Reply #40: How soon we forget [View All]

[PATRICK]

If you remember the excruciating attrition in Florida 2000 it is no surprise that the slicker more varied and invisible game in Ohio yields grudging small corrections for Kerry- who did not even put up the pretense of a fight. instead the new crew of diverse second parties ran into the swamp.

Votes were lost even before election day and the Kerry camp was too quiet. A winning margin simply never got recorded in the polls. But if you still crunch the probabilities and the desperate chicanery involved in that big Bush margin you have to believe that machines and ballots and totals and records were all manipulated to various degrees. Variety is the spice of death. Of course, the glitches, chaos, lockdowns went on all during election day and even there some said that wasn't so bad because the Kerry lawyers fought off some and got people provisional ballots- which also were not properly counted. Palast got shut out of punditry and media handily too.

Kerry may have come to the belated conclusion there were no retrievable ballots left to cobble together a possible victory from a dug in enemy establishment. The silence on the matter was not refreshing,. Although I might add Gore also was silent on the issue while he tired- a bit naively- to play the game when it was still conceivable it could be beaten. Conceivable but not really possible if they used a little foresight on the ultimate judges of the "contest" aspect. Then Gore buried the fraud.

Kerry has buried the recount and fraud is descending into the murk at the moment. If one were to compare this to Waterloo, one might compare Kerry to Napoleon- on that day- playing to the enemy's hand with the old warhorses, conceding every advantage and sending more people straight ahead to the slaughter. And Napoleon should have won that day anyway- had his "votes" in the second army ever shown up. Wellington wasn't that smart either, nor all-powerful. In a battle of stubborn stupidity someone always comes up short.

Yes, we look just like we did when questioning the Intel and the intentions and the wisdom leading up to the Iraq War. Facts, authorities, etc. Intimidating just to KNOW the truth and not have the goods to slam down the horror show leading us to disaster. Without that stuff we could not stop the catastrophe and no one gives any credits to good "guessers" who simply stuck to truth and honesty- and oh yeah- values. The same is true in 2004. The election was visibly gamed and stolen- along with the evidence and the will of the candidate to contest it. It was predictable and we have enough smoke and fire to stick by it, sure as there IS global warming and Bush is a greedy dolt. Evidence? No, and I couldn't get any on Capone either. The FBI could but now they work for the mob.

Let's separate the eggs before they get scrambled. Signs of a Bush loss and theft abound. Actual fraud and vote suppression and a rigged media ARE in evidence. The EASY path, the "Gore temptation" was long ago strewn with GOP landmines- namely trying to recount what was left in the digital rubble and the overvotes and undervotes etc. etc. and the HAVA joke that left people like Blackwell counting the eggs in the henhouse.

The more we keep hoping that easy path will just clear up on its own and prove us right, the harder will be the ultimate path to truth and victory along the last ways remaining. We do not have to concede that Bush won when the evidence and theory to show HOW he did better than in 2000 keeps mutating under the heat lamps of reason. We don't need Kerry or a Kerry victory to know the awful truth. We don't need to kick around the DNC in other ways to get off the subject of a stolen election. We are right. We can't prove it. We can't unseat the usurpers. We don't have a very effective political opposition party even if we could drag them in the back door.

We don't have proof that Bush won so that we should repeat the nauseating "blame the loser" game that went on after Gore 2000- and ignored the simple fact that he WON when the proof came out in an ignored whisper right on 9/11. If we have lost our nerve that doesn't mean we have to lose our mind. Even the media couldn't swallow some of its lies of necessity when the rabid XXian occupiers wanted to talibanize the end times of America.

Are we insurgents or in Saddam like hidey holes talking big? The system is in pieces and discredited. America? In our crazy quilt coalitions and in the disaffected Republicans and Democrats angry as hell with Bush, we are IT in the RW kingdom of the blind. Solutions? Make a real party or super coalition for simple democracy. Get a REAL news network going that relies on facts not on entertaining punditry to compete with clowns and hypocrites of the right. the people have neither access to the truth nor a viable party of their interests. The field is rough to plow but open and abandoned. And if the people want, the Democratic Party is just as open for principled takeover as the GOP was vulnerable to thugs, fanatics and plutocrats. That crowd will always hate the Democratic Party for its "freedoms" as much as they kick around PBS and CNN no matter how much they cravenly sellout.