My friends lived off-grid--an island in New Zealand's Marlborough Sound--reached by ferry, battered Land Rover, rowed dory, then backpack trek across jagged rock ledges.
I lay on a cot in the garden shed through the night, solar radio against my ear, listening to the BBC reporting on Bush-Gore exit polls, 2004.
My absentee ballot had not offered the category, "none of the above." Hoping for an uncorrupted adult as president, I'd done a Ron Paul write-in.
I could smell rank penguin pee from their waddle to a burrow beyond the house, and orange blossom from the garden. From the exit polls in my own country, I could smell chicanery.
Electronic voting machines reportedly mangling input. Paper ballots going walkabout.
Frat-boy forever-war Bush, not the last embarrassment from Texas, has segued to the Great Dark Hope.
BO, Mr. Hope and Change, has just gutted the Bill of Rights. Domestic terrorists-R-Us. Can we count on honest elections in 2012?
I smell pig-poop.
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This is crazy. When are we going to get out of the twilight zone where people accept election results when ballots are counted in secret with no oversight. In the twilight zone people are easily tricked into voting against their own best interests. A lie is the truth and the truth is a lie.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to get out of the twilight zone by supporting #OWS. It's up to the people to stop the corruption. If we don't do it ... it will not be stopped.
Honest elections are a thing of the past until we change the two party system. It is all rigged. I have shared this before,in other forums, but believe it is relevant here. I saw Karl Rove on FOX news,shortly after he left his job with Bush, and he made the following comment; "We are the great thespians of our day", meaning himself, other politicians, and the scum who were interviewing him. An honest election in 2012? The answer is an unqualified no, and I am so sad about that.
ReplyDeleteIf they did 911, do you think they are going to let little old Ron Paul stop their plans. A violent revolution is inevitable.
ReplyDeleteYou are not homeless, you are free, free from odious rules and oppressive tyrants. More important, you seem to have access to the internet, the greatest educational and communications source available to human kind.
ReplyDeleteYou are now free to be what you want to be, spread the word.
Appreciate insightful comments, including a long one not posted regarding religious specialness impacting foreign policy. Religious exceptional-ism exceeds common decency and hope for a humankind- and planet-friendly future. Let's leave it at that.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the probable exit to the money-labyrinth of politics. The Supreme Court has not exactly clothed itself in glory, deeming itself the arbiter of the 2000 election, and now dubbing corporations as individuals, opening sluice gates of corporate bribes for future favors--Super PACs bloating with corporate millions of dollars for the candidate most complicit and compliant.
It stinks. Will the predator class continue to triumph in so-called elections?
Naomi Wolf's warning to corrupted Congress may stand as a seminal read for our journey into 2012:
ReplyDelete"...Mussolini, who created the modern template for fascism, was a duly elected official when he started to direct paramilitary forces against Italian citizens: yes, he sent the Blackshirts to beat up journalists, editors, and union leaders; but where did these militarized groups appear most dramatically and terrifyingly, snapping at last the fragile hold of Italian democracy? In the halls of the Italian Parliament. Whom did they physically attack and intimidate? Mussolini’s former colleagues in Parliament — as they sat, just as our Congress is doing, peacefully deliberating and debating the laws. Whom did Hitler’s Brownshirts arrest in the first wave of mass arrests in 1933? Yes, journalists, union leaders and editors; but they also targeted local and regional political leaders and dragged them off to secret prisons and to torture that the rest of society had turned a blind eye to when it had been directed at the ‘other.’ Who was most at risk from assassination or arrest and torture, after show trials, in Stalin’s Russia? Yes, journalists, editors and dissidents: but also physically endangered, and often arrested by militarized police and tortured or worse, were senior members of the Politburo who had fallen out of favor...."
http://naomiwolf.org/2011/12/how-congress-is-signing-its-own-arrest-warrants-in-the-ndaa-citizen-arrest-bill/
inhumanitys fiction
ReplyDeletethe house of deceit
a cloud of confusion
debasement of need
societal abuse
a valueless cause
political tyrany
predatory source
of mishaped dominion
unkind and unfair
a shattered equilibrium
of true love does care
wandering freely
brushing in form
on patterns of change
unity warms
..peace..
poem mrs wayfarer,a smile and some love,,,,,,,,,,
my opinion,,,the whole system has to go,its totaly corrupted,their is no saving it,ron paul cant fix it,no one can,,,,oligarchal tyranical colonial pursuits must be removed from this world,,,,,they are not needed....
world wants to move on......
:) .....neil