Be Prepared to
Protect Yourself and Fight Back
Once considered liberal and
progressive, the Republican Party has been taken over by right-wing
conservative con artists who lie, cheat and steal to gain and maintain power. From voter fraud and suppression to smear campaigns,
personal attacks and media manipulation, they have been using the same
strategies for more than a hundred years. While Democratic Dirty Tricks prominently show up around
FDR's first election in '32, Kennedy/Nixon (Chicago) in '60 and Lyndon Johnson
in '64, these lead to The New Deal, Social Security and Civil Rights while
Republican Dirty Tricks give us depressions, poverty and massive national debt.
Republicans
know if most people vote, they would never win so they try to demoralize the
Democratic base and suppress the vote as much as possible, they buy some people
off with tax cuts and scare the rest into voting against their own interests
and that's how they win. It's a divide and conquer strategy that has worked
well and they refine and expand it every election year.
Republican
Strategy:
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Demoralize the Democratic base with phony
press releases and whisper campaigns.
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Attack opponentsÕ strength with character assassination.
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Suppress the vote in every possible way.
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Buy some people off with tax cuts.
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Scare the rest into voting against their
own interests.
In the
2004 election there was massive GOP voter fraud and suppression; from black box
voting fraud, vote tabulating fraud, re-registering people into different
precincts, destroying voter registration forms, misinformation in poor
neighborhoods, moving polls close to election day, old ballot machines in poor
and black neighborhoods that spoil votes, ballot checking machines in wealthy
neighborhoods that allow wealthy voters to re-cast spoiled ballots, police
intimidation, caging lists and on and on and on. The result was an 8 million
vote discrepancy between the official results and exit polls. The official
results had Bush winning by 3 million votes but the exit polls had Kerry
winning by 5 million votes.
Republicans
have two major factors on their side; a fanatical base willing to carry out the
dirty tricks and the greediest billionaires to finance them. They deceive good
people by raising the red flag of abortion and gay marriage to divert attention
away from their arrogant and greedy policies that cause the poverty, war and
pollution we are facing today. The
next time a Republican tells you ÒAmerica, love it or leave it.Ó Tell them you
love America. You just want right-wing conservatives to stop molesting her. If
they act like they don't know what you're talking about, send them here.
History of Right-wing Conservative
Dirty Tricks
1789 - Right-wing conservatives have deceptively co-opted the flag, religion, Christmas
and our founding fathers. However, George Washington aspired for America to
become a liberal nation:
"As Mankind becomes more liberal,
they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy
members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil
government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice
and liberality." -- George Washington
Separation of Church and State - Right-wing conservatives have flat out lied about history, claiming
"Separation of Church and State" is a myth and that the U.S. was
founded on Christianity to rationalize their radical fundamentalist Theocracy.
However, separation of church and state was established to preserve religious
freedom for everyone. Read More...
Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it mention or refer to god. However it
does say: "No religious test shall ever be required as
a qualification to any office or public trust" -- U.S. Constitution
The 1st Amendment states: "Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof" The
U.S. Treaty with Tripoli reaffirmed the Separation of Church and State and was
written while George Washington was president, passed with unanimous consent in
the U.S. Senate, signed by President John Adams and received no public outcry
and states:
"As
the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on
the Christian religion..." -- US Treaty with
Tripoli - Article 11 - 1797
Thomas Jefferson -
Author of Declaration of Independence, chief advocate of Bill of Rights and 3rd
U.S. President wrote: "Church and state were separated because the
church previously had promoted itself through the agency of the state and to
the detriment of the people." and... "I contemplate with sovereign
reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their
legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation
between church and State." -- Thomas Jefferson
James Madison -
Father of U.S. Constitution, Co-author of Federalist Papers and 4th U.S.
President wrote: "The purpose
of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the
ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries."
and... "Religion and
Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed
together." -- James Madison
"If
the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the
hands of the clergy." -- Marquis de
Lafayette, American Revolutionary War hero also... Christmas
was not widely celebrated by our founding fathers because it was considered an
English tradition based on pagan rituals. In some Colonies/States it was
actually illegal to celebrate Christmas. "In God We Trust" was
not established as the U.S. national motto until 1956 in the midst of the
"Red Scare" and McCarthyism. It also didn't appear on paper money
until the 1950s.
1800 - Conservative Federalist newspapers claimed that the election of Thomas
Jefferson would cause the "teaching of murder robbery, rape, adultery and
incest". Jefferson won anyway, ushering the eventual demise of the
conservative Federalist Party. Read More... Also...
Conservative
Federalist newspaper depicts Thomas Jefferson as a traitorous "Prairie
Dog" handing over the US treasury to France. On the right dances a French
diplomat who says, "A gull for the People."
NOTE: If a Republican claims Thomas Jefferson as one of their own because of
his views on "limited government" remind them that Jefferson's
position was based on an agrarian vision of America. Jefferson was very much
against and afraid of the industrial, capitalist, corporate, free trade
direction Republicans have led us into because of the potential abuse and
suppression of Democracy.
"Under a separation of state and economics, especially with laissez-faire
capitalism [Free Trade], the state no longer has a role to play in protecting
the people and assuring their happiness. Laissez-faire means capitalism is
outside the regulatory control of the state and that the people are entirely at
the mercy of the capitalists." -- Thomas Jefferson
"I
hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid
defiance to the laws of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson
1828 - Supporters of conservative presidential candidate John Quincy Adams
distributed a pamphlet, which claimed: Democratic candidate Andrew Jackson's mother
"was a common prostitute brought to this country by British solders! She
afterwards married a mulatto man with whom she had several children of which number
General Jackson is one!!" Jackson won anyway and goes on to pay off the
U.S. debt for the first time in history and leaves office in 1836 with a
$400,000 surplus never to be repeated until Democratic president Bill Clinton. Read More... 1844 – Right-wing conservative Whig boss Thurlow Weed put out a false
newspaper story alleging that slaves were found branded with the initials of
Democratic candidate James Polk. The article falsely implied that Polk had sold
slaves to finance his candidacy. The Whigs also tried to demoralize the
Democratic Party by forging and circulating a letter that indicated the
campaign was going badly. And the old standby, Whigs printed phony ballots that
mixed up the names of the candidates with their party. Democrat James Polk wins
anyway and expands the United States by more than a million square miles,
across Texas , New Mexico , California and Oregon , more than any other
President. From Òsea to shining seaÓ Polk established the border with Canada
and successfully waged war with Mexico to make the US a complete nation. Polk
also started the Naval Academy , the Washington Monument and issued the first
postage stamp. Read More...
