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      <![CDATA["THE ABOVE ANARCHIST/ANTI-AMERICAN POST
    November 30th - 4:56 p.m.
    IT'S DOUBTFUL THAT THE POSTERS WHO MAKE THE CLAIM OF ANTI-AMERICANISM ARE REFERRING TO CITIZENS VOTING IN EVERY ELECTION OR JUDGING INCUMBENTS ON THEIR RECORDS-WHAT IT SEEMS ,IMO, IS THEY ARE REFERRING TO THE POSTERS THAT MALIGN ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS WITH THE SAME BRUSH,MAKING USE OF LIES,INNUENDOES,AND DISTORTIONS OF PUBLIC RECORDS, ALL WITH THE INTENT TO CREATE PUBLIC MISTRUST AND DISTRUST WITH ALL LEVELS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT,AND ALL WHO HOLD OFFICE. THE "VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS" OUT POSTER IS A GLARING EXAMPLE OF THIS SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR-A-L-L?THAT POSTER IS TRYING TO PERSUADE VOTING CITIZENS THAT ANY AND ALL DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED OFFICIALS ,WITHOUT EXCEPTION, SHOULD BE VOTED OUT IN FAVOR OF "CHAOS CREATING" NEWBIES,WHO THE MINUTE THEY ARE ELECTED WILL BE INCUMBENTS. ONE POSTER KNOWN TO BE THAT UNREASONABLE IS THE ONE NAMED "HUGH""
    
    
    "ALL ELECTIONS ARE OPEN!
    December 2nd - 4:27 p.m.
    ONLY IN DICTATORSHIPS ARE PEOPLE FORCED TO "VOTE".AMERICAN CITIZENS, WHO ARE LEGALLY REGISTERED VOTERS, CAN CHOOSE TO VOTE IN ANY AND ALL ELECTIONS; THE ACT OF VOTING IN A DEMOCRACY IS VOLUNTARY,ON THE PART OF THE VOTER! YOU'RE SERIAL POSTING IS NOT INTENDED TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY;THAT'S ALREADY IN PLACE. YOU'RE POSTS ARE INTENDED TO CREATE PUBLIC DISTRUST AND HOSTILITY TO THEIR GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS ,AND THOSE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED AND THE PUBLIC SERVANTS THOSE ELECTED OFFICIALS APPOINT,USUALLY AT FAR LESS SALARY THAN THEY COULD EARN IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY. WHAT IS SEDITIOUS IS INCITING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT WITH ASSUMPTIONS THAT ALL IS BAD. NEGATIVITY TAKES NO SKILL IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES, JUST BITTERNESS!"
    
    
    "WOW!VINTAGE HUGH
    December 3rd - 10:12 a.m.
    WAS THAT A MINI-THESIS IN TURNSPEAK OR WHAT?"
    
    
    "Hugh IS WRITING A TURNSPEAK THESIS
    December 3rd - 3:59 p.m.
    AND ROUND AND ROUND WE GO!- 'Bear No False Witness' is an admonition that some will always ignore.QUOTE FROM ABOVE POST-IF TWISTING PUBLIC RECORDS AND MAKING SCURRILLOUS CHARGES AGAINST PEOPLE BASED ON THOSE "TWISTS", COGNITIVE DISSONENCE,HALLUCINATIONS,OR OUJI BOARDS ISN'T BEARING FALSE WITNESS ,THAN THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FALSE WITNESS,AKA,LYING!"
    
    
    "RE:Well
    December 5th - 10:01 a.m.
    MORE OF HUGH'S TURNSPEAK AND COMPULIVE HATRED OF ALL GOVERNMENT,ELECTED AND APPOINTED PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND OUR VERY FORM OF GOVERNMENT! HUGH IS ASKING FOR SUPERFLOUS POSTING OF PUBLIC RECORDS WITH THE ABOVE POST,SO HE CAN EITHER(IF HE ACTUALLY HAD HIS REQUEST FULFILLED) HAVE AN EVEN GREATER DATA BASE OF PUBLIC RECORDS TO DISTORT AND MAKE FALSE ASSUMPTIONS AND ALLEGATIONS OVER, OR COMPLAIN THAT THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE."
    
