What Are These People Capable Of? - 'Bite No 1'

"African Americans were kept away from the polls [in the 2000 Presidential election], they were intimidated at the polls. I write about this in my book, about how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush, the year before, hired a private firm to go through the rolls to try to take as many African-American names as possible off the voter rolls in Florida. It is an outrageous, disgusting story that you should read about if you haven’t read about it elsewhere already. It will sicken you. People died for this right to vote and they have so abused it. To me at this point, anybody who would so knowingly, illegitimately take control of our White House, what else are they capable of?....."
Michael Moore, Author of America's No1 best selling book spring 2001, 'Stupid White Men'
Speech 4 March 2002 at the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California
America's oldest and largest public affairs forum
(George Bush and the Head of the FBI have both since given addresses of their own to this club)

"And let us not forget Florida Sec. of State Katherine Harris [in the 2000 Presidential election]. Within days of the election, Governor Jeb recused himself to avoid the 'perception' of a conflict of interest. At that point, Harris became the single most important member of the Florida executive branch as far as the election was concerned: she had the sole authority to certify the winner. Harris herself had overwhelming grounds for recusal. Not only did she co-chair the Bush 2000 campaign in Florida, but it was well-known that she was under serious consideration for a cushy ambassadorial post in Europe...... In June, between 8,000 and 12,000 Florida voters were wrongly purged from the voting rolls as felons. The Florida State Government uses an outside contractor [a subsidiary of ChoicePoint Inc] to vet their voter rolls; it is the only state to do so.... Curiously, it turned out ChoicePoint had obtained this false list of 'felons' from the state of Texas. ²⁷ Yes, Texas.... Curiouser and curiouser, it turns out that ChoicePoint is closely tied to the Republican Party, and that its top executives and board members include many high-dollar donors..... There are further signs that Republican operatives played a covert role in advance work to jimmy the Florida election. Xavier Suarez, the very same 'mayor' of Miami who was thrown from office because of massive voter-fraud in the infamous 1997 election, worked for the Republicans on the 2000 presidential election.... This is profoundly shocking to anyone who knows that Suarez was found guilt of illegally tampering with some 5,000 absentee ballots in the 1997 election. Indeed, absentee ballots had put Suarez over the top in the election when he 'won' twice as many as his rival....When Katherine Harris certified the Florida [2000 Presidential] vote the Sunday after Thanksgiving, she illegally closed off the state Capitol from the press and public. When a few reporters managed to get in with the help of a state employee, Harris tried to have them all arrested. As the Miami Herald related, the reporters 'had to call lawyers to stay in a public building even while state business was being conducted.' ⁷⁹ While attorneys and security officers squabbled, Harris unilaterally disqualified most of the recounts that had been mandated and sanctioned by the Florida courts....."
COUP 2K by JOHN DEE
Published in Lumpen, Jan. 2001

"A federal judge has approved a settlement between Leon County and civil rights groups that sued over widespread voting problems in the 2000 presidential election in Florida..... Under the settlement, both sides will work to restore voters who were wrongly removed from voters lists in the 2000 election."
Quietly Florida Admits 2000 Election Fraud
Associated Press, April 26, 2002

"It appears that, in its efforts to push the election 2000 recount in Florida in Bush's direction, his campaign workers rushed about the state in corporate jets provided by three companies now under federal investigation - Enron, Halliburton and Reliant Energy."
Corporate America feels the heat
Guardian 7 August 2002

"Of the twenty largest contributors to George W. Bush's Presidential campaign, fully half had major links to Enron; indeed, five of his seven largest seven contributors were connected to Enron. ... "
'Bush's Biggest Donors Had Links to Enron'
Common Dreams, 18 Feb 2002

"Then when [during the 2000 Presidential Election] the Supreme Court came in and turned out to be a totally political animal, the last shred of any naivety that was left in me has gone. When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke."
Robert Altman, American film directing legend, and creator of the film on the US war in Korea ,'M*A*S*H'
London Times, 22 January 2002

