- Let's face the facts. The game is over and we -- the
"reality-based community," the believers in genuine democracy
and law, the heirs of Jefferson and Madison, Emerson and Thoreau, the toilers
and dreamers, all those who seek to rise above the beast within and shape
the brutal chaos of existence into something higher, richer and imbued
with meaning -- have lost. The better world we thought had been won out
of the blood and horror of history -- a realm of enlightenment that often
found its best embodiment in the ideals and aspirations of the American
Republic -- is gone. It's been swallowed by darkness, by ravening greed,
by bestial spirits and by willful primitives who now possess overwhelming
instruments of power and dominion.
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- A gang of such spirits seized control of the U.S. government
by illicit means in 2000 and maintained that control through rampant electoral
corruption in 2004. The re-election of President George W. Bush last November
was a deliberately shambolic process that saw massive lockouts of opposition
voters; unverifiable returns compiled by easily hackable machines operated
by avowed corporate partisans of the ruling party; and vast discrepancies
between exit polls and final results - gaps much larger than those that
led elections in Ukraine and Georgia to be condemned as manipulated frauds.
Indeed, a panel of statisticians said last week that the odds of such a
discrepancy occurring naturally were 959,000 to 1, the Akron Beacon-Journal
reported.
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- The copious documentation of the Bush fraud keeps growing.
Last month, experts using actual machines and returns from the 2004 election
showed Congress how a lone hacker could skew a precinct's results by 100,000
votes without leaving a trace. More than 40 million votes in 30 states
were cast on such computer systems, BlackBoxVoting noted.
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- Late last year, Congress heard sworn testimony from Florida
programmer Clint Curtis, who created vote-rigging software in 2000 at the
request of Tom Feeny, a Bush Family factotum. Feeny wanted Curtis (a fellow
Republican) and his employer, Yang Enterprises, to produce untraceable
programs that could "control the vote" as needed, investigator
Brad Friedman reported. Feeny also told Curtis of Bush plans to "suppress
the black vote" with "exclusion lists." This is exactly
what happened. BBC investigator Greg Palast has shown that tens of thousands
of legitimate African-American voters were deliberately "purged"
from the rolls by a private Republican-controlled corporation hired by
Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Afterwards, Feeny -- who had been Jeb's running
mate in his first gubernatorial campaign -- was rewarded for his dutiful
service with a plum congressional seat.
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- In 2002, Raymond Lemme, a Florida state government inspector,
took up Curtis' charges, which included other corruption allegations involving
Feeny, Yang Enterprises and a Yang employee charged with peddling military
technology to the Chinese. In June 2003, Lemme told Curtis he had "tracked
the corruption all the way to the top" and that "the story would
break in a few weeks." On July 1, 2003, Lemme was found dead in a
Georgia hotel room, just across the Florida border.
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- Local police ruled that Lemme, a happily married man
eagerly planning his daughter's wedding, had suddenly decided to slash
his wrists. At first they said there were no photos of the death scene;
but then the pictures turned up on the Internet and were confirmed as authentic
by the embarrassed police. The photos clearly contradicted the original
suicide report on several points -- presenting evidence, for example, that
Lemme had been beaten before his death. The investigation was reopened
after Curtis' Congressional testimony -- and then abruptly shut down after
local police spoke to a never-identified "someone" in the Florida
state government.
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- Needless to say, nothing has been done to clarify the
murk surrounding Lemme's convenient death. Nor has there been any action
toward rectifying the highly profitable degradation of the American electoral
process -- beyond the appointment of yet another "blue-ribbon panel"
of Establishment worthies to oversee "election reform." The seriousness
of this endeavor can be seen in the man appointed to co-chair the effort:
James Baker, the notorious Bush family fixer (and Saudi bagman) who spearheaded
the sabotage of the 2000 vote in Florida. Baker's presence on the panel
ensures that nothing will be done to lessen the ruling clique's chokehold
on power.
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- So let's have no illusions about where we are. Gangsters
are in charge, and nothing and no one will be allowed to challenge their
dominion. They are waging aggressive war to cement their position and that
of their allies: the energy barons, the arms merchants, the construction
and services cartels, the investment bankers. These power blocs now command
monstrous resources and unfathomable profits; they can buy out, buy off
or bury any force that opposes them. Meanwhile, they use the loot of the
stolen Republic -- its blood and treasure -- as fuel for their ever-expanding
war machine: Bush now has a "secret watch-list" of 25 more countries
ripe for military intervention, the Financial Times reported.
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- With more war crimes afoot, last month Bush issued an
official "National Defense Strategy" that openly declares "judicial
processes" as one of the enemies confronting the United States, actually
equating them with terrorism, The Associated Press reported. Law is "a
strategy of the weak," says the Bush Doctrine, in a chilling echo
of Hitlerian machtpolitik: Might makes right. The judicial process must
not be allowed to "constrain or shape" American behavior in any
way, the gangsters declared.
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- Think of it: Law is now the enemy. Democracy, as we've
seen above, is the enemy. This, the demented code of criminals and tyrants,
has become the ruling doctrine of the United States -- replacing the Constitution,
replacing the noble struggle for liberty and enlightenment with the howl
of the beast, with a freak show of avarice and death.
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- Annotations
- The Death of Raymond Lemme
- Bradblog.com, March 8, 2005
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- Clint Curtis Testifies Before Judiciary Committee Panel
- Bradblog.com, Dec. 13, 2004
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- Report to Judiciary Committee: Diebold Machines Hacked
- Black Box Voting, March 8, 2005
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- Exit poll analysis points to 2004 election corruption
- Akron Beacon Journal, April 1, 2005
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- US Scatters Bases to Control Eurasia
- Asia Times, March 30, 2005
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- US Draws Up List of Unstable Countries
- Financial Times, March 28, 2005
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- Bush: U.S. To Bear Burden of Iraq Costs
- Associated Press, April 4, 2005
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- Oil prices soar above 58 dollars for first time
- Agence France Press, April 4, 2005
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- US Taxpayers Give Lion's Share To Military
- PNN Online, April 4, 2005
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- National Defense Strategy: Legal Challenges, Terrorism
Threaten U.S.
- Associated Press, March 18, 2005
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- Defense Strategy OKs First Strikes
- Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2005
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- The Bush-Cheney Media Enterprises
- AlterNet, April 3, 2005
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- US relied on 'drunken liar' to justify Iraq war
- The Observer, April 3, 2005
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- Long Before WMD Panel, Evidence Showed Bush Wanted War
Despite Intelligence
- A Tiny Revolution, March 31, 2005
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- If You Build It, They Will Kill
- TomDispatch, April 1, 2005
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- Military Bases Abroad are Expanding
- The Nation, March 31, 2005
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- Coordinated attack on your voting rights happening Now
- Daily Kos, March 31, 2005
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- Bechtel Sees Record Revenue in 2004
- San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, 2005
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- The New Aristocracy
- Providence Journal, March 28, 2005
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- Top Bush Insider Joins Halliburton
- Washington Examiner, March 22, 2005
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