    
    "RE:ESSENTIALS
    December 5th - 2:53 p.m.
    YEP, CLASS IS OUT . YOU HATE THE TWO PARTIES ,HUGH, AND ARE MOST LIKELY A SUPPORTER OF THE TEXAS WHACKO , YOUR IDEOLOGICAL SOULMATE!SO BACK TO MY ORIGINAL CHALLENGE TO YOU,HUGH:WHEN DO YOU RUN FOR OFFICE AND LEAD BY EXAMPLE,RATHER THAN "TAR AND FEATHER" ALL WHO DO PUT THEMSELVES OUT THERE TO SERVE THE PUBLIC.INSTEAD OF CALLING OTHERS "CLOUT MINIONS","CLOUT MONKIES", CLOUT___", WHEN DO YOU STOP BEING A "TENURE MONKEY" AND AN ACADEMIC ELITIST SEDITIONIST? ARTIST?"
    
    
    "re:DENIAL MONKEY
    December 5th - 6:01 p.m.
    HUGH, YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE! YOU ASSUME THAT ANYONE WHO OPPOSES YOUR ANARCHIST "HATE ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS" WORLD VIEW IS A "greedy, lazy, liar",AND THAT ANY SUCH POSTER MUST BE "hogs that feed at the public financed trough". DO YOU , A SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED MAN, REALLY HAVE SUCH A JAUNDICED VIEW OF DEMOCRACY?HOW DID YOU,HUGH, GET TO BE SUCH A BITTER MAN,SO HATEFUL OF THOSE WILLING TO MAKE OUR SOCIETY FUNCTION? YOU ARE DEFINETLY AN ANARCHIST AND MOST LIKELY YOU ARE BUYING IN BIG TIME TO THE EXTREMIST PAUL,WHO SEEMS TO BE A NATIONAL VERSION OF YOU; ONE DIFFERENCE, AS DISTASTEFUL AS PAUL IS ,APPEALING TO THOSE "ANGRY" WHACK JOBS LIKE YOU,AT LEAST HE HAS THE COURAGE TO RUN, UNLIKE YOU,HUGH!"
    
    
    "OH,YOU'RE HUGH ALLRIGHT
    December 6th - 12:34 a.m.
    ABSOLUTLY ,VINTAGE,HUGH!"
    
    
    Happy now?
        
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      <![CDATA["What is it with this poster who has so much scorn for those who..." criticize those who pretend to "...serve the public?"?
    
    "Why doesn't he tell us what his..." clout job "...is?"?
    
    "Perhaps he..." knows he "...lives in a glass house and..." isn't bright enough to realize that when he "...throws rocks!" he's likely to damage his own house?
    
    "Wouldn't it be a hoot if he..." has never "...worked in local gov't. and is disgruntled over not getting..." a clouted job, but has to settle for getting "...an undeserved..." token, flunky job, with no chance of ever getting a  "...promotion?"? 
    
    "Food for thought."?
        
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      <![CDATA[What is it with this poster who has so much scorn for those who serve the public? Why doesn't he tell us what his vocation is? Perhaps he lives in a glass house and throws rocks! Wouldn't it be a hoot if he worked in local gov't. and is disgruntled over not getting an undeserved promotion? Food for thought.
        
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      <![CDATA[So, when are you clout & tout monkeys gonna actually address the points made by whoever you've seen fit to mock and slander?
    
    Or don't you got anything to say but mockeries and slanders?
        
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      <![CDATA[hugh has more faces than Lon Cheney! The caps poster is right-if Hugh put his name to every post he does, this would be the Hugh blog in name as well as fact.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hugh, whoever Hugh is, must be finding your comments Hughmorous, indeed.
    
    As in the Hughge error in judgment that you are determined to consistently make concerning who Hugh is.
    
    While it is obvious, from all of Hugh's posts that Hugh is a reasonable, rational and intelligent Hughman being, seeking to expose the corrupted for who and what they are, I doubt that Hugh would deem it necessary to deny his Hughness, especially to you.
    
    But, you keep on obsessing about Hugh, and who Hugh may be.
    
    I'll just continue to encourage all, who are willing to ponder, to HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT.
        
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      <![CDATA[ABSOLUTLY ,VINTAGE,HUGH!
        
