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Fitrakis “Polling places should be wrapped in yellow police tape as crime scenes. ”

Lusignan: “Let`s get the police tape out and let`s go down to Philly!”

Le Coup D`States: A Conversation between Debbie Lusignan & Bob Fitrakis [6/16]

“If (justice) here could be achieved . . . a chain reaction might result that could bring reason and eventual peace in a reasonable time. A small event in a large and troubled world. But who knows which straw will tip the scales? I do not delude myself about my importance. But it is a straw, is it not?” -- Edward Aaron

Robert Fitrakis (Ohio) may be he nation`s premier authority on US electoral theft. He and his co-counsel, Cliff Arnebeck of Election Justice USA, have been lodging law suits against the uniquely American custom of perennial and overt election fraud since the 2004 presidential election in Ohio.

                                                

Debbie Lusignan (Massachusetts) host and producer of the “Sane Progressive” You Tube Channel, counts herself of the `Bernie or Bust` persuasion. She`s an organizer of targeted protests scheduled for the Democratic National Convention and a vocal agitator for harnessing the Sanders` agenda long after Bernie`s endorsement of Clinton. [Bracketed material is for explanation only - The Editors].

1-OVERVIEW

FITRAKIS: We have 50 different state systems, and within that 8000 different election authorities. 5000 or so from county levels to municipal registrars. And all of these systems make it impossible to have a transparent system. It gives tremendous advantage to the people who are party `regulars` [dependents of the so-called Big City Political Bosses` Republican/Democratic apparatus]. That apparatus and its private technicians are supporting Hillary Clinton.

2-COUP D`STATES

Lusignan: What is it about California that`s particularly troubling?

Fitrakis: I consider what took place in California a coup d`etat. It was one of the largest riggings of an election in the history of this nation, one of the largest purge of voters. (Our) law suit in California  . . . will be a federal suit. A lot of the judges tend to be political [i.e. they tailor judicial decisions in a manner that benefits the party or faction that elected or nominated them]. I think ours won`t be.

I`ve seen similar patterns in New York and Arizona (2016) and what happened in Ohio (2016). And prior to it and on a smaller scale in Florida (2000). Everything you`re seeing now on a large scale happened in Ohio in 2004.

WASHINGTON, DC

Lusignan: According to a report in Washington Post an unknown number of DC voters went to the polls and found their party affiliation had changed without authorization. (The office formerly known as the Washington, DC Board of Elections and Ethics) said it was due to a glitch  . . .

Fitrakis: Yeah, it always is . . .

Lusignan: They`re saying it was due to a software issue. It was reported to them over a week ago and they did absolutely nothing to address it. Really it`s been so amazingly blatant.

ARIZONA

Fitrakis: The discrepancy in Arizona, you`re talking 36 points between what was reported and what people coming out say they voted. They actually `called` that election as final [deemed Clinton victor] with only 71% of the people attempting to vote, having voted.

CONTEXT: The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything  -- Josef Stalin

3-CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Fitrakis: (These results come about) not only because of the massive and deliberate voter purging. What people need to know is that these data bases have all been privatized. Private, partisan, for-profit companies with secret proprietary software `fixed` the data bases -- and I do mean fixed them. [altered them to fit their clients` needs]. Party regulars [often referred to as functionaries of the political Bosses` or `Tammany Hall`] target [for purging, non-Tammany] voters.

4-THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM: CITIZENS V CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Fitrakis: Clearly Democratic election officials in at least 11 states should be in jail for deliberately purging voters who would support Bernie Sanders. They`re targeting deliberately, through their use of data bases, the core of the Sanders` supporters and making sure they don`t vote. And this has happened just about everywhere . . . We haven`t seen these kind of purges since prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This is deliberate and this is criminal. And that`s what we intend to argue in our lawsuit.

Lusignan: It`s so blatant, so disheartening. People are feeling so deflated. So people are just hanging their hats on your lawsuit.

5-ORGANIZED CAPITAL

Fitrakis: There is a way to file a civil RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations). You can start a lawsuit and if you get discovery and the necessary evidence, and it is, in fact, organized crime, it is in fact illegal collusion. (If) they know these numbers are corrupt and they’re reporting them. You can make a case they`re engaged in organized crime.

Lusignan: That`s what this feels like.

Fitrakis: Well, that`s what it is, make no mistake about it. It`s no accident. It`s deliberate.

6-BERNIE AND BUST?

Lusignan: Many election activists across the country are writing the Sanders campaign and have had meetings with the campaign and it will not address [election theft]. Why do you think Senator Sanders is not addressing this?

Fitrakis: I would hope that Sanders becomes engaged in these election law suits. He`s the person directly `harmed.` [i.e. without Sanders` imprimatur many lawsuits cannot go forward]. He`s got time, however, so we hope he will step up and file suit.

Lusignan: Why do you think these candidates, who are `harmed,` are not (signing on to the law suits?) Why do you think they don`t say a word when elections are stolen?

Fitrakis: There`s tremendous pressure [on Democratic Party loyalists] not to call into question election rigging in America.

7-THE BANANA REPUBLIC OF AMERICA

Fitrakis:  If we want to be a Banana Republic, we already are.

If we held voting machines to the same standards to which we hold casino machines, polling places would be treated as crime scenes. In casinos they tape off areas surrounding slot machines, etc. to find out why the machines aren’t paying off.

