Reply #14: The Peoples Voice: Down With the Monarchy

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04/29/06

Down With the Monarchy
By: Norla Antinoro


Rise up! Overthrow the monarchy! Citizens of America stand together against tyranny!

The plea is an old one. It is simply aimed at a different regime this time. Today we must save Nepal. For my great grandmother it was Spain or China. Franco or the Boxer Rebellion. Liberators R Us! America will save the world. Some how some where we got the idea that it was our job to Make the World Safe. We must save them all. We must liberate them. Free the freeless!

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Americans are brash and direct, crude and lacking in subtlety. Much the same characteristics ascribed to the British by their Indian subjugants. The Americans have formed a Coalition of the Willing to rule the world. Madison Avenue now decides elections, swaying voters with color and sound. All it takes is deep enough pockets and an election can be bought. There have been no landslides in recent years. All elections in my lifetime have been fairly closely fought battles. Some have been clearer victories than others. Nixon won by a fairly safe margin. But most elections were close enough that the “swing states” became important. So the way to throw the election into turmoil and cloud the results is to find a way to take the swing states, by hook or by crook.

Exit polls rarely disagree with the final vote tallies. Yet they are not legal in any sense and the disparity between exit polls and counted votes is not a valid excuse, in law, to contest an election or demand a recount. That they are almost always in agreement is not a legal argument with any weight, as troubling as it is.

So our Empire now has its tool of succession. Not royal birth, occasionally supported by force of arms. This time royalty is conferred by the Holy Diebold machine. No midwifely witnesses needed to witness the birth of the next monarch, for proprietary black boxes will guard well the royal secrets. Secrets like who the people actually voted for. But wait, we don’t want those facts to be known or retrievable so instead of simply programming in the change of votes to the ones we want to see, let’s make the actual vote, cast by the voters, disappear. No paper back up, if you please. Especially we must not have a paper ballot signed by the voter. That would make it no longer a secret ballot.

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