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| Dr. David Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 54 |
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| Dr. David Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 54 |
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30 November 2000
Thanksgiving - Day 10 - November 23, 2000
Today's events revealed the possible scam of the IRS. The receiver of the Church property was no longer at the address where a group from IBT held a picket. Pastor Tim Gresham from Texas reported his discovery that the company was no longer at this address. This was a newly formed company this year. Upon further inquiry it appears the company has withdrawn from being the receiver passing up a possible $600,000 commission. This posed some questions.
1. How did Judge Barker know about Atlantic Liquidators if it did not exist?
2. Who on the Judges staff presented the company as a viable company for the Judge to appoint as receiver?
3. Would not a Federal Judge make sure that a company was reputable before appointing it to be a receiver?
4. Would not a bonded company be more likely to be appointed as a receiver?
5. Why did the company withdraw from being a receiver after it was brought to light?
6. Could this be another of the hundreds of dummy companies set up by some IRS officials to "legally" receive assets from those who had been prosecuted?
7. Could this be like Travers Inc.? (Four years ago the IRS seized some land that was sold by IBT to Church members. IBT paid investigators who said in their opinion the receiver company Travers Inc. was a proprietary company set up by the IRS officials.)
** A Note From the Pastor **
Dear friend,
We are in desperate need of funds to continue this battle for a free Church and Christian education without state interference. Please send the largest gift possible to Indianapolis Baptist Temple, P.O. Box 11, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206. For all of you who respond we will send you a Scenes From the Battle video.
Please help us today if possible.
"Although George W. Bush has now finally been certified winner of the presidential election, the Clinton administration has shamefully refused to give him access to the transition office. It amounts to petty vindictiveness over a hard fought loss, and displays not only poor sportsmanship, but an irresponsible disregard of the national interest. It seems that even in his final days, Bill Clinton cannot resist one last exhibition of poor judgment."
[Bruce Bartlett ]
"Florida's duly elected Secretary of State Katherine Harris officially certified Florida's election on Sunday night, stating that George W. Bush won the state's 25 electors. That, coupled with Bush's other 246 electoral votes, means Bush won the presidency, right? Well, if you're a network anchorman in the Age of Is, it means next to nothing until the Gore lawyers have climbed every legal mountain. Harris, like the laws she's following, is just an annoying bump in the road."
[L. Brent Bozell ]
"Don't fool yourself. Gore's objections to the election were not formulated after he observed fraud or anomalies in the Florida election. They were part of a pre-formulated strategy conceived in the war room to create the illusion of substantial irregularities to justify a post-election judicial coup.
What Gore didn't anticipate was that popular opinion would turn against him -- he is said to be stunned by Bush's post-election PR success. But this isn't about PR; not everything is spinnable. I have a renewed confidence in America as I watch the Clinton-Gore propaganda machine finally being checkmated by the scrutiny of an acutely engaged electorate."
[David Limbaugh ]
"A common observation about this post-election campaign is that the "winner is the loser," meaning the candidate who doesn't become president will go on to a better political career and a more generous place in history. Given how phony both Bush and Gore have been since the election, it's an understandable sentiment."
[ Dick Meyer ]
"We don't have journalists anymore. We have babies in diapers with degrees from some far-away university who have never, ever sat down at the side of a dirt road on a hot July day and talked to a farmer about his crops, who have never visited a real country store or even a real Wal-Mart for that matter. No, they console themselves with exit polls and trends and what the other political pundits say. They quote each other and themselves and emerge with, as my daddy would have said, "possum-eating grins" on their faces, convinced that no one could possibly be smarter, more astute, more all-knowing."
[ Tony Hays ]
** The Gorism **
When Al Gore went to court to challenge George W. Bush's now-certified election victory in Florida, he insisted that he did so only because he wanted thousands of Florida ballots to be counted for the first time. "Ignoring votes means ignoring democracy itself," Mr. Gore asserted in his nationwide address Monday evening. "Great efforts have been made to prevent the counting of these votes," he charged.
** The Truth **
In fact, with the exception of hundreds of overseas absentee ballots cast by American soldiers and sailors, which Democratic lawyers successfully challenged for hypertechnical reasons, every Florida ballot has been counted at least twice: They were counted on Election Day. And they were counted in the statewide mandatory recount that immediately followed. Ballots in Broward and Palm Beach counties - the two counties that provided Mr. Gore with his biggest Florida margins (210,000 and 117,000 votes, respectively) - were counted at least three times. Even if Palm Beach County had completed its manual recount in time to meet a court-ordered deadline, it still wouldn't have generated enough votes for Mr. Gore to overcome the Bush lead.
Ronald Scott Owens, who hailed from Vero Beach, Fla., recently made the ultimate sacrifice along with 16 shipmates when the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen's Aden harbor.