I would encourage Sanders to go along with what Jill Stein is saying: The Justice Department needs to come in. Cyber squads need to come in. People need to be arrested. They need to be held accountable to the purging and the violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Lusignan: It`s disheartening. But I have not given up.

8- THIRTEEN COLONIES

Fitrakis: You’ve now got at least 13 states and other places like DC and Puerto Rico which should be considered crime scenes.

In all of these 13 or so states that had blatant corruption suits should be filed. They should be everywhere. Because whether there`s political judges throwing them out or not, we need to get into the public record what happened.

9-PHILADELPHIA OR BUST

Fitrakis: When the Democratic National Convention comes, there should be a re-credentialing of delegates.

From my count and those of other people, Sanders won this election. He deserves to have his delegates. I`m hoping that, if they don’t treat him fairly, they [the guilty parties] should [be caused] to confess to their crimes or there should be no peace at that convention.

Lusignan: I think it`s very powerful that you said that.

10-THERE`LL ALWAYS BE PHILLY

Fitrakis: And I hope that convention attendees `serenade` delegates walking to and from the convention hall unless they get some justice about the blatant stealing of elections and the recent coup in California.

Quite frankly, I suspect they targeted (supporters of his agenda) because Bernie`s `political revolution` got more votes than any open democratic socialist in the history of this country that. So the only way they can keep the status quo in place -- the neocon war policies, the crony capitalism, the intervening in countries like Libya and Syria, the type of endless war, etc. -- is by stealing the vote of the people.

Lusignan: I`m working with the Bernie or Bust delegates. I`m going to be down in Philadelphia. I`m gonna be planning actions and responses to what happens in that convention.

11-MEDIA COUNTERCOUP

Lusignan: I think the worst part is the collusion of the media with the politicians. It`s very much a coordinated effort. I know Cliff (Arnebeck) talked about, was thinking about filing a law suit going after the media. Is that possible?

Fitrakis: If (media outlets) know this stuff is happening it`s in their internal memos. I don’t know how they can`t. They’ve got people around who understand statistics.

12-CONSPIRACY THEORY OR INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS?

Fitrakis: They’ve got people . . . attacking us as conspiracy theorists (by suggesting that we wrongfully use exit polls). In reality US government, media, (international election monitors) indeed, everyone uses exit polls. That`s what exit polls are designed for.

13- CAN HE SAY THAT?

Fitrakis: The Carter Center participates in observing other countries` elections for fraud but won’t do so here because the US does not meet the basic standards for fairness in elections.

CONTEXT: The US is not a functioning democracy -- Jimmy Carter

14-OVERT ACTION

Fitrakis: A lot of these techniques were used in the third world during the cold war where the CIA in the `70s admitted to rigging 5000 local, state and national elections. What used to be done covertly in third world they`re just doing it openly now in the United States

15-CITIZENS ARRESTS, ETC.

Fitrakis: People really have to be prepared to occupy these (Boards of Elections or Secretaries of State offices, etc.) when they certify these votes. You can`t let this level of crime go unprotested. These election officials have to be held accountable.

I`m not above some citizens arrests as well.

16-RECORDS AND TAPES

Fitrakis: People are in there (the convention hall) illegally credentialed, it`s not the vote of the people. People`s votes were stripped (purged). And in at least 13 of  these states it looks like somebody was flipping them (counting Sanders` votes for Clinton) as well.

I think people need to get some yellow police tape and wrap it around the really bad precincts and boards of election where they suspect the vote is being stolen.

Lusignan: Get the police tape out and let`s go down to Philly. Let`s get the police tape out and let`s go down to Philly!

17-TRY THIS AT HOME

Fitrakis: I`m running for prosecutor in Franklin County on the pledge that if I`m elected, I`m going to arrest the Secretary of State of Ohio. I don’t know what else to do with these people. Even if I can`t convict him he needs a good fraud walking.

18-REMAIN STANDING

Lusignan: It doesn`t matter if Bernie Sanders joins us or not. It`s the American people  . . .

19-FAIT ACCOMPLI?

Given that the last two contested presidential elections, 2000 and 2004, were won by the Democrats but served by Republicans (McCain and Romney were no more an electoral threat to Obama, than Mondale and Dukakis were a challenge to Reagan and Bush, Sr.) it could be predicted that the conservative wing of the Democratic Party collects the most votes in 2016 then abdicate the presidency to Donald Trump. -- NYR

SELECTED VOTING & RESULTS:

2000 GORE OVER BUSH. TURNS COLLABORATOR.

2004 KERRY OVER BUSH. CALLS BUSH DAY AFTER AND SAY, HEY YOU TAKE IT.

2008 OBAMA OVER MCCAIN. PENTAGON BUDGET INCREASED $250 BILLION

2012 OBAMA OVER ROMNEY. BAILS OUT BANKS WORLDWIDE. DOLLAR = PESO.

2016 SANDERS OVER CLINTON. CLINTON ABDICATES TO TRUMP FROM THE HOTEL.

2020 SANDERS WINS IOWA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, SUPER TUESDAY. YOU DO THE MATH.

20-THE NEW NORMAL

Rather than a `political revolution` or change of any sort, Sanders` campaign started a `media coup` which revealed that -- contrary to media`s false premise that only a small minority of Americans want more education, less war, etc. --  a vast majority of Americans demand that their taxes support a sustainable existence.

An actual election or the proliferation of independent media carries with it the threat that the average American comes to realize he is not the only one who wants a normal country, and is no longer afraid to say it. -- the editors