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DECEMBER 26, 2004
David Lytel Announces the Coming Constitutional Insurrection
We do not have to suffer another four years of an illegitimate presidency since the Constitution provides us with two ways of successfully challenging Bush’s reinauguration. First, there almost surely will be a Constitutional challenge to the legitimacy of the electors from Florida, Ohio and potentially other states as well. I was involved in the drafting of the written challenge available to Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings and the other brave Members of Congress who challenged Florida’s electoral votes in 2000, when there was no one alive who had ever experienced a Constitutional challenge of electoral votes. Now, however, I can say I have a pretty good idea how to succeed this time.
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When the Congress meets in joint session on 1/6 there will be a written challenge duly signed by at least one member of each house and they will return to their respective chambers to conduct a time limited debate. Can we actually win a challenge against the electors of Ohio, Florida and other states? Yes. If we have about 80 House co-sponsors by January 3rd or so then the House Democratic Caucus will stand united and we will have Nancy Pelosi as our leader. The historic decision on the continuation or termination of the Bush presidency will then rest with the most lonely and abused faction in the House – moderate Republicans. Look to Sherry Bohelert and Chris Shays and people like that to see what they will do. Not all Republicans back Bush or the brutal tactics he and his cronies are prepared to use to remain in power. With a dozen or so Republicans joining House Democrats the Bush presidency would be over and democracy restored. A similar dynamic will play out in the Senate if we have five or so co-sponsors before the session begins.
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And if that doesn’t work there is another way. Article 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment sets out penalties for massive vote suppression, since that is one of the problems the union faced after the Civil War.
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The treasonous conspirators behind the unlawful theft of the presidency must stand trial if the nation is to heal and usher in a new era of democratic revival. Our deepest commitment is to democracy and to the rule of law, which must be able to produce a just outcome if our political system is not to bleed to death from the loss of legitimacy.
More at:
http://nostolendemocracy.typepad.com/blog/2004/12/david_lytel_ann.htmlIs this the same David Lytel?
Dr. David Lytel is managing partner of Democrats.com, a company that provides Internet campaign services to Democratic candidates, causes and committees. Its clients include the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House and Senate candidates across the country. A former Democratic elected official, Lytel served in the White House Office of Science and Technology in President Clinton’s first term.
As an Internet business consultant and author, Dr. Lytel's clients have included Global Integrity/SAIC, Sony, ASCII Corporation, Aspen Institute, America Online, CyberCash, Microsoft, France Telecom, Corning, Bell Atlantic and others. He served as an advisor to the Recording Industry Association of America on its Secure Digital Music Initiative and was the principle author of Electronic Commerce: Internet Payment Systems, published in March 1998 by the Strategis Group. A former columnist for Upside magazine, his writing has appeared in numerous trade pub-lications including Red Herring, Online Access, Information Today, and Computerworld. A widely-quoted expert, he has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and other well-known journals.
From 1993 to 1996 Dr. Lytel was an expert advisor at the White House where he worked primarily on the National Information Infrastructure initiative. He wrote for Vice President Gore and staffed the Information Infrastructure Task Force. Lytel was co-developer and managing editor of the award-winning White House Web site, which Hotwired has called "easily one of the best sites on the Net." In his responsibilities as a policy analyst he edited reports on advanced applications of computing and telecommunications in 15 different policy areas. He is also a former member of the city council of Ithaca, NY.
Dr. Lytel holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in government from Cornell University. His dissertation concerned the popularization of interactive media in France. He held a post-doctoral position at the Information Infrastructure Project of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has taught Internet history, law and policy in the Communications, Culture and Technology program at Georgetown University. As a scholar his work has been published in Réalité Industrielles, Médiaspouvoirs, Political Communication, Géopolitique, Contemporary French Civilization, The Information Society and others.
In addition to his Cornell degrees, Dr. Lytel holds a B.A. with honors from Brown University and an M.S. in communication from Ithaca College, where his thesis concerned technological innovation in the cable television industry. Fluent in French, he been the recipient of the French government's Bourse Chateaubriand award as well as a fellowship from the Council for European Studies. He has played the role of Alexis de Tocqueville in a program on democracy in America spon-sored by the California Council for the Humanities. Dr. Lytel was honored by Federal Computing magazine in 1995 as one of the 100 most influential people in the technology community. He is a Fellow of the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) in Tokyo and a member of the Centre d'Etude de Prospective Stratégique (CEPS) in Paris. Despite his lack of qualification in either category, he is listed in E-Mail Addresses of the Rich and Famous. His e-mail address is david@democrats.com.
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