Now, from what I'm hearing, the ballots of Ronald Scott Owens and almost 700 other Florida military voters may have been deep-sixed for reasons that former President Carter and the Arbiters of Good would already be decrying if we weren't America the Beautiful.
This skulduggery was exemplified in a five-page letter -- a tip sheet, really, on how to zap military absentee voters -- sent by Florida lawyer Mark Herron to like-minded attorneys who've been storming the Sunshine State.
The word is that this injustice took on a life of its own when Democratic Party leaders both in Florida and in Washington did the math and decided the military vote would favor the opposition. Instead of emulating Lincoln's example during our Civil War, Herron and cohorts chose instead to follow Stalin's credo: "It doesn't matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes." As a result, many of those who risk their lives in dangerous places were flat-out disenfranchised.
Adding insult to injury, according to The Miami Herald, "At least 39 felons -- mostly Democrats -- illegally cast absentee ballots in Broward and Miami-Dade counties."
Felons get to vote, but ballots from GI Joe and Jill are tossed in the reject pile over trivia such as the addresses of signature witnesses. Or because envelopes lacked a stamped postmark, even though federal law says one's not required.
Torpedoing other ballots required more twisted logic. For example, according to The Wall Street Journal, a ballot bearing "a domestic postmark because a soldier had voted, sent his ballot home to his parents and asked them to mail it in on time, is thrown out. A ballot that comes with a note from an officer explaining his ship was not able to postmark his ballot, but that he voted on time -- and indeed it had arrived in time -- is thrown out."
In Florida, signatures of our defenders were compared with signatures on registration cards, and if one said Jim Patriot and the other James Patriot, the ballot was trashed. No one seemed to take into consideration that PFC/Sergeant/Captain Patriot's concentration when he voted might have been diverted to scope for terrorists off Aden or land mines in Kosovo or missiles over the skies of Iraq. Ballots postmarked "Queens, New York" or "Jacksonville, Florida" were denied, although even Disney World's Mickey Mouse probably knows these post offices routinely handle overseas military mail.
I still have letters mailed by me from Italy at the end of World War II and from Korea and Vietnam during those conflicts. Not only are none postmarked, I never did run across a U.S. Post Office out where danger lurked and bullets sang, and I would be happy to testify accordingly.
[ Col Hackworth has the honor of being our most decorated soldier. ]
By Paul Sperry, WorldNetDaily.com
Democratic elections officials in Palm Beach County haven't made it easy for a government watchdog group to examine presidential ballots for signs of tampering. Nor have they made it cheap.
After Judicial Watch lawyer Larry Klayman wrapped up five hours of ballot-checking yesterday, he got an eye-popping bill. The county is charging him $1,152 an hour to review the ballots, he told WorldNetDaily.
Klayman will have to cough up about $5,760 this morning before he can continue his audit, which he says has so far uncovered "sloppy" handling of ballots and "discrepancies."
Klayman says the "unreasonable" charge, which he'll challenge in court, is part of an effort to block his probe into allegations of fraud committed by Al Gore supporters during the manual recount.
"They've set up roadblocks every step of the way," he said. "First, they wouldn't give us access, so we had to sue them. Then they don't show up until Monday. Then they wouldn't let us count the votes and look at the disputed ballots. Now they say it's going to cost us $1,152 an hour."
He says officials originally told him they would charge $500 an hour. Judicial Watch, along with voting-fraud experts from a Washington-based accounting firm, were able to inspect roughly 1,000 disputed ballots yesterday.
Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore resisted their efforts from the start, Klayman says.
"She was very snippy and very nasty," he said. "She tried to tell us we had no right to count votes."
Judicial Watch requested the inspection under a Florida law that allows public access to ballots.
Klayman said auditors for Johnson Lambert & Co. found that officials had "put ballots in the wrong piles."
"Bush ballots were found in Gore piles," he said. "It was very sloppy." "They also had no methodology for counting the disputed ballots," Klayman said. "They couldn't tell us how they decided votes for Gore and Bush." Officials did not document how they arrived at their decisions.
"There's no way to trace it back," he said.
Klayman also says several of the paper ballots were destroyed in the machine counting process and were "recreated" by officials or volunteers.
In addition, he says he came across a few ballots that had chads scotch-taped to the back of the cards. He plans to photograph the more suspicious ballots and post the photos on Judicial Watch's website.
Klayman has also requested to review ballots in neighboring Broward County, another Democratic stronghold which agreed to conduct a hand recount of punch-card ballots at the urging of the Gore campaign.
Observers have alleged that ballot-tampering was more rampant there.
[ WND ]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 29, 2000
** Palm Beach County Workers and Volunteers "Recreated" Ballots Damaged By Machine Counting Process
** Other Problems Uncovered by Partial Audit of Disputed Ballots
** Judicial Watch To Continue Ballot Inspections - Seeks To Intervene in Tallahassee Court Case
(Miami, FL) Judicial Watch discovered numerous problems in its examination of disputed ballots in Palm Beach County yesterday. Judicial Watch was granted access to the ballots under Florida law and pursuant to a court order. Johnson Lambert & Co., a public accounting firm with expertise both in counting ballots and in detecting fraud, is helping oversee the Judicial Watch effort.
