Article. Especially for those here who need a "refresher" for what happened in Florida and how this election is replaying it.. A must read for those of us who lived through it, also, to steel our spines when we start to feel "down" about why we are fighting.
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http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/12/ana04030.html A bastard presidency couldn't win a free and transparent election. It systemically stole this one through fear, character assassination, and a wide range of dirty tricks before and at the polls, including the likely manipulation of electronic voting machines in key states.
The truth is that the valiant band of Democratic Congressional Representatives led by Congressman Conyers -- as well as the Green and Libertarian Parties -- are carrying on the Spirit of '76 in pursuing the voting irregularities in Ohio.
But the theft of the 2004 election goes much deeper than Ohio, although it was the linchpin electoral state. It was widespread, systemic, and coordinated -- throughout the nation.
But with a one-party government, who will investigate the perpetrators of the crime against democracy redux, when it is the perpetrators who hijacked our system of government and who control the committees and departments that could investigate, well, themselves?
The news in America is now on six hour cycles. Each day, we forget the morning's news by the afternoon.
It is no wonder that so many have forgotten that four years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States put the nails in the coffin of democracy. It occurred in the darkness of a winter Washington night on Tuesday, December 12th, with an unprecedented 10 PM decision release that elected George W. Bush president by a vote of 5-4.http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/12/ana04030.html