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scared, some clueless - on a number of core issues - and some have had good motives, and some have had mixed motives, and some have had bad, corrupt motives - whereas Bushites are wholly evil.
That's a distinction I would make. I think there are some good Democrats - people who would be elected in transparent elections. But there are no good Bushites. Wild guess - about half the Democratic members of Congress and scared, clueless and/or have good motives, and about half are Bushites with a "D" in front of their names--"Blue Dog" (that is, traitor) Democrats. (Gary Condit was the leader of the "Blue Dog" Democrats in 2001, and he voted for Bush-Cheney's first tax cut for the rich, two days after his young mistress, Chandra Levy, disappeared. That kind of 'Democrat.')
But one problem is that the scared/clueless and/or well-intentioned Democrats often shill for --cover up for--the others. For instance, this bullshit that they "don't have the votes" in Congress to impeach Bush-Cheney, or to stop the war, etc. If we had transparent elections, they WOULD have the votes. 70% of the American people oppose the Iraq War and want it ended. Counting all the votes WOULD produce a Congress to end the war. Some would say that, well, only 1/3 of the Senate was up for re-election in 2006, so that body was hard to change. But we have had non-transparent vote counting run by Bushite corporations in many states since 2002! But for the wholly non-transparent voting system (Diebold touchscreens with no paper trail) in Georgia, Max Cleland would be in the Senate - as would others who ran in '02 and '04. The Senate would be significantly different, if non-transparent vote counting had been stopped. And MORE antiwar Democrats, and fewer "Blue Dogs," would have won primaries in 2006, had there been transparent vote counting.
And all the Democratic leaders had to do was SAY SOMETHING - because "TRADE SECRET" vote counting by Bushite corporations is so obviously, blatantly, unfair and wrong.
Two other points, on the Democrats and electronic voting: 1) What is a political leader's first interest and responsibility? To get elected! So you can't tell me that it was a matter of indifference to them, how the votes are counted. 2) Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia - the three main election theft corporate players - were heavily lobbying Congress, and state legislators and election officials, and you can't tell me that our Congress critters didn't know who these dudes were.
One of them, Diebold, had a CEO who was a BUSH/CHENEY CAMPAIGN CHAIR, and major fundraiser (Wally O'Dell, who promised in writing, to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush/Cheney in 2004").
Another, ES&S - a spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture) - had, as its initial funder and major investor, far rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon foundation, which touts the death penalty for homosexuals (among other things).
And Sequoia hired Republican and former CA Sec of State Bill Jones, and his chief aide Alfie Charles, right out of their "public service" into selling Sequoia voting machines.
So, if some Democratic office holders and party leaders were stupid about technology - and didn't have any alarm bells going off inside of them about 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY vote 'counting - what excuses their not knowing WHO these election theft corporations are OWNED by and RUN by?
All with very close ties to the Bush regime, the Republican Party, and/or far rightwing causes.
That's the sort of thing that politicians are born knowing. People. Money. Corporate boards. Lobbyists. Power. Issues.
When you examine it this way - as I have done from these and other angles - the horrible conclusion keeps edging at your consciousness that our Democratic Party leadership betrayed us, big time; that they threw the 2004 election; and that they DIDN'T WANT the votes in Congress to change things.
How could the leaders of a major political party be this STUPID?
Someone put LSD in their water coolers, or what?
La-la-la, oh a Bush-Cheney campaign chair will be counting all the votes with secret code...ha-ha-ha, la-la-la...???
Dingbatty? Anthrax spores got into their brains? Ecstasy in their lattes?
Scared of blackmail, and their small planes falling out of the sky, some of them. Go-alongs/get-alongs, who maybe were clueless, or, more likely, just shut their eyes and ears. Dirty connivers like Christopher Dodd, who damned well knew what he was doing - and Terry McAuliffe and others. Bilderberg Group players. And a gaggle of clueless or corrupt election officials all over the country, eager for the HAVA billions, and adoring the secrecy and how they could now exclude the peon voters from any oversight.
Yikes, it's so sickening.
In California, I watched our good Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, go down in flames - literally "swiftboated" out of office on bogus corruption charges - after he had sued Diebold, decertified their touchscreens, and demanded to see their source code, six months before the 2004 election, and you know who did him in? The state Democratic legislative leadership! (--more than likely at the direction of Terry McAuliffe and the DNC/DLC).
'TRADE SECRET' vote counting run by Bushite corporations creates a perfect loop of fear and corruption. Once these systems are in place, anyone who opposes them can be Diebolded out of office, and, if the need is urgent, "swifted-boated" by the corporate news monopolies or by scared or corrupt party leaders. And once election officials are committed to multi-millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase these crapass election theft machines, then their careers depend on defending them. And once officials get a taste of big money and big power, they don't want to give it up - they want more.
I watched the "Iron Curtain" come down over this subject - the extreme riggability of this voting system, and the evidence of election fraud - just after the 2004 election, nailed in place by our own party leadership, and, frankly, I have never been so shocked and so scared for my country as during that period, seeing our own party acting in concert with the Bush Junta to cover up that fraud.
Since then, I have seen Americans rally, all over the country, to the fight for election transparency, in one jurisdiction after another - sometimes just one person standing up and then inspiring others - with many new groups formed, and with word spreading faster than I ever thought possible, by word of mouth, and by our new "committees of correspondence" - the internet - and finally by videos, books, conferences and experts' reports. It has been very heartening to see this, and participate in it, and I think we will surely win this fight, eventually. And we have learned so much from it. We have learned that WE are the leaders. These clueless, sightless, earless, brainless, or scared, or semi-corrupt, or "mixed motived," or good but SILENT Congress critters (and that's the good Democrats) need US to lead them. And the rest - the bad Democrats and Bushites who comprise 60% to 70% of this Diebold II Congress - need us to throw them out office on the issue of non-transparent, Bushite-controlled vote counting alone, because that WAS the fascist coup. October 2002. Same month as the Iraq War Resolution (and closely related to it).
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