"Here’s how they did it: A few months before the election, Katherine Harris’ office used computer systems to make up a list of people to purge from the voter rolls of people who were supposedly felons – people who committed serious crimes and therefore in Florida were not allowed to vote. We now know those lists were as phony as a three-dollar bill. That maybe approximately 90% of the people on those lists, and there were 57,700 people on that list, approximately 90% were not felons and had the right to vote. Surprise, surprise. At least 54% of the names on that list were black. We know that because Florida is one of the few states under the U.S. Civil Rights Act that actually has to track the race of each voter. They used this racial targeting system as a way to target and purge black voters. This was a very sophisticated Jim Crow operation done by computers, completely hidden from the public eye. And when they were asked about it they basically lied. The Governor, the Secretary of State, and the head of the Florida Department of Elections all lied under oath to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about how that was done. Now that was completely covered in the British and European press. That is one of the reasons why when Bush came over to Europe he was seen as a usurper and a pretender to the presidency - not elected, but a guy who had conducted a sort of racial coup d’etat. He was not seen as legitimate. The U.S. press did little bits of the story and then buried it."
Dispatches from exile
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5 June 2002

"Consider this: An inarticulate, politically inexperienced man with family links to a previous national regime comes to provincial leadership. Subsequently he gains the highest national office without winning the popular vote. The election in which he was declared the victor is considered compromised by his brother's province. He appoints a chief law enforcement officer who has repeatedly called for constitutional revisions. Regulatory agencies are filled with those previously regulated. Soldiers patrol transportation centers. International treaties are abrogated. International legal organizations are shunned. Roles of police and military are blurred. Law enforcement agencies are centralized. Individual civil rights are reduced. A 'shadow' government is created. Domestic surveillance is increased. People are encouraged to spy on each other. Military budgets are increased. The military establishes a disinformation program. Media access to government is limited. Consultations with the legislative branch decline. Connections to corrupt corporate sponsors are disavowed. Efforts to further plunder natural resources for profit are initiated. Access to past administrations' documents is limited. A war mentality is established with imprecise enemies. Nebulous fear-inducing alerts are periodically released. National level profiling is introduced. People are imprisoned without public charges and unknown others are 'disappeared.' Does the word 'coup' come to mind?"
Analysis of Bush presidency suggests a nation overthrown
Bill Petz, Citzens-Times.com, 9 Aug 2002

"A controversial documentary about Florida's voting problems during the 2000 presidential election stirred the emotions of those who saw it Sunday [13 October 2002] at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Charlotte. 'We need political reform. The government in this country is for sale,' Joan Karatzas said after watching 'Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election.' Other viewers said the 50-minute video reinforced their opinion that George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States, having won the office by questionable means.... In one memorable scene, Clayton Roberts, director of the Florida Division of Elections, removes his microphone and stalks out of an interview before investigative reporter Greg Palast can ask a single question."
'Unprecedented' Controversy Election Video Opens Old Wounds
Miami Sun Herald, 15 Oct, 2002

'Theft of the Presidency' - View Greg Palast material on this subject shown by the BBC - unique video footage - click here

Ingredients of the US 2000/2001 'Two Bite' Coup Click here for whole coup story in one web page (large file) or use individual menu links below to view elements (recommended)
1.Why You Hear Little About It In The Mainstream Press	8. Who's Really Running Post-Coup America?
2. What Are These People Capable Of? - 'Bite No 1' - Coup 2000	9. Behind The scenes - The Baker-Bush Snr effect
3. Why Was A Second Bite At The Coup Necessary?	10. The 911 Coup Smokescreen
4. Forewarned Is Forearmed For 'Bite No 2' - Coup 2001	11. Accommodating 'The Future' With John Ashcroft
5. Bite No 2 - Cementing The coup With the 911 opportunity	12. Only Pretend Friends Left Now For The US
6. Election Defeat Cover-Up Not The Only Reason - A, B, C, D, E	13.Ground Prepared Back In The Reagan-Bush Era - The Iran Hostages Fix
7. Lies and Coups - 'Nothing New'	14. 911 Converts Coup Into Putsch
Time for a Genuinely Open Public Inquiry into 911 - click here 1991 - 2002: TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?

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