The Day the Presidency Was Stolen from Al Gore and the American People: December 12, 2000, and the Supreme Court Coup

This ridiculous instrument of "lifetime" judges should go first. The Bush gang has now implanted the fate of the next generations by appointing their crooks.

US is definetely not a democracy, if a president is allowed to appoint the representatives of justice and is allowed to veto the legislature.

Sounds pretty much like former Sowjet Union or the assembly of the peoples republic of China. Funny that US authorities think these are were or are not democracies.

Freedom off press becomes a bitter term when 100% of the US press and media is owned by a few companies or tycoons like Rupert Murdoch.

So, don't worry about the past elections and who may have rigged them it is of no help, what is happening now and in the future is important.

As to the origin of all that ails us today, you hit the
target perfectly!

We get nowhere, however, scapegoating the Court, or anybody else for that matter - as Pogo said "we have met the enemy and he is us!"

Gore never loved the Constitution enough to fight for his legitimate and inalienable rights under it! He, like every other dishonorable politician who has chosen to serve under an illegitimate administration since 12/12/2000, deserves no less than our vigorous and everlasting contempt as progressive Americans.

There is a way to STOP the Rush to Fascism that now bedevils us in America dead in its tracks. But it will take more than scapegoating and revanchist thinking!

What it will take is American Progressives consistently and in solidarity speaking and writing passionately from the heart in a moral, ethical and spiritual way that relentlessly minces no words and unerringly goes for the jugular at all times according to a new secular language of the sacred that our Founding Fathers would readily understand.

There is such a language! But, American Progressives are not any more interested than is the DNC.

Apparently, they all think being an American is all about being heartless, timid, superficial, amoral, unethical, devoid of any spirit whatsoever and probably completely oblivious of our founders altogether.

Long live Pogo!

RKF

truthisall.net

http://us.share.geocities.com/electionmodel/TruthIsAllFAQResponse.htm

In every election, millions of votes are never counted. They represent a significant component of the exit poll discrepancies. According to the 2000 Census, 110.8m votes were cast but only 105.4m recorded, leaving 5.4m uncounted. Most were from heavily democratic minority districts. Assuming that 75% were Gore votes, his true margin was close to 3 million, not the 540,000 recorded. But that doesn’t include likely vote-switching to Bush on DREs and optical scanners. And don’t forget the millions of disenfranchised Democrats who never even got to the voting booth. Gore’s 540,000 “official” vote margin is a long-running media myth.

The 2000 election wasn’t even close, although the media would like us to believe it was. Only the 5-4 Supreme Court decision was close. Consider the Florida fiasco. Bush “won” by 537 “official” votes before the Supreme Court aborted the recount - and 175,010 spoiled (under-punched and over-punched) ballots were never counted. Since approximately 75% were intended for Gore, he probably won Florida by more than 80,000 votes. The spoiled punched cards in Florida were just the tip of the national iceberg.

I thank Buzz for this reminder. As a recent and ardent Gore supporter -he's now made it clear he won't run 08 so I've no choice but to switch to Obama, who can easily work with Gore -I sincerely believed Al was made for this very moment in time. But maybe he'll do a better healing the world from without, unencumbered by this lecherous and unreliable Democratic Congress. You are absolutely right on point though to bring up the Supreme Court as the real needle in this government haystack. In Asia, scientist were puzzled over why elephants began rampant and deadly rampages. The elephants appeared almost crazed, deliberately attacking and killing other animals and people to destroying villages for no reason. The scientific community finally discovered that the elephants were all groups of young bulls moved away from their family herds, and put together into new all male herds. Alone and with with no dominant patriarch or matriarch to guide their behavior, they resorted to an inbred violence. President Bush and Chief Justice Roberts are two such bulls. With no obvious respect for matriarchs or patriarchs or history or precedent, these two can't get along with anyone and have divided everyone. You know things are terrible wrong when on the floor of the House of Representatives Texas Republican Ted Poe, an ex Judge himself, cried out for justice from this Supreme Court over the number of death penalty appeal cases left languishing in costly prisons for years and years. While in the netherworld world of the Court, Ken Starr and 'Bong Hits for Jesus' were more deserving of the Courts record low caseload, not to mention the Chamber of Commerce just reported that under Roberts rule, business has won more decisions than ever before in the Chambers' entire history. Nationalism is not terrorism. And an adversary is not an enemy.

Hate to be a party-pooper, but a LOT of Dems, including BOTH of Washington's "liberal" senators, voted for the two far right recently appointed appointees to the Roberts court.

Since the DNC has been co-opted from Howard Dean down, I say, "Let the whole da*med country implode." The two-party system is thoroughly corrupt, Kucinich or Edwards haven't got a prayer of being elected, Obama is not the liberal we hope him to be ("let's nuke Pakistan"), and Hillary is a closet Republican. We sometimes get what we deserve, and right now, American deserve someone like Huckabee.

When the moral, military and economic authority of America gets thoroughly trashed, maybe a phoenix will rise from the ashes. To make an omelette, however, you need to break some eggs, and sometimes an entire country.

The fix is in (Hillary or, at best, her surrogate Obama. I say, "Bring it on." We do not need to make the edicts of the Supreme Court seem archaic. The rest of the world will do that. Unless Gore runs, I will not be voting in 2008. My guess is that tens of millions of lefties like myself will do likewise.

The article neglects to mention that there are currently four fascists on the supreme court -- Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts -- who believe in a "unitary executive," which means they would empower a president, particularly a Republican president, who unilaterally declares war to unilaterally do whatever the executive darn well pleases. In short, if a Republican president appoints one more fascist to the supreme court, that Republican president could assume dictatorial powers with the blessings of the supreme court, and we could say good bye to the social safety net, labor protections, social security, Medicare, freedom from government surveillance and arbitrary arrests, habeas corpus, and pretty much all of the Bill of Rights, with the possible exception of the second amendment (gun nuts could keep their Saturday night specials, but of course they would not be allowed arms that would actually enable them to challenge their fascist government forces).

As pathetic and disappointing as the Democrats are, American citizens should be aware of the alternative because they could quickly go from the frying pan into the fire.

Demand that Obama, Edwards, Clinton, Richardson, Dodd, Biden, or even Kucinich do anything?

Never. And why? Because we have to vote Democrat no matter what. We can't have a Republican in the White House. We've reached a level of thinking that's politically fundamentalist akin to that of the Evangelical Christians in America who support the core ideas spoken of in the Book of Revelation.

We don't know why we support Obama, Edwards, or Clinton. We say they speak well, look good, have passion, will "listen" to us, etc. Nobody knows what exactly they stand for and they aren't supposed to. If Americans really knew the true stances and histories of these candidates, the Democratic voters would not vote in the election. They'd just stay at home and be frustrated with the choices.

The people cannot demand the candidates promise anything with the Supreme Court no more than Bush can promise to stop believing he will be viewed as the messiah when the history of his presidency is written in text books for schools across America.

The Bush Judiciary is packed with political "true believers"- from the Administrative Law Judges to U.S. Magistrates to Bankruptcy Judges to District Court and Circuit Court Judges. Some of these people have terms of office - but the Article III Judges serve for life.

The scope of the damage done by the SCT appointments is like a mushroom - 95% of it is hidden - the entire structure of justice in our federal administrative system and courts - has been packed with zealots.

It is hard to understand how a single President accomplished so much harm in so little time.

"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
- Bertrand Russell -

May the Filthy Five rot in hell (well, one of them is). But before that, may they be tormented by hot burning boils on their butts, stones in their kidneys, and an odiferous, inexplicable itch.