Posted on 02/26/2005 1:46:26 PM PST by mattnaugle
The Electric Chair for Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell By Stephen Crockett Feb 26, 2005, 09:01
I think that Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell deserve the death penalty for their actions as state election officials in the 2000 and 2004 elections. Current federal law does not permit the death penalty for their actions and Constitutional restrictions make it impossible to give them the electric chair by changing the law. However, I still believe that their actions in a morally sound legal system would see them on trial for their lives!
Katherine Harris as the Republican Secretary of State in Florida during the 2000 elections seemed to be using her office to promote the election of George W. Bush over the wishes of Florida voters. She was co-chair of the Bush campaign in Florida while serving as the top election official in the state. The conflict of interest was obvious. The potential for abuse was obvious. According to the investigative reporter and author Greg Palast, the actions of Harris and her office denied almost a 100,000 voters their right to vote or their right to have their vote counted. Almost all were Democrats! Details are available in Palast's book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Instead of being prosecuted for denying Florida citizens their vote, Republicans politicians created a safe seat in Congress for Katherine Harris. It looks likely that she will be seeking higher office in Florida. Since many of the voters who were illegally kicked off the voting rolls still have not been returned to active status, Harris has a chance of winning. Winning office by denying voters their voting rights should be a death penalty crime. In my opinion, any government official who uses their power to engage in a massive campaign to deny citizens their voting rights is committing a crime worse than treason in wartime.
Ken Blackwell as Secretary of State in Ohio during the 2004 election seemed to be trying to copy the Katherine Harris model. Voting machines were distributed to make voting difficult for Democrats. Crazy regulations that made registering difficult came out of his office. He played a key role in the Bush campaign while serving as the top election official statewide. An effective statewide hand recount was largely blocked because of Blackwell. Key state records are being denied access to the citizens of Ohio by his actions. Lawyers who challenge the vote recount procedures are being persecuted by the Republican Ohio Attorney General in legal actions on behalf of Blackwell. Many of the Ohio vote problems and Blackwell's role in them are documented at "Stolen Election 2004."
Denying voting rights to American citizens attacks the whole concept of American freedom. It is disgusting and morally repugnant. Something terrible has happened to the mindset of Republican leaders at the very top levels that makes winning power more important than American traditions, American values and American freedom. Our very American Democracy is being threatened.
The average Republican voter is unaware of the abuse. Most Republican voters would not put winning power over American traditions of free and fair elections. Democratic officeholders are in denial as well in many cases. Our election system simply stinks! Anyone who does not understand the weaknesses of our current voting system should read Black Box Voting by Bev Harris.
Only now, almost 5 years after Harris started purging the voting rolls in Florida in a partisan fashion, has the Democratic leadership in the US Senate made voting reform a legislative high priority. The Boxer-Clinton Voting Reform Bill is a great first step requiring a verified voting paper-trail, equal access to voting machines, advance notice of voting roll purges, etc.
However, we need to add stiff criminal penalties for any government official who denies the voting rights of large numbers of citizens. My liberal co-host on Democratic Talk Radio, Al Lawrence and I disagree on the penalty. Al Lawrence believes that they should face life in prison without parole. As the more conservative Democrat on our program, I support the death penalty in these types of cases. We both agree that crimes against American Democracy are the most serious types of crimes in existence next to genocide.
If I had my way, I would see Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell strapped down to electric chairs and lit up like Christmas trees. The better to light the way for American Democracy and American Freedom!
Written by: Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com).
People like this make it understandable why the Stalinist murders (30 million and counting) and other leftest murders happen.
This is what our history looked like.
It's long past time for CWII.
People like this make it understandable why the Stalinist murders (30 million and counting) and other leftest murders happen.
This is what our history looked like.
There are lies, damned lies and demonrat rhetoric.
Of course it is, but the elite are entitled to "hate speech", because, after all, they are genetically superior to everyone else, thus have the right to rule and control the inferiors by whatever means neccessary. It's their evolutionary right.
They are no different from the Nazi's in that respect.
To quote a famous American, bring it on.
I'd guess Mr. Crockett is speaking for grassroots Democrats everywhere. Apparently their message is one of hate.
Visit our Radio Program Archives to listen to some of the militantly Democratic commentary of "Current Affairs: News Talk Program" from our archives. The program is hosted by Stephen Crockett ...
Oh, my bad - Mr. Crockett speaks for militant grassroots Democrats everywhere.
Strange... not one word of the Dems' attempts in 2000 and 2004 to throw-out votes from servicepeople...
I find it interesting that the only person ever brought forward proclaiming he was not allowed to vote was later found to have been in the wrong precinct because he didn't live there and was unfamiliar with the area.
Leftists denied power by the ballot, may soon need to be refused power by the bullet.
Semper Fi
That is the constant lament. If a conservative did this ...
Why not try it and see?
I hereby call for Stephen Crockett to step forward and face the charges of moronic writing before a committee of my choosing, after which he shall be summarily executed by garroting and his body hung in a tree in Maine where the bears may feed on his otherwise useless carcass.
Go to the source and read some of his other columns.
This guy is mentally challenged. But this newspaper evidently prints his column regularly. The editor and publisher must be mentally challenged, too.
As I recall, Millinocket is a run-down industrial town. I should think they had better things to do with their time than to listen some sophomoric Marxist who wants to resurrect Communism from the trashbin of history.
There will be a shooting Civil War with liberals within my lifetime.
So, do you agree with Crockett, that Harris and Blackwell should be executed?
Gee, sounds like he's part of the Taliban.....er...Democrat Party.....calling for death to politicians with whom he disagrees.....my...my...my...I think he's picked the WRONG COUNTRY to LIVE IN!
Maybe he is mourning Hunter S. Thompson...
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