"I see in the near future a crisis
approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my
country... Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1864
Lincoln is shot by a right-wing
conservative, John Wilkes
Booth.
1870s - In the West, agents, working for right-wing, conservative bankers and
railroad industrialists promote gold rushes and land grants to flood settlers
into unsettled land and then sell whiskey and guns to Indians to incite trouble
with settlers and gold miners so US troops can be sent in to remove the
Indians. Line agents also gave smallpox infected blankets to Indians to kill
the women and children. The
Republican administration of Ulysses S. Grant was one of the most corrupt and
disastrous in U.S. history. The "Credit Mobilier" (Railroad) scandal,
the "Whiskey Ring" scandal and the Depression of 1873 led to the
quick end of reconstruction in the South and left newly freed slaves at the
mercy of southern retribution for more than 80 years. The Whiskey Ring Scandal
involved a group of distillers who were found falsifying reports and cheating
the government out of millions in tax dollars. Many of president Grant's
appointees were involved in the scandal including Grant's personal secretary,
Orville E. Babcock. Even though the prosecutor had mounds of evidence against
him, Babcock was acquitted but was forced to resign.
The
Railroad Scandal collusion between industrialists and key
Republican congressman and members of the Grant administration who arranged for
the Credit Mobilier holding company to receive government land and money to
build a railroad out west orchestrated the greatest financial scandal of the
nineteenth century. In return these men received bribes and kickbacks and the
railroad was never built.
Many railroad builders viewed the Plains Indians as obstacles to be
removed. General William Tecumseh Sherman had written in 1867: "The more
we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next year, for the
more I see of these Indians the more convinced I am that they all have to be
killed or be maintained as a species of paupers."
Custer's
Last Stand In 1876, president Grant's Secretary of War, William
Belknep, was under investigation for accepting bribes in connection with the
Indian Agency. Belknap also sold trading post appointments (along with Grants
brother Orvil) and received kickbacks that caused high prices at the trading
posts where U.S. soldiers were forced, by regulations to buy from exclusively.
Lt. Col. George Custer had previously arrested Ulysses S. Grant's son, Fred,
during the Black Hills Expedition and now began an investigation into the
trading post corruption. He labeled the traders "a bunch of crooks,"
adding that Secretary Belknap was the "chief of the thieves." Custer
was being groomed by Democrats to run for president in the next election but
before he could give congressional testimony about the corruption, Custer found
himself surrounded by hundreds of Indians armed with hundreds of new repeating
rifles against Army issue, single shot rifles. Where did those dirt poor,
Indians get all that high tech firepower?
The Battle
of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's Last Stand," coincidentally
solved all the Republicans problems by taking the focus off their scandals and
was also used to inflame Indian hatred and remove the rest of the Indians in
the West, allowing the railroad corruption to continue. Over the course of
Grant's presidency, all of the executive departments came under congressional
investigation. Read More...
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Corporate
Personhood - The 14th Amendment, which was supposed to protect
African Americans, was ultimately contorted to extend human rights to
corporations. Over the next 20 years the Supreme Court is packed with pro
corporate justices. Of the 14th Amendment cases brought before the Supreme
Court between 1890 and 1910 nineteen of them dealt with African Americans, 288
were argued to protect corporations. Below is a sample of the cases, which were
settled in favor of "Corporate Personhood". 1886 - Santa Clara
County v. Southern Pacific Railroad - ÒThe court does not wish to hear argument
on the question whether the provision in the 14th Amendment to the
Constitution... applies to corporations. We are all of the opinion that it
doesÓ This statement by the Supreme Court gave corporations the status of
"Corporate Personhood" and claim to equal protection under law of all
U.S. human rights.
1889 - Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad v. Beckwith - Supreme Court rules
a corporation is a ÒpersonÓ for both due process and equal protection. 1893 - Noble v. Union River - Supreme Court rules corporations have claim to
the Bill of Rights.
1908 - Armour Packing Co. v. U.S. - Supreme Court rules corporations get 6th
Amendment right to jury trial in a criminal case. A corporate defendant is now
considered the Òaccused.Ó Of the 14th Amendment cases brought before the
Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910 nineteen dealt with African Americans, 288
protected corporations. 1938
- Conn. General Life Ins. v. Johnson - Upholds
"Corporate Personhood." Justice Black dissents:" I do not
believe the word ÔpersonÕ in the Fourteenth Amendment includes corporations.Ó
1947 - Taft-Hartley Act - Supreme Court rules corporations are granted Òfree
speech.Ó
1949 - Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander - Upholds "Corporate Personhood"
ruling that corporations are given rights as persons under the 14th Amendment.
1967 - See v. City of Seattle - Supreme Court grants corporations 4th
Amendment protection from random inspection by fire departments.
1976 - Buckley v. Valeo - The Supreme Court rules that political money is
equivalent to speech extending the right for corporations to donate money to
political candidates and parties.
1976 - Virginia Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Consumer Council - The Supreme
Court protects commercial speech. Corporate advertising is now free speech.
1977 - First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti - Upholds "Corporate
Personhood." Dissent by Justices White, Brennan, Marshall:Ò...the special
status of corporations has placed them in a position to control vast amounts of
economic power which may, if not regulated, dominate not only our economy but
the very heart of our democracy, the electoral process...The State need not
allow its own creation to consume it.Ó
1977 - First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti - The First Amendment is used
to overturn state restrictions on corporate spending on political referenda.
This precedent is used, with Buckley v. Valeo, to thwart attempts to remove
corporate money from politics. The power of the people in America is now
nullified by corporate wealth and power.
By 1977 the power of the American people
is nullified by corporate wealth and power. Unequal
Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and theft of human rights
by Thom Hartmann
1884 - Democrat, Grover Cleveland years earlier had fathered an illegitimate
child. He had taken full financial responsibility for his offspring and
publicly acknowledged that he had made a mistake. Republican opponents,
however, kept the matter in the public mind by chanting, "Ma, Ma, where's
my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha, ha, ha." The Republican opponent had
engaged in questionable investment schemes while on the public payroll so
Democratic partisans used the refrain, "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine,
the continental liar from the state of Maine!" Read More... "Corporations, which should
be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the
people, are fast becoming the people's masters." -- Grover Cleveland
1888 – Democrat, Grover Cleveland was ousted by a single Republican
Dirty Trick. Posing as Charles Murchison, a naturalized Englishman, living in
California , Republican operative George Osgoodby forged a letter to British
ambassador to the United States , Sir Lionel West asking which candidate would
be best for Great Britain . The ambassadors reply letter was published,
indicating his endorsement of Cleveland . The large Irish immigrant community
hated Great Britain and Cleveland lost the critical Irish vote in New York and
the election.
