The butcher's apron

By Mike Whitney
Online Journal Contributing Writer


Dec 27, 2007, 00:45

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Every four years the country is swept up in the pomp and pageantry of presidential elections. And every four years loyal Americans flock to the voting booths to select the candidate of their choice. Elections, we are told, are the true expression of democratic government. But they aren't. They're a sham and most people know it. The balloting creates the illusion of choice where there is none. It's a meaningless ritual that has nothing to do with representative government.

The 2008 elections have already been marred by a number of controversies, the worst of which is the report that was published earlier this month by Ohio’s top election official, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. The report proves that the voting systems that decided the 2004 election in Ohio were rife with “critical security failures." The election was rigged, pure and simple; stolen by the Bush clan and their friends in the establishment media who refuse to report the news. It's actually funny, in a cynical kind of way. The perpetrators were so cocksure they could pull it off that, according to Democracy Now, “the servers for the computation of the Ohio vote count were in the same basement in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that houses servers for the Republican National Committee. The programmers who (worked) for Ken Blackwell, the Republican secretary of state, were Republicans who did websites for the Bush administration.” (Democracy Now)

What gall. Blackwell's thugs didn't even try to hide what they were up to. Why should they? It's not like there's an independent media that's going to report a stolen election. No way. Blackwell ripped off the election and then thumbed his nose at the public. No investigation. No accountability. No nothing. Just like a banana republic only bigger.

So why do we keep throwing billions of dollars down a black hole just to maintain a charade that fools no one? Why not just load up the boxcars with pallets of crisp-new hundred dollar bills and ship them off to Crawford where they'll end up anyway. Let Bush worry about how to dole out the loot. Besides, with Congress' public approval dithering at 11 percent, we'd be better off paying them to stay at home and turning the House of Representatives into condos.

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