[Peace-discuss] Just wondering.....

[Susan Parenti]

Dear Jenifer,

My response is a ";" (semi-colon) response:

Given Michael Moore's clip about the stealing of the 2000 election, 
which enabled us to see how they stole that election;
given our knowledge of the Bushies' degrees of 
lying/stealing/manipulating;
given our knowledge of how the media is owned;
given the amount of evidence reported yesterday of polling fraud(see 
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW, Tuesday, Nov. 2)

---given all  these givens, how can we think this election WASN'T 
stolen?

Many people, myself included, assumed this election would get ugly, 
with recounting of votes, much delay, etc. We thought it would look 
like the time-delay of election 2000.

But the Bushies learned something from the stealing of election 
2000--which is, not to let something stolen take a long time. So today, 
speedily, Kerry conceded, Bush gloated, it's all over.

FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE: "It's all over".

And I watch my smart progressive friends hang their heads and say, 
"Well, I guess we didn't realize how many Americans really wanted 
Bush".

Yes, a bunch of Christian Fundamentalists voted for Bush--

AND---
  Yes, the voting process was fundamentally tampered with by the Bushies.

Watch how quickly they'll dismiss that, by saying it's just the 
rhetoric of sore losers.

If we insisted on the stealing, story after story would come forward.

Oh sure, some people will say, " Voting was always associated with 
fraud. This is nothing new, Susan. You're just denying Bush's 
popularity".

I maintain, people are denying the enormity of what it means to think  
this election was stolen, like the one in 2000. It's actually simpler 
to believe we live in a country where our fellow citizens disagree with 
us and want Bush, than to understand that we live in a country where 
the elections are rigged.
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Why do I care?
These are two different stories of United States, 2004----the one story 
of how most Americans wanted Bush(the current story) and the other 
story of how the election process was stolen by the administration one 
more time.

And they require two different responses.



On Nov 3, 2004, at 4:08 PM, jencart wrote:

> Dear Fellow Mourners,
>
> Are there really that many idiots out there, or did they manage to 
> steal it again?  I'm not sure which is scarier.
>
> Aren't you glad you live in IL?  And C-U in particular?  That's about 
> it for things to be grateful for election-wise....
>
> Jenifer C.
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