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   From: whome@beets.crib.com   
      
   Walter Sickert said the following on 6/27/2004 2:40 PM:   
   > tomac1947@aol.comspamless (The Old Timer) wrote in   
   > news:20040626210342.04692.00000565@mb-m10.aol.com:   
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   >>Just like Hitler declared Martial Law after the Reichstag Fire (which   
   >>wasn't phoney, but definately in the Nazis own best interests), I am   
   >>afraid that we'll be repeating history in our own country to the best   
   >>interests of the NeoCons.   
   >>   
   >>Voting guide sought in terror wake   
   >>By ERICA WERNER   
   >>Associated Press   
   >>6/26/2004   
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   >> WASHINGTON - The government needs to establish guidelines for   
   >> canceling or   
   >>rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again,   
   >>says the chairman of a new federal voting commission.   
   >>Such guidelines do not currently exist, said DeForest B. Soaries, head   
   >>of the voting panel.   
   >>Soaries was appointed to the federal Election Assistance Commission   
   >>last year by President Bush. Soaries said he wrote to National   
   >>Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security Secretary Tom   
   >>Ridge in April to raise the concerns.   
   >>"I am still awaiting their response," he said. "Thus far we have not   
   >>begun any meaningful discussion." Spokesmen for Rice and Ridge did not   
   >>immediately respond to requests for comment.   
   >>Soaries noted that Sept. 11, 2001, fell on Election Day in New York   
   >>City - and he said officials there had no rules to follow in making   
   >>the decision to cancel the election and hold it later.   
   >>Events in Spain, where a terrorist attack shortly before the March   
   >>election possibly influenced its outcome, show the need for a process   
   >>to deal with terrorists threatening or interrupting the Nov. 2   
   >>presidential election in America, he said.   
   >>"Look at the possibilities. If the federal government were to cancel   
   >>an election or suspend an election, it has tremendous political   
   >>implications. If the federal government chose not to suspend an   
   >>election it has political implications," said Soaries, a Republican   
   >>and former secretary of state of New Jersey.   
   >>"Who makes the call, under what circumstances is the call made, what   
   >>are the constitutional implications?" he said. "I think we have to err   
   >>on the side of transparency to protect the voting rights of the   
   >>country." Soaries said his bipartisan, four-member commission might   
   >>make a recommendation to Congress about setting up guidelines.   
   >>"I'm hopeful that there are some proposals already being floated. If   
   >>there are, we're not aware of them. If there are not, we will probably   
   >>try to put one on the table," he said.   
   >>Soaries also said he's met with a former New York State elections   
   >>director to discuss how officials there handled the Sept. 11 attacks   
   >>from the perspective of election administration. He said the   
   >>commission is getting information from New York documenting the   
   >>process used there. "The states control elections, but on the national   
   >>scale where every state has its own election laws and its own election   
   >>chief, who's in charge?" he said.   
   >>   
   >>God help the United States!   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> -- John   
   >>The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.   
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   >>      - Henry Kissinger   
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   > Oh, shit.   
      
      
      
   "There is, of course, no reason why the new totalitarianisms should   
   resemble the old. Government by clubs and firing squads, by artificial   
   famine, mass imprisonment and mass deportation, is not merely inhumane   
   (nobody cares much about that nowadays); it is demonstrably inefficient   
   and, in an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is the sin against   
   the Holy Ghost. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in   
   which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of   
   managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced,   
   because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task   
   assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of   
   propaganda, newspaper editors, and school teachers." --Aldous Huxley,   
   Brave New World   
      
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