Reply #5: Sounds to me like an open and shut case of judicial impropriety, whatever you

[Peace Patriot]

think of Nader. Judges must not permit even the appearance of partiality. They MUST recuse themselves--even for PAST ties, and the ties being in the public record makes no difference. What a stupid, evasive, 'bait and switch' defense! They are SUPPOSED TO BE in the public record.

If we ridicule people whom we dislike, or have a grudge against, for asserting their right--such as the right to an impartial judge--in a situation like this, we are not very good Democrats, small or big d.

What if you were in different country, and it was YOU who tried an independent run for president, and you found yourself in court over it, with there being not a single judge in the entire country who wasn't appointed by one of two political parties with a lock on all the power?

It's a rigged game. We really should admit this. I've been a loyal Democratic voter and supporter for over 40 years, and even I can see this. The tweedledee/tweedledum syndrome IS a problem, and a huge one. And the cozy relationships of judges, law firms and political establishments--not to mention the ultimate puppetmasters, the Corporate Rulers--is very corrupt and corrosive.

This is a bad ruling. And notice the use of the passive tense in the sentence, "The complaint was later dismissed." This is bad writing and bad journalism as well. Dismissed by WHOM? And what were his/her connections to all this?

I've been in court on behalf of the environment, and I know how rigged the legal game can get. It's sickening. And it's time we recognized what a sick legal and political system we have, and DO something about. I personally don't think a third party or independent campaign is a good idea, at the moment. We've gone way, way too far toward fascism for something like to actually work, and to result in desperately needed reform. I think our situation is perilous, and very close to that of Germany in the 1930s, in which Hitler used the fracturing of the center/left, to come to power. So we must not let that happen. (You think things couldn't get worse? Think again.) We need to think long term, and past the next election, and start reforming this system from the grass roots up, beginning with local campaigns to get rid of voting machines run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations. We have a lot of fundamental work to do, before we ever have proper representation in Washington DC again. Picking on Nader or the Green Party is not going to solve our problems--any more than picking on the Communists in Germany in the 1930s solved that country's problems. The problems are STRUCTURAL, and involve blatant mechanisms for election theft, combined with corporate monopolies of news and opinion, and an out-of-control war industry. None of it can be solved--or even addressed--without transparent vote counting, the most fundamental condition of democracy.