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Each time a journalist gets a story together, people are getting intimidated by local GOP officials. Witness the recent posting (I first saw it a "Citizens for Legitimate Gov't" but it's at RawStory), about the Ohio elections volunteers who've turned in the affidavits saying they saw the stickers over the Kerry/Edwards ovals on some ballots during the hand recounts, and citing possible legal violations by the Republican elections officials. But some of the people, once cited as sources, began to back away. This may be some kind of serious crisis for our democracy. We need to think about the long-term potential consequences of a backing-away. The Democratic Leadership seems to be backing away. I wonder if they can really afford to do that, right now? I wonder if they can ever win another election if they do? It's really iffy that they can. This thing needs to be investigated and protested and challenged. I don't know if we even have the wherewithal to do that anymore, though, or not. It's kind of like a guy with a gun that, he doesn't even know if it has any bullets in it or not, and there's a rhino charging him, and he tosses the gun down for fear it might backfire. It almost seems a lost cause, anyway, even if we hang together. But it definitely is, if we hang separately. And one of the parties twisting in the breeze, could be independent journalism, aka free speech
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