Posted on 04/16/2005 11:59:04 AM PDT by grape seed
By late summer, 2006, the United States is in a desperate condition. Following the collapse of the dollar in international currency markets, there has been a cascade of business failures and mortgage foreclosures, and a precipitous rise in unemployment, as the US economy slides inexorably into a depression. Meanwhile, the June 2005 American attack on Iran and the continuing war in Iraq has made the United States an international pariah state; thus the community of nations shows no inclination whatever to rescue the United States from its economic collapse.
In the run-up to the 2006 election, the mainstream media has once again fallen in line behind the Republicans, blaming the depression on the Clinton Administration, al Qaeda, and/or betrayal by the Old Europe. The crimes and outrages of the Bush/GOP syndicate have been unreported by the media, as Democratic war veterans running for office against GOP draft dodgers have once again been castigated as unpatriotic.
For their part, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the religious right have proclaimed that these economic and diplomatic catastrophes manifest Gods judgment on the American people for their toleration of gays, abortion, the ACLU, the teaching of evolution, and independent judges.
This time, the public is unconvinced by the GOP propaganda, as massive protest demonstrations erupt throughout the country. Finally fed up with the lies and greed of the GOP, and finally aware of just how much their livelihood and their future has been plundered by Bushenomics, more than two-thirds of the voters are about to go to the polls determined to throw out the Republican Congress.
While a few honest polls forecast a landslide victory for the Democrats, most of these polls have not been published.
The Republican-owned and Republican-coded black-box voting machines once again perform as intended, and the Republicans retain control of Congress.
The astonished and disappointed public is once again told to get over it.
Beyond that, my crystal ball becomes cloudy.
The implied question in this scenario is clear: If GOP partisans own the voting machines, count the votes, refuse to allow independent validation of the tallies, and if the Republicans choose to take advantage of this opportunity for fraud, is there any way any way at all that the Democrats could win the 2006 election and regain control of Congress?
If not, then why do the Democrats persist in looking hopefully to 2006 - the next time. After all, 2002 and 2004 were the next time, and there is abundant evidence that in both cases, the peoples will was reversed by the Diebold and ES&S black boxes.
Clearly, the Democratic Party and its allies look forward to victory in 2006 because they are in denial: they simply cannot bring themselves to face the compelling evidence that in the United States today, the electoral process is rigged, thus the will of the people is irrelevant to the governance of the nation, and thus the United States has ceased to be a democracy.
Neither the 2004 Democratic Party candidate, John Kerry, nor the Partys Chairman, Howard Dean, will publicly entertain the very notion that the fix is in. The issue of electoral fraud is simply not on the agenda of the Democratic National Committee. Prominent progressives such as Vermonts Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, Paul Begala, and Arianna Huffington insist that Bush won the election, fair and square, and that the anomalies in Florida and Ohio were not sufficient to have determined the outcome. As for the media, actor and activist Peter Coyote reports that there is a lock-down order throughout the mainstream media that the issue of electoral integrity is simply not to be mentioned. Violation of the order can be a career-ender. And in fact, with the exception of Keith Olberman, one is hard-pressed to identify anyone in the MSM who has mentioned the issue.
And so today, political discourse is captivated by the assumption that in 2004 George Bush won a majority of both the popular and the electoral votes, and thus, unlike 2000, is now the indisputably legitimate President of the United States. In addition, it is assumed without debate that the Republicans have legitimate control of the Congress. The success of the Republicans and the failure of the Democrats is now the frame within which all political discussion resides.
Suppose instead that in 2002 and 2004 every intended vote had been correctly counted, and as a result John Kerry was now the President, and the Democrats controlled the Senate and quite possibly the House as well. The pundits would now be writing about the resurgence of liberalism and the Democratic Party, and, at the same time, speculating as to the causes of the failure of The Right, and the publics rejection of George Bush.
The evidence of massive election fraud in 2004 is compelling, and continues to accumulate, despite the media lock-down. Just last week, a group of university statisticians released a report which calculates at a million to one the probability that the discrepancy between the exit polls (indicating a Kerry victory) and the final results was due to random error. Because I have discussed at length the evidence for fraud in the 2004 election, I will not repeat it here. But for those who wish to have yet another look at the evidence, see The Crisis Papers page, Was Election 2004 a Fraud? Suffice to say that as the evidence accumulates, the media remains mute and the public remains unconcerned.
Clear, contrary evidence that the election returns were accurate and the outcome legitimate is simply non-existent. This is so, because the election procedure was designed not to provide validation. The software source-codes were secret, there was no paper record, and there was no parallel validation procedure for the centralized compilation of voting totals. To the repeated plea for validation, all that the voting-machine technicians could say is trust us us being partisan Republicans who built, coded, and operated the black box voting machines.
Aside from the now-familiar GOP retorts of get over it! and dont be paranoid, the crux of the case of electoral legitimacy is they wouldnt dare rig the election, or alternatively, the Republicans have too much respect for our democracy to do such a thing.
