Posted on 11/01/2004 9:59:30 PM PST by GeronL
Unfortunately, it appears that when Elizabeth Edwards speaks some people actually listen. This sad fact might be innocuous enough if the aspiring Second Lady were trading parenting or dieting tips. But instead semi-reformed former Deaniacs and Kucinich Kids seem to have latched onto Edwards' recent promise to a worried supporter that post-election riots will not wrack the nation -- so long as the Kerry-Edwards ticket walks away with it.
The suggestion, of course, is that there indeed will be riots if John F. Kerry's boyhood dreams of ascending to his rightful position as ruler of the universe are squashed by the result of today's voting. It is just such a scenario for which a group called No Stolen Elections is currently preparing. The newly-minted organization has already gotten more than 17,000 of the young and restless to sign the following pledge:
I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000 and I am willing to take action in 2004 if the election is stolen again. I support efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to and on Election Day, November 2nd. If that right is systematically violated, I pledge to join nationwide protests starting on November 3rd, either in my community, in the states where the fraud occurred or in Washington DC.
Among the better known John Hancocks adorning this pledge are those of Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff, NAACP chairman Julian Bond, Daniel Ellsberg, Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, and Barbara Ehrenreich, fresh from a stint as a New York Times substitute columnist. Oh, and clearly we wouldn't want to forget Adrienne Maree Brown, the dignified leader of the League of Pissed Off Voters.
So what exactly are these folks planning to make sure that "an unelected President does not enter the White House, like last time"? Well, the group has first of all established a "Fair Elections Advisory Council" of "international elections experts" to make a call on Election Day as to whether the vote was "stolen" again or not. If it has been -- and, let's face it, what are the chances any "international elections experts" are going to certify a Bush victory as just? -- No Stolen Elections will call its "Urgent Response Network" into action, "to converge in the states where the most serious fraud occurred, as well as in Washington DC." And the group is promising to make Florida circa 2000 look like a picnic.
"One thing that was missing from our side, but not from the conservative side, in 2000 was street heat," Steve Cobble writes on the group's website. "The GOP had their bourgeois riots, and their crowds were consistently bigger and more vocal, which helped frame in the media's mind the sense that their side had been wronged because Bush had won but Gore would not give up…We encourage people to work for regime change at home all day on November 2nd, election day, and then prepare to return to the streets on November 3rd (and perhaps beyond), at predetermined, symbolic, convenient locally-chosen sites."
All right, let's say what needs to be said: How bad can today's America really be if lazy lefty agitators can "work for regime change at home"? That's a pretty sweet gig compared to the depravities visited upon real activists with actual spines in countries such as Cuba -- a country, it is worth noting, the American hard-left continues to romanticize. Beyond that bit of absurdity, however, note that if Kerry wins the group has no interest in "counting every vote." Instead they suggest gathering instead to "celebrate Bush's involuntary retirement while also setting out a strong statement on the war in Iraq." Clearly, it is not the number of votes that concerns No Stolen Election, but the outcome. Are they interested in voter fraud if it results in a Kerry victory? Nope. These defenders of democracy will be too busy partying in the streets to riot over that.
In fact, No Stolen Elections' biggest fear seems to be that the saner elements in the Democratic Party will accept defeat. Cobble criticizes Gore for holding back activists in 2000, noting, "This was a mistake, and we don't believe the African American community or the unions will be willing to follow the campaign's lead again." Instead, Cobble said the activists will be in charge of these recounts.
"We must prod the Democratic Party to stand up this time, not just watch events occur in silence, as was largely the case in 2000," he writes. "We must encourage the few remaining respected blue-ribbon truth-tellers in our society to stand up and be counted -- people like Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Oprah Winfrey."
Oh, great. The inmates really are running the Democratic asylum this year, and they want to crown Jimmy Carter and Oprah Winfrey emperor and empress of U.S. elections. If we allow them to run the country, it won't be good for anyone. Before it's over George W. Bush could be in Siberian exile, while the much-despised Ralph Nader is forced to drive laps in a Ford Pinto while jeering activists hurl obscenities and tomatoes at him.
Brace yourself America. The aftermath of this election could be much worse than a floor covered in formerly hanging chads.
Somebody better get ready to sound assembly.
Maybe the idea should be floated on an open letter to the President thread. What think? Time's short.
I'd love to have an excuse to pound the S*%T outa some leftist, commie, hippie slime!! My frustrations with this scum has been building and needs an outlet! YES, BRING IT!!
I think that some of these names and descriptions are funny. Just read them.
Fred Azcarate - Jobs with Justice
Medea Benjamin - CodePink
Adrienne Maree Brown - League of Pissed Off Voters
Andrea Buffa - Global Exchange
David Cobb - Green Presidential Nominee
Theresa El-Amin - Southern Anti-Racism Network
Kathay Feng - Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Lisa Fithian - Root Activist Network of Trainers
Arun Gandhi - M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Ed Garvey - Fighting Bob Fest
Jody Grage Haug - Green Peace Action (GPAX)
Michael Moore - Author
Maya O'Connor - Labor Greens Network
Rebecca Rotzler - Alder, New Paltz
John Sellers - Ruckus Society
Charles Shaw - Newtopia Magazine
Jane Slaughter - Labor Notes
Eleanor Smeal - Feminist Majority
Starhawk - activist and writer
Gloria Steinem - author and feminist activist
Chris Vaeth - This Time We're Watching
Bob Wing - War Times
They speak for themselves. Get a Life.
My feeling is that Al Gore and John Kerry want to accomplish this rebellion as much as they want the Presidency. For them, losing the Presidential election is the spark they need for setting off the rebellion, because they can scream "vote fraud" and "Republican conspiracy" to rile the natives into a fever pitch.
With the possible exception of the pre-Civil War period, I've never, ever heard or read of such divisive rhetoric and hatred being spewed by leaders of a political party. The dirty tricks like broadcasting fraudulent documents, the incessant lies, the blatant media bias, the violence at Republican voter headquarters, the stealing of Republican signs from lawns, the outrageous accusations of how Bush's 'lied' to get us to invade Iraq, these are all signs of a Democrat leadership willing to divide and weaken our nation for thier personal political gain.
I know a feller that has a little .22LR Gatling Gun.It might be fun to use in the right place. :o)
Amen.
They better be afraid.
Lots of us have had enough.
While I firmly believe that the Bush voters are much better armed than the Dem's, I don't think we need to cycle our actions with a fresh one.
I strongly believe that Bush will win and that it may take a week or so for some of the Dem's to accept the inevitable.
I do hope that it is a landslide and the the "r's" pick up a lot of Senate and House seats.
Germany. Weimar Republic. They called it FASCIST... and then the left brought Hitler to power and found out what it really meant
Thanks.
Correct, but they may beat you over the head with their lawyers.
It is really heartbreaking. Moreso, because I believe they don't want to divide it, they want to bring it down completely. Just like bin Laden.
Sent to them, as well as DOJ Criminal Division.
Any other suggestions? :-)
Loot and burn their own neighborhoods, Now their Mothers, and Grandparents have to take a bus to another part of the city to buy groceries. Brilliant!
Sure thing. That's the last thing we need. Sounds like Charlie Brooker of the Guardian in disguise.
Thanks!
'rush@eibnet.com'
'oreilly@foxnews.com'
'hannity@foxnews.com'
'suggestions@lauraingraham.com'
'drudge@drudgereport.com'
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