...the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines.
We're going to see more and more, and even worse, assholes--in Congress, in governorships and state legislatures and in the White House. That's what the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines are FOR.
I'm afraid that the folks in Wisconsin--the most progressive state in the union--were beating their heads against a brick wall, working so incredibly hard to recall Walker, before ripping out the privately controlled 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines. People just don't seem to understand what this MEANS. They can't win! That is the point.
Some say, well, Obama got elected. I think that is true, though neither I nor anyone else can prove it. And that IS the problem. 99% to 100% of our votes are tabulated with no auditing, by machines that are privately controlled (largely by one corporation with far rightwing connections). With that kind of power--the power to pick and choose our leaders, to shave their mandates (which I think they did to Obama), and to time their moves perfectly according to a plan that we are not privy to--our transglobal rulers can play our system like a piano--can PERMIT an Obama to be elected depending on the deals he agrees to make--for instance, not to investigate and prosecute the members of the Bush Junta for their many, many terrible crimes, or agreeing to Air Force predator drones murdering "suspects" in half a dozen countries, or turning "health care reform" into an insurance giants' boondoggle--and they can also UN-elect him, if they think the time is ripe for Bush Junta II. Obama also serves the function of helping our people to "forget" all that went before--horrible unjust war, horrible torture and other lawlessness, mind-boggling theft, mind-boggling malfeasance--our government run by the most savage bunch of criminals we have ever seen in higher office.*
'TRADE SECRET' vote counting is a malevolent tool--the cleverest one ever devised for controlling people, money, the law and government resources, without the victims of the control understanding their powerlessness. We jabber on about what we think the public can do--to influence Congressional assholes, for instance--and I've done it myself in the past--without realizing that most of them were not elected and do not, and will not, answer to us. It's not just the money--the lobbyists, the filthy campaign contribution system, or the corporate media--it's DIRECT CONTROL of election outcomes. Money, lobbyists, media can be overcome--as the Latin Americans have done, time and again (with seriously leftist, "New Deal"-type governments elected in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua and other places). They have done their civic homework on honest, transparent elections. We need to do ours.
This is NOT to say "be silent" or "don't bother to vote." Please don't misunderstand me. We must not be silent. We must continue to vote--if, for no other reason, than to remember who we are--the sovereign rulers of this land. But we need to do these things--to keep exercising our rights and duties as citizens--with OPEN EYES, and the main thing we need to SEE, right now, is that OUR VOTES ARE NO LONGER COUNTED IN THE PUBLIC VENUE.
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*(I think there is another reason that an Obama was needed in the White House--that is, a pliable, "feel good" president without much power, as an interim figure, while behind-the-scenes powers ended the war between the Pentagon and the CIA that Cheney and Rumsfeld had started. This "war" was quite a serious thing, from the point of view of our transglobal corporate rulers and maybe from the point of view of all of us, in that the main issue seems to have been a Cheney/Rumsfeld plan to nuke Iran at the risk of armageddon the Middle East, especially if China and/or Russia got into it. The military brass opposed nuking Iran, and so did Bush Sr. (armageddon being bad for business) and likely the CIA opposed it as well. This is likely WHY Cheney/Rumsfeld outed not just one CIA agent but the CIA's entire WMD counter-proliferation project worldwide.
(These outings put Bush Jr. himself at risk of retaliation by the CIA. (I think they were moving on impeachment.) That is when Bush Sr. stepped in, with his "Iraq Study Group" ("Old CIA"
, of which Leon Panetta was a member. The ISG allied with the military brass and ousted Rumsfeld in late 2006 and curtailed Cheney in the final two years of Jr.'s term. This is why Nancy Pelosi announced, virtually at the same moment, that "impeachment is off the table." The ISG and ES&S/Diebold vetted and approved Obama who agreed to, a) appoint Leon Panetta as CIA Director (direct Bush Sr. link), and b) no investigation/prosecution of the Bush Junta principles ("We need to look forward not backward." . Obama may have made other agreements but those two are quite obvious.
(Panetta was tasked with ending the war between the Pentagon and the CIA, and monitoring the no investigation/no prosecution deal (by which Cheney agreed to back off and Rumsfeld agreed to resign). Panetta also seems to be tasked with cleaning up Jr's trail wherever necessary (as in Colombia--a situation I've watched closely). Panetta was welcomed with wild happiness and champagne corks popping--according to reports--on his first day at the CIA (no "novice" he). He spent a year there, straightening things out and smoothing very ruffled feathers, and now is doing the same at the Pentagon. Notice how Bush Sr.-like U.S. foreign policy has become--subtler, more sophisticated, not the blunt object it was with Cheney/Rumsfeld. Still evil, greedy and lethal, as well as imperial and anti-democratic, but not so overtly ugly not to mention hugely dangerous.)
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