[Peace-discuss] Irrelevance of the US election

Thu Nov 8 19:29:35 UTC 2012

/Republicans _*SUCK*_ Too !!! /

- Scott Bludorn, Chicago Tea Party.

*

I realize that my internet search skills are sorely deficient,
but it seems to be easier to find the names of the Georgians who
voted for Jimmy Carter the second time than it is to find the
vote count for the 3rd party candidates.

Your mainstream media seems to have completely boxed out the numbers from
the 3rd party candidates "since only Obamney was relevant", I presume.

On 11/08/12 23:55, David Green wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I've become convinced that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY has become a kind of 
> Frankenstein
> monster, a clear and present danger to the community. I've also become
> convinced that there is little realistic prospect that the DEMOCRATIC 
> PARTY will
> reform itself to become a responsible and accountable institution,
> answerable to the community in which it resides.
>
> The reason I have become convinced of this is that, unlike other
> community institutions, when something bad happens in the DEMOCRATIC 
> PARTY, there
> is no clear address for responsibility and accountability. If a bad
> thing happened in some other community institution, there would be a
> clear address for complaint and redress. You could call the Executive
> Director. You could contact someone on the Board. Responsible people
> would tell you what their plans were for redress. There would be a
> meeting of responsible people, empowered to take action. The meeting
> would discuss: why did this happen, what can we do and what will we do
> to try to stop this from happening in the future. But when something
> bad happens in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, there is no meeting of 
> responsible people,
> empowered to take action, for the simple reason that there can't be.
> There's no such thing in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY as a group of 
> responsible people,
> empowered to take action. Because this is the case, there is a culture
> of impunity in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. And this is intrinsically 
> dangerous to the
> community. If the Urbana police announced, "in this three block
> radius, we are no longer going to enforce the law," that would be
> intrinsically dangerous to the community. That hasn't happened in this
> case, of course. But there is a culture in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY of 
> being above the
> law and beyond accountability, and that is intrinsically dangerous to
> the community.
>
> Therefore, since effective reform of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY seems 
> impossible, I have
> come to the conclusion that legal avenues should be explored to force
> the DEMOCRATIC PARTY to shut down.
>
>
>     *From:* C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
>     *To:* Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, November 8, 2012 8:36 AM
>     *Subject:* [Peace-discuss] Irrelevance of the US election
>
>     Literally billions of dollars have just been spent on America's
>     quadrennial quadrille - to reproduce the governmental status quo
>     ante: a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, a
>     Democrat-controlled Senate, and the same Chief Magistrate (as the
>     framers of the 1787 Constitution referred to the president).
>
>     Of course, economic and military policy - the USG's killing and
>     looting - would hardly have been affected, even if other
>     candidates had been elected: in America policy is insulated from
>     politics.
>
>     The show is produced for Americans, to convince us that we're
>     deciding political questions, when of course we're not. The rest
>     of the world, with some distance on the matter, seems to realize
>     that more than we do.
>
>     > http://www.theawl.com/2012/11/did-people-outside-the-u-s-care-about-our-election
>     >
>     > Did People Outside the U.S. Care About Our Election?
>     > Choire Sicha | November 7th, 2012
>     >
>     > While everything stopped here in America to watch the alleged
>     nail-biter, or what the TV told us would be a nail-biter, how did
>     the rest of the world react?
>     >
>     > • "Today’s table topics: Egypt’s constitution-to-be, a proposed
>     restaurant and shop curfew, the need for interior ministry reform.
>     The U.S. presidential election? Not on the menu. 'We’ve got more
>     than enough to worry about with Morsi,' the 42-year-old Somaya
>     says, roughly chopping a bundle of molokheya, bitter greens common
>     in the Egyptian kitchen. 'I didn’t even know about the U.S.
>     election, and I don’t care. Whoever wins won't make a difference
>     to us.'"
>     >
>     > • "I confess to forgetting repeatedly about the US elections
>     today. I was reporting on a mass hunger strike by some 700
>     prisoners demanding Kurdish education and court rights and an end
>     to the isolation of PKK rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, serving a
>     life sentence on an island jail. It is Day 55. They are surviving
>     on sugar water and liquid vitamins."
>     >
>     > • "Islamabad woke to news of an Obama victory with an unimpressed
>     yawn…. 'The main thing people care about is the drone strikes,'
>     said a TV cameraman, setting up his gear outside the residence of
>     the US embassy’s chargé d’affaires. 'We all know that will not
>     change whoever is in power.'"
>     >
>
>
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