As we head into the holidays (just past O’Reilly’s “nine days of Hanukkah“), the wheels continue to come off, if still maddeningly slower than they should, in one case of White House/RNC corruption and/or fraud after another. We used to be able to keep up with the bulk of it. But no more. We throw in the towel, as developments and new cases are now coming faster than Executive Branch officials can declare a suddenly-discovered need to ‘spend more time with their families’.
In matters of Election Fraud, a particular specialty of The BRAD BLOG, the under-reported pickings, from which we previously had to choose, were mighty, but slim enough that we could at least touch (if not a great deal more) on most of them.
But no more. And thankfully, of course. Even if it’s a bit frustrating not to be able to bring you every step, in every case, as they are now coming fast and furious across the nation.
Several such cases, of what clearly are of enormous import, of late, have received some good coverage elsewhere — for a welcome change. So we take some solace in that, at least, even if we don’t have the resources to keep up with all of them, much less advance them a few steps ourselves, as we always prefer.
But we should at least touch on a couple of them, a bit, for the historical record, here at America’s Election Fraud Authority, The BRAD BLOG. Please read on for some pointers to two emerging and mind-blowing stories of apparently rigged elections, that you may, or may not, have read about yet.
Seriously, read on…
Once such under-reported case here is that of former Alabama Governor, Don Siegelman, who sits in jail to this day, in what seems to have been a Karl Rove-run hit-job, according to one of the Republicans involved in matter, and a successful conspiracy to steal the 2002 election in that state. RAW STORY’s Larisa Alexandrovna has been all over it, in a three part investigative series here, here and here.
Siegelman still sits in jail, as we write, disallowed from speaking to the media, after the Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney brought an apparently trumped-up case against him.
Mark Crispin Miller, this week, has unearthed a startling video interview with Siegelman, taped in 2004, in which the former governor focused on allegations of the out-and-out theft of his 2002 contest. He describes having gone to bed on Election Night after having been declared the victor by 6,000 votes following the publicly-counted results. But then, he was then awoken at about 4:30am with the shocking news that the numbers had magically been flipped after the all-Republican Election Board in Baldwin County had “re-counted” the results, illegally, by themselves, after midnight.
Siegelman’s only guess about what could have happened: “Somebody electronically manipulated the election results.”
The results were then certified immediately by the Republican AG who denied a legally requested hand-count, and the votes were then immediately sealed and locked away beyond reach.
“This election was stolen,” Siegelman alleges in the video, “There is no other kind, or sugar-coated way to say it.”
Watch these videos!…
Alexandrovna reported late this week that 60 Minutes may be covering the story in January. This is a very hot potato.
UPDATE: Glynn Wilson, a former NY Times reporter, has more inside details on the chicanery in Alabama. She also notes, perhaps in inadvertently, one of the major failings of the corporate mainstream media when it comes to detailing with issues of election fraud: “I suspected fraud and was prepared to work my sources at that time and investigate. But since Siegelman basically conceded, I was pulled out of Bay Minette by the Times and sent back home to New Orleans.”
Once again, a candidates concession is reason for the CMSM, somehow, to give up investigation/reporting on a potentially stolen election. While that’s ridiculous, and seemingly counter to the mission of the media, it also underscores once again the need to “get it right on election night” and for candidates to stop conceding before every vote is counted and counted accurately!!!
Another extremely notable case of election rigging to see fresh light, concerns the 2002 New Hampshire Election Day phone-jamming by the Republican Party in that state, along with what appears to be the complicity of (almost certainly) the Republican National Party, in cahoots with (nearly as certainly) both the White House and Justice Department which slow-walked the investigation so that indictments would not be filed until after the 2004 election. That would be called a cover-up to add to the initial crime in which several Republicans have already pled guilty and been sent to jail.
One of the Republican officials who pled guilty in that case, Allen Raymond, is set to tell all in a new book to be released next month (the cover of which is at top-right) called How to Win Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
Greg Gordon of McClatchy offers details on the book, while Paul Kiel of TPM Muck offers the latest developments in the cover-up case, including John Conyers’ letter yesterday to AG Michael Mukasey asking him what the hell is the hold up in investigating the matter, or even in responding to his previous letter of inquiry two months ago. That last is an excellent primer. Go read it!
That all ought to afford you plenty of holiday reading this weekend, and much to talk about with family throughout the rest of the thirteen days of Christmas.
Brad says “what appears to be the complicity of (almost certainly) the Republican National Party”. I think we can move past that after millions of government emails were done thru RNC computers instead of legal White What House computers, so they could be destroyed.
It is time to get beyond speculation about the institutionalization of the obvious vote scam.
