[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Foreigner Donation Guide

[Brad Haslett]

As a public service to our list members who live outside the US and
are not US citizens but would like to participate in the election,
here's your guide -

 Written by John Ronning
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
How Foreign Liberals (and Jihadi's for that matter) Can Contribute
Illegally to the Obama Campaign

It's pretty easy — all you need is a credit card (foreign card is OK),
a phony name, phony US address, phony telephone number, and just keep
each contribution less than $200 so your illegal contribution never
needs to be reported.  As a foreigner you can even give more than
Americans are allowed to legally contribute, by just using a different
phony name each time you contribute, so that your contributions are
never tallied, thus never exceed the limit.

And of course American supporters of Obama can also contribute more
than the legal limit by following the same procedure.

Not to mention the fact that you can easily steal someone else's
credit card number and contribute through it, not needing the correct
name etc. (yes it has happened), and just hope the victim doesn't
notice it.

Last Friday I read on various web sites (e.g. NRO) that the Obama
campaign was facilitating illegal credit card contributions by
disabling standard security verification procedures. Normally, a
credit card payment is rejected if the name you give does not match
the name on the card. Duh. Not so the Obama campaign. I said to
myself, "If Americans can do this, I wonder if foreigners could too?"
I'm a US citizen, but I have lived in South Africa for the last ten
years and have a foreign credit card, from a South African bank. So I
googled the Obama campaign web site and used my foreign credit card to
contribute $5 (the minimum accepted) to his campaign. Sure enough, my
account was charged $5 (54 Rand) on Monday. I assume that if I could
do it, all those French who want Obama to be president could do it
too.

Money translates into votes, because propaganda is effective,
including obvious lies which are endlessly repeated.

Here, then, are the step by step instructions for fraudulently
contributing to the Obama campaign, and participating in the mother of
all campaign swindles:

Go to the Obama web site, find the page where contributions are
accepted (I won't link to it, but it's not hard to find).

Listen to Obama's spiel which automatically plays, telling you that
since he's not taking money from PAC's or Lobbyists (nothing about
foreigners), he's depending upon you to contribute.

Fill in the name, address, etc., according to your imagination.
Nothing needs to be correct except the credit card number. I used the
name "Good Guess", a phony address etc., and got the message that my
donation was accepted; three days later the money was charged to my
account. During those three days a couple of mainstream newspapers did
some whitewashing work for Obama, failing to make clear the
deliberateness of Obama's disabling of standard security checks to
prevent credit card fraud, failing to point out the obvious, that you
cannot get away with such fraud on the McCain/Palin web site, etc.

Next I had the opportunity to have Obama e-mail my friends, inviting
them to follow my example. I had them send an e-mail from "Good Guess"
to one of my e-mail addresses, and a short time later the e-mail
arrived.

I know from experience that the Obama web site could be set up to
automatically detect if it is being accessed from a foreign country
(South Africa, in my case). I know from experience that it could be
set up to reject foreign credit cards, even if the names and addresses
were correct (for example, I cannot use my American credit card for
certain transactions in South Africa).

And by the way, you can also contribute to Obama anonymously through
those pre-paid credit cards you buy at the drug store.

As another Republican candidate said 12 years ago, "Where is the outrage?"

P.S. I am asking for my money back.