- By Alfred Lehmberg AlienView.net 8-28-4
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- I am going to make a rather shameful disclosure to you,
reader. I've been casually disrespecting the foundations of a federal
republic I'd presumed (a result of ceaseless but duplicitous inculcation)
was in better shape than it ~was~. And it is decidedly ~not~ in good shape
I have very fearfully discovered. It is much, much more troubled than
I would have dared think!
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- The shameful disclosure? I have ~never~ VOTED, sir or
madam, not at the State, Local, ~or~ Federal level. My last vote was for
a rally chairman in high school circa 1965.
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- Up until just recently, a fierce independent and ardent
individualist, I was rather of proud of that. I even thought I could justify
it...
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- No more.
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- Retired military, I too conveniently rationalized that
I served my country in other ways, never served in one stateside spot long
enough to feel responsible, and never got excited about the choices I was
offered, anyway! It always seemed to me that our two party system only
presented alternate heads of the same beast. I still believe the latter
to a degree. I digress.
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- What's changed? In a nutshell, it seems the electoral
ballots we cast in our elections... Local, State, And Federal, begin to
fade to an awful and seeming inexorable "invisibility", as we
speak. That's not a metaphor, folks. Our individual vote ~is~ dissolving
to an insubstantial nothingness... a valueless nothingness. An insidious
nothingness.
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- The ballots we cast in our elections, our exercise of
rights in what ~could~ be a glorious republic... have quietly (...so ~without~
appropriate fanfare!) begun to discorporate from a physical reality that
can be checked and verified... into an electronic ~virtual~ reality that
~cannot~ be checked and verified... Electronic TouchScreen Voting. It
should stand the hair on the back of your neck, reader!
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- I had always thought that the vote, as it was ~supposed~
to be practiced in the United States of America, actually ~meant~ something!
I felt well served with that. Insulated.
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- In the fashion that ones vote was presumed recorded,
tallied, and otherwise counted (~recounted~ if necessary!)..., it was an
action taken by an individual in this country that ~actually~ moved a counting
tumbler... somewhere... in the direction that a *voter* had indicated that
it should go... given the choices available to make. That ~was~ the presumption.
This electoral *count*, as ultimately meaningless as it ~may~ have been
(given the proscribed choices), ~was~ effected by an action the *individual*
took... or did not take. I felt safe ...not... voting, given an egalitarian
system of ~some~ ethics in the process where an individual had a snowball's
chance to be heard, to have impact, however small.
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- A person, an individual..., I'd always presumed, ~could~
participate in the process of how they were governed, even if it ~was~
only an illusion of participation. A vote DID count for ~something~...
an either/or of limited choices... but a ~choice~ none the less! ...So
I thought!
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- This, very likely, may no longer be, remotely, the case,
reader! It ~may~ be that your effort taken to indicate a vote ~might~
be as meaningless as a puff of flatulent air! Your individually consequential
vote may be in danger of being rendered (...by canted neo-cons one discovers,
apart from the focus of the film reviewed...) into a ~complete~ illusion...
even if it was only a virtual illusion before.
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- Be that as it may... the always tenuous "popular"
vote has likely ~already~ been hijacked and is in the egregiously stealthy
process of being rendered meaningless... ~your~ will and choice negated
to a worthless exercise in pathetic futility!
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- Oscar Nominated Filmmaker William Gazecki has completed
another compelling documentary giving ~every~ indication that it is as
bad as all that! What Mr. Gazecki outlines (in a compelling montage of
vetted experts...) is an ~outrage~ of pointed disrespect that is bereft
of ~all~ hyperbole!
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- Gazecki outlines a clear and active threat to any SEMBLANCE
of continuing to live in a free society for any one of us! Additionally,
he alludes to an unwarranted, unwelcome, and unnecessary *partisan* holding
arbitrary sway... a monstrously conflicted and non constructive *intrusion*
on that free society (...with regard to the biased and otherwise documented
*spiritual convictions* of the, too few, *owners*)!
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- Who *owns* democracy? Does not an *owned* democracy
cease to be?
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- Gazecki does not go into the neo-conic proprietary ownership
(near monopoly!) of our national voting mechanism in his film, but it is
well known. His contention, instead and even ~more~ significant actually,
is that a proprietary ownership of the voting mechanism by ANY single private
entity is a bad thing. ...A VERY bad thing!
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- ...Very bad...
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- Why is that, you ask? Well... here's just a taste:
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- Because it doesn't *work*! Because it can't be checked!
