Psychological resistance to facing election fraud: Silence of the Scams

[Amaryllis]

This is from last April, but if you haven't read it yet, it's well worth the read.

The Silence of the Scams: Psychological Resistance to Facing Election Fraud

Articles / Feature Article
Posted by cshaw on Apr 11, 2005 - 03:18 PM
By Diane Perlman

What if it was discovered, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a widespread pattern of election fraud was in place in the United States, with higher spikes in swing states, including hundreds of dirty tricks unreported in the media, adding up to numbers which might shift the outcome of the last presidential election, and that most Americans didn't know or didn't want to know?

Invisible History

Few Americans know about the historic event that happened on January 6, 2005, the official date for counting electoral votes. For the first time since 1877, congressmembers challenged the electoral count. Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio, accompanied by the lone senator, Barbara Boxer of California, led the challenge to the Ohio vote count. Although massive fraud was reported around the country, only Ohio was officially cited.

It is curious that an issue so profound and consequential is barely on the radar screens of most Americans, especially those who supported Kerry.

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Under what conditions do millions of allegedly "free" people knowingly acquiesce to being deceived, dominated and deprived of their own political will? How is it that even those who were politically engaged for the first time resign themselves to an unjust fate, refusing even to consider what happened to our country? Why do progressive citizens actively dismiss and even malign a small group of courageous, devoted people working day and night on their behalf to uncover, calculate, analyze, and evaluate the extensive, varied forms of criminal sabotage that undermined their democracy? How are Americans becoming complacent with escalating fraudulent activity? In other words, how do so many people live with the knowledge that they have been tricked before, were just tricked again--and then submit to life under the power of those who tricked them?

http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=12

[babylonsister]

1. "Few Americans know about the historic event that happened on

January 6, 2005". Man, I remember, remember how important that seemed given the results in '04. I also remember wondering, w/fellow DUers, who exactly would get involved. Remember Barbara Boxer and the roses she received? :loveya:
Thanks, Amaryllis, for posting this, and for bringing the attention to a subject no one is confronting.

"It is curious that an issue so profound and consequential is barely on the radar screens of most Americans."

Why? Anyone?

[BlueIris]

2. THANK YOU. You read my mind (literally). I was JUST thinking

about this piece the other day, and how I'd like to find it again and throw it in a special folder I've been keeping on election fraud since 11/7/04, but where was it and could I find it in the backlog of my e-mail account (yes, I have gmail so don't bother lecturing me) and ack! WHY did I not bookmark it at the time? And here it is. Thanks, again. DU RULES!!!

[corbett]

3. Too Much Inertia

I'm not saying that we shouldn't try but Karl Rove has stacked every single deck against us and used voter apathy as the forklift. It's the identical model he used to move Able Danger into the devastation of 9/11.

http://www.loosechange911.com

[Minnesota Libra]

4. How do we take to the forefront of every voter's mind? I have .......

.....no idea but I sure wish we could.