Eve on Election: Women’s Electoral Wisdom
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Posted by Lucinda Marshall November 5th, 2006 |
Late last, week HBO started airing an astounding documentary called “Hacking Democracy” which documents Black Box Voting’s Bev Harris efforts to prove that electronic voting is not only hackable, it has been hacked. As Doris “Granny D” Haddock points out in her commentary about the show,
“What is shown by the film is that, if Diebold designed their ATM machines the way they design their voting machines, none of us would have a dime left in our bank accounts. Such remarkable facts are usually not the result of incompetence, but of design.”
Perhaps the most jaw-dropping piece of information in this documentary is that John Kerry not only knew that the voting machines could be hacked and votes manipulated before he conceded the election, he knew that in fact it had happened. Yes, that is right, Kerry knew there was evience that the election could have been rigged and he still threw in the towel.
I have always wondered how Kerry suddenly catapulted to the lead spot in that election. It had to have been more than Howard Dean’s scream. Could it have been a very orchestrated effort to make sure that if something went wrong and the Republicans weren’t able to control and win the election as planned that someone who supported the agenda behind the war on terrorism would still be at the helm?
In the run-up to this election, it is important to remember that we have Nancy Pelosi saying that impeachment won’t be on the table if the Dems win control of the House and Howard Dean saying that no, the Democratic Party doesn’t have a plan for bringing the troops home or ending the Iraq conflict anytime soon. It has taken six long years for the consciousness of the American public to reach critical mass in understanding that something is seriously wrong with this presidency. But what we are still refusing to see is that the Democratic Party is not a true alternative. No matter what happens on Wednesday morning, we are still going to be sitting in a deep smelly pile of brown stuff with no real plan to clean up the mess.
Another woman who has worked tirelessly to expose the hijacking of democracy is Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA). From the beginning she has questioned the official 911 story and worked to document the disenfranchisement of black voters. All of this is documented in American Blackout which you can now view on the web (click the Windows Media link). Because of McKinney’s courageous insistance on telling the truth, she has been the victim of two highly organized campaigns to drive her out of office. You’ll recall earlier this year she was accused of hitting a Capitol Hill police officer who stopped her when she didn’t show him her id. The supposed video evidence of the incident was never released and the charges were dropped, but not before the way over the top news coverage had done its damage. McKinney lost her primary and will not be returning to office in January.
So before you go out and celebrate Tuesday night/sink into the depths of depression depending on how this goes down, sit yourself down and watch these films that document the work of these two courageous women. Until we understand the extent to which our democracy has been stolen, we will not be able to reclaim it.
November 5th, 2006 11:29
The author is exactly right, but I am surprised that she hadn’t figured this out 2 years ago.
Kerry is in Skull and Bones, the secret society that only admits 15 people a year, and has enormous influence. Both Kerry and Bush refused to answer questions about S&B during the 2004 campaign.
Kerry investigated the Iran Contra scandal and the BCCI scandal as Senator, but failed to implicate Bush Sr. whose finger prints were all over both scandals.
To be blunt, Kerry is essentially a Republican mole. How could he believe Bush’s BS about Iraqi WMD, when his own election was stolen!
His latest “bad joke” is about Bush not doing his homework and now the US is stuck in Iraq. But Kerry didn’t do HIS homework.
This person knew the WMD was a fake story, and OIL was the reason for invading Iraq, but Kerry didn’t?
The 2004 election was essentially the political equivalent of a staged World Wrestling Federation match. The rank and file of the Democratic party had strong opposition to the Iraq war, but the Democratic Party leadership, as corrupt as it is, deliberately undermined Dean and Kucinich. Forced the Anybody But Bush fraud and used Kerry. In the face of obvious voter fraud–stories of blocked voting and exit polls clearly showing Kerry as the winner, Kerry not only conceded the election very soon, but actually undermined the Green and Libertarian party effort to challenge the fraud. That shows that Keerry is a Mole for the Imperialist Corporate super rich elite who actually run the country, and elections have little bearing on actual policy.
The result: Citizens DON’T do their homework, and expose these frauds, and our country and the kids do get stuck in Iraq. And that is no joke.
November 5th, 2006 12:10
I have to almost laugh at articles like this - people who still don’t get it: The so-called two party system changes hands each 4-12 years in order to put down likely revolt… NOT because we actually choose our leaders.
The parties are almost the same and the different names are just part of the game to make people think they actually have a choice.
it would be laughable if it weren’t so sad.
November 5th, 2006 14:19
Skull and Bones= Nonsense.
I was a Camp fire girl, but I don’t go start arson.
“kerry failed to implicate Bush Sr. in Iran Contra” Um …Kerry was the only reason they even had hearings. Not one other person was willing to go after them and Kerry fought hard to even have those hearings.
I’ve noticed something about your comment and this article.
They both are full of **** and they both fail to present EVIDENCE.
Just a minor little thing: evidence.
Don’t let it worry you.
November 5th, 2006 16:24
Cynthia McKinney as hero??? The 911 “story”???
Please! Just because the Dems may actually pull off a victory on Tuesday, doesn’t mean they must now become the party to vilify. Unless, of course, you’re determined to always be on the outside railing against anyone in power. The paranoia and facile recriminations don’t really work for me.
And I’m w/Stormy Weather; where’s the evidence?
November 5th, 2006 17:11
Don’t listen to the trolls, Lucinda. I think your piece is well done and I too was very affected by “Hacking Democracy.” Everyone should watch and decide for themselves.