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      <![CDATA[Let's take your opinions one lie at a time:
    
    (Advance apologies to all who are thinking "Uh, Let's not")
    
    
    "HUGH, YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE!"
    
    Since I am not Hugh, I will conclude that you admire Hugh, Hughever Hugh is, and have admired him for many years. Give yourself some closure and accept the fact that Hugh apparently doesn't know you exist and doesn't care. So move on with your life and bid Hugh a fond ado.
    
    
    "YOU ASSUME THAT ANYONE WHO OPPOSES YOUR ANARCHIST 'HATE ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS' WORLD VIEW IS A 'greedy, lazy, liar',AND THAT ANY SUCH POSTER MUST BE 'hogs that feed at the public financed trough.'"
    
    As stated before, no hate is being felt or expressed, nor is any desire for anarchy. 
    
    What is being expressed is an observation, of the natures and characteristics of those many, fraudulent individuals, who purport to be public servants, while serving only, or primarily, themselves and their friends, families and co-conspirators in said fraud.
    
    Also observed is that, for the most part, those who post obsessively slanted-in-favor-of the established, political machines' activities, both Democrats and Republicans, are invested in the continuation of 'politics as usual', said 'politics as usual' being, in one way or another, the source of their lucrative incomes.
    
    And, since authentic public service is quite a different thing than 'politics as usual', authentic public service being an activity substantially free from feelings of greed, sloth and dishonesty, and, since the activities of all those many who support, and profit from, 'politics as usual' is so packed full of greed, sloth and dishonesty, it seemed appropriate to conclude that those so obsessively supportive of 'politics as usual' would, quite naturally, be those obsessed with being greedy, lazy, liars.
    
    
    "DO YOU , A SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED MAN, REALLY HAVE SUCH A JAUNDICED VIEW OF DEMOCRACY?HOW DID YOU,HUGH, GET TO BE SUCH A BITTER MAN,SO HATEFUL OF THOSE WILLING TO MAKE OUR SOCIETY FUNCTION?"
    
    Let's break this one down a bit:
    
    "DO YOU, A SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED MAN, REALLY HAVE SUCH A JAUNDICED VIEW OF DEMOCRACY?"
    
    Well, do you?
    
    "HOW DID YOU,(whomever you are) GET TO BE SUCH A BITTER MAN,SO HATEFUL OF THOSE WILLING TO MAKE OUR SOCIETY FUNCTION?"
    
    Who do you think makes our society function?
    
    Surely not those who, like vampires, suck the economic blood from the arteries of the many hard-working citizens who are being taxed into poverty?
    
    Surely not those who regularly mock and ridicule any who dare to object to being thus treated?
    
    Surely not those who have the gall to claim, with a straight face, that their self-serving activities are, miraculously, serving the public's best interest? 
    
    Surely you jest?
    
    
    "YOU ARE DEFINETELY AN ANARCHIST AND MOST LIKELY YOU ARE BUYING IN BIG TIME TO THE EXTREMIST PAUL,WHO SEEMS TO BE A NATIONAL VERSION OF YOU; ONE DIFFERENCE, AS DISTASTEFUL AS PAUL IS,APPEALING TO THOSE "ANGRY" WHACK JOBS LIKE YOU,AT LEAST HE HAS THE COURAGE TO RUN, UNLIKE YOU,HUGH!"
    
    Well, since Hugh I am not, and, as I am not an anarchist, nor a supporter of some guy named Paul, nor am I angry, you must be speaking to someone who is not I.
    
    
    You sound like you could use a 'time out'.
    
    And maybe some cookies and milk.
        
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      <![CDATA[HUGH, YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE! YOU ASSUME THAT ANYONE WHO OPPOSES YOUR ANARCHIST "HATE ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS"  WORLD VIEW IS A "greedy, lazy, liar",AND THAT ANY SUCH POSTER MUST BE "hogs that feed at the public financed trough". DO YOU , A SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED MAN, REALLY HAVE SUCH A JAUNDICED VIEW OF DEMOCRACY?HOW DID YOU,HUGH, GET TO BE SUCH A BITTER MAN,SO HATEFUL OF THOSE WILLING TO MAKE OUR SOCIETY FUNCTION? YOU ARE DEFINETLY AN ANARCHIST AND MOST LIKELY YOU ARE BUYING IN BIG TIME TO THE EXTREMIST PAUL,WHO SEEMS TO BE A NATIONAL VERSION OF YOU; ONE DIFFERENCE, AS DISTASTEFUL AS PAUL IS ,APPEALING TO THOSE "ANGRY" WHACK JOBS LIKE YOU,AT LEAST HE HAS THE COURAGE TO RUN, UNLIKE YOU,HUGH!
        
