Reply #18: It's becoming clear to me that we have to go further than impeachment. We need to

[Peace Patriot]

nullify the 2004 election as having been held under non-transparent conditions (80% of the votes 'counted' by two rightwing Bushite corporations, Diebold and ES&S, on extremely insecure and insider hackable voting machines, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls--I mean, come on....), and perhaps the 2000 election as well, and rescind all Bush appointments to the federal bench and the Supreme Court.

The trouble is, Congress was elected pretty much the same way.

They're almost all holding power as the result of this new Stalinist vote counting system.

"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." --Josef Stalin

And until we restore transparent vote counting, we can expect the treason, the war, the looting of our federal treasury, and the destruction of the United States of America to continue unchecked.

Vote counting that everyone can see and understand.

Vote counting in the PUBLIC VENUE.

The very definition of elections and democracy--transparent vote counting--is gone.

So it should be no surprise that everything else is going, going, gone: reason, truth, fairness, honesty, rule of law, equality before the law, accountability, majority rule, civil rights, human rights, labor rights, taxation with representation, no kings, the sovereignty of the people, regulation of corporations, protection of the environment, the separation of church and state, public education, upward mobility for the poor, no wars of aggression, international law, world peace, and everything that our forebears have struggled to achieve for 200 years, and that progressive and enlightened human beings have struggled for, for ten thousand years.

All of it was contingent on transparent vote counting, which the fascists have taken away.

The place to be, in protest, is at your local country registrar's office, and the sign to be carrying is, "Hand-counted paper ballots." There is still hope that election transparency can be restored by activism at the state/local level, where ordinary people still have some influence. A long, hard struggle, to be sure, but well worth it, if we are to pass this democracy on to future generations, as it was passed by others to us.

Until we win that struggle, don't be surprised at any tyrannical action, such as Bush's commutation of Libby's sentence, or the dismissal of Valerie Plame's lawsuit. We really must understand that we have suffered a fascist coup, and that it occurred in October 2002, by Congress, and I don't mean the Iraq War Resolution--I mean the "Help America Vote for Bush Act" (aka, HAVA), which appropriated $3.9 billion in boondoggle funding to fast-track non-transparent, electronic voting systems all over the country before the 2004 election. The two acts--IWR and HAVA--passed in the same month, are closely related: the one for unjust war, the other, the means to shove unjust war down the throats of the American people (56% of whom opposed it at that time--now grown to 70%, as the bad guys knew it would). The Iraq War was the first tyranny of HAVA, but it will not be its last.