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Next DAY OF RECKONING This Thursday, the sixth of January, 2005 is a day of reckoning for America in general and the Democratic Party in particular. That is the date that Congress is scheduled to confirm the vote of the Electoral College. The official vote can be challenged by one Representative and one Senator. To date, no fewer than fourteen Representatives have announced that they will challenge the Electoral College. However, no member of the Senate has yet come forward to support the Congressional challenge, and neither have any of the leading lights of the Democratic Party stepped forward to defend the voting rights of American citizens, who were disenfranchised on the second of November, 2004. In 2000, a group of members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) moved to challenge the vote of the Electoral College, but their attempt collapsed when it failed to convince any member of the Senate to join together with them. Like a scene from Kafka, Albert Gore presided over that stillborn session of challenge to tyranny in Congress. Gore had been the presidential candidate who had won the popular vote and who would have won the Electoral College vote had the state of Florida been allowed to complete its recount. History will record that Albert Gore actually was elected president in 2000, but the manipulation of the courts led to a profound perversion of constitutional democracy that stunned America and shamed it before a world transfixed by the disgraceful spectacle of our planet’s most vocal advocate of democracy descending to the appointment of a puppet president who had lost the election and who was already posturing as Commander-in-Chief. This performance was a travesty of justice and a degradation of American democracy worthy only of a pathetic banana republic. Finally, the curtain was drawn back and the man behind the curtain was exposed. American democracy was proven to be a sham, and the entire planet recognized the passage of an era into the mists of history. In 2004, the myth was allowed to replay itself. The parties campaigned and cavorted through the primaries and the usual convention season. The candidates debated, and the polls narrowed. The vote was held; the exit polls declared one outcome while the official tallies proclaimed another. In haste, John Kerry eagerly conceded the race and swiftly staged a defeat party to announce his eccentric ambition to run for the presidency again in 2008. Since that time, Kerry has been conspicuous by his absence from the public arena. This is odd, perhaps, even bizarre, for the situation in America is more Kafkaesque today than it was in 2000. The election produced no fewer than 57,000 official reports of voting irregularities, by far the highest number in our nation’s history. The internet is awash with reports of vote fraud, computer hacking and racially delineated voter suppression. Kerry and Edwards, the injured parties in this tragic scenario, have done virtually nothing to support investigations into the voting irregularities and the electoral challenges. That fight has been led – improbable as this might seem – by the likes of Ralph Nader who financed a recount in New Hampshire and the Green and Libertarian Parties who paid for the recount in the crucial state of Ohio. In the interim, there was a surreal presidential election in the Ukraine. The results were condemned as fraudulent, and the injured presidential candidate, Victor Yuschenko, led a popular uprising that triggered what will be remembered as The Orange Revolution. A second election was held, and the finishing order was reversed. Victor Yuschenko is now making plans for his inauguration in Kiev. But, John Kerry never promised to be as stalwart defender of voting rights as Victor Yuschenko has been. Kerry announced that he had organized a massive committee of ten thousand lawyers whom he had ordered to move swiftly into attack mode if the election were suspicious in any way whatsoever. To date, Kerry’s legal threat has not materialized. Furthermore, in his acceptance speech in Boston Kerry promised that he would hold George Bush accountable if he flagrantly violated the constitution, but – to date – Kerry’s promise has been empty. American history is repeating itself. Leaders of the CBC are calling for a challenge to the Electoral College in Congress this Thursday. Representatives John Conyers (D-Michigan) and Mel Watt (D-North Carolina) have organized a group of fourteen Representatives who will lay down a challenge to what many Americans and many more international observers regard as the second stolen presidential election in succession. To date, no Senator has stepped forward to join the CBC. Senator Harry Reid, the Minority Leader of the Senate has been totally silent on the CBC challenge. Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the House, has been totally silent on the CBC challenge. Senator John Kerry has been silent. Senator John Edwards has been silent. Senator Edward Kennedy has been silent, and Senator Robert Byrd – by a wide margin the most eloquent opponent of the Bush administration – has been silent. There have been rumours flying around the internet that Senator John Kerry is planning a Pearl Harbor-like sneak attack on his erstwhile opponent, George W. Bush, and that he will ambush him on the sixth of January. At the same time, there have been reports that Senator Kerry has hoarded over fifty million dollars from his campaign coffers to finance his second presidential campaign in 2008. When others asked the Kerry campaign and the Democratic National Committee to help finance the recounts in Ohio and other states, they were met with stony silence. Senator Kerry’s staff consistently refused to take any messages for the Senator concerning the outcome of the election or his potential role in remedial legislation to protect the voting rights of American citizens. Meanwhile, the world has been watching. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were officially invited by the federal government to observe the vote. The OSCE have produced a damning report that will be made available after the Electoral College vote is certified by Congress. Bottom line for the OSCE: American citizens do not enjoy international standards of either: voting rights or democracy. This pronouncement is especially ironic as the OSCE was the official body that declared the Ukrainian elections to be fraudulent which precipitated the second election and the collapse of the ancien regime. Once again, America is poised on the brink of an abysmal precipice. If she leaps into the abyss of acquiescence to a repetitive pattern of stolen presidential elections, it will be easy to prophesy that Jeb Bush will become the forty-fourth president of the United States of America in 2009. The internal politics of the Democratic Party are beginning to approximate the strangest phenomena in the annals of American history. The two party system is morphing into a one party system. The Democrats are merging with the Republicans, and the defining moment may come this Thursday. If no Democratic Senator supports the CBC challenge, the merger will be well and truly under way. When two opposing political parties can agree on terms that allow one party to steal a succession of presidential elections with complete impunity, the total philosophical, political and religious merger of the parties cannot be far behind. If the Democratic members of the Senate lay supine before the facts of the 57,000 voting irregularities of 2004, they will be savaged at the polls in 2006. Additional sources:
Open letter to John Kerry
Talking Points for January 6th Objecting to Electors __________________ Since 1968, Michael Carmichael has been a professional political consultant. Beginning as a Student Coordinator for Robert F. Kennedy, he has worked in five US presidential campaigns as well as over 100 major American political campaigns for federal and state offices. In 1985, he founded The Oxford Centre for Public Affairs in the United Kingdom. In 2003, he founded The Planetary Movement Limited, a global political action organization based in the United Kingdom.
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