Six months before the 2000 election, I warned a friend
about George W. Bush: "This election," I said, "could
be the last election we ever have in this country."
Well, perhaps it was...The theft of the 2000 election
was a botched job. It was never intended to end up in
the US Supreme Court. They got caught with their hands
in the ballot box. Gore's margin of victory (in
reality, probably something like at least 30K votes)
in Fraudida was too big for them to deftly dispense
with...The theft of the 2002 election was a lot easier
(once Paul Wellstone's plane went down). Since there
was no national popular vote or electoral college math
to worry about, the Clelands, Mondales, etc. were
flushed without significant incident and little
fanfare. Georgia, of course, was one of the first
states to switch to touch screen voting. The theft of
the 2004 election, however, was a tour de force,
featuring targeted fraud via the manipulation of
electronic voting, a massive, national vote suppresion
operation, and a stunning THOUGHT CONTROL effort
produced by the besotted anchors, craven pollsters and
shameless propapunditgandists of the US regimestream
news media...Yes, there was an Electoral Uprising, but
the corruption of the process is so extensive, the
complicity of the news media is so unreserved and
unfortunately, the cowardice of many Democratic Party
leaders is so overpowering, that even an Electoral
Uprising can be air-brushed out of history...
The LNS does not fault either Al Gore or John F. Kerry
for the campaigns they waged. They are both honorable
men and would have made great presidents. But the LNS
does fault them for the way they both capitulated in
the end. The LNS is particularly disappointed in Sen.
Kerry who promised it would be different this time.
What does "I'll fight for you" mean to former Vice
President Gore? What does "No Defeat/No Surrender"
mean to Sen. Kerry? Certainly not what it means to us.
Certainly not what it means to the Americans who stood
for hours on long lines, yesterday, many of them
waiting in vain to vote. The responses of both men, in
the end, were utterly inappropriate. Rage and defiance
are the only appropriate responses to what has gone on
in America over the last few years...To hell with the
politics of timidity personified by former Sen. Tom
Duck-It (D-SD)! And, just so no one misunderstands us,
to hell with the politics of farce and fraud that the
shell-of-a-man-formerly-known-as-Ralph-Nader has
fouled the body politic with for the last two national
elections! Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) speaks for us. UN
General Secretary Kofi Annan speaks for us. To hell
with collaborationists and capitulationists.
So what happens next? "Resistance is NOT futile"
commenced with the theft of the 2000 election, and was
supplanted by the LNS after the theft of the 2002
election. These contributions to the Information
Rebellion were a Shamanic rain dance. We beat the drum
of the LNS every day in the hope that the rain of
mercy would fall on the parched soil of our self
governance. Yes, the rain fell, but unfortunately
because we have already lost control of the fields,
the irrigation system failed...The LNS will now cease
daily postings and distributions. We will shed the
skin of the LNS, just like we shed the skin of
"Resistance is NOT futile" before it, and take on a new skin for the next phase of the political, cultural, spiritual and non-violent struggle to reassert the principles embodied in the US Constitution and the UN Charter and
for the sake of "all that is Good in this world" (as
Sam Gamgee said to Frodo, when in a moment of profound
despair, Frodo asked, "What are we fighting for?")
Consider the remarks of Bob Fertik of
www.democrats.com...
Bob Fertik, www.democrats.com: Americans did not vote
for fascism - but the fascists now control all three
branches of our government - the Presidency, Congress,
and the Supreme Court.
In 1935, Sinclair Lewis warned against the rise of an
American fascism in It Can't Happen Here. Well, it can
- and it will, unless we stop it now.
The media - and much of the progressive Internet - is
full of concessions, explanations, and blame. You
should ignore it all because none of it matters. We
can't wait until the 2008 election, or even 2006. We
must recognize that America in 2004 is like Germany in
1933, and get to work.
We must develop a plan to stop Fascism in America.
Save the US Constitution, Save the Environment, Break
the Corporatist Stranglehold on the News Media in
America, Restore the Sanctity of the Vote.
http://blog.democrats.com/node/91
Starting the fight against fascism in America
by Bob Fertik on November 3, 2004 - 2:25pm.
