SOUTH CAROLINA: "MALEVOLENCE" AND VOTING FRAUD

DID FOLKS THINK THEY WERE VOTING FOR THIS MAN?



CANDIDATE AL GREEN WON IN A LANDSLIDE WITHOUT AN OFFICE, A RALLY, OR AN INTERVIEW



The General Assembly resumes its misrule of S.C.
Back on the Job
by Will Moredock

One more way the system has found to screw us

It's not easy to know whether our state Legislature is just plain stupid, or if there's something deeper — a genuine, intrinsic malevolence.

With regard to our current budget crisis, it's easy to believe we are looking at stupidity. Four years ago, the Republican General Assembly gave huge property tax rollbacks to some of the wealthiest residents — and biggest campaign donors — in the state. They sought to make up the difference with a hike in the sales tax. They did this even as economic advisers and tax experts warned that this was folly, that when the economy slowed down, sales tax revenues would tank.

That's exactly what has happened as South Carolina wallows in the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Today the state faces an $829 million budget shortfall, and this after the budget already has been slashed by $2 billion over the last two years. There is pain throughout the land as agencies reduce services, close offices, furlough workers, cut Medicaid, and even contemplate trimming 10 days off the school year.

One suspects that this is gross stupidity. After all, the anger and anguish of this poor state is aimed directly at the Lege. Our solons look helpless and stupid, and we know that was never their intention, for they are nothing if not vain. They played with fire, and they got burned — along with the rest of us.

Yes, we can mark that one up to stupidity. But the economy is not the only crisis in our state. We have a crisis of democracy, as exemplified by our broken election system. We saw this all too vividly in the Democratic primary last June, the primary in which an unemployed man who had never sought public office, who did not have a campaign staff or an office or even a computer, defeated a seasoned and well-funded political figure who had been campaigning around the state for months.

There has never been a credible explanation for Alvin Greene's 20-percentage-point victory over Vic Rawl. Cynicism about the Democratic primary was inevitable in light of several well-publicized technical and human failures since the iVotronic machines were purchased in 2004 to serve all 46 counties. Most recently, there were at least two major snafus in the 2010 general election.

In November, Colleton County reported 13,045 votes for statewide offices, though only 11,656 ballots were cast. The problem stemmed from voting machines counting 1,389 votes twice, an acknowledged problem with these machines.

In Lancaster County last fall, a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that the usual digital files resulting from an election did not in fact exist. Totaling the votes was done manually. There was a discrepancy between the database at county headquarters and the databases in the individual machines, making the automatic aggregation of votes from individual machines impossible.

These are just a couple of the problems with the iVotronic machines in recent years. In other cases, miscalibrated machines resulted in names lighting up on the touch screen that voters had not selected. Dr. Duncan Buell, chairman of the University of South Carolina Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has warned that the state's voting machines can be hacked.

There is one solution that would solve almost all the voting machine problems and go a long way toward restoring public faith in the electoral process: have the machines issue a printed record to each voter of the ballot he just cast.

"We have no ability in South Carolina to count anything except what gets stored in the memory chips of the voting machines," Buell told a Spartanburg TV station. "There is no paper record."

It just happens that there are several pieces of legislation dealing with election law that have been prefiled as the General Assembly returns to begin its 2011-2012 session. Unfortunately, giving our voting machines a paper record is not one of them.

No, our GOP Legislature is intent on passing laws to reduce opportunities for early voting and absentee voting and forcing voters to produce a photo ID to cast a ballot, even when they have a voter registration card. Research shows that all of these measures have the effect of restricting the vote, and those most often disenfranchised are the poor and the elderly. Why do the GOPers want to push through these changes in the state's election law? They say it is to prevent voter fraud, yet there have been fewer than a dozen cases of voter fraud recorded in the state in decades.

With all the election problems we face in this state, the GOPers are intent on solving a problem that does not exist, even as they disenfranchise thousands of voters in the state. That, my friends, is not stupidity. That is malevolence.

TO BE AS FAIR AS WE CAN BE, HERE IS ONE EXPLANATION OF HOW THE BIG WIN FOR 'AL'OCCURRED:
Why are people over-thinking Alvin Greene’s victory in the Democratic Senatorial primary in South Carolina, where he garnered some 60 percent of the vote? Some suggest he’s a plant of Republican Senator Jim DeMint, his general election opponent, or other evil forces of the Right. Others speculate voter fraud was involved. Still others insist it’s the luck of the alphabetic draw.

Let there be no mystery about how Mr. Greene accumulated his 100,000-plus votes. Here’s the full story behind Greene’s canny three-pronged strategy to beat his well-funded primary opponent Vic Rawl.

Roughly a third of Al’s votes came from soul and pop music lovers who believed they were voting for sexy Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Al Green, nee Albert Greene. Green, who was a superstar who sold millions of records in the ’70s, also evoked sympathy from voters who remembered he was once doused by his girlfriend in a sea of boiling grits. When citizens heard Al’s signature song, Let’s Stay Together, on the radio, they took it as a compelling campaign theme. Here’s one woman’s explanation of her vote.