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      <![CDATA["ALL WHO DO PUT THEMSELVES OUT THERE TO SERVE THE PUBLIC."?
    
    Other than the police and firemen, the only individuals who '...put themselves out...' are the ones putting out to their clout.
    
    And the only way the public is being served is as economic food for the hogs that feed at the public financed trough.
    
    "WHEN DO YOU STOP BEING A...." greedy, lazy, liar and actually do some kind of honest work for your paycheck?
    
    Or is honest work not a part of your vocabulary?
        
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      <![CDATA[YEP, CLASS IS OUT . YOU HATE THE TWO PARTIES ,HUGH, AND ARE MOST LIKELY A SUPPORTER OF THE TEXAS WHACKO , YOUR IDEOLOGICAL SOULMATE!SO BACK TO MY ORIGINAL CHALLENGE TO YOU,HUGH:WHEN DO YOU RUN FOR OFFICE AND LEAD BY EXAMPLE,RATHER THAN "TAR AND FEATHER" ALL WHO DO PUT THEMSELVES OUT THERE TO SERVE THE PUBLIC.INSTEAD OF CALLING OTHERS "CLOUT MINIONS","CLOUT MONKIES", CLOUT___", WHEN DO YOU STOP BEING A "TENURE MONKEY" AND AN ACADEMIC ELITIST SEDITIONIST? ARTIST?
        
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      <![CDATA[It's not 'hatred', nor is it, whatever 'it' may be, 'all government'.
    
    It is an encouragement, to all citizens, to participate in the selections of those individual human beings who are to be entrusted with the responsibilities inherent in the positions to which they are elected.
    
    To have a request, for the very public information that would show every tax-paying citizen exactly what their taxes are paying for, be characterized as being 'superfluous' is the height of hypocrisy, even for a clout minion.
    
    Specific information on the specific expenditures of our tax dollars is everything but 'superfluous'.
    
    The claim that such public information is to be denied the public, either by a blatant refusal to provide it or by the providing of it in such a way as to be incomprehensible to the citizens, is typical of the common practices of both the Democratic party office holders and the Republican party office holders.
    
    Arrogance abounds in both these two, dominant political parties.
    
    Arrogance, and indifference to the honest citizens' concerns.
    
    As the saying goes 'Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.'
    
    Regardless of how often said 'Denials' are made in ALL CAPS.
        
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      <![CDATA[MORE OF HUGH'S TURNSPEAK AND COMPULIVE HATRED OF ALL GOVERNMENT,ELECTED AND APPOINTED PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND OUR VERY FORM OF GOVERNMENT! HUGH IS ASKING FOR SUPERFLOUS POSTING OF PUBLIC RECORDS WITH THE ABOVE POST,SO HE CAN EITHER(IF HE ACTUALLY HAD HIS REQUEST FULFILLED) HAVE AN EVEN GREATER DATA BASE OF PUBLIC RECORDS TO DISTORT AND MAKE FALSE ASSUMPTIONS AND ALLEGATIONS OVER, OR COMPLAIN THAT THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
        
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      <![CDATA[This must mean that those thoroughly 'honest' elected officials WILL be posting, on the City of Chicago and Cook County websites: 
    
    The ENTIRE City and County payrolls, week by week, 
    
    The ENTIRE accounted for payments to ALL contractors, 
    
    The ENTIRE accounted for payments to EVERYONE, for EVERYTHING our tax dollars are spent on,
    
    The names of EACH and EVERY person, business entity, (with the names of the owners/investors/partners/etc. of each), vendors for EVERY item purchased, and the names of the vendors purchased from,
    
    and the recipients of EVERY PENNY of the taxpayers dollars, for whatever specified purpose, in the very near future, right?
    
