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...Bush Cartel works. They are like bad bacteria. Any little wound or weakness, and they rush in to eat away that important body part.
Shelley did not "bring this on himself." I'm sorry, I don't buy that one at all. He is a normal human being/politician, with a normal human being/politician's flaws--and actually is more honest and much cleaner than most--and he DID THE RIGHT THING on electronic voting UNDER ENORMOUS PRESSURE.
The charges against him are NOT SERIOUS. They are shockingly trivial. And THAT is the problem. How/why could a PROPERLY ELECTED DEMOCRAT, who was MORE THAN DOING HIS JOB FOR THE PUBLIC, who was going OUT OF HIS WAY to PROTECT the public, come to this end--attacked by a pack of wolves, starting with a truly piece of crap newspaper, the SF Chronicle, and including pro-Diebold, anti-paper trail Democrats, and BushCon Republicans salivating for YET ANOTHER un-elected, or weirdly-elected, INSTALLED Republican, replacing a freely elected Democrat, especially one who was DOING HIS JOB?
This appointment must be seen in that context. To NOT see it in that context is to blind yourself to important truths about what is happening to this country right now, and what is happening to California. Think about it. Add it up:
• Stolen Election I. Tax cuts for the rich. Unjustified war. Lies, lies and more lies. Mass murder and massive theft. Torture, in defiance of all our laws. Massive illegality. Massive federal debt. Massive de-funding of all public services. Anthraxing of Democrats. Democrats' airplanes falling out of the air. Texas redistricting thuggery led by Tom Delay. Tom Delay preventing a paper trail provision for HAVA ever getting out of committee. Max Cleland--of all people--called a traitor, and mysteriously losing his Senate election in Georgia, in a test run of electronic voting.
• BushCon funding of recall effort in Venezuela (15% of US oil) of a twice-elected President who just wants a few oil dollars to trickle down to the masses of Venezuelan poor (PAPER TRAIL STOPS BUSHCON COUP--thank you, Jimmy Carter!). BushCon funding of Davis recall, who had amassed a $10 billion budget SURPLUS, out and out stolen by BushCon company Enron; and who tried to get California's money back from BushCon thieves. Schwarzenegger installed--chosen by George Schultz, Kenneth Lay, Michael Milken (L.A. meeting, 5/17/01, to plot overthrow of Democrats in California), Time magazine and Larry King--and the weirdest, most rushed election in history, with 135 candidates on the ballot.
• And, finally, in the 2004 presidential election, despite new voter registration favoring Democrats by 58% to 41%!!! (an astonishing effort, in the face of massive Republican voter suppression), and despite Bush being wacko in the debates, and despite Iraq lies exposed, and despite torture revelations, and despite Halliburton theft revelations, and despite utter incompetence, and despite 100,000+ deaths in Iraq, and despite the most unpopular, thieving, despised administration in U.S. history--with an approval rating UNDER FIFTY PERCENT--with BushCon companies owning the SECRET source code that counts our votes, and with no paper trail in a third of the country, and with proper recounts and auditing seemingly beyond the ability of government in most places, and with BushCon news organizations CHANGING the Exit Poll results (Kerry won) on everybody's TV screens on election day, it is INEVITABLE that we have this idiotic puppet still acting as the crowned head of our government, and his criminal gang still in charge.
• And the inevitable result: They are now going to pay for their goddamned oil wars out of the hides of pensioners, the poor, the sick, the young, and all of the middle and lower classes, while adding to the riches of the very richest people in the world, including the crowned prinices of Saudi Arabia.
It was NOT inevitable that we would have another Republican shoved down our throats in California--and, in fact, is not inevitable NOW. The Democratic legislature has to approve it.
But a number of Democrats have been bought and paid for by these BushCon thieves, and ADVOCATE paperless voting--in the interest of their own demise, apparently--so we shall see.
There HAS TO BE an honest Democrat who shares Shelley's view of Diebold & Co. who could have been nominated, in all fairness to the Democratic voters who elected Shelley. But fairness is not in it--as we should know.
The whole point of this was to put yet another Republican into a high office that he didn't have to earn. That highly suspicious circumstance CANNOT BE IGNORED. And we need a PLAN OF ACTION to address it, which I'm going to think about and post next.
One thing I know: We need to be hard-eyed, honest with ourselves, committed to the truth, and laser-like in our understanding, and in our action, in order to restore democracy in this country. And that means a hard-eyed look at the Democratic Party and its collusion with global corporations, the rich, and BushCons.
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