Reply #171: Calling the Ukrainian kettle "flawed" -- our own election theft

[Fly by night]

Since a few others have posted their recent letters, I am posting a letter I submitted last night to the Nashville Tennessean and (slightly edited) to the Washington Post. I think any effort we make to increase the MSM coverage of the election theft at this precise moment should begin with the assumption that most MSM readers will have only minimal and passing knowledge of what we know. Consequently, we need to be "short and sweet" with our letters, since most newspapers won't print long-winded ones anyway. But if your local paper/TV station gives you any foot in the door (say, by mentioning the Conyers et al hearing today or tomorrow in their coverage), then like all good Salepeople for Democracy, we need to pounce.

You will note that I made no mention of the Curtis revelations or the Conyers et al hearings in my letter. However, I did reference Curtis in the intro to my letter, and had already sent a link to last night's Bradblog article directly to the Tennessean's letters editor (who has published my submissions before, so she would probably recognize my name) to loosen her up for my letter, which followed within an hour.

So here's what this very frustrated backwoods "yellow dog" had to say to middle Tennessee's paper of record (as well as to the WashPost) last night. Hope its brevity is a helpful model. Peace, out.
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To the editor:

Thanks for your 11/30 editorial cartoon which showed Bush speaking with Putin about election fraud reports. When Bush says, "I'm a little disturbed about Ukraine", Putin responds "I'm a little disturbed about Ohio." Given how much election fraud evidence has now been uncovered in our country, Putin could have added "... and Florida, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nevada, Washington, Iowa ... (etc, etc, ad nauseum)."

Since 11/2, the nonpartisan Election Incident Monitoring System has logged over 37,000 (and counting) reports of election irregularities and voting machine "glitches", 99.99% of which favored Bush. Numerous voters have reported that the electronic votes they cast for Kerry registered instead for Bush or another candidate. The total votes reported cast for President in many U.S. counties exceeded the total number of people who voted. (In Wyoming, with no important state races at stake, the total reported vote for President was 106% of the total registered voters there.)

In too many states, absentee ballots were misplaced or never counted, and provisional ballots were discarded in violation of election rules. Voting machines were disproportionately distributed to create long lines in Democratic districts. And the disconnect between the exit polls and the "reported" vote – a prime source of speculation that the Ukrainian vote had been tampered with – was so bad in our own country that many statisticians have placed the odds that this disconnect occurred by chance in the billions (or even trillions) to one. Compared with those odds, buying a PowerBall ticket would seem a safe investment.

In the face of this overwhelming evidence of U.S. election fraud, our leaders' concerned comments about the Ukrainian election seem misdirected and distractingly self-serving. I sincerely hope that the American people will become aware and resolute enough to re-import a love of democracy -- and an understanding of the necessity of free and fair elections as democracy's foundation -- from the Ukrainian people, whose brave actions have placed a spotlight on our own inattention to the obvious election theft in our country.

And while we're at it, I hope that we can also re-import from the Ukrainians the wisdom and the courage to change the things that now threaten democracy in the United States, while we still can.