While the Iron is HotOctober 4, 2005
By Ernest Partridge,
The Crisis Papers*snip*
Vote fraud is the great untold story, and as we all know the mainstream media has unanimously decided to ignore it – as it must, if it is to continue to serve the ruling regime. But is it not possible that there might be a break in this solid wall of silence as one or another of the corporate media empires comes to its senses and realizes that "where Bush leads, they should not wish to follow?" Such a development would, by itself, spell the doom of the Bush regime.
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However, we must not wait for the media to drop that sword. Far better to hack at the rope that holds it. The story of the stolen elections must be told relentlessly in the independent media that the progressives still have at their disposal: the Internet, Air America Radio, Free Speech TV, the independent press and book publishers, the foreign press and, of course, word of mouth. If the issue is kept alive and nurtured, it may increase from a murmur to a shout that the mainstream can no longer ignore.
Election fraud is the linchpin. If election fraud is not addressed and exposed, the Democrats' cry of "wait till next time" is so much hot air. After all, 2002 and 2004 were "next time," and while the voter "input" likely favored the Democrats, the output, via the black box manipulations of the Diebold and ES&S voting machines, compilers and secret software codes kept the Republicans in power. So they shall again in 2006 – you can count on it - unless the issue of voting integrity is addressed and favorably resolved.
Even so, the public simply can't bring itself to acknowledge that their congressional and presidential elections are fixed, and that the regime in Washington rules without the consent of the governed which, in the past two presidential elections, was overruled through vote manipulation and fraud. The implications are just too much to bear; namely, that our democracy has been effectively overthrown and that we are now living under a one-party dictatorship, despite George Bush's easy talk about "spreading freedom and democracy."
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