Be afraid (Should Kerry loses, do we need to fear Democrat terrorists?)

spectator.org ^ | 11/2/2004 1:08:09 AM | Shawn Macomber

[crushelits]

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.

[Mr Rogers]

12 gauge, 20 gauge, 7mm Mauser, .45, .357, lots of .22s - let them come.

[NavyCanDo]

It would be the END of the Democratic party.

Some of the Seattle area alternative papers have been encouraging post election violence if Bush wins.

[sodpoodle]

Your observation is correct and points out how our American lefties never take up arms to defeat the enemies of the USA they simply turn on their own citizens.

Why is this? Is it some sort of death wish?

[Gingersnap]

""...are sober and possibly armed."

I think you have that backwards."

Well, the Baptists anyway!

[AZ_Cowboy]

I wouldn't be surprised, truthfully. We have a pattern developing with this kind of crap. When nobody would believe their poppycock about unilateral disarmament regarding nuclear weapons, we had those whacko groups try and "destroy" facilities. When nobody would believe in the eco-nut garbage about the fishing industry, the Greenpeace whackos went around harassing ships, reminiscent of a bad pirate story. When nobody would believe their poppycock about global warming, they formed the ELF and went around burning down people's homes. When everybody rightly told the anti-SUV nuts to shove it, they formed groups to encourage vandalism of the vehicles. We already have that British buffoon praying for assassinations (although I note that even the Brits got hacked off at that). Look at the DU nuts and their rantings. No, given the pattern, I wouldn't be surprised. The only pity is that domestic terrorists can't be handled in the same fashion as foreign ones (unless, of course, they're Christians in rural Texas).

[HenryLeeII]

"Let them riot" 7.62 x 39. You do the math!

Yep. That just means a better popular vote result for our side in '08, and fewer sponges at the public trough! ;>)

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[madvlad]

Well, the feeling it gives you....Its...
Its... indescribable!!! Its like the
smell of napalm in the morning! It smells like
Victory!

MV

[familyop]

...good post. But the title for the column you posted is "Be Afraid."

From what I've seen so far, it appears to be standard procedure around Free Republic to post original titles. If you want to post your own comment with the title, add it in brackets.

[Redcloak]

Actually, I'm more afraid of how many times we'll see this article posted in the next 20 hours.

[cake_crumb]

No. Don't fear them. Fight them.

[crushelits]

OK...

Why cause panic!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

"We must encourage the few remaining respected blue-ribbon truth-tellers in our society to stand up and be counted -- people like Walter Cronkite"...

Would this be the same Walter Cronkite who suggested that Karl Rove masterminded the Bin Laden tape?

[jcb8199]

I don't remember any bourgeois riots, do you?

[Sender]

If there is a CW2 ping list, please add me to it.

[Nathan Zachary]

Let these nuts go out and get arrested. There will be that many less Democrat felons eligible to vote next election. Hopefully, more will be done by then to prevent election fraud as well.

[AZ_Cowboy]

I just realized I didn't answer the question.

I do not fear such people, because I know that the tactics are way in our favor should such a conflict arise. Nobody else should fear them, either. They are doomed to failure sheerly by the numbers. This is before we get down to harder core stuff, like reproduction rates, self-sufficiency, weapons proficiency, energy resources, etc. Oh, I forgot, people in the military like our ideas better by a 4 to one margin.

[snarkpup]

The GOP had their bourgeois riots, ...

I attended two of these in San Francisco. The only "riots" in San Francisco history where the "rioters" cheered the police.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

The real import of OBL's tape is that it is a recruiting tape inviting the hard left in this country to join him in jihad. The demonization of Israel is the most important button he pushed to get them all lathered up. I predict (along with David Horowitz) that the most important development in domestic terrorism in the next few years will be the real and growing alliance between the left and the jihadis.

[Ulysse]

I HOPE THEY(democrats) WILL BE AFRAID