The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With

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Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:28:18 -0500

The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With

 

 

 

 

The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With

 

Lack of Election Reform Threatens to Make All Progress Irrelevant.

 

by Anthony Wade

 

 

 

 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__050806_the_gorilla_in_the_r.htm

 

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August 6, 2005

 

The good fight has been fought for some years now. Progress has indeed

been made. There are rumblings of indictments from the Valerie Plame

incident, that may exceed Karl Rove. With each passing death in Iraq a

nation begins to realize that this is just not worth it, despite the

bravado of Bush, a man who knows nothing about sacrifice. The Downing

Street Memos are still out there, waiting to take down this corrupt

administration. This however, is not the time for resting upon false

hope. There is still an 800 pound gorilla in the room that only a

handful seem to be talking about.

 

The unbridled arrogance of this cabal seems to know no end. When faced

with the realities that the country was catching on that John Bolton

may be involved with Treasongate, Bush appoints him to the UN, in

defiance of Congress. In defiance of the American people. The judicial

branch of government orders the release of the hidden Abu Ghraib

photos, and Bush snubs his nose at them as if they have no right to

check, or balance him. Nearly everyone agrees that torture is

unacceptable, but Bush and Cheney make it known that any attempt to

stem the tide of the United States from practicing torture will be

vetoed. Halliburton has been caught over-billing the American people

millions of dollars, has posted a 284% profit increase, and still they

are awarded bonuses and incentives, as well as new monies, your money.

This is all done with a nod and a wink, in clear view of the public

because it is fairly apparent that Bush does not think he is

accountable to the people, and has lost any pretense of working for

us. How else can you explain his leaving for the longest Presidential

vacation in decades, as our kids are dying?

 

Why the certainty? Why the cockiness? Well, there is that gorilla.

That gorilla is election reform, or the lack thereof. Just today, the

resident election reform experts, Fitrakis and Wasserman, warn us that

the recent special election in Ohio, may also have been stolen. I say

also because any objective review of the 2004 election reveals that it

was indeed stolen. How else do you explain a man who cannot break a

49% approval rating, earning 11 million more votes than the previous

election? Fraud. I have heard all the right wing blather in reaction

to this. I do not object to the word conspiracy, because by

definition, that is what this is. It is the word theory I take

exception to. Theory implies some uncertainty, where in this case

there is none. I offer the fact that no GOP government officials will

agree to allow paper trails as my proof.

 

Whatever progress we think we have made in the past few years is

completely irrelevant if the elections are not guaranteed to be fair.

There are so many crimes out there being committed by this

administration you can bet that they will do whatever they can to not

lose control of either house in 2006. They correctly recognize that if

that were to happen, then REAL investigations would ensue, complete

with subpoena power. It is obvious that the tide has shifted and

public opinion is rapidly drawing away from the party that has led us

down this path of destruction. The majority of people in this country

now correctly believe that Bush has lied to us about going to war and

his personal ratings are plummeting. There is no question in my mind

that if the elections were fair and honest, that the GOP would lose

control in 2006 but the question remains, will they be fair?

 

I will be honest; I do not know the first thing about how we go about

fixing this gorilla of a problem. I would just as soon leave that up

to the experts, such as Fitrakis and Wasserman. The bottom line is

2006 is not as far off as you think. The system is too vast and

detailed to think we can try and fix this next year. If we do, we will

get more obstruction from GOP officials and promises of fixing the

system, after the elections. Heed this warning, if unchecked, we will

wake up in late 2006, and the GOP will have a filibuster proof

majority in the Senate. As unlikely as that sounds, it is no more

unlikely than George Bush picking up an extra 175,000 votes from south

Florida, but that is exactly what they sold us in the 2004 election.

 

There is no end to the arrogance of this administration or the death

they are willing to deal in. There is no end to their confidence in

the system they have fixed in this country. If we do not figure this

out soon, the Downing Street Memos will go the way of the Gannongate

and Voterfraud2004 scandals, mere footnotes in the bloody history of

the reign of King George. It is time to kill the gorilla.

 

 

 

Anthony Wade, a contributing writer to opednews.com, is dedicated to

educating the populace to the lies and abuses of the government. He is

a 37-year-old independent writer from New York with political

commentary articles seen on multiple websites. A Christian progressive

and professional Rehabilitation Counselor working with the poor and

disabled, Mr. Wade believes that you can have faith and hold elected

officials accountable for lies and excess. Anthony Wade's Archive:

http://www.opednews.com/archiveswadeanthony.htm Email Anthony:

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