Candidate Alvin Greene

Another 300,000 or so votes came from Democrats convinced they were casting their ballots for the Reverend Al Green, who, in service of his ministry, recorded many Gospel hits beloved by black and white audiences alike. (Hat tip to Bob Adels.) This association had the added benefit of mitigating the damage from the prospect that Alvin Greene might be jailed for showing dirty pics to a college coed

The final chunk of pro-Greene-ers were folks who thought Rep. Al Green (D. Texas) had carpetbagged over to South Carolina to capitalize on the “If Rand Paul can be a Senator, so can I” craze.
Cleverly, Alvin never staged any rallies or campaign events or gave any interviews, thus avoiding probing questions from investigative journalists about his true identity.

Though Greene wouldn’t tell post-victory interviewers how he raised the $10,500 filing fee to run in the primary, here’s the scoop on that: Every now and then Alvin gets a sizeable, misdirected royalty check meant for soul singer Al or Rev. Al, who, it turns out, are one and the same guy.

Michael Sigman

Michael Sigman is a writer/ editor, media consultant and the president of Major Songs, a music publishing company.

Crossposted from Huffington Post with the author’s permission.

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THE AMERICAN MONKEY CAN'T LET GO --AND IT WILL DESTROY US

I'VE SADLY LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO WATCH ALL THE ERRORS MADE, BEGINNING WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S MURDER OF JOHN F.KENNEDY, AT WHICH TIME WE GAVE BACK OUR DOLLARS TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND STARTED OUR WAR MACHINE THAT RUNS JUST AS DESCRIBED BELOW, WITH DEADLY AND PERMANENT CONSEQUENCES FOR AMERICA AND OUR PEOPLE.

THUS, I AGREE WITH THIS ASSESSMENT.
JVB


REPRINTED FROM LEWROCKWELL.COM:
The American Monkey Can't Let Go

by Fred Reed

Recently by Fred Reed: Awaiting the Storm



Pondering Whither America, I reflected on a story, probably apocryphal but which I am going to believe because I like it, about catching monkeys. Tribesmen somewhere craft a heavy pot with a hole in it large enough that a monkey could insert an open hand, but not withdraw a closed fist. They then put monkey food in the pot. The monkey reaches in, grabs the food and, refusing to let go when the hunters approach, is caught and eaten.

Here we have our politics in a paragraph. The American national monkey can’t let go. The party is over, boys and girls, but we aren’t going to adapt.

For example: When people recently found that they could no longer afford the SUVs, the McMansions, the buying of absurdities in a frenzy of competitive consumerism, they just put it on the credit card. The monkey can’t let go. And now they are screwed.

Same-same domestic policy. The US has played War-on-Drugs for half a century, with no results but to make drugs an integral part of the economy. The evils engendered are great. Yet the monkey can’t let go.

It is internationally that the monkey principle really bites. The country is well on its way to being a merely regional power militarily, economically, and diplomatically. Short of a miracle, short of a conceivable but unlikely catastrophe in China, Americans will soon be medium potatoes. There is nothing we can do about it, but we will bankrupt ourselves trying. We can’t let go.


If you look beyond the Reader’s Digest patriotism of Fox News, and the high-school cheerleading of little Sarah Palin, if you look beyond the national borders, all of this is obvious.

By Chinese standards, America is a small country, having a quarter of its population. Their economy grows at close to double digits. Yes, it may slow down, or it may not. Short of unforeseen disaster, the question is not whether but when the Chinese economy will dwarf the American economy. Tell me why this is not true.

All power springs from economic power. While America decays, plays, and sucks its thumb, China invests. Everywhere. There is nothing unprincipled in this. It is just intelligent commerce.

Do not underestimate these people of the epicanthic fold. I have lived among the Chinese, in Taiwan years ago. I liked them, and still do. I know them to be smart, disciplined, studious, practical – as well as nationalistic and very racially conscious. No, we do not think these attitudes proper. It doesn’t matter what we think.


Note that China has that perfect government, an intelligent dictatorship concerned with advancing the country. The American government consists of self-interested lobbies and Wall Street looters. China is run by engineers, America by lawyers. Watch.

The US is midway through an inexorable suicide. If a country does not manufacture things, it does not have an economy, and manufacturing has fled American shores. Ship-building, steel, consumer electronics, railroads: gone. You may think your HP laptop is an American product, but in all likelihood every component was made overseas and it was assembled in Taiwan.

The country as a whole, as always, looks inwards and doesn’t understand, doesn’t know what stirs without. Communism no longer protects America from Chinese competition.

America is the world’s greatest debtor nation, China the greatest creditor. We cannot possibly repay what we owe, so we must either default or inflate. If another choice exists, I am unaware of it. And yet the government spends, spends, spends, and borrows, borrows, borrows. No one is in charge. No one cares. All line their own pockets. Wait.

