Reply #2: Glad to hear it! There was never anything sillier than Homeland Security's color-coded

[Peace Patriot]

"terra" alerts. (Too bad it wasn't global warming they were so alert about.) You know, now that I think back, it was Homeland Security's series of ridiculous "terra" alerts right before the 2004 election that first put my antennae up about that stolen election. It was just so...silly. And I didn't think--and don't think--that the American people are silly. I didn't know much about the voting system that had been fast-tracked all over the country, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY CODE, owned and controlled by private, rightwing, Bushwhack corporations. I knew this and that, and was somewhat worried about it, but had no idea how bad and how hackable it was. For my husband, his "moment" came way before me, in May of that year, when all the torture stuff started coming out. He said, of Bush-Cheney at that time," They act like they don't care; they're not worried; it doesn't matter to them." I just figured that that was how they act--they're jerks. But he smelled something, and said they were going to steal the election; the mechanics of it are all in place, such that they don't have to worry about a thing.

I could see what he was saying, but still held out hope--until Sept-Oct, after Kerry won the debates, hands down. (Bush was ridiculous--he could barely put two sentences together with a prompter in his ear.) And the "terra" alerts began, and quickly became the laughingstock of the country. People joked about them at work, and to total strangers on trains and buses. Comics had a field day. I think the spirit of the American people finally started to come back from the undead over those jokes. Then, of course, they tried utterly crush it out forevermore, with Stolen Election II. But it occurred to me, somewhere in there, that it was kind of like the Marx Brother's movie about "Freedonia"--the absurd little monarchy that Groucho becomes king of (--or something--it's been a while). A fake thing. A fraud. A joke. The "terra" alerts were a joke. Three years after 9/11--that awful moment--the whole thing had been reduced to a Marx Brothers' movie. And the American people were not, are not, and never were a people who lack common sense. Their common sense and their will had to be overridden.

Of course, it was a lot else--the awful, bloody oil war, torturing prisoners, the huge deficit, tax cuts for the rich, lying, coverups, lost billions, outing CIA agents, the fake issues (gay marriage, illegal immigrants), the false narratives, as well the fakery of the "war on terra." The "orange" alerts were just the capper. This is what prepared me for the night of 11/2/04. It took me 20 minutes, round about 8 o'clock. My spirit re-arose immediately, then. I knew they had stolen it. Next I found DU and began helping others figure it how they'd done it, in the famous 2004 Election Forum.

A joke of a country, with a wooden-headed puppet as President, dressed up in a military codpiece. Freedonia.