Judicial Watch uncovered that Palm Beach County workers and volunteers recreated certain ballots which had been allegedly damaged during the machine count of the ballots. Other potential problem areas Judicial Watch found included the failure of Palm Beach officials to devise any standard for evaluating the disputed ballots, the failure of Palm Beach to reconcile vote totals throughout their various counts, chads taped onto ballots, ballots for a particular candidate mislabeled as ballots for another candidate, and the lack of certainty on the part of Palm Beach officials as to the number and location of the disputed ballots.
Some of the disputed ballots from Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties are en route to Tallahassee, per court orders. Judicial Watch will attempt to intervene as a third party in the court matter in Tallahassee in order to continue its ballot inspections under Florida law and in the public interest. Judicial Watch will also offer to assist Judge Sauls in Tallahassee in his evaluations of the Palm Beach and Miami-Dade processes.
"Based on what we preliminarily found in Palm Beach, no one can trust the numbers generated during the manual counts by partisan officials. It may be up to an independent group such as Judicial Watch to provide the courts and the American people with an accurate, non-partisan picture of what occurred in Florida," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman
[ Judicial Watch Press Release ]
On Friday, Nov. 17, David Anderson volunteered to help count ballots manually. Given a stack of absentee ballots, he came across three that had carefully cut tape either covering a punched-out hole in the ballot or holding a chad in place. Anderson says he questioned the all-Democrat canvassing board about the phenomenon, which told him "we were counting the absentee ballots and most likely the voter punched the wrong hole and used tape to put the chad back in and vote for another. The voter was not in a polling place to receive another ballot to use. We bought [this] explanation and continued. Soon we found a third (in about a span of 12 ballots)."
Anderson was also concerned about so-called dimpled chads: "We noticed these mainly on ballots that did not have any candidate selected. Some dimples were so slight that they were hardly noticeable. I have large doubts that anyone can discern the intent of the voter for these ballots. All of the ballots that had the dimpled chads for the presidential column were clearly punched for the other less important races, so I feel the voter did not want to vote for any presidential candidate (we did have several ballots like that)."
If Gore wins, says the volunteer vote counter, it will be because of "the partisan voting of the canvassing board on the dimpled chads," Anderson writes. However, he adds, "I did get the feeling that at least Judge Burton and Theresa LePore (of the Palm Beach County canvassing board) wanted to do the right thing."
or "Fighting By the Rules"
Everyday when GW walked home from work, he would get stopped by three nasty men and they would beat him up and steal his votes.
Finally, GW decided that it would serve his best interest to walk a different route and then take up some self-defense classes so this wouldn't happen again. He joined a karate class and soon was doing very well at defending himself.
So, one day, on the way home from work GW took his old route home and sure enough there they were, Big Al and his whole gang, all in expensive navy blue suits. He walked up to them and the battle ensued. The next afternoon GW went to his karate class with a black eye, a broken nose and a busted lip.
His instructor, shocked, asked him what happened.
"Well," explained GW, "I took my old way home last night so I could beat these guys up who were stealing my votes, but they beat me up before I could get my shoes and socks off!"
(CNSNews.com) - The General Electric Co. is challenging the Superfund law in federal court, alleging that the law gives the Environmental Protection Agency "uncontrolled authority to order intrusive remedial projects of unlimited scope and duration in non-emergency situations."
GE's federal lawsuit says the Superfund law is unconstitutional because it does not allow adequate hearings or an opportunity for judicial review.
The federal lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C., challenges the EPA's authority to issue unilateral orders, many of which require extensive and expensive remedies stretching over many years.
The GE lawsuit comes a few weeks before the EPA is expected to announce whether GE should be forced to dredge the upper Hudson River, to remove PCBs the company legally dumped into the water for three decades - until 1977.
Cleaning up the PCBs, now buried in river sediment, could cost GE up to $1 billion. The EPA has declared a 197-mile section of the Hudson River as a Superfund site.
Wire services quote attorney Laurence Tribe of Harvard University, who is representing GE in the case.
He called the Superfund law "an Alice-in-Wonderland regime of punishment first, trial afterwards -- even in a non-emergency setting. The statute gives EPA the power to skew the evidence, ignore other points of view and order action without any independent review. Then the party has to do the work and wait years for a hearing. Even then, the long-delayed hearing is inadequate because it is not impartial. This offends the Constitution."
TCN - We must have all of OUR government responsible to the people. Endless and unrestrained bureaucracies like the EPA must be reined in. Thank you GE for taking up the fight. Godspeed.
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