Ha, Ha, Hee, Snicker, Giggle, Snort, . . . Haaa, Haaa

So the NY Times is reporting that CFIUS - the same panel that initially OKed the Dubai port deal is investigating as to whether Hugo Chavez has any control or influence over the e-voting software. Snicker, snicker, tee, hee. giggle . . .

I can't control my giggling -- just when they thought they had the fix in -- Hugo Chavez may be operating the curtain. Just deserts!


October 29, 2006
U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties
By TIM GOLDEN
The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.

The inquiry is focusing on the Venezuelan owners of the software company, the Smartmatic Corporation, and is trying to determine whether the government in Caracas has any control or influence over the firm’s operations, government officials and others familiar with the investigation said.

The inquiry on the eve of the midterm elections is being conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius, the same panel of 12 government agencies that reviewed the abortive attempt by a company in Dubai to take over operations at six American ports earlier this year.

The committee’s formal inquiry into Smartmatic and its subsidiary, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., was first reported Saturday in The Miami Herald. . . .

But after a municipal primary election in Chicago in March, Sequoia voting machines were blamed for a series of delays and irregularities. Smartmatic’s new president, Jack A. Blaine, acknowledged in a public hearing that Smartmatic workers had been flown up from Venezuela to help with the vote.

Some problems with the election were later blamed on a software component, which transmits the voting results to a central computer, that was developed in Venezuela.

I am Ashamed

Bush managed to kill the writ of habeas corpus and no one seems to care. I cried last night while watching Keith Olbermann and then started checking out Canadian immigration sites on the web.

Why aren't we in the streets protesting??!! I'm sorry, but not even the 10 Americans that died in Iraq this week are important when compared to the outrageous act of overturning habeas corpus and legalizing torture.

Jonathan Turley said : "This is a day of shame for the American people as Bush has been allowed to revoke over two hundred years of American principles and values. Bush now has despotic powers, and America seems not to care."

I am ashamed of my Democrat Senator who voted against this because if this issue wasn't filibuster-worthy, what is? I'm ashamed of my government for considering this and passing it. I'm ashamed of my fellow citizens who are pretending nothing is happening.

I used to wonder why 'good Germans' allowed Hitler to rise to power. Now I am living and watching it happen around me and I still don't understand why. When are people going to wake up? Where are the real patriots? This is Bush's own Enabling Act!