— Clint Curtis, software programmer, vote-rigging whistleblower turned Congressional Candidate (FL-24), in the new e-voting documentary Eternal Vigilance: The Fight to Save Our Election System.
An enormous number of superb documentary films that cover the topic of our American electoral meltdown are being released. Last week, I quickly ran a preview item on HBO’s Hacking Democracy — premiering Nov. 2nd on HBO — which gives a first-hand account of the detective story as it has unravelled over the last three years concerning the many lies of the Diebold corporation. I’ve now seen the final cut and will have more details on that extraordinary film soon.
In the meantime, I was thrilled recently to get a look at David Earnhardt’s breathtaking Eternal Vigilance: The Fight to Save Our Election System documentary, which tells the story of America’s crumbling democracy and a few of the citizen patriots across the country who are attempting to save it.
Along with a focus on some of those folks, the film’s emphasis is on the impossibilities which seem to have occurred in the tainted 2004 Presidential Election and the likes of which we may look forward to in the weeks and years ahead.
Earnhardt’s film draws a great deal from a series of speeches and interviews filmed in April of 2005 during a National Election Reform Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
I participated as a speaker at several events during that conference, as did computer programmer, whistleblower, and former lifelong Republican Clint Curtis who had, at the time, yet to even dream of running against a very close friend of the Bush clan, the corrupt U.S. House Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Abramoff) — the very man Curtis has alleged asked him to create a vote-rigging software prototype when they both worked for the same Oviedo, Florida, software firm in 2000.
Curtis left the Republican party after being soured on them vis-a-vis his direct experiences with Feeney.
Earnhardt was kind enough to share with The BRAD BLOG the section of the film which introduces the basics of Curtis’ vote-rigging claims about Feeney. It’s a beautifully done segment — and not just because it includes interviews with me as well, but it doesn’t hurt! — which should go a long way towards allowing folks to decide whether Curtis is “crazy” as Feeney’s reprehensible smear campaign and website against him is hoping to trick voters into believing now that they’ve become Congressional opponents.
Here’s the clip (about 8 mins) from Earnhardt’s film which I found to be finally as uplifting and hopeful as it was maddening and heartbreaking. The entire film can be purchased on DVD at the website www.EternalVigilance.us where additional clips from the film are also available.
NOTE: There is yet another documentary, still in the works, wholly devoted to the Clint Curtis/Tom Feeney/Yang Enterprises, Inc., vote-rigging scandal and The BRAD BLOG’s so-far two-year long investigation and reporting of it. That films goes into considerably more detail on the entire breadth of the allegations (including the Chinese spying, the mysterious death of the Florida Inspector General who was investigating Curtis’ claims, etc.). We hope to have details and, perhaps a short preview from that film soon as well.
Please pass the permalink to this article far and wide to help counter the hundreds of thousands of corporate PAC and RNC dollars that Feeney is using in his shameless attempt to discredit Curtis.
While you’re at it, if you’d like to help unseat Feeney, one of the most corrupt members of Congress, please donate to Curtis’ citizen-funded campaign. We’ve spoken to him recently, and he continues to be upbeat about his chances, but while the national Dems have still failed to help his campaign (as with so many others across the country), it’s up to the people to help someone who will fight for electoral integrity get into the U.S. Congress!
(Hat-tip Hotpotatomash for help with the video!)
The Clint Curtis/Tom Feeney/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal series, please see:
– A Quick Summary of the story so far.
– An Index of all the Key Articles & Evidence in the series so far.
– Curtis is now running for U.S. Congress against Feeney.
To support or for more info, see: www.ClintCurtis.com
The publicity email sent to us this morning from filmmaker David Earnhardt follows in full…
The Fight to Save Our Election System
A new documentary by David Earnhardt
Brad Friedman, BradBlog.com
“A vital and important work… Uplifting, encouraging, optimistic…. The ending made me want to stand and cheer.”
Bob Fitrakis, freepress.org
“By far, your film is the best I’ve seen about the 2004 election. You’ve captured the essence of the new voting rights movement in America.”
Bob Koehler, Tribune Media Services
“Very powerful. Clear and succinct.”
Harvey Wasserman, author & journalist
“…a beautiful movie…”
Jonathan Simon, Election Defense Alliance
“Brilliant…powerful…”
PRE-ELECTION VERSION NOW IN LIMITED RELEASE ON DVD
To order and view clips, go to: www.EternalVigilance.us
Eternal Vigilance tells the startling story of Americans being robbed of their basic and constitutional right to vote. It also shows democracy in its purest form by chronicling the struggle of a courageous few who seek nothing more – or less – than their birthright to honest, open, and accountable elections.
