Yes, Osama bin Laden was just a guy engaged in peaceful dissent...(rolls eyes)
Posted on 01/20/2005 5:18:33 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA NY-President George W. Bush will receive a bitter inauguration welcome on the Ithaca Commons this Thursday. A protest rally with speakers, music and an open mike is being held Jan. 20 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
"The umbrella reason we are doing this," organizer Fay Gougakis said,"is so we will unite people and point out the voting irregularities that happened in this election. I'm tired of the phrase 'conspiracy theory.' There is legitimate concern that Bush stole this election."
Steve Calkins, the other organizer of Thursday's rally, said, "I feel that we need to make a statement this time. There was massive voter disenfranchisement. There are many instances where densely Democratic inner-city districts were not given the voting machines they needed. The lines were sometimes 10 hours long, and voters walked away."
Calkins also claims that the difference between the Kerry-favored exit polls and the election's actual result are too large to constitute a legitimate election. "Exit poll deviation," he said, "should only be off a point or two. Ukraine had a re-election partly due to the exit polls not reflecting the results. Why aren't we having a re-election? In seven states the exit poll data was off four to 15 points."
Gougakis believes along with Calkins that the 2004 election was not legitimate, but she noted, "Even if Bush won this time, which I don't believe he did, he still shouldn't be president, not after what happened in the 2000 election. This rally is in some ways an extension of what happened in 2000."
In 2000, Gougakis organized a similar rally, which brought former state assemblyman Marty Luster and Tompkins County Democratic Chair Irene Stein to speak. While many feel the reasons for Thursday's protest rally are not as legitimate as the last election, Gougakis encourages those who believe Bush won but still have problems with the administration to come to the rally, too.
"I'm upset because there is no integrity to our voting process," Gougakis said, "but also because we went to war based on false information. I'm sick of how the Bush administration calls people who disagree with them unpatriotic, or even terrorists. We are just people who want the truth."
Yes, Osama bin Laden was just a guy engaged in peaceful dissent...(rolls eyes)
Is this the same guy?!
Steve Calkins, former General Counsel of the FTC, and now Of Counsel to the firm, Covington & Burling is an international firm of more than 500 lawyers with offices in Washington, New York, San Francisco, London and Brussels.
We are just people who want the truth
They wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the a$$.
Umm, would that be the information about Saddam being cozy with terrorists? about the mass murders of his own citizens? His refusal to comply with UN resolutions?
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Sounds like "nonliberal" who accused freepers of wanting to put burkahs on women.
Let me guess. "A figure of speech".
The stupider they are, the farther into the future they'll continue to lose.
Yes it should, but if there was fraud perpetrated by Dem. voters to skew the results, that doesn't hold true.
pity party bump!
Bush did not win this time either.
Oh, these people are so tiresome.
Not to be unkind, but it is widely recognized in Ithaca, across the political spectrum, that Fay suffers either from brain damage or some other form of significant mental imbalance. She famously attacked a political opponent with her bicycle helmet, and has to be forced to shut up when given the mike at public hearings, one time police being required to drag her off.
I didn't know that President Bush was going to be in Ithica today.
Best - Fido
Yeah, I thought that was funny too.
Perhaps the name "Ithaca" should be changed to Itcaca.
Nah. If its changed to anything, I want it to be "City of Evil." Let's call a spade a spade.
Oh, and then maybe they can pay me royalties. ;-)
I wasn't aware that the President was going to Ithaca today. Perhaps Kerry should go. These moonbats got support from Boxer, and now Kerry has associated himself with Boxer (Rice vote).
Hmmmm...
Can you imagine the dirt these three have on Rather, Heyward and the rest of the sorry crowd at Tiffany's? What would you pay for a copy of their angry, bitter memoirs?
I predict a BIG payout "...described by all parties as a satisfactory settlement, the terms of which were not disclosed." I mean, they will have to at least match what the book advance would be, which, (based on the precedent set by Bernie G.,) might be about a million bucks per person.
And cheap hush money for CBS, at that.
Best - Fido
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