Posted on 10/20/2008 7:05:16 PM PDT by kristinn
If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, D.C., which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed.
A McCain "win" will not be illegitimate because I disagree with his policies, but because he himself has rendered it illegitimate. He and his campaign and allied supporters have sought to illegally remove hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls, fraudulently registered people as Republicans without their knowledge and against their will, obstructed voter registration drives, falsely warned students against voting where they attend school, falsely accused community groups of voter registration fraud, falsely alleged the widespread existence of voter fraud, and encouraged supporters to falsely believe McCain's opponent is a foreign terrorist through speeches, recorded phone messages, and flyers. Already in early voting in a number of states there have been cases of votes on electronic machines visibly flipping to McCain or McKinney when intended for Obama. We will see McCain supporters on November 4th challenging people's right to vote, seeking to force people to vote on provisional ballots, and seeking to have provisional ballots discarded. And we will see electronic vote counts wildly out of step with the most recent polls, although not with exit polls -- which we will be denied any access to unless they have been "adjusted" to match the official counts.
Inciting your supporters to violence with racist and religious lies about your opponent, effectively alleging treason on absolutely no basis, should be enough, alone, to disqualify a campaign for the presidency of the United States. Working to block voters from registering should be enough on its own. Any of the dozens of creative forms of vote suppression currently being used by the Republicans should be enough. And allowing votes to be counted on completely unverifiable machines owned and controlled by corporations allied with your party should make the results illegitimate even if plausible. If McCain is declared the "winner," it will not be plausible, but at this point he has so disgraced himself and our electoral system that he is no longer a legitimate candidate for president regardless of what the polls (themselves fallible, but all we've got) say just before election day. Too many people have already been denied the opportunity to even push the buttons and have their votes miscounted. Too much incendiary slander has been let loose. Too much visible vote flipping has already been documented.
If Obama officially wins, McCain is likely to challenge it, charging the Obama campaign with some of the very crimes engaged in by McCain himself. Our reaction should be exactly the same in the event of a McCain challenge as in the event of a McCain "victory." We should not sit back for even a split second and wonder how it will work out. We should not try to organize a plan on the spur of the moment to travel to key battleground states. We should be prepared already to immediately travel to Washington, D.C., head straight for the White House, occupy Lafayette Square Park, the Ellipse, and surrounding streets, block entrances, and shut the place down until Obama is recognized as the president elect or we are guaranteed a credible election with universal registration and hand-counted paper ballots.
We may be there for days or weeks or months. But we must be there. We must be there by the millions. We must show each other, and the nation, and the world that we have had enough, that we will not stand for one more stolen election, that we will not give in to fear, lies, theft, and intimidation. If they choose to attack our nonviolent gathering of citizens, let them do it right in front of George W. Bush's White House with the world's media watching. We will not back down.
I'm not hoping it comes to this, of course. If it doesn't because the official election results are credible and just, we should celebrate and prepare to lobby our government for real change. But if resistance does not develop because people are too scared and obedient to act, then you'll still be glad you packed ahead of time, and you might want to look into tickets to Canada.
Suppose it’s so lop-sided that 0 gets 0 electoial votes,carrying 0 states,all 57 of em? Will they call it the Heinz 57 election?
You might want to vote early-that’s what the left is urging their people to do.
If there’s a better or more clear example of personal and political psychosis than is represented by this article, I’ve yet to see it.
Impeach Swansion for Treason!
Let them riot or resist or cry like the pathetic children they are. This way the media will have no choice but to report it and the country and possibly the whole world can see them for who they really are.
If this happens I hope it damages them to the point that no one will ever vote Democrat again (I know that’s a stretch but I can dream can I?).
Is this an incitement to civil disobedience?
Massive pschological projection. Thieves and liars always believe that everybody is a thief and a liar.
I’m not kidding.
I've already voted and I'm in a safe, well-fortified location. ;-)
I will stay put at least until things calm down.
There are NO laws for the commies...libs...socialists...fascists...demonRATS -- whatever you want to call them!
They are free to roam the country perverting our society, inciting riots, shutting down commerce, committing vote fraud, committing sedition and treason, while they continue to walk free and gain more and more momentum.
There is nothing in the press about Odinga, even though Obama helped raise an estimated $1 million for this thug in Kenya. Odinga supports radical Islam.
Agreed. We have a new FReeper perpetuating the "they're all doing it" thingy right here on FR.
Then the Kenyans desires were thwarted by the installation of Odinga as the PM. Violence works!
I think McKinney’s probably closer to the center than B. Hussein.
Looks like a clear case of incitement to domestic insurrection to me. The FBI needs to visit this guy.
They have other wings?
all you trouble makers....just meander down my block destroying property.
I will welcome you with open arms (fire)
AMEN, river rat!
I don't think so. If this comes to pass (God spare us), then you can bet every thug gang-banger on the East Coast is going to go join the party just for a chance to cause mayhem and mischief and to stick it to the man.
It will be ugly.
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