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| Dr. David Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 62 |
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| Dr. David Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 62 |
http://www.wilderness-cry.net/tcn | ||
14 December 2000
"Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law."
This quote from the desenting view of the US Supreme Court's spanking of Al Gore and his buddies on the Florida Supreme court has been completely misrepresented by the state media. They have taken it out of context and perverted the justice's meaning to say that he was condemning his own court, the US Supreme Court, for some kind of partisan political move. NONSENSE!
The loss of confidence in judges as being impartial was when on two separate occasions the all Democrat Florida Supreme Court took it upon themselves to fix an election for Brother Al. Confidence in judges as impartial was lost when recounts in Florida counties overseen by local judges were openly perverted and stacked in favor of Brother Al without those judges saying a word.
The state media may have lost faith in the US Supreme Court as a political ally, but the American people are breathing a collective sigh of relief. They have set aside partisanship, maybe not ideology, but partisanship, and defended the US Constitution.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." --Lord Alexander Tytler on the fall of the Athenian republic
This election tested the metal our Founders founded and once again, their wisdom prevailed. Our beleaguered constitution and electoral system together withstood a craven assault by Al Gore, Bill Daley, Chris Lehane, and the remaining Sore-Loserman cheerleaders. But that's all over with now. Al "the Ankle Biter" Gore hasn't any teeth left. He should clear the playing field, go home, and keep quiet. -- Dorian Ian Atherton
Al and company - it isn't ever going to be the same. Your media will continue to lose audience share and so will your representatives in Congress, in the legislatures, and anywhere a free heart beats in the flyover country you detest. Your mouthpiece Paul Begala related so very well how you feel about all of us, and those words reflect your contempt for the country between the coasts.
From here on in, there will not be a safe Democratic seat in flyover country. I hope all of you Democrats and leftists are sweating. If Al Gore manipulates his way to the presidency, the Democratic Party will be the big loser. Regardless of who ends up in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, conservatives have their groove AND their voice back - and it's about time. -- Diane Alden
"History shows that presidents such as John F. Kennedy, who arrived in office with a razor-slim margin amidst allegations of vote fraud, can move quickly to establish a popular standing." - Dallas Morning News
"Late last night, the United States Supreme Court brought the curtain down on Vice President Al Gore's quest for the White House… ..do the right thing - that is, concede the election - and bring the madness to an end," -- New York Post, Wednesday
"The U.S. Supreme Court last night blocked Al Gore's hopes of reaching the White House, although the justices left it to a dwindling clock to deliver the mortal blow… …the nation must now come together behind President-elect George W. Bush and partisans must put the bitterness of the prolonged contest aside. It is now up to Mr. Gore to accept that verdict with courage and grace, and to call upon his supporters to do the same." -- Miami-Herald, a Wednesday editorial.
By Paul Sperry, WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- Ever wonder how a chad could dimple? Printer Randy Stiles makes chad for a living, and he wonders the same thing.
"It would basically be impossible to do that," said Stiles, a production manager at the printing plant that made the controversial punch-card ballots for Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
He says his own machines don't produce any dimpled chad as they perforate the thousands of ballot cards used by the Florida counties and others around the country.
Stiles, a 12-year employee of Election Systems & Software Inc. in Dallas, says dimpling is a new phenomenon.
"There's some new words that have come up. You know, 'dimpled chad,' 'pregnant chad.' I've never heard about those before this election," he told WorldNetDaily.
"I guess they came up because the election was so close and it brought a lot of scrutiny," Stiles added. "But it's the first I've heard of them."
Because of machine-made cuts around the chad, he says he's skeptical a voter could insert a stylus and fail to poke through the paper.
"If you look at the way the chad is made and look at the way it's attached to the ballot card itself, there's just four tiny holding points at the corners," Stiles said. "Each one of those cut marks between those holding points is made by sharp blades."
Stiles, who's in charge of quality control at the plant, inspects the cut marks to make sure they're "clean." If they aren't, the ballot sheets are "scrapped" and the cutting tools are replaced, he says, while the old blades are "resurfaced."
Hanging chad, however, can occur, Stiles says, if the perforated squares -- 312 per card in Miami Dade and Broward (compared with 228 in Palm Beach County) -- aren't lined up over rubber-lined punch holes in the vote recorders. Dull styluses can also cause chad to break off from one side.
But chad that doesn't break away from either side is virtually unheard of -- until now, he says.
Nonetheless, Broward County was able to gin up more than 500 net new votes for Al Gore by counting what Democratic officials dubbed dimpled or pregnant chad in ballots.
Earlier this month, the Bush campaign filed a complaint against Broward's canvassing board for allegedly tampering with the ballots during its hand recount.
Gore also wants 9,000 Miami-Dade ballots with undervotes for president examined by hand for dimples. The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the recount to review its constitutionality.
Stiles says all chad punched with a stylus leave a kind of fingerprint: A pinhole and a vertical crease from where pressure was applied in the middle of the square piece of paper.
Any dimpled or pregnant chad would most likely also show a pinhole and crease, he says. If they don't, chances are they weren't made with a stylus.
Stiles says he's baffled by Democrats' claims of voters having problems piercing through ballots -- using sharp, pointed styluses -- to vote for Gore.
"According to what we saw," he said, "everything worked right election night."
Stile's company, which is based in Omaha, Neb., supplies punch-card ballots to several Florida counties in addition to Miami-Dade and Broward. Palm Beach County, a one-time client, is not one of them now.
[ WND ]
Al Gore and his supporters have made claim after claim about the essential fraudulence of the Florida results, every single one of which has been rejected by the courts they profess to love so much.
