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The ReTHUGlicans' "72-Hour Task Force" Strategy. Defenders of Liberty Must EMULATE It !! |
On Feb. 21, 1840, Abraham Lincoln gave some wonderful advice
for winning elections, and 2 decdes later, he was President. He said
this:
"Keep a constant watch on the doubtful voters and ...
have them talked to by those in whom they have the
most confidence ... And on election day, see that every
voter is brought to the polls."
The Republicans are taking that very seriously, and have a
72-hour plan to win the election in the 11th hour. Even a broken
clock is right twice a day, and they are absolutely on target with
THIS plan. Democrats can afford to do no less!
The Republicans right now (and have been lining this up for
months, already) are waging a campaign among its adherents to
wage an all-out seige during the last 3 days. THIS is their plan.
To get Republicans to sign up to acomplish the following tasks:
Walkers --
10/30/04 __ Shift 1 (9 am-1 pm) __ Shift 2 (1-8 pm)
10/31/04 __ Shift 1 (1 pm-8 pm)
11/1/04 __ Shift 1 (9 am-1 pm) __ Shift 2 (1-8 pm)
Phoners --
10/30/04 __ Shift 1 (9 am-1 pm) __ Shift 2 (1-6 pm)
10/31/04 __ Shift 1 (1 pm-5 pm)
11/1/04 __ Shift 1 (10 am-2 pm) __ Shift 2 (4:30-8:30 pm)
Poll Checkers --
11/2/04 __ Shift 1 (7 am-2 pm) __ Shift 2 (2-9 pm)
Phoners --
11/2/04 __ Shift 1 (9 am-1 pm) __ Shift 2 (3:30-8:30 pm)
Door 2 Door --
11/2/04 __ Shift 1 (10 am-2 pm) __ Shift 2 (4:30-8:30 pm)
Runners --
11/2/04 __ 1 Shift (All Day)
Local organizers then contact those who volunteer, to go over
the details.
(Please note that the times, above, are keyed to the hours that
the polls are open in the State of Iowa. Those times will vary
somewhat from state to state.)
More details pertaining to thus last-ditch crusade as it's being
planned in this battleground state can be found HERE:
http://www.IowaGOP.org
If Bush wins this election, American society could devolve into
Orwell's worst nightmare. That is NOT an overstatement. Our per-
sonal liberties and rights have been defended for all of our lives by
a Supreme Court having an egalitarian majority. And that's hanging
by a very fragile thread right now, since many of its decisions have
supported liberty by only a 5-4 majority. It is almost CERTAIN that
at least one, and possibly as many as three, of the Court's Justices
will not be able to hang on for another 4 years if Bush is elected.
Suppose that the majority had voted the OTHER way, just in
THESE decisions, over the last 50 years:
1954 -- The beginning of the end of segregation would
NOT have been initiated.
1967 -- Many states' bans on interracial marriage would
have suvrived, and might still be on the books today.
1973 -- Tens of millions of women who were enabled by a
benificent Supreme Court to put their lives back on
track by having access to safe and legal abortion
would INSTEAD have been **forced** to gestate
unwanted reproductive-process entities to term
against their will, or seek dangerous or exorbitant
illegal abortions, or go to a FREE state for one.
The latter would exclude millions of lower-economic
level women, and it would impose hardship upon
ALL women. We know that even today, 31 years
later, that many states would choose to repress or
prohibit this vital human right, IF they could.
~1998 -- (I'm unsure of the year) -- Legislation passed by
Congress that would have imposed censorship
upon the Internet would have *survived.*
2003 -- The government would NOT have very sensibly
been kicked OUT of the bedrooms of American
citizens.
And those are just some of the KEY cases. A repressive court
obviously would have disregarded our rights just as consistently in
many lesser cases, as well.
If that weren't bad enough, consider this: The liberty-defending
courts (U.S. Supreme Court included, but don't forget such ones
on the state level as Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court, which
sensibly recognized that there is NO valid or Constitutional reason
to deny marriage to same-sex couples) can DIRECTLY stand up
for our rights and nullify attempts to repress them. BUT -- there's
far more to this than that. There's the **psychological** impact
upon legislators as they write their proposed laws with a gimlet
eye on the courts that could (and usually still WOULD) strike
them down in a heartbeat if they didn't work hard to **ensure**
that their legislation doesn't trample on any of our liberties.
The passage of the ban on the SECOND-trimester ID&E abortion
procedure (lyingly called "partial-birth" by is dishonest proponents)
was an exception to that. The Republican majority in both houses of
Congress were under intense pressure by the neocon constituents
that they perceive as being their base, to pass the measure -- again
WITHOUT the exception for the health of the woman that WOULD
have made the act viable. So it's already been invalidated by three
judges, and when it gets to the Supreme Court, it almost surely will
be struck down just as Nebraska's similar law was -- for the SAME
reason,
But MOST of the time, state legislatures and Congress *don't*
swim so obviously against the current -- because thay already know
ahead of time that an egalitarian court stands in the wings ready and
able to scour the Constitution with a fine-tooth comb with the clear
intention of DEFENDING our liberties whenever possible.
WHAT IF -- the Supreme Court no longer were of that mind?
THEN what would the state legislatures and Congress -- so
many of which now are controlled by neocon Republicans who
harbor open and blatant disdain for so many of our rights -- DO?
THINK about that!
And then -- PLEASE vote for Kerry (and please NOT for Nader,
which would be the equivalent of handing your vote to Bush) -- and
help save America from such an awful and unthinkable debacle.
Remember --- Supreme Court appointments are for life! And if that
court becomes repressive, very few (if any) Americans alive today will
ever again know a Supreme Court that consistently DEFENDS their
liberties. If there EVER were a time **not** to take freedom for
granted, THIS is that time. More so by far than at any other time in
any o our lifetimes. *Exponentially* more so.
Kerry has promised to appoint egalitarians to the Supreme Court.
And Bush has promised NOT to, almost in as many words.
If we want to REMAIN a free country -- it's up to US. Just a few
days from now!
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Are you a political "blogger?" Please feel free to use this.
You have my complete permission to disseminate the above essay
in its complete and unaltered form, as widely as you wish. On blogs
or anywhere else.
-- Craig Chilton, Director
APIFAR (Association for the Preservaton of
Individual Freedoms and Rights)
P.O. Box 3007
Waterloo, Iowa 50707-0007
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