    All the above information is supposed to be publicly available, right?
    
    In a form that is NOT intentionally, or negligently  complicated and indecipherable to the average citizen, right?
    
    
    After all, as the self-proclaimed guardians of the Public Trust, what better way for you to build and maintain that trust, than to prove you're worthy of same?
    
    And, what better way to prove your worthiness than to show EVERYONE just how honest you all have been and are being?
    
    Publish every last digit concerning the spending of our tax dollars, identify every single recipient of same, specify every single purpose and use of our tax dollars, THEN, and only then, will you have PROVEN you can be trusted.
    
    That is, IF you do, if fact, prove that our tax dollars have not been misused, wasted, stolen, or otherwise incompetently mismanaged.
    
    Unless, of course, it's your position that the Public's business is NONE of the Public's business.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Hugh IS WRITING A TURNSPEAK THESIS]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[AND ROUND AND ROUND WE GO!- 'Bear No False Witness' is an admonition that some will always ignore.QUOTE FROM ABOVE POST-IF TWISTING PUBLIC RECORDS AND MAKING SCURRILLOUS CHARGES AGAINST PEOPLE BASED ON THOSE "TWISTS", COGNITIVE DISSONENCE,HALLUCINATIONS,OR OUJI BOARDS ISN'T BEARING FALSE WITNESS ,THAN THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FALSE WITNESS,AKA,LYING!
        
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      <![CDATA[If it 'was' anything, it 'was', and is, an invitation, to all citizens, to think, to understand and to act on their understanding.
    
    'Turn-speak' is an interesting term, coined, apparently, by those who have developed the concept into an art form.
    
    Professional politicians, aka professional liars, aka professional bullshitters, aka professional salesmen, aka professional 'leaders', aka professional bunko artists, aka professional deceivers, et al, have been around for thousands of years, as long as there has been men and women to lie to each other.
    
    'Bear No False Witness' is an admonition that some will always ignore.
    
    It's up to the citizen/voters to not support these liars.
    
    It's up to the citizen/voters to not elect these liars.
    
    It's up to the citizen/voters to not reelect these liars.
    
    That is the reason for the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT voting strategy.
    
    Nothing more and nothing less.
    
    Those citizen/voters who DO support said liars are registered to vote and vote in every election.
    
    Those citizens who do NOT support said liars, have NOT, to date, been as dedicated to honest government, consisting of honest people, elected by honest people, acting honestly, thinking honestly and dedicated to honesty, as those dishonest citizen/voters HAVE been dedicated to electing dishonest, self-serving liars and thieves.
    
    For example, who said, BEFORE the last election, that there would be NO need to raise taxes?
    
    And, who said, AFTER being reelected, that everything's going to shit and taxes will have to be raised?
    
    Answer: Many reelected public officials, at all levels of government.
    
    So, what's to be done about all these incumbent liars?
    
    We know the answer to this question.
    
    We need only to have the resolve to do it.
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
        
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      <![CDATA[WAS THAT A MINI-THESIS IN TURNSPEAK OR WHAT?
        
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      <![CDATA[When you use dictatorships as an example, at least try to be a little honest in your description of them.
    
    In a true dictatorship, there aren't any elections.
    
    In a dictatorship that pretends to be a democracy, there may be elections, but most offices have only one candidate to vote for. (sound familiar?)
    
    In a dictatorship that pretends to be a democracy, where there is more than one candidate, there is rarely more than two, and the common knowledge is made known that to vote for anyone other than the incumbent would note be a 'wise' thing to do. (also sounds familiar?)
    
    Plus, in a dictatorship pretending to be a democracy, the citizen/voters know that there is little likelihood that their votes are secret, and every likelihood that their votes are known by the dictatorship's minions.
    
    
    You further state:
    
    "......THE PUBLIC SERVANTS THOSE ELECTED OFFICIALS APPOINT,USUALLY AT FAR LESS SALARY THAN THEY COULD EARN IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY."
    
    
    Now I KNOW you must be high! Blasted out of your mind. Or haven't you visited the web sites that have the names and salaries of every county employee, including those overpaid appointees you have the gall to say are generously serving the public by being compensated  "....USUALLY AT FAR LESS SALARY THAN THEY COULD EARN IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY.".
    
