Fans of the Spielburg film, Minority Report, may know that writer Philip K. Dick was an insightful and occasionally delusional social critic. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle, is a disturbing tale of layered illusion. The Axis Powers have won World War II. There is a small subculture who consult the I Ching for enlightenment. They find an alternate reality in which the Allies were the victors.
We have found alternate realities on the blogs. Did Bush really win the election? Some say yes and celebrate, others say yes and mourn, and a third group say no. I am inclined to side with the third group. I believe that the anomalies in the count represent superficial fragments of the subterranean campaign to throw the election to Bush.
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Fans of the Spielburg film, Minority Report, may know that writer Philip K. Dick was an insightful and occasionally delusional social critic. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle, is a disturbing tale of layered illusion. The Axis Powers have won World War II. There is a small subculture who consult the I Ching for enlightenment. They find an alternate reality in which the Allies were the victors.
We have found alternate realities on the blogs.
Did Bush really win the election? Some say yes and celebrate, others say yes and mourn, and a third group say no. I am inclined to side with the third group. I believe that the anomalies in the count represent superficial fragments of the subterranean campaign to throw the election to Bush.
We are not reckless in our charges. Scan dailykos and notice that we are engaged in a process of peer review. Some allege foul play, others challenge the evidence. Mainstream journalists in the New York Times and Washington Post who dismiss the web chatter mischaracterize the discussion on this site at least.
I am predisposed to give the electoral fraud allegations credence because of the broad evidence that the Republican party is bending the rules wherever it has a source of power in the onstitutional system. For example, the Republicans distorted the concept of impeachment beyond recognition as they sought to remove Clinton over the definition of oral sex (with the help of the Federalist Society). The Florida debacle depended on the misuse of Republican power in the executive and legislative branches in the state, as well as complicity in the high court. The Colorado and Texas redistricting gambits were usurpations of power by state legislatures. Leveraging advantage in the Republican leaning corporate sector (Diebold, etc.) seems fully consistent with the pattern. Then there is the bizarre story of Christian right ("Christian Reconstruction") financing at the inception of the Diebold and ES&S electronic voting ventures. (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.html)
"Not enought to alter the outcome of the election!"
We will hear this claim from the debunkers in the mainstream and from the lawyers in the field. Mainstream journalists cite a fraction of the alleged irregularities and dismiss their significance. This perspective, of course, necessarily minimizes the irregularities.
The lawyers in the field reinforce the same meme, but I think their purpose is different. They seek to protect themselves from frontal attack from the Republicans.
Thank goodness that we have our "I Ching" and can assemble the pieces of the puzzle. Philp K. Dick was paranoid but he was often on to something.