I don't believe in the death penalty, but support life without parole

[HomerRamone]

http://magic-city-news.com/article_3206.shtml

From Magic City Morning Star

Stephen Crockett
The Electric Chair for Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell
By Stephen Crockett
Feb 26, 2005, 09:01

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Katherine Harris as the Republican Secretary of State in Florida during the 2000 elections seemed to be using her office to promote the election of George W. Bush over the wishes of Florida voters. She was co-chair of the Bush campaign in Florida while serving as the top election official in the state. The conflict of interest was obvious. The potential for abuse was obvious. According to the investigative reporter and author Greg Palast, the actions of Harris and her office denied almost a 100,000 voters their right to vote or their right to have their vote counted. Almost all were Democrats! Details are available in Palast's book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Instead of being prosecuted for denying Florida citizens their vote, Republicans politicians created a safe seat in Congress for Katherine Harris. It looks likely that she will be seeking higher office in Florida. Since many of the voters who were illegally kicked off the voting rolls still have not been returned to active status, Harris has a chance of winning. Winning office by denying voters their voting rights should be a death penalty crime. In my opinion, any government official who uses their power to engage in a massive campaign to deny citizens their voting rights is committing a crime worse than treason in wartime.

Ken Blackwell as Secretary of State in Ohio during the 2004 election seemed to be trying to copy the Katherine Harris model. Voting machines were distributed to make voting difficult for Democrats. Crazy regulations that made registering difficult came out of his office. He played a key role in the Bush campaign while serving as the top election official statewide. An effective statewide hand recount was largely blocked because of Blackwell. Key state records are being denied access to the citizens of Ohio by his actions. Lawyers who challenge the vote recount procedures are being persecuted by the Republican Ohio Attorney General in legal actions on behalf of Blackwell. Many of the Ohio vote problems and Blackwell's role in them are documented at "Stolen Election 2004."

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If I had my way, I would see Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell strapped down to electric chairs and lit up like Christmas trees. The better to light the way for American Democracy and American Freedom!

Written by: Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com).

[kster]

1. This article

along with Mellisa.B article in "3/12 election fraud updates"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=342898&mesg_id=343103&page= could the media be getting on board ?

[pat_k]

2. This is the response to "there's always been fraud"...

...as fraud (or "shenanigans") is not a given. Not when the right incentives are in place to stop it.

[Senator]

3. Good to see this. Thanks for the chance to repost...

...the 3 memes we're suggesting to "change the frame."

Notice how Mr. Crockett is immediately involved in a discussion of what to do about election thieves. Emails come from the right complaining about his "extreme" position.

These are the kind of "fights" we need to start.
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so, to the repost...

This is why we are continuing our Declaration of Intent project, in the form of building the January 6th Coalition. The goal is still to get individual congress critters to declare their intent to object to invalid electors. Thereby putting local/state people on notice.

The reason for using January 6th as a rallying point is that it is the day that the People are represented in their sovereign capacity.

More specifically, we are suggesting 3 themes/frames/memes to be interjected into any and all election reform discussions. They are intended to change people's thinking about elections in general. (Not least of which, the real target, our own thinking on the left.)

If we can rehabilitate how people think about elections, the rest will take care of itself. And quickly.

1st - An election is a survey, not a contest.

Just like the census, an election tries to measure an objective reality: the will of the electorate. There's no reason (maybe cost) why we couldn't conduct them in the same way, with bonded agents going door-to-door collecting private ballots from voters.

The point(of view) being made(changed) is that an election is about the voters (not votes - ever). Candidates, campaigns, Parties, officials, equipment manufacturers, are all nearly-irrelevant. There is only one principle/interested-party/owner and that is the electorate as a whole.

2nd - It's the "ERRR," stupid!

Count every vote! -- ERRR!!! -- Count every vote! -- ERRR!!!

Forgive my stupid illustration, but see how easily we can be nudged away from our most powerful moral position and into their pre-gamed arena of discussing only vote-counts, ballots, chads, etc...

(Note: This in itself is a form of Stalinist propaganda -- Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. -- Josef Stalin)

This is not simply a bolstering of the first meme (it may seem so, but only because your mind doesn't need much changing). We must always speak of voters, and never votes, because unless we do so "religiously" such things as suppression become "separate issues." We can't allow this.

Victims of poll-tax-lines and "missing" registrations are voters. With the same right to be "surveyed" as everyone else. They did their part. The burden must be on the system to "count" them, even at high cost, even if it delays a result.

3rd - Election manipulation is a capital crime.

(Ok, ok, stop screaming. The sentence can be commuted, all right?)

Yes, this is extreme. Even a bit looney. But it gets your attention, right? That's the power. That and the fact that it's a simple, completely moral proposal.

Election theft is far worse than cop-killing. Worse than 9/11 or any incident of terrorism. It is literally High Treason.

It undermines the only moral principle on which the nation was founded and continues (in theory) to rest. That gov't power can only be derived from the consent of the governed.

So what's so extreme? The truth is that we've been extremely lax in defending our most important of rights. We need to be "born again" as Fundamentalist Americans. That's the way to curb fascism.

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