Dirty Tricks in American Politics
1912 - Teddy Roosevelt strengthened regulations on big business, bringing 44
lawsuits against corporate monopolies (including: Rockefeller, Carnegie, Schwab
and J.P. Morgan) and established a new federal Department of Labor and
Commerce, which earned Roosevelt the nickname "Trustbuster." As a
result of his actions, Roosevelt was rejected by the Republican Party in 1912
and ran on the Progressive Bull Moose ticket where he split the conservative
vote, ensuring a win by Democrat Woodrow Wilson. This allowed right-wing
conservatives to further take control of the Republican Party. ÒThe government, which was
designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their
employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the
forms of democracy.Ó -- Woodrow Wilson
1920s - The Roaring Twenties were an era dominated by Republican presidents:
Warren Harding (1920-1923), Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) and Herbert Hoover
(1929-1933). Under their conservative economic philosophy of laissez-faire
("leave it alone" or ÒFree TradeÓ), markets were allowed to operate
without government interference. Taxes and regulation were slashed
dramatically, monopolies were allowed to form, and inequality of wealth and income
reached record levels. No need for dirty tricks, arrogance, greed and
selfishness were in power. Right up until the Great Depression.
The Republican administration of Warren
G. Harding is considered by many to have been even more corrupt than Ulysses S.
Grant. The Teapot Dome Scandal, was one of the most embarrassing episodes in
U.S. history. In 1921 Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, a member of
Harding's "Ohio Gang" was able to gain control of valuable oil fields
in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hill, California. The government for use by the
navy had set these oil fields aside. In 1922, Secretary Fall made a secret deal
with two rich oilmen. He gave them a lease to pump oil out of the fields and
sell it for themselves. Fall received $325,000 in bonds and cash as well as a
large herd of cattle.
Another
Harding "Ohio Gang" member, Jesse Smith, assistant to Attorney General
Harry M. Cramer was exposed as a "bagman" when he was caught carrying
bribes to and from the Attorney General's office. Charles Forbes, head of the
Veterans Bureau, was convicted of taking at least $250 million dollars in
kickbacks and bribes. Charles Cramer, legal advisor to the Veterans Bureau was
exposed for taking bribes. Colonel Thomas W. Miller, head of the Office of
Alien Property was convicted of fraud. He had sold valuable German patents
seized in the First World War for below market price. He too had taken bribes.
Through it all only Harding, Calvin Coolidge and a few members of the Cabinet
remained in the clear. In 1923, Harding declared "I have no trouble with
my enemies... but my damned friends, they're the ones that keep me up at night!"
Read More...
Today
right-wing conservative think tanks are actively trying to convince people that
Democrats are actually Socialists and Hitler, Stalin and Sadaam Hussein were
all Socialists and therefore linked to Democrats. But Hitler co-opted the
popular socialist movement in Germany just as he co-opted Christianity to gain
power. The NAZI Party, which included the words "National Socialist"
was a nationalistic flavor that appealed to right-wing conservatives. Hitler
often used the words Jews and Democrats interchangeably and the NAZI Party
platform was devoted to eliminating liberals. Regardless, everything Hitler did
was just a pretext for establishing a Fascist dictatorship. Watch this trailer
to an actual right-wing documentary, financed by the Heritage Foundation:
Roots of the
Ultra Left - What They Really Think
1920s - 30s - Adolph Hitler was a pure
right-wing conservative bent on destroying liberalism by claiming to be a
Christian protector of the people.
"The main plank in the Nationalist Socialist program is to abolish
the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity
and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound
together by the bond of its common blood." -- Adolph Hitler
Hitler's
distortion of Christianity ignited the flames of anti-Semitism, which remain
burning in the problems we face in the Middle East today. Hitler chose the
symbol of a twisted cross (swastika) from a Christian monastery to represent
the twisted Christian views of the Nazi Party. "My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and
Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded
by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men
to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but
as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the
passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the
scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific
was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To day, after two
thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever
before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the
Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have
the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything,
which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that
daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." -- Adolph Hitler 12 April
1922 (Norman H. Baynes, Ed. The Speeches of Adolph Hitler)
Hitler was
portrayed as a compassionate Christian and strong leader protecting the German
people from the terrorists who fire-bombed the Reichstag as he quietly pushed
innocent sounding laws like the "Enabling Act" which promised to
promote peace with France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union and to end unemployment
but actually voted democracy out of existence in Germany and established the
legal dictatorship of Adolph Hitler.
"Never
forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." -- Martin Luther
King, Jr. The Rise of
Hitler Hitler was a right-wing conservative
1933 - Attempted Coup against FDR - Few Americans know that during the Great Depression, some of America 's
wealthiest families including the Morgans and DuPonts fearful of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies conspired to overthrow the government
of the United States and install a fascist dictatorship. The Attempted Coup Against FDR
In 1933 Major General Smedley Darlington
Butler reported to Congress a coup d'etat plot against President Franklin
Roosevelt, sponsored by corporate interests. Alarmed by Roosevelt's Democratic
"New Deal" which would redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor,
Irenee Du Pont, Grayson Murphy, William Doyle, John Davis and other representatives
of J.P. Morgan banks, Du Pont, Goodyear and Bethlehem Steel sought to overthrow
the U.S. government with a military coup and replace it with a fascist state,
based on the recent success of Mussolini and Hitler in Italy and Germany. General Butler was immensely
popular with veterans and active troops. As a war hero, twice awarded the Medal
of Honor, General Butler was known as "The Fighting Quaker" and a man
of unimpeachable honesty and integrity. The conspirators tried to recruit
Butler , by promising him an army of 500,000, unlimited financial backing and
generous media spin control. The plot was foiled when Butler reported it to
Congress.
To prevent
a panic, Congress whitewashed the public version of its final report, deleting
the names of the powerful businessmen whose reputations they sought to protect.
The corporate owned media managed to spin the story as rumors and hearsay and
the plot was generally covered up for many years. In 1967, journalist John
Spivak uncovered the Committee's internal, secret report, which clearly
confirmed Butler 's story.
