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Open Letter to Congress: History Will Judge You on Jan 6

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 1 January 2005
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Elections-Elected USA

Honorable Senators and Represenatives of Congress,

History will judge you by your actions, or lack of action on January 6th, 2005...

On that fateful day, I and millions of other patriotic Americans urge you to stand up and do the right thing.

Stand up for Democracy for all parties and for all voters, each of us citizens of this great country. It is our Constitutional Right to Vote, and to have our vote count. And it became your sworn duty to uphold and insure that right, when you took your oath of office:

(espace) - "I, [name], do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

You know as well as I do that there were numerous and unprecedented voting irregularities on November 2, and since then during the recounts. (If you didn’t know, visit http://miamedia.com/votergate/ to read what the media is saying and the research has unearthed.)

Millions of tax-paying, loyal, voting Americans are counting on you to do the right thing, and thoroughly investigate the Nov 2 vote, so we will have in our voting system, and our elected officials. And I do mean you.

We call on you and beseech you to do your sworn duty to the American People:

– Ferret out every voting irregularity, failure, mistake, inconsistency that made the Nov 2 election the most notorious one in recent history.

– Find and prosecute any illegal acts, no matter where that may lead.

– If you are not certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that the official vote tallies for President and for others on November 2 were accurate, then you must challenge the Electoral Tally on January 6, 2005 and call for a full investigation.

– Then, work to fix the problems in our election system that led to the Nov 2 voting fiasco.

The famous words that Thomas Paine uttered 200 years ago still ring true:

(espace) - "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right
by which all other rights are protected.
To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery. . ."

Will you kowtow to what expidiency would have you do, or will you prove to yourself, your family, and your grand children that you are a person of backbone and character like Thomas Paine? Will you go down in history as a Statesman who is admired because you did the right thing when your country called on you, when the people who elected you to office depended on you?

Follow your heart and your concience.

Stand up for Democracy on January 6, 2005. Challenge and investigate the Nov 2 vote.

Yours sincerely,
Glenn Sanders
December 31, 2004

The Votergate Resource Center
– http://miamedia.com/votergate/

Link to this page: http://miamedia.com/news/2004-12-31.open.letter.congress.html

Forum posts

  • Great letter and website, thanks. I’m all for exposing the fraud, but what i don’t understand is why a Senator or two standing up will make a difference. If they do object, then the joint session of Congress splits and both the House and Senate debate- for two hours max- nobody gets more than 5 minutes to speak- then they vote. That’s where i get stuck.

    Since both houses are controlled by republicans, then there is no chance they will vote against bush. Let’s face it, integrity is no longer an issue, just blind loyalty- and judging by the congress over the last few years, i do not see them standing up and calling bush on election fraud.

    I guess it will make a difference in exposing just how corrupt our Congress is. Also, if there was election fraud, what sense does it make that representatives voting on this issue were ’elected’ in the same fradulent election?

    • Just where does all this leave us, the average American citizen? The Bush Cartel wages an illegal and immoral war against a sovereign nation under the guise of the "war on terror", continues to sacrifice miltary and civilian lives today for the sake of Iraqi democracy, when American so-called Democracy is swept under the Bush rug. Americans everywhere could learn from the Ukraine example. Ohio tried but we let them down.

  • I have given up on the American media. What about foreign journalists—why are they not publishing and broadcasting information regarding widespread evidence of fraud in the American election?

  • BUKKSHIT !!!

  • If Kerry does not fight for democracy, in spite of all the evidence of voter manipulation, machine tampering, illegal and unethical lock outs, refusals to testify under oath, obvious conflicts of interest, destruction of evidence, and media block-outs, I will NEVER be suckered into supporting him (with donations, by campaigning or with my vote) again. If other Democratic Senators do not stand with him for democracy, I may not ever vote for the party again---they will not deserve to win.

    The Democrats have been soul searching for ’what went wrong’---when the only thing that went wrong is that they wrongly conceded everything without a fight…..without finding out the facts, despite tons of evidence that they ACTUALLY WON the election. Their soul searching should have concentrated on getting to the bottom of any fraud and learning the truth. Rather than contemplating a platform that moves closer to the right, the DNC should have shown people they stand STRONGLY for doing what is right, honest, just and fair (as opposed to the Repugs who ran the election with lies about Kerry and blatant conflicts of interests all over the place).

    The Democrats have been so easily intimidated by the Karl Rove manipulators, who accuse questioners of Bush’s win of being “poor sports” or "whiners". The DNC seems totally scared of these cheap propaganda bullies and what they might say…..they would rather tiptoe around the Republicans and try not to get them angry, rather than demonstrate that Democrats are strong and noble advocates/protectors of American Democracy striving to maintain a government ‘for the People and by the People’.

    If Democratic Senators do not come forward on Jan 6th, it will be shameful and may haunt the party for decades.

    To quote Winston Churchill:
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

    “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

    “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

  • If a Senator refuses to stand up for free elections, I will no longer vote Democratic.