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The suspicious, disturbing death of election rigger Michael Connell
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Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
FreePress.org
December 21, 2008
Michael Connell, the crucial techno- lynch pin in the theft of the 2004 election, and much more, is dead at the age of 45. His unnatural, suspicious death raises serious questions about the corruption of the American electoral process that now may never be answered.
Connell died Friday, December 19 when his Piper Saratoga plane crashed near his northern Ohio home. He was flying himself home from the College Park, Maryland airport. An accomplished pilot, flying in unremarkable weather, his death cuts off a critical path to much of what may never be known about how the 2004 election was shifted from John Kerry to George W. Bush in the wee hours of November 2. His plane crashed between two houses in an upscale neighborhood, one vacant, just 2.5 miles from the Akron-Canton airport.
A long-time, outspokenly loyal associate of the Bush family, Connell created the Bush-Cheney website for their 2000 presidential campaign. Connell may have played a role in various computer malfunctions that helped the GOP claim the presidency in 2000. As a chief IT consultant and operative for Karl Rove, Connell was a devout Catholic and the father of four children. In various interviews and a deposition Connell cited his belief that abortion is murder as a primary motivating factor in his work for the Republican Party.
Connell recently wrote the following in his New Media Communications newsletter, regarding Barack Obama’s election: “In our 230 year history, our democracy has suffered worse fates. It’s just that none come to mind right now.” Connell wrote: “This is just a moment in time and this too shall pass. Enduring is the fact that 2000 years ago, a babe was born in Bethlehem. When our Lord God sent his only Son for our salvation,…In spite of the current economic and political conditions, salvation is eternal.”
Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell hired Connell in 2004 to create a real-time computer data compilation for counting Ohio’s votes. Under Connell’s supervision, Ohio’s presidential vote count was transmitted to private, partisan computer servers owned by SmartTech housed in the basement of the Old Pioneer Bank building in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Connell’s company, New Media Communications worked closely with SmartTech in building Republican and right-wing websites that were hosted on SmartTech servers. Among Connell’s clients were the Republican National Committee, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and gwb43.com. The SmartTech servers at one point housed Karl Rove’s emails. Some of Rove’s email files have since mysteriously disappeared despite repeated court-sanctioned attempts to review them.
In 2001, Michael Connell’s GovTech Solutions, LLC was selected to reorganize the Capitol Hill IT network, the only private-sector company to gain permission from HIR [House Information Resources] to place its server behind the firewall, he bragged.
At 12:20 am on the night of the 2004 election exit polls and initial vote counts showed John Kerry the clear winner of Ohio’s presidential campaign. The Buckeye State’s 20 electoral votes would have given Kerry the presidency.
But from then until around 2am, the flow of information mysteriously ceased. After that, the vote count shifted dramatically to George W. Bush, ultimately giving him a second term. In the end there was a 6.7 percent diversion—in Bush’s favor—between highly professional, nationally funded exit polls and the final official vote count as tabulated by Blackwell and Connell.
Until his death Connell remained the IT supervisor for six Congressional committees. But on the day before the 2008 election, Connell was deposed by attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis about his actions during the 2004 vote count, and his continued involvement in IT operations for the GOP, including his access to Rove’s e-mail files and the circumstances behind their disappearance.
Various threats have been repeatedly reported involving Connell and other IT experts close to the GOP. On July 24, 2008, Arnebeck emailed Attorney General Michael Mukasey, stating: “We have been confidentially informed by a source we believe to be credible that Karl Rove has threatened Michael Connell, a principal witness we have identified in our King-Lincoln case in federal court in Columbus, Ohio,….”
Connell’s death comes at a moment where election protection attorneys and others appeared to be closing in on critical irregularities and illegalities. In his pre-election deposition, Connell was generally evasive, but did disclose key pieces of information that could prove damaging to Karl Rove and the GOP. Examining attorneys in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville civil rights lawsuit, stemming from the 2004 election theft, were confident Connell had far more to tell.