The Plot Against FDR ÒThe liberty of a democracy is not safe
if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes
stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -
ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling
private power.Ó
--
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1940s - Right-wing conservative J Edgar Hoover blackmailed Democratic
President Harry Truman by using Truman aides to direct the Bureau in the
surveillance and investigation of a number of prominent people in the
government as possible communist spies. The bait was taken and Truman, without
his knowledge, was compromised by the requests of his subordinates. Read More
1942 - George Bush's Grandfather bankrolls Hitler. Seizure of Union Banking
Corporation (US Bank of Hitler via Fritz Thyssen). Prescott Bush (George Bush's
Grandfather) held one share during this time worth $1.5 million when UBC
liquidated in 1951. This is the money that launched the Bush family fortunes.
How George
Bush's Grandfather Bankrolled Hitler
1948 - I ask this convention, to say in unmistakable terms that we proudly
hail, and we courageously support, our President and leader Harry Truman in his
great fight for civil-rights in America!" -- Hubert Humphrey
This speech began to push right-wing
conservatives out of the Democratic Party and led to the Republican
"Southern Strategy" which appealed to southern whites racists and
with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act led to the shift of majority
Republican control of the south.
Red state vs. blue state divides
Southern Strategy - Under the guise of
"states' rights" right-wing conservatives developed the Southern Strategy
to exploit the racial conflicts in southern states by tapping into white racism
and bigotry using themes like "racial quotas" and "welfare
queens" to alienate liberal candidates in the south. Also known as
"race-baiting" The strategy has more recently been expanded and
refined to exploit cultural issues of abortion and gay marriage. Read More...
Hoover
worked with young Republican Congressman Richard Nixon to embarrass Democrat
Harry Truman and elect Republican Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential
election. Truman won anyway. Read More... "Richard Nixon is a no good, lying
bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time." -- Harry S. Truman
1950 – Tricky Dick - The Korean War began, the Communists completed their takeover of China
, and the Soviet Union , tested its first atomic bomb. Senator Joseph McCarthy
and the Hollywood blacklist were making headlines across the country. Richard
Nixon and former actress Helen Douglas were both members of congress
campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In a climate of Red hysteria,
Nixon's chief election strategy was smearing Douglas as a Communist
sympathizer. She was, he said, "pink right down to her underwear."
Murray Chotiner, Nixon's campaign manager, ran the dirtiest campaign in US
history.
Tricky Dick
& the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Douglas
1950s -
McCarthyism - Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy
accused the entire administration of President Harry Truman of harboring
communists. Read More... "If you
can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it
won't work." -- Harry S. Truman
When President Truman was told to give
Ôem (Republicans) hell Harry, he said: ÒI just tell the truth and they think
it's hellÓ -- Harry S. Truman
While J Edgar Hoover had a great
deal of damaging evidence on Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy's heavy
drinking, fabricated military record, illegal campaign financing, compulsive
gambling and several credible allegations of child molestation, including two
documented incidents with girls under the age of ten, right-wing conservative
Hoover allowed McCarthy free reign to ruin the lives of many innocent people. Read More...
At the
start of the McCarthy era, Floridian Democrat Claude Pepper, one of the
Senate's most outspoken liberals, was on the conservatives' "hit
list." Opponent George Smathers repeatedly attacked Pepper for having
communist sympathies, pointing out his pro-civil rights platform and campaign
for universal health care. Smathers invoked the "Red Scare" by
calling Pepper "the Red Pepper" and launched a campaign to expose
Pepper's secret "vices" disclosing that Pepper was "a known
extravert," his sister was a "thespian," and his brother was a
"practicing homo sapiens." Also, when Pepper went to college, he
actually "matriculated." Worst of all, he "practiced
celibacy" before marriage. Rural Florida voters were horrified, and Pepper
lost. The reason this example is actually clever and lacking the typical
viciousness of Republican dirty tricks is because Smathers was a right-wing
conservative Democrat and this example happened during a primary race. Read More...
1952 – J Edgar Hoover spreads untrue rumors that Democratic Presidential
candidate Adlai Stevenson is gay. Read More... "I will make a bargain with
the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." -- Adlai Stevenson
1956 -
COINTELPRO - When Soviet leader Khrushchev revealed
the crimes of Joseph Stalin, crushed dissent in Poland and Soviet tanks rolled
into Hungary, support for the Communist Party in the United States collapsed.
But that didn't stop J Edgar Hoover who made a fortune by having government
employees ghost write (on government time) "Masters of Deceit" which
was a highly successful mass market rationale for continuing the anti-Communist
crusade and continued to fan the flames of red baiting and secured Hoovers role
in protecting America and continued dirty tricks. Hoover initiated Counter
Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) to infiltrate and disrupt the Communist Party
in the U.S. using "dirty tricks," undercutting leadership with false
rumors, and manipulating party policies by infiltration and surveillance.
Hoover would later extend this program to include peace activist groups,
veterans against the war and Martin Luther King. Read More...
1962 -
Operation Northwoods - Republican appointed U.S. Joint Chiefs
of Staff, under Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, drafted plans to kill innocent people and
commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities as a pretext for a war against Cuba .
"We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba ,"
and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of
national indignation." Then Democratic President John Kennedy, stopped the
operation, further irritating the right-wing conservative hawks. Based on
reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged subordinates to vote conservative
(Republican) during the 1960 election the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
investigated and published a report on right-wing extremism in the military,
warning a "considerable danger" in the "education and propaganda
activities of military personnel" had been uncovered. Read More...
"The Bay of Pigs has taught me a
number of things. One is not to trust Generals or the CIA, and the second is
that if the American people do not want to use American troops to remove a
Communist regime ninety miles away from our coast, how can I ask them to use
troops to remove a Communist regime 9,000 miles away [in Vietnam]?" -- John F. Kennedy
One
important point that gets lost in all the conspiracy theories about the
assassination of John F. Kennedy is the indisputable fact that the FBI did a
tremendously terrible job of protecting the president. The evidence being that
JFK was actually shot to death in broad daylight, which most people agree with.
There were many opportunities for the FBI to prevent the assassination but it
just didn't happen. The FBI opened a file on Lee Harvey Oswald when he defected
to Russia in 1959. The FBI interviewed Oswald when he returned in 1962 with his
wife Marina. The FBI knew Oswald was subscribing to Communist publications and
joined the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in 1963. The FBI was aware of Oswald's
move to New Orleans in August of 1963 where he became involved in both pro and
anti Communist activities. They knew he went to Mexico City in September, 1963
to meet with a Soviet KGB officer and tried to meet with Cuban officials. The
FBI knew Oswald returned from Mexico to Dallas in early November and got a job
at the Texas Book Depository.
