Black November; A Terrible Day in American History, or an American Terrorist Group?
By Rob Kall
Will the Ken Blackwells and Katherine Harrisses of the corrupt right wing steal more elections this fall, now that HAVA has forced even more voting districts to go electronic? And will the criminals Blackwell and Harris get their due as murderers of Democracy?
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I woke up from a dream with the phrase "Black November" echoing in my head. I was dreaming of how, in 2008, Governor Ken Blackwell, Senator Chuck Hagel, Senator Katherine Harris and Governor Jeb Bush would all be in the republican primary running to be the '08 presidential candidate.
The November 2006 elections were already far behind us. The Democratic Party’s re-taking of congress never happened. The pollsters' predicted wins by democratic candidates throughout the U.S. never happened. HAVA-required electronic, no-paper-ballot, recordless voting happened. And there were Republican "upsets" at all levels of government in the November 2006.
One thing all the 2008 Republican presidential candidates in my dream had in common was connection to vote theft and vote technology companies. I'm not sure about Hagel or Bush. But Blackwell and Harris are well documented. They shouldn't be running for governor and senator. They should be running for their lives, looking over their shoulders, afraid that some patriotic nut who believes in Democracy and honest elections might take justice into his or her hands. In my dream-- a fantasy I certainly wouldn't countenance, suggest or encourage-- a person with terminal cancer goes after them.
That's just a dream. These criminals should be facing real justice. But I kind of like the idea of Harris and Blackwell losing sleep, worrying about being in danger. I like the thought that maybe they have to pay for extra security guards, that they look over their shoulders more than they need to, because they're worried someone might be after them.
In my dream, the 2008 Republican primary is very hot. The question is, will Jeb's newly appointed Florida Secretary of state be able to fine tune the voter eligibility rolls of the Republicans so he can ace out Katherine "2006 kingmaker" Harris.
Ken Blackwell is a shoe in for Ohio and the Midwest, in Diebold territory. Hagel has Nebraska, Texas and the states where ES & S, the vote technology company in which Hagel had been a major shareholder in, (which he failed to disclose when he won his senate election) provided the election "delivery" technology.
In my dream, there was an organization called Black November-- not because November is the month when, in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006, elections were blatantly stolen, but because Black September, as the name of a terrorist organization, was already taken. My dream had a band of "terrorists" who were assassinating secretaries of state who had murdered democracy by corrupting and stealing elections.
There were no murders when the dream woke me up. Well, no murders of secretaries of state. After almost eight years of election thefts, democracy in America was, at best, in a comatose state. As I was waking from my dream, I wondered how, in Iraq, Mujaheddin could be sacrificing their lives to fight for freedom for their sects-- Sunni, Shi’a and Kurd.
Still a bit sleepy, I picked up a new book I'd just picked up, Karen Armstrong's A Brief History of Myth. It posits that people do things to experience the transcendent, to reconnect with and get back to the "mythic" Garden of Eden, which just about every myth describes in one way or another.
I think about the Islamic suicide bombers, considered martyrs by their culture, how they live the last weeks or months of their lives with their heads filled with anticipation of heavenly reward. I think about how a segment of our American, born-again fundamentalists, who send innocent inner city kids off to war to die for them, while envisioning an apocalyptic reward for their hewing to their faith, which ends in the rapture, with all the good believers being plucked into heaven by god, who leaves all the people who don't believe like they do suffering on earth.
And I wonder where the American mujaheddin are, that these hypocritical born agains who support criminals who steal elections, who tax the poor and give to the rich are such a pathetic counterpart to the paradise seekers in the Islamic lands. (I also always remember that not all born-agains are right wing extremists. Some are principled, fair, walking much closer in the footsteps of Jesus. But my dream, which woke me before six AM, leaves me with the words "Black November" ringing in my head. Is it a group that revenges the offenses of the criminal secretaries of state? Or is it a term which describes how those dark Novembers of 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 will be remembered?
I Google black November. The 1918 influenza epidemic in New Zealand is called Black November. There are 34,600 pages found on Google for Black November.
I find a 1989 book titled Red November, Black November. It's about the IWW Labor group. It's ironic. Our black Novembers have certainly also been red Novembers, since the Republicans have "won" the crooked, rigged elections, sometimes even before the vote started, by rigging the voting rolls.
