Coup d'etat 2000: understanding what we're up against

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coup d'etat: a sudden, decisive exercise of power whereby the existing government is subverted without the consent of the people. The sudden overthrow of a government by a usually small group of persons in or previously in positions of authority.

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- Democrats were asleep at the wheel and should have seen the red flag when Baker and others were ridiculing the democratic process and the ideal of fair elections. They thought they were participating in fair play and the 'peaceful transfer of power' when they capitulated and allowed the supreme court to decide the 2000 election and install a small cabal of wealthy elites against the will of the majority.

- No one but the disenfranchised wanted to talk about the election fraud or the illegal and unConstitutional Supreme Court decision. It was business as usual for Republicans and Democrats alike as they went about seating themselves at the table of power and securing their own butts and careers.

- At first the Democrats didn't seem to understand that they were signing a 'pact with the devil' when they agreed to overlook a stolen election for the 'good of the country'. They didn't fully appreciate the fact that those they helped install into power had plans to work outside the law, Constitution and democracy.

- But Democrats understand it now. They know that the Bush* cabal set up America for an attack on 911 and allowed that attack to proceed unhindered. They know the Bush* cabal then intentionally used the attack as an excuse for illegal, aggressive war and occupation. And they now understand that the attacks on 911 and the war never had to happen...but were allowed or made to happen to further the political agenda of the right.

- The Bush* cabal didn't go through all the trouble and expense to stage a coup only to have themselves voted out in November. They don't seem very worried: their opponents still don't seem to 'get it' as they go about campaigning like this is just another election for the peaceful transfer of power in America.

- Jefferson speaks to us from the grave:

"Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and individuals and their families selected for the trust. Whether our Constitution has hit on the exact degree of control necessary, is yet under experiment." --Thomas Jefferson to M. van der Kemp, 1812. ME 13:136

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." --Thomas Jefferson