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[John Karns]

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Mike Orr wrote:

> The article by William Odom is really excellent.
> http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00129
> Talking about how all the major fears of the consequences of a pullout have 
> already happened.  And asking why Democrats have refused to take Bush on.

Hmm.  If only that would happen ...  but perhaps they're wary of being
"Wellstoned"

For those outside of the U.S., with short memories, or both, Paul
Wellstone was a Senator who was willing to stand up to the Busch mafia,
and had voted against the Iraq war in the Senate.

He was considered by virtually all who knew him to be of very high moral 
character, often described as "impossible to dislike", and very dedicated 
to the principles of democracy (as much as that word is being abused by he 
current administration).  He was killed, along with his wife, daughter two 
pilots and two staff members, in a crash of a Beech King plane (25% fewer 
fatal crashes than other planes in its class).  No cockpit voice recorder 
or flight data recorders were found - both FAA requirements - strangely 
missing after an FBI team arrival on the scene from Minneapolis, within 
two hours after the crash.  After conducting an investigation, two 
university professors, James Fetzer PhD., and Don Jacobs PhD., both 
authors of numerous books, collaborated on yet another, "The Strange Death 
of Senator Paul Wellstone", and concluded that it had been an 
assassination.

http://www.oilempire.com.us/wellstone.html

.. then there was the death-by-car-accident of Athan Gibbs (shortly after 
publication of a widely circulated article), an advocate of paper trail 
electronic voting, who had developed a product he called "TruVote" made by 
his company under the same name.  His product could have ended the black 
box vote.

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/853


> I loved it when Michael Moore went up to congresscritters asking whether
> they'd volunteer their sons in the war and giving them a recruitment
> brochure--and the congresscritters ran away.

I liked his published references to "Resident Bush" in alluding to the 
highly suspicious circumstances of the 2000 presidential election.

-- 
John Karns