That’s right folks, 2006 is an election year, and we all know what happens in election years, don’t we? Somebody or some bodies (Republican thugs, perhaps?) break into Local Democratic Party headquarters and steal stuff:
Lee County’s Democratic headquarters had its second break-in in almost as many years this week.
Thieves ignored computer equipment and other valuables, and took the party’s financial records and voter data, said Lyndia Bradley, Lee County’s Democratic chairwoman.
“This was a very targeted, purposeful break-in,” she said Wednesday. “They were obviously interested in certain things, not things you sell on the street for money.”
Computers were vandalized, but there was no sign of forced entry.
Surprise, surprise. Not interested in things you could sell on the street for money, eh? Only stole voter lists and financial records. Jeez, I wonder who could have an interest in boring old stuff like that.
Not!
This is what the Republican party has become. An organized criminal enterprise. From bribes to vandalism, from violating national security to illegal wiretapping, this is what they do. Steal, cheat, lie. They do it at every level, from local party offices right on up to the big enchilada, the Presidency itself. This theft in Lee County, Florida is only small potatoes, but it stands as a metaphor for what Republicans have become: common criminals.
Too bad they are stealing our democracy along with everything else.
recently for the rule of law and for rules in general puts the lie to their “law and order party” bullshit.
Let’s see, there was Watergate, the theft of the 2004 election, and now this.
But, back to the 2004 election: K/E signs in people’s yards were stolen…also, at the local dem office, believe it was a couple days before election day, the phones suddenly did not work. So, people who were doing phone banking used their cells. Another person also had some car trouble on the way home from phone banking. Interesting co-incidences?
I had a Kerry Edwards sign stolen from my yard.
I got a kick out of the dueling signs here in Enterprise. All the “public” spaces along the roadways here had signs on. At the entryway to our subdivision across the road in the ditch was a Kerry sign and Bush sign. One morning I would leave and the Bush sign was on higher ground that the Kerry sign. The next day the Kerry sign was on higher ground and the Bush sign had been placed down low. It was friggin hysterical. I don’t know when these guys did all the sign messing either. I leave at 7:30 with the kids but sometimes my husband leaves at 4:30 am for P.T. and the signs would be changed by then. I never got to see who these goofballs were but it was entertaining as hell. I found myself rooting for my sign everyday and mad when my sign was losing.
I had K/E stickers on my car and I wore a jacket w/God-knows-how-many K/E pins on it. Ran into one of the local wingnuts at the store and he started giving me a lecture. So, I listened politely, thanked him for his valuable time and gave him a pin!
Brookings Institute better hire some extra security guards. Things are getting nasty.
Yes, and it’s not even St. Patrick’s Day yet.
i love the fact that CNN is calling Bush a lame duck. He’s not a lame duck, he’s a cornered rat and cheney is cornered cougar. These guys should show the appropriate fear, like Olbermann did the other night.
Sec. of State McPherson, I received the following:
What a load of B.S!
Typical kiss-off letter from a politician. Blah, blah, blah — and fuck you too.
Here’s why:
A story went around back in the middle part of the last century about a woman who took a train and found a bedbug in her sleeping accommodations. So, she wrote a letter to the president of the railroad, chewing him up one side and down the other and ranting and railing as only a woman who has found a bedbug in her bunk can.
A couple of weeks later she received a very nice letter from the president of the railroad. He apologized profusely for the incident, stated that the railroad was committed to the highest quality standards in the care of its guests, and that not only the car in question, but the entire train had been fumigated and inspected upon receipt of the woman’s letter. The tone was pleasant, and it was everything she could have asked for.
She was about to conclude this episode on a happy note when she noticed a slip of paper falling out of the envelope. She picked up the slip of paper and read its message:
always with the stories, Omir.
The trick is to have enough stories, and then wait for the right occasions to tell them to come around. The more stories you know, the easier it gets. 🙂
How are you holding up, Booman?
I’m okay. I have a cold, but it is mostly gone.
that Nixon didn’t already do? On one hand it’s apalling and on the other it’s kind of boring now that I have caught on to what particular brand of scum they are. I’m starting to feel like I’m playing Candyland again.
Candyland for keeps, though.
There has been nothing new under the sun since before the time of Ecclesiastes. Everything these guys are doing has been done before. They just do it with the knob on their amp turned up to 11.
I would do absolutely nothing that wasn’t on computer and encrypted. The technology is dirt simple (well, as dirt simple as anything involving taking a number with tens of thousands of digits and raising it to the power of a similar number can get) and with USB drives that fit on your keychain you can keep a GPG keyring with you at all times just like you would your car or house keys, and change the keys much more easily.
That way if they steal a laptop, good luck using the contents unless they also steal the current keychain.
It goes without saying that in this scenario the only things I would keep on paper would be dummy financial records and voter lists that would include places like the local dump, investigative reporters, fake addresses specifically designed to entrap whoever did this, and other embarrassing and time-wasting stuff.
We know some of their patterns. It’s about time we started using their patterns against them. A little political jiu-jitsu, if you will. To paraphrase Robert Shaw’s character in The Sting, what are they going to do, call the Democrats out for outfoxing them?