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ELECTION NEWS

Recently Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote an article about the Ohio election theft in 2004. It was published originally in Rolling Stone Magazine. Several other sources picked it up and it was spread around the blogsphere. Mainstream big publications basically ignored it. What’s new, they give RFK, Jr. little attention even though he is one of our most serious exponent of exposing the environment issues facing America and the world. Many of these issues are heavily influenced by actions of our country.

The election theft article was in great depth, deeply investigated and source supported. It is a serious indictment of the theft of the 2004 election whereby Senator Kerry would have won if the Ohio votes had not been stolen. It is a long article which we posted on the MB-Civic Bog while fearing many would not be able to take the time to read. Subsequently we posted minor attributions about RFK,Jr’s article.

Why is it so interesting? Well, we saw the theft of the 2000 election engineered by Gov. Jeb Bush with the Florida Secretary Of State, Katherine Harris, rewarded with a Congress seat and now a Republican candidate for a Florida U.S. Senate seat. It was not difficult to get a final blessing of their theft from The US Supreme Court as the Democratic strategy about the recount was so poor. Even then the Reds had violated states rights by getting the Florida Supreme Court put down.

So how did Rove & Co counter this smelly article about Ohio? The more readers delved into the facts the more upset they became. The article coming from RFKJr. was one of those exposes which cause continuing embarrassment to the Bush White House. So the canard of JFK stealing the West Virginia presidential primary was exhumed. We kept reading/hearing in the kept media that the Kennedy’s had stolen West Virginia.

If I may play the role of a crass pragmatist I say there is quite a large difference between fixing and stealing an election. The Kennedy’s are accused of fixing the election by paying off local sheriffs who were able in influence/coerce the West Virginia votes. So one would have to accuse the Kennedy’s of buying the election not stealing it.

In this country where money and materialism are the suppressors of spirituality, one must be blind not to see that all is for sale. If this story is correct then the result in West Virginia’s primary was not stolen but bought and paid for. Not only the politicians but the people who vote according to the wishes of corrupt sheriffs.

In 2000 and 2004, it was the U.S. Supreme Court and the Electorial College that were corrupted, making the buying of a handful of West Virginia sheriffs to fix a primary pale in comparison. The nation’s voters have little recourse in an abuse of power by such exalted institutions for an opposite purpose.

In any event, the message is clear: Voters must exercise much greater diligence and effort to offset such corruptions of our system of so-called free elections. Two such coupes d’etat in succession is more than merely dangerous precedent, it can become habit forming. West Virginia’s primary was 1960; that was then: this is now.