The Ervin Committee Report on Watergate

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After the Democratic victories in the mid-term elections this year, my thoughts turned to the future and finally having some checks on the dictatorial leadership that we currently have occupying the White House. While I know that Congressional investigations take a long time and are about as exciting as watching paint dry, I thought that I might be able to find some more information about Watergate and the investigations that transpired. The Nixon Administration and the resulting Watergate investigations are the closest precedent that I could imagine for what we are going through now.

I thought that I might be able to find a blueprint or guide for what I feel is going to transpire, HAS to transpire, in the coming months. What I found was a copy of the Senate Select Committee’s report, better known as the Ervin committee report named after the chair of the committee, Senator Sam Ervin. I jumped right in and thought I might find a few things here or there, or at least an idea on how investigations might proceed. What I found instead was shocking to me.

This report should be required reading for anyone seriously debating whether or not George W. Bush should be impeached. I started marking pages and folding over pages every time I found something that could be directly related to our current condition. My copy of the report is starting to look tattered with all of the bent over pages and markings on so many pages. The similarities are absolutely shocking. Some of the names are the same and many of the tactics employed then are being employed on the nation now. Many of the issues from that time are still with us, election reform, corporate money in elections, dirty tricks, vote siphoning, robo-calling style election fraud, warrant-less wiretapping, etc etc etc.

My marker started working right at the introduction of the report. Senator Howard Baker spoke about election reforms, reforms that are still needed this day. One of his recommendations that struck me as so common sense that I really can’t believe that it hasn’t been implemented yet was to have automatic registration. On page 23 of the report, Senator Baker suggested that we needed to overcome the cynicism against politics by implementing a policy of automatically registering a citizen at the age of 18. This way, voters were not faced with complex registration processes that would disenfranchise them. (Ken Blackwell anyone?) The suggestions and my head nodding in agreement continued throughout.

The report goes on to discuss in detail the day to day operations and inter-twining of bad guys and their intentions to disrupt the political system and protect an Imperial President from the Constitution of the United States. Sound familiar? Make sure to write down all of the names that you read about that are currently working in or near the White House again. It’ll shock ya!

Get this report and start reading while you’re waiting for the real thing to happen. This will give you the historical perspective you’ll need and insight into what is happening as it happens. This IS going to happen and I want to understand as much of it as possible. I’d suggest the same to all of you. The best part, you can get this report for under 2 bucks!

The Senate Watergate report:
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