Because of the impending elections next month, we have decided to release a special PREVIEW pre-election edition of ETERNAL VIGILANCE on DVD, which you can order for your personal viewing. Or, if you are with a voting rights or election reform group – or simply a group of concerned friends, family and associates – you can hold a screening of
To order your DVD and to view clips of ETERNAL VIGILANCE, go to our website at: www.EternalVigilance.us.
Please pass along this email to your email lists or anybody else you believe would have an interest in our film.
Here is a partial list of those who appear in the preview version of our documentary: Bev Harris, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Brad Friedman, Bob Fitrakis, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Lowell Finley, Victoria Lovegren, Harvey Wasserman, Jonathan Simon, Andy Stephenson (deceased), Bernie Ellis, Bob Koehler, Clint Curtis, Cliff Arnebeck, Michael Grant, Rep. Jim Cooper, The Athan Gibbs Family, Bruce O’Dell, Teresa Hommel, David Cobb, Sonnye Dixon, Charles Kimbrough, Rep. Bob Clement, Larry English, Marybeth Kuznik, Kathy Dopp, Leatrice Tolls
David Earnhardt
Producer, director & writer, ETERNAL VIGILANCE
david@EternalVigilance.us
WOW!
Those of us who know David and who helped Bernie Ellis hold the National Election Reform Conference in Nashville back in 4/05 – the first in-person meeting of a lot of these folks who had together been working on the question of the questionable ’04 election – have been so looking forward to David Earnhardt’s work on the issue!
We’ve seen how David has put his heart and soul into this video, and we hope it will somehow help make a difference! Some of us have seen short clips, been blown away by them, and we can’t wait to see the whole thing!
Go David! Go Brad! Go All Y’all Patriots!
shw
Brad “the October Surprise” Friedman
BVAC: 🙂
Just watched the Curtis video clip: excellent work!
I’m hoping that this issue is snowballing and will soon reach critical mass within the media, citizenry and our government.
– Tom
ps. This shines a bright spotlight on Feeney. Funny, when I saw his picture in the video, he reminded me of Biff in BTTF.
Hey, this kinda stuff should be sent to jack cafferty:
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs...en.government/
OT,…….
Mike Malloy back on the radio at the end of October : Link to Article.
I’m still heartbroken that I didn’t make it to Nashville when all of y’all were there.
Any chance of a city to city celebration tour? I’ll bring one of my famous caramel apple pies…
Notice all these creeps have that same “look”? Compare Feeney’s picture on BB to Thor’s picture. It’s like they’re all related or something!!! The Arian race??? Clint: Mustache, losing a little hair, kind look on his face. Feeney/Thor: Face flushed from high blood pressure, short militant hair, look in their eyes like they’re evil!!! I’m serious!!! That zeolat’s look…”used car salesman” look…
KestrelBrighteyes said “I’ll bring one of my famous caramel apple pies”¦”
Hey I was in Nashville! Why should I suffer because you weren’t there.
Just send me a slice!
Big Dan— Ya know who spooks me ? Karl Rove ! The clip showing long table, bush and co., behind them sits Rove, he turns his head to look dead into the camera… I get chills, have to look away! It’s like looking at evil. And Curtis does have a kind face, this was my first time seeing him on film, and talking. Sure seems credible to me.
Brad, thank you so much for all the attention you’ve given and continue to give to Clint Curtis. I’m a volunteer for his campaign and we’re all trying hard to get more national recognition for his FL-24 challenge against uber-corrupt Tom Feeney. I saw the final edit of “Truth in the Booth” on Monday. You’re a great interviewer and researcher.
Hey y’all..have you seen this yet?
I’m in Tennessee, and I’ve already planned to vote early because I had a feeling something like this might happen. I’ll be contacting my Representative TODAY with this.
Voter Rolls In Four States May Have Already Been Purged
Hey Brad! Ever thought of opening a “tipline” kinda thingie on here? Ideally it would have a space for related URL(s) and a limited space for comment, to keep stuff from falling through the cracks, especially with things getting so crazy in the next three weeks.
Wayne – The pie is in the mail *laughin* sorry, that was too easy 🙂
Kestrel: What can be done, if this is true??? Some day, with all these things going on like K points out, I wouldn’t be surprised to see rioting at election precincts. People showing up to vote, and being told they were purged!!!
Clint is indeed a great guy, had a chance to visit with him in Portland. I am especially heartend to see former GOP folks be able to see the light. And you Brad, damn I wish we could put you up in front of anybody who says elections fraud not an issue…you were great against Lars Larson months ago, any other smackdowns on tape? OK, everybody all together now: “TAKE THE TEST TOM, TAKE THE TEST TOM, TAKE THE TEST TOM!” I can’t HEAR you!
i am one of those unsatified with the 2004 election result from the get go so i hopped on a plane and went to a demonstration called REDEFEAT BUSH put together by a man named David Lytel across from the Capital as the ROBOTS IN CONGRESS along with the Republican majority accepted the rigged electors basically unhitched on January 5th, 2005. A few Dems in the House John Conyers jr., Maxine Waters & Co. did not accept the rigged electors from Ohio although it was Senator Barbara Boxer who stood up to cause this group of criminal yesmen to talk about OH only. Didn’t matter except 2 things:
1. To this day the other 3 stolen swing states of Nevada, New Mexico (would have been the easiest to prove), and Florida (again as in 2000) deserve recognition for historical truth if for no other reason although not even mentioned.
