Would Someone Please Interfere in Our Elections? (Paul Craig Roberts)

[Starfury]

PCR's really on a rant here. I recommend reading his entire essay (assuming the mods don't delete it...)

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As the US has established the precedent for interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and uses organizations such as the International Republican Institute to buy electoral outcomes, how could Washington complain if some other country were to help the American people by financing an American political party that represents American values and civil liberties. It would be wonderful for America to have a party committed to diplomacy, peace, financial soundness, and the best interests of the American people, as opposed to a Jacobin ideology of death that represents the neoconservative agenda of the Bush regime.

To combat the Republican lock on electronic voting machines, the US is in desperate need of the UN to oversee our elections to prevent Republicans with low approval ratings from winning elections that exit polls show they lost.

The Bush regime is wasting huge borrowed sums at a time when job growth in America has collapsed, when tens of millions of Americans are losing their health care, their pensions, and their middle class status. America cannot afford such a moronic regime. Someone, somewhere please rescue us from the ignorant, tyrannical, and war criminal government that has seized America.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02212006.html

[Selatius]

1. The NED gave money to Chavez' opponents in Venezuela

Some members of the opposition group Sumate were arrested for accepting NED money for political activities. Of course, they cited it as an example of Chavez growing ever more authoritarian, but they failed to cite that accepting foreign money for political campaigns is illegal under Venezuelan law.

[Demeter]

2. Too Bad He's Not Writing for WSJ Now

Those Captains of Industry need to buy a vowel, at least.

[melody]

3. PCR has it now -- we've been taken over by the enemy

He's being so truthful, these lying monsters are liable to throw him in jail.

[FlaNoKerry]

4. Please post this...as I am "too new" to post yet!!

Important!! Please post this...I am new and cannot post yet...
Clint Curtis (vote rigging programmer who testified at the Conyers hearings), is running against Tom Feeney in FLA. Look at his website. He has put his life on the line for our elections! We started here....now he is not letting the ball drop...let's help him!
Please post on DU to help him in his race...and let's get his race highlighted! Thanks to all of you here..


here is the website!
http://www.clintcurtis.com/

[TexasLawyer]

5. K and R'd

Great article. And don't overlook who this article's author is:

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

:kick:

[ixion]

7. second that k&r

Once of the best PCR pieces I think I've ever read.