When Bradblog is coming up, it has one statement on its banner “Give them enough rope”, but sadly, the rope we are giving them is the rope they are hanging US with.
We must get to the place where our government is always of the people so we don’t have to take it back. These daze government by the people does not exist, for we are ruled by an elite military industrial complex and its blind ideology.
There was coup thinking way back and it has grown into a deceitful monster today.
Electioneering is a prime area BIG BROTHER targets his coup to take government from we the people and give to to BIG BROTHER sycophants. These daze BIG BROTHER is a republican.
But democrats in general are vulnerable too because in general they are not stand up kind of guys and gals once they get into office.
The republicans in general are big brother and brag about it (without knowing it some of the time).
So, we need a party of the people or no party at all, and we need to get rid of the stranglehold big corp and big money has on BIG BROTHER who is addicted to BIG OIL and DADDY WARBUCKS.
They want the coup of electioneering thru massive machine controlled elections to continue and to grow to 100%.
For the most part, save for a few, election officials are the lackeys and minions of BIG BROTHER.
How to rig a republican election (or
twothree or ???) is getting to look like a story from several yawns ago:(ELECTRONIC HOODWINK, emphasis added). I can’t help but recall the words of a master deceiver: “The bigger the lie, the harder it is for common folk not to fall for it”. We are not in America anymore Toto, we are in Amurka.
Republican Ron Paul indicates the advent of fascism in Amurka, saying:
(Raw Story). The reality is that the “when” happened a long time ago. The cross waving political hacks ushered in the bushie daze craze, and that is fascism, according to Paul:
(ibid).
This is all some scary sh*t. Seigelman appears to be a political prisoner held in America. The fact that this can happen to a state governor proves that it can happen to any U.S. citizen.
Well, happy holidays everyone!
– Tom
Ain’t never gonna change until the machines are dead and buried. It is the perfect combination of corruption, control and illegal manipulation while keeping the public, the media and the “losing” candidate far enough removed so that nothing can be proven.
It worked for the mafia, it worked for the communists, it worked for the fascists, now why wouldn’t it work for the republicans?
“BUSH HAS TURN THE WHITE HOUSE INTO A DEN OF THIEVESâ€
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their executioner Lieutenant Rove have disregarded the values so cherished by the Republican Party. Their ideology have been to channel millions of dollars to those party members who have pledged total absolute loyalty to the Bush administration. This includes creating/channeling campaign funds for their elections, making appointments of the undeserving and/or unqualified boot lickers to high Federal offices and awarding large military/government contracts to thousands of companies that are owned directly or indirectly by his supporters. Many of these contracting companies are sham organizations and/or have no accountability.
We in the “South Eastern States†have surely suffered the most from the presidency of Bush. We are facing a very serious dilemma; we have a new strain of government corruption that is immune to the antibodies of the justice system as defined by the constitution which incudes: (a) Election fraud, (b) political favors for illegal campaign contributions (large oil companies, Tobacco Companies, Gambling Casinos, etc.), ( c) corrupt Bush appointed U.S Attorneys that spend millions of dollars profiling high ranking Democrats so that their offices can be freed up for a Bush operative and (d) Bush appointed U.S. Judges that removes the threat of a political comeback by giving maximum sentences with appeal denials and highly restricted/screened prison correspondence.
As usual Brad tries to steal and take credit for everyone else’s investigative work which was done by them at a terrible cost in the trenches and battle fields of the real world.
When he stole my story and crime scene photos of the Ray Lemme case (www.insider-magazine.com)I was a little upset because Brad is another disinformation agent of the CIA, although he did give me a micro-font byline credit embedded deep within that story, I don’t like people who manage the news for the Bush Administration.
In their handling of that story the CIA wanted everyone to believe Ray’s murder was about vote fraud, hell no it was about espionage and treason. So Brad took you down the blind alley and clobbered the real story with Clint Curtis.
Now he is stealing the U.S. Attorney firings case and Siegelman prosecution out from under me and those who really did the work, had their asses beat, were jailed and had their family members murdered, houses burned down over the great cover-up of treason in the court and two Governor’s mansions.
This is precisely why CBS had serious doubts about airing Jill’s story to begin with. It is because careers have been killed, advertising canceled and any investigative journalist who gets close to the truth has his story ripped from under him and replaced with horse shit by a powerful media manipulation organization (CIA) front men who seek to guide the nation down the path to drink their twisted account of the facts.
Check into Brad and 3/4th of the big-gun bloggers out there and see what you dig up about then and their personal backers. It will be interesting to see CBS get the balls to do the right thing once again. Maybe the Russian Raw Story Mafia and the Brad Blog CIA won’t be able to control and manipulate this into the shit can.
John Caylor
Editor/CEO Insider-Magazine.com