Walter,

I would like to take this opportunity to assure you and others, such as Gary Wynne, that there are many, many, many Americans who view themselves as strong patriots, and are also disgusted by current events. Hundreds of Californians have quit their jobs, or taken sabaticals, so that they might go to Arizona or Nevada. These are 2 states that according to the polls could vote for either Kerry or Bush. There is no possible way that Bush can win California. So it is deemed more important by many to do whatever they can to return America to the people.

Unfortunately, there is also a percentage of people in the USA who do not invest a lot of time in politcal affairs. They hear a few words that they want to hear, and that is enough to make their minds up for them. As I stated before, the article in today's newspaper talked about how the more educated a person is, the less likely they are to be for Bush. He has used the issue of "gay rights" to hammer in a wedge between the American people. So now there are many conservatives or folks from the religious right who refuse to listen to anything bad about Bush or good for Kerry.

I can assure you that there are many here working day and night to get this country back on track. People who are truly fightened by what they see occuring in this country today.

>Hi Perry,
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>I'm glad at least a few americans are thinking. If I watch the news about the american elections I get sick. What I see is a hollywood show that has nothing to do with politics anymore. Only about giving a good show and raising an athmosphere, making the other guy look bad, lie and distract people from the real issues. It is already the second time that the republicans played dirty in a commercial by putting in hidden messages (RATS incident four years ago, and the artificially changin video records to increase the number of attendences).
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>And what to think about this (from the dutch news): Since the last elections, the electronic voting systems are going to be used more in the US. Currently only three manufacturers have been granted a licence to manufacture the voting machine. Appart from the fact that testing these machine went very bad (Crashing), the software of one of those machines leaked to the internet, showing terrible source code. Even worse is that the director of one of those companies publically has announce to support bush.
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>I know I'm going to raise hairs here. But I really see some silularities in some people from the 20th century that won elections this kind of way, and were responsible for millions of death.
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>I'm beginning to realize that the actual state is that you live in a dictatorship disguised as democracy. How could it have come this far ?
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>< Wait let me get my firesuit on ... >
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