Karl Rove, Democracy Thief

Well, it appears we cannot count on the courts to see this Rovian Plot for what it is; A rolling back of Jim Crow, and as long as no black men are lynched, no one will notice, right?

WRONG!!!

It is time for lovers of Democracy to get busy, especially those who live in states like Arizona and all the rest of us who can lend a hand during the summer months (and any other vacation time in 2007.)

Not only do we have to make sure everyone who is eligible to vote is registered, but we must make sure they all have the I.D. they will need on election day.

We can play the game too!

(We will have to leave it to the Geeks (God Bless 'em) and the attorneys to work on the techo-election-stealing angle.)

If there is a legal requirement for a certain kind and number of I.D.s in order for a citizen to vote, then those I.D.s should be issued for free, as long as as the person can, in some way prove citizenship, and the required I.D.s must be issued without undue hardship for the poor, disabled and elderly. Otherwise, what is being proposed is nothing less than a poll tax and voter supression of a most toxic variety.

There is no way we can allow Rove and company to get away with this!

Not only must we do all we can to make sure that qualified voters are allowed to vote without hassles and intimidation, but we must demand that the back-channel servers and computers that have been used, not only in the firing of U.S. attorneys, but to change election tallies in battle ground states, are found and searched by experts on finding deleted emails and anything else that might relate to election theft.


Karl Rove's Jim Crow Voter Suppression Machine is Humming Along Just Fine, All Ready for 2008

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 6:57am. Editorials
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

It was an April 21st article that could easily escape your notice: "Ruling lets Arizona require proof of citizenship from voters." The first paragraph of the Associated Press story reads, "A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an attempt to halt enforcement of Arizona's first-in-the-nation requirement that all residents prove they are U.S. citizens when they first register to vote."

Not that the one article in itself should set off alarm bells. But when you put together evidence from the Bush Administration in regards to voter suppression tactics, the partisan U.S. prosecutors, and other indicators, it becomes clear -- as Greg Palast has been warning us – that the Bush Republican Party plans to hold onto the White House for the GOP in 2008 through whatever means possible.

The key electoral strategy, beginning with the infamous "felon purge" in Florida in 2000, has been minority voter suppression. And when they can’t suppress enough votes, they just steal the election, as Scalia and the Supreme Court felonious five did to put Bush in office. (Remember that Gore beat Bush in the popular count by more than half a million votes.)
ProsecutorGate has revealed the missing link that tied the Rovian "Jim Crow" game plan together in one neat package.

It goes something like this. First, use every means possible to suppress minority and other Democractic votes. This includes passing "Jim Crow" style voting laws in the states. Secondly, employ tactics like the Florida felon purge to deny voting rights to Democrats. Thirdly, use U.S. prosecutors to magnify minor voting irregularities in Democratic areas and make it appear as if the Dems are engaging in widespread voter fraud. Fourthly, use the legal action brought by partisan GOP U.S. Attorneys to have loyalist Republicans cite them as further justification for "Jim Crow" laws at the state level.

Actually, the U.S. Attorney component is vital to the overall Rove electoral strategy for several reasons.

One, it is most often employed before elections (in relation to voter registration, etc.) to try and influence electoral outcomes in favor of Republicans by muddying up the Democrats.

Two, it helps to cover up widespread and orchestrated Republican voter fraud. (Remember the New Hampshire phone jamming case that was tied directly to the RNC. The RNC paid more than a million dollars in legal fees to defend the perpetrators of the illegal effort to interfere with a Union voter turnout effort. And who was doing political work through the RNC e-mail system? Karl Rove and other White House staffers, including his "opposition research" protégé who was just appointed U.S. Attorney in Little Rock.)

Three, it gives Republican state legislators "evidence" to "demand" tough voter registration and voter identification requirements.

Of course, Rove’s long-term voter suppression strategy doesn’t include Rove’s long-term vote theft strategy, which is an additional story related to electronic voting and packing the courts with right-wing hacks.

What is clear is that the Bush Administration is not continuing to try to expand totalitarian "Unitary Executive" authority so that the Bush Republicans can hand over a virtually unchallengeable presidency to a Democrat. They are steam rolling a dictatorial presidency forward with the expectation that they will be handing over unprecedented powers to a Republican.

As BuzzFlash has written before, remember that after all of the hullabaloo about the replacement of U.S. Attorneys with GOP hit men and women who will do Rove’s bidding, those loyalists are still in place and gearing up for carrying out the political dirty work that will help defeat a Democrat for president in 2008.

Furthermore, the U.S. Attorneys who weren’t fired and have cooperated with Rove’s grand scheme to deny minorities the right to vote, those U.S. Attorneys who conducted partisan prosecutions, are also still in place.

Gonzales may or may not stay in office. But whether he leaves or not, you can be sure that his replacement -- an Orrin Hatch or Ted Olsen, for example – will make sure that the Department of Justice’s role in voter suppression keeps humming along.

The RNC and Rove e-mails that the White House claims are "lost" no doubt would reveal the grand scheme behind the effort for the Bush Republicans to control the U.S. government for 100 years, as Rove has bragged.

It won’t be because they received the most votes. It will be because they suppressed the most votes.

And Rove is smiling because the machine he built is not being dismantled.

To the contrary, it is just being fine-tuned.


Additional BuzzFlash Note: William Rehnquist, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and was one of the felonious five at the time of the theft of the 2000 election, cut his GOP teeth aggressively challenging minority voters at polling places in Arizona. Ain't it ironic?

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