Abandon hope all ye who enter the voting booth
FPF: "THE PEOPLE WHO CAST THE VOTES DON'T DECIDE AN ELECTION, THE PEOPLE WHO COUNT THE VOTES DO." - Joseph Stalin
Abandon hope all ye who enter the voting booth
By Doug Thompson - Capitol Hill Blue
October 11, 2006 - That stench that makes you want to puke is coming out of a political sewer called Washington - a place littered with the rotting corpses of American idealism and drowning in the blood from a wounded and dying republic.
Corruption, scandal, immorality and lapses in ethical judgment have become so pervasive in today's government that Americans find themselves numb. Our government is awash in deceit, driven by a lust for power and controlled by those for whom truth and morality are foreign concepts. In 1994, Republicans marched into control of Congress astride promises to reform the system, eliminate pork barrel politics and restore honesty and accountability to government.
Instead, they have proven even more corrupt, dishonest and immoral than the Democrats they replaced in the seats of power. Six years later, George W. Bush would promise "the most ethical administration in history." Instead he delivered the most corrupt, a despotic power-mad White House bent on domination and driven by lies. This goes beyond normal political corruption. We are talking about perversion of the system by a cancer that goes to the very core of our way of life.
IN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, LYING IS THE NORM, NOT THE EXCEPTION.
We expect our leaders to deceive us and rationalize it by claiming the other side lies more often or tells bigger ones. We accept intrusions on our freedoms by buying into the fantasy that such intrusions become necessary to remain safe when, in fact, we are less safe in a government that intrudes or spies or interferes. Dishonesty becomes relative and measured not by whether it is right or wrong but by the outcome.
IT IS OK TO LIE ABOUT SEX BUT NOT ABOUT WAR.
It is OK to accept the blind faith argument that our government knows what's best for us when, in fact, our government turns out to be a bigger enemy to freedom than any Islam-spouting terrorist. Sadly, those we elect to represent us immediately forget that this is supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. They start to believe that it is, instead, government of the powerful, by the influential and for the special interests.
Our forefathers never intended for government service to become a career yet nearly every facet of our lives are controlled by lifetime politicians who live in a world far removed from ordinary Americans.
POLLS SHOW VOTER ANGER AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH
Our fates lie in the hands of those who see elected office as a way to accumulate both wealth and power. Polls show voter anger at an all-time high, driven by too many lies about Iraq and too many scandals involving sex and money. The odds are strong that Republicans will be sent packing and Democrats returned to power. There is no doubt that the Republicans deserve to be sent home. Some should go to jail for their crimes against decency and the Constitution.
As a voter in Virginia, I will vote against GOP incumbent Senator George Allen because I don't want a racist who also takes bribes representing the Commonwealth in Congress, Jim Webb will probably make a better Senator than Allen. That won't be hard given the low threshold that Allen has set but at the same time I'm not sure he will be a good Senator. Webb's campaign has relied on innuendo and distortions and that raises questions to me about his honesty. And I fear that Democrats, if they gain control of the House and/or the Senate will fall back into their old habits of catering to their brand of special interests and putting the perks of power above the needs of the country.
THE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT AND ROTTEN TO THE CORE AND IT HAS TAKEN A LONG TIME TO GET THERE.
The moral decay comes from both political parties as well as an apathetic and self-centered populace that sat out too many elections and allowed the infection to spread. An answer to America's ills may no longer be available at the ballot box or through the current system that controls our government, our lives and our destiny.
It may be too late to trust the system.
It has let us down too many times.
Capitol Hill Blue - Doug Thompson - Story at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jdz76
FPF - RELATED:
* Very good information concerning vote fraud etc. available at - Url.: www.invisibleballots.com
* US vote fraud again: NO paper trail in coming 2006 elections - Url.:
* In The Netherlands with 16 million inhabitants - like in most other by the US/PNAC creatures managed colonies - people are forced to vote electronically, not understanding nor being informed about the fact that the voting machine results as easy can be altered as they change color on their TV pictures with a remote control. At present - and for the rigged November elections in SHELL's fiefdom The Netherlands - eighty-four percent (84%) can vote the fraudulent electronic way. Web sites protesting this, explaining why voters shouldn't trust the government and their machines at all, are mushrooming since a year. Most in Dutch however - Url.: http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/
* Google search Web Results 1-10 of about 197 for "Henk Ruyssenaars" +"vote fraud".http://tinyurl.com/y244to
* "It's dangerous to be right when your government is wrong." - Voltaire
* CHANGE THE US WAR REGIME? - Malcom X - on defending human rights. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zoora
* US LEGALIZES TORTURE OF AMERICANS AND COLLABORATORS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/eom7k
* US "Death Squad Protection Act" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6xdfw
* THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST SCAM EVER IN HUMAN HISTORY: 'THE FED' - Url.: http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/FEDERALRESERVE.HTML
* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* British MP George Galloway stated totally correct: ''Blair, Olmert and Bush are murderers'' - Url.:http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/5072.shtml
*Throw out war propagandists like the BBC, FOX, CNN etc.! - Url.: http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/07/1632.php
* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/gpr4j
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl
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Abandon hope all ye who enter the voting booth
By Doug Thompson - Capitol Hill Blue
October 11, 2006 - That stench that makes you want to puke is coming out of a political sewer called Washington - a place littered with the rotting corpses of American idealism and drowning in the blood from a wounded and dying republic.