Rationally, this would seem a good time to let go of unaffordable luxuries. But no. The US continues to buy things it can’t pay for, to play roles it can no longer maintain, because it pains the national vanity no longer to be the biggest kid on the block. The monkey can’t let go.

The millstone around the American neck is the Pentagon. The direct cost alone of feeding the military contractors is almost mortal to a sinking economy: $720 billion this year, plus another $120 billion requested for the unending wars, plus huge black programs, the Veterans Administration, and so on. A trillion wilting green ones, call it. The more perceptive note the opportunity cost of wasting so much engineering talent, so much money for research and development, on martial zoom-wowees.


China, Russia, the Moslem world, Latin America and all the rest who detest the US must be enjoying the spectacle. Spend on, spend on, oh round-eyed fools….

Vanity. We do not garrison South Korea because Pyong Yang may send its troops across our common border into Arkansas. We do it because we think it our birthright to rule the world. The monkey cannot let go.


Our practical choice is between retracting the military or going down hard. But we cannot retract. Once you have made your economy dependent on huge unproductive expenditures, there is no quitting. It might seem wise for example to reduce the military rolls by the 30,000 troops in South Korea. But they would simply increase the rate of unemployment, already dangerously high. Since most of the military contributes nothing to the defense of the United States, releasing all unneeded soldiers into joblessness would probably precipitate an armed rebellion.

There is worse. Towns spring up around large bases to supply the troops and their families. Close the bases, and the towns die. Closing Camp Lejeune would kill Jacksonville; Fort Bragg, Fayetteville; Fort Hood, Killeen. Further, huge companies – Lockheed-Martin, much of Boeing, and dozens of others – being unable to compete in the civilian economy, have become obligate military suppliers. Cut their big programs and you unemploy tens of thousands for whom there are no civilian jobs.

The federal bureaucracy is much the same, employing vast numbers yet producing nothing. Politicians drone about wanting “smaller government.” How? Eliminate the Departments of Education, or Housing and Urban Development, or Commerce – and where do the people go?

We can pretend that the current recession is temporary, and not a manifestation of dying opulence, just as a fading beauty can pile on the make-up and hope that men don’t notice. We can spend while others grow, buy their goods on credit – for a little while longer. The monkey can’t let go.

And any who say that we ought to put our house in order and come to terms with reality? They will be said to Hate America. Well and good, until the bill comes due.

January 13, 2011

Fred Reed is author of Nekkid in Austin: Drop Your Inner Child Down a Well and A Brass Pole in Bangkok: A Thing I Aspire to Be. His latest book is Curmudgeing Through Paradise: Reports from a Fractal Dung Beetle. Visit his blog.

Copyright © 2011 Fred Reed

NIST: Liars or Just PLANE Stupid? You Decide... (1/4)

NIST: Liars or Just PLANE Stupid? You Decide... (1/4)

WATCH THESE FOUR YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND ASK YOURSELF WHAT THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY IS, SINCE WE THE PEOPLE APPARENTLY WILL SWALLOW ALL GOVERNMENT LIES WITHOUT ANY PROTEST, AND WILL JUST ROLL OVER AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT LIE...EVER SINCE KENNEDY WAS KILLED AND YOU HEARD THE LIE THAT THE INNOCENT LEE OSWALD KILLED KENNEDY, WE THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONTINUED TO BE LIED TO, TO THE DETRIMENT OF OUR NATION AND OUR FUTURE AS A FREE COUNTRY.
"YOU ARE A CONSPIRACY THEORIST!" -- SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A BADGE OF HONOR BY ALL GOOD AMERICANS. IF WE DO NOT SPEAK OUT, WHO WILL? GOD HELP US.


#1: THE ALUMINUM PLANE MELTS INTO THE SIDE OF HEAVY STEEL "LIKE A KNIFE THROUGH BUTTER"





#2: SLOW-MOTION CRASHES SHOW THE TRUTH: NEWTON'S THIRD LAW --THE SMALL PLANE SHOULD HAVE "SPLATTERED" AGAINST THE BUILDING



#3: PEDDLING A HOAX: A FALSE FLAG TERROR EVENT



#4:



I LIKE THIS COMMENT ON THE 4TH VIDEO:

"Well, I don't think it was an animation. There were too many people who were there and saw something hit the WTC. Now I'm not saying it was a plane. But you can't discount the thousands who were there. I think it was a missile of some kind. Maybe even one that was dressed up to look like a plane." 

mattxr2i 2 weeks ago

GET EDUCATED: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

THE PARKLAND HOSPITAL DOCTORS SAW KENNEDY'S HEAD WOUND IN DALLAS -- CLEARLY THE RESULT OF A SHOT FROM THE FRONT (THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM OSWALD'S LOCATION). THIS OBVIOUS FACT WAS COVERED UP BY THE GOVERNMENT.

