[Sosfbay-discuss] Truth Rising: The American People are Beginning To Get It

[Drew Johnson]

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The American People are Beginning To Get It

By Ernest Partridge, Crisis Papers

“To Bush & Co.... we the people owe no more allegiance than a child owes
to the criminal who stole her from her home and now abuses her while
posing as her father.”

Mark Crispin Miller

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

And at last, the truth may be overtaking the propaganda and the lies.

In the new edition of his riveting book, Fooled Again, Mark Crispin Miller
describes a public groundswell that should have Bush, Cheney and the
Busheviks very worried.

Truth, having been ground to earth, is rising again.

Despite compelling statistical, circumstantial, anecdotal and eyewitness
evidence that two presidential and numerous congressional elections have
been stolen, this evidence has been discounted, ignored and ridiculed by
the mainstream media and, amazingly, by the victimized Democratic Party
and its defeated candidates and even by some progressive publications.

Even so, a sizeable and growing portion of the American public isn’t
buying the official and bi-partisan assurances that the US elections are,
by and large, on the level, and that the Bush/Cheney regime is therefore
legitimate. For example, an August, 2006 Zogby poll reports that only 45%
of the population is “very confident” that Bush and Cheney won re-election
“fair and square” in 2004. About a third were “not at all confident.”

In the “Afterword” to Fooled Again, comprising one hundred pages of new
material, Miller chronicles the determined and persistent resistance of
“official Democrats” to the very idea that they were the victims of
massive election fraud. Astonishingly, progressive publications (yes,
there are still a few), such as The Nation, Mother Jones, and the liberal
websites, TomPaine.com and Salon.com, have all published caustic articles
debunking thoroughly researched and scrupulously argued accusations of
election fraud. Familiar ad hominem rebuttals are trotted out: “get over
it,” “sore losers,” “conspiracy theorists.” Far more often, the fraud
issue is denied even the dignity of mention and rebuttal. With the
noteworthy exception of Catherine Crier and Lou Dobbs, the issue is
virtually ignored on cable “news,” and, on network TV news, the embargo is
total.

Meanwhile, the evidence of fraud remains on record and it accumulates.
Extreme exit poll anomalies, with final totals shifting to the GOP with
statistical improbabilities of millions to one. The widespread use of
unverifiable paperless “touchscreen” voting machines, secretly programmed
by GOP partisans. Unsecured access to these machines. Lost, uncounted, and
illegally destroyed ballots. Precinct returns in excess of registrations.
(For the specifics on all this and more, read Miller’s book and visit the
numerous websites devoted to election fraud. Among them, bradblog.com,
blackboxvoting.org, www.votetrustusa.org, and uscountvotes.org. Caution:
be sure to order the second edition of Fooled Again. Amazon and Barnes and
Noble are listing the first edition).

Amazingly, despite the silence of the media and the Democratic Party
regulars, the message of the stolen elections is getting to the public,
thanks to the determined and independent efforts of numerous writers,
scholars, bloggers, and film makers, and their creative use of new and
evolving communications technologies such as the internet and the DVD.

Mark Crispin Miller thus describes this grassroots groundswell. (For
specific names and titles, see the book. pp. 355-8):

The evidence [of election fraud] was always more convincing than the
sophistries deployed against it... Throughout the months preceding the
2006 election, many of us lectured endlessly in schools and churches,
rented halls and private homes, spoke out on independent radio and posted
pieces all over the internet...

Offline, meanwhile, there were independent voices on the air, their
numbers growing as the story slowly spread throughout the nation... And
the movement also had strong champions in the world of print... and
online...

All such effort gradually conveyed the truth about America’s election, and
the crying need for genuine reform to an ever larger, ever more receptive
audience – which was, in fact, not just an audience but increasingly a
citizenry mobilized to salvage and invigorate (or rather, realize) US
democracy...

And so the people got it, recognizing instantly the likelihood that (a)
Bush & Co. stole its “mandate” in 2004, and (b) that the regime was not
above attempting it again.

Accordingly, ignored by the mainstream media and by the immobilized
Democratic Party, dismissed and even ridiculed by many presumably
“liberal” writers and publications, the issue of election fraud has
nonetheless survived and prevailed among the general public. Consequently,
the legitimacy of the Bush/Cheney regime is eroding. Meanwhile, with the
ongoing exposure of Bushevik lies (e.g., the alleged Saddam-9/11
connection and other concocted justifications for the Iraq War), the
credibility of the regime is also disintegrating. Bush’s and Cheney’s
approval ratings are at an all-time low, and falling.

The once-formidable GOP/MSM propaganda machine is sputtering and running
out of fuel. “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me – you can’t get fooled
again.”

Truth, crushed to earth, is on the rise.

Will another national emergency, with Dubya and bullhorn on the rubble
pile, or in a flight suit on the carrier, once again mobilize support for
"the commander guy" and bail out this poor excuse of an administration?
Possibly, but don’t count on it. Re-runs fare poorly in both show biz and
politics.

In a January, 2006 review of Miller’s book, I wrote that “if we are to
restore the ballot box to the voters, we need a media, we need an
opposition party, we need an aroused public, and we need a miracle. But
take heart: history tells us that political crises have a way of producing
miracles.” Since then, we’ve made great strides. Two of those conditions
are being met, as an aroused and skeptical public is abandoning the
mainstream media and is turning toward a new dissenting media in the
internet. However, the Democratic Party remains dumb-frozen, even as
millions of its traditional supporters are deserting the Party in disgust.

In the United States today, there is among the public a huge, growing, but
still leaderless mass of discontented citizens. These are the
three-quarters of the population that tell the pollsters that “the country
is moving in the wrong direction.” These are the two-thirds that reject
Bush and Cheney and their Iraq War, and that disapprove of the Democratic
Congress in even greater numbers. These are the citizens who are well
aware that their Constitutional rights have been abolished, their
franchise nullified, their public treasury looted, their public
infrastructure trashed, their social services impoverished, and the
livelihood of millions of our workers "outsourced."

While the Democratic Party was elected to Congress to address these
crises, the party leaders act as if they are living in some other country:
“The Republic of Beltway.” If they persist in this delusion, they may
manage to lose the next “sure-thing” election, whether or not the GOP
engineers another “fix.”

If the Democratic Party is to take charge and lead us out of the current
swamp of corruption, exploitation and ignorance, it must take inventory of
the present political and economic dangers, secure fair and accurate
elections, change direction radically and immediately, and act decisively.

The impeachment of Dick Cheney, and then of George Bush, would be an
appropriate first step.

As an anonymous French politician once said, “the people are marching and
I must follow, for I am their leader.”