> The Silence of the Scams: Psychological Resistance to Facing Election Fraud
17 April 2005, 04:03
Great article. Many of us have known from day one that the election was stolen. The fact that two Republican brothers owned 80% of the voting machines with secret source software, easily hacked, was in itself a crime. Many of us have yelled, protested, written letters, called our representatives in Congress, donated money to the lawyers investigating the Ohio fraud, and more. America is a big place, so even though there were marches on Washington and other cities all over America, there was virtually no news coverage. Granted, there could have been more people involved in the protests, but I still doubt there would have been media coverage since our news has now been compromised by the right wing corporate media. But I believe the most significant obstacle to the silence of the scams was that John Kerry conceded so quickly. If he had had the courage to truly stay in the game, to make sure "all votes were counted, and all the votes would count," then I believe there would have been a proper investigation, even against protests and obstruction by the Bush administration. The tragedy of two stolen presidential elections in a row is that we now have American soldiers dying in a war based on lies; innocent men, women and children dying in a war based on lies; innocent people being tortured to death by our own government; the disrespect of virtually the entire world; a social and economic class war of monumental proportions; a dangerous fundamentalist religious zealotry taking over the government and our lives; and on and on. These are truly dark times in America.
Great article. Many of us have known from day one that the election was stolen. The fact that two Republican brothers owned 80% of the voting machines with secret source software, easily hacked, was in itself a crime. Many of us have yelled, protested, written letters, called our representatives in Congress, donated money to the lawyers investigating the Ohio fraud, and more. America is a big place, so even though there were marches on Washington and other cities all over America, there was virtually no news coverage. Granted, there could have been more people involved in the protests, but I still doubt there would have been media coverage since our news has now been compromised by the right wing corporate media. But I believe the most significant obstacle to the silence of the scams was that John Kerry conceded so quickly. If he had had the courage to truly stay in the game, to make sure "all votes were counted, and all the votes would count," then I believe there would have been a proper investigation, even against protests and obstruction by the Bush administration. The tragedy of two stolen presidential elections in a row is that we now have American soldiers dying in a war based on lies; innocent men, women and children dying in a war based on lies; innocent people being tortured to death by our own government; the disrespect of virtually the entire world; a social and economic class war of monumental proportions; a dangerous fundamentalist religious zealotry taking over the government and our lives; and on and on. These are truly dark times in America.