Think the immigration issue is being brought up to distract from outsourci

[helderheid]

outsourcing?

[notadmblnd]

1. I've been wondering who is behind the protests.

That was organized rather quickly don't you think? I know I had my :tinfoilhat: on extra tight yesterday. During the protests, I was hoping that there would be no excuse for the authorities to round them up and place them in the internment camps Halliiburton has been crontracted to build for the admin.

So glad I didn't hear any reports of violence or arrests.

[Vincardog]

2. Distract us from the FRAUD? WAR? CRIMINALS IN CONTROL?

Unconstitutional Spying on American Citizens?
Dictatorial power grab by the (p)Resident?
pick any or all

[helderheid]

3. heheh ... yea, that too. :)

[DUHandle]

4. Discussion of censure will hit the table soon

[cap]

5. wedge issue for the elections

eom

[leveymg]

6. Yes, but for the 12 million undocumented, this is not a distraction

It's the most important issue they could possibly face. A law that makes them wanted felons simply for being here is a grave threat. Try to put yourself in their shoes.

The Democratic Party has to take the initiative with a comprehensive program to reward jobs creation and heavily penalize companies that outsource, even if that means a scrapping of the WTO and the reintroduction of tariffs to enforce new domestic content laws.

[Peter1x9]

7. Since you mentioned the outsourcing issue:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14204917.htm

Posted on Tue, Mar. 28, 2006
H-1B visa increase advances
WOULD ALLOW MORE FOREIGN WORKERS IN U.S.
By Jim Puzzanghera
Mercury News Washington Bureau

Tech Firms:
"High-tech companies say they need more H-1B visas because the improving economy has made it difficult for them to find enough qualified Americans in fields such as math and engineering.
Hopefully the pendulum is kind of swinging toward the understanding that these are the workers we want in the U.S. and want to keep in the U.S.,'' said Kara Calvert, director of government relations for the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group representing leading tech firms."

American high-tech workers:
"But some high-tech workers argue that no increase is needed. They say that companies prefer less expensive foreigners to Americans and that part of the reason high-tech employment has improved the past two years is because the annual allotment of H-1B visas has gone down."

[Peace Patriot]

8. No, I think immigration will be used exactly as 'gay marriage' was used--

to provide an illusory 'talking point' with which to cover up the Diebold/ES&S theft of the '06 by-elections--and to continue hiding the truth about our election system, that two rightwing Bushite corporations now control nearly all vote 'tabulation' in the country using 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls, in an election system designed by the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, by means of a $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle called the "Help America Vote Act."

In 2004, we heard a lot about 'gay marriage' and NOT ONE WORD about WHO was 'tabulating' the votes behind a veil of secrecy. In 2006, we will hear a lot about how the Bushites 'turned things around' with the 'immigration issue,' but will continue to hear NOT ONE WORD about Bushite corporations 'counting' the votes with secret formulae that no one--not even our secretaries of state--are permitted to review.

As for the immigrants and Latin Americans and others who are protesting fascist Bushite immigration policy, I think they are doing what Latin Americans have been doing very well these days, in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru and now in Mexico: that is, organize huge peoples' movements to influence government policy toward peace and justice, and elect governments of the people, by the people and for the people.

They seem to think it's the right of the people to take to the streets to express their will, and to petition the government. Such strange behavior. And they've taken it much further in Latin American countries--by electing leftist governments throughout the hemisphere, after a decade of hard work on grass roots community organization and TRANSPARENT elections (US voters, take note!).

Strange--and wonderful. Imagine...democracy.

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Please see my post (#19) at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x774557

on the notion that the protests are a fascist conspiracy. The protests are not, but the Bush policy that prompted them IS--it is a conspiracy to cover up the theft of the '06 elections, and to limit the growth of brown-faced voters, especially in California, which the Bushites are determined to turn into a "red" state. Recently, they got rid of our elected Democratic Sec of State Kevin Shelley, who had sued Diebold and de-certified the worst of their election theft machines prior to the 2004 election, and installed Schwarzenegger appointee, Republican Bruce McPherson, who proceeded to ILLEGALLY re-certify Diebold. The fix is in, and the 'immigration' issue is the key to it.

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Hopeful signs - latest news:

California voters sue the state over Diebold:
www.VoterAction.org--just announced--is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "certification" by Schwarzenegger appointee Bruce McPherson.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496

Maryland rejects Diebold:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418263

Florida - anti-trust accusations against Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, re: heroic Florida election official Ion Sancho:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2183630
http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/MGBKSY8W8LE.html

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Resources for American Revolution II:

www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors). http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)

www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)

*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477

Also of interest:

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy!)
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk

Bob Koehler's latest: "Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm

Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and ALL election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

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