Reply #20: Escaping from the Armed Madhouse - By Greg Palast

[kpete]

Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Escaping from the Armed Madhouse

Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.

Don't kid yourselves. If you think Bush's lower-than-my-laces ratings portend victory for Democrats, that's what Rove wants you to think. Bush shoplifted Ohio (and New Mexico and Iowa and...) see, he doesn't need your vote. And he doesn't count your vote, either. The Rove-bots are preparing next year's model (probably Good Doctor Frist) and will load the bad vibes on to the lame duck and the lame Dick. Frist will run on a platform of stopping homosexual flag-burnings by enforced readings of the Ten Commandments in courthouses.

What to do?

I wrote ARMED MADHOUSE for just such a contingency. We can't do a damn thing to stop the dangerous inmates running this asylum unless we know HOW they're doing.

Lots and lots of topics. Let's begin with two: votes and war.

Counting all the votes: why not? In America we don't and that's not much of an issue for any politician elected under the current system. THREE-MILLION, SIX-HUNDRED THOUSAND THREE-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ballots were cast in the last election AND NEVER COUNTED: "spoiled" ballots, "provisional" ballots and "deficient" absentee ballots. And—ready for this—88% of the ballots not counted were cast by voters of color.

more at:
http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/008030.html