Reply #9: Rant all you want against Connie Mack, a foaming at the mouth Bushite and

[Peace Patriot]

anti-democracy fascist, but look at the first part of the lead paragraph: "The House of Representatives Thursday approved..."

Our Democrats.

$10 million for fascist Bushite propaganda into the steaming cauldron of fascist Bushite propaganda that already characterizes the corporation-dominated TV/radio news media of Venezuela, with one exception--no more RCTV and its active support of violent military dictatorship; one airwave has been liberated for independent producers and wide spectrum political discussion. But for that, think of Faux News, all channels, all the time--that's Venezuela broadcasting. And our Democrats are SUPPORTING IT, now with **U.S.**-sponsored Bushite programming!

Yet more evidence that our elections are fixed. 70% of the American people opposed to the war, and they not only don't stop it, they ESCALATE it, and lard $100 billion MORE into Dick Cheney's retirement fund!

And now, siding with the fascists AGAINST DEMOCRACY in Venezuela!

I'd say "Shame on them," except, what good does it to do, and what "shame" is there, for people (s)elected for office by machines run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, and calling themselves "Democrats"?

And not one word do they whisper against the coup d'etat of non-transparent vote counting.

No shame.

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Just to give you a little perspective on this: In Venezuela, they use electronic voting, but it is an OPEN SOURCE CODE system--anyone may review the code by which votes are tabulated--and they handcount FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT of the ballots as a check on machine fraud. Our system--fast-tracked across the country in the 2002 to 2004 period to manufacture a phony endorsement of Bush's war--is not only run on SECRET code, a "property right" for the winger corporations that have hijacked our elections, but there is, in many states, a ZERO handcount of ballots to check for machine fraud, and even in the best states, a mere 1% audit. These were the conditions in 2004, and in 2006, and why the war continues and has been escalated, now with a "D" in front of its name. Our "Democratic" Congress is proposing central control of the secret code, under the President (!), with a "paper trail" and a mere 2% audit (continued egregious vulnerability to insider hacking).

But for Diebold/ES&S, the Iraq War would be over, the military budget would be significantly slashed, and we would be giving $10 million either to widen access to the airwaves in Venezuela for the excluded groups (the vast poor population, minorities, the left, unions) or to Hugo Chavez and the Chavez government's magnificent education efforts--building and staffing schools in poor areas never before served by government, and wiping out illiteracy--or to other social justice programs, and not to Bushites to make the U.S. more ridiculous and scorned and despised by the majority of South Americans, with MORE fascist propaganda, in the service U.S.-based global corporate predators.

The Venezuelans have democracy, and we do not. They have fought for their democracy, and won, DESPITE relentless 24/7 fascist propaganda on the their airwaves, all channels, all the time--and we have not. That is the reality of the situation. And that is why "our Democrats" have raised no cry of alarm about corporate-controlled elections here, and have endorsed, rather than opposed, the heinous, murderous theft of Iraqi oil, at the cost of a half a million lives, and our soul as a nation.