There is widespread concern that this may be the reason he is now dead.
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December 21st, 2008 at 11:29 pm
-if only we could get the MSM to even follow this case…
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December 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 am
So’ Common Sence, what’s that got to do with this guy getting killed in a plane wreck!
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
“FTA- Connell was a devout Catholic”
Religion is a joke. Give it up everyone. That is the ultimate form on control. We have people fighting over religious beliefs but their ALL WRONG!!!
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Ghandi-’I love your christ, not your christians.’
Connell says abortion is murder and it is, however, so is dropping bombs on pregnant mothers s causing their abortions and I suppose his Catholic faith approves of being complicit in stealing an election.
If there is an afterlife I hope Connell is in ‘Dantes’ inferno.’
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I live in NYC. A friend of mine in Ohio watched her local news about the crash. All they said about him was that he helped design the websites for John McCain’s campaigns. That was it. Nothing about the fact that he was going to be forced to testify about rigging the Ohio elections and exposing Bush and Rove as criminal frauds. Which story do you think would make the news? Webmaster or Suicided whistleblower exposing the entire US election system as a fraud? Lets go with webmaster……
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Michael Connell Canceled Two Flights on Suspicion his Plane may be SABOTAGED !!!
http://adap2k.blogspot.com/200.....-guru.html
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
CBS News: Michael Connell Canceled Two Flights on Suspicion his Plane may be SABOTAGED !!! … BUSH – CHENEY CONNECTIONS
http://adap2k.blogspot.com/200.....-guru.html
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 am
VOTING = OPIATE OF THE MASSES
“The adoption of democracy is fatal to good government, to liberty, to law and order, to respect for authority, and to religion, and must produce chaos from which a NEW WORLD tyranny will arise. You can never have revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have democracy in order to have a revolution” ― Robert Welch – Republics and Democracies pg. 7
“The International Jewish bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure no country defaults or tries to overthrow them. As long as private bankers, instead of governments, create money the human race is doomed. These bankers and their allies have bought everything and everyone.” – Henry Makow
“The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International Jewish bankers.” – Congressman Louis T. McFadden (Rep. Pa)
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it’s issuance”. — James Madison
“There is no more direct way to capture control of a nation than through its credit and money system.” – Phillip A. Benson, President of American Bankers’ Association, 1939
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 am
abortion in population control by the globalists, Jesus Christ is God, the world is ending and the judgement is coming, election fraud is real, you are not free, you will be free when you see the Kingdonm of God is all around you.
Peace be with you, Merry Christmas.
If you want to see a miracle go to http://www.WhereToVote.com the link is on the front page
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I hope obama bin laden, that’s right, OBAMA BIN LADEN, gives boy bush a going away present.
Happy crimbo to 1 & ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Preferabley, cut the brake lines, on his car to airport, or just take his plane out of the sky, from
the lawn of the white house, LOL LOL LOL
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I live near Akron… and last week, Thursday (the day before this happened), I saw several military Chinook helicopters on my way home in the late afternoon from work. My dad, on his way to work in Cleveland, called, completely unaware of my sightings of all the Chinooks flying around and told me he saw several on the way to work, telling me not to go anywhere, suspicious that something was about to go down.
This could be mere coincidence or routine drilling (we see military helicopters more often like this on certain days), or it could be anything.
December 31st, 2008 at 5:49 am
haha no s--- #12. why would he cancel two flights, and take the third? Me I’d be all worried about the old saying: “third times a charm!” Lol. but seriously this whole thing just proves the point more. but wait what if life itself is Bull, and we’re all just dreaming robots? sounds about as crazy as the Jesus theory, so it must be true!! Lol. guess I”m a smart ass, but I was serious about one of the things I said, which one? you figure it out! (yeah like anyone really cares anyways, right?) that’s people for ya…. part of me agrees with an end to the planet, it’s pointless. our only point is to reproduce, where’s the meaning in that??