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It Is Now Certain - Utter
Cynicism Is Only Realism

By Joseph E Fasciani
11-4-4
 
Canadian-born author and wit Ashley Brilliant once wrote, "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." And that seems an apt summary for the 2004 US sElection, two hundred years after the creation of the Electroal College was inserted into the Constitution, setting the stage for the conflicts to come.
 
Unfortunately, as much as the Democrats wanted a cleaner electoral process, to avoid a repeat of Bush 43's flagrant theft of 2000--surely an Original Win if ever there was one--the fix for 2004 was in as soon as Dubya was first sworn into the office he stole.
 
In 2004, the Repugnants knew they couldn't pull off the same caper twice, so a more hidden scheme was needed. To ensure it looked less corrupt, they decided to use two modes of attack, one quite obvious, the other as invisible as possible. And tonight proved once again, that in getting it wrongly, they've got it down right, as far as one can go short of an outright junta.
 
The first, easiest, and most obvious was to fall back on the Electoral College system. This now archaic device was inserted into the election process in 1804, by a group of colonial states which felt disadvantaged by more populous ones, to ensure their state's ballots went to the candidate that best represented their power interests.
 
As described in The Electoral College Inhibits Democracy, Editorial by Michael E. McGrath, Founder, electionreform.org,
 
"There are two fundamental aspects of the Electoral College that cause these problems. The first is that it awards electoral votes based on a winner-take-all method: the candidate with the highest number of votes in each state gets all of the state,s electors. This causes millions of votes to be effectively uncounted. The second is that smaller states get relatively more electoral votes, effectively giving those states more voting power."
 
"Originally this winner-take-all method was justified because the population of each state had similar opinions and preferences. What was good for the majority of the state was good for the entire state, and this helped the original states emphasize their rights. In addition, vote counting was difficult and not very reliable. However, a lot has changed in the last 200 years. America is no longer rural and there is more similarity in preferences across the 50 states than there is within a state. For example, an argument that all Californians have the same preferences would be difficult to support."
 
The second, more invisible part, is far more problematic and truly evil (see "Electronic Voting Machine Woes Reported" at . However, the Repugnants knew they had four years to get wrongdoing right, and in fact had been working on their Final Solution for a decade earlier. This was morphed into the federally mandated replacement of paper ballots with electronic voting machines, or DREs as they are known in the trade. Only a few firms--Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S are the biggest--make these, and they were bought out many years ago by long-time Repugnant hacks, who then replaced key executives with their people, cronies who could be trusted to follow orders.
 
In one especially notorious case, when neo-con talk show host Chuck Hagel decided to run in Nebraska for the US Senate in 1996, he failed to disclose that he was also the head of (and continues to hold part interest in!), the parent company that owned the company, Election Services & Software (ES&S), that programmed, installed, and largely ran the voting machines used by most of Nebraska. ES&S is owned and operated by a well-known bunch of Nebraskan reactionaries. Oh well, just another of those remarkable coincidences that create conspiracy advocates!
 
Be sure to read the article "ES&S Project Manager Resigns Over Voting Machine Problems" at www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1857668) to see what happens when an ethically concerned employee of ES&S told Marion County, Indiana officials about ES&S machines problems.
 
Here's how reporter-activist Roz Hill describes "voting magic":
 
"We need COUNTERS: (B) = Bush; (K) = Kerry; (V) = Vote; (T) = Tally
 
1. If V = B, add 1 to B
2. If T = 8, add 1 to B; Clear T; Skip 3
3. If V = K, add 1 to K; Add 1 to T
 
This extremely simple bit of programming would shift 12% of the vote from Kerry to Bush, it would defy exit polls, and it would make it look like Bush had a huge popular win. It is time that the software in these SECRET Republican-owned computers be examined with a deliberate check for instructions that could modify the vote tally." (rense.com/general59/stel.HTM)
 
There were several notorious early trial runs with this new tactic, yet it proved successful in getting Repugnants "elected" where Repugnants had rarely won. Sometimes the outrageous results bordered on the farcical, such as multiple wins in the same state by candidates with three identical vote counts! (See Thom Hartmann's excellent summary, "If You Want to Win an Election, Just Control the Voting Machines", at
www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm, and "Computer Voting is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say", by John Schwartz, NY TIMES, at www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/24VOTE.html.
 
In the end, it is now certain that utter cynicism is only realism, as clearly demonstrated--if not stated as such--in a letter from John Keller at Jeff Rense's popular website, rense.com, for November 04, 2004: "The Skull & Bones Brothers Tag Team"(http://rense.com/general59/brothers.htm).
"Can anyone but a fool now believe John Kerry was not planning to throw this election from the start? Any doubts should have been ditched Wednesday morning after he stabbed his running mate in the back, the latter whom boldly promised no concession would be quickly forthcoming mere hours before.
 
"The thinking and caring American will come to realize that the System cannot and will not allow effective, meaningful opposition. Kerry, a long-time fixture of its elite, has utterly smashed a potential mechanism to oppose the un-American, anti-human crusade of the current and future "administration.""
 
And that pretty well sums how I felt in August 2004, when I wrote my earlier article, "A Letter to a Long-Time Friend in a Time of Perilous Politics". The USSA has been in the unrelenting grip of corporatism for more than a century, thus it will take a very great deal to break its death-choke on the body politic. That's why I say that as much as I loathe him and everything he stands for, the best way to bring about this renewal is to endure four more years of All 'Murriken Fascism. Only then is there a chance--only a chance--that the utter bankruptcy and viciousness of this madness be exposed, implodes, and the self-denial finally ceases.
 
Yes, it will be painful, for all concerned, no matter how distant they be from the Abomination on the Hill. Until then we are all condemned, innocents and guilty alike, to suffer the truly diabolical outrages and murderous hatreds of these new Anti-Christs, a Kabal whose self-hating anger turns against one and all outside their snake pit.
 
As for me, a christian pacifist anarchist, it is time to cultivate my own garden, so that I may feed and care for my family and friends as best I can. The Creation still has the promise and gift of Original Blessing for us all.
 
We will think globally, but live and act locally, to end Dubya's screamingly declared War Against Terra, our weary planet Earth, the only home we have.
 
As Lyndon Johnston was fond of remarking, "Don't spit in the soup: we've all got to eat." I sure wish Dubya knew that.
 

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