RICO lawsuit re: election fraud by Rove et al

[Evan Ravitz <Evan@xxxxxxxx>]

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> http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-YOU-can-do-to-prevent-by-Mark-Crispin-Mi
> lle-080912-383.html
> September 12, 2008
> What YOU can do to prevent another stolen election
> By Mark Crispin Miller
> 
> There's really only one way to prevent another stolen race, and that's to
> focus national attention on the revelations of whistle-blower Stephen
> Spoonamore, who's lately been revealing all we need to know about the Bush
> regime's conspiracy to rig the vote from 2000 to the present. Spoonamore knows
> all the principals in this conspiracy, has been dealing with them for some
> time, and has a trove of emails, etc., to back up what he says.
> 
> There have been several other whistle-blowers on this front, but none is as
> compelling as he is--not just because he knows about the whole plot overall,
> but also because he is (a) a Republican, (b) an erstwhile member of the McCain
> campaign (he quit some months ago, when he discovered what they have planned)
> and (c) a prominent and well-respected expert on computer fraud. Detection of
> such fraud is, in fact, his specialty.
> 
> Spoonamore has named the man who was Karl Rove's IT guru from 2000 until
> sometime last year: Mike Connell, a pro-life zealot who told Spoonamore that
> he had helped the Bush regime subvert elections "to save the babies." (The
> actual nuts and bolts of the election fraud machinery are largely in the hands
> of Christianist fanatics, who have done whatever Karl Rove asked them to.)
> Connell's fingerprints are thick on every dubious election of the last eight
> years--not just the presidential races, but Gov. Don Siegelman's stolen
> re-election in Alabama in '02, Sen. Max Cleland's in Georgia that same year,
> and many others.
> 
> Spoonamore's testimony is the driving force behind a RICO lawsuit in Ohio. The
> lawyers handling it--Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis--are terrific, and they
> have a game plan that provides us with some hope. They intend to order
> depositions of Karl Rove, Connell, Jack Abramoff, Bob Ney and all the other
> major perpetrators of Bush/Cheney's (and McPalin's) fraud. Since this is a
> civil case, those guys can't weasel out of it (cf. Paula Jones); and in any
> case a number of them (including Connell, whom Rove has lately threatened with
> reprisals if he doesn't take the rap) want to testify. Also, the judge happens
> to be highly principled, which is a godsend.
> 
> So the best thing we can do is help to spread the word about what Spoonamore
> knows, first of all, and, no less, to get those depositions out there once
> they're taken. 
> What I urge people to do is to donate whatever they can spare to Velvet
> Revolution, the non-profit that is managing the suit. It was VR's Brett
> Kimberlin who got Spoonamore to open up, and he also has other sources with a
> lot to say. In order to conduct these depositions, and to fight off all of the
> inevitable legal challenges thereto, they're going to need as large a war
> chest as possible. So if you can donate to that, it would be great. (I've had
> some fair success in raising funds for them so far, but they need more.)
> 
> For more, as well as instructions on how to donate, go to
> http://www.rovecybergate.com <http://www.rovecybergate.com/> .
> Authors Bio: Mark's new book, Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the
> Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008, a collection 14 essays on Bush/Cheney's
> election fraud since (and including) 2000, is just out, from Ig Publishing. He
> is also the author of Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform, which
> is now out in paperback from Basic Books, with over 100 pages of new material.
> He may be reached through his blog at markcrispinmiller.com. A movie based on
> his off-Broadway show, A Patriot Act, is available on DCD at
> www.patriotnation.com.  <http://www.patriotnation.com. />





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