Americans did not vote for fascism - but the fascists
now control all three branches of our government - the
Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court.
In 1935, Sinclair Lewis warned against the rise of an
American fascism in It Can't Happen Here. Well, it can
- and it will, unless we stop it now.
The media - and much of the progressive Internet - is
full of concessions, explanations, and blame. You
should ignore it all because none of it matters. We
can't wait until the 2008 election, or even 2006. We
must recognize that America in 2004 is like Germany in
1933, and get to work.
We must develop a plan to stop Fascism in America.
The first rule of war is to know the enemy. What do
Bush and the Fascists want?
1. Global war for oil. The evidence is now clear:
Bush's conquest of Iraq was planned long before
September 11. Its origin was the PNAC plan to control
the world's oil by using America's military power to
seize control of the world's oil-producing regions.
2. Unlimited corporate power. Bush wants to eliminate
every tax on corporations, and every regulation
limiting their actions. He wants to make the people of
America (and the world) little more than feudal serfs,
with (perhaps) the illusion of freedom - but no power
to challenge the corporate lords.
3. A police state. In case the American people decide
to resist #1 and #2, the "Patriot" Act was designed to
give the Federal government absolute and unchecked
power to watch us at every moment of the day. And if
John Ashcroft simply says we have ties to "terrorism"
(whatever he wants that to mean), he can send us to a
"legal" CIA torture facility in an undisclosed spot on
the planet where lawyers - and the Supreme Court -
can't find us.
4. Elimination of all forms of government help. Bush
wants the rich to pay no taxes, period. He wants
working people to pay for #1, #2, and #3. That will
soon leave no money for programs that help people:
Social Security, education, health care, environmental
protection, etc.
So how do we fight this Fascism?
Let's start with an inventory of our strengths.
1. We are not alone. 55 million Americans voted
against Bush, despite a massive propaganda campaign.
We have enormous support from friends of freedom
around the world.
2. We can communicate. We have the Internet (including
outstanding blogs and enormous e-mail lists), some
excellent publications and broadcast alternatives, a
handful of friends in the mainstream media, and
fast-growing Air America Radio.
3. We have money. Apart from George Soros, very few of
us are rich. But nearly all of us have a few dollars
we can spend every month fighting Fascism. In 2004
alone, we collectively raised hundreds of millions of
dollars for Democratic and progressive campaigns. More
importantly, we collectively earn - and spend -
trillions of dollars.
With all of these assets, what can we do?
1. Protest Bush everywhere he goes. John Kerry had to
concede under tremendous pressure from the media and
the financial markets. But we - the 55 million
Americans who voted for Kerry - do not have consider
Bush a legitimate President until every vote be
counted, every election crime is investigated, and
every black box voting machine is audited. Until that
work is complete, we truly will not know if George W.
Bush won the 2004 election. In 2000, we protested the
Inauguration and every Presidential visit until 9-11
because we believed Bush was not truly elected, and
the facts ultimately proved Gore won Florida. We can -
and should - resume our protests and continue our
in-depth investigation of the 2004 election.
2. Boycott fascist funders. In October, progressive
activists launched a spontaneous boycott against
Sinclair Broadcasting and its advertisers. After two
weeks of lost advertisers and falling stock prices,
Sinclair buckled. This was a huge success, and we
should now broaden this boycott to all right-wing
media networks, especially FOX, ABC talk radio,
Clearchannel, and NBC. We should also broaden it to
the corporations whose owners contributed hundreds of
millions to the Bush campaign and its 527 allies.
3. Investigate and demand prosecution for Republican
corruption and crimes. Attorney General John Ashcroft
is a leading fascist, but he is not the only person
who can investigate and prosecute crimes. For example,
Austin District Attorney Ronnie Earle is investigating
fascist Tom DeLay. New York State Attorney General
Elliot Spitzer has taken on huge corporations and won.
The blogosphere is super at investigating complicated
issues, without the need for any hierarchical
structures; any determined individual can start a blog
and enlist help in their effort. (We encourage you to
create a blog at Democrats.com for your efforts).
Working together, blog teams should go beyond raising
suspicions, and actually assemble hard facts that
honest prosecutors can use in court.