AFTER WATCHING JFK II, BELOW, PLEASE VIEW THE YOUTUBE VIDEO "JFK AND LEE HARVEY OSWALD" BY LOLA4JVB4LHO.


THE FINE FILM "JFK II" TELLS US THE TRUTH.



JOHN F.KENNEDY LOST A LOT WHEN HE WAS ASSASSINATED, BUT SO DID THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WORLD.

THE RESULT WAS THE VIETNAM WAR, WATERGATE, IRAN-CONTRA, THE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WARS, THE NINE-ELEVEN "TERRORIST" ATTACK, AND THE DEGRADATION AND DESTRUCTION OF A GREAT NATION -- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THE GOVERNMENT LIED ABOUT WHO DID IT. LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AN INNOCENT MAN,WAS FALSELY ACCUSED. THE BOOK ME & LEE: HOW I CAME TO KNOW,LOVE AND LOSE LEE HARVEY OSWALD REVEALS THE TRUTH ABOUT OSWALD, WHO WAS MURDERED TO STOP HIM FROM REVEALING THE TRUTH: THAT OSWALD TRIED TO SAVE KENNEDY'S LIFE.

SECRET SERVICE AGENT ABRAHAM BOLDEN HAS REVEALED, IN THE EXCELLENT BOOK BY JAMES DOUGLASS --JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE--WHY HE DIED AND WHY IT MATTERS -- THAT AN INFORMANT NAMED 'LEE' SAVED KENNEDY'S LIFE WITH A TIP-OFF IN CHICAGO, GIVING KENNEDY THREE MORE WEEKS OF LIFE.

THE GOVERNMENT COVERED UP THE TRUTH.

PASS THIS INFORMATION AROUND AND CONSIDER, MOST CAREFULLY, WHAT WE SHOULD DO TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK.

JVB

MICHAEL MOORE AND OTHERS HELP POST BAIL FOR JULIAN ASSANGE

NOBODY GIVES VOLTAIRE THE CREDIT FOR SAYING,"I DISAPPROVE OF WHAT YOU SAY, BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT."

I DON'T CARE WHO SAID IT --I AGREE COMPLETELY. AND THUS I STAND BEHIND MICHAEL MOORE'S DECISION TO HELP RELEASE JULIAN ASSANGE FROM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 'FOR HIS PROTECTION' WHILE AWAITING SPURIOUS 'RAPE' CHARGES IN SWEDEN DESIGNED TO EXTRADITE HIM INTO U.S. HANDS.

SECRECY IS THE STUFF OF WAR! ABRIDGMENT OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS ALL TOO COMMON. I APPLAUD MOORE'S STANCE.

>HERE'S WHAT MICHAEL MOORE HAS TO SAY ABOUT HIS DECISION: I HAVE PLACED IN BOLD FACE HIS MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENTS.

Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange

By Michael Moore

December 14, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.

Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars.

We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in secret again.

So why is WikiLeaks, after performing such an important public service, under such vicious attack? Because they have outed and embarrassed those who have covered up the truth. The assault on them has been over the top:

**Sen. Joe Lieberman says WikiLeaks "has violated the Espionage Act."

**The New Yorker's George Packer calls Assange "super-secretive, thin-skinned, [and] megalomaniacal."

**Sarah Palin claims he's "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" whom we should pursue "with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders."

**Democrat Bob Beckel (Walter Mondale's 1984 campaign manager) said about Assange on Fox: "A dead man can't leak stuff ... there's only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch."

**Republican Mary Matalin says "he's a psychopath, a sociopath ... He's a terrorist."

**Rep. Peter A. King calls WikiLeaks a "terrorist organization."

And indeed they are! They exist to terrorize the liars and warmongers who have brought ruin to our nation and to others. Perhaps the next war won't be so easy because the tables have been turned -- and now it's Big Brother who's being watched ... by us!

WikiLeaks deserves our thanks for shining a huge spotlight on all this.

But some in the corporate-owned press have dismissed the importance of WikiLeaks ("they've released little that's new!") or have painted them as simple anarchists ("WikiLeaks just releases everything without any editorial control!").

WikiLeaks exists, in part, because the mainstream media has failed to live up to its responsibility. The corporate owners have decimated newsrooms, making it impossible for good journalists to do their job. There's no time or money anymore for investigative journalism. Simply put, investors don't want those stories exposed. They like their secrets kept ... as secrets.

I ask you to imagine how much different our world would be if WikiLeaks had existed 10 years ago. Take a look at this photo.



That's Mr. Bush about to be handed a "secret" document on August 6th, 2001. Its heading read: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US."
And on those pages it said the FBI had discovered "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings."
Mr. Bush decided to ignore it and went fishing for the next four weeks.

But if that document had been leaked, how would you or I have reacted? What would Congress or the FAA have done? Was there not a greater chance that someone, somewhere would have done something if all of us knew about bin Laden's impending attack using hijacked planes?

