Reply #130: I wish I could remember where I read it, but Cheney has said that

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the gov't has to be ready for wide-spread protest when all the neocon changes they want to make are enacted or they haven't gone far enough. Probably on one of those neocon websites while he was out of gov't. They look to be anticipating something like Mexico where there was such doubt about their last Presidential election <http://www.democracynow.org/2006/9/6/mexico_court_declares_calderon_winner_of> that the "defeated" party established a parallel gov't for a month, expecting to be able to overturn the results. The huge protest camps were at first tolerated, but eventually disbanded with the usual Mexican gov't brutality.

I wouldn't be surprised if it is not the Presidential election that gets stolen, but many Congressional races and even some of the 11 gubernatorial ones. Easier to stamp down and maintain a media blackout on scattered protests than a general countrywide one. Can anyone explain to me why Congressional Democrats haven't acted against the required caging lists and the electronic voting and tabulating machines during the past two years? I always come up blank when I try to figure that out.

Like everyone else on this thread, I think the largest point is that it is now law to allow deployment of active duty military units to use deadly force against "dissidents". What horrible thing they plan to do that would bring us all out into the streets is secondary.