REJECTED: Warren Christopher's contention that the "butterfly ballot" used in Palm Beach County was "illegal."
REJECTED: The insistence that tiny indentations on or near the punch-card chad for Al Gore had to be counted as votes, and that the county canvassing boards did not have the discretion to judge them in every other way.
REJECTED: David Boies's repeated argument that Florida law required manual recounts simply because they had been requested.
REJECTED: The Gore campaign's assertion that Florida's secretary of state did not have the right or the authority to certify the election until every manual recount had been completed.
REJECTED: Boies's novel notion that in filing a contest of the certified results, the remedy sought in such a contest -- the manual recount of disputed ballots -- ought to take place before a judge had even determined that a remedy was warranted under Florida law.
REJECTED: The argument that the Nassau County canvassing board did not have the discretion to determine that in the machine recount, more than 200 ballots had been inadvertently left out -- and therefore that the election-night count should stand instead.
REJECTED: Laurence Tribe's statement before the U.S. Supreme Court that the statutory deadline for the reporting of results to the secretary of state was "Pickwickian."
REJECTED: Boies's assertion that in the "contest" period, the judiciary has unlimited authority to ignore other aspects of Florida election law and consider the Gore camp's claims "de novo."
REJECTED: The claim that recounting only a few thousand disputed ballots in the contest period did not create a "two tier" system making the votes in the three Democratic counties chosen by the Gore campaign count for more than the votes in other counties in which there were no recounts.
REJECTED: The assertion that the Miami-Dade canvassing board abused its discretion by abandoning its manual recount.
REJECTED: The late-entering notions that the supposed hardening of the rubber in the Votamatic devices and the failure to empty them of chads meant that "machine error" was at work.
REJECTED: The argument that the secretary of state should accept the results of partial manual recounts.
REJECTED: The contention that the evidence unambiguously proved manual recounts were necessary because they might change the outcome of the election.
(John Podhoretz)
When the National Education Association's board of directors met this past weekend, they voted to study plans for a more formalized political candidate recruitment and training program.
NEA spokesman Michael Pons said, "our government relations division and the executive committee [will] explore the feasibility of developing a regional cadre to help prepare people to run for office."
School choice advocates will likely regard such a move as harmful to their cause. A spokesman for Ohio's Buckeye Institute said he wasn't surprised at the NEA vote, given its already active involvement in politics, but said the new role for the NEA would make achieving school choice goals that much more difficult.
The NEA is already one of the largest campaign contributors in the country. According to the Federal Election Commission, the NEA's political action committee gave almost $1 million between January 1999 and June 2000, ranking the organization 22nd out of the top 50 spenders nationwide.
Pons suggested that an NEA candidate program could resemble that of the Christian Coalition. "Ralph Reed said, 'I want to be like the grassroots program of the NEA,' and [now the] NEA is looking at the Christian Coalition's effective recruitment and training program for candidates," said Pons.
[ CNS ]
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) . Attorney General Janet Reno on Tuesday blocked the release of a Palestinian man jailed for three years without charges, federal officials said.
The government maintains that Mazen Al-Najjar, 43, had links to Mideast terrorists and was a threat to national security. Al-Najjar denied the allegations. Not even his lawyers have ever seen the evidence against him.
Reno blocked Al-Najjar's release until 5 p.m. Friday, saying in an order given to lawyers in the case that she wanted to ``personally review the appropriateness'' of allowing his immediate release.
When the news of the delay reached the family, Al-Najjar's wife, Fedaa, and his sister, Nahla Al-Arian, sat down stunned on the steps of the Manatee County Detention Center.
``I'm disappointed. It hurts,'' said Al-Najjar's 12-year-old daughter, Yara, who waited outside the center with her family and about 50 supporters.
Last week, U.S. Immigration Judge R. Kevin McHugh ordered Al-Najjar's release on $8,000 bail, saying the government failed to give him enough information to defend himself. McHugh had viewed the classified evidence in chambers. The Board of Immigration Appeal then held up the release, but the board lifted its own order Monday.
The case has been championed by lawyers, civil rights groups and members of Congress who say Al-Najjar's detention without charges and on the basis of evidence he cannot see is unconstitutional.
Attorneys received a phone call telling them of Reno's action just moments before Al-Najjar was to have been released, said Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich.
Bonior last week called for Reno's resignation because of Al-Najjar's case and that of Anwar Haddam, who has been held on secret evidence for four years in Fredericksburg, Va.
Haddam was released from jail provisionally last Thursday. The Board of Immigration Appeals granted him political asylum, but the INS referred the case to Reno, asking her to overturn the ruling. Reno instead stayed the grant of asylum for 45 days to give her time to study the case and hear briefings from both sides.
The INS agreed to let Haddam out of jail on temporary parole with conditions limiting his movements to the Washington, D.C., area.
Al-Najjar and Haddam are among about 20 immigrants, mostly Arabs living in America, who have been held in U.S. jails without criminal charges on the basis of classified evidence.
Al-Najjar, who was raised in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, has been in the United States since 1981. His student visa expired years ago and the INS contends he has been living illegally in this country. He is married and has three American-born daughters.
He and his brother-in-law were associated with the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, an academic think tank affiliated with the University of South Florida, and the Islamic Committee for Palestine, a group that said its mission was fostering better understanding of Muslim issues.
The federal government maintained the Florida organizations fronted for the Islamic Jihad, which has claimed responsibility for terrorist bombings in the Middle East.
Al-Najjar has denied any ties to terrorists.
[ AP ]
That ragged old paper the Clinton/Gore administration hates says in it's 8th amendment, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." That does little to stop Reno and her thugs in the gestapo however.
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