Reply #30: "the fraud" stuff [View All]

So, "all of this 'fraud' stuff is regarded as a big joke in GOP circles," eh? Let's not forget what the biggest joke is: the election of an oaf like George Bush... what's worse? The idea of election fraud or GW being named by Time magazine as "Man of the Year"? If you could believe that, you could believe anything.

No one would have dared believed the U.S. government's 40-year experiment on black men with syphilis was remotely possible (the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment) wherein a study was initiated to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” the black men's doctors had no intention of curing the blacks of syphilis at all but only to let them die and then analyze the results. When the experiment was brought to the attention of the media in 1972, news anchor Harry Reasoner described it as an experiment that “used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone.”

It wasn't until 1997 that President Clinton issued an official governmental apology: "The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens... clearly racist."

So, you say this "fraud stuff" is a big joke in GOP circles? Good. But, let me remind you: the GOP's best safeguard in this matter is its incredibility. Our job is to make it credible and worthy of investigation. There is no excuse to remain docile or complacent. Hopefully we won't have to wait 40 years before we look back on this and say, "if only someone had made a stand."