Republicans don't trust people

September 20, 2003

By Rob McNelis

For a while now, we've all come to know that on a whole, that
Republicans simply don't trust people.

The right wing nuts that control the country today, instead prefer to
trust the police and big business to do what is right.

Conservatives traditionally love to have limited freedoms, and more
control over people's lives than liberals would ever allow.

Yet, in the last couple of years, a pattern has definitely emerged.

The conservative Republicans trust so little in people, that they no
longer approve of democracy!

This seems to be in their interest since they haven't won a national
election since 1988, but demonstrates that the real unpatriotic and
un-American political party is definitely the RNC.

The first instance of Republicans trying to show their dismay at
democracy, came with the impeachment of President Clinton.

They investigated him for years, and spent millions of dollars, and
only found a blue dress for all their efforts.

Why did they go to these lengths?

They did because they could not accept that they lost the election of
1992, and wanted to over-turn it.

Next came the Election of 2000, and the obvious Florida debacle.

The Republicans here argued that it wouldn't be fair for the election
officials to count all the ballots.

They actually got the Supreme Court to rule to that effect, thereby
stopping the very nature of democracy just so that they could annoit
their new President.

It was more important to win, than to follow traditional principles
for these people.

Next came the re-districting scheme of Tom Delay for Texas.

In this case, Republicans are behaving like little children,
unsatisfied with the laws...they decide to re-write the laws to
benefit them.

The 2000 Census creates a need to re-draw Congressional lines, and
this is a well established process that has run quite smoothly for our
country over the last 200 years or so.

The lines were re-drawn in 2001 to reflect changes in the population,
and both sides had their chances to make arguments for or against the
new districts.

This draft was then approved by a court, yet now Republicans feel that
it isn't fair to them.

They want to "fix" the plan to help them elect more Republicans to
Congress.

Such blatant gerrymandering shows that they have no respect for the
process nor the voters that they are trying to play god over.

Now comes the California recall effort.

Here, the conservatives are using a law meant only to remove a
criminal or completely inept official from office in order to overturn
an election.

Governor Gray Davis, while not the most popular elected official in
California, has done nothing wrong.

He inherited a lousy economy, and the problems of energy deregulation
given to him by his predecessor Pete Wilson.

Davis had just been re-elected in 2002, and the conservatives wasted
little time in trying to recall him.

They decided not to give him a chance, but simply to try to buy enough
signatures so they could give the people of California the crazy
circus that is the California Recall.

This costly affair does little to help the economy in California, but
goes a long way to show that Republicans truly hate democracy.

Several states with Republican legislatures have quietly announced
that they won't hold primaries this year in their states.

Instead, the delegates are to be chosen by party leaders.

Now the official reasoning behind this is that it will save these
states much needed money, but the real reason is to subvert democracy.

Primaries tend to attract attention, and motivate party members.

With no serious Republican Primary expected in 2004, a primary would
mainly only help the democrats fire up their base.

So, they (conservatives) have deemed it unnecessary for their
constituents to have a voice in their party's nominee.

How democratic of them!

Lastly, at the local levels all across the country.

Republicans tend to be the first to advocate the use of user fees.

That is, some public services they decide they no longer want to
subsidize.

Therefore, they attach a user fee to it.

Thereby, people of the community pay each time they use that service
or facility.

This on the surface seems to make sense, but actually it does not.

It is an exclusive device, meant to keep the poor and minorities down
where the conservatives believe that they belong.

Take after school sports, which typically is a first to incur a user
fee.

Wouldn't it make sense that the poor inner-city children have a
greater need to be in an after school program than rich suburban kids?

By keeping these children busy, you keep them away from crime, drugs,
and gangs.

However the right wing loons don't think that way.

Wake up people, beat the Republicans while you can.

Sooner or later, they might just really win...and you won't have a say
about it.


From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

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To reinforce this piece I offer the following:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm

07/03: Bigger Than Watergate! - How To Rig An Election In The United
States

"The motivation of the Republican Party in general and the current
administration in particular to gain ever greater amounts of power -
by whatever means possible,,,Republican connected control over the
major election systems companies in the United States has been
thoroughly researched. Bob Urosevich, CEO of Diebold Election Systems
is also the founder of ES&S, a competing voting machine company.
Together these two companies are responsible for tallying around 80%
of votes cast in the United States..."

Peter G. Neumann, an expert in computer security at SRI International,
said the Diebold code was "just the tip of the iceberg" of problems
with electronic voting systems.

"This is an iceberg that needs to be hacked at a good bit," Mr.
Neumann said, "so this is a step forward."


Harry