Yes, the 2004 presidential election was rigged.
In my opinion.
Now don’t go jumping to conclusions about how I arrived at that opinion until you know what I know. I did not merely jump on the bandwagon with the tin-foil hat people and start pointing at all the weird stuff and calling it fraud. No, I knew the vote was rigged before we even had the election.
In fact, people have known the fix was in for years, myself included.
Now, before you start telling me “It can’t be done”, “No one could get away with something like that”, or (even better) “Our leaders are men of integrity and would never do that.” – let me tell you a quick story.
In the mid-eighties I knew a person who was a master thief. He mastered only one principle – hide in plain sight.
During the course of an entire summer, he spent a great deal of time in department stores.
He would go into the store quietly, go to electronics, put some batteries in a large portable stereo, and walk around with the ‘Ghetto Blaster’ on his shoulder for a while.
(That was the fad at the time – to walk around with a large portable stereo on one’s shoulder.)
He would walk around the store for an hour with the stereo on his shoulder - long enough for the people in the store to get used to him. He would buy a couple of tapes and browse for a bit in the record department.
Eventually, he would simply walk right out the front door.
He was considered a good customer.
It was months before anyone started to catch on – he was careful to do this at different stores and only a few times a week.
It was impossible for the salespeople at the stores to wrap their heads around the idea that he could be shoplifting right in front of them.
Suffice it to say; he made a bit of extra cash that summer.
He proved that the best way to circumvent suspicion is to commit a crime right in front of everyone, he didn’t have to fool anyone – they would fool themselves.
This election was stolen in front of everyone, and since no one could get away with that - it must not have happened.
So – we’ve known for years that the makers of the electronic voting machines are very big Republican supporters.
We know that these machines do not produce a paper trail that can be audited.
We know that Republicans fought against legislation to make paper receipts mandatory.
We know that the machines send their totals to a central database that we know can be hacked and the vote totals changed. How do we know this? Every computer tech and software engineer knows it, a number of them have explained it, and one even taught a chimpanzee how to do it to demonstrate just how simple the process is.
And, they said, that was doing it the ‘hard’ way.
The easy way would be if you had the phone number for the central tabulator, then you wouldn’t have to use good ol’ fashioned ‘War Dialing’ to find the open modem.
We know that the CEO of Diebold wrote a letter in 2003 saying, “I am committed to helping Ohio deliver it’s electoral votes to the President next year.”
We know that HAVA (Help America Vote Act) promoted the proliferation of these machines throughout the country. (Mostly in ‘swing’ states)
We know that many anomalies were reported where the touch-screen machines were used which caused
-Votes for Democrats to become votes for Libertarians,
-Votes for Kerry became votes for Bush and vice-versa,
-More votes than registered voters were recorded in many precincts with machines,
-Counties with 77% registered Democrats voted 77% for Bush (The reverse never occurred),
- Zogby put his reputation on the line when he called the race for Kerry on election night. (He’s never been wrong.)
-Exit poll data, which has historically never been more than 2% off, was upwards of 5% off ONLY in counties that employed electronic voting machines, and those wide margins ONLY favored Bush in swing states.
(Kerry never beat exit poll numbers by more than 1.6%)
Proof?
Not at all, it’s all a lot of circumstantial evidence, a mountain of circumstantial evidence whose happy coincidences share probability levels with you winning your state lottery twice in one week.
To sum up:
The makers of the paperless, un-auditable, easily hackable voting machines are heavy Bush supporters.
Every single anomaly in critical states favored Bush.
Ok, so you may not be convinced that this was a stolen election, neither was I after studying and verifying these things. But I will admit to concern – a concern we all should have regarding the validity of these machines. I can guarantee when you have a candidate, whether Republican or Democrat or other who loses in a very unlikely and suspicious upset after looking like the clear winner – you’ll share my concern about these machines.
And all this doesn’t even address the more conventional methods of voter disfranchisement that took place;
Ex-felons never removed from ‘purge lists’ (against federal law), too few machines in heavily populated urban areas (areas that tend to vote Democrat) causing people to stand in line for over eight hours, going door to door to ‘collect’ votes from elderly voters so they could ‘stay home’.
Business as usual…
Ok- so I’m still not convinced, what would posses a group of people to go to such lengths to fix an election.
To rule the most powerful nation on earth you say?
Maybe, but we’ll toss that idea out for now in lieu of something MUCH more important.
Oil.
That’s right – oil.
“Oh, you’re saying that just because Dick Cheney got his money from oil, and Bush got his money from oil, and Condi Rice got her money from oil, and the whole administration stands to make a whole lot of money from oil and weapons sales, that they’re going to war for oil profits.”
That may or may not be true, but that’s not what I’m getting at.
We have a MUCH bigger problem than whether or not this administration is corrupt.
In fact, corruption and vote-rigging aside, they may be trying to SAVE us.
No- not from terrorists; they’ve proven far too incompetent or unwilling to protect us from the terrorists. If you still live in that world – fine. But it’s unlikely that terrorists are going to get you.
Peak oil will.
(Right about now, you should be getting ready to either pee yourself or put your denial circuitry into high Ghz.)
You see, the thing this administration is trying to save us from has nothing to do with terrorism, but the smarter people that this administration listens to know that, frankly, Americans are too plug stupid to wrap their heads around the truth.
Saying we’re fighting terrorism is the best way they have of getting Americans to support their policies, if they told Americans the truth – they wouldn’t be able to save us… from ourselves.