    How convenient for you, to leave out how all those 'appointed' by our 'elected' officials benefit from the insider connections, immortalized by the phrase 'I don' wan' nobody dat nobody sent.'.
    
    Plus, as has been delineated previously, since you've chosen to raise, as an issue, the citizen/voters' right to NOT vote, when approximately 50% of all eligible-to-vote citizens fail to register to vote AND when approximately 50% of those who are registered fail to vote on election day, we, the public, are left with a mere 25% of all citizens who COULD be voting, actually voting in any given election.
    
    Since the most votes any given candidate must receive to be elected is 51% of the total votes cast, we see that, at most, a meager 13% of the total number of citizens who COULD be voting are deciding who gets elected and who does not.
    
    This is, as you've stated, YOUR concept of Democracy. 
    
    It is NOT mine. Nor is it the concept of Democracy established by our Founding Fathers, who would NEVER have envisioned their country being dominated by political hacks who encourage citizens to exercise their Right to Vote by NOT voting.
    
    
    Finally, you state:
    
    "....NEGATIVITY TAKES NO SKILL IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES, JUST BITTERNESS!"
    
    
    And you claim to be an American?
    
    Where the hell do you think this "....NEGATIVITY...." comes from?
    
    What the hell do you think has brought about "....THESE TROUBLED TIMES..." that you speak of?
    
    Why the hell do you suppose there is any "....BITTERNESS!" in the minds and hearts of the citizens at large?
    
    And who the hell do you think is responsible for same?
    
    
    "Not I", said the 'elected by 13% of the citizens' officials.
    
    "Not I", said the 'overpaid appointees', given 'jobs' by the 'elected by 13% of the citizens' officials.
    
    "Not I", said the 'corrupted businessmen' buying influence and sweetheart contracts from the 'elected by 13% of the citizens' officials.
    
    "Surely Not I", said the ringmasters of corrupted governments.
    
    "Most Certainly Not I", said the minions touting for the incumbent, machine politicians, be they called Republicans or Democrats.
    
    "It Ain't I, Neither!", said the phony mis-leaders of their communities.
    
    So, who is responsible?
    
    If not all of the above?
    
    
    Why, according to mister/missus ALL CAPS poster, it's US.
    
    As in "We Have Met The Enemy, and It Is Us.".
    
    
    In a sense, this is so, as, We, the People, by failing to exercise our Right to Vote, by allowing that 13% of our fellow citizens to decide who our elected officials will be, have failed ourselves.
    
    
    REGISTER TO VOTE
    
    VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
    
    (or vote to keep every incumbent you please, and 'enjoy' things staying exactly the same as they have been. It's your vote and your choice.)
        
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      <![CDATA[ONLY IN DICTATORSHIPS ARE PEOPLE FORCED TO "VOTE".AMERICAN CITIZENS, WHO ARE LEGALLY REGISTERED VOTERS, CAN CHOOSE TO VOTE IN ANY AND ALL ELECTIONS; THE ACT OF VOTING IN A DEMOCRACY IS VOLUNTARY,ON THE PART OF THE VOTER!  YOU'RE SERIAL POSTING IS NOT INTENDED TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY;THAT'S ALREADY IN PLACE. YOU'RE POSTS ARE INTENDED TO CREATE PUBLIC DISTRUST AND HOSTILITY TO THEIR GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS ,AND THOSE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED AND THE PUBLIC SERVANTS THOSE ELECTED OFFICIALS APPOINT,USUALLY AT FAR LESS SALARY THAN THEY COULD EARN IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY. WHAT IS SEDITIOUS IS INCITING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT WITH ASSUMPTIONS THAT ALL IS BAD. NEGATIVITY TAKES NO SKILL IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES, JUST BITTERNESS!
        
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      <![CDATA[I did make the effort to sift through your ALL CAPS post, difficult as it was to read.
    
    My efforts were wasted, though, as I couldn't find a single honest thought, a single coherent idea, a single genuine expression of anything reasonable or rational, try as I might.
    
    Unless you actually don't understand the concept of the citizen/voters: 
    
    1) casting their votes intelligently, 
    
    2) considering the past actions of their incumbent elected public officials as indicative of their probable future actions,
    
    3) determining whether or not those actions were truly representative of the interests and desires of said citizen/voters
    
    4) and, thus, deciding whether or not their elected, incumbent officials deserve to be reelected.
    
