When I woke up yesterday, I had this really bright idea... I was going to take a little image of the US and superimpose a black mourning ribbon that said "2004" on it and make a little JPG that people could put on their websites to represent how most of the US really feels. And make a little page they could link to explaining what it meant. But the more the day went on, the more I realized that instead of mourning, we need to act. Do something right now before all of this Enron accounting we call our Presidential election has been run through the shredders.
So instead, I've been trying to think of ways to get involved in trying to fix, or at least expose the truth about this election. If you watch the mainstream "liberal" media, they're all trying to cover their own asses and say that the exit polls must have been wrong, and that the majority of Americans really don't want a chance at health insurance, jobs and peace. No, they're more concerned with whether two gays can get married. That is just SO wrong, on so many levels. I know there is a little cult of Bushies out there that would kill for him in the name of God, but I really don't think the majority of Christians in America are mindless robots.
And for some reason even intelligent, educated people are completely thrown by the fact that computers counted the votes, and computers can't be wrong.... NOT!! It's like the OJ DNA thing, "whoa, science...". That's crazy, even if you have had just casual contact with computers you should know they screw up all the time. And if you've ever gotten a computer virus from an email or a shared disc (does anyone use floppies anymore?) you know easy it is for even one idiot to screw up the system. Imagine what a group of computer savvy corporate jerks could do with millions of dollars and giant corporations behind them.
So I'm with Randi Rhodes, I don't care if people think I'm nuts, I want all of these damned machines examined. There is a group dedicated to doing this already and they are trying hard right now, starting with challenging the election results in New Hampshire, where the variance in the exit poll and the electronic voting tallies are so opposite that it will make your head hurt (click here to see an example graphic comparing exit polls in states with paper ballots compared to those with electronic ballots)
We really don't have to just lower our heads and concede that intelligent Americans are outnumbered by brainless cult members. And we don't need to move to Canada. What makes you think you'd be safe in another country when the US is on an Empire-buuilding rampage? And we can't wait another four years to start thinking about the next election. If they fixed the last two elections, don't you think they already have 2008 all planned out? We don't have to be polite, we need to be demanding AND constructive. So if you can't do anything else, at least go to Black Box Voting.org (the .org NOT the .com people, they're some sort of lookalike scam) and give them the couple of bucks that you might spend on latte or a magazine today to help them with their cause. They've been tracking electronic voting problems since the last "election". The discussions I've heard today even state that some of the voting machines were programmed to start counting BACKWARDS when Kerry's totals reached 50%. I live in Houston, I had friends that worked for Enron, we've seen what can be done to deceive us before, especially if we don't expect people to answer our questions.
And while you're in a mood for justice, sign the petition at Impeach Bush.org (Crap! I just clicked this to check my links, and it says "Site Temporarily Unavailable", here comes Big Brother...)
P.S. The masks are coming off of some of the extreme Neo Cons (and just conservative bullies in general), they seem to feel like they don't even have to pretend to be nice to us anymore. If you don't believe it, watch the re-broadcasts of Bill Maher's last show for the season on HBO this week. He did a live satellite interview with Former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson (R - Wyoming) who went off on him like Zell Miller before he could get two words out. (Interesting threads here and here. It was really quite scary, reminds me of stories my dad told me about growing up in small town Texas during the Depression and how his mom would beat the crap out of him every day for his own good (to make him a better person, my dad is a saint, BTW), and let any of the neighbors beat him too if they thought he needed it.
So if you don't mind old coots and pumped up religious fundamentalists going off on you and whacking you with a stick for "your own good", do nothing. Or move to Canada...
More proof:
Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio