Getting attacked for being a Democrat in Pensacola Florida | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 hidden)
Redneck Riviera (none / 0)

They don't call it the Redneck Riviera for nothing.

At least part of the problem is the Florida state government.

I am registered as an Independent (thankfully), but I volunteered for the Gore campaign in 2000 and am a volunteer for the Obama campaign this year. I work in computer security and have been active in exposing high-tech corruption in our voting systems.

In January, I was arrested near my office, and spent 11 days in County Jail.  I was doing absolutely nothing illegal (I was picked up riding my bicycle - the Sherrif had a state warrant).  I was never charged with anything, and did not even have an arraignment hearing.  In jail, I was first put in a psychiatric cell and then put in with the violent crime felons, even though I have never committed or been charged with any crime or even had a traffic ticket - I lead the "straightest" life of anyone I know.  It cost me $5,000 to have a lawyer bring my habeus corpus case to the Federal Courthouse in Miami, where a judge ordered a writ of habeus corpus ad subjiciendum - compelling Palm Beach County to either bring charges against me or release me.  They released me a couple of days later without ever filing any charges.

I can only guess that if I did not have the $5,000 to pay legal fees, I'd still be rotting in jail and the hackers would still have control of the vote tabulation computers.

Needless to say, I am no fan of Christ and as long as he rules the state this sort of thing will continue to happen.

by rbruck on 09/28/2008 09:03:17 AM EST

This is very frightening (none / 0)
That this could happen in America is extremely scary.  It violates every promise that was ever made to us about our country.

They put a Governor of Alabama in prison on false charges.  They unconstitutionally harrassed and arrested peaceful citizens by using SWAT teams to invade people's homes before the Republican Convention.   And now this.

When these sort of thing happens, it makes the necessity for change more urgent.  As they become more common, we must become less tolerant of the right.  There is a point where civil debate becomes meaningless and useless.

I pray that we can avert disaster.

by EveningStarNM on 09/28/2008 09:40:43 AM EST

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I Particularly Liked the Part in the Debate (none / 0)
Where McCain said:

"I have opposed the president on spending, on climate change, on torture of prisoner, on - on Guantanamo Bay."

and then, later:

"So we have a long way to go in our intelligence services. We have to do a better job in human intelligence. And we've got to -- to make sure that we have people who are trained interrogators so that we don't ever torture a prisoner ever again."

This first sentence was only partially true, for the last two years McCain has voted in favor of Bush laws that allow torture, and he has defended "enhanced interrogation techniques".

But in the second sentence, McCain flat-out admits that the US tortures prisoners.  Nobody brings this up about the debate, but I thought it was significant.

IF Obama is elected Prisoner, hundreds of political prisoners will be released.

by rbruck on 09/28/2008 04:37:53 PM EST

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Getting attacked for being a Democrat in Pensacola Florida | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 hidden)