Will Pitt - Desperate Measures

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004A.shtml

Desperate Measures
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Wednesday 20 October 2004

"Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."
- Abraham Lincoln

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The simple and central ideal of our democracy - count every vote, and make every vote count - is being betrayed by the actions of those who would deny Americans the ability to vote, and by this powerful media company that tried to foist a biased and factually questionable program upon its viewers. These are desperate measures being taken by obvious political partisans who do not want to leave the choice of the vote to the voters, because they do not trust the outcome.

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1. In a true democracy where voting is the right and obligation of the ....

...populace, interfering with the election process or results, tampering with the election process or results and/or disenfranchising voters is tantamount to TREASON, and should be prosecuted and punished as such.

I find it appalling that in our great democratic society there is a political party that is expending time and energy in suppressing the lawful, legal vote of the people. I'll give you one guess which political party it is. Hint: it's not the democrats.

Don't listen to their rhetoric. Watch their actions.