When
Dallas FBI Agent James Hosty interviewed his wife Marina, Oswald went to the
FBI building in Dallas and left Hosty a note. The receptionist claimed the note
included a threat to "blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if
you don't stop bothering my wife." That note should have landed Oswald in
jail for life but a few weeks later, after the JFK assassination, Hosty was
ordered to destroy the note by his superior Gordon Shanklin. Oswald's address
book contained the name and phone number of FBI Agent Hosty. However, the
Warren Commission was supplied a typewritten transcript which did not include
Hosty's name and phone number. Oswald's letter remained a secret for thirteen
years, when someone in the FBI tipped off a journalist about its existence.
How is it
possible the all powerful, rabid anti-communist, wire tapping happy, Hoover FBI
didn't know exactly what Lee Harvey Oswald was up to, every second of every
day? How is it possible the FBI would have allowed the presidents parade route
to include that slow dog leg turn down Dealey Plaza right in front of the Book
Depository where they knew worked a homicidal nut case? That was some really
incredible incompetence. J
Edgar Hoover would now work for one of his oldest and closest friends and
former neighbor, Lyndon Baines Johnson. LBJ gave Hoover free reign to spy on
Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and eventually
every major anti-Vietnam-War group.
Warren Report - On a White House tape recording, President Nixon is heard telling aides
that the [Warren Report] "was the greatest hoax that has ever been
perpetuated." The results of the Warren Report rested largely on the
famous ÒSingle BulletÓ theory dreamed up by then staff attorney Arlen Specter
now current Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. Read More... Also... Also...
Dirty Politics of Richard Nixon
1964 - J Edgar Hoover issues a memo requesting agents to gather
"information concerning [Martin Luther] King's personal proclivities... in
order that we may consider using this information at an opportune time in a
counterintelligence move to discredit him." Read More...
1968 – China Lobby - In order to win the presidential campaign of 1968 Republican operatives
undermined a serious initiative to end the Vietnam War. Republican Richard
Nixon wins the election the war continues for seven more years and more than
20,000 American soldiers and millions of Southeast Asians died as a result. Read More...
1970 - As a protŽgŽ of Donald Segretti
(convicted Watergate conspirator), Karl Rove poses as a
volunteer at the Chicago campaign headquarters of Alan Dixon, a Democrat
running for state treasurer. Rove steals official campaign letterhead and sends
out 1,000 invitations to people in the city's red-light district and soup
kitchens, offering "free beer, free food, girls, and a good time for
nothing" at Dixon headquarters. When hundreds of rowdy alcoholics show up
at a fancy reception for Dixon, Rove succeeds in disrupting an important
fundraiser. Dixon still wins the election. Admitting to the incident much
later, Rove said, "I was nineteen and I got involved in a political
prank."
CREEP - The Committee to Re-Elect the President or CREEP employed wiretaps,
burglary, forgery, character assassination, and IRS audits to influence
Democratic candidates and control which Democrat Nixon would run against in
1972. Creep operatives destroy political credibility of viable Democratic
candidates with methodical Òblack bag" operations to plant, leak, and hype
manufactured dirt. Donald Segretti as the head of the Committee to Re-elect the
President (CREEP) called it ÒRAT F#CKINGÓ as in screwing a ÒDemocRAT.Ó It
included false press releases, forging letters, spying on rival campaigns,
black mail, stuffing ballot boxes and conducting deceptive or offensive "push
polling." Read More...
1971 - FBI Uncovered - On March 8, 1971, A small FBI office in Media, PA, was
burglarized and hundreds of documents were taken that told the story of
widespread surveillance and wiretapping. When the documents were published, the
public found out the FBI was guilty of extensive invasion of privacy. Other
embarrassing revelations included the firing of an agent because his wife was
dying and it was hurting morale. Hoover was no longer untouchable. He was
becoming a target. Nixon's Enemies
List - On September 9, 1971 President Nixon
ordered Charles Colson to compile an "Enemies List" which was sent in
memorandum form to John Dean on September 9, 1971 . The list was part of a
campaign officially known as "Political Enemies Project." The
official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel's Office, was to
"screw" Nixon's political enemies, by means of tax audits from the
IRS, and by manipulating "grant availability, federal contracts,
litigation, prosecution, etc." The list included current Rep. John
Conyers, Paul Newman, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Steve McQueen, Barbra Streisand,
The New York Times, and the Washington Post.
The Pentagon Papers - When Nixon suspected psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg of leaking the
Pentagon Papers, special operatives were assembled The 'Plumbers' to fix the
leaks by breaking into Ellsberg's office to find dirt to discredit him.
The
Plumbers - The Plumbers operations expanded to spy
on and neutralize Democrats before the 1972 election. The Plumbers planted
electronic listening devices in the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic
National Committee, but the operation went awry on June 17, 1972 , when the
White House burglars went back in to replace malfunctioning bugs and were arrested.
CIA officer Miles Copeland, in his 1978 book, The Real Spy World p. 299, wrote:
ÒOn one occasion, Jojo's [a pseudonym for a high-level CIA officer] office was
asked for an LSD-type drug that could be slipped into the lemonade of
Democratic orators, thus causing them to say sillier things than they would say
anyhow. Read More...
Republican
Karl Rove drops out of
college to devote full time to College Republicans, where he becomes protŽgŽ of
dirty trickster Lee Atwater, the group's Southern regional coordinator. Rove
becomes executive director, then national chairman.
1972 - Watergate - Republican operatives break in to the
Democratic National Committee HQ to spy and fix an existing "bug." On
October 10, 1972 FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a
massive campaign of political spying and sabotage of Democratic candidates
conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort, The Post reports. Read More... Also...
"I am not a crook" -- Richard
Nixon, 1973
"If the President does it, it can't
be illegal" -- Richard Nixon, 1977
Nixon immediately launched a cover-up,
drawing White House officials into a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Only the release of Nixon's White House tapes, under order of the U.S. Supreme
Court, made clear that Nixon was lying and on Aug. 9, 1974 , Nixon resigned the
Presidency.
