Posted on 11/08/2005 12:59:06 PM PST by wilco200
EXETER - Several local community action groups, including Democracy for New Hampshire, the Seacoast Progressive Alliance and True Majority sponsored a civic action event at Phillips Exeter Academy on Sunday.
The main speaker was award-winning author and nationally recognized environmental and election-protection activist Harvey Wasserman.
"It may sound corny but I feel people should try to leave the world a better place than what they saw when they came in," said Herb Moyer, one of the event’s primary organizers. "I believe in fairness, I believe in keeping our environment healthy, I believe that people should be actively engaged in keeping our government honest, keeping their country safe and doing things that are right."
Moyer said that he feels the country has entered a very serious period of time.
"We have the war in Iraq, a vice president who is desperately trying to convince the U.S. Senate not to pass a bill that would outlaw torture, and we have lots of people who have lots of evidence that elections are being stolen left and right, especially in the swing state of Ohio, which is the subject of Mr. Wassermann’s speech," said Moyer.
After a few songs by local entertainer and activist Charlie Proux, a few speeches by officials of sponsoring groups, Harvey Wasserman took the stage to address the attendees of well over 100 people.
Once known for his fiery rhetoric, Wasserman at this particular event was not only calm and deliberate in choosing his words but also very entertaining. This atmosphere was supplemented by the exuberant presence of his 6-year-old daughter, who not only seemed to be everywhere but also brought a chuckle at times from the audience.
Wasserman started out talking about the Seabrook nuclear power plant and his involvement with the Clamshell Alliance.
"Anyone who tells you that the Clamshell Alliance didn’t succeed in stopping Seabrook doesn’t take into account that it was never finished," he said. "When you see pictures of the station with the two domes, you have to realize that one of them is just a rusting hull that was never completed and consequently never used all because of the efforts of the people who marched, and sang, and sat in."
The main topic of the afternoon was the presidential election of 2004. Wasserman claims that through a series of events orchestrated by the Republican Party, the providers of electronic voting machines, the news media and President Bush himself, the Ohio election was stolen, and Bush should not occupy the White House.
Specifically Wasserman stated that: "Party members and Republicans thwarted smooth election procedures in heavily Democratic precincts that would have gone for Kerry.
"Inner-circle Bush supporters provided the electronic voting machines used, and even tampered with results by pre-programming," he said. "A Bush relative who worked for a major news outlet made calls to other media people late into the night to discourage early results, thereby questioning Kerry’s lead."
President Bush was in Ohio the day of the election and had a direct hand in the whole operation."
At the completion of the hour-and-a-half speech, Wasserman and his direct supporters manned a table dispensing literature and offering several of his 11 authored books for sale, including his latest, "How the GOP Stole America’s 2004 Election & is Rigging 2008."
Although most audience members agreed with the text of the speech, a few doubted the extent of a conspiracy.
"The election was definitely stolen, and Bush was never elected by the people of America, but I doubt how organized and up the ladder the conspiracy goes," was one comment made by an unidentified member of the audience.
It's even more sinister a conspiracy than he thinks. In reality, W's father HW had Kerry's mom slipped a mickey while she was pregnant with the foetus JF'n. That caused JF'n to be born with an IQ just shy of HW's son W - who HW was planning to install (illegally) as president after his own term in office was through.
So you see, through careful planning, the seeds of conquest have been long established - there's nothing they can do to thwart the evil Bush juggernaught.
Send him to France.
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Send him our way...we'll show him some "Ozark's Hospitality."
"How the GOP Stole America’s 2004 Election & is Rigging 2008."
Hey you have to give him credit, he's already screaming about 2008 well in advance. The endless conspiracy......
That's something I've never seen before, howling about a conspiracy before an election takes place...some 3 years in advance.
I have GOT to come up with schtick like this......people actually get paid for coming up with stuff like this? Amazing.
Interesting picture, but I think his tin-foil hat is missing!
If he wants to leave the world a better place, he shouldn't lie about people.
Only at a liberal bathhouse like Exeter could you find people willing to sit through this sh*t for an hour and a half.
I'll be moving to Exeter in the coming months. Nice town lemme tell ya.
True Majority? From the party that has gotten a majority of votes in the presidential election only TWICE since LBJ and only one of those got them the presidency!
I believe in magic...
Geez...I really hate these emotionally laden speeches.
Get to the point, real quick with facts, not conjecture and back it up with information that is easily verifiable, no "anonymous sources said," or things that are so arcane some Wiccan found them at Stonehenge.
Good luck - it isn't Keene or Hanover but from the times I have been there - it's pretty close.
"well over a HUNDRED people"!!!
good idea.
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