Corruption, scandal, immorality and lapses in ethical judgment have become so pervasive in today's government that Americans find themselves numb. Our government is awash in deceit, driven by a lust for power and controlled by those for whom truth and morality are foreign concepts. In 1994, Republicans marched into control of Congress astride promises to reform the system, eliminate pork barrel politics and restore honesty and accountability to government.
Instead, they have proven even more corrupt, dishonest and immoral than the Democrats they replaced in the seats of power. Six years later, George W. Bush would promise "the most ethical administration in history." Instead he delivered the most corrupt, a despotic power-mad White House bent on domination and driven by lies. This goes beyond normal political corruption. We are talking about perversion of the system by a cancer that goes to the very core of our way of life.
IN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, LYING IS THE NORM, NOT THE EXCEPTION.
We expect our leaders to deceive us and rationalize it by claiming the other side lies more often or tells bigger ones. We accept intrusions on our freedoms by buying into the fantasy that such intrusions become necessary to remain safe when, in fact, we are less safe in a government that intrudes or spies or interferes. Dishonesty becomes relative and measured not by whether it is right or wrong but by the outcome.
IT IS OK TO LIE ABOUT SEX BUT NOT ABOUT WAR.
It is OK to accept the blind faith argument that our government knows what's best for us when, in fact, our government turns out to be a bigger enemy to freedom than any Islam-spouting terrorist. Sadly, those we elect to represent us immediately forget that this is supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. They start to believe that it is, instead, government of the powerful, by the influential and for the special interests.
Our forefathers never intended for government service to become a career yet nearly every facet of our lives are controlled by lifetime politicians who live in a world far removed from ordinary Americans.
POLLS SHOW VOTER ANGER AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH
Our fates lie in the hands of those who see elected office as a way to accumulate both wealth and power. Polls show voter anger at an all-time high, driven by too many lies about Iraq and too many scandals involving sex and money. The odds are strong that Republicans will be sent packing and Democrats returned to power. There is no doubt that the Republicans deserve to be sent home. Some should go to jail for their crimes against decency and the Constitution.
As a voter in Virginia, I will vote against GOP incumbent Senator George Allen because I don't want a racist who also takes bribes representing the Commonwealth in Congress, Jim Webb will probably make a better Senator than Allen. That won't be hard given the low threshold that Allen has set but at the same time I'm not sure he will be a good Senator. Webb's campaign has relied on innuendo and distortions and that raises questions to me about his honesty. And I fear that Democrats, if they gain control of the House and/or the Senate will fall back into their old habits of catering to their brand of special interests and putting the perks of power above the needs of the country.
THE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT AND ROTTEN TO THE CORE AND IT HAS TAKEN A LONG TIME TO GET THERE.
The moral decay comes from both political parties as well as an apathetic and self-centered populace that sat out too many elections and allowed the infection to spread. An answer to America's ills may no longer be available at the ballot box or through the current system that controls our government, our lives and our destiny.
It may be too late to trust the system.
It has let us down too many times.
Capitol Hill Blue - Doug Thompson - Story at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jdz76
FPF - RELATED:
* Very good information concerning vote fraud etc. available at - Url.: www.invisibleballots.com
* US vote fraud again: NO paper trail in coming 2006 elections - Url.:
* In The Netherlands with 16 million inhabitants - like in most other by the US/PNAC creatures managed colonies - people are forced to vote electronically, not understanding nor being informed about the fact that the voting machine results as easy can be altered as they change color on their TV pictures with a remote control. At present - and for the rigged November elections in SHELL's fiefdom The Netherlands - eighty-four percent (84%) can vote the fraudulent electronic way. Web sites protesting this, explaining why voters shouldn't trust the government and their machines at all, are mushrooming since a year. Most in Dutch however - Url.: http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/
* Google search Web Results 1-10 of about 197 for "Henk Ruyssenaars" +"vote fraud".http://tinyurl.com/y244to
* "It's dangerous to be right when your government is wrong." - Voltaire
* CHANGE THE US WAR REGIME? - Malcom X - on defending human rights. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zoora
* US LEGALIZES TORTURE OF AMERICANS AND COLLABORATORS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/eom7k
* US "Death Squad Protection Act" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6xdfw
* THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST SCAM EVER IN HUMAN HISTORY: 'THE FED' - Url.: http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/FEDERALRESERVE.HTML
* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* British MP George Galloway stated totally correct: ''Blair, Olmert and Bush are murderers'' - Url.:http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/5072.shtml
*Throw out war propagandists like the BBC, FOX, CNN etc.! - Url.: http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/07/1632.php
* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/gpr4j
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl
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