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We really MUST realize that we have suffered a fascist JUNTA. We MUST understand what it MEANS that rightwing Bushite corporations now control the tabulation of our votes with "trade secret," proprietary programming code, and with virtually no audit/recount controls. And we have to understand what it MEANS that the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, acting in concert, late on election day, 2004, FALSIFIED their exit polls to force them to "fit" the results fed to them, electronically, by the Bushite-controlled black boxes. And as long as these conditions continue, in our so-called election system, we WILL suffer defeat after defeat. Bush has a THIRTY-EIGHT PERCENT approval rating. Cheney is even lower (18%!). And yet, day after day, their minority rightwing policies are shoved down our throats. And if you don't understand WHY, then you will continue to suffer troughs to despair and disempowerment, every time this illegitimate government takes one more illegitimate action.
P L E A S E ask yourself, if you were Karl Rove, and Tom Delay had set up an extremely hackable election system for you, with a $4 billion boondoggle (HAVA) straight into the pockets of Bush's buds at Diebold and ES&S, WOULD YOU USE THAT CAPABILITY to stay in power?
With electronic voting run by Bushites, our election system has become extremely insecure and hackable, and non-transparent. Non-transparent elections are not elections. They are tyranny. We are suffering TYRANNY!
P L E A S E get this through your heads. I know it's difficult, in view of the complete SILENCE of the Democratic Party leadership on Bushite corporations controlling the vote count as a fucking TRADE SECRET! But you have to stop saying to yourself, "They wouldn't let that happen, would they?" and start understanding that "They DID let it happen." Because the latter statement is the truth. They DID let it happen--for whatever reasons of corruption, collusion, ignorance or fear. And they have been silent also about the falsification of the exit polls. So, we have to open our eyes and see it for ourselves--despite the complete "Iron Curtain" that has been placed over this all-important story. The. Bushites. Own. The. Voting. System.
And nothing is going to change until we get our voting system back into the public venue, and restore transparent elections!
It is still doable--although I don't know for how long. Control of election systems still resides at the state/local level, where ordinary people still have some influence. Transparent elections are a no-brainer. Either the votes are counted in public view--accurately and verifiably--or they are not. There is no in-between. The election reform movement, which is still in its infancy, is already making progress--in California, Florida, North Carolina, New York, New Mexico and other states. In California, we have a great candidate for Sec of State (Debra Bowen) who understands this matter very clearly. But, barring some unforeseen circumstance, restoring our right to vote is going to be a long term project, requiring courage and stamina--and FOCUS. Those who stole our right to vote are not going to give it back without knockdown dragout fights in every jurisdiction in the country.
But I guarantee you, WHEN WE RESTORE OUR RIGHT TO VOTE, we are going to see a revolution in this country like we have never seen before. Everything that this junta has done--with some tragic exceptions, such as the tens of thousands of people they have slaughtered in Iraq--can be UNDONE, including its criminal Supreme Court appointments. We, the sovereign people of the United States, can do whatever we need to do, and whatever we think wise, IF WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. That is the mechanism of our sovereignty. And we MUST get it back.
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