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Published on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election?

by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

It is time to think about the unthinkable.


The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we dont know.


The real question is not how or when they might do it. Its how, realistically, we can stop them.

In Florida 2000, Team Bush had a game plan involving a handful of tactics. With Jeb Bush in the governors mansion, the GOP used a combination of disenfranchisement, intimidation, faulty ballots, electronic voting fraud, a rigged vote count and an aborted recount, courtesy of the US Supreme Court.








When he announced for governor, many Ohioans joked that Ken Blackwell will never lose an election where he counts the votes.

But lose he did.along with the GOP candidates for Secretary of State, Attorney-General and US Senate.


Why? Because they were so massively unpopular that even a 6% bump couldnt save them. Outgoing Governor Bob Taft, who pled guilty to four misdemeanors while in office, left town with a 7% approval rating (thats not a typo). Blackwell entered the last week of the campaign down 30% in some polls.


In traditional electoral terms, that may also be the case in 2008. Should things proceed as they are now, its hard to imagine any Republican candidate going into the election within striking distance. The potential variations are many, but the graffiti on the wall is clear.






The establishment of the Homeland Security Agency has given it additional hardware to decimate the basic human rights of our citizenry. Under the guise of dealing with the immigration problem, large concentration camps are under construction around the US.

The administration has endorsed and is exercising its right to employ torture, contrary to the Eighth Amendment and to a wide range of international treaties, which Gonzales has labeled quaint.

With more than 200 signing statements the administration acts on its belief that the unitary executive trumps the power of the legislative branch in any instance it chooses. This belief has been further enforced with the administrations use of a wide range of precedent-setting arguments to keep its functionaries from testifying before Congress.

There is much more. In all instances, the 109th Congressand the publichave rolled over without significant resistance.


The Founders established our government with checks and balances. But executive orders have accumulated important precedent. The Emancipation Proclamation by which Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the South, was issued under the military necessity of adding blacks to the Union Army, a step without which the North might not have won the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelts Executive Order #8802 established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Harry Trumans Executive Order #9981 desegregated the military.

Most to the point, FDRs Executive Order #9066 ordered the forcible internment of 100,000 people of Japanese descent into the now infamous concentration camps of World War II.


All this will be relevant should Team Bush envision a defeat in the 2008 election and decide to call it off. Its well established that Richard Nixonmentor to Karl Rove and Dick Cheneycommissioned the Huston Plan, which detailed how to cancel the 1972 election.

Today we must ask: who would stop this administration from taking dictatorial power in the instance of a national emergency such as a terror attack at a nuclear power plant or something similar?




What does that leave? There is much idle speculation now about what the armed forces would do. We also hear loose talk about 90 million gun owners.


But we can certainly assume the mainstream media will give lock-step support to whatever the regime says and does. Its also a given that those likely to lead the resistance will immediately land in those new prisons being built by Halliburton et. al.



For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing.

HARVEY WASSERMANS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at www.solartopia.org, along with SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030. The FITRAKIS FILES are at www.freepress.org (where this article was originally published), along with HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICAS 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008, which Bob and Harvey co-wrote.

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Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election?

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  • ...isn't *THAT* stupid - there are a whole shitload of us who, though not wearing uniforms anymore, remember our oaths to defend, preserve and protect the Constitution, and most of the ones constrained to shrub's orders are ... elsewhere. Please, somebody tell me he'd not be so stupid as to instigate the Second American Revolution...
    • Are you also aware than in the 1928-1931 Geneva conventions a certain group of people declared bankruptcy and mortgaged their countries solid assets to the world bankers?

      Those are the ONLY missing minutes... Amazingly in 1933 FDR decided to "confiscate" the citizen held GOLD while also abolishing the Gold (and later during Nixon's time the Silver standard) (which if you read that lovely Constitution you uphold through your oath, is the ONLY moneys that are legally to be accepted in the several States (i.e
      • Jesus,

        You really get this stuff! Funny how they always teach that the AoC were impractical and unworkable, that the Constitutional Conventions were called to repair a terminally dysfunctional government.

        The Civil War was supported by southerners with no economic interest in slavery or large-scale agriculture for this reason. It was seen as an attempt to revitalise the original revolutionary purpose.

        Hamilton was the original mole. He was a west-indian, and betrayed his Afro-Caribbean forbears, and the in
        • Not sure, but Washington was related to royalty (and so were quite a bunch of other presidents, which has been very thoroughly documented in a plethora of books widely available even in regular bookstores)... heck, even the Committee On Style that took out that phrase in the Constitution about the president's title being "His Excellency" because Patrick Henry had said "I will have no part of it, I smell the hand of Monarchy in this!" when he vehemently refused to appear at the Constitutional Convention that
      • by RM6f9 (825298)
        Do you honestly believe that there are no thoughts behind "reactions"? Which is more likely, the abolishment of pretense at public elections or a revolution against the puppets paraded in front of the sheeple as "leaders"? Given such potentials