"This thing is bigger than both of us, baby. We
knew it all along." - "Bigger Than Both of Us," Beier and Kane
(2000)
Here - let me be the first to say it: The Ron Paul
R3volution is dead.
No, that isn't the end of it. In fact, it is just
the beginning. The real beginning. Let me also be the first to say,
"Long Live the Revolution!" I have
written before as to why it must be so. I haven't given up on Ron
Paul, but I admit to having been convinced by him that he cannot
become America's President. It took a long time. I don't know how
often I've heard him tell reporters or interviewers that his followers
"have cured (his) skepticism." I wince each time, because I know he
doesn't mean it. Too bad.
Yesterday, Dr. Paul issued a
statement that he would not challenge the obvious (my word, not
his) vote fraud that took place in New Hampshire (and Iowa, for that
matter). "I am convinced that vote fraud played no role in this
result," said Dr. Paul. I'd like to think that simply was his
diplomacy talking. Problem is, this is no time for diplomacy.
A manipulation of 2 or 3 percentage points, which is
all that
statistical analysis shows is likely to have occurred, would make
little difference to the outcome, putting Dr. Paul ahead of the
execrable Rudy Giuliani but still trailing Huckabee, Romney and McCain
(there is one
web
site with analysis suggesting Dr. Paul would finish third).
However, demanding that the record be set right would have made all
the difference in the world to those of us who knew it was coming.
Knew it because we've seen it happen before - in Ohio last time, in
Florida the time before that and in too many places to be counted, all
places where the Diebold electronic voting machines hold sway.
The outcry began almost immediately, when
members of a single family who voted lockstep for Ron Paul found,
the next morning, that their entire community had tallied precisely
zero votes for him. And theirs is not the only community in New
Hampshire saying the same thing. Even so, one can infer manipulation
from variations between pre-primary and exit polls and the final vote,
of course. As noted, variation from the poll figures took place only
in those New Hampshire counties in which Diebold machines were used.
Elsewhere, the final (hand-written and hand-tabulated) votes tracked
almost perfectly to the pre-primary and exit polls.
You have to wonder: Without all the pre-primary
dirty tricks (phony polling, stacked "debate" questions, debate
exclusion, debate marginalization, false media, no media, ridicule by
other candidates and questioners) and with an honest vote count, might
Dr. Paul actually have won New Hampshire outright?
Obama - Less of a Loser Than You Might Think
Even more badly aggrieved (and strangely silent on
the issue of vote fraud) was Democrat Barack Obama, whose victory in
New Hampshire blatantly was stolen for Hillary Clinton in precisely
the same manner as was Dr. Paul's placement stolen. Where the votes
were hand written and hand counted, Obama won, consistent with his
pre-election and exit polling. Only in the Diebold-counted counties
did things turn around - and so dramatically that the final result
overall was a bare win by Clinton.
Pre-primary polls showed Obama winning with 38% to
Clinton's 30%. Normally super-accurate exit polls were a little
different, with Obama at 39% and Clinton up to 35%, which exactly
matched the results reported by precincts doing hand counts of
hand-written ballots. Diebold precincts turned it all around: 40% for
Clinton and 35% for Obama, thereby allowing Clinton to edge Obama 39%
to 37% with the overall totals. Just like George Bush pulled it out,
time and again, eight years ago and, yet again, four years ago. Now
you know why Hillary Clinton has been getting special briefings from
the White House and why Bush I and Bill Clinton are such hard and fast
pals.
I have explained before why
they will not allow Obama to win this thing, even though the CFR has
him in hand. Obama's sudden show of broad-based voter support makes it
highly possible, if not likely, that he would defeat any of the
current Republican front-runners in next year's election. Can't have
that, of course. Never will Hillary Clinton defeat even the third-rate
"leaders" now vying for the Republican nomination, so it is going to
be another Republican schlep sworn in as, perhaps, America's last
President.
Needed: A Boston Diebold Party
It could have been so much different.
Challenge the New Hampshire results and prove the
vote fraud in little towns where voters can testify in numbers greater
than were recorded for Dr. Paul. Show it to be more than a simple
"transfer error" on the part of a couple of clerks. Turn us loose to
protest it. Sue everybody in sight, especially Diebold. File suit in
upcoming states to force paper ballots that can be audited. Demand
that the US Supreme Court immediately assume jurisdiction upon proving
any irregularity, no matter how small.
Boston Tea Party? Hell, let's have a Boston Diebold
Party! A little civil disobedience is just what we need at this time.
They can't manipulate machines at the bottom of lakes, rivers and
bays, after all.
Do the things I have outlined and we all would be in
it for the long haul. What's more, exponentially we would increase our
numbers through the outrage thereby generated. We could have swept
through the rest of the primaries, gaining strength and momentum with
each stop.
Auditing - Just Another Word for Pointless
I have a Master's degree in Accounting. I have done
accounting auditing. I took an extra year at Cal Berkeley and very
nearly double-majored with a Master's in Information Science
(computers), as well. I have worked as a Systems Analyst, designing
and fixing complex computer software systems. I understand what is
involved with computer auditing. Auditing these Diebold-based
elections is pointless.