Because it is too needlessly (and duplicitously!) complicated! Because
it is needlessly or horrifically expensive! Because there's no paper record
produced by it! Because it renders a vote "recount" impossible
and meaningless! Because there is no indisputable audit trail for the
maintenance of the hardware and software! Because it is "overwhelming"
to most poorly trained election workers! Because some of the persons officiating
the corporate aspect of it... are criminals! Because it is effortlessly
~easy~ to stealthily defeat or hack! Because there is no independent oversight!
Because it is difficult to set up and run! Because its software is patched
with unauthorized and undocumented *fixes*! Because we can't INSPECT the
nature of the software code (...which can say ~anything~!) or the hardware
machines (...which can be secretly TOLD to say ~anything~)!
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- ...Because it is turning our system of government wholly
over into the hands of non-accountable and elitist corporate sociopaths!
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- Enough?
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- At best, all this is hobbling and socially regressive!
At worst it's culturally dangerous... a short detour to the cruelest fascism!
Among too many other valid criticisms to list, it is socially static
and unrewarding, and it is without any respect for the individual ~concerned~
about the quality of his individual vote -- its ~biggest~ injury/insult,
in my opinion. Your civil rights are discounted, nullified, and retired!
You (...You!) are betrayed.
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- This evil betrayal of our republic spits in ~your~ face,
reader. Feel rankly dreadful viscous-ness drool down your cheek and into
your open mouth... with my apologies.
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- Sorry if that revolted your sensibilities. It had to
be said. ...Everybody take a deep breath... I won't do that again.
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- Gazecki's 90 minute film, a concerned clarion cry of
cultural warning, provides the individual with a cogent stream of competent
professional people, university professors, United States Representatives,
Election workers, Investigative journalists, systems engineers, research
consultants, software experts... and significant others et al ... ALL suggesting
a very strong potential for a dire threat to our representative government
and free republic! No hype and histrionics here, sir or madam!
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- In one instance, for example, a radical conservative
owned the proprietary rights to the suspect and dodgy touch-screen electronic
voting machines... that put him in office! ~Presuming~ ethical behavior
(...which has a damned good chance of going the other way, and south, ~fast~...
good reader!) is not remotely wise, forgetting that it is a clear conflict
of rational interest that cannot be allowed... or ~remotely~ tolerated...
from ~anyone~! Christ himself! Verily!
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- Allowing the henhouse keys to indicted ~foxes~ already
raping this country is patent lunacy, folks! You'd stop it if you could,
if you knew about it... and you can. I'd mentioned that some of the key
officiators were convicted confidence men... history will look back on
~you~ reader, and wonder... "What the hell was she THINKING"!?!
Gazecki makes no sociological call on any of this, himself, remember,
but showcases the facts for ready inspection by the viewer, regardless.
In all honesty ~this~ time... he reports; you decide. qw
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- I'd suggest that this -abomination- of biased CONTROL
through -our- (...public! You can bet we paid for it!) voting software
and hardware (by an -extremely- canted and partisan minority!), is an affront
to our nation constitutionally, morally and ethically, and it is a clear
disregard of the public interest that should otherwise be served!
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- That's why I'm voting this time, for the first time ~ever~,
folks, "absentee", so there is a paper record (...recommended
for all reading this review!) which can still be counted and remains bereft
of the *Ballot Invisibility* William Gazecki very convincingly describes
in his landmark film. My *vote* (...that I had shamefully taken for granted...)
becomes precious to me when it is threatened to become a ~complete~ charade!
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- The bastards in non-elected leadership should have remained
content just dictating the overall choice I could make. They err in trying
to absolve ~my~ choice completely. Al-Qaeda is preferable to these SOBs!
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- If you've never voted, reader, or are comfortable with
aggregate election machinery that is privately owned, secretly officiated
and arbitrarily controlled... get a copy of this film before not a ~shred~
of democracy remains! VOTE, friends and neighbors! Now more than ever.
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- Oh -- the fix? That's easy!
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- Faster ain't ~always~ better, folks! What price *fast*
if you can't trust it? We take the ~time~ and spend less money (In the
long run) to do a ~hands-on~ job (...with a troglodyte's paper trail!),
RIGHT! A hanging chad is at least VISIBLE, friend! It trumps an "Invisible
Ballot" seven ways to Sunday! Lastly, Congress made this happen,
folks! They can make it "un-happen"! Sweat the bastards! I'm
going to!
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- See -- it's simple. We got into it, simply, in the dark.
We can get out of it, simply (using old, verifiable, technology!) in the
light. To bad if heads have to roll. We'd have had too many real heads
roll... innocent heads... later on, allowing this insanity to continue...
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- Contact www.williamgazecki.com or http://www.invisibleballots.com/
for more info and details. If you saw only one video this year, I've no
doubt that this is the one it should be...
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- Read on, but vote absentee.
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- alienview@adelphia.net
www.AlienView.net
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