It was Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, where will it be in 2008?
Kiran Chaube
Sep. 6, 2008

The whole world is learning the tactics of hijacking power in the name of democracy from the American politics. All that you have to do is to manipulate a State of two in a tight race and the Whitehouse is hijacked for four more years.

The Florida in 2000; and Ohio in 2004 experienced what will be recorded in independent history books of our times as the biggest mockery of Democracy. The principle overt method of vote suppression in Ohio was to short-change inner city precincts of sufficient voting machines to allow a timely balloting. In precinct after precinct, virtually all of them predominantly black, poor, young and Democratic, the lines stretched for two, five, eight, even eleven hours. The elderly and infirm were forced to stand in the rain while city officials threatened to tow their cars. No chairs or shelter were provided. Crucial signage was mysteriously missing. Thousands came to vote, saw the long lines and left. Ohio hearings showed massive GOP vote manipulation, but where the hell were the Democrats & John Kerry?

The manipulating biased Supreme Court is ready to secure the hijacking again in 2008. The biggest question is where will it be this time? Who will lead the charge?

To find the answer you must understand that Karl Rove is no longer in Whitehouse any more. He is spearheading the cheating game that he mastered in 2000, 2004, and is ready to deliver the real punch in 2008. His ticket to Europe is already booked just in case he is caught.

The voter suppression especially that of Black, Asians, and Hispanics will happen all across the board where the outcome is questionable.

A bigger question is, will Obama succumb to the norm set by Gore and Kerry? What we saw in 2000 was a backboneless Gore giving up the aspiration of millions of common Americans in exchange of a Nobel Prize that he received last year. We do not know what Kerry will receive, if any for his cowardly accepting the defeat by cheating machinery oiled by the so-called establishment.

It does not look that good for Obama either! He went ahead and voted for the bill that protect the telecom companies against civil prosecution for their support to Bush who got busy in hear private talks of US citizen on phone in the name of fight against terrorism.

But do not underestimate Obama. The seeds of a second US civil war are already in place because of what happened in 2000 (Florida – Chad episode) and in 2004 Ohio where blacks were not allowed to vote freely. The voter manipulation by the neo con Republicans will just aggravate the matter.

This time the Karl Rove game will be played in multiple states. It will be the responsibilities of educated elite Democrats to be in the field driving the minority and poor voters to the booth on November 4th. . Complacency will be catastrophic. Just like Bush’s speechwriter wrote the Palin’s speech, Karl Rove is ready to create the massive manipulation in voting – it is his full time job now.

It was Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, where will it be in 2008?
Kiran Chaube
The whole world is learning the tactics of hijacking power in the name of democracy...
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