Watergate Tapes
Online Watergate Washington Post Archive
Despite overwhelming evidence of Nixon's
guilt, conservatives blamed the so-called "liberal" media for Nixon's
downfall. Republicans doubled their efforts to build a network of think tanks,
media outlets and attack groups.
Excellent BBC
Site on Watergate
[Chuck] "Colson, on the other hand,
was as nasty a political operative as could be found. Colson was brutal, cruel
and vicious... While he once famously said he would run over his grandmother to
get Nixon reelected... Indeed, to this day we don't know the full extent of
Colson's activities. He even refused to tell Nixon some of the things he had
done. Karl Rove, from what I've seen, makes Colson look like a novice." --
John Dean - Salon Interview - "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency
of George W. Bush".
The "Canuck" letter - February 24, 1972 The "Canucks" letter is forged by
Republican operatives alleging Democratic favorite Edmund Muskie condoned a
racial slur on Americans of French-Canadian descent as "Canucks." The
letter's immediate effect was to compel the candidate to give a humiliating
speech in front of the newspaper's offices, known simply as "the crying
speech". The letter's indirect effect was the implosion of Muskie's
candidacy. Read More...
FBI Finds Nixon
Aides Sabotaged Democrats
Muskie Sex Letter - February 2, 1972 A Tampa Republican accountant named George A. Hearing
plead guilty to publishing and distributing the "Muskie sex letter"
on stationery from ÒCitizens for MuskieÓ The letter accused the Democratic
favorite with depraved sex acts. The letter was also prepared with the help of
Robert Benz, a Young Republicans leader from Tampa. Read More...
Buchanan
Outlined Plan to Harass Democrats in '72
Republican Karl Rove paints McGovern
as "left-wing peacenik," in spite of McGovern's World War II service
piloting a B-24 bomber. Rove also works as staff assistant to George Bush Sr.,
then chairman of Republican National Committee (RNC).
1973 -
Republican Karl Rove
introduces Dirty Tricks mentor Lee Atwater to Bush Sr. Atwater later becomes
"political attack dog" for the Reagan-Bush team, helps Bush Sr.
become president, and himself becomes RNC chairman.
1976 - Jimmy Carter was widely attacked by Republicans for truthfully
admitting he had experienced moments of lust. 1980 - Bill Casey's Theft and Reagan's Debate
Performance - In a 1983 book, Gambling with History,
Time correspondent Laurence Barrett revealed that Reagan campaign aides
"filched" (stole) President Carter's briefing papers to help prepare
Reagan for the 1980 debate. Chief of Staff James Baker would later say that
Reagan's campaign manager William Casey was the thief. Ronald Reagan defended
the theft saying: "It probably wasn't too much different than the press
rushing into print with the Pentagon Papers." Reagan appointed William
Casey to head the CIA where he becomes the chief architect of the Iran-contra
operation. Read More... Under Casey the CIA focused on
destabilizing and bankrupting the Soviet Union and stopping the spread of communism
by working with corrupt dictators to unleash death-squads throughout Central
America and Africa, conducting massive drug smuggling with Nicaraguan contras
and the Afghan mujahadeen and plundered the world's banking system, most
notably through the corrupt BCCI bank, which also had paid off a key Iranian in
the October Surprise. The CIA armed Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons and
intelligence to fight Iran and trained and supplied the Afghan mujahadeen,
which included Osama bin Laden, and his army, which later became Al queda.
Conservative media highlighted favorable stories about Reagan while joining
with the administration and conservative attack groups in trying to discredit
mainstream journalists who reported information that put Reagan's policies in a
negative light.
1980 -
The October surprise - Republican operatives encourage Iran not
to release the hostages prior to the presidential election with the promise of
unfreezing Iranian assets under Ronald Reagan. "The CIA Old Boys were reeling. In the 1970s, exposure
of their dirty games and dirty tricks made the Cold Warriors look sinister--and
silly. Then, President Carter ordered a housecleaning that left scores of CIA
men out in the cold. In 1980, the CIA men wanted back in and their champion was
former CIA director George Bush. With Bush and Ronald Reagan in power, the old
spies could resume their work with a vengeance. The temptation was to do to
Jimmy Carter what the CIA had done to countless other world leaders--overthrow
him." --Robert Parry, Bush and a CIA Power Play, February 29, 1996
Oct.
18, 1980 , Chicago Tribune reporter John Maclean
told a U.S. foreign service officer, David Henderson, that a Republican source
had supplied a fascinating tip -- that George Bush was flying to Paris to discuss
the hostages with Iranians. "The Iranian parliament was
meeting and we had every information from Bani-Sadr and others that they were
going to vote overwhelmingly to let the hostages go. And at the last minute on
Sunday [two days before the election] for some reason they had adjourned
without voting.... The votes were there, but the Ayatollah or somebody
commanded them to adjourn." -- President Jimmy Carter "The phrase 'October
Surprise' kept cropping up and was soon campaign rhetoric. The more I listened,
the more I realized that they were actually dreading the thought that the
hostages might be released--if it happened at a time they thought would be
inconvenient for their election plans." É "[I] think the hostages'
release...had to do with a deal, struck before the deal-maker was in
office." -- Patti Davis (Reagan's daughter) Read More... 1980 - Republican Karl Rove
is fired by the Reagan/Bush campaign for disclosing confidential information to
Bob Novak. 1980s -
Iran-Contra Affair - Revealed a Republican cabal to illegally
sell weapons to U.S. enemy Iran to finance the training and support of a
Nicaragua Contra drug cartel which used CIA trained death squads to terrorize
and maintain control over the people to grow and harvest cocaine. Nov. 18, 1987
A Congressional report states US President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate
responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides in the Iran-Contra Affair. The
reporter who linked the CIA to the sale of Nicaraguan crack in Los Angeles in
the 1980s was found with two bullet holes in the back of his head, which of
course was ruled as an apparent suicide. Read More...
Reporter Who Linked CIA to Crack
Sales Found Dead
Key people implicated in the Iran-Contra
scandal reappeared at high-level posts in later Republican administrations,
most notably in George W. Bush's administration. Iran Contra Success Stories
BCCI
Affair - Pakistan-based Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) catered to the most notorious tyrants and thugs
of the late 20th century, including Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the heads of
the Medellin cocaine cartel, Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, Manuel Noriega,
al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a web of Washington lobbyists with close
ties to President George H.W. Bush. BCCI was a massive criminal enterprise,
engaged in fraud and money laundering for drug dealers, terrorists and arms
traffickers all around the world. A French intelligence report obtained by The Washington
Post in 2002 described the financial network operated by bin Laden today
"is similar to the network put in place in the 1980s by BCCI." As one
senior U.S. investigator said in 2002, "BCCI was the mother and father of
terrorist financing operations." Democratic Senator John Kerry presided
over the Senate probe that exposed the fraud, abuse and terrorist financing. Read More...
