...LEFTISTS!
I fully support (and have supported) actions to back up Democratic leaders in Congress who show spine, but I have to say that, when this Congress approved the nomination of torture-memo writer and Bush Cartel toady Alberto Gonzales to be chief law enforcement officer of the U.S., it became perfectly clear to me that we not only have an illegitimately elected president, we also have an illegitimately elected Congress, which does not represent the interests of the great majority of people in this country, 63% of whom oppose torture "under any circumstances" (May '04), and the great majority of whom oppose this and every other major Bush policy, foreign and domestic, way up in the 60% to 70% range, and have for some time.
Congressional support of whatever this lying, criminal president and his puppetmasters desire to do is inevitable. This is not to say we shouldn't fight it, and shouldn't back Democrats who fight it. We absolutely should! For one thing, the supposed minority Democrats in Congress actually represent the great majority, and are carrying that burden, of having to represent the majority with only minority status, and under constant bullying by Bush's Congressional "pod people."
But we had better see to the mechanism of our sovereignty as a people--our right to vote, and the transparency of our elections--as our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, because if we do not repair our election system while we still have a chance, we are headed for full on fascist dictatorship.
There is a current movement in California--initiated by county election officials--for emergency legislation in the state legislature, to permit counties to do all mail-in, paper ballot votes in the coming June primary, so that unreliable, hackable Diebold and other electronic voting systems don't have to be used. The movement is headed by State Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach) who is running for Sec of State.
That is one thing we can do--support this movement, and start others in other states. Mail-in may not be the ultimate solution, but it is a positive and immediate step toward much better transparency, which is critically needed this year (June and November '06 elections).
The Alito confirmation, if it happens, is not the end of our democracy. There are many things we can do to get around, hamper and impeach a Bush-appointed Supreme Court IF WE CAN RESTORE OUR RIGHT TO VOTE. That is the key to all future reform. We CANNOT have Bushite corporations counting all our votes with "trade secret," proprietary programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls--and expect to win such votes in Congress and expect majority views to be represented in Congress or in the White House. We MUST change this. THEN we will be able to implement fundamental reform.
Another thing we can do in the immediate future is to request that the Democratic Party fund INDEPENDENT exit polls for this year's elections. The war profiteering corporate news monopoly exit polls cannot be trusted. (They DOCTORED their exit polls on Nov. 2, 2004, to hide evidence of a Kerry win from the American people.) We must think long term, over the next couple of years of elections, challenge every suspicious result, and gather evidence to be used in the growing movement to get rid of these election theft machines.
Info and discussion on the California mail-in vote movement:
Election forum
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x408918Latest breaking news
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2039519News article:
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060113/NEWS/601130304/1265Other resources:
www.votersunite.org
www.verfiedvoting.org
www.UScountvotes.org
www.freepress.org
www.TruthIsAll.net
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml
Also of interest:
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk
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We must stategize on a basis of truth! For one thing, if you know how badly the election system is rigged, defeats are less likely to produce feelings of hopelessness and disempowerment. From what I can see, Republicans have a 5% to 10% automatic advantage in these Bushite Republican-controlled election theft machines. So, one strategy would be an all out effort at new voter registration and getting out the vote, combined with TELLING voters the TRUTH about these machines, and engaging their desire to defeat election fraud by our sheer numbers. The Democratic Party strategy seems to be to hide the truth (the best construction I can put on Dem Party leaders' silence on Bushite corporations' control of our votes with secret programming). Silence, and defeat after defeat, is demoralizing. People need to know WHY these unlikely Dem defeats are happening. Another strategy is to aim beyond the next election, and concentrate on gathering evidence--for election challenges, for lawsuits, and for a bang-up state/local venue campaign against electronic voting, between elections (say between '06 and '08).
I said this was a Pep Talk, and I mean it. There is a REASON why the great American progressive majority is not represented in Washington DC in proportion to its numbers. That reason is election fraud. And we MUST put a stop to it. That must be our highly focused, number one priority goal for the next couple of election cycles.
And once we restore transparent elections in this country, you will be amazed at what we can do by way of fundamental reform, and progress toward peace and justice.
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