I will admit, I have not had the time or energy to see others posts.
This is a big call, but the way I see it is the only hope left.
THEY STOLE THE THIRD ELECTION IN A ROW. (black box has demonstrated that at least some of the thug gains in 2002 relate directly to e-machines.)
The courts will NOT go our way, we KNOW where the press stands, and only something, that really gets the public attention.
Action must be focused, easy to equate to the stolen election, and non-violent, at least to start. Let them start the violence. To that end, I propose the following call to action. It is bold, it is big, and while it is risky, doing nothing is GUARANTEED to be more harmful than the action I propose.
The idea is simple. Refuse to let any results from last night stand in any jurisdiction.
In the press the message MUST be, "if you voted on a ouch screen you have no proof the machine let your vote be cast for who you thought you voted for."
In the courts, CHALLENGE EVERY SINGLE VOTE CAST ON ANY MACHINE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A CORRESPONDING PAPER VOTE TO CONFIRM IT AGAINST.
In public offices across the land. If the election had electronic votes, Incumbents MUST refuse to acknowledge defeat, challengers MUST refuse to concede. (if we want to truly heal, invite independents, and even moderate republicans to join.
In the streets, protest, not election offices, but Mayor's offices, city council offices, state reps, court rooms, Federal offices. ANY OFFICE THAT HAD ANY BALLOTS CAST ELECTRONICALLY MUST BE DECLARED INVALID.
All Dems MUST play every office, every state. Any republicans that want to join, should be WELCOMED with wide open arms. Don't make this a partisan protest, make it a real center of America vs. the far right.
This is as non violent as it gets. Sit ins, protest marches. Maybe even wind up the robo call banks. Dial every Dem contacted during the GOTV drive who voted in an electronic precinct.
"Do you realize your vote may be one of Bush's 3 million winning votes? If you voted on an electronic machine, you have no proof at all that it did not switch your vote. Call your local election office and DEMAND accountability. Demand that they invalidate your precinct and recast the vote in a way that you know your voted counted for the person of your choice."
Anything less will not reach the mass we need to reverse the revolution that has already started.
we need the 527's and as much of the the party infrastructure as we can implant a spine into to make this work.
Many of us would lose our jobs, and Jail is likely for at least some. If we want to fight, dragging our feet in congess will be worthless. By January the thugs will have planted the meme that ANY resistance in congress is an attempt to thwart the will of the people. After all they won with more votes than any presedent ever. They have a mandate from god and 'murica recognized that by voting in such large numbers.
The courts are already lined up just WAITING to slap us down, and the press will be too busy spinning for the Hitler youth to pay any attention to inconvenient facts.
We could mobilize anti war protests, we could mobilize campaign rallies and grass roots ad campaigns, we can DO this.
If not, our choices are to stay and get beat down, lose our jobs and go to jail anyway if we DARE question their right to do what they please.
Or we can quit, abandon the field and migrate. (where to? PEOPLE DIED TO PROTECT MY RIGHTS, WHAT KIND OF PERSON AM I IF I SPIT ON GENERATIONS OF DEAD PATRIOTS, by running away, when it becomes my turn to stand up to tyranny.
Last choice is sell our souls, and join the other side.
Sorry, our options are very limited now.
America DIED LAST NIGHT. I know, we have been on life support for 20 years or more, but we flat lined. Kerry's concession, no matter how honorable his intentions, make the doctor calling us dead, code out and leave the stiff.
Yes I have always stated my opinions strongly. Maybe now people will realize that I just may have not been as paranoid as I looked.