(This dairy is originally posted at my online magazine,
LJ's Blogorific.)
I was in my car today listening to Progressive talk and Mark Crispen Miller was being interviewed about the election fraud in Ohio in 2004. It just started to upset me again how our democracy has been taken hostage by the Bush Crime Family. Then I started thinking about "What If's" and the main one I want to wonder about is; What if John Kerry had listened to John Edwards, and refused to concede, but decided to fight. And not just fight, but to fight for our democracy, to fight for our country.
What would have this speech sounded like. Well, this is where my mind wonders to.
(John Kery's Non-Concession Speech below the crease.)
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John Kerry's Non-Concession Speech On November 3, 2004
This morning, we wake up to one of the darkest days in our country's democracy. After nearly a year on the campaign trail, trying to earn the trust of the American people, I have seen the concerns of the people about the direction of this country, the current regime's foreign policy, and more importantly, their concerns about domestic policy.
I've traveled across this great country of ours and spoke face to face to the people. People of all walks of life. There is without a doubt, a large movement out there, in the cities and in the heartland, that we must do everything in our power to salvage what is left of our democracy. That we must take back our country from those who abuse their power and manipulate information to lie to the American people.
With great sadness and anger, I am here to announce that I believe that there was massive irregularities in yesterday's election. Irregularities that include voter suppression, voter tampering, and vote count fraud.
Long lines in minority/Democratic precincts, deliberate efforts to suppress the vote, a plethora of misrecorded votes on electronic voting machines, (most of which don't offer a paper trail to ones vote,) and most troubling, potential fraud in vote tabulation, are just a few of the reasons that I find it my duty, to contest the election results.
For over five decades, the way we and other countries around the world have validated and verified free and fair elections, has been by exit polling. Before the year 2000, exit polls in any country where fraudulence was not prevalent, maintained accuracies of a margin of error of .1%. Exit polls have been used to in democratic countries and developing democracies to legitimize election results, and moreover, detect fraud where exit polls and actual vote counts differed greatly.
Exit polls, until late into the night last night, showed a margin of victory for myself and John Edwards by a margin of almost 4%. All the while, the vote count had the Bush/Cheney team winning by a margin of almost 3%. That leaves a margin of error of almost 7%, or nearly an eight million vote shift.
In the middle of the night, from an unknown powerful pressure, the exit polls all of the sudden managed to match the vote count. Even though the exit polls listed prior to this "adjustment" included over 99.9% of the exit poll data. In essence, the Bush/Cheney team managed to gain 7% points with .1% of the exit poll data unaccounted. It doesn't take a statistician to see the mathematical impossibility of such a shift occurring.
I by no means am I making claims as to who is complicit in yesterday's attack on democracy. Concurrently, I must recommend and insist upon a full independent investigation into yesterday's irregularities and potential rampant voter fraud.
We can not continue to maintain this experiment of democracy under such outrageous circumstances. The structural pillar of our democracy is the voter and the vote they cast, and most importantly, that each voter's vote be cast and accurately counted, in a verifiable way, primarily with a paper trail.
I call upon President Bush to abide by the oaths he made nearly 4 years ago to protect and preserve the constitution of the United States, by joining me in this call for a full independent investigation into yesterday's election results, irregularities, suppression, and vote count fraud.
These are awesome times in our country's history. We have truly reached our biggest fork in the road since the civil war. It is imperative that we, as Americans, do everything in our power to preserve the sanctity of our democracy, and allow a full investigation into this election and then work through a reasonable and feasible means for which the will of the people can be accurately measured. I am confident that all American's will join me in this mission to get to the bottom of this travesty and traitorous crime.
Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. May God bless you and God bless this great country and it's system of government, the United States Of America!
What if John Kerry's speech went something along these lines? What if he would have stood up and fought for America? It just drives me insane knowing that another election was stolen by the Bush Crime Family, and yet, there is no outcry. There is just acceptance and defeatism.
What if?