Hiding behind 'religion' to spread hate.

Despicable.

Freaks.

this guy is just too sad ......

...rightwing 'christian' nutball billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the rightwing 'christian' nutball Chalcedon foundation, which touts the death penalty for homosexuals!

ES&S (/Diebold), a PRIVATE corporation, run by the far rightwing Urosovich brothers, controls MOST of the electronic voting machines in the country (including scanners, if you think that a paper ballot or mail-in ballot means your vote cannot be erased), all run on 'TRADE SECRET' programming code--code that the public is forbidden to review--with NO AUDIT AT ALL in half the states, and a miserably inadequate 1% audit in the other half.

Fascist memes like this--killing all the gays--are NOT just weird psychotic fantasies. They are REALIZABLE in the REAL world, whenever the controllers of these election-rigging machines decide the time is ripe. As Josef Stalin is rumored to have said: It's not the votes that count--IT'S WHO COUNTS THE VOTES.

Look, there are a lot of things wrong with our political system. We all know what they are. Billionaires buying candidates. Corporate media shilling for the billionaires. People giving up and not voting. Pukes purging poor people from the voting rolls. Traitors, turncoats and corporate shills and "middle of the roaders" among our Democratic leaders. We are a beaten down, demoralized citizenry in many respects, but especially politically (one of the PURPOSES of 'TRADE SECRET' code vote counting). But we have never faced anything like this--the very counting of our votes being taken out of the PUBLIC VENUE.

That's why these assholes can talk about murdering gays and not be tarred and feathered out of the political arena and off the airwaves. It is NOT out of the question that such a law could be passed. Believe me, it is NOT out of the question. It has been made into a possibility, put out there for bigoted people to think about and savor, while those who control the 'TRADE SECRET' code decide if and when they can go that far. It meanwhile fosters hate and division--it's useful for that, too.

One more comment: Notice the date mentioned by Swanson, 350 AD. That is the beginning of the Christian church's purge of all alternative views and dissenters within the church, the formation of one monolithic dogma and organization, and the cementing of the Christian religion with the terrorist power of the state--a truly horrible period in the religion of gentle Jesus, which culminated a hundred years later in the Council of Chalcedon.

And it is no accident that the thousand year period known as "the Dark Ages"--a long, long period in Europe and England in which the Roman education system was lost, Greek knowledge was lost, ignorance reigned, almost all people including the upper classes could not read, trade and travel and their progressive influence virtually ceased to exist, and most people were dirt-poor, ignorant serfs, controlled body and soul by kings and their 'anointed' lords and the priestly class.

This period, beginning in 350 AD was, without question, the absolutely worst, most violent--both physically and mentally--and most hideous and deforming era of Christian religion and culture. Its monolithic male church hierarchy, its witchburnings, its book burnings, its "baptism by the sword," its rabid suppression of dissent, its imprisonment of the human mind, and finally its horrendously violent "crusades" not only against Middle Easterners but also within Europe (specifically France), are notorious. How can this miserable era of human history be touted by anyone today? Ask yourself that. My answer: because those who own and control the 'TRADE SECRET' code know what they can do with it, when conditions are ripe.

"ES&S (/Diebold), a PRIVATE corporation, run by the far rightwing Urosovich brothers, controls MOST of the electronic voting machines in the country (including scanners, if you think that a paper ballot or mail-in ballot means your vote cannot be erased), all run on 'TRADE SECRET' programming code--code that the public is forbidden to review--with NO AUDIT AT ALL in half the states, and a miserably inadequate 1% audit in the other half."

We have to have oversight on our elections. We cannot allow private companies with ties to right wing causes to be in charge of providing electronic voting machines. WE're in big trouble with these fascists.