Ernest Partridge lays it on the line

A Gathering Storm
Excerpt:

In short: what are citizens to do when it is finally recognized and acknowledged that it is impossible to vote the ruling party out of office – when, in effect, that party rules without the consent of the governed?

The founders of our republic, in Congress assembled on July 4, 1776, had an answer:

That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That, whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…. [W]hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

So am I suggesting a new revolution or a coup d’etat?

Not exactly, and not necessarily.

First of all, let’s be clear: were a coalition of institutions, elites and citizens to overthrow the GOP autocracy, this would not be a coup. It would be a counter-coup, for the Bush regime came to power in 2000 in a coup which was fraudulently re-instated in 2004. Due to widespread election fraud and a suspension of ballot counting by a rogue Supreme Court, the United States today is ruled by an illegitimate regime. Even if, however improbably, the election returns of 2000, 2002 and 2004 were accurate, we can not know this because e-votes are, by design, unverifiable. An unverifiable vote is an invalid vote. Accordingly, offices obtained through such “elections” are illegitimate. Compounding that illegitimacy are Bush and Cheney’s deliberate violation of their oaths of office, “to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

You’ll want to go read this. If the future of this nation means anything to you, and if like me, you are determined, as lasarina says here:

I will not live in fear.
I will vote my conscience.

With thanks to catvincent for the link to The Smirking Chimp.

Tags: dissent, election fraud, politics