manofyear

THANK YOU ROBIN WILLIAMS: MAN OF THE YEAR
IS A MOVIE THAT EVERY VOTER THIS YEAR NEEDS TO SEE

by Natasha H. & Alexandar H.

REALITY ON FILM
by Alexandar H.

Crazy idea: a world with computerized voting, where computer-rigging or a glitch can change the results of an election! Who could imagine a world where the candidates of both major parties are bought off by corporations, a world where the public would enjoy the idea of dumping the Democratic Party and the Republican Party candidates for a President who was honest and had integrity? Wait a minute! That's 2006 America and Man of the Year is the one of the most credible-reality based movies of the year.

Who wouldn't want to disgard a Bush or a Kerry or a Hillary Clinton for Robin Williams? Who believes that the winner ofthe 2008 election will actually take office? Did the winner of the 2000 and 2004 elections ever take office? Remember, we now know Gore won Florida and Kerry won Ohio. What are the odds that a legitimate President will ever take office? Most voters don't even expect the mid-term Congressional and state elections to be accurate and honest. Arnold doesn't need to be popular to win. He just needs Bruce McPherson (California's Secretary of State) and McPherson's friends at Diebold to put him over the top.

Does an honest man need a computer glitch to win?   In Man of the Year, 60% of the voters wished they had voted for Tom Dobbs (Robin Williams's character). Sound familiar? Most informed Americans would have prefered to see Dennis Kucinich elected President in 2004 but didn't have the courage to vote for him. After the election, most wished they had. The standard voter excuse was that Kucinich was too good or too honest to be President. The press did its best to keep Kucinich invisible. Movies like Man of the Year could create the necessary leap of faith for voters to believe it is possible for an honest candidate with integrity to win. It may help to motivate them to vote their hearts and not their stupidity in the future.

Was the glitch really a glitch?. In the movie, prior to the entry of the independent candidate, the glitch was programmed to allow the incumbent (Republican) to win. Does this also sound familiar?

If the movie were real life, once the independent candidate entered the race, the computer-riggers would have done a patch to make sure their choice got the victory and that no mishaps occurred.   Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia are not run by a lot of innocent people who simply make innocent mistakes. "Diebolding" has become a commonplace term used to mean fixing an election by rigging the voting computers. . The people running these corporations are connected to George W. Bush and to the Republican Party. Real life whistleblowers have died under unusual circumstances. Even the primaries are fixed to give Democratic nominations to Republicrats or to unpopular candidates. The ultimate election-rigging involves the killing of formidable candidates. "Wellstoning" someone means to crash the plane of any opponent or potential opponent. A great many Democrats expected Paul Wellstone to be the Democratic nominee in 2004. That was before he was Wellstoned in 2002 while running for re-election to the U.S. Senate. In other words, if your running for office against a right-wing Republican, don't fly in a private plane. It was no accident that Bush's fraternity brother, who would break all his promises and concede before the outcome of the 2004 Presidential election was known, was picked to be the Democratic nominee. John Taylor Gatto, one of the greatest educators of all time, was suprised to see that voters were fooled into thinking that the constest between two fraternity brothers was more than a show. Kerry's quick concession proved that all Kerry's supporters (this writer's familiy, included) were dupes for an election that was fixed in more than one way.

Man of the Year and the issues it addressses need to be seen by all voters who think their votes count. It shows there is an alternative to Republicans and Republicrats. Let's see if this movie gives voters the courage to put an honest candidate, like a Dennis Kucinich, into the White House in 2008.

Robin Williams has always shown, in his interviews, that he is more on top of the issues than most members of Congress. If Williams ran for public office, he wouldn't need a computer glitch to win.

AMERICANS WANT A CHANGE
Natasha H.
Man of the Year is a witty, insightful, exciting movie that is thrilling and amusing theater audiences all over America. It is an hilarious comedy, a brilliant political satire and an action movie, all in one. Robin Williams deserves the Best Actor Oscar for this one.    Christopher Walken and Laura Linney also turn in brilliant performances. The plot is highly credible. Americans are fed up with both parties.   They are tired of the lies. They are tired of the power the corporations and lobbyists hold over leaders the people are asked to elect. Actors and comedians are enough in the public eye that they can more easily win elections, Only the most gullible Americans and the vote-riggers, themselves, currently trust the voting computers to deliver accurate results in this year's general election..

This is also a movie that Howard Dean and Ken Mehlman should take to heart. While Robbin Williams may have only won in the movie as the result of a computer glitch, he is exactly the kind of President that voters in real life are eager to see in office. With Williams's usual wit and an insight and honesty that remind viewers of Dennis Kucinich, Williams's character Tom Dobbs delights the onscreen audiences and the movie-going audiences as well. Both political parties are completely out of touch with the voters. The Republicans have handed the Democratic Party a probably landslide this election and the Democrats are doing their best to hand it back to the Republicans through cowardice and failure to realize that they work for the people and not for George Bush and the war profiteers.    No political party has a majority due to the signifcant number of decline to state and third party registrations. Polls show that Americans want another choice. A lot of Americans are ashamed to be associated with either party. Americans are looking for leaders with courage.   The big obstacle that has prevented honest candidates from winning the nomination for the Presidency is a nagging belief many voters have that a truthful candidate with integrity cannot win and that the best the voters can do is choose between two evils. Voters want to vote for a seemingly sure winner more than they want to vote for someone they like. Limiting beliefs on the part of voters may well keep warmongers like Dianne Feinstein in office when more credible and honest candidates, like Todd Chretien, are running on third party tickets. Part of the fear of lowering the voting age is that high school students might vote their conscience. Young Americans may die in Iran before their first opportunity to vote in a Presidential election because most voters over 18 don't vote their conscience..

The one difference between the computer company in the movie and the voting computer companies in real life is that, most voters see the the computer company executives as more sinister and manipulative.    The head of Diebold guaranteed Ohio to Bush and now the evidence shows that Kerry won Ohio and that Bush's seeming Ohio victory was the result of computer-rigging. Last summer, Cynthia McKinney's voters found out the evils of electronic voting this as they watched voting computers switch McKinney votes to Johnson votes in precincts where her name was on the computer. Some polling places didn't even have McKinney's name on the ballot where she was supposed to be one of the only two candidates.

It's sort of karmic to think that the votes of those adults above 18 who don't want to don't want our votes to count may lose their own right to have their votes counted because of voting computers that vote for them. The general election is less than a month away and already Americans are taking bets on how much computer vote-rigging will take place. Electability isn't what matters in the California governor's race or elsewhere. What matters is how well the computers are rigged. That's what the California Secretary of State race is all about. Debra Bowen has vowed to make California voting systems open, secure and accurate. She plans to make the source code available for public inspection. The corporations that make the voting computers have a vested interest in keeping McPherson in office..

Thank you Robin Williams for having the courage to make a movie about the important issues shown in this film. Anyone, except vote-rigging executives, going to see this movie will be in for a wonderful, enjoyable two hours.

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