1986 - Karl Rove
helps Bill Clement, the first Republican in a century to win a Texas
gubernatorial race by holding a press conference to announce that a bug had
been found in his office. Rove complained about how their campaign strategy was
showing up so consistently in the other camp. The bug had only 2 hours left in
a 3 hour battery life, which barely gave Rove time to plant the bug call the
police and news media and smear a good Democrat Mark White.
1988 -
Willie Horton Ads - The 1988 Bush-Quayle ÒWillie HortonÓ
commercial played to overt racism and fear mongering. Whisper campaign
questions Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis' mental state and
that Kitty Dukakis once burned an American flag. Read More...
1992 - Ross Perot accuses Republicans of "dirty tricks" against his
presidential campaign including a wiretap in his Dallas office and threats to
publish phony nude photos of his daughter and sabotage her wedding. In July,
Perot drops out until after his daughters wedding and then re-enters the race,
splits the conservative ticket with George Bush and Clinton wins the
presidency. Read More... House Bank scandal - Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, along with 7 freshman
Republicans referred to as the Gang of Seven or "The Young Turks,"
tried to get rid of Democratic Congressmen by making a dramatic public display
of denouncing corrupt Democrats in the House Bank scandal which amounted to
Congressman getting advances on their paychecks because of very loose rules in
the House Bank, which was not actually a bank. No money was stolen or lost.
This back fired a little when it was found that Newt had also written a number
of overdraft checks. Read More...
Check Scandal
Reaches High Into Bush Cabinet
Political
Scandals of the United States
1994 - Republican Karl Rove
helps George W. Bush in his Governors race against incumbent Democrat Ann
Richards. Rove starts a whisper campaign that Richards is gay and runs push
polling phone calls asking voters "would you be more or less likely to
vote for Governor Richards if you knew her staff is dominated by
lesbians." 1996 - Billionaire, Ross Perot on
"Meet the Press" said Republican Party operatives had asked him in
1992 for $1 million to finance a political dirty tricks campaign before he
entered the race as an independent candidate. Perot, implicated Republican
National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour. Perot says GOP backed dirty
tricks
Troopergate
and the Arkansas Project
Troopergate was an early part of the
"Arkansas Project." Republican fundraiser Peter W. Smith admitted to
paying Arkansas State troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry $6,700 each to
smear the reputation of President Bill Clinton. Self described
"Conservative Hit Man" David Brock, writing for the Scaife owned
American Spectator wrote and broke the story in 1993. In a 1997 Esquire article titled "I Was a Conservative
Hit Man" Brock recanted his claims. In 1998 he went further and personally
apologized to Clinton. Brock went on to write: "Blinded by the Right: The
Conscience of an Ex-Conservative" in which he exposed the right-wing
conspiracy to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton and Anita Hill.
Troopergate Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an
Ex-Conservative
The
"Arkansas Project"
The "Arkansas Project" funded
by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, was designed to damage and end the
presidency of Bill Clinton through a series of bogus investigations. After
wasting more than $25 million of taxpayer money to trump up charges against the
Clintons on Whitewater, Troopergate, Travelgate and Filegate the right-wingnuts
had to settle with exploiting the fear of Hillary Clinton to trap Bill Clinton
into fudging about an affair.
February 12, 1999 The Republican controlled Senate acquits President
Clinton of all impeachment charges. President Clinton had been asked "have
you ever had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, as that term is defined in
Deposition Exhibit 1, as modified by the Court." The definition excluded
oral sex and President Clinton truthfully answered: "I have never had
sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky." The founding fathers defined impeachment
for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors against the
United States."
CIA
operative Barry Seal came forward to refute the Republican attempt to link
Clinton with Pablo Escobar. When in fact the drug ring in question was actually
being run as a CIA sting operation and had nothing to do with Clinton. The Arkansas Project smear campaign was
amplified by the propaganda organs of the Republican Party including The
Washington Times, owned by ultraconservative cult leader Sun Myung Moon,
Right-wing propagandist billionaire Rupert Murdoch (FOX News and New York Post)
as well as wing nut buffoon, Rush Limbaugh and the Internet gossip column
"Drudge Report." During
the Clinton presidency the federal budget moved from a quarter-trillion-dollar
deficit to a 2 trillion dollar projected surplus. Clinton balanced the US
budget, fostered the longest economic expansion in US history, reduced crime
and the number of people on welfare. Unemployment dropped from 7.5% to below 4%
for the first time in more than 30 years and the Dow Jones rose from 3,200 to a
record breaking 10,000.
Sept.
20, 2000 - Independent counsel announces that the
Whitewater investigation is closed due to insufficient evidence against the
president and first lady. Clinton Timeline
Arkansas Project The Hunting of
the President
The Republican
Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy Republicans launched over 55 official
congressional investigations against President Clinton including one
investigation on the Clinton family cat "Socks" and12 hours of
testimony on the use of the White House Christmas card list. Not one official
congressional investigation has been started on George W. Bush.
GOP Investigated
Pres. ClintonÕs Cat
2000 - Republican Karl Rove
is at the heart of George Bush's vicious smear campaign against fellow
Republican John McCain in the South Carolina primary, claiming McCain was a
stoolie while a P.O.W. in Vietnam and now emotionally unstable. Rove is also
credited with a coordinated stealth campaign of push polling which asks South
Carolina voters: "If you knew John McCain fathered an illegitimate black
child would you be more or less likely to vote for him?" This was followed
up with direct mail and church parking lot flyers to convince voters McCain's
adopted Bangladeshi daughter was actually his illegitimate daughter and that
his wife was a drug addict. A Bush operative also stole McCain's email lists
and directly emails McCain's closest supporters with scandal and lies.
Ironically Karl Rove's mentor Lee Atwater, was the political strategist for
Strom Thurman, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, who actually did have an
illegitimate African American daughter. The 2000 presidential campaign was
overwhelmed by a smokescreen of suspicion created around Al Gore, designed to
demoralize the Democratic base and suppress the overall vote.
Bush debate material is sent to Al
Gore's campaign in an effort to make it appear as if Gore is spying on Bush.
