So...a "Blast from the Past" from 12/13/2000 about the STOLEN ELECTION!!!

[KoKo]

Does anybody really know what time it is?


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Well, yes, my body clock does rather object to the switch to British Summer Time, but the real problem is that it may have been a mistake to actually go back and look at that thread with Teresa's post from back in 2000 about the election/selection. For those who don't click links, that's the post that says:

From: T Nielsen Hayden
Date: Wed, Dec 13 2000 5:37 am
Groups: rec.arts.sf.fandom

I've been calling this an attempted coup since a few days after the election. Hell, I've been calling it that since the days of the hoked-up impeachment case against Clinton. No more. Now it's a successful coup.

There are only two real reasons to choose GWB as a candidate. One is his insubstantiality: it's hard to argue against what isn't there. The other is his passivity: he won't get in the way. I will assume that there's a pending agenda. The people who funded this campaign spent their money for a reason. We'll shortly be finding out about it in more detail.

The Republicans' use of fraud and force has been shocking. Let's go beyond that shock for the moment. What's truly troubling is that their tactics have been so blatant -- for example, the organized mob attack on the vote counting operation in Miami by a gang of out-of-state Republican operatives, including known staff members employed by highly placed officials. They didn't bother to conduct that as a covert operation. They didn't even hide the cashflow that paid for it.

Such an approach is not sustainable long-term under our present system of law and government. But there's no use in seizing power just long enough to get inaugurated if all you do is spend the next four years pinned down in a hopeless tangle of legal actions and political countermeasures. Therefore, we have to assume that they are planning to consolidate their power shortly after Bush is inaugurated.

If you're not following me: This is the equivalent of that moment in the plot where the guy who's being held captive by the bad guys realizes they're planning to kill him because they're letting him see their faces and hear their names spoken. They're not worried about the consequences.

The Republicans are not worried about the consequences of their blatant abuses. The logical conclusion is that once they've consolidated their power, things are going to get a lot worse.

How much worse? Bad enough that staffers employed by the ruling party don't anticipate having to worry about being identified as participants in an illegal attack on election workers who were then engaged in counting votes. It doesn't worry them that they crossed state lines to participate in it, engaged in conspiracy to commit various crimes, and for all I know are vulnerable under the RICO statutes as well. That means they don't expect that those who would normally oppose them are going to be in any position to do so effectively.

more...at...
http://sideshow.me.uk/smar06.htm#03300340