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Edited on Thu Jun-21-07 03:45 PM by Peace Patriot
and find the solution to it.
In 1964, I cast my first vote for president. I voted for the advocate of peace--LBJ. And what I got for that vote was over 2 million people slaughtered in Southeast Asia, including over 55,000 U.S. soldiers.
In 1968, after the country had started to revolt against LBJ's war, and he had withdrawn from the race for a second term, the only candidate who opposed the war and also had the charisma and popular support to win the presidency, Bobby Kennedy, was assassinated (on the night he won the California primary). We were then given a choice between a Democratic war (Humphrey) and a Republican war (Nixon). Nixon was a better liar ("peace with honor," his "secret plan to end the war"), and got elected (by a hair). Soon the Vietnam War had become even more of a bloodbath, extended into Laos and Cambodia.
My point is we don't get a choice. We get war, or war. It is not up to us. In those days, the fascists and war profiteers used assassination. Today, they use Diebold and ES&S.
The majority against the latest war profiteer bloodbath today--over 70%--is even greater than the antiwar sentiment back in the '60s, and still we cannot get our representatives to vote for peace. There is a pattern here, and we need to see it, and figure out what to do about it.
I think that the 56% of the American people who opposed this war from the beginning (Feb. '03)--likely because the Vietnam War remains in living memory--is the key to what is happening now. I think the war profiteers and fascists who have now seized complete control of our government were well aware of that 56%, and that it would grow to the astonishing 70% today, and that is why, when they passed the Iraq War Resolution, they also passed the "Help America Vote for Bush "Act" (electronic voting with secret code, owned and controlled by Bushite corporations, with $3.9 billion to fast-track it across the country) in the same month, October 2002. That WAS the coup. Not the IWR resolution, but it's "under the radar" accompaniment: non-transparent vote counting controlled by winger corporations. Engineered by Bilderberg stealth candidate (for president) Christopher Dodd, in collusion with the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress--Tom Delay and Bob Ney--with more "Democrats" voting in favor of it than voted in favor of the war!
Diebold/ES&S vote tabulation is the termite swarm in the basement, destroying the foundations of our democracy. It is not the only thing that is wrong with our election system, but it is the final blockade to all change. If the bad guys can't control us with 24/7 warmongering and fascist propaganda, all channels, all the time--and the American people have proven themselves to be amazingly resistant to war/fascist propaganda--and if they can't control our votes with the sheer bludgeon power of money, and if they can't stop us from ousting the Bush Junta and reforming this country, by means of "voter caging lists" and other crimes, then they MUST control the outcome of elections DIRECTLY, with secret code and unrecountable elections. And that's what they've done, in my opinion.
Transparent vote counting--vote counting that everyone can see and understand--is the bottom line of democracy. It IS democracy. And BOTH PARTIES have colluded to destroy it, IN ORDER TO continue the war in the teeth of 70% opposition.
It's not that the "Democrats" in Congress don't have enough votes to stop the war, or to impeach these assholes. It's that they DIDN'T WANT to have enough votes from true representatives of the people to do those things. They connived NOT to have the power to do the will of the people. And I even suspect that the '06 elections, in which the people outvoted the machines in some cases, took them by surprise. They--the "Democratic" colluders and connivers and double-talkers on the war--DID NOT WANT the power we tried to give to the Democrats to end this war and restore the rule of law. If they did, they would have cried foul on Bushite-controlled electronic voting long ago, and the first act of a Democratic Congress would have been to eliminate it. Instead, there are going to cement the power of these Bushite electronic voting corporations, with a worse-than-lame bandaid bill that centralizes control of the secret vote counting code in the hands of the President!
Transparent vote counting needs to be our Priority No. 1. We need to tackle this issue at the local/state level, where ordinary people still have some influence. And we need to understand that this is a long term battle for our democracy, and it is not going to be easy. This so-called "Democratic" Congress has made things very clear. They are not going to represent the vast majority of the party or the vast majority of the American people. And THAT is why they have a 23% approval rating, not because pollsters have mistaken Puke perfidy for Democratic perfidy. Democratic perfidy is REAL. It is the doing of the leadership and the 40 "Blue Dogs" who were (s)elected by Diebold and ES&S to blockade change, while PARADING as Democrats.
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