My 1000th Post at DU! Cheers to you all! Peace, love & democracy forever!

Peace Patriot

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Mon Jan-31-05 08:33 PM
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My 1000th Post at DU! Cheers to you all! Peace, love & democracy forever!

My profound thanks to the Democratic Underground and all of its participants for providing absolutely vital information on the fraudulent 2004 election and related matters to me, to all of us here, and to the world.

Without this information home, ad hoc news service, meeting place, studio, journalistic nursery (so many ideas born here) and commentary and action site, I don't know what I would have done after the election, knowing, as I did, that election fraud had occurred, and seeing the progressive majority of the country begin to fracture and splinter over this issue, and seeing the magnificent grass roots democracy movement that elected John Kerry President of the United States suffer such an incredible blow.

That young grass roots movement that took such a hit on 11/2 is slowly arising again, thanks largely to DU, and particularly thanks to the "2004 Election Results and Discussion" Forum.

That's probably why we all got so panicky and cranky when the name change and forum focus change were proposed. This place, this name--bland as it is--is very meaningful to us. It is the home of the rebirth of our movement to save our democracy. It's where we all ran to, with our insights, and our data, and our fear for our country, and our conviction that this election wasn't right--when the delusionary world of the fraudulent news media, and even some of the Left, and even friends and family, seem to go quite whacko in the mistaken belief that Bush had won.

It's where we recovered a sense of reality and truth. And it's where we began working to achieve a government that has the "consent of the governed" once again, and to repudiate Bush and all his murderous and criminal works.

So...we love it, even with its fuddy-duddy name, and its seemingly all-over-the-place focus, which is actually a laser-like focus on the heart of the matter--the fraudulent election--with glances outward at the octopus of issues that spreads its ugly, oily arms from that election fraud into every corner of our country and our world...

...from the bereaved families of soldiers killed in Iraq, to the veterans' hospitals filling with the wounded, to the 100,000+ dead and their bereaved families in Iraq, to federal domestic law enforcement now about to be headed by the author of the torture memos, to the elderly about to have their pensions looted, to the children in schools with peeling paint and no books, to the African American citizens once again deprived of the right to vote....to every crime committed by this fraudulent, unamerican regime.

I will never believe that these things are the will of the American people. And I thank DU and this Forum for bringing these issues all together, here, at the heart of the matter.

And now, I have to repeat that great Gandhi quote:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi

He said it all.

Onward to 1,001. Cheers to all DUers and believers in peace, justice and democracy everywhere!