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Edited on Sun Aug-07-05 04:04 PM by BlueIris
There are a lot of places to look if you want, well, proof that the Ohio election was tainted with about ten thousand different kinds of obfuscation, meddling, incompetence, and disgustingly calculated, flagrantly executed fraud. I personally recommend the now-published book, "What Went Wrong in Ohio," which is the report produced by John Conyers' House Judiciary Committee after the investigation it conducted into the Ohio election. Some people also believe that ex-NSA employee Wayne Madsen's articles about voter fraud in the last election are also essential reading for those who want to know what really happened. I don't want my little post to demean the essential, seminal place the writings of these people and others hold in the canon of research about the election last year. I hope no one thinks I'm trying to do that, or suggest that the issues my wacky insights point to render irrelevant the findings of Conyers, Madsen, or the countless credentialed statisticians and academics who wrote about the likelihood of massive fraud contaminating last year's vote.
It is my feeling--particularly because, despite their persuasiveness even to non-Democrats, non-partisans and non-Kerry supporters, the works of Conyers, Madsen and others remain unknown to the majority of the general public--that the information which may finally blow the lid off the Ohio election scam is closely connected to the scandal still unfolding there related to all of those missing (?) rare coins. I must confess, I haven't followed this scandal as closely as I have the other insanity relating to Ohio and election 2004, so my knowledge of the particulars isn't all that keen. As to why I have this feeling...(again, please hold your cackling laughter)...
...Tarot reading has played a helpful, supportive role in my life for the past decade. No, I do NOT base major life decisions on readings from my decks of Tarot or the decks of others, I only use them to widen or enhance my perspective on my own life and emotions. Also, as an artist, I am drawn to the symbology of the illustrations on most Tarot decks. I rarely, if ever, "use" Tarot to attempt to "figure out" or anticipate exactly "what's coming next." To me, that's (sort of) silliness. However, I cannot deny that there have been a few times in which, well, strong suggestions made by the lay-out of Tarot cards forewarned of impending events of major import to me. My grandfather's death. The end of my last relationship. A significant change in my health status. So, occasionally, this method of divination can enlighten me in a prophetic sense.
On November 2nd, when the weird stuff with the Florida returns began to be broadcast, and the info about a probable Republican victory in Ohio hit the air, I started playing with my Tarot decks. The cards I kept getting seemed strange to me, what with my aforementioned steadfast belief in the eminent recognition of Kerry's success. Unfortunately, they involved cards from the minor arcana like the Seven of Swords, Justice (reversed) and the Emperor, which I came to look at later as portents of theft, injustice and illegality and Bush keeping his throne. I tend to (strongly) resist literal interpretations of the cards, but given what transpired, my thinking was, "well, sometimes, a Tarot message does come through in that manner." But there was this other oddity I kept seeing that night--coins. Every. Single. Last. card from the entire deck with coin imagery on it kept popping up in those readings. No matter which deck I used or what my "energy" was at the time, coins everywhere. That included lots of cards from the Suite of Pentacles, (one deck I use actually labels this set of cards the Suite of Coins) and even cards like the Seven of Cups, which features, in some Western Tarot decks, a goblet filled with jewels and coin pieces. In the weeks following the election outcome, I took these readings to mean simply that the interests of the supporters of the fraud, interests connected almost entirely with the monetary incentive to retain near absolute power had easily overtaken the desire of the public to remove a tyrannical ruler through our legal processes of doing so (not that you need a Tarot deck to tell you that). Yet, I still had my "feeling" about Kerry; connected with the vision and other impressions. I still had a belief that the fraud would be exposed. I just didn't know how.
Ever since the Ohio coin scandal broke, I've been having eerie flashbacks to those election night readings. Sometimes, I wonder if, as opposed to having interpreted those cards too literally, I didn't interpret them literally enough. Lots of people, whose views about the election, the fraud, the media and Kerry I respect, continue to watch the new developments in Ohio very carefully. They've given me a lot of reason to think this way of explaining election malfeasance to the public will stick where other ways didn't. I actually wish I was reading more about it on DU then I am, but what am I supposed to say--"hey, poster, I know we're all tired from pursuing the DSM, Rove/Plame, and other crises, but what about all of that nasty shit with the coins in Ohio? Why do I care? Let me tell you about this sinister Tarot reading from last Novermber..." I mean, we should all care about getting as much info as we can about the fraud because we're all voters and we deserve clean elections. Not because Iris has fun with Tarot sometimes. But if you want to know where I think an untapped resource for more, potentially highly-productive dirt is, that's my guess.
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