Please study the included picture and ask yourself, "Can we afford to have it happen again?"

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Tom Pyle, office of House Majority Whip Tom Delay (T-Tex)
2. Garry Malphrus, former staff director of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice
3. Rory Cooper, staff member, National Republican Congressional Committee
4. Kevin Smith, former GOP House aide who later worked with Voter.com
5. Steven Brody, former GOP Senate aide
6. Matt Schlapp, former House aide and Bush campaign aide
7. Roger Morse, another House aide
8. Duanne Gibson, aide on the House Resources Committee
9. Chuck Royal, assistant to Rep. Jim Demint (R-SC)
10. Layna McConkey, a Senate and House aide and was at Steelman Health Strategies during the effort

Please note: there is not an "other" selection in this poll.

Do something thread

(EDITED TO ADD names)

[KansDem]

1. I'm not a violent guy, but...

If this were to happen at my polling place, these rubes would not be standing much longer. My fist would be "in the air" as well but not for the same reason as theirs...:grr:

edited for clarity...

[HughBeaumont]

2. Look at Tom Pyle (1) and Roger Morse (7).

Don't you just want to kick their fat faces in?

And as it was pointed out in another thread, what these people did was technically illegal since this was in a government building, and they tried to break the doors down and the glass.

What if a group of US did that?

We wouldn't even make it in the door without getting our limbs smashed or maced.

How were these people allowed in, with camera crews no less?

Kind of speaks VOLUMES on whose side the police are on.

Curiouser and curiouser . . .

[ColbertWatcher]

4. I added the names, thank you for reminding me! n/t

[deutsey]

3. Something I wrote back in April 2001

http://www.bartcop.com/coupsp.htm

(That's not my email address on this page, btw)

Thanks to the investigative reporting of journalists such as Greg Palast, more evidence of a coordinated effort to disenfranchise tens of thousands of registered voters (mostly African American) is surfacing in Florida. When these reports are considered within the context of police roadblocks, cases of intimidation, and possible large-scale voter fraud and ballot tampering, fears of an orchestrated dirty election become more substantiated.

There is another aspect of the 2000 election in Florida that remains largely untouched, however: the possibility of a domestic covert intelligence operation designed to make certain that America didn't go Democratic "due to the irresponsibility of its own people," to paraphrase Henry Kissinger's remark concerning overthrowing the democratically elected government in Chile.

Perhaps the possibility of such an operation in the US is too far-fetched to take seriously, or perhaps there isn't enough evidence to proceed with documenting such suspicions. Unfortunately, history proves that the former assumption is naive (Watergate, Iran-Contra, and documented CIA activities against US citizens come immediately to mind). Regarding evidence, it's the nature of the covert beast to leave no fingerprints and smoking guns behind (unless you're setting up a patsy). However, if you can't find a corpse laying around, the stench in the air can often reveal, nonetheless, that a murder victim's body is covered up somewhere nearby.

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5. Countdown kick. n/t