Letters to the Editor

• 2006 and 2008 elections

  [Read the article: Don't get "Fooled Again"]
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  Before saying anything else I should say that I do think the 2004 election was stolen by the Republicans, mainly through voter list purges of likely Democratic voters (working people, especially African Americans) and other means. One can�t rule out tampering with election machinery in some precincts, but this is apparently impossible to prove or disprove with the paperless machines that were used. Most people now agree that a verifiable, re-countable audit trail of elections is necessary to help prevent vote fraud.

  However, it seems to me that the best guarantee of a fair election is one in which the margin of victory is not one or two per cent but five or ten per cent. An election won or lost by a percentage point or less is readily subject to fraud, or just human error. Thousands of people counting millions of votes is almost impossible to carry out with guarantees of absolute accuracy. Winning small counts for a lot - just look at the mess the country is in right now � but winning big really counts.

  The Bush Administration has done itself in. The bank of �political capital� that George W. Bush claimed in November, 2004, was almost insolvent the day he started drawing on it. If honest Democrats and Republicans in Congress will now simply investigate and demand the truth about the falsehoods and misrepresentations made by Bush and the neo-conservative cabal around him as they drove the nation into war, the Administration will not be able to survive the process as it is today. The struggle for the truth will shape the 2006 Congressional elections and the 2008 Presidential election. An overwhelming majority at the polls for turning the country back from the disastrous course set by the current administration is definitely possible.

  Working for this is the best guarantee of honest elections in 2006 and 2008.

  Ted Pearson

  Permalink Monday, November 14, 2005 07:48 AM

• A blueprint for fascism

  [Read the article: Bush's war on professionals]
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  What Blumenthal describes is a blueprint for fascism. It is made more chilling by the realization that it was concieved and under way well before 9/11, which the neo-cons first viewed as a diversion from their plan.

  We must demand that Congress and the courts assert their authority, or we can kiss what's left of democracy goodby.

  Permalink Thursday, January 5, 2006 05:45 AM