Reply #40: Well, I've called it the Bushwhacks' "Financial 9/11" since it happened. It was obvious

[Peace Patriot]

to me that it was planned. It's true that it has a three-decade history--Reagan thru Bush Jr. (including Clinton, to some extent) of deregulation and welfare for the rich. But the coup de grace was not the September 2008 final looting. The coup de grace was the 'TRADE SECRET' code voting machines fast-tracked all over the country, during the 2002 to 2004 period--'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY code owned and controlled by Bushwhack corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls--the privatization of our voting system itself. 2004 was the moment that democracy should have kicked in and resulted in a course correction for our sinking ship of state. This was deliberately prevented by a quickly installed non-transparent voting system all over the country--with, I have to add, the collusion of many Democratic leaders. Through Clinton, the economic/political system was still correctable. With the Supreme Court coup d'etat in 2000, followed by the Diebold/ES&S coup d'etat leading up to 2004, we were not permitted to elect a decent, vigilant government--maybe not an ideal government--but one that was Clinton-like, in its better respects, and with a president, John Kerry, with a strong history of investigations into large financial scandals--i.e., a decent, vigilant government that would not have permitted the September 2008 Financial 9/11.

And I think the same is true of the 'Terrorist' 9/11. A Gore government would not have permitted it to happen. (I'm sure about Gore in that respect; but not about Lieberman.) At the least, NORAD would have mounted some defense. The unprecedented disorganization of NORAD/AF on 9/11 was Rumsfeld's doing, in my opinion. Fast-forward to the Financial 9/11, and this, too, was both preventable, and characterized by Bush Junta complicity. Imagine Kerry-Edwards in the White House as of 2004, and you can see that it simply would not have happened. A recession maybe, due to 2000-2004 malfeasance and looting. Not a worldwide meltdown and massive looting of the future unto the 7th generation.

The election system is the key to everything. It is our only real power as a people. Transparent, honest, aboveboard elections are the fundamental condition of democracy. Democracy is the very best system ever devised to insure a change of direction, when a nation is headed for disaster.