So let me try to explain:
Our problem is twofold – ‘Reserve Currency’ and ‘Peak Oil’.
“What’s peak oil?”
Well, it’s a relatively simple concept a Dr. Hubbard figured out decades ago which goes something like this:
“Every year, oil consumption and subsequent demand has risen by a considerable percent. Every year, oil producing nations and drilling companies make efforts to increase oil production to service growing demand. There will come a point where oil production hits capacity and ‘peaks’, at this point, oil production will plateau for a time and then begin to decline. This will happen regardless of the fact that demand continues to rise.”
Typical ‘Amurkin’, “So? What’s that mean?”
Me, “It means that oil will no longer be produced fast enough to meet demand and prices will rise dramatically.”
‘Amurkin’, “So’s I have ta pay more fer gas? Geez, guess I’ll have to put in fer overtime soon.”
Me, “Aside from the guy you voted for taking away overtime benefits for workers, it wouldn’t help anyway. You see, your employer will have to pay those higher prices too, so he will be unlikely to pay overtime (neat how it would appear the administration saw this coming), in fact, there’s a very good chance you’ll be laid off if his business doesn’t fold altogether.”
‘Amurkin’, “But we lay carpet, sure we’ll have to pay a little more fer gas, but he can just raise his price a little bit ta make up fer it.”
Me, “And there you have hit the carpet tack on the head. Your employer buys his carpet from a manufacturer. That manufacturer has increased costs because;
A) The cost of his raw materials have increased dramatically because; 1) those materials are petroleum based, 2) it costs more to ship those materials due to the higher cost of fuel.
B) The cost to ship those carpets to your company ALSO went up, so your employer has to absorb all those extra costs from the company he purchases from.
Therefore, your employer will be paying the increased costs for all the businesses he buys from, all the businesses they buy from, AND for all the energy he needs to run his business.
Ultimately, no one will be able to afford to buy carpet from him at the prices he will need to stay in business. He will have to close down.
As energy costs go up, pay rates for labor will not. People will become less and less able to afford expensive goods and services due to the increased cost of energy.”
‘Amurkin’, “Well what about all them other things fer energy, like solar, natural gas, windmills and stuff?”
Me, “Not a bad idea – but those sources do not produce enough energy at the price it would cost to get them running. If we spent every penny we would normally spend on oil on those other sources instead, we would produce less than one percent of the energy we get from oil. Oh, and of course in order to produce those things we would need…”
“Oil?”
“You guessed it ‘Amurkin’, no matter what we try to do now – it will cost oil, and the price will not go down.”
“You make it sound like the whole world needs oil.”
“It does. In one century we have had an explosion of growth and progress, all because of high-yield, low cost oil. The civilization we have now is a direct product of oil. Without oil, we would have never got here. Without oil, society cannot have all the modern conveniences we have now. Without oil – we lose the ability to sustain society.”
‘Amurkin’, “So we’ll have to go back to farmin’ and usin’ horses… I could do that.”
Me, “Well, that would be very nice… except for one thing… there’s too many of us. The only reason we have been able to produce and distribute enough to sustain society is…”
“Oil…”
“Yep, now… imagine the entire population of this country turning on it’s own resources to sustain themselves. All the wood chopped for heat, all the animals hunted for food. Even if we tried – we could not possibly re-create a self-sustaining civilization unless we lost two-thirds of the population. Meanwhile, every available natural resource will be consumed.”
For a moment, I see a glimmer of real understanding in ‘Amurkin’s’ eye, in the next moment – he starts to chuckle.
“Damn boy! You really had me goin’ there! Well, I gotta get to work, the guys’ll get a kick out of yer ‘end o’ the world’ story. Have a good ‘n.”
So you can see why no politician in his right mind would try to tell a whole bunch of people that we have to ration driving hours by business need, get rid of all the SUV’s, and tell people they only get so much ‘expendable gas’ for recreation.
Besides – even if they did do all that, people would find the loopholes.
‘Yep – all them damn liberals tryin’ ta take away yer rights!’
So I’ll be the first to laugh when someone says, “Why weren’t we warned? Why didn’t our government DO anything?”
- Cause you would’ve voted them out of office, that’s why.
Oh yeah – and the peak oil production thingy…happens next year.
Oh, but don’t worry – Our government has a two part energy plan to slow down our inexorable plunge:
1) Invade countries with oil.
2) Kill anything that gets in the way.
Naturally, they knew Americans couldn’t stomach the truth. Americans can’t think ahead in terms of ‘giving stuff up’ now to prepare for the future. That’s just not American.
So, our ‘Commander in Chief’ must see to the success of our agenda, which first meant that he HAD to win the election at ANY cost. Next it means that we are bout to invade another country – I’m thinkin’ Iran. (Hope china doesn’t get too pissed off.) And of course – there will be a draft, it will be the only way to invade and occupy oil-bearing nations.
Oh yeah, and there’s gonna be nukes too… lots of nukes.
What if Kerry won?
It wouldn’t matter – we still have to pursue a similar policy.
Unless, of course, he had the political brass to stand up, tell us the truth and start putting some very stringent and unpopular orders in place. (But at least he could pronounce ‘nuclear’.)
Nothing would make me happier than to be proven wrong at this point, please do your best to do so, and with good solid facts.
But I’m not usually wrong.
Dr. Garth Eldritch
*A thanks to DU’er ‘Peak_Oil’ for bringing this to my attention – what fun!
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
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