> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of The Fool
... > Of all localities in America, Santa Clara County should have been the > wariest. This is the county, after all, that sued the Southern Pacific > Railroad in 1886 over non-payment of taxes and, in losing the lawsuit, > paved the way for the corporate takeover of the United States of America. Wow... I doubt if many of us in Santa Clara County had any idea of that history. I could tell some stories of more modern political shenanigans involving rail in this county, though. > Now corporations will be telling the citizens of Santa Clara County how > they voted. And those same corporations will use the shield of corporate > personhood - once valiantly disputed before the Supreme Court by the > County's attorney - to withhold from the County's voters the right to > "look behind the curtain" at the corporate-owned software and > computerized processes that tabulate their vote. How sadly ironic. This stinks. How can it possibly be legal for so few to control our voting records? I was already a fan of Hartmann -- his books on ADD are terrific. Now I think I want to meet him. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
