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Edited on Sat Jul-22-06 01:35 PM by Peace Patriot
to death in our name, that are forming a dark cloud over the land. So many. Innocent babes. Hopeful young children with bright eyes. Grandpas. Mothers. New brides. Their entire wedding parties. Young boys and young men, rebellious, they hardly know why, barely out of puberty, recruited. And hundreds of thousands of complete innocents. They are crying out to us, "Stop! Stop! Love life! Do not embrace death! Do not inflict death! It's awful! Do not do it! Be love! Do love! Give love!" and we do not want to hear them, because, if we do, their pathetic, disembodied pleas would compel us to radically alter our "business as usual" lives--and even our activist lives--to find the EFFECTIVE way to stop it.
A dark cloud over the world, broiling with the spirits of these truncated lives--killed and tortured in our name--forming its biggest thunderhead over America, and besieging the live human beings of the only population in the world that can do anything about it, with cries, moans, pleas, warnings, and prayers for us. We all hear it in a distant way, even if we deny it. And we see the impacts of denial in peoples' behavior--such as a feeling that the heat is punishment (inability to relax with it and tolerate it--combined with deep fear that the planet is dying and we are doing nothing, and our government is doing nothing, to stop it).
I try to think strategically. What are the means of power by which the perpetrators of war and death have overwhelmed us, and thwarted our will as a people? The most obvious one is our right to vote. Clearly, they have taken this away--with their new electronic election theft machinery. And they have done so for a reason. An American vote is a very powerful thing. Combined with others, it can entirely change the direction of our country, toward peace and justice. So, thinking strategically, that is my first priority: transparent, verifiable elections. We have no power to change anything without honest elections.
Further, I even have a strategy for getting it done: There is a lot of amazing new activity in the election reform movement, and much hope in this movement. But there is nothing on the horizon that will yield transparent elections this November. We are looking at another Bushite-stolen election. What can we do?
My proposal: A massive citizen protest against the rigged machines by Absentee Ballot voting. If enough people do it (and many are already), these shiny new election theft machines will be made obsolete, and the system will cracked open for reform. What good are their election theft machines if nobody will vote on them?
AB voting is not safe, but it IS a PROTEST that could throw a great big monkey wrench into the rigged election system. Also, it's easy. Everybody can do it. And to those who don't vote because "it's all rigged," we can say, "But this is a PROTEST aimed at UN-rigging the system." It will give them a good reason to participate. It will help increase voter turnout (needed to overcome the "thumb on the scales" that is being given to Bushites in the electronic voting systems). But this protest is not especially aimed at getting an accurate vote count in November. That is not possible. The rigging and corruption are too entrenched. It is a protest aimed, necessarily, just beyond that election, to the FUTURE. I compare it to the Montgomery bus boycott which did not, in and of itself, end segregation, but created a paradigm of the bad system that had to come down. A snowball effect. A massive citizen rebellion against the rigged voting machines. A show of power. Send the election thieves into a panic. Make them scurry. There is our opportunity for significant reform.
I love this protest idea particularly as it has come from ordinary, individual citizens, who have tried to think of a way to get their vote COUNTED. They basically wanted a paper ballot, hand-counted. That's what they're saying by requesting an Absentee Ballot. But even though AB votes are also scanned into the rigged electronic systems, it's still a brilliant idea that could leave ALL of the new, rigged electronic voting machines gathering dust. No one will vote on them! No one will touch them! No on will cooperate with this rigged system! We'll vote, yes. We have to. But they've going to have to deal with a MOUNTAIN of paper, and they're going to look like fools for buying all this riggable machinery that nobody trusts.
And after we get rid of the voting machines, we will have momentum to get rid of the central electronic tabulators (also run on private, corporate TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, controlled by Bushite corporations)--and other vitally needed reforms.
We want a big rebellion in the U.S. We know it's needed. How do we get it? And how do we focus rebellious energies on the chief MECHANISM OF POWER that we, as citizens--and as the theoretical sovereign people of this land--are supposed to possess, in order to control our government's policies and actions?
I think this is it. Massive AB voting.
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That's me. That's my answer to the spirits of the dead. That's my vision for dispelling the Dark Cloud. The heat will become bearable then, when we know we have done our duty, and have insured that honest people are representing us, who will not only stop the madness of Mideast war, but will also gather the wonderful energies and creativity of the American people, and cooperate with the rest of humanity, to stop global warming.
What's your idea? Do you hear these sad, pleading spirits? Do you feel the Dark Cloud? Do you have an idea for how to respond and what to do?
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