November 5th, 2006 18:10
Ms. Marhall,
The information about Kerry is the same as it was for Gore in 2000 - they were both more worried about being “viable” for the next presidential cycle than about protecting our right to expect a free and fair election.
If you saw F911, you saw the scene where members of the Congrssional Black Caucus rose and begged, with tears in their eyes, for one lousy Senator to sign their letter of objection to the 2000 elections. Al Gore was president of the Senate, and thanks to Barbara Boxer’s conscience finally getting the best of her, we know that Gore forbid any Senator to sign the objection. Remember he was being called a whiner and sore loser, as was Kerry.
They both left the people swinging in the wind, and they can both rot in hell before I vote for them again.
November 5th, 2006 22:24
Lucinda,
You’re right on target.
When we start connecting the dots we see that we have been royally duped into believing that we truly are free and that this is a functioning democracy.
Read “The New Pearl Harbor” by David Ray Griffin and “Fooled Again” by Mark Crispin Miller to see what the neocons have really been up to.
It’s time to wake up and take back America.
November 5th, 2006 22:57
John Kerry’s momentum in the 2004 Democratic Primary shifted as a result of well-timed electronic voting machine manipulation in the state of New Hampshire. Look at the data, all the e-voting precincts went Kerry. Dean took the traditional ballot precints. Dean’s candidacy was simultaneously attacked by the media within 5 days of Dean uttering the death knell of his campaign… that he would break up the media monopolies. Suddenly “the Dean Scream” was newsworthy and Kerry’s e-vote “benefit” tipped the balance of public opinion back to the Establishment’s ordained Democrat. The fact that he is Skull and Bones only proves that he is an Establishment insider. It’s no wonder he had no will to investigate the voting irregularities in Arizona, Ohio, Florida…
Wake up people. Kerry is a total weasel. Possibly even a “false opposition” candidate.
November 5th, 2006 23:17
Saying that Kerry fought to have hearings on Iran Contra and to head them does not negate the theory that he protected Bush. If he wanted to protect fellow bones member Bush, there would be no better position from which to do it. The hearings were demanded because of the extent of the abuses, not because Kerry was the sole person in the U.S. who wanted to have hearings.
November 5th, 2006 23:18
Skerry had one job to do in ‘04 and he did it beautifully - he had to concede early in order to contain the riots that just might have ensued if he fought it out and had given voice to all the anger about the previously stolen ‘00 “selection.” He had to keep it calm and quiet - he had to convince us it was time, once again, to “move on.”
Skull and Bones ain’t no Campfire Girls - do your research and engage your brain before your mouth fires off. Read Anthony Sutton and you will know that these “brothers” who roll around in the same coffin are “blood” - Skerry had duhduh’s back all along.
November 6th, 2006 04:15
Dear Stormy weather
Writing a post response is not a great place to do
a book length study of Kerry’s problems and probable collusion with Bush.
As far as evidence goes, the fact that WMD were debunked as an issue by the IAEA, Scott Ritter and many others like Glen Rangwalla, a British professor who pointed out that the WMD evidence that Powell used at the UN was over ten years old and came from a plagiarized paper by one of his students. Your incuriosity and unwillingness to do research is a serious problem for most Amnericans.
So do some web searches, OK?
As for Skull and Bones, I will spoon feed you here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW9RtfIiMog
This report quotes a key researcher on camera, saying that this highly secretive society was delighted to have two of its members run against each other. The video clip shows Kerry and Bush both refusingot discuss it.
Wasn’t transparency something important in a Democracy?
Here is an excerpt from researcher Mike Ruppert regarding Kerry’s role in preventing IranContra from causing the full extent of corruption to become visible to the people, which would result in a collapse of the two party political system.
“I have a long history with Kerry. Back in 1986, 1987, and 1988, I was in contact with his office and his chief of staff Jonathan Winer on a number of occasions about CIA drug trafficking. They eagerly asked for any material I could send them and gave me a direct line. It was one of my most bitter lessons about how hot issues are controlled. Kerry, in charge of the potentially explosive Iran-Contra drug hearings succeeded in producing a 1,200-page record that was a treasure trove of information for researchers, but absolutely useless in unraveling a corruption that controls the US government to this day. What lies buried in those pages was enough to have turned the American political system inside out. In the end, its greatest usefulness was as a benchmark against which to compare the CIA’s investigation of itself after the 1996 Dark Alliance stories and hard revelations of CIA connections to cocaine smuggling that Kerry knew all about anyway. Those of us close to the issue took the lemons Kerry had left us and made lemonade, as we forced the CIA Inspector General to reconcile his 1998 report with what we already knew was in Kerry’s.
And still - as intended - nothing changed. John Kerry had successfully contained what was, up to that time, the biggest scandal in American history.
In conclusion, both Kerry and Bush supported war against a country that posed no threat to the US, and both bought into fraudulent evidence of WMD. That implicates both and makes them both war criminals in fostering aggressive
war.
As for Kerry’s collusion in throwing the election, read this well sourced article.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110804_stolen_election.shtml
OK, Stormy weather, I have done a lot of the work you should do, now go to it.
My thanks to other posters who have shown their
own efforts to understand Kerry.
Thanks
November 6th, 2006 15:22
I was also surprised when Kerry conceded without a fight. Before I even watched the HBO Documentary I decided I would never vote for Kerry again. He betrayed the people and lied to us. He did not wait for every vote to be counted but the information presented yesterday just made me stammer. What??? I wonder why?
It didn’t seem right when it happened and now this piece of information leaves even more of a question mark.
December 30th, 2006 22:47
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