My dream wakes me up. I get out of bed. I start writing.
I'm awake now. It's April 2006. November is a long way off. I find myself thinking about how likely it is that two of the worst criminals in the history of Democracy, Ken Blackwell and Katherine Harris, instead of being executed as traitors to democracy and arch criminals who betrayed the most sacred principles the USA stands for, will very likely win the elections they are not only running in, but through direct and indirect means, corrupting and controlling. I am disgusted that Mike DeWine, one of the primary perpetrators of the HAVA (Help America Vote Act) laws, which, now, can clearly be seen as a tool for systematic theft of elections throughout the US, will also probably use this diabolical tool to steal his re-election.
I am not a violent person. I don't advocate any violent action. But I wonder how, in Iraq, people who support the US occupation government are killed in huge numbers, and yet, how here in the US, two disgusting traitors against democracy walk free, feeling safe and secure. I repeat. I do not advocate illegal actions of any kind, and never have... in my life. But these criminals-- Harris and Blackwell should be waking up in the middle of the night, worried that if they are not successful in stealing another election, they will be brought to trial. They should be looking over their shoulders, worried that...
this section of the article was removed after I got a call from a special agent of the capitol police regarding the verbiage that had been here. Appearently the agent was contacted by Katherine Harris's office. I have written about this conversation at length, here. The short story is that the words I used have been pulled because I don't want to encourage anyone who is mentally unstable or stupid to actually act on my imaginary story. My goal was to vividly describe the idea. Apparently, my message reached congresswoman Harris's office.
....getting ready to rectify the injustice they perpetrated. I just want them to worry about it.
Of course, what I really do WANT, is to see a whole raft of democrats elected in November. I would like to see the congress be taken back by a Democratic majority, with some strong leaders who will find the spine and testicles to institute criminal hearings that eventually bring charges against Blackwell, Harris, Bush, Cheney and a whole lot of other criminals. I would like to see hearings that reach a level of evidence that justify Harris and Blackwell being incarcerated while they await trial. I'd like to see hearings that invalidate the appointments of the judges that were made by an illegally inaugurated President. I'd like to see the laws rolled back. Those last ideas are silly dreams, impossible fantasies. But, if we do prevent another Black November, and we do take back the house and senate, just how far can we go to reverse six years of presidential corruption, lies, regulation easing and elimination, appointments of judges, officials, administrators, diplomats...?
What will we do? But before we get to those questions, we have to make sure that there is no black November of stolen elections. In my county, two contemptible Republicans. Charles H. Martin and James F. Cawley, who wasn't even elected (I'm not sure whether they're corrupt, stupid or both) decided that they would take away our right to elections that had integrity-- elections that could be trusted, in which the vote could be voter verified and recountable. The one Democratic supervisor, Sandra Miller, wasn't much better. She didn't fight for vote technology with integrity. She often seemed more opposed to allowing voting integrity advocates present their case than the Republicans. But she saw the writing on the wall-- how determined the voters were, and changed her mind at the very last moment, surprised the two other supervisors. All three deserve to and WILL be voted out of office in the next election. In my county the majority of voters wanted paper ballots. These idiots failed to respect the interests of We the People. They'll get their due.
These low life bastards have their counterparts all across the country. As we see the failures of electronic voting technology across the country we still see these disgusting scum of the earth, like the Bucks County Commissioners mentioned, moving forward, using HAVA as an excuse to replace more trustworthy technologies with worthless, unreliable, easily hackable technology that does not enable honest recounts. The people who are making the decisions to purchase these machines are of the same ilk as Harris and Blackwell. They deserve to be booted out of office, not elevated to higher office.
I believe they are traitors to democracy. We must fight them now. We must use every legal strategy available to sue the, to enjoin them and, in some cases to prosecute and incarcerate them. We must investigate them to see if they have more money in the bank, from bribes from voting machine companies. If' they're elected officials, we must investigate to see if they've received PAC money donations that have come through voting machine companies. We must let them know that we see them as criminals. Imagine Robert DeNiro, one finger to his eye, the other pointing at them. We have our eyes on you, you bastards, and we're going to make sure that justice finds you.
Authors Bio:
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.
To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.