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Mon Nov-22-04 09:55 PM
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Here's how it can Happen!

By DU Blogger, hvn_nbr_2 (21 posts)

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First, why I think something's up behind the scenes that we don't know about: There are all the obvious things that everyone has already talked about, the suspiciously early, easy, and gracious concession, the "silence of the Dems." Why aren't the party folks screaming about the obvious massive fraud, intimidation, and disenfranchisement? Because they know something more effective than screaming is going on.

In particular, why aren't our loud and sometimes loose cannons roaring? The intimidation and disenfranchisement were, as always, concentrated in poor and black areas, but Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are mum. Could you ever imagine that? Congresspeople whom you can always count on to make waves, such as Henry Waxman, Charles Rangel, Maxine Waters, and others are silent and not making waves. Do you think they know something we don't? You could argue that they're in shock, but not for two weeks, and I never knew of shock to keep those folks silent.

I hear no recriminations among the party wheels about how Kerry campaigned or such. Even less than during the campaign. Dems are too fractious a bunch for that to happen. After a loosing campaign, there are always recriminations. This is the dog that didn't bark.

Our thousands of lawyers wanted to file hundreds of lawsuits on election day, but Kerry said no. Kerry, the tenacious prosecutor. Kerry, who fought on in the Iowa caucuses. Kerry, who helped found VVAW. But now, a week later, he sends hundreds of lawyers back to Ohio, "to make sure every vote is counted" and "to ensure the legitimacy of the election." That doesn't make any sense at all. It's got to be a diversionary tactic, to lull the pukes into a false sense of security and distract attention from where the real thing's going to be.

Finally, they have to realize (don't they?) that going down without a fight in the face of such obvious and massive fraud would cripple the party for years or even decades. Forget 2006 and 2008. People who stood in line for six hours to vote won't do that again if they don't fight to count those votes. People who poured out energy, time, commitment, and money like never before won't do that again, if all their efforts go down the drain without even a fight. People who say they don't vote because it doesn't matter will be proven right. We won't be able to tell Nader voters that they're throwing away their vote, because Nader's votes were counted and ours weren't--we're the ones who threw away our vote, if they won't fight to count our votes. Surely they have to realize this.

So here's my theory (probably my tin foil hat theory, if I understand that expression correctly):

Max Cleland is a friend of Kerry's. Max Cleland was robbed of a Senate seat by BBV, and anybody who's paying attention knows it. Several other elections were all stolen in apparent dry runs for this one. Kerry and everyone else in the campaign had to know about that. But no one ever said a word during the campaign about it. Compare that to the massive attention to intimidation and disenfranchisement and the thousands of lawyers deployed to prevent it, and the somewhat inhibitory effect that had on some of the worst abuses. But as for BBV, the message was, "Welcome, Pukes. Come in and make yourselves comfortable. Have a cup of tea and be as brazenly audacious as you wish in your vote-stealing. You can go all-out with impunity. No one here will say a word. Not, that is, until we spring this nice little ambush that we have set for you."

Here in California, we just got a multi-million dollar settlement from Diebold over their illegal dealings with touch-screen systems. How? A Diebold technician turned whistleblower. Oh, and he gets a percentage of the settlement too. Does anyone seriously think that we didn't at least try to place some mole technicians in Diebold and also that no lone-ranger moles tried to get in and also that nobody in the company wants a share of the next whistleblower percentage?

I think the Kerry campaign probably had copies of this year's equivalents of rob-georgia.zip about as soon as they were in Diebold technicians' hands. By election day, they'd decompiled or reverse engineered whatever was in them (if it even took that much geek work) and knew exactly how many votes were being stolen where and how. When things turned weird on election day, it was exactly according to plan and exactly as expected.

So, you ask, why haven't they come out with it? What are they waiting for? Remember Kerry the prosecutor? He didn't make his name going after small-time one-off thugs. He drove the whole mob out of his county. There are bigger fish here than some Diebold programmers. There's even bigger game than a stolen presidential election.

With something like a rob-ohio.zip and rob-florida.zip file in hand as evidence and a couple friendly, honest FBI agents or local prosecutors, they could get wiretaps, email taps, FTP taps, and whatever else. With the Dems apparently slinking off into the silence to lick their wounds, the biggies might well be carelessly congratulating themselves on their splendid coup, on tapped lines. Imagine Diebold's CEO being thanked by, oh say, Karl. And one tap's results could lead to another, and then another. Oh my, where might it all lead? Maybe to the whole "Soprano family values" crowd.

But there's still other big game out there to be taken down. The downstream media (hey, they stopped being mainstream a long time ago, they're downstream now) never dealt seriously with BBV problems; they completely ignored all the evidence that BBV was a disaster in the making and had actually already been used to steal elections. They treated the Swift Boat Liars thing as a he said-she said thing that no one could possibly investigate or verify or know the truth, and they acted as though people who weren't there could know as well as people who were there what happened. The downstream puke media (DPM) were completely in the RNC's pocket and completely AWOL from any real journalism, and have been for years.

So, to take down the DPM by embarassing and humiliating them for their complete and utter failures also required waiting to let them do it to themselves. We had to wait while evidence mounted and they ignored it, while the blogosphere fulminated and they unanimously (except Olberman) declared it to be looney internet conspiracies, while they unanimously said all this smoke doesn't mean there's fire, why there really isn't even any smoke, my dears. Just be calm and trust us.

So, when do we see something? Well, it has to be before the electoral college votes. Practically, it has to be before results are certified, particularly if Senate races were stolen too, as seems likely. I'm thinking probably this coming week, because the following week is Thanksgiving and real news will die for most of the week, and the week after that is tight on deadlines for vote certifications. I'm also thinking either Monday or Friday: Monday so the DPM anchors have to wipe egg off their faces all week, or Friday to set up the Sunday morning talking heads shows. Of course, if the FBI or wiretaps are involved, it might all depend on whether new big fish are calling up to volunteer to go to the big house.

On the other hand, this might all be my wishful thinking fantasy, in which case refer back to the paragraph that begins, "Finally, they have to realize (don't they?)" and start applying for immigration to Canada.