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2004 election invalid--due to its egregious (and quite deliberate) non-transparency--and invalidate not only all Bush pardons, but all Bush appointments to the courts, and all Bush acts period.
WE are the sovereigns of this land. We, the people. And we don't have to revolt to do it. We have the INHERENT--if currently theoretical--power. We can go much further than impeachment; we can just blot out all of the illegal, unconstitutional, illegitimate actions of the Bush junta over the last five and a half years, all the way back to 2000.
We can RE-WRITE the Constitution, for instance, to ban all private money in political campaigns, provide public financing, and reclaim some of our public airwaves from the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. We can DISMANTLE corporations--pull their corporate charters, and seize their assets for the public good.
There are a lot of powers that we have, that we don't realize--because we've been oppressed by the Corporate Rulers for so long, and propagandized by them.
But I think we need to start with restoring TRANSPARENCY in our elections--which are now ALSO controlled by corporations--BUSHITE corporations--in the new electronic voting systems that are run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls (--engineered by the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, abetted by Christopher Dodd). Getting rid of these election theft machines is still possible at the state/local level, where ordinary people still have some influence.
Why do you think they made our elections NON-TRANSPARENT and unverifiable? It's BECAUSE of our inherent powers as a people to legitimately and legally demolish the power of the Corporate Rulers. We threatened them with it, in the 1999 Seattle protests, in which 50,000 people took to the streets and shut down the World Trade Organization meeting because of its secrecy and lack of democracy and its assault on our sovereignty. THEN we got a Corporate Supreme Court-appointed fascist, with diabolical designs, and, when they proceeded with their global corporate predator war, against the will of the people (almost 60% of whom opposed it at the time of the invasion), they took away our right to vote.
So, now we have to get it back. That's the heart of the problem right now. The Bush junta is behaving as it is--with utter contempt for the Constitution and the law--BECAUSE they are unaccountable to us, and they know it. But there is only so much Diebold/ES&S can do--a 5% to 10% "thumb on the scales" for Bushites--without triggering civil unrest, or at least a massive revolt against their machines (thus losing their new election theft capability for future contingencies).
Once we have transparent elections again, we can do anything we collectively decide to do, for the good of the country. I know it's not as easy as that, but our right to vote is the fundamental condition that we need to restore, for reform to be feasible. Election transparency, and a lot of hard civic work over many years, will be needed for REAL reform--reform that will prevent another fascist coup like this from ever happening again--and not just a cosmetic, temporary War/Corporate Democrat type of reform that is largely illusionary and leaves us open to renewed fascist assault.
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