SwiftVets.com

[Fort Campbell]

[Roon]

[Fort Campbell]

I have three E-Mail addies and I have used one already. But I am going to use the other two to take two more names................IF The Guardain can be trusted.

[msindependent]

[Roon]

It appears that if you try to get a second Clark County address from an email address you have already used, you get the same Clark County address they already sent you. So you seem to be limited to one per email address. So I have received 5 and unless I use my kids or open new email addresses up, that is all I will be able to rescue.

[Rdtf]

[Rdtf]

http://www.cnsnews.com/


UK Paper Urges Readers to Lobby US Voters
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief
October 15, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - A left-wing newspaper in Britain is urging its readers to send letters to registered voters in a "swing county" in the battleground state of Ohio, to share their opinions on next month's presidential election.

The Guardian said its "Operation Clark County" could enable foreigners to make clear to U.S. voters how important the election was in the eyes of the outside world.

"Of course, who you urge your voter to support is entirely up to you," it said, although the paper's editorial policy is strongly anti-Bush, and the "Operation Clark County" webpage carries a link to letters from "three prominent Britons," all strongly urging Americans to support Sen. John Kerry.

Elsewhere on the website, the Guardian introduced the campaign with the blurb: "What voters around the world can do to beat Bush."

On the website, anyone can type in an email address and be sent the name and mailing address of one registered voter in Clark County who is not affiliated with a political party.

Al Gore won Clark County in 2000 by 27,984 votes to Bush's 27,660, but Ohio went to Bush by 50 percent to 46.

"You may not have heard of it, but it's one of the most marginal areas in one of the most marginal states," the Guardian said of Clark County. "It's a place where a change of mind among just a few voters could make a real difference."

The paper urged letter-writers to be courteous and to "remember that it's unusual to receive a lobbying letter from someone in another country."

It said it would only give out each U.S. voter's name once. "We don't want individual Clark County voters bombarded with lobbying letters so this site will assign only one name and address to each user -- please don't pass yours on to anyone else."

The newspaper conceded that the exercise might be counterproductive.

"The Bush/Cheney campaign has made a point of portraying Kerry as overly concerned about what other nations think, and the Democrat's ambiguous debate point about American foreign policy decisions needing to pass a 'global test' has become one of the president's key lines of attack."

The Guardian campaign comes at a time yet another poll of international opinions indicates a strong preference for Kerry over Bush among respondents in 10 countries in Europe, Asia and North America.

Participating daily newspapers in Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Britain, France, Spain, Russia and Israel, were due to publish the results of the survey on Friday/Saturday.

A majority of respondents in Israel and Russia supported Bush over Kerry, while those in the other eight countries backed Kerry:

Russia (Bush 52 / Kerry 4
Israel (Bush 50 / Kerry 24)
France (Bush 16 / Kerry 72)
South Korea (Bush 18 / Kerry 6
Canada (Bush 20 / Kerry 60)
Spain (Bush 13 / Kerry 5
Mexico (Bush 20 / Kerry 55)
Australia (Bush 28 / Kerry 54)
Japan (Bush 30 / Kerry 51)
Britain (Bush 22 / Kerry 50)

In response to another question, a majority or plurality of respondents in seven of the 10 countries said they had a worse rather than better opinion of the U.S. now, than two to three years ago. Israel and South Korea were the exceptions, while the question was not asked in the tenth country, Russia.

On average, 68 percent of those taking part in the 10 countries said that they had a favorable view of Americans as individuals.

The polls were conducted in September and early October, and most margins of error were around three percentage points.

Subversion

The Guardian said that on the day it launched its "Operation Clark County" this week, it received requests from more than 3,000 readers for names and addresses of Ohio voters.

Whether all those requests are from foreigners wanting to influence the election is debatable, however.

Several conservative online "bloggers" are urging their readers to subvert the campaign by requesting a name and address -- with no intention of writing to the Ohio voter -- until the Guardian runs out of names to hand out.

A popular blogger in Australia, Tim Blair, is promoting a retaliatory campaign, asking readers to deluge Guardian journalists with emails (he provides addresses).

"You may not have heard of it, but it's one of the most marginal newspapers in one of the most marginal media cultures on earth," Blair quips.

"It's a place where a change of mind among just a few journalists could make a real difference. Pick one, two, three, or all the names and send your message."

[Fort Campbell]

[Rdtf]

[Scott]

Tim Blair has a blog I read every day: Spleenville.

http://timblair.spleenville.com/
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Bye bye, Boston Straggler!

[Rdtf]

Thank you!

[Fort Campbell]

[Fort Campbell]

Thought some of you might be interested in this. But be forewarned.............there is no privacy anymore due to the Internet.