With much less provocation than this, the citizens of Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia demanded, and got, new elections, which reversed the outcomes of the corrupted elections.
As most CSI and Law and Order viewers are well aware, in their search for suspects, detectives look first of all for means, motive and opportunity.
The means for election fraud are so obvious and indisputable that even the Republicans will not dispute them. The means, of course, are the machines and secret software of the Diebold and ES&S corporations that recorded more than 30% of the votes cast, and 80% of the votes centrally compiled, in the 2004 Presidential election.
The lack of an independent paper record or any other mode of verification, the minuscule chance of discovery, and the accommodating silence of the media provides the opportunity.
There remains the question of motive.
Remember, first of all, that 2004 was not an ordinary Presidential re-election contest whereby the incumbent, should he lose, graciously concedes to the winner and then retires to play golf, give speeches at one-hundred grand a pop, or even do sufficient good deeds to eventually win a Nobel Peace Prize.
In this election, the stakes were much higher. The Republicans gathered and invested a half billion dollars in order to win, and they did so for good reason. In Bushs first term, billions of dollars were transferred from the poor, the middle class, the federal treasury, and future generations, to the super-wealthy, with many billions more to come in a second Bush term. Many of Bushs friends and benefactors, possibly including his Vice President, have engaged in massive graft and bribery for example, hundreds of millions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction funds lost by Halliburton, and billions of dollars of California utility bills swindled by Enron. Still more crimes: Condi Rices perjury before the 9/11 commission, the outingof CIA agent Valerie Plame, Tom DeLays attempted bribery of Congressman Nick Smith, and the worst crime of all, the theft of the national elections of 2000, 2002, and now 2004. God only knows what else a Democratic Attorney General and Democratic Congressional investigations might uncover.
The Bush syndicate did not simply wish to stay in office. They had an even greater motive to stay out of the Federal slammer.
So it comes down to this: In the 2004 election, the Bush team and the Republican party had a treasure trove of means and opportunity dropped in their laps. They could, if they chose, key in any election result they wanted; for example, they could swing a Senate race by nine points or a Governors race by fifteen points (as it appears they did in Georgia, 2002). And, if the 2004 early exit polls were in fact accurate, in the Presidential race it now appears that they could drop the Democrats percentage by five points, and boost the Republicans total by the same amount. Thanks to the secret codes and back-door access to the voting machines, and thanks in addition to the cooperation of the corporate media, they could do all this without fear of detection.
Mindful of the record of this Administration during the past four years, the enormous personal and financial consequences, as noted above, of an election defeat, and the likelihood of that defeat as indicated by the polls, can we really expect them to have said, in effect, yes, we could steal this election without consequence, but it wouldnt be right, so we choose to be honest?
If you believe this, then I have a stack of Enron stock that Id like to sell you.
Clearly, the Bush syndicate had abundant means, motive and opportunity to commit a crime against the state, in a word treason, and there is compelling evidence that they have done just that. Neither the enforced silence of the media nor the cowardly inaction of the Democrats mitigate this evidence by one iota.
The over-arching question, then, is when will the public wake up to this silent coup detat?
For the issue before us is no longer the protection of American democracy. Its too late for that. The issue instead is the restoration of American democracy.
And at the moment, that issue is very much in doubt.
I'd agree.
Okay, everybody. I've got my DU Opus all ready, and am just about ready to post. If any of you want to take a chair, my DU screen name is ImpeachTheChimp. Hurry. Right after I post this, I'll post over there.
In 3....2....1....
LOL NICE!!!!
The above website links to this radio page:
The Anti-Rush:
Liberal Talk Radio, Featuring "Air America"
At long last, the progressives are fighting back and challenging the right-wing domination of the airwaves.
http://www.crisispapers.org/features/radio.htm
Haahahaha!
Strike up the banned. After I posted 3-4 replies.:)
They pulled me, but here's what I said...
Okay, so you caught me. Well, actually, you didnt. See, youre all too DUmb to have figured me out. I was right under your noses, but you couldnt catch me because I said all the right things (i.e., Chimp, Shrub, etc.). See, you probably clicked on this thread just because of the title. Oh, some of you may have sensed that my playing devils advocate wasnt on the up and up, but due to my saying all the right things, I fooled most of you.
You see, I hate this website. I hate all that it stands for which, frankly, in the big picture, isnt much (just seeing what juvenile activities you can get away with). You all remind me of what the worst in our society is. Oh, dont think Ill leave you alone. Ill be back, but only to laugh at the complete lunacy that goes on here day after day and expose all of you for the hateful, anti-freedom idiots you are.
Whats that you say? Ive just earned myself a tombstone? You mean one of those little things that say, Here lies a disrupter. He disrupted poorly. Well, if thats the case, how come Ive lasted this long? What more did I have to say to prove I was a LOUSY FREEPER TROLL? Seems to me like Skinner, Elad, and any other mods there are should have one on their profile page that says, Here lies a moderator. He was totally inept at his job. And I see that youve got new moderators. Theyre probably just as dim as the old ones, so I dont really see the point in changing.
