The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
 

Vol: 34 Issue: 7 - Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Treason Most Foul
by Jack Kinsella

The American electoral process, despite its perceived 'flaws' (think
Election 2000) is the standard against which all other nations are
measured in terms of freedom and fairness. And it has been since the
Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor to the principle of government of the people, by the people and for
the people.

It is America's electoral process that ensures America's freedom and
prosperity.  The President of the United States is the most powerful
office on the face of the planet, yet the electoral process ensures a
peaceful, orderly transfer of power.

The process survived even the concerted efforts of the Gore campaign to
subvert it in 2000.  The Gore team claimed they had won the election
because they won the popular vote, despite losing the
Constitutionally-mandated Electoral College vote.

They forced the Florida recount, took the nation through an interminable
and pointless series of lawsuits, eventually forcing the Supreme Court to
say, 'enough!' to stop the debacle from preventing the orderly transfer of
power on January 20th.

It was an effort to use the courts to effect a coup d'etat, but it failed
because of the openness and honest nature of our electoral process.  The
Democrats vowed they would spend the next four years finding ways to rig
the process and unseat George Bush.

To be sure, they didn't word it that way.  Instead, they claimed that it
was the Bush team that pulled off a legal coup d'etat by rigging the
election via the courts, and vowed to 'fix' it, but it meant the same
thing.

I hate to reopen old wounds, but it is necessary to the ultimate point, so
bear with me. Gore conceded the election to Bush when it was clear he lost
Florida.  But when he saw how close the vote actually was,  he became the
first presidential candidate in history to withdraw his concession.

It was Al Gore who took the election results to court.  It was the Al Gore
team that tried to disqualify eligible votes. It was the Gore team that
began demanding a Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral
College and give the election to Al Gore because he won a slightly higher
percentage of the popular vote. This isn't partisanship, it is unvarnished
history.  I was an eyewitness, as were you.

An historical 'point of order' is appropriate here. In the 1960
Kennedy-Nixon race,  Richard Nixon ALSO won a greater percentage of the
popular vote than Kennedy did.  But Kennedy won the Electoral College
vote,  Nixon conceded, and Kennedy assumed the top job.

In the 1960 election, Illinois was the pivotal state, as Florida was in
2000.  More voters in some precincts of Chicago cast ballots for Kennedy
than were registered to vote.  Nixon's team knew it. Federal election
officials knew it.

But proving it would have prevented the orderly transfer of power and
forced a Constitutional crisis, and Nixon, despite his later failings,
refused to put the nation through it.

Moreover, he immediately congratulated Kennedy and publicly offered his
support to the new administration.  The Kennedy administration took office
without controversy, on January 20, 1961.  Once the election was over, the
nation closed ranks around its new leader.

Not so on January 20, 2001.  Democratic leaders and partisan celebrities
competed with each other for microphones from which they could announce
the new president was 'not their president' and vowed to change the
political process next time.

They have made every effort to keep their word.  New balloting methods
were developed, ostensibly to prevent 'dimpled chads' -- but in local
elections, they either made things worse or gave rise to new election
challenges based on new flaws in the new systems.

Assessment:

As Election 2004 approaches, the Democrats continue with their promise to
unseat George Bush by any means possible, including tinkering with the
process by which he defeated their guy in 2000.

Because no matter how you slice it, Al Gore DID lose. The only one
tinkering with the ballots was Al Gore, and he STILL couldn't find enough
votes to win Florida and its Electoral College delegates.

And, as already noted, the Electoral College trumps the popular vote by
deliberate design.  And Election 2000 wasn't the first time the loser of
the popular vote found himself sitting in the Oval Office.

Americans should be stunned to hear that nine members of the United States
Congress, (Democrats all) signed a letter sent to UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan asking the United Nations to send observers to oversee the US
presidential election.

Congressional Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Democrat from Texas,
wrote Annan, saying, "We are deeply concerned that the right of U.S.
citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy."  I'm
NOT making this up!

Joining Johnson in this act of treason were Julia Carson of Indiana;
Jerrold Nadler, Edolphus Towns, Joseph Crowley and Carolyn B. Maloney, all
of New York; Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Corrine Brown of Florida, Elijah E.
Cummings of Maryland, Danny K. Davis of Illinois and Michael M. Honda of
California.

They asked Kofi Annan to intervene by sending "international election
monitors" to watch for "questionable practices and voter
disenfranchisement on Election Day."

"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will
not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," Johnson
wrote. "This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat
itself."

Repeat itself in what way?  A Democratic challenge to the election
results, or an electoral victory for George Bush?   Johnson doesn't say.

Keep in mind that it isn't Michael Moore, or Susan Sarandon and Tim
Robbins, or Danny Glover or Sean Penn or even Democratic partisanship that
we are talking about.

We are talking about elected members of the United States House of
Representatives begging the United Nations -- the UNITED NATIONS! -- to
sit in judgment of America's electoral process.

"Let me get this straight," wrote Joe Mariani in GOPUSA.com. "A group of
Democrats want to bring some people from countries like North Korea, Iran,
Syria, China and Cuba - people that have never seen a democratic election
in their lifetimes - to sit in judgment on our elections? What kind of
voodoo politics is that?

Mariani went on to note; "The last time a foreign body had any direct
influence over the political process of this country, the situation was
corrected by a war for our freedom from British rule."

Finally, he asks, "Are these so-called Americans so willing to surrender
that hard-won right of self-determination now, and to such a shamelessly
scandal-ridden group of anti-American dictatorships and terrorist
sympathizers?"

Thankfully, Kofi Annan turned down the traitorous request because it would
violate the UN's Charter as well as the US Constitution.

Proving even the UN doesn't hate the current administration as much as the
partisan Democrats in Congress do.  And setting the stage, as Johnson said
in the letter, 'history to repeat itself' in Election 2004.