Reply #14: 2008 will never come...

[Peace Patriot]

1. If Kerry doesn't come forward on Jan. 6 to sign the black House members' SECOND petition to the Senate to STOP Congress from certifying the vote--the first was in 2000 when not one Senator would sign it (famous scene in "F9/11")--John Kerry and the Democratic Party are finished.

--I think we should appeal to K/E's highest selves--that swiftboat captain turning his boat into the action, that courageous antiwar veteran, that BCII and Iran-Contra investigator, and the fiery defender of the "little guy" who ran as his v-p, and also lay out the TRAGEDY of the black citizen voting rights struggle coming down to THIS--this disgrace in OH and FLA in 04! You wonder why Jesse Jackson was weeping at the Conyers hearing? THAT's why. K/E have the hearts to understand this. We must move those two hearts! However...

--Democratic Party leaders are guilty of a catastrophic failure of leadership in allowing rightwing Republican Bush donors to get control of our election system, with SECRET source code for their electronic voting machines and no "paper trail" in one third of the country. At the very least Dem leaders shoud have screamed bloody murder about this and warned everyone! They let everybody work like Hell for them KNOWING that the election system itself had been irreparably compromised!

--So if they don't come forward NOW, acknowledge that this private pro-Bush election system is a fraud, apologize to their supporters for not warning us, and FIGHT LIKE HELL to overturn this election, the activists who elected them president and vice president by a landslide WILL NEVER SUPPORT THEM OR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AGAIN. It's OVER! And that warning needs to be issued to them, in addition to appealing to their higher selves.

--K/E PROMISED black and others voters that 2000 WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN! They said it over and over and over on the campaign trail. And here we are--with black voters taking the worst hit ever in vote suppression in 04, and overwhelming evidence of both electronic fraud and vote suppression by Republican election officials against Democratic, minority and poor voters.

--They MUST fight it! They MUST!


2. It doesn't matter who gets nominated in 2006 or 2008--or ever again--if we do not achieve, a) a paper trail for every vote, and b) open source code for all electronic voting machines and tabulators.

--It's still possible to do this, but we must act fast at the local and state level. (Bush's Congress is not going to do it!)

--If we do not achieve this, it's not just the Democratic Party that is over--American democacy itself is over. In fact, it's already gone, but we have a chance of recovering it, if we can get our election system out of Bush Inc.'s hands.

It is an utter waste of time to be discussing any other matter.