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Cape activistsvowtheywon'tgetfooled Vigilance is urged for next elections By Joe Navas news@barnstablepatriot.com JOE NAVAS PHOTO QUESTIONING AUTHORITY - Dr. Stephanie Wall of Cotuit speaks out on recent election irregularities Saturday at Cape Cod Community College. Nearly 120 people gathered at Cape Cod Community College Saturday to listen to what a trio of speakers had to say about the two most recent presidential elections. The forum, "The Truth About the November 2004 Election -and How to Not Get Fooled Again in '06 and '08," was sponsored by "Wake Up Cape Cod: a Commit- tee of Correspondence." Speaking at the podium were Dr. Stephanie Wall, Ed Mangiafico and WUCC chairman Ernest Duquet. "In my experience,"said Duquet, who is in his 70s, "I have never seen our country so perilously situated... Our objective is to keep examining the things that motivate the United States...and to see if we can perhaps help to motivate things in a different direction." Saturday's event was based around the findings in the book Fooled Again (Basic Books, 2005) by Mark Crispin Miller.Miller examines the inconsisten- cies and defects of the various voting and vote-counting methods employed in the last six years, exposing what he sees as an undeniable Republican effort to win elections through subver- sion and intimidation. Duquet introduced Mangiafico as a local Democratic activist and "rare liberal former member of Corporate America." "Based on fear and continually rein- forced by the media and administra- tion, we have condoned secrecy, distor- tion of information and limitations on the right to privacy,"Mangiafico said. Citing a report in the magazine The Nation that told of the National Secu- rity Agency destroying some 300,000 files related to domestic spying, Man- giafico said, "We accept that, somehow, because after all, it's our government." Concluding his remarks, Mangiafico referred to the 2004 election, "We have to ask how it happened, why it hap- pened, because it will happen again if we don't act," he said. Wall, whose remarks closed with her nearly in tears, began with ajoke. "A wag in Washington told this story of something he heard on Capitol Hill: 'Youknow, Vice President Cheney lied to Congress, lied to the people and he should be impeached, but of course, then we'd get Bush as president." Laughter erupted from the largely partisan crowd. The Cotuit resident quickly became serious, however. "We have seen groups that historically have voted Democrat seemingly systematically excluded from the process," she said, citing research done by Miller regarding col- lege students in Iowa being dropped from voter rolls and those who owe child support receiving calls informing them they could be arrested if they at- tempted to vote. "It adds up to tens of thousands of votes, and Bush won by 10,000 votes in Iowa," she said. In her emotional conclusion, Wall said, "We must remember that freedom is wrested away from those who do not fight for it." Despite new van, vets have difficulty moving forward By Heather Wysocki news@barnstablepatriot.com There are forty thousand of them on Cape Cod, with sixty new ones each month. Often, they do not receive the funds they need to do what they do:Help each other in times of need. But with the donation of a Ford van, Barnstable veterans will continue their aid across Cape Cod. Through the Disabled AmericanVeter- ansAssociation (DAV) Cape Cod Chapter 96, American Legion Post 206 recently donated a new van to the Veterans Af- fairs (VA) center in Hyannis. Minos Gordy, Commander of Post 206, said the donation, "was the first real chance we've had to do a community project." Post 206 decided to use part of the money from the sale of its home on Phinney's Lane to help veterans on Cape Cod. "More and more veterans are usingthe van for variousreasons... thiswas agreat help,"saidRichard Trott, Commander of the Cape Cod chapter of the DAV. The van follows a long line of similar vans, all used for the same purpose, bringing VA Center patients to medical appointments when they cannot get there themselves. According to Trott, the Hyannis VA center currently hasthreevansequipped to help agingand disabled veteransmake CONTINUED ON PAGE A:8 Canal's chief engineer shares its stories Boston audience hears Fran Don- ovan of Army Corps By Edward F. Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com BOSTON -The wonder that is the Cape Cod Canal kept the Boston Society of Civil Engineers enthralled lastmonthasFranDonovan, canal manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, told tales and shared sta- tistics about the manmade marvel. In the late 1920s, Dono- van said, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge built a hydrau- lic model of the canal. The selected depth, 32 feet, has been maintained to this day. From those depths, every five to sixyears, are dredged 200,000to300,000cubicyards of material. Shipping has come to rely on the canal being dredged and open,asthe route saves 135milesincoastwisetravel- ing around the Cape. Donovan said vessels of 65 feet or over are directed through the canal by the Corps,whichhas four patrol boats and an icebreaking tug. The Corps made 302 "ves- selassists"in2005. "Anybody gets in trouble, we get 'em out of there, no questions asked," Donovan observed. That'sbecausecargoesare coming through, including 2.2 billion gallons of petrol products annually. Some of that travels in double-hull barges holding six million gallons. The railroad bridge over the canal,recentlyrenovated extensively,isajewel.Dono- van saidit'ssoperfectly bal- ancedthat it'srarelybrought down when it's iced up; the additional weight would make it impossible to raise again. In 1929,Donovan said,two highwaybridgescrossed the canal and motorists use to drive back and forth to get the best position. Now they wait in line, but those lines have grown enormously. In 1975, 17 million vehicles crossed thebridge;24million in 1987; 31 million in 1995; and 36 million in 2003. Now that he works for "a kindler, gentler Corps," Donovan noted, neither the Sagamore or Bourne bridge is shut down completely for repairs, as used to be the case until the late '70s. The Bourne Bridgewasdeleaded last year while traffic flowed below an upper structure swaddled in protective cov- ering. Sometimesoverlooked are the recreational aspects of the Canal, which welcomed 3.5 million visitors from October 2004 through Sep- tember 2005. in— lyiiTii /_«as*»*aa*«.-\ - —¦ i,ii iiyi| ^-<« , ^ - I Hair Lof tw\$, P.P.S. w \fy 4c77 Norfti S-hwf, rtvjanms Dr.suggests dental checkups starting at 12-18 months of age11 Letters to the editor The BarnstablePatriot welcomesletterstothe editor. 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