But back then only a few people had access to that document. Because the secret was kept, a flight school instructor in San Diego who noticed that two Saudi students took no interest in takeoffs or landings, did nothing. Had he read about the bin Laden threat in the paper, might he have called the FBI? (Please read this essay by former FBI Agent Coleen Rowley, Time's 2002 co-Person of the Year, about her belief that had WikiLeaks been around in 2001, 9/11 might have been prevented. SEE BELOW: JVB)

Or what if the public in 2003 had been able to read "secret" memos from Dick Cheney as he pressured the CIA to give him the "facts" he wanted in order to build his false case for war? If a WikiLeaks had revealed at that time that there were, in fact, no weapons of mass destruction, do you think that the war would have been launched -- or rather, wouldn't there have been calls for Cheney's arrest?

Openness, transparency -- these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt. What if within days of August 4th, 1964 -- after the Pentagon had made up the lie that our ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin -- there had been a WikiLeaks to tell the American people that the whole thing was made up? I guess 58,000 of our soldiers (and 2 million Vietnamese) might be alive today.

Instead, secrets killed them.

For those of you who think it's wrong to support Julian Assange because of the sexual assault allegations he's being held for, all I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Please -- never, ever believe the "official story."

And regardless of Assange's guilt or innocence (see the strange nature of the allegations here), this man has the right to have bail posted and to defend himself. I have joined with filmmakers Ken Loach and John Pilger and writer Jemima Khan in putting up the bail money -- and we hope the judge will accept this and grant his release today.

Might WikiLeaks cause some unintended harm to diplomatic negotiations and U.S. interests around the world? Perhaps. But that's the price you pay when you and your government take us into a war based on a lie. Your punishment for misbehaving is that someone has to turn on all the lights in the room so that we can see what you're up to. You simply can't be trusted. So every cable, every email you write is now fair game. Sorry, but you brought this upon yourself. No one can hide from the truth now. No one can plot the next Big Lie if they know that they might be exposed.

And that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. And any of you who join me in supporting them are committing a true act of patriotism. Period.

I stand today in absentia with Julian Assange in London and I ask the judge to grant him his release. I am willing to guarantee his return to court with the bail money I have wired to said court. I will not allow this injustice to continue unchallenged.

P.S. You can read the statement I filed today in the London court here.

http://www.michaelmoore.com

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THE ESSAY ABOUT 9/11, WIKILEAKS, AND FBI AGENT ROWLEY:

WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if?
Frustrated investigators might have chosen to leak information that their superiors bottled up, perhaps averting the terrorism attacks.
October 15, 2010|By Coleen Rowley and Bogdan Dzakovic
If WikiLeaks had been around in 2001, could the events of 9/11 have been prevented? The idea is worth considering.

The organization has drawn both high praise and searing criticism for its mission of publishing leaked documents without revealing their source, but we suspect the world hasn't yet fully seen its potential. Let us explain.

There were a lot of us in the run-up to Sept. 11 who had seen warning signs that something devastating might be in the planning stages. But we worked for ossified bureaucracies incapable of acting quickly and decisively. Lately, the two of us have been wondering how things might have been different if there had been a quick, confidential way to get information out.

One of us, Coleen Rowley, was a special agent/legal counsel at the FBI's Minneapolis division and worked closely with those who arrested would-be terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui on an immigration violation less than a month before the World Trade Center was destroyed.

Following up on a tip from flight school instructors who had become suspicious of the French Moroccan who claimed to want to fly a jet as an "ego boost," Special Agent Harry Samit and an INS colleague had detained Moussaoui. A foreign intelligence service promptly reported that he had connections with a foreign terrorist group, but FBI officials in Washington inexplicably turned down Samit's request for authority to search Moussaoui's laptop computer and personal effects.

Those same officials stonewalled Samit's supervisor, who pleaded with them in late August 2001 that he was "trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing into the World Trade Center." (Yes, he was that explicit.) Later, testifying at Moussaoui's trial, Samit testified that he believed the behavior of his FBI superiors in Washington constituted "criminal negligence."

The 9/11 Commission ultimately concluded that Moussaoui was most likely being primed as a Sept. 11 replacement pilot and that the hijackers probably would have postponed their strike if information about his arrest had been announced.

WikiLeaks might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superiors' seeming indifference. They were indeed stuck in a perplexing, no-win ethical dilemma as time ticked away. Their bosses issued continual warnings against "talking to the media" and frowned on whistle-blowing, yet the agents felt a strong need to protect the public.

Moore's statement to the court:

December 14th, 2010 2:58 AM
WITNESS STATEMENT OF MICHAEL MOORE
WITNESS STATEMENT

(CJ Act 1967, s.9 MC Act 1980, ss.5A(3)(a) and 5B;

Criminal Procedure Rules 2010, Rule 27)

____________________________________________________________________________

STATEMENT OF MICHAEL MOORE

Aged: Over 18

Occupation: FILM MAKER AND AUTHOR

____________________________________________________________________________

This statement (consisting of 2 pages each signed by me) is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.

