Politics > Politics-USA > Rightwingers gettin' ready to, once again, steal the pants off American public.
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"Harry Hope" |
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03 Sep 2004 12:51:25 PM |
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Rightwingers gettin' ready to, once again, steal the pants off American public. |
There are only two questions still up in the air concerning the
election.
First, will this unprecedented corruption of America's already
notoriously corrupt electoral process be enough to counter the
public's growing revulsion at the little pretzel-gagging tyrant
perched so precariously on his appointed throne?
And second, will the Bushists ultimately resort to open violence to
maintain their lock on power -- and their immunity from prosecution
for an ungodly number of war crimes and other assorted felonies?
The first question, of course, is largely academic until the ballots
are actually counted.
Then we'll know if L'il Pretzel has sufficiently gamed the system to
overcome what will almost certainly be the Bush Dynasty's third
straight repudiation by the American people in the popular vote.
Naturally, your hard-core dynast is unconcerned with such trivia as
"the consent of the governed" and other pinko impediments to
hereditary rule by the highborn.
Thus more than 45 million voters will be casting their ballots into a
digital void, Salon.com reports.
And except in Nevada (one-half of one percent of the total), none of
these virtual votes will be accompanied by paper printouts verifying
the citizen's choice.
That means no more of those silly-billy recounts that almost kept
Pretzie out of the Oval Office sandbox until Daddy's fixers stepped
in.
As noted here last year, the computer vote-count is controlled by a
handful of corporate players hardwired into the Bush power nexus, most
prominently Diebold and ES&S.
Diebold's corporate chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has
publicly committed himself to "delivering" his home state of Ohio to
Bush.
The company's election division is run by Bob Urosevich, whose
brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ES&S.
Their handiwork is now being "certified" by "independent private
contractors" such as CIBER and Wylie Laboratories -- campaign cash
cows for the Bushist Party, Corrente.com reports.
And both machine-makers and machine-testers have refused to allow
public scrutiny of their procedures, AP reports.
As every dynast knows, "commercial secrets" are far more important
than credible elections.
The brothers Urosevich were originally staked in the vote-count
business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National
Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked with Bushist faithful.
Ahmanson was also a major funder of the "Christian Reconstruction"
movement, which openly advocates a theocratic takeover of American
democracy, placing "the state, the school, the arts and sciences, law,
economics, and every other sphere under Christ the King."
This "dominion" includes the death penalty for homosexuals, stoning of
sinners, and slavery for debtors.
As the movement's leader, the late R.J. Rushdoony -- Ahmanson's mentor
and former fellow CNP member -- put it:
"The Christian should therefore not fear laws in support of Christian
social goals just because they interfere with personal freedom."
Indeed.
Why, the "most destructive" words in American public life today are
"separation of church and state."
So says Mary Kiffmeyer, the ardent Bushist who just happens to be the
state official in charge of elections in Minnesota, as In These Times
reports.
Kiffmeyer represents another sharp prong in the Regime's attempt to
fork the vote: partisan supervision of the electoral process.
Faithful Republicans -- sometimes doubling as Bush campaign officials,
in the great tradition of Florida's Katherine Harris, who oversaw,
nay, engineered the debacle there in 2000 -- are now in charge of
certifying elections in such key swing states as Michigan, Ohio,
Colorado and, yes, Jeb Bush's gubernatorial satrapy in Florida.
Although Harris' lacquered visage now adorns the halls of Congress,
Governor Jeb has installed an equally ruthless operator, Glenda Hood,
in her place.
Hood and Jeb were recently caught trying to kick 47,000 voters, mostly
African-American and Democratic, off the rolls: an attempted repeat of
the Jeb-Kath "felon purge" scam that blocked thousands of legitimately
registered voters -- again, largely African-American -- from casting
ballots in 2000.
Jeb is also stalling on a further 43,000 people -- again, mostly black
and/or poor -- waiting to have their voting rights restored under
Florida's uniquely draconian eligibility strictures, The Tampa Tribune
reports.
Jeb's urge to purge may have been thwarted this time around, but the
dynasts are now calling on yet another effective vote-suppressing
weapon: weapons.
Last month, Jeb sent heat-packing state troopers into the homes of
elderly black voters in Orlando (whose former mayor was a certain
Glenda Hood), The New York Times reports.
The armed troopers were ostensibly carrying out an investigation into
alleged Democratic voter fraud, even though Jeb's own top cops had
already determined -- last May -- that the charges were baseless.
Curiously enough, the main target of these brazen intimidations were
members of an African-American voter mobilization group.
So the guns are out and on the streets.
With Bush's approval numbers plummeting, how long before the private
goon squads -- like the Bush-paid mob that shut down the Miami recount
in 2000 -- are unleashed?
Desperate dynasts call for desperate measures -- and those whose
politics encompass aggressive war and mass slaughter will hardly
blanche at a little rough stuff with uppity riffraff who vote the
wrong way.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/09/03/120.html
Friday, September 3, 2004. Page 112.
Global Eye
By Chris Floyd
There is no longer any question that the Bush Regime is going to cheat
the living daylights out of the presidential election this November.
Their vast armada of swift boats for cooked votes is moving on a
number of fronts, including minority disenfranchisement, armed
intimidation and their electronic ace in the hole: paperless,
unrecountable computer voting machines that have been designed, tested
and "officially certified" in secret by private firms controlled by
fierce Bush partisans.
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And we're all gonna sit around and let it happen like good li'l sheep.
It's Karl Rove's American way, right?
Harry
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