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UNOFFICIAL CUMULATIVE REPORT PAGE 1

3 Aug 2004 SPECIAL ELECTION
09:24 PM AUGUST 3, 2004
CLARK COUNTY, OHIO


COUNT PERCENT


PRECINCTS COUNTED - This Election 53 100.00

REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL 32,464

BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL 11,572 35.65

PROPOSED TAX LEVY NORTHEASTERN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
CLARK AND CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES
AN ADDITIONAL TAX FOR CURRENT OPERATING EXPENSES AT A
RATE OF 6 MILLS FOR A CONTINUING PERIOD OF TIME
COMMENCING IN 2004.
FOR THE TAX LEVY 2,552 50.33
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY 2,519 49.67



PROPOSED INCOME TAX AND BOND ISSUE
CLARK-SHAWNEE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
AN ANNUAL INCOME TAX AT THE RATE OF 0.5% FOR OPERATING
EXPENSES FOR A CONTINUING PERIOD OF TIME BEGINNING
JANUARY 1, 2005
AND
ISSUE BONDS AT A RATE OF 4.61 MILLS IN THE PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF $24,000,000 FOR THE PURPOSE OF NEW CONSTRUCTION
RENOVATIONS, AND IMPROVEMENTS FOR 28 YEARS COMMENCING IN
2004.
FOR THE INCOME TAX AND BOND ISSUE 553 20.02
AGAINST INCOME TAX AND BOND ISSUE 2,209 79.98



PROPOSED TAX LEVY TECUMSEH LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
CLARK AND MIAMI COUNTIES
AN ANNUAL INCOME TAX AT A RATE OF 0.5% FOR THE PURPOSE
OF CURRENT EXPENSES FOR A CONTINUING PERIOD OF TIME
BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2005.
FOR THE INCOME TAX 1,025 28.21
AGAINST THE INCOME TAX 2,609 71.79



PROPOSED MUNICIPAL INCOME TAX
CITY OF NEW CARLISLE
AN ADDITIONAL 0.5% INCOME TAX (FOR A TOTAL RATE OF 1.5%)
FOR THE PURPOSE OF CURRENT EXPENSES COMMENCING
JANUARY 1, 2005.
FOR THE INCOME TAX 341 29.00
AGAINST THE INCOME TAX 835 71.00



PROPOSED TAX LEVY (REPLACEMENT)
CITY OF NEW CARLISLE
A REPLACEMENT TAX OF 0.5 MILL FOR THE PURPOSE OF
AMBULANCE CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FIRE
DIVISION FOR A CONTINUING PERIOD OF TIME
COMMENCING IN 2004.
FOR THE TAX LEVY 602 50.21
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY 597 49.79



PROPOSED TAX LEVY (REPLACEMENT)
CITY OF NEW CARLISLE
A REPLACEMENT TAX OF 0.5 MILL FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE
OPERATION OF THE FIRE DIVISION FOR A CONTINUING PERIOD
OF TIME COMMENCING IN 2004.
FOR THE TAX LEVY 599 50.38
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY 590 49.62



PROPOSED TAX LEVY (REPLACEMENT)
CITY OF NEW CARLISLE
A REPLACEMENT OF A TAX AT RATE OF 1 MILL FOR
THE PURPOSE OF CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FIRE
DIVISION FOR A CONTINUING PERIOD OF TIME
COMMENCING IN 2004.
FOR THE TAX LEVY 574 48.40
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY 612 51.60


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http://www.co.clark.oh.us


[1AD]

When in the Course of an election it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political power which a foreign newspaper attempts to exert upon the electorate of a Sovereign Nation and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

For attempting to interfere in our electoral process

For attempting to subvert our election laws

For attempting to interfere in the Sovereign right of an electorate to choose their officials without foreign interference


We, therefore, the citizens of the United States of America, , Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of this Country , solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, Free and Independent States and country, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown and its Press, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain and its Press, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States and Country for over 200 years, they have full Power to levy War on the Guardian, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States and Countries may of right do..

Accordingly, as of October 15, 2004 in the year of our Lord, let it be known that a state of hostilities exists between The Guardian and the citizens of this Country who do not wish to see our election subverted by a foreign power.

[Rdtf]

Fort campbell - I just realized this in an earlier post of yours - the author of that one letter:

First, spy novelist [b]John Le Carré, whose real name is David Cornwell. In his letter to an Ohio voter he says:

"Probably no American president in all history has been so universally hated abroad as George W Bush: for his bullying unilateralism, his dismissal of international treaties, his reckless indifference to the aspirations of other nations and cultures, his contempt for institutions of world government, and above all for misusing the cause of anti-terrorism in order to unleash an illegal war." [/b]

Is this idiot trying to win the trip tp Ohio or is he just dumb enough to solidify the fact that almost 50% of the American public will now never buy one of his bad books? Maybe I should give this it's own thread to give it attention.