Theft of the Election Redux! Buzzflash quotes Vanity Fair in a Must Read

[KoKo]

Article. Especially for those here who need a "refresher" for what happened in Florida and how this election is replaying it.. A must read for those of us who lived through it, also, to steel our spines when we start to feel "down" about why we are fighting.

(a snip from the end of the article)

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http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/12/ana04030.html

A bastard presidency couldn't win a free and transparent election. It systemically stole this one through fear, character assassination, and a wide range of dirty tricks before and at the polls, including the likely manipulation of electronic voting machines in key states.

The truth is that the valiant band of Democratic Congressional Representatives led by Congressman Conyers -- as well as the Green and Libertarian Parties -- are carrying on the Spirit of '76 in pursuing the voting irregularities in Ohio.

But the theft of the 2004 election goes much deeper than Ohio, although it was the linchpin electoral state. It was widespread, systemic, and coordinated -- throughout the nation.

But with a one-party government, who will investigate the perpetrators of the crime against democracy redux, when it is the perpetrators who hijacked our system of government and who control the committees and departments that could investigate, well, themselves?

The news in America is now on six hour cycles. Each day, we forget the morning's news by the afternoon.

It is no wonder that so many have forgotten that four years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States put the nails in the coffin of democracy. It occurred in the darkness of a winter Washington night on Tuesday, December 12th, with an unprecedented 10 PM decision release that elected George W. Bush president by a vote of 5-4.
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/12/ana04030.html

[enough]

1. Read it and weep.

I agree it is a must read.

[ooglymoogly]

2. it is almost too painful to relive those dastardly days when

democracy died and to know the criminals who perpetrated are still conniving to steal the last vestiges of freedom from a sleeping dummed down populous who are joining in the chorus while they are burning.

[PDX Bara]

3. King George the Weed

...was NOT elected - he was APPOINTED by a partisan Supreme Court. Personally, I don't think the position of Justice of the Supreme Court should be a lifetime appointment and this is one good example of why.

[chomskysright]

4. the loser is the nation's confidence

from the must read article:

Stevens was drafting the principal dissent; it would reiterate what he'd written in the unused dissent from the first round, but shorn of all legalese, in order to be easily understood by ordinary people. It chastised the Court for holding the justices of the Florida Supreme Court up to ridicule.

"Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear," it stated. "It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law." ....."

...Democracy, voting, content -- none of this matters anymore. All that matters is loyalty to the status quo of a radical right wing regime. Think Franco. Think Pinochet. Think Stalin. All totalitarian regimes require the same kind of press, one that lies on its back and takes dictation -- and then publishes it with the official spin.

[jbfam4]

5. do any of the Supremes

feel responsible for all the death and destructin * has caused. He couldn't have done it without their help.

[KoKo]

6. I have to give this a kick....just because we are living through it again,

and I thank Buzzflash for doing this with updates for all of us. It's not like I want to remember it...but it's why I'm still here on this website when I'd rather be doing ANYTHING else...but fighting to keep our Democracy for the clueless and innocents who don't know what the hell is going on. If I go to my grave with this...I will feel I tried to do something for civilization...:shrug: I think there are many of us out there. Without us it could be worse...hard to imagine worse than this...but read history...it definitely could be worse without a "resistance." :shrug: