This article is not just meant to be a scary story or the prediction of a nightmare. This was written to generate the question "At what point in this story do the American people revert to some kind of radical next step to stop this from coming to fruition?" and to generate answers to that question.
It's 10:00 PM, Pacific Time, on the eighth of November, 2006. Many people are either scratching their heads, shaking their heads or both.
On October 29, 2006, polls showed that people favored Democrats over Republicans in yesterday's mid term election. During yesterday's elections, exit polls for most of the congressional elections indicated that a vast majority of people voted for the Democratic candidate.
Yet, today, the eighth of November, well after the voting has ended, Democrats lost eight house seats and only won one Senatorial race. How could this be?
Many are convinced that malfeasance and fraud entered the election process and have immediately tried to bring suit to stop the declaration of a winner, only to have the cases thrown out by judges that were ultimately put in place by The Regime. Appeals will probably take place, but like 2000 and 2004, those appeals will be too late. Even if appeals reach the Supreme Court, is there any doubt in whose favor the court will rule?
The entire nation seems to be suspicious this time , although the mainstream media reports some disappointment in some corners concerning closely fought contests. They of course, begin a discussion about how the surprising results will affect policy in Bush's last two years as president. The only mention they make about the anomalous difference between exit polls and the final results is to say that, with today's technology, exit polls have become antiquated and almost useless. They fail, however, to explain how that is.
Many of us say, "OK, now it's even more important to become active for the 2008 elections." That statement is followed by the directive to start making calls and pounding the pavement.
Groups like MoveOn and Common Cause tell us that the election was stolen and strongly suggest that we write to our Senators and Representatives, demanding recounts for many of the elections. Of course, where there are no paper trails there can be no recounts. Besides, with Republicans picking up eight house seats and maintaining control of congress, who are these Senators and Representatives to whom we should write?
Articles on Common Dreams, TruthOut, TruthDig and many on line news sources quote experts who say that the voting machines were probably hacked or set up illegally.
Investigative reporters like Greg Palast write articles about the disenfranchisement of black voters, the long lines in strategic voting areas or early closings of polls in some areas. Other articles in the alternative media point out other subtle or even outright evidence of criminal conduct surrounding the elections.
Right wing pundits and other Regime supporters tell us to "stop whining. You lost again. Get over it."
Bush goes before the cameras and assures the American people that he personally saw to it that all elections were fair. He assures the minority that he will have their well being in mind when he "invents" policy (we are unsure if this is a Freudian slip or just a Bushism).
It's late January and the 110th Congress has been sworn in. People are all but trembling as they wait for this congress to tackle the tough issues facing it.
Almost the entire country is hoping that the new congress won't extend the war in Iraq or vote to attack Iran. That's not the first issue to be brought up and voted on.
NARAL, NOW and many other Americans fear that Roe v Wade will be overturned immediately, but their fears are calmed as that, also, is not the first issue for debate and a vote.
There are those who had some hope but have lost it all because they know that the other shoe will soon drop on the gay marriage issue. They have to wait a little longer, though, as that is not the first issue addressed either.
Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews.
Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.His CDs may be purchased at CD Baby.
A sleepless night after listening to results coming in across the nation. The fears become reality. The Repubs maintain control of Congress, Repubs unseat Dem governors. It happened and all the warning and concerns gone for nothing.
Mr. Venturelli, (a good Irish name, sort of like mine), I'd never seen that video before. I appreciate the link.
It was obviously made before the (Robertsless) Supreme Court voted against The Regime's tribunal process for "terrorist suspects". The Front Man's taken care of that one with a signing statement, though, hasn't he? He's signed so many of them, it's hard to keep up. It's almost as if The Regime has no use for the legislative or the judicial branches of the government.
Of course, that would be very close to a dictatorship and that would never happen in these, The Wonderful United States of God Bless America. When our president insists upon initiating a new process, it's only to protect America and her interests. Have we had another 9/11 since 9/11? No. Can you disagree with a president who's kept us from another 9/11? I know that I'm grateful to Washington through Clinton for their parts in preventing a 9/11. You see how that works? There were no 9/11s before 9/11 and there haven't been any since. God bless President Bush!
Whoa, whoa, I'm getting carried away.
The CIA in the drug business? Like the man said, good for the economy.
Ms Carr, we may need something more convincing than tiki torches and pitch forks.
Every once in a while, I wonder if the Weather Underground didn't have it right in the sixties.
I'm not making any suggestions, mind you.
Michael Bonanno
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Michael Bonanno (85 articles, 19 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 123 comments)
on Monday, October 30, 2006 at 2:37:29 PM
I was shaking in my boots just thinking that the proof of Saddam's possession of WMDs would manifest itself in the form of a mushroom cloud.
Every time I walked out of the house, I scanned the sky for one of those drones that were going to sprinkle killing dust on me like I was some low fat TV dinner that needed salt.
Then, I was never as frightened of the Soviet Union's thousands of nuclear warheads as I was of the possibility that Saddam might have someday in the future begun the drawings for his one undeliverable nuclear weapon. What a God send to have the strength of George W. Bush to sacrifice members of other peoples' families to defend their country against clouds of mushrooms.
And Iran? If it ever finishes its one weapon it may be able to take out Westerly, Rhode Island, especially if our military are playing war games at the time and don't notice the pterodactyl entering American air space with the weapon.
It's a good thing that our president, the president of morality, has the good sense to know that civilized nations resort to intense diplomacy for as long as it takes to avert a war before invading a nation. Kim Jong Il is level headed and someone to whom we should give every chance in the world. How frightening it would be if our president was to invade a nation that actually has nuclear weapons.
I try not to think back to 2004. My vice-president told me that if John Kerry had won that election, we would, again, have been attacked. As soon as I heard him say that, my heart just jumped up into my throat.
Then there are the important domestic issues.
Only a president as strong as George W. Bush can save us from the deep, dark disastrous devastation that is gay marriage. He's absolutely right. Let a man marry a man or a woman marry a woman and the next thing you know the rate of divorce among heterosexuals will actually exceed 50%. Not only that, but I'm sure wombats and canaries will begin dating. Scary stuff.
Are we not frightened beyond words that, if the Democrats should take control of congress, our Christian nation will once again become secular? We just don't pay attention when The Lord punishes us for allowing homosexuals to live among us. Wasn't his 9/11 message enough! Wasn't his Katrina message enough! Did we learn nothing from the Michael Jackson trial? What does God have to do to us for us to realize that we must adhere The Ten Commandments to every surface of ever wall in every building in every city in every state in this nation of Jesus and the Apostles? Hell awaits those who disagree. Hear the ghashing, the weeping, the screaming, the R-rated language.
If bin Laden doesn't get us again, and he will, Ahmadinejad will get us, and he will as well.
Be frightened, be very frightened.
But, remember, you have nothing to fear but those things The Regime says themselves. That's fear, though, not left wing paranoia.
Hold on to your well paying yard work job, another Mexican just crossed the border!
Progressive paranoia – only to be outdone by regressive hypocrisy.
Michael Bonanno
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Michael Bonanno (85 articles, 19 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 123 comments)
on Monday, October 30, 2006 at 8:57:52 PM
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