Hope is in the air. For all the election fraud that took place -- from registration scams to robocalls to lost absentee ballots
to electronic voting fiascos (stolen and eaten votes -- see
Brad Blog and his links), enough people came out on Election Day to create a landslide for change. That said, let's look into the Sarasota
Florida race and insist on a re-vote. (18,000 votes were "lost" -- a 15% undervote is unacceptable, especially when the missing
votes are in
Christine Jenning's best EDs and she "lost" by under 400 votes.) And Francine Busby's vote (California) still looks questionsable. We mustn't
be too polite. "We have been too nice too long." But as the Bush administration knows and fears there is so much more than
stolen elections for which they should be held accountable.
The illegal spying, the torture, the war profiteering, the signing statements, a raped environment, the selling off of America
to the highest bidders (or the cheapest ones in the case of those outrageous trade policies which bring us cheap do-dads --
made by slave labor -- at the cost of American jobs), the tax breaks for the people who don't need that much money, the multi-faceted
dimensions of crony capitalism, and
most of all the unjust, unneeded, unmerciful preemptive war on Iraq which had nothing
to do with 9-11 or weapons of mass destruction, decimating Iraq and the Iraqi people and killing our American troops, where
the only winner is Halliburton.
You
must use the "I" word -- and that word is
INVESTIGATE. And then you must go from there, if the facts are
what most of us see the facts to be, to the ultimate "I" word:
IMPEACHMENT, not out of revenge but out of
justice.
If you don't understand this, seek out John Nichols' book,
THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
published by The New Press. [Bob McChesney had a great interview of Nichols about his book on Oct. 8th, listenable/downloadable
at
Media Matters.]
Yes, I am thrilled that I saw you in Pennsylvania (see my
Flickr.com site) and I am thrilled with your populist ideas. But the people voted for more than just candidates, they voted for change, for
American jobs, for healthcare, for peace and justice: for
accountability. Remember, "No justice, no peace" and "If
you want peace, work for justice." Don't listen to Republican nay-sayers and spinmeisters: rein them in. Investigate. Work
for justice. Work for peace. Work for all Americans. Work for the people of the world and an America restored to its position
of integrity and real democratic values. We're praying for you and America.
Peace hugs,
Kate Anne
