Posted on 12/05/2009 12:04:09 PM PST by mgist
History's most notorious Georgian-turned-Russian, the politically astute Joseph Stalin once remarked, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
The lesson has not been lost on the increasingly notorious Hungarian-cum-American George Soros.
A group backed by Soros is gearing up to steal the 2012 election for President Obama and congressional Democrats by installing left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state across the nation. From such posts, secretaries of state can help tilt the electoral playing field.
This is, of course, the same Soros, the same hyperpolitical left-wing philanthropist who makes no secret of his intention to destroy capitalism. In an interview with Der Spiegel last year, Soros said European-style socialism "is exactly what we need now. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful -- but also very harmful to our society."
The vehicle for this planned hijacking of democracy is a below-the-radar non-federal "527" group called the Secretary of State Project. The entity can accept unlimited financial contributions and doesn't have to disclose them publicly until well after the election.
It was revealed during a panel discussion at the Democratic Party's convention last year that the Democracy Alliance, a financial clearinghouse created by Soros and Progressive insurance magnate Peter B. Lewis, approved the Secretary of State Project as a grantee. The Democracy Alliance aspires to create a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups -- a kind of "vast left-wing conspiracy" to compete with the conservative movement. It has brokered more than $100 million in grants to liberal nonprofits, including ACORN.
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That's sickening. I've heard in the old USSR it was standard practice for the voters to be plied with vodka to get them down to the precinct.
Today in my neighborhood a young guy & girl came by claiming to be "working with the registrar of voters". They asked if people with the names on the voter list they held still lived at the house I was standing in front of (it was mine, but they didn't ask). At first I said "yes he does ... yes she does ...", but then I asked them to prove who they worked for. They produced a card that indicated they were working for the Democratic Party. I told them they were misrepresenting who they were working for, and to get the he## out of here.
I wonder if they were looking for people who no longer belong on the voter rolls (moved away, died, etc.) so they could safely mail in the votes for those former voters come election time. There is one person listed in my household who hasn't used my address to vote in years, and I'd have gladly informed the real Registrar of that fact, but not someone with axes to grind. I don't think this county purges anyone from the voter rolls anymore - it's ripe for fraudsters. Loretta Sanchez beat out Dana Roherbacher here with the help of documented (but dismissed) voter fraud.
Suspicious me, but I wouldn't put it past the Democrats to use such a method to steal votes.
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