Debra LoGuercio, editor of the Winters Express in California, takes a look at our DIEB-THROAT stories in her latest column for McNaughton Newspapers. She closes with this graf:
We’re glad LoGuercio has noticed, and that more and more such folks are beginning to take notice of what we’ve been yelling and screaming about since at least November 3, 2004 here at The BRAD BLOG
We also join her call for refutation of the points made by DIEB-THROAT in our stories covering just some of the information that the still-anonymous source has shared with us. Those stories, if you haven’t caught them yet, are respectively here, here and here. You can reach LoGuercio at this email address, and you can reach us at this one should you have any information or evidence that in any way questions the validity of our reporting or the information we’ve presented so far from DIEB-THROAT.
So far, that hasn’t been done. As well, we are told that more coverage of our reporting from other media outlets (larger ones) is likely on the way.
Today, Diebold Inc’s stock price stayed largely flat (gaining about .61%), closing at $36.15.
Last February, when we launched our “Divestiture for Democracy” campaign at VelvetRevolution.us shares of Diebold, Inc. (DBD) stock were more than $53/share. The value of the company’s stock has fallen more than 30% since we began our campaign, plunging some 20% in the last week alone since our first DIEB-THROAT story.
The DV4D Campaign put America’s Voting Machine Companies on notice. We let them know we expected them to do the right thing for this country and introduce transparency, security and accountability into the electronic election systems which they were foisting on a misinformed electorate.
We hope that the other major American Voting Machine companies are taking note of what is happening right now at Diebold, and before they get too excited about trouble at their competition, we hope they all understand our promise (The BRAD BLOG is a co-founder of VR) to do anything and everything legally and within our power to hold the anti-American owners and management of all of those companies accountable for putting our democracy at grave risk through their careless and unpatriotic business practices.
Democracy is not for sale. At least it shouldn’t be. And we intend to continue to do something about it. Wherever and whenever possible.
We didn’t set out to write a fundraising article for VelvetRevolution, but now that we’ve written it, we realize, this is as good a time as any to ask for your support of VR, so that we can keep up such work to help take our great country back from the cretins and bad guys that have — and continue to — hijack it from the good citizens of this country.
You can make a donation to VR right here… Thank you in advance! We need it!
P.S. Today, VR placed a new ad in Washington DC’s City Paper to coincide with this weekend’s massive rallies there. More on the latest ad in our campaign here, but here’s a preview for you…
P.P.S. Katrina Wilcox, our Information Manager extraordinaire from VR, will be Guest Blogging here all weekend from D.C. where she’s covering the rally for us! Please come back soon for thoughts, pictures and even video if we’re lucky from on the ground in D.C. all weekend!
I like the ad. Good news re. Winters Express. I pray that more folks at Diebold and other electronic voting companies come forward. Every day we see more consequences from the unaccountability that comes from having a one party government that comes from having eections that are not for real.
Great ad, great work by you guys. It is really impressive that every issue that you have taken on has taken off, election reform, out of Iraq, Dowing Street, media reform. I like the fact that you are saying impeachment, because in six months or a year, with your track record, this guy will be gone. It is my hope that VR takes off in a real revolution and the ’06 elections throw the bastards out for a revival of the age of enlightenment and competence.
Oh HELL no, I don’t know about you but I’m not sitting around for a minute while INCOMPETENT FASCISTS are trying to run the country!!!!!!!
I’m going to do everything there is that can be done, to bring these sucker-asses down even with democrats not in power!!!!
The incompetence is too SEVERE and calculated, these morons could let several states be completely DESTROYED and washington D.C. too!!!!!!
DOWN WITH SEQUOIA AND ES&S!!!!!!!! Let’s get the divestiture campaign and everything moving, DOWN WITH THESE CORRUPT CRONIES!!!!!!!!
Doug
Yeah CENT, I’ll sure miss the age of greed, corruption and Crony Capitalism… NOT
That is a really brilliant ad, the best I have ever seen of its kind. The most important point is clearly implied that the American people CAN evict its leadership even without a formal poll or election telling its leadership what they already know.
"MAKE ME!"
Thanks for the download Brad,I’m putting it on my peace rally sign for tomorrow. Your doing a great job,keep it up and stay safe!
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This is good. Comparing Bush to the corruption and incompetence that existed in the 60’s puts a fine point on their glaring differences. They knew when the game was up. They had the intellect to realize that the people could be fooled no longer. They choose the only option left open to them……..walk away.
They left a legacy of dissappointment.
America was poised to continue its leadership role in the world, and then along came came LBJ who followed bad advice and then ducked and ran when it became apparent.
Nixon thought he could manipulate his underlings to perform tricks for the ringmaster at no cost to his political carreer. Oops, " I’am no crook."
The single charcteristic that distingushes Bush is his lack of integrity. Nixon resigned in the face of impeachment. Bush will not.
LBJ refused to run again when he saw the hole he dug in S.E. Asia.
Bush dumped the lives of young men and women in the hole he dug in the middle east.
The left-handed honor that existed with the presidents of the Viet Nam era does not reside in the heart of the president over-seeing the current macarbe act playing itself out in the cradle of civilization.
So it is up to the people of America to step up to the plate once again.
We have been abandoned and insulted.
What are you going to do about it?
Bush won’t do the honorable thing and resign. I don’t think he can be shamed into it @ he is a psychopath who could never believe he has done anything wrong.
Impeachment is out for obvious reasons, but I don’t think he’ll resign either so what other alternatives are there?
Maybe Rove or some Congressmen will finally break the news to him that he has to resign to save his party. I wouldn’t look for it any time soon though.
It is just so unimaginable that any president could get by with all the wrong he has done and get by with it. I thought when it became clear he lied us into war that that would do it, but nope. Is there anything at all will do this little child in?
It does not sit well with me that an unelected white house resident can appoint supreme court justices. If bush is removed for cheating in elections, do his appointments still stand? They will cripple the US for such a long time.
Can they be impeached along with the other neoconmen?
I know as a military mother, who’s son is about to be held captive for an extra year (stop loss) and sent back to Iraq for another full year, I’m praying the momentum I’m seeing lately holds and we can actually do something about all of this. Maybe he won’t have to spend the whole year there.
I agree I don’t think Bush would ever resign. He’s shielded by the entire bought-and-paid-for administration. I love that poster!!! I’m going to print some and put them up around town in the grocery store bulletin boards and such. Do we really stand a chance?
I chuckle, yet cry, when I’m driving and come to most the stop signs in my city….someone months ago spray painted BUSH on most of them, so they read "STOP BUSH".
River, this article can give you some information. It is interesting and amusing, imo.
http://thomasmc.com/0508gg.htm
Thanks for the link, Nana. I guess it proves that conservatives cannot be against impeachment of judges per se. But that link is about attempts to impeach judges for their incompetence, error, etc. How about getting rid of the bush appointees based solely on the fact of bush’s illegitimacy to appoint any judges at all? Is that going to be possible, or are we saddled with them even if bush/cheney go to jail?
River, i understand your queion, but have not been able to do any reading this hectic weekend. My sons bought me my very own, first computer, and i don’t know how to use it yet.
Per the article, it looks like impeachment can be threatened for just any silly complaint, but i have found nothing specific that could answer your question.
oops , question