Reply #24: I'm not quite ready...

[Peace Patriot]

...to write off Kerry's statements (and their translation) so easily, but I do agree that trying to judge Kerry's state of mind these days is a bit like reading entrails. Signs? Omens? Portents?

Focus, people!

1. It is a waste of time and energy to criticize Kerry or anything or anyone involved in this presidential campaign until we know who won it.

2. We don't know who won it--but all the evidence so far points to a Kerry win, possibly by a landslide.

3. If you're not conversant with the evidence, please get informed.

4. It is also a waste of time, in my opinion, to talk about any other issue except,

a) REPUBLICAN PARTISANS CONTROLLING THE SECRET SOURCE CODE BY WHICH ALL OUR VOTES WERE COUNTED;

b) NO PAPER TRAIL IN ONE THIRD OF THE COUNTRY;

c) MASSIVE VOTE SUPPRESSION OF DEMOCRATIC AND MINORITY VOTERS, BY REPUBLICAN ELECTION OFFICIALS, IN AT LEAST TWO STATES, OHIO AND FLORIDA; and

d) How they used the above to STEAL THIS ELECTION.

Fascists now control the presidency, the Congress, the courts, the news media AND the voting system. Get it?

We are never again going to have a progressive president or country if we don't restore our right to vote NOW. Step #1 is challenging this election.

If all recounts, investigations, lawsuits and other efforts fail to overturn this election, then, come early January, when Congress is scheduled to certify the vote, the following is likely to happen:

Black House members will AGAIN approach the Senate, as they did in 2000, to stop the certification of the Ohio (and possibly also the Florida) vote because of massive, illegal suppression of black voters, and needing only ONE Senate signature to do so. In 2000, NOT ONE Senator, Democrat or Republican, would sign their petition (that famous scene in "F9/11").

Are the Democrats going to repeat that miserable performance--or are they going to stand up and fight for our right to vote, and for the hard won rights of black citizens who have loyally supported them with 70-90% votes in every election, and who stood in 10-hour long lines in the freezing rain to vote for them again in 2004?

THAT is the question. And I hope that John Kerry is not in Iraq when that happens.