Tuesday, November 27, 2007
HW 30: Tuesdays Symposium
I attended a symposium for the first time on Tuesday, and the title of the symposium was “Citizens Gone Wild, Taking Control of our Democracy.” Nancy Tobi introduced this topic to us and mostly talked about the government and how she felt. She presented us with a power point, slideshow and talked about black box voting. New Hampshire uses two different techniques to count the votes for presidency, Diebold and Hand counting. She explained that the Diebold is a machine that counts the votes for us, but she went on to explain that it is not always correct, and it can mess up the vote counting. Nancy, herself, believes that votes should just be counted by hand because she wants to “help prevent unwanted presidency.” As soon as she started talking about politics and our president, I got aggravated because I don’t like when people discuss politics and he’s clearly our president for a reason, so it bothers me when people bash him. Anyway, I won’t talk about my feelings toward President Bush, that’s a person issue. But to finish up, she talked about how NH is a free and open election, and how she wants voting to change in American.
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Amy - I try very hard to NOT focus on the personal qualities of the individuals who are the beneficiaries or the victims of our corrupted election systems.
I am focused on the processes and the problems in our election systems that enable and facilitate fraud and the subversion of our democracy. Elections are about power, and the prize in American elections is often about such a wealth of power that fraud is an inevitable byproduct of every election.
This is why the founders of our nation taught us to DISTRUST those in power, and to implement a system of checks and balances to thwart the inevitable efforts of anyone with the motive, means, and opportunity to subvert our democracy.
However, in an election there are winners and losers. And it is impossible to talk about the reality without naming names. In a fraudulent election, such as that of 2000 and 2004, both of which have a preponderance of incontrovertible evidence of documented fraud, there is also a winner and a loser. In both of those elections, the winner was George Bush. Whether or not he personally participated in or was aware of the fraud is a matter to be considered looking at the evidence.
Unfortunately, as it turns out, there is evidence to support the contention that not only was he aware of it, but since he was installed - by the Supreme Court and not the electorate - he has implemented policies to perpetuate election fraud. Also unfortunate is the fact that nobody in our government, or the media, seems to want to investigate this evidence to lay the matter to rest in a lawful and responsible manner. So citizen watchdogs and journalists nationwide are spending their lives bringing the evidence forward in the hopes that one day justice will be served, or at the very least, they will be witnesses in the telling of our history.
I am aware that you do not hear about these things on Fox News or CNN, but just because the corporate media does not cover the issues, does not mean they do not exist.
But democracy is not a partisan issue, except in the manner by which the two major political parties both seem to actively work to subvert our democratic processes by passing laws and implementing policies that are in direct contradiction with the principles of democracy. In this system, where those in power do everything they can just to stay in power, the losers are the rest of us, and our nation overall.
If we stay focused on the principles of democracy, about which I spent considerable time speaking at my talk in Keene, then we are assured to be on the right path. If we turn away from these issues out of personal loyalty or emotion to any one of the players, then we fail our nation.
This nation is build on the rule of law, and not people. The laws sustain us regardless of who is power at any given time. Or at least they would, if we made sure they were followed.
Wishing you all the best, and I am happy to know you care enough to be paying attention.
~Nancy Tobi
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