"Democracy Now"'s Amy Goodman is coming up on Franken's show

[NYCGirl]

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Amy Goodman and Al Franken have this in common--that neither has

ever mentioned the disenfranchisement of the American people, with Bushite corporate controlled electronic voting systems, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--a fascist junta over our election system that was engineered by the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (abetted by Bilderberg 'Democrat' Christopher Dodd), and was fast-tracked into place, with a nearly $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle, during the 2002-2004 period.

I've often wondered about some of the leftist commentators (Counterpunch comes to mind, also Democracy Now), who don't seem to feel that democracy is the remedy for Corporate Rule and its ugliest face, the Bush Junta.

Franken, I wrote off a long time ago--as a gooey-brained apologist for the Democratic Party establishment (which appears to me to have colluded on the "trade secret" vote tabulation).

The left sometimes resembles the right in its lack of faith in the American people. The leftist commentators sometimes take satisfaction from calling us all "sheeple"--stupid, asleep, uninformed, uncaring. The fascist news monopolies create and reinforce that view by giving a Big Trumpet to a rightwing minority, far out of proportion to its numbers, thus making the minority of killer 'christians' and greedbags seem like the majority. And soft-brained "centrists" like Franken chime in from a supposed "leftist" program that the Democrats have to "get their message out" and that will put everything right. None pay any attention to the issue and approval polls over the last 3 to 4 years that fairly SCREAM at you that there is a large progressive-to-leftist majority in this country that is being ignored, marginalized, disempowered and disenfranchised by nearly EVERYBODY with any significant platform from which to speak. (The only exceptions I know of are Randi Rhodes, Sam Seder and, until recently, Mike Malloy, on AAR.)

Private corporate BUSHITE-controlled TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY vote counting.

Jeez.

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So, I hope Amy wakes up from HER slumber, and blisters Al Franken with some questions about our Democratic leaders' MIND-BOGGLING SILENCE on the Bushite corporate takeover of our election system.

Please correct me if I'm wrong about Amy, and she HAS done any significant reporting on this. Until Mike Malloy was axed, I had replaced Democracy Now with AAR, for whatever time I have to listen to radio. So I'm not current on Democracy Now coverage of issues.

I do think that Democracy Now (and Counterpunch, for that matter) are great public information/opinion services in many ways. I've just noticed this GAPING HOLE on the left (in the Nation as well), on what I consider THE most important factor in the loss of democracy in the U.S. and the destruction of our country--loss of the power of the vote to change our nation's course.

[CollegeDUer]

2. You're absolutely wrong about Goodman and Democracy Now!

Right after both 2000 and 2004 they interviewed hundreds of activists and people fighting for election justice (unlike the corporate media). And Franken? He's a good comedian, I don't see him very useful outside of that.

[Peace Patriot]

3. CollegeDUer, I admit to being wrong, but I don't think I was "absolutely"

wrong. Interviewing activists in a cacophony of post-election complaints is different from investigating the underlying fraudulence of the election system that was put into place between 2002-2004. Some Democrats have allowed that Ohio wasn't quite right. It's the "safe" election fraud story. And chronicling the many individual instances of touchscreens reversing votes, precincts and voting machines shorted in Dem areas (for black, poor and student voters and others), the purges of voters, and all the rest is not the same as going after the CORPORATIONS, the corrupt Bushite Congressmen and the collusive Democrats who allowed this EGREGIOUSLY fraudulent election system--electronic voting with "trade secret" code--to spread all over the nation.

I tend to think, with Amy, that it might be a bit myopia--being a New Yorker. New York still has the old reliable lever machines. Its two US Senators were actually the ONLY two votes of Dem Senators against that piece of crap legislation, the so-called "Help America Vote Act." Although the Bushites are now pressuring New York in every way possible to dump their reliable lever system in favor of Bushite-controlled electronics, this may still be a somewhat under-the-radar subject in leftist circles in New York.

I have not heard of Amy covering it, but, as I said, I abandoned DN for AAR after the election (because Randi, Sam and Mike M. were staying on it). And I DO think that the "establishment" left--people like Amy, who have a forum for their views--has a blind spot about this. I may have gotten snotty about it (that they don't trust the voters and believe in democracy), because it's so inexplicable to me. How could they not be yelling about this from the rooftops? American democracy ENDED with the onset of these highly riggable, secretly coded voting machines! And nobody in the country--left, right or center--seemed to NOTICE!

I think that another reason for neglecting the fraudulent election system that was put in place for the 2004 election is the left's dislike of John Kerry. But I think they fail to understand how important it was to the grass roots democracy movement that arose to oust the Bush Junta, to succeed in doing so, and to put someone in the White House who was beholden to THEM, even if his views were not the majority's views on the war, torture and other issues. The stolen election was a huge blow to that movement. Huge. The damage was untold. We have yet to recover from it. And with Diebold, ES&S and brethren now controlling election results, we may never recover from it.

Well, enough of my views. I was devoted to Amy and Democracy Now prior to the election. She is a fabulous commentator and host, and DN has boldly covered MANY topics that are taboo elsewhere. I just had to get this off my chest. I think I am more right than wrong about it.