    Should the citizen/voters determine that their incumbent, previously elected officials do NOT deserve to be reelected, the logical course of action would be to cast their votes in such a way as to ENSURE that those incumbent officials are NOT reelected.
    
    Thus, the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT voting strategy.
    
    The citizen/voters desires are fully respected, a strategy to accomplish the denial of reelection to those incumbents said voters choose to NOT reelect is provided, (one that will, if applied, ensure that incumbents NOT worthy of reelection will, in fact, NOT be reelected), and the ALL CAPS poster calls this anti-democratic and un-American?
    
    As all previously elected officials in office are, by definition, incumbents seeking reelection in any current election, and, as all incumbents have at least some record of actions taken while in office, and, as their records of actions taken, as elected public servants, are indicative of what actions they are likely to take in the future, should they win reelection, it's puzzling why the ALL CAPS poster should have any objections to the citizen/voters being encouraged to consider the actions of the incumbents, when deciding whether or not to reelect same.
    
    Furthermore, to characterize the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT voting strategy as being 'seditious' is, to put it mildly, ludicrous.
    
    As the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT proposals include the statements:
    
    "With few exceptions, all incumbents are the problem, be they Democrats or Republicans." 
    
    and
    
    "Focus on ousting EVERY incumbent currently in office, making exceptions sparingly, and ONLY if you are CERTAIN that an individual incumbent has proven, to your satisfaction, to be WORTHY of being reelected."
    
    and
    
    "Reelect whoever you choose, but don't kid yourselves, the incumbents are not the people who give a shit about you, not one bit.
    
    No matter how many soothing words come out of their mealy mouths."
    
    and
    
    "If you want to make exceptions and reelect an incumbent, that's your decision, as it's your vote and you can cast it for whomever you choose."
    
    and
    
    "It will not be enough to bid the current generation of crooks a fond farewell, for, with the next generation of crooks ready to step up and continue to pick our pockets, nothing will change but the faces.
    
    To ensure a real change in our governments, we, as citizens, must accept the responsibilities inherent in our Constitutional Democracy, the essential one being our Right to Vote.
    
    None of the Rights, enumerated in our Bill of Rights, has any value, if we, as free citizens, living in a free country, choose not to exercise them in their entirety.
    
    Our Right to Vote is the foundation of all of our other Rights.
    
    When we elect, or allow to be elected, individuals who have no genuine respect for our Rights, we effectively abandon our Rights.
    
    We, here in this city, and county, HAVE effectively abandoned any claim to our many Rights, by electing individuals, or allowing individuals to be elected, who have NO respect for our Rights.
    
    We can begin reclaiming our Rights by committing ourselves to exerting the minimal efforts required to:
    
    REGISTER TO VOTE
    
    VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION
    
    VOTE TO DENY INCUMBENTS REELECTION
    
    VOTE TO NOT RETAIN EVERY PUBLIC OFFICIAL
    
    Use your Right-to-Vote to remove the dishonest, incompetent, deceitful, manipulative bullshitters, open our elections to every citizen who wishes to serve, respect and value your Right-to-Vote."
    
    Now, ALL CAPS poster, what is 'seditious' about encouraging the citizen/voters to exercise their Right to Vote?
        
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      <![CDATA[The machine's clout monkeys post their drivel on an observable time table, to wit:
    
    Posts between approximately 11am and 2pm tell us they're on their lunch 'hours'.
    
    Posts between approximately 3pm and 5pm tell us they're on their 'late afternoon coffee breaks'.
    
    Posts between approximately 8am and 10am tell us they're on their 'morning coffee breaks'.
    
    
    Posts appearing during any other time periods tell us they've taken the day off.
    
    And they say everything is beautiful.
        