Bush's cousin calls race for Bush on FOX News, leading other networks to follow
suit, prematurely. Thousands of Florida voters are wiped from the voting rolls
by brother Governor Jeb Bush.
In May of 2001 the preliminary findings of the United States Commission
on Civil Rights regarding the stolen election of 2,000 were published,
concluding that Florida Gov. Bush, and the Florida Secretary of State Katherine
Harris, turned a blind eye on election day which caused Òa pattern of
injustice, ineptitude and inefficiency.Ó Read More... "The Commission found that the
problems Florida had during the 2000 presidential election were serious and not
isolated. In many cases, they were foreseeable and should have been prevented.
The failure to do so resulted in an extraordinarily high and inexcusable level
of disenfranchisement, with a significantly disproportionate impact on African
American voters."
Voting
Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election
Republican corporations have
"Privatized" voting in the U.S. and are taking complete control of
the nation. Which Corporation Owns Your Vote?
An open
invitation to election fraud
2000 -
Attacking Hillary - Right-wing propagandist Rupert Murdoch
attacks Hillary Clinton in the midst of her 2000 senate race with a poisonous
smear campaign. Murdoch-owned New York Post claimed that in 1974 Hillary had
called one of her husband's aides "a f#cking Jew bastard." The story
was based on a book published by Murdoch-owned HarperCollins, titled State of a
Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The right-wing media went to town
with the story and within hours, it was repeated on CNN, NBC, and of course,
Murdoch-owned FOX News. Eventually it was discovered that the source and object
of the story was a former Clinton campaign aide named Paul Fray, who was a
Baptist and not even Jewish and had lost his law license for taking a bribe.
Fray had also written to Mrs. Clinton in 1997, apologizing for calling her
names and spreading false stories about her. The damage was done but Clinton
won anyway.
2002 - Republican Dirty tricks oust Democratic Sen. Max Cleland by attacking
his patriotism. Cleland, who volunteered for Vietnam and left three limbs
there, had to endure seeing pictures of himself in a Republican Saxby Chambliss
campaign ad next to images of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Chambliss sat
out the Vietnam war with a bad knee.
Dirty-Bomb
Politics
Republicans in Michigan recruited ÒstealthÓ
candidates to run as phony Democrats for nine state Senate seats. The Muskegon
Chronicle exposed and derailed the plan.
Republican
"dirty tricks" in US mid-term elections
2003 - On JULY 8, Syndicated columnist
Robert Novak mentions to Rove that former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife,
Valerie Plame, is a CIA undercover operative. Rove's comment: "I heard
that too." On JULY 8, Novak's syndicated column reveals publicly the
classified information that, according to "two senior administration
officials," Plame is an undercover CIA operative, .
Wilson-Plame-Novak-Rove Timeline
Republicans Scooter Libby and Karl
Rove, nicknamed ÒTurd BlossumÓ by George Bush, are the prime suspects in the
outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame as hardball payback for her husband Joseph
Wilson's criticism of the Bush administration.
Republican staff members
of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a
year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to
the media, Senate officials told The Globe. From the spring of 2002 until at
least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer
glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without
a password.
Senate GOP staff
pried on Democrats
"Republican psy-ops are conveyor-belt slick, and ever on the
offensive. The Heritage Foundation alone has lines to 1,500 conservative radio
talk-show hosts. They build infrastructure, they build TV studios. Eighty
percent of the talking heads on television are from conservative think tanks.
Eighty percent. They train their people.Ó -- George Lakoff, Rockridge Institute
2004 - Republican Karl Rove is credited with an orchestrated stealth campaign
of phone calls, direct mail and email in the bible belt claiming that if John
Kerry were elected he would ban the Holy Bible in America. Church goers all
across the country are told to "vote for the Christian." Even though
John Kerry had lived his entire adult life in public service while George Bush
was a spoiled, drunken frat boy bailed out by one family friend after another
and who only found religion when the electoral math was explained to him. Republican operative Nathan Sproul's
company is under investigation for allegedly destroying voter registration
forms signed by Democrats. Now comes new evidence about Sproul's connections to
the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Republican dirty
tricks
A group financially bankrolled by Bush supporters
bankroll TV ads smearing the military record of John Kerry. Republican-funded Group Attacks
Kerry's War Record Swiftboat Veterans: their lies and
the real truth about John Kerry
George Bush's New England
campaign chairman in 2004 and top Republican Party official was convicted on
telephone harassment charges for his part in a plot to jam election day 2002
phones used to give rides to the polls. James Tobin could get up to seven years
in prison and $500,000 in fines when he is sentenced in March.
Former Bush
campaign official indicted in phone-jamming
2005 - Phony
Robo Calls - The Republican Party makes illegal phony
robo calls pretending to be Democrat in 2005 VA Gov race. Read More...
Virginia GOP
Director Indicted!
Rep. Kilgore to
Be Deposed In Eavesdropping Suit
College
Republican Groups Defraud Elderly Voters of Millions
Republicans pull
last minute "dirty tricks"
'Unprecedented'
GOP-Crafted Redistricting in Texas
Republican Dirty Tricks
Seeing red in
Florida - More Dirty Tricks
Here Come the
Dirty Tricks
GOP dirty tricks
in Ohio?
Bush-Cheney
Campaign Admits Illegal Use of Funds in Texas 2002 Races
GOP Official Convicted
Maryland GOP
Gov. Caught Trying to Buy Media Influence
GOP plan
targeted new voters
Bush Advisor
Sabotaged Peace Negotiations before 2000 Election
GOP Lies about DNC manual to accuse
Dems of dirty tricks
Republican Dirty
Tricksters Sproul & Associates Accused of Vote Fraud
Protect the Vote
GOP Fesses Up To Anti-Gay
Mailing
Rove's Rules of
Disengagement
Media urged to
fight dirty tricks
GOP staff pried
on Democrats
Rep. Nick Smith
Blames TRAFFIC for $100,000 Bribe Claim
Medicare vote scandal - Drug-Company Bribe
Justice Dept to
Investigate GOP Bribe Attempt
Who Tried To Bribe Rep. Smith
PFAW Demand
Apology for RNC Lie
GOP AG Solicited
Corporate Contributions
Mayor Says Bug
Part Of Political Attack
GOP and IRS Use
501c3s for Political Money Laundering
Deceit and Money Still Rule - GOP
Filthy Politics
GOP Letters-to-the-Editor Fraud
Republican Party
Politics
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