I, MICHAEL MOORE, care of Finers Stephens Innocent, 179 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5LS make this statement and say as follows:

1. I am a filmmaker, author and political commentator and I produce as my exhibit [MM/1] evidence of my identity in the form of a photocopy of my passport/driving licence. I am an American citizen.

2. I am aware of the various allegations Julian Assange faces in Sweden. I am willing to act as security for Julian in the sum of twenty thousand dollars USD$20,000.

3. I am the director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story, four of the top nine highest-grossing documentaries of all time. In September 2008, I released my first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, documenting my personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. These experiences underpinned my conviction that it is the duty of a free press to probe, and hold government and the powerful to account – and that citizens must be properly informed and have access to information in order to exercise their democratic rights.

4. Governments have always been discomfited by a probing press. With the hollowing out of newsrooms, in large part as a consequence of the new digital world, old media have largely abandoned the territory of investigative journalism.

5. I support Julian, whom I see as a pioneer of free speech, transparent government and the digital revolution in journalism. His commitment to exposing the follies of government and business offers the greater society a chance to protect itself from these follies. Some aren't just follies. Some are crimes. What do we do with someone who informs the authorities -- and in this case it is the free people in a democracy who are the "authorities" -- that a crime has been committed? Do we arrest HIM? Do we try to shut his mouth? Do we hound him, threaten him, track him down and hunt him as if HE is the criminal? He bravely informed the citizenry of what was being done in their name and with their tax monies. That is no crime. That is an act of patriotism. He should be thanked and honored, not abused and jailed. It dishonours this court to be used in this way, holding this man without bail. Julian has made the world, and my country in particular, a safer place. His actions with WikiLeaks have put on notice those who would take us to war based on lies that any future attempts to do so will be met by the fierce bright light provided by WikiLeaks and intended to expose those who commit their war crimes. His actions will make them think twice next time -- and for that we all owe him a debt of gratitude.

6. I believe that Julian takes pride in his reputation and as any journalist would understands that if he were to abscond he would ruin his reputation in the media and journalism industries.

7. I regret that I am out of the country and therefore I am unable to attend court and explain in person that I expect Julian to observe his bail conditions. I am offering to stand and provide security for him abiding by his bail conditions to the value of USD$20,000.

8. I understand that by acting as security for Julian I risk forfeiture of the aforementioned sum to the crown if he breaches his bail conditions by absconding or by not attending Court as and when required.

9. The money which I will pay to the Court, to be held as security, is my own. As I am abroad I am unable to produce any statement as evidence of these funds. However I have already transferred the sum of USD$20,000 into the client account of FSI.

10. I have not been indemnified against the loss of this money in the event of Julian breaching his bail conditions, and understand that if I were to be so indemnified it would amount to a separate criminal offence for which I could be imprisoned.

11. I have been advised by Julian’s solicitors that it would be prudent to obtain independent legal advice in relation to my liabilities as security.

12. I have no previous convictions.

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Whistleblowers' Bill: Check This Out!

WHISTLEBLOWER JEFFREY WIGAND WITH SIXTY MINUTES' MIKE WALLACE:
WIGAND TESTIFIED THAT RAT POISON WAS BEING PLACED IN CIGARETTES TO MAKE THEM MORE ADDICTIVE...AND HE WAS RIGHT!
SIXTY MINUTES WAS AFRAID TO RUN THE SEGMENT--AND WIGAND RECEIVED THREATS AND LOST HIS JOB. THE FILM "THE INSIDER" WITH RUSSELL CROW WAS MADE ABOUT WIGAND AND THE SUFFERINGS HE WENT THROUGH.
WIGAND'S ACTIONS SAVED MANY LIVES AND EXPOSED THE FACT THAT TOBACCO INDUSTRIES WERE MAKING TOBACCO MORE ADDICTIVE, DESPITE LUNG CANCER AND OTHER DANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH SMOKING. HIS REWARD? THIS HIGHLY-PAID INDUSTRIAL CHEMIST AND SPECIALIST LOST HIS FAMILY, HIS HOME, HIS PRESTIGIOUS POSITION, RECEIVED THREATS, AND BECAME A HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY TEACHER.

BUT IT SEEMS THAT NOW WHISTLEBLOWERS SUCH AS JEFFREY WIGAND, IN THE USA, WILL LOSE THE SLIGHT PROTECTION THEY HAVE. READ THIS!!! AND ACT!!!


IS THIS THE END OF THE LINE FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS? GOD HELP US!




WITHOUT PROTECTION, CORRUPTION, WASTE,AND CRIME IN GOVERNMENT AND THE WORKPLACE CANNOT BE SAFELY REPORTED.

