Eve
On Election: Women’s
Electoral Wisdom
By Lucinda Marshall
07 November, 2006
Countercurrents.org
Late last, week HBO started airing
an astounding documentary called “Hacking
Democracy” which documents Black
Box Voting’s Bev Harris' efforts to prove that electronic
voting is not only hackable, it has been hacked. As Doris
“Granny D” Haddock points out in her commentary
about the show,
“What is shown by the
film is that, if Diebold designed their ATM machines the way they design
their voting machines, none of us would have a dime left in our bank
accounts. Such remarkable facts are usually not the result of incompetence,
but of design.”
Perhaps the most jaw-dropping
piece of information in this documentary is that John Kerry not only
knew that the voting machines could be hacked and votes manipulated
before he conceded the election, he knew that in fact it had happened.
Yes, that is right, Kerry knew there was evience that the election could
have been rigged and he still threw in the towel.
I have always wondered how
Kerry suddenly catapulted to the lead spot in that election. It had
to have been more than Howard Dean’s scream. Could it have been
a very orchestrated effort to make sure that if something went wrong
and the Republicans weren’t able to control and win the election
as planned that someone who supported the agenda behind the war on terrorism
would still be at the helm?
In the run-up to this election,
it is important to remember that we have Nancy Pelosi saying that impeachment
won’t be on the table if the Dems win control of the House and
Howard Dean saying that no, the Democratic Party doesn’t have
a plan for bringing the troops home or ending the Iraq conflict anytime
soon. It has taken six long years for the consciousness of the American
public to reach critical mass in understanding that something is seriously
wrong with this presidency. But what we are still refusing to see is
that the Democratic Party is not a true alternative. No matter what
happens on Wednesday morning, we are still going to be sitting in a
deep smelly pile of brown stuff with no real plan to clean up the mess.
Another woman who has worked
tirelessly to expose the hijacking of democracy is Rep. Cynthia McKinney
(D-GA). From the beginning she has questioned the official 911 story
and worked to document the disenfranchisement of black voters. All of
this is documented in American
Blackout which you can now view on the web (click the Windows
Media link). Because of McKinney’s courageous insistance on telling
the truth, she has been the victim of two highly organized campaigns
to drive her out of office. You’ll recall earlier this year she
was accused of hitting a Capitol Hill police officer who stopped her
when she didn’t show him her id. The supposed video evidence of
the incident was never released and the charges were dropped, but not
before the way over the top news coverage had done its damage. McKinney
lost her primary and will not be returning to office in January.
So before you go out and
celebrate Tuesday night/sink into the depths of depression depending
on how this goes down, sit yourself down and watch these films that
document the work of these two courageous women. Until we understand
the extent to which our democracy has been stolen, we will not be able
to reclaim it.
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