Election 2000 to the CA recall: spectacle and treachery

[angka]

the polls close like a casket
on truth devoured,
a silent play in the shadow of power!
A spectacle! Monopolized!
The camera's eyes on truth disguised!
-Rage against the Machine

You only know what you are told. The raw truth of that statement governs the formation of every person's world view. You, gentle reader, have the opportunity through forums such as this to understand the world with some lucidity. The vast majority of your fellow citizens are not so lucky. They are stunned; tied to the wheel of a broken marketplace, barely making their minimum payments, and shocked into silence and complicity in the greatest of ongoing crimes by the nightmare afterimage of the planes going in-

In California, where bad economic times seem always to hit harder, the very men who created that state's growing insolvency are poised to exploit it to take over the state government. Do you think that is an accident?

Something is very rotten, but the comfort you can take here is that the bare facts of what the GOP is trying to do are becoming impossible to conceal. Witness a growing roster of indisputables, from the top:

1) Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election by tens of thousands in Florida, and hundreds of thousands nationwide. It has taken years for everything to be known about this crime, but it is now beyond dispute. This simple fact could alone destroy the legitimacy of the present administration if it could simply be put to the public by the mass media.

2) Republicans are attempting to manipulate the electoral system all over the country. Most notably in Colorado and Texas, they have played fast and loose with time-honored legislative rules, in order to jerrymander themselves into complete control. Meanwhile, growing uncertainty over the veracity of new voting technology is lucky if it gets an occasional blurb on page A39 of your local paper. All these desperate battles are continuing amid dwindling press coverage.

3) The administration we have gotten so illegitimately (see #1) has proven to be a naked enemy of freedom and has aided the GOP takeover of state governments at every step (see #2). They are arrogantly confident now about the advancement of their tyrranical agenda. Is it still a conspiracy when the conspirators publicly declare their intentions, as John Ashcroft did recently in his little PR tour, pushing enhancements to the already-unprecedented PATRIOT Act?

4) The attempted recall of California's governor-reelected less than a year ago-is an ominous subversion of the democratic process. Direct connections between the lead GOP replacement candidate and the same energy interests who bankrupted the state to begin with reveal this cynical mockery for what it is, and its relationship to a larger set of events (see #1, #2, #3). It's increasingly not about Gray Davis: it's about a wholesale usurpation of the democratic process.

All of this has taken place under the eye of the media and the public. There is an intense, widespread outrage building against these abuses of power. As more becomes known, the relationships become easy to perceive, and you begin to understand just how grave a crime is being committed-but such feelings are carefully repressed by a mass media which refuses, for suspicious and questionable reasons, to put these easy facts together. Are you, on the other hand, able to see these things for what they are?

What are you going to do about it?

[angka]

1. self-service kick

wow.

[angka]

2. hey that was a tumbleweed

i know, i should use the phrase 'clark sucks', or make points about rush limbaugh being unsuitable for the rigors of prison love.