Whats my beef with DUh? I dont know. How about the total lack of civility displayed towards anyone who doesnt share your exact same narrow view of the world? Anyone who doesnt agree with you completely must be a Nazi fascist Repug. Never mind that it was people on your side who recently starved a woman to death, because her life was not worth living. Let me tell you something. Ive been around disabled people. Every life is worth living.
Oh, and as for this whining about how Carter wasnt taken as part of the official delegation to the popes funeral and why he wasnt taken ahead of Condi Rice. Condi is the Secretary of State. Like it or not, it is part of her duty to go to the funerals of foreign heads of state, as the pope was. A former president is a private citizen and may be asked to go by the current president to go. Pres. Bush chose not to ask him. And by the way, Ive heard rumors that Carter didnt even want to go. Thats very much like him. Two popes died during his presidency, and he went to the funeral of neither.
Also, Ive seen on here how Carter is a good man, a great humanitarian. I call BS. Carter did terrible harm to our country during his miserably failed presidency. Anything that he does with Habitat for Humanity could never make up for the damage he caused. Luckily, though, the country had enough sense to vote the little peanut guy out in 1980 and replace him with a real humanitarian. As for this business of him being a good Christian, would a good Christian go and certify fraudulent elections of dictators? Wait, Im asking Loon-itarians, atheists, and liberal Christians (what an oxymoron). The correct answer is no.
Now, I can already sense your seething rage. Chimp-ler stole two elections and youre asking about fraudulent elections in some god-forsaken country? How did I know you were going to ask that? Simple. I have in my possession a machine that can sense stupid questions from thousands of miles away. The answer to your question is that Bush didnt steal either election, and that if you had even half the brain power God gave a pissant, that would be incredibly clear to you. Instead, you are lead around by that buck-toothed moron Al Franken, just like you idiots were deceived by Bev Harris. Oh, and did I mention I BELIEVE that you all are a bunch of sore losers?
Finally, Ive noticed that you idiots adore Ron Reagan, because he spews the same garbage you do and couldnt even keep his politics out of his eulogy at his own fathers funeral (Turning funerals into a political circus is kind of a trend with you libs, huh?). Well, my beef with that is that hes a talentless nobody. His name is what got him a job at PMSNBC. And when you morons get tired of the novelty of having Ronald Reagan on your side politically, he will go back to being a nobody, just like when you started going to the Ditzy Twits concerts because of what they said. They lost their core audience and eventually you got tired of their style. Now their concerts are just Wide Open Spaces. So it will be with Ronald Prescott Reagan.
Do I expect you to listen to me? Of course not. Youll blindly follow Pied Piper Pitt and anyone else who spews what you want to hear. Keep on doing it, because I enjoy watching the pointless I believe threads, and even the new salad dressing and pie revolution threads. I also want to add that PJ-Comix sends his best and he feels the same way. Oh and buy his book when it comes out. You will be the stars.
One final beef, though. I know you just love coming over to Free Republic and you are more than welcome to do so. You just might learn something. But, please people. The quality of your trolling is atrocious. I mean, take a look at these links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1385081/posts?page=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384624/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1384505/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383889/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380396/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=zot
All contain logical fallacies. Worse than that, though, is the fact that most come with grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors. You may not understand this, but unlike DU, FR does have standards. Please keep in mind that you should not troll Free Republic if you are drunk, high or incapacitated by any malady (such as liberalism).
In conclusion, I would like to add:
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you.
You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood.
May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you.
You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool.
You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.
You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me.
After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything.
Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
Yes, that is our flame. FReepers wrote it before this pathetic website even came into existence. I say this because some of you even flamed Pres. Bush with it. Well thank you to get some original ideas. Commence the anger. Youre so cute when youre angry.
Wow ~ I don't know where to begin. ;);)
Moon bat? This guy is farther out than Uranus.
or how about the Grapes of Rats
That is a wonderful Opus. I'm proud of you.
Well that's one way with dealing with lefties. I bet it felt great.
And to any DUs who managed to find this post, I just want you guys to know that I used to be a democrat myself. I was even pro-choice in early term, on demand. I was third generation, registered. I feared overpopulation. I feared for the fragile planet. And I wanted the government to tax the rich, the more the better. Yes, I was all those things.
What changed me? Information. Seek the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.
Written by Noam Bates.
or how about the Grapes of Ratshaha! Or BOTH! :)
More like grape dust than grape seed.
heh heh heh
Love the picture.
So that's what happened in the Washington state's governor race, the E St Louis 9 to 1 dimocRat vote majorities etc.? Now I know, /sarcasm off
If there's one thing in life I hate it's coming late to a well-deserved ZOT. And that's what usually happens....(-(
:)
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