Acorn is a grassroots organization that works to register low income voters in hopes of alleviating the problem with disenfranchised voters in America. Acorn has once again come under fire for allegations of election fraud in multiple states. Last year Acorn was forced to pay $25,000 in fines to improve oversight in King County, Washington, where I happen to be a registered voter.

The fact of the matter is that the 7 people that were charged with voter fraud, in my county, worked for and represented Acorn. These people were motivated by money, not election fraud. This was a isolated case …

Dead Prez on Obama, the war, voting, and hip hop

This is a video I uploaded from Democracy now on Aug 25th 2008. Dead Prez speaks from a rally at the democratic national convention about their views on voting, Obama, the state of hip hop today, and the war in Iraq. I felt this was a particularly good clip about The State of Affairs right now. Watch the whole episode at DemocracyNow.org

Update 11-05-2008: A video response has been posted to this video. It’s a leaked track off of DP’s …

I feel like this topic has been covered many times before, but for the new young voters in this election, this is all news to them. We are taught in public schools from a very young age that all presidents are going to be great. I borrowed the phrase in my title, “governments lie”, from one of the world’s best known investigative journalist, I.F. Stone. Now unfortunately, since we have all been subjected to so much misinformation starting at a very young age, we all have a hard time swallowing and realistically accepting this phrase. To be more precise …