Some people are always in a hurry to go nowhere quick, instead of taking a moment in their lives to focus on known current problems. Problems that could have devastating implications in the life they are so eagerly rushing too. The future is very compelling for most of us, for some holding much more promise than the present.
Would we knowingly let a garage with a history of dishonest repairs fix the brakes on our family minivan with faulty brake pads? If we lost one of our children due to an accident caused by these faulty brakes, would we be silent? If a few years later we brought our minivan back to the same garage for brake repairs, should we be surprised when there is another accident due to brakes shortly afterwards, putting our family in the hospital?
Do you think that our family has a right to be angry about this? Should we do everything in our power to investigate a garage that has a history of using unsafe but profitable products and services, or leave it to someone else to do. Is there something conspiratorial to perhaps have a thorough investigation done of this garages practices? Or at the very least try our damnest to not let these thieves kill another person. Is it better to remain silent and not cause some unseemly arguing?
Some of our friends tell us that it will be very expensive to fight this garage, since all the garages in the area are owned by the same company. Should we just be silent and look to a bright future?
I decided silece was best, my friends were right. No one else had made an official report about this garage, only gossip and rumor. Not many seemed to care.
Driving down the highway in our family minivan, I looked back at my youngest daughter. In a few years she will be in Kindergarten. I then looked at my wife. Our life had few worries. I felt glad that I had not pursued the garage about the faulty brakes. In fact I had just taken the minivan in this morning to have the brakes repaired. The brakes are working great.
Over the radio I could hear a Local News Report. Over some static I could hear ....." tragic accident on Route 2004, family of six all killed. Suspect faulty brakes".
Stunned, I looked around at my family. Everything was so peaceful. Thank God.
A few moments later, I was going down a steep hill. I started to pump the brakes. I was going faster. I pumped the brakes. I continued to go faster. I saw a school bus then appear straight ahead making its way up the hill. I was going faster. I pumped the brakes. I continued to go faster. I was heading for the bus. I could see it was full of children.. I then saw the bus driver , then I starred into the eyes of a Kindergartener. Tears welled up in my eyes, my head felt like it was going to explode. All I could think of was that my future was Now.
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After reading a Vanity Fair about how the Supreme Court stole the 2000 election and the leadup to the 2004 election I was also left with the strong feeling that the implications are that if we do not fight back against the this evil Now that we are doomed to have a future that may not last much longer than Now.
Vanity Fair does not have a website so they made a PDF of the magazine article and posted as Part 1.... and Part 2 ( scroll down the page a bit to see article).
In case you missed it, an exhaustive 23,422-word Vanity Fair article, published just prior to the election (October), spilled the beans that at least four of the five Supreme Court justices who stole the election from Al Gore did it with willing forethought. And the fifth, Justice Kennedy, who came up with the hypocritical, convoluted reason for awarding the election to Bush, was probably just pretending to be "open-minded."
In short, the story, the first one to reveal the inside machinations of the infamous decision of 2000, confirmed that this wasn't a judicial decision that decided the election 4 years ago; it was a premeditated theft of democracy from the American voters.
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The Bush rogue regime was born a bastard child by a fixed Supreme Court vote and now controls the process by which any investigation of voting irregularities would be pursued. Indeed, Ken Blackwell, one of the two key Rove 2004 Katherine Harrises (along with Florida Secretary of State Hood), wrote Congressman John Conyers just this week that only the Department of Justice or the GAO had the authority to investigate voting in Ohio. So, two agencies under the Republicans, who Blackwell has just declared the winner of the Presidency, are the only ones Blackwell would allow to investigate their victory. It's a tactic worthy of Stalin -- and the Bush Cartel is one terrorist attack short of achieving full dictatorship powers, while the nation sleeps.
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For those whose blood is boiling about how they can take action on this issue, we only have a few weeks left. I am "Mad as Hell". I need to take action Now.
How are you taking action Now -in the next few weeks- to address the 2004 election?
Some suggested actions:
Things to do by georgia10
Plea for help from an Ohio activist by Renee in Ohio