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      <![CDATA[IT'S DOUBTFUL THAT THE POSTERS WHO MAKE THE CLAIM OF ANTI-AMERICANISM ARE REFERRING TO CITIZENS VOTING IN EVERY ELECTION OR JUDGING INCUMBENTS ON THEIR RECORDS-WHAT IT SEEMS ,IMO, IS THEY ARE REFERRING TO THE POSTERS THAT MALIGN ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS WITH THE SAME BRUSH,MAKING USE OF LIES,INNUENDOES,AND DISTORTIONS OF PUBLIC RECORDS, ALL WITH THE INTENT TO CREATE PUBLIC MISTRUST AND DISTRUST WITH ALL LEVELS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT,AND ALL WHO HOLD OFFICE. THE "VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS" OUT POSTER IS A GLARING EXAMPLE OF THIS SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR-A-L-L?THAT POSTER IS TRYING TO PERSUADE VOTING CITIZENS THAT ANY AND ALL DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED OFFICIALS ,WITHOUT EXCEPTION, SHOULD BE VOTED OUT IN FAVOR OF "CHAOS CREATING" NEWBIES,WHO THE MINUTE THEY ARE ELECTED WILL BE INCUMBENTS. ONE POSTER KNOWN TO BE THAT UNREASONABLE IS THE ONE NAMED "HUGH"
        
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      <![CDATA["...the masses..."
    
    Now, what do the clout monkeys define  the 'masses' to be?
    
    And, how appropriate is it, that they use the term "...to cajole...", as in, dishonestly persuade?
    
    And, why this dishonest effort to falsely link the suggested ousting of all incumbents with JJ Jr.'s political ambitions, as if JJ Jr. is not just another professional politician seeking the same things every professional politician seeks?
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT means just that, nothing more and nothing less.
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT  is, as has been stated numerous times, a voting strategy designed to empower the citizens with a means to use their inherent Right to Vote to remove the cancerous individuals currently making our city and county governments diseased to the point of near death.
    
    Those citizens who are willing to make the efforts necessary to discern the difference between a professional politician, aka political hack, and an honest human being seeking to be elected to public office, are absolutely free to vote for whomever they choose, preferably the honest human being.
    
    Those citizens who find it difficult to figure out which candidates running for elected office are honest human beings and which candidates are 'professional political hacks' can apply the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT voting strategy with the understanding that their votes will, at the very least, accomplish one thing, that thing being the removal of the present crop of political hacks currently infecting our city and county governments.
    
    The first step in curing our governments of the disease infecting them, said disease being the thorough infestation of our governments by said professional political hacks, is the removal of same.
    
    This removal, like the removal of cancerous tumors, is unlikely to be totally achieved in a single, election.
    
    But the alternative, to do nothing, will never accomplish anything, other than to resign ourselves to 'live' with these cancerous tumors.
    
    These cancerous tumors are mostly malignant, rarely benign. 
    
    They drain the economic life out of every 'common' citizen.
    
    They are like vampires, feeding off the living, sucking the economic life out of every hard working, honest citizen.
    
    Will the application of the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT voting strategy allow some political hacks to be elected?
    
    Probably, though, if enough honest human beings manage to get on the upcoming Primary ballot, the odds concerning the 'vote according to ballot position' part of the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT strategy will favor those honest human beings.
    
    The process by which our city and county governments have become so thoroughly corrupted has taken generations, thus, the cure for this diseased condition will take more than a single election.
    
    Every journey has a beginning.
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT can be that beginning.
    
    If the 'masses' wish it to be.
        
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      <![CDATA[It's just YOU Jesse Jackass Jr wanks trying to cajole the masses, When THAT asshole can't run a 3-car funeral. Your "HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT" charlatan is FAR from convincing, With his tiresome mantra. What would be life like with Jesse Jr in power??????????; SAME SHIT, Only WORSE!!!!!.
        
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      <![CDATA[As the Primary approaches, so does panic time in the kingdom of the clout monkeys.
    
    Hear them chatter and screech, as their fear rises up in their scrawny little necks.
    
    See them scamper to and fro, like ants in a crumbling anthill.
    
    Smell the fear that permeates their lairs. 
    
    Might this be the day, the day when their primacy is ended?
    
    The natives are restless, there's a feeling in the air of impending doom.
    
    Can the unthinkable happen?
    
    Is it possible that the king of the kingdom of the clout monkeys cannot save them, from the approaching storm?
    
    Tune in next week, for the exciting next chapter in the ongoing sage of 'The Legendary Kingdom of the Clout Monkeys'.
        
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