It doesn't matter if the two minor candidates now
demanding recounts get them. How do you audit electrons that are long
gone? The machines, well recognized to be sloppily designed and
security nightmares, can be checked over. The programming can be
checked if you get the source code (which Diebold will not release).
The memory cards can be verified. But, there is nothing to audit. Once
you change the vote inside the machine, there is no record, either
internal or external, of that change. In accounting terms, there is no
"audit trail."
A change can be forced by original programming, by
external command via modem (yes, the machines are accessible by
telephone line), by a flash-memory-based program that physically is in
and out of the machine in less than a minute, leaving no trace, and by
other means even more arcane. The point is: With Diebold voting
machines, there is nothing to recount.
So why do I think it is such a mistake for Dr. Paul
not to have demanded a recount? Because the statistical
inconsistencies and the testimony by voters whose votes got cast for
other candidates would make a difference, open the dialogue in the
public eye and provide a basis for legally challenging the machines.
Because the US Supreme Court is the ultimate political creature, an
order disallowing Diebold machine usage in the face of growing public
outrage is not at all out of the question.
Did you know that the Diebold voting machines are
made in Israel? Did you know that an Israeli company was in charge of
tallying the Iowa caucus results? Did you know that Israel, like the
Council on Foreign Relations, has blessed every Presidential candidate
except Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich (Kucinich is one of the fellows
demanding a recount in New Hampshire)? Make of those facts what you
will. I'll save what I make of them for another day.
You Could'a Been a Contender
Here's the message you just delivered, Dr. Paul: If
you will sit still for vote fraud in New Hampshire, you will tolerate
it elsewhere, too. Besides, your post-New Hampshire primary
statement made clear your intent to be satisfied with merely
helping to set the agenda for the remainder of the contest. You never
thought you had a chance, but we knew you did. You could'a been a
contender. No - you could have been President.
If you are content merely with influencing the
campaign dialogue from here on out, then you seriously misread those
of us out here in the trenches. We didn't come to be satisfied with
second place, even. If Ron Paul does not become our President, then we
have lost. What's more, we have lost our last chance to work within
the system.
The powers that be seem not to have gotten the
message (about our working within the system just this one, last
time), in light of the obvious vote fraud that took place in both Iowa
and New Hampshire. They will learn, too late, what a monumental
mistake that really was.
Though correcting the New Hampshire result may not
seem to be worth the effort, had we immediately raised holy hell about
the vote fraud, filing lawsuits left and right, calling press
conferences, demanding recounts (using the money we already gave) and
organizing protest rallies, possibly we could have salvaged this
campaign.
Now that they know they can get away with it, they
are going to keep manipulating votes through the Diebold machines,
guaranteeing that we lose. At least, by drawing the line in New
Hampshire and anywhere that questionable vote counts emerged, we could
have gone down swinging for the bleachers.
No More Money Bombs
There will be no more "money bombs." Had you taken
even second place in New Hampshire, Dr. Paul, then all the money you
possibly could spend - ever - would have been made available to you.
All without asking, just as you have not had to ask before. Had you
actually won New Hampshire, as some think you could, if only you had
you spent all the money we gave you so far, we now would be discussing
how best to keep them from killing you, but that no longer is an
issue. I'm glad for that, at least.
I will hear none of this carping about paid election
staff members, either, which has been going on for some time. Dr. Paul
chose them. Dr. Paul chose to keep them in place. Dr. Paul would be
the first to accept full responsibility for their failings.
Make no mistake: We still love you, Dr. Paul - and
we always will. You didn't break our heart by failing to give it your
all, but now there is another crack in it. That is nothing, compared
to what so many others before you have done, however. We'll get over
it. We always do.
You really should have committed 100% to your own
"R3volution," Dr. Paul, because we believed enough for you, too.
Together, we could have moved mountains. Together, we could have
changed America.
Long Live the Revolution
But, we still can change America and change her we
will. And you still will be the grand old man of the New Revolution,
Dr. Paul. You were there at the beginning, after all. The times picked
you for us, as they always have picked their own agents of change. But
you no longer are setting this beast's agenda. It has taken on a shape
and a mind of its own now. It will pick up speed and choose new
leaders as it mows down everything in its path. The times make the
men, after all is said and done, not the other way around.
Let them disallow Ron Paul a level playing field.
Let this play out and let them screw him every which way they can,
with vote fraud, phony polling, stacked "debate" questions, debate
exclusion, debate marginalization, false media, no media, ridicule by
other candidates and questioners, recount trace kickover, etc. That
merely will serve to open the eyes of those who have chosen to support
him and, thereby, greatly increase our number.
Based upon reports I have received from those
attending big-city rallies, rallies that the controlled media does not
report, things are moving a bit faster, even, than I long have
anticipated. I always thought and said that it will take obvious and
widespread economic carnage and pain - plus our government actually
shooting us down in the streets - before Americans get up off the
couch and demand real change.
Already, though, the demand for real change can be
heard bouncing off the canyon walls in New York City and Chicago and
wherever a critical mass of these too-young Ron Paul "meet-up"
supporters assemble: Neocons out! Change now! Listen carefully. Can
you hear it building in the distance? I can!
Itz coming!
New America. An idea whose time has come.
My name is Edgar J. Steele. Thanks for listening.
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