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eyes on the prize
my country tis of thy people you're dying
we have fed you all a thousand years
we have fed you all for a thousand yearsand you hail us still unfed
though there's never a dollar of all your wealth
but marks the workers dead
we have yielded our best to give you rest
and you lie on your crimson wool
well if blood be the price of all your wealth
good god we have paid in full
there is never a mine blown skyward now
but we're buried alive for you
there is never a wreck drifts shoreward now
but we are its ghastly crew
go reckon our dead by the forges red
or the factories where we spin
well blood be the price of your cursed wealth
good god we have paid it in
we have fed you all for a thousand years
for that was our doom, y'know
from the days when you chained us in your fields
to the strike of a week ago
you have taken our lives, our husbands and wives
and we're told it's your legal share
well if blood be the price of your lawful wealth
good god we have bought it fair
- IWW c. 1908
This is rather sad BS: "In a conference call with ... Julian Assange, Ellsberg pointed out that
President Obama has charged twice as many people under the Espionage Act as all previous presidents ..."
The claim is so brazenly untrue that it takes my breath away. To get an idea what Espionage Act prosecutions looked like right at the end of WWI, DUers might want to review materials like this NCLB pamphlet:
Espionage Act Cases ...
Published by the National Civil Liberties Board
(Price $1.00) July, 1918
http://debs.indstate.edu/n421e8_1918.pdf
The NCLB published several pamphlets like this, continuing after WWI ended, when Espionage Act prosecutions suddenly took off and thousands people were charged and convicted
The case of ‘zombie’ voters in South Carolina
Posted by Glenn Kessler at 06:00 AM ET, 07/25/2013
... This was a rather shocking claim, which stemmed from allegations made by Kevin Shwedo, executive director of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. (“Well over 900 individuals appear to have voted after they died.”) One state lawmaker famously declared: “We must have certainty in South Carolina that zombies aren’t voting” ...
The allegations emerged as South Carolina officials sought to impose a new voter photo ID law during the 2012 election; a federal court delayed it from taking effect until 2013 ...
The report confirms what the State Election Commission had found after preliminarily examining some of the allegations: The so-called votes by dead people were the result of clerical errors or mistaken identities ...
In one case, someone cast an absentee ballot before dying; their vote still counts under the law. In two other cases, people requested an absentee ballot, but died before returning it, so no harm was done. In other cases, the wrong voter was marked as having cast a vote, and then the marks were not completely erased. There were several other types of clerical errors, too numerous to mention. In the end, just five votes remained unresolved after extensive investigation ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-case-of-zombie-voters-in-south-carolina/2013/07/24/86de3c64-f403-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_blog.html
Declan McCullagh has a history of making stuff up
Here's a DU thread from mid-June, based on one of Declan's pieces
NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023024565
Nadler denied Declan's version of events, which was based on a thoroughly dishonest partial reading of a hearing transcript:
Jerrold Nadler Does Not Think the NSA Can Listen to U.S. Phone Calls
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023027901
The website's parent company retracted the story:
Congressman denies report claiming NSA can listen to calls without warrants
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014510665
The photo is Carter, rising at the Carter Center, to talk about unchecked political contributions
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/AS7ZKRL9vadooU4b.zofzw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTYyODtweW9mZj0wO3E9ODU7dz05NjA-/
It's captioned "Former President Jimmy Carter steps to the podium to discuss US election reform at the Carter Center, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Atlanta. Carter gave the keynote remarks Wednesday along with Ambassador Janez Lenarcic of the Warsaw-based Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The organization is presenting its final report for improving the US electoral process. (AP photo / David Goldman)"
RAY HENRY July 17, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that unchecked political contributions are "legal bribery of candidates" and denounced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made possible unlimited spending by outside groups, including corporations and labor unions ...
He said the U.S. Supreme Court made a "very stupid" decision by removing limits on independent campaign spending by businesses and labor unions, which the court found was a constitutionally protected form of political speech. The Democrat said that he and his Republican opponents used public financing to run their general election campaigns in 1976 and 1980 ...
"I would say that it's almost impossible for a candidate, like I was back in those early days or others even, to be considered seriously as a candidate to represent the Democratic or Republican parties as nominee if you can't raise $100 million or $200 million from contributors, many of whom know that they are making an investment in how they are going to be treated by the winner after the election is over," Carter said.
Carter said that while elections in the United States once set an example for the world, the country's reputation diminished in 2000 when the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in a Florida vote recount, effectively deciding the election in favor of Republican George W. Bush. He also criticized GOP-led state legislatures for changing polling hours in ways that Carter said were meant to frustrate likely Democratic voters ...
http://news.yahoo.com/carter-unchecked-contributions-legal-bribery-165226324.html
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