Ohio election protection activists have won a landmark court battle to preserve the ballots from 2004’s disputed presidential election, and researchers studying those ballots continue to find new evidence that the election was, indeed, stolen. Among other things, large numbers of consecutive votes in different precincts for George W. Bush make it appear ever more likely that the real winner in 2004 should have been John Kerry. Meanwhile, indictments and prison terms are mounting among key players in that tainted contest.

In King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association et. al. v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, three community groups and five individuals have won a precedent-setting federal decision preserving the ballots from the 2004 election. By federal law those ballots could have been destroyed en masse September 3, twenty-two months after the November 2, 2004 balloting. Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell gave every indication that he would order the records to be destroyed as soon as he could. Admissions have already come from a few counties that illegally disposed of election-related materials well before the

Today in Cleveland at the gubernatorial debate,  which only included the Dems. and Republicans, two of Libertarian Gubernatorial candidate Bill Pierce's supporters showed up dressed as giant chickens named "Ted" and "Ken" and were arrested supposedly for being in the street.

Blackwell was accompanied by a contingent of boisterous, (that is obnoxious and rude) supporters who at one point chanted in unison "commie, commie, commie" at the Fitrakis supporters who were holding signs about the stolen 2004 election.

But of course the most egregious violation of democratic principles was that both the Libertarian and Green candidates were excluded from the debate.

The Libertarians have some good pictures up on their website at: http://peirceforohio.com. 

Some say the globe will end by warming,
Some say nuclear war.
At the risk of being too alarming,
I hold with those who favor warming.
But if religious feuds can't wait
I think I know enough of hate
To say that just a few more missiles
Could end us first
While Dubya whistles.

Apologies to Robert Frost, and to you, and your family, and what would have been your great grandchildren.  We are sending missiles to Iran on a ship departing my home state of Virginia next week, and the water the ship will be passing through is warmer than it used to be, and there's more of it.

"Stealing America...Vote by Vote "
A Film by Dorothy Fadiman
Ohio Premier at the Drexel Gateway Theater, Columbus, Ohio
Sunday, September 24, 7:30 pm.

Dorothy Fadiman's powerful, moving, infuriating, comprehensive and brilliant new film might well be re-named "The Crime of the Century."

We all now know that the elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen.  The only thing that the American people can be proud of about George W. Bush is that they (or we) have never chosen him President.

Fadiman's many awards include an Emmy and an Oscar nomination, and in this excellent film, we can see why.  She uses these 70 cinematic minutes to patiently, methodically and convincingly dismantle any possible remaining arguments against the reality of what was done to the American democratic process in 2004, primarily in Ohio.