REF: http://www.capwiz.com/whistleblowers/issues/alert/?alertid=20736501&type=co
Senate Passes Bill That Destroys Existing Whistleblower Rights
The Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) on Friday, December, 10th, by unanimous consent. As the National Whistleblowers Center has repeatedly stated S. 372 is a bad deal for whistleblowers. There are two poison pills in the bill that fundamentally undermine the small advances in the bill. There is still time to fix the bill.

TAKE ACTION! Stop the repeal of existing whistleblower rights

For the first time ever, federal employees will not be protected for blowing the whistle on a violation of law. The excuse given to justify this dangerous rollback is that it only excludes minor violations of law. The fact is there is no such thing as a minor violation of law. Either it is violation of the law or it is not. Federal managers should not be allowed to decide what laws they can violate.

In fact, this provision overturns one of few Federal Court decisions in 30 years that ordered corrective action for a whistleblower. The provision also runs counter to every major study on how to detect fraud, including the most recent study by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. These studies have found that the best way to detect fraud is to protect whistleblowers who report even suspicious activity because it is often the suspicious activity that leads to the discovery of major fraud.

TAKE ACTION! Demand that House fix the Senate bill before final passage

The second major rollback in the Senate bill is the increased power given to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). Instead of reforming the broken MSPB, for the first time in history the Senate has given the Board the ability to summarily dismiss a whistleblowers case without ever having a hearing. The House resisted efforts in 1978 to give the MSPB this tremendous authority and should continue to do so today.

These two dangerous rollbacks in existing whistleblower protections can be fixed in the House and sent back to the Senate. We cannot allow another generation of whistleblowers to suffer. Urge the House to continue to stand up for real whistleblower protections and fix the Senate bill before passing it.

Whistleblowers were promised enhanced protections. We will not stand by silently and watch Congress destroy existing whistleblowers rights so that they can say they passed something for whistleblowers. Please help us protect whistleblowers by taking action and then passing this alert on to your friends and family.
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Famous Whistleblowers
(Ref: http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/whistleblower/famous/)

Several stories of famous whistleblowers abound in the U.S. press. Individuals who stand up and blow the whistle against companies and or government entities who have engaged in egregious law-breaking conduct are considered to be courageous and heroic by many Americans.

Famous Whistleblowers in U.S.
Here is a brief list of the most famous whistleblowers in recent U.S. history, but hundreds of lesser-known or even anonymous whistleblowers have come forward to reveal wrongdoing in our workplaces and government. Their actions are just as admirable.

Frank Serpico: The first (in the late '60s) and most famous police officer to report widespread corruption in a police department (New York City's), he risked his life to come forward.

Daniel Ellsberg: He risked severe pressure and retaliation from the federal government in 1971 when he leaked the "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times, revealing the secret pretexts for the war in Vietnam. He was a U.S. State Department analyst before becoming a whistleblower.

"Deep Throat" (now known to be the late W. Mark Felt): He gave Washington Post reporters the information about then-President Nixon's involvement in the Watergate illegalities in 1972. This whistleblowing eventually led to Nixon's resignation from office and prison terms for two members of his staff.

Karen Silkwood: In 1974, she exposed serious safety violations at her workplace, a nuclear plant in Oklahoma. The film "Silkwood" is an account of her story; her death at the wheel of her car as she was driving to meet a reporter has been alleged to be a homicide.

Jeffrey Wigand: In 1996, Wigand blew the whistle on the cigarette industry when he revealed the intentional manipulation of nicotine, known as "impact boosting," by his former employer, Brown & Williamson, in an interview on the television program 60 Minutes.


Linda Tripp: She told the Office of Independent Counsel that her friend had committed perjury — starting the whole "Monica Lewinsky affair" in 1998. The Clinton administration then leaked personal information about her, and she successfully pursued a lawsuit based on this violation of the Privacy Act of 1974.


Sherron Watkins: An Enron whistleblower and former vice president, she exposed the highly irregular accounting methods being used by the company to hide the true state of its financial affairs in 2001. Enron later filed the largest corporate bankruptcy on record — too late for investors, unfortunately.

Coleen Rowley: A special agent with the FBI, she revealed the agency's inaction and mistakes that may have allowed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Are You Considering Blowing the Whistle?

==MAYBE YOU DO NOT DARE, NOW!==

CORRUPTION IN 2010, and One BLOGGER'S DEMAND FOR TRUE CHANGE

THE WORLD'S LEAST CORRUPT COUNTRIES, ACCORDING TO TRANSPARENCY.ORG, ARE DENMARK, NEW ZEALAND, SINGAPORE,FINLAND, AND SWEDEN.
THESE COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN AT THE TOP FOR QUITE SOME TIME,ALONG WITH NORWAY AND SWITZERLAND.

