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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 05:18 PM
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sElection 2000...only ONE Senator needed to sign......
....and not ONE cared enough last time to count the votes either...why is anyone shocked NOW?! :nopity:
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 05:27 PM
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1. ANOTHER......KICK..... in the teeth
:kick:
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 06:50 PM
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6. ....and why not one more....
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 05:34 PM
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2. Watching that documentary I was shocked
why didn't Feingold or Wellstone or one of those other progressive senators sign?
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 05:44 PM
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4. how about Kerry or Edwards.....or ANY FUCKIN' ONE OF 'EM.....
.....s'why I never had any hope at about this year....I knew this would be the result and here we all are.... :nopity:
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marano Donating Member (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 05:41 PM
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3. Democracy is Dead.


I wanted to post this as an original thread but the site won't let me. If anyone appreciates what I have to say would you please post this for me as an original thread.

Che Guivera said in his writing, Guerrilla Warfare, that when free elections cease to be the way leaders are chosen that hostilities can be presumed to have already started. Anyone on this board who gives any credence to this election having been anything but a sham is either naive or a fool. Democracy died at the 2000 election. Being good people who believe in this country we attempted with this, the 2004 election to use what we have always known as the American system to change things. We said to ourselves that the 2000 election while wrong was something we would not let happen again. We truly meant what we said. What we did not realize is that since the 2000 election things are no longer in our control. Michael Moore and others believed enough in our system of government to believe that we could get out the vote, motivate people to change the country through the democratic process and that we could in that way take the country back from those who stole it from us in 2000.

They were not aware as were most of us were not, that Democracy in this country died in 2000. This election, the 2004 election should confirm this for us all. It pains me to say this but I feel that it is true. I think that the power has shifted from the people, who make this a democracy to those who now own the country. I know that many of our fellow Americans voted for these people in this election, because of ignorance and the propaganda that they are fed on a daily basis by these people who now control this country. Their beliefs, their values, were used against them and they assisted these people with their agenda and a little assistance added to a lot of money...which is power in our capitalist system is all that they need to give an air of legitimacy to this pretense of democracy.

What is next? I do not know. I can almost picture and hear things like...."Term limits are outdated and UnAmerican"...."If the people want me to be President forever that is their right." I truly believe that we will never again see a REAL election again in this country until something happens to remove the people who now own and are in control of OUR country. Government of the people, by the people and for the people is over with for now... and will be until the next chapter in American history comes. When will it come, how will it come, only the people can determine that. I hope that I live long enough to see the nation become something other than what it is today, November 3rd, 2004. I have never been less proud to be an American than I am on this day.


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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 06:00 PM
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5. I'm havin' a hard time postin' too.....took several tries to reply to you.
....site is slowin' down to a crawl again....I totally agree with you...and have felt this way for four years now and repeatedly been flamed for being too cynical and negative around here for sayin' so...sigh....
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West Coast Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 06:56 PM
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7. Gore asked the Senators not to object....
and I think it was mainly because pressure from the media to go ahead and concede.
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