2. Clint Curtis was one of the speakers at this peaceful demonstration against Bush taking office by obviously stolen elections. He was convincing and articulate as he spoke about how he was hired to game the Florida election by Tom Feeney. On that chilly day right smack across from the Capital, while all these congressional people accepted the rigged electoral votes, i thought one day ALL AMERICANS have to hear this story! ALL AMERICANS HAVE TO KNOW THIS STORY.
TRUTH AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
HOME OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE!!
VOTE OUT ALL THESE REPUBLICAN WARMONGERING ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND THEIR DEMOCRATIC ENABLERS LIKE LIEBERMAN currently running AS AN INDEPENDENT !!!
I predict that TEN MILLION Democratic voters will get to the polls across the country this November 7 and find out they are not on the voter rolls.
I predict that there will be no Democratic lawyers ANYWHERE to be seen and no toll free telephone numbers to call.
I predict that the disenfranchised voters will walk away from the polls a little disappointed, but not THAT upset and will think little more of it, just hoping they can get home in time for a new AMERICAN IDOL or LOST or whatever their boob tube is spitting out.
If the Democrats don’t do ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING they can to make sure every single person who should be allowed to vote IS allowed to vote, then, and I mean this with utmost sincerity (in spite of what it means for America and the world), THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE.
Charlie L: It’s the media, stupid! It’s not a big deal, if the corporate MSM doesn’t blast it all over the place. It’s as if it didn’t happen.
If you watch LINK-TV & Free Speech TV, you will see there are a lot of protests going on with lots of people…NOT COVERED AT ALL ON IN THE CORPORATE MSM! So? People don’t think it’s happening.
You’d be surprised, if you ask people at your work a simple question or 2, of something that is FACT (like WMD’s) and WE all know it, but they look at you like you’re crazy. (you’re not stupid, I’m using that famous phrase…you know what I mean!)
It cannot be underestimated, the role of the corporate MSM. It’s more powerful than the military.
3 things work hand in hand:
1. The electronic vote machines, disenfranchizing, etc…
2. 9/11 – even if you DON’t think it was an inside job, they’re STILL using it as an excuse to burn the constitution…
3. The corporate MSM not reporting important news to keep our nation informed citizens.
All 3 work together, all 3 depend on each other.
IE: If the corporate MSM reported on e-vote machine’s being easily hacked into, they’d be gone the day after the first election they were used in.
Habeus Corpus? It’s like NO BIG DEAL in the corporate MSM.
Legalizing torture? No big deal…
Wiretapping? No big deal…
Watch some of the great documentaries on the state of America’s corporate mainstream media…on LINK-TV & FSTV…gee whiz!!! They are strictly viewer supported!!! And THEY are watching the media. They always say, “If the media is supposed to watch the government, who’s watching the media???” I can answer that: LINK-TV, FSTV, Brad Blog, Raw Story, INDEPENDENT NON-CORPORATE/NON GOVT SUPPORTED MEDIA? Who are they accountable to? Their supporters. Who are their supporters? WE ARE! Who supports ABC, etc??? CORPORATIONS! Even PBS takes corporate and government money (although they are pretty good…Moyers, etc…). BUT…they are always trying to infiltrate PBS, we saw that, Moyers pointed that out… They don’t even TRY to infiltrate independent media. Corporate media is “profit-driven”…they must answer to their corporate sponsors, NOT us…
ABC/NBC/CBS: 15 minutes of news, 15 minutes of commercials. All have the same exact stories at the same exact time with the exact same commercial breaks. Click around between them when they cut to a commercial…all 3 have commercials at the same time!
Democracy NOW! news: 60 minutes, no commercials, in depth interviews, no “embedded” reporters. When CNN was reporting the Iraq War, they had “embedded” reporters. WAKE UP! THEY WERE REPORTING THE NEWS THE GOVT & MILITARY WANTED THEM TO REPORT! They ate, slept, and went to the bathroom with the troops. Is that “unbiased” reporting? Reporting on the people who were protecting them? Who’s idea were “embedded” reporters? The govt & the military! Wake up!!!
WERE THERE REPORTERS “EMBEDDED” WITH THE CIVILIANS ON THE RECEIVING END OF THE BOMBS???????????????
Yeah, it was good, but who was that nerdy guy with curly hair and the glasses?
🙂 🙂 🙂