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election. It's going to be a long hard battle over the non-transparency of election returns that are tabulated by Bushite corporations, using TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls--a coup arranged by the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, with the so-called "Help America Vote Act" ('02). These Bushite corporations (mainly Diebold and ES&S) choose our candidates in the primaries and who wins the elections. My guestimate is that they're putting a 5% to 10% "thumb on the scales" for Bushites, warmongers and corporatists.
All but two of the Senate Democrats, and all but 60 House Dems, voted FOR the Bushite corporate takeover of our election system. Not a peep out of them. They seem to like it this way.
Even now, about half of the Senate and House Democrats vote for war and other really bad ideas. That is not going to change dramatically with one election under continuing non-transparent conditions. If they do hearings and investigations, it will be more along the lines of the Iran-Contra hearings under Reagan. They won't rock the boat much. A few underlings might be in trouble.
I've little doubt that we will see some "Gulf of Tonkin"-type incident before November, to get us into a widened Mideast war. It's all set up--and unstoppable, I think. And the Democrats won't do anything. They'll wave the flag and condemn those bad Iranians for doing whatever (that they probably didn't do at all), and that will be that. If a Democrat is permitted to enter the White House in '09--a possibility--it will be a War Democrat, and he/she will start telling us about "staying the course" and "succeeding" in Iran.
So I don't think Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co. have all that much to worry about.
Long term, when we are able to restore transparent elections, we will start being to able to elect better representatives, and we will start being able to change things, but it's going to take time.
Have faith in our democracy, and in our people. We WILL get our country back.
A good plan for this year is massive Absentee Ballot voting. FLOOD election officials with MOUNTAINS of paper AB votes, create panic and crisis in the election theft industry, and FORCE these corrupt election officials to the table. DON'T VOTE ON THEIR MACHINES! Boycott the machines! AB votes are NOT "safe"--and will NOT produce accurate vote counts this fall--but if enough people vote AB (and many are--it's up to 50% in Los Angeles), we CAN force change at the local/state level, where decisions about voting systems are still made, and where ordinary people still have some influence.
Bust the Machines--Vote Absentee!
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