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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 09:23 AM
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No charges in ouster: Feds won't pursue man who ejected 3 from Bush event
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3965698,00.html

Federal prosecutors have declined to press charges of impersonating a Secret Service agent against a White House volunteer who ousted three people from a speech by President Bush in Denver on March 21.

The announcement was made Friday in a letter to Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar and Reps. Mark Udall and Diana DeGette, all Democrats, who had asked for a Secret Service investigation into the incident.

The three, Alex Young, 26; Karen Bauer, 38; and Leslie Weise, 39, said they were told by the Secret Service that the man admitted ejecting them because they arrived at the event in a car with a "No more blood for oil" bumper sticker. U.S. Attorney William Leone said the investigation was "thorough and complete." "I am certain that the Secret Service would demand, and our office would aggressively prosecute, any person who was found to be impersonating a Secret Service agent if the facts warranted such a prosecution," Leone said in a statement. "This is not such a case."

He added, "Criminal law is not an appropriate tool to resolve this dispute. The normal give and take of the political system is the appropriate venue for a resolution." Young, Bauer, and Weise were bounced from Bush's appearance at the Wings over the Rockies museum at the former Lowry Air Force Base. The event was part of the president's national tour to promote changes to Social Security.



"Federal prosecutors have declined to press charges of impersonating a Secret Service agent against a White House volunteer who ousted three people from a speech by President Bush in Denver on March 21."
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 09:26 AM
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1. Wasn't impersonation one of the tactics used to close
down the vote counting process from public view in Ohio?
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 09:30 AM
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3. Here's some info on that:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2004_11_14_cannonfire_archive.html

Ohio. Activist lawyers plan to contest the election the moment it is certified.

This map explains "Why recount Ohio?" A better title: "Why REVOTE Ohio?" A few examples: Although one county had a seven percent presidential undervote (ballots with no preference for president), one machine counted a mere 51 votes for president among 289 voters. In a college town in another county, students had to wait ten hours to vote because 1500 voters were serviced by only two machines. Impersonators called voters and told them to report to the wrong precincts (and we all know that Ken Blackwell was a hard-ass about getting the precincts right.) These issues add up...
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 10:10 AM
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5. lockdown of Election Headquarters in Warren County
It was a lockdown of Election Headquarters in Warren County, due to a threat from Homeland Security or FBI, both of which later denied they ever issued the level 10 threat.


In Warren County, in southern Ohio, an unexplained Homeland Security alert was cited by Republican election board officials as a pretext for barring the media and independent observers from the vote count. In Warren and neighboring Butler and Clermont Counties, Bush won by a margin of 132,685 votes. He beat Gore in these counties in 2000 by 95,575 votes, meaning an implausible pickup of almost 40,000 votes.
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/01/vote-fraud-links-with-more-to-come.html



Meanwhile, in Warren County, Ohio election officials took a rather unprecedented action on November 2. They locked down the building where the votes were being tallied, blocking anyone from observing the vote counting process. County officials said they took the action in response to a terror threat warning from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. County Commissioner Pat South said they were told by an FBI agent that the county was facing a level 10 security threat on a scale of 1 to 10. George Bush won 72% of the county's more than 92,000 votes.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111204I.shtml



I. Counting Irregularities
A. Warren County Lockdown – On election night, Warren County locked down its administration building and barred reporters from observing the counting. When that decision was questioned, County officials claimed they were responding to a terrorist threat that ranked a “10" on a scale of 1 to 10, and that this information was received from an FBI agent. Despite repeated requests, County officials have declined to name that agent, however, and the FBI has stated that they had no information about a terror threat in Warren County. Your office has stated that it does not know of any other county that took these drastic measures. ...

Sincerely,

Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Rep. Melvin Watt
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Rep. Tammy Baldwin
http://www.yuricareport.com/2004%20Election%20Fraud/ConyersLetterToBlackwell.html

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bucknaked Donating Member (818 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 09:29 AM
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2. Guess that deputizes anybody at a political event.
Wonder if they'd grant us such powers, come '08.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 09:42 AM
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4. Unfortunately the Secret Service has become a joke,
nothing but a tool for a corrupt, unelected "president."
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 11:09 AM
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6. "Criminal law is not an appropriate tool to resolve this dispute."
IOW sue the bastard. He denied them their right to hear their pResident without just cause. Civil suit is warranted. IMO.
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