in the West. And I can’t help but feel that your efforts, all of our effrots, are slowly, so painfully slowly having effect. And there is beauty in the world. I stood within twenty feet of a great blue heron the other day. There’s young Stephanie Trick play stride classic Carolina Shout. There’s music, Martin Sexton, and swing dancing!
   Anyhoo, I just wanted to send you a little solidarity note. You’ve been providing an invaluable service to this country for those of us who’d like to see democracy given a chance. Thanks for all your work.
   love,
   David Lasagna

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   GWN said on 10/11/2008 @ 1:52pm PT: [Permalink]

   John I thank you also. It IS discouraging but what’s the alternative?

   I use many of your links, especially regarding ID for voters, to send to Canadian progressive blogs, my MP’s and PM Harper, although I am sure Mr. Harpocracy doesn’t read them.

   Liberal supporters with signs on their lawns in Toronto have had their had brake lines on cars cut, cable lines and telephone lines too.
   
   Brake Lines Cut

   Thanks again for all your work helping to make the world a better place.

   (here we go again)

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   Adam Fulford said on 10/11/2008 @ 3:57pm PT: [Permalink]

   Ignorance is NOT bliss. It is necessary to know the origins of a problem in order to solve it, whether it is industrial waste leaking into drinking water (as was in news about China today) or statistically impossible election results in American elections. Thanks to the diligence of people like you, I think the whole world is on edge about the integrity of American elections (even Russian newspapers featured articles on American electronic vote-rigging). The United States has become the laughingstock of the world. Even Canadians I know seem to regard the United States as a brilliant and scary bipolar relative with serious delusions. It seems that the only people clued-out about the dangers of electronic voting with no paper ballots in elections are the mainstream American media (such as CNN’s Anderson Cooper), vast sectors of the American electorate, and dead people. Heck, even Homer Simpson knows about it.

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   Brad Friedman said on 10/11/2008 @ 4:21pm PT: [Permalink]

   Just FYI, I was interviewed the day before yesterday by Russian television (Russian Today). Yeah, they’re watching, even if our media are not.

   Thank god John is, and so many of the others who give a damn here at The BRAD BLOG.

   For Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and so many others who have died for the cause. Their sacrifice shall not be in vein…Not if I have anything to say about it. And, as it turns out, I do! As do you!

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   Ancient said on 10/12/2008 @ 7:14am PT: [Permalink]

   Hey John, this quirky sister loves you! I know your a vietnam vet, and just remember what that war on ignorance produced. The world is watching many things, thank God:

   http://www.madcowprod.com/09102008.html