Reply #82: Stolen [View All]

[chookie]

There had been widespread actions, particularly among the African-American community, to register new voters, which were highly successful. To counter this, Jeb and Katherine had to come up with a way to negate their numbers -- and they did, quite systematically. Many young black Floridians showed up at the polls that day, to find out that they would not be allowed to vote because somehow their registrations did not go through. It was a chilling experience.

Then there was the manipulation of military votes. As soon as it became clear how many numbers were needed, the co-conspirators supplied them -- and they were able to get away with this falsification with all sorts of hypocritically pious bullshit about ensuring that our braves sons and daughters in harm's way get to vote. (Ha ha -- I bet Jeb's not going to work as hard *this* time to get "the military vote" counter.)

It was stolen in broad daylight, while the Bushistas went on tv and said how wonderful it was that there was yet another peaceful political transition in America. Yeah -- because the Dems didn't fight, as a whole, what was done to us! That was the beginning of the lies of the new administration -- that this was a normal transition. They've always had the power of the Big Lie on their side -- most Americans didn't catch on or weren't paying close enough attention to see that a coup had occured -- and they surrendered our government over to an illegitimate administration.

*IF* the Dems had fought -- one of the consequences could have been civil war. I believe the Bushistas would have encouraged it to happen, whereas the Dems did not want to risk it, and hoped they could fight back politically later.

"Close?" My ass.

So what are we going to do about it in 2004 -- because they ARE going to do it again. Time to start planning now, people! Otherwise, we can kiss democracy goodbye, or else have to shed blood to get it back again..