"Carter/Baker Report can't face how the GOP stole America's 2004 election"

Do try to read the entire article and send it to others, but, more importantly, please join me in calling on Congressman John Conyers to launch his candidacy for President of the United States of America.

And, please urge Skinner to request the DU Activist Group to spread the call for Congressman Conyers to do just that:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x23663

He can force the entire Nation to realize that the 2006 Congressional Election and 2008 National Election are effectively stolen unless sweeping reform is implemented. That is more than enough platform given that without an equitable and verified election process America will remain what it became in 2000, a neoconster fascist oligarchy.


Peace.

but my first knee-jerk is that I trust Jimmy Carter to tell it like it is, particularly with regards to elections. He's supervised so many.

But I will read it more completely.

Truth.


Peace.

(and I really appreciate all the work they've done) I don't see much actual objective criticism of the details of Baker-Carter's recommendations.

Yes, we know 2000, 2002, and 2004 were stolen. Yes, we know that this report fails to acknowledge those thefts. But if the recommendations are at least workable I'll settle for that. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Edited for grammar.

And:



You may want to start with these.


Peace.

I'm amazed and disheartened that Carter signed off on this . . . and that he, of all people, didn't delve far enough into the subject to understand what happened in 2004 (not to mention 2000 and 2002) . . .

I know that Carter is neither that uninformed nor that stupid . . . I can only conclude that, like the rest of the commission, he knows about the stolen elections, and he's okay with it . . . or at least not willing to rock the boat, for whatever reason . . .

maybe Baker somehow convinced Carter that disclosing that the elections were stolen would destroy the United States . . . and Carter believes that what the commission is recommending will solve the problem in the future, so he's going along . . .

whatever his reasoning, I'm hugely disappointed . . .

... associated with this train-wreck.

For further context of how big a disaster this "report" is:



President Carter has been severely compromised; our America is just about destroyed.


Peace.

I hope this issue is brought up. I remember reports of him saying our voting system was basically a joke, my head is spinning here a little bit. linkwww.cartercenter.org

I was encouraged by what I read on page 34.

Yes, they say we need a VVPAT (Voter-verified paper audit trail), but what page 34 says is that that trail actually consists of paper ballots to be used in recounts... In other words, it's not just some cheap receipt that the voter looks at then throws away, not to be reused again while the computer adds up anything it wants.

...fascist regimes, have and will never be displaced by an opposition party working within the system. They're displaced internally via revolution or not at all. Sorry, but that's the reality of the situation, folks. Absent the required revolution (our most likely scenario), what we'll see in coming years is the theatrical illusion of free and fair elections maintained for a few more election cycles. Then at some point, after domestic dissent has been thoroughly crushed and the remaining populace is sufficiently numb and docile, elections will be done away with altogether, considered an expensive, unnecessary charade by the new fascist State. Welcome to AmeriKa.

It is said that history repeats itself. That's because it does:

http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/germany-1933.htm