CHILE HAS STEADILY RISEN HIGHER AND HIGHER: IT WAS #25 IN 2009, AND NOW IS #21, ABOVE THE USA (#22), DESPITE ITS BEING NEXT-DOOR TO HIGHLY CORRUPT ARGENTINA (MUCH AS WE ARE NEXT-DOOR TO HIGHLY-CORRUPT MEXICO).

WE'RE SLIDING DOWNHILL...GOING OUT, WITHOUT A WHIMPER?
IN 2005, NATIONMASTER'S STATISTICS SHOWED THE USA RANKED #17. IN 2009, IT RANKED #19. TODAY,IT'S #22, UNDER THE UNITED KINGDOM, CHILE AND BELGIUM, AND JUST ABOVE URUGUAY, FRANCE AND ESTONIA.
THAT'S THE WRONG DIRECTION.
America Rising
(REF: http://corruptgovernment2010.blogspot.com/)

The people are hurting. They cannot be fooled forever. The sad fact is that corruption leads to revolution. It can be peaceful, or it can be otherwise. Currently, all over the Internet, discontented Americans are saying tings I thought I'd never read in print.

Here's one example:

"America Rising"

Today the people of America set into motion the plans for a new beginning.
For decades we have stood idle by with our eyes and minds closed, while our leaders, the elite, rip this country apart.
Little by little they have taken away everything that our blood sweat and tears have worked hard to achieve.
We have always believed and trusted in the values that our Country was founded on, so for decades we waited with great virtue and patience.
We put our trust and our livelihood in the hands of our leaders with confidence and without worry; we were betrayed and we were used, as a means to a greater power for them, not for us.
Now their intentions are clear.
Now we can see the malicious acts applied against true Americans.

I want to be perfectly clear to every man woman and child:
America has fallen in the hands of tyrants, and they are stripping us of everything we have.
It is time to stand up to these barbarians and take back our Country.
No longer will we allow Tyrants to nibble away at the heart of America.
No longer will we bow down to a system of corporate giants and corrupt Government tyrants, who live the life of kings and look down on us as mere peasants.

This is our country and we will take back what has been taken from us.
Enough is enough and from this day forward, We the People are putting our lives on the line, for ourselves and for our children.
We are aware of the massive wall of resistance we will encounter, which will include a mainstream media smear campaign designed to stop the popular outrage against the Government.
We (AMERICANS) will be labeled as potential terrorists, racists and traitors, but this label will not change our direction.

We will not give in to tyranny.

This mass group of tyrants is powerful, persuasive, and manipulative and will use any means necessary to remain in control.

We will be wise and learn from their past strategy-- and that is the tactics of false flag operations, which would be designed to deceive the public in such a way that it appears we the people are responsible for whatever violent acts they portray.

No matter what oppositions we face we will endure and we will succeed.

Soon we will see this country flourishing as our founding fathers intended.

Soon we will sleep sounder knowing our children will not wake up tomorrow to a life of poverty.

We are not concerned with mending our current Government; rather we are instituting a new Government, one for the people, of the people and by the people.

Our third president Thomas Jefferson was attributed with these quotes; whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first objective. Thomas Jefferson3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed) 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

President Thomas Jefferson somehow knew what was about to happen and he tried to warn us.

We will not be duly criticized for carrying out the actions necessary to restore control back in the hands of the American people.

I speak now to the members of our current Government; the people have spoken and it has been decided; we cannot correct the current Government structure from within the system as it is now; therefore it is an order of the people that the President and all members of Congress resign immediately.

This is not a request but an executive order of the people.

You can smirk now and ignore this order and refer to it as an outlandish request by a group of American idiots or whatever label you give us.

You can manipulate our Armed forces turning them against us by means of media smear tactics, and you can seek out our leaders and have them silenced.

You can do these atrocities as I know you will; however, the day will come and it will be soon, that you will be in no position to disobey our order.

We are the people and our numbers are greater, our will is stronger and our pursuit of happiness is unbending.

We are coming for you and we will not stop until America is restored and back in the hands of the people where it belongs.

In God We Trust."

I,myself, have been maligned on the Internet, and there is always the chance that this blog post will be attributed to me. However, I am simply the messenger of the bad news.

People have lost their trust in government.

I pray that reform can be made, before it's too late, before great sufferings ensue.

I am deeply ashamed that AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL should not carry the highest rank as a 'clean country'on the face of the earth.

We know that honesty in government leads to a happy and contented people.

Ranked #22 in a world where corruption is rampant?

How can this be?

How did it happen?

it's an old mantra, but tried and true: we need to support the family, we need to issue our own money, we need our coins made of pure silver again, we need to stop enforcing a PAX AMERICANA on a world that is learning to hate us; we must get rid of secret societies and secrecy in government. As John F.Kennedy said, we must smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and start anew, with intelligence gathering --not execution by drones or with 'license to kill' taking out whomever the President (or others behind the scenes) wishes, as the prime directive. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press-these rights are priceless in a free nation.

But I say too much,in an age where anything you say apparently can be held against you.