Ronnie Dugger Declares "Democratic Emergency" on BBV

[Kelvin Mace]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0730-10.htm

We are in an American emergency. It is the emergency of all our American emergencies. Along with the Civil War, this is our second crisis of legitimacy, but more, it is the culminative crisis of our identity. Are we a democracy, or have we irreversibly degenerated into a Presidential-corporate-military dictatorship? Are we still a good country, or are we becoming a bad country? Can we understand and act in the emergency well and fast enough, or will we lose the United States as we know it?

But as we approach the national election three months away, we have slowly awakened to realize, too, that this quite general American emergency is focusing down into an historic democratic emergency.

Four years ago James Baker, running the Bush campaign to steal the Presidency in Florida, proclaimed there again and again (although few noticed or understood what he was saying) that the "precision machinery" of computers counts and recounts votes better and more accurately than people do. The Bush people achieved what they wanted and asked for, a Supreme Court order that literally stopped the recounting of the votes in Florida. Newt Gingrich followed that up at once, still in December 2000, with a call for a totally computerized votecounting system by 2004.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.com

[Boredtodeath]

1. Time to answer the activism call

requested in this article.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Can't believe this sank to the bottom

[blm]

6. Will keep it kicked, David.

Grazie.

[blm]

12. bump

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[grasswire]

3. thank you so much...

..for posting this. I'll try to help keep it kicked. You might also want to post it in the editorials forum where it will stay on top longer. This is a must read. I'm passing it on to a mailing list of religious left activists.

[grasswire]

4. addendum

A way to forestall the stealing of the election is to spell out openly exactly the response the people will bring to such an event. It's excellent to put Republicans on notice. THIS is what will happen.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Will do. Also pass along

his article in The Nation from another thread.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=dugger

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.com

[Karenina]

5. HEADS UP!!!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[blm]

8. Square that

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[MGKrebs]

9. I'm on board.

I'm in the process of setting up a local group through www.georgiafordemocracy.org.
Will do the same with ACT.

We have to be ready throughout October to respond to the BS, and then right up until inauguration day if Kerry wins.

Keep your weekends open in October and November!

[Karenina]

10. Dupe? Schmupe!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

JOB ONE is getting the votes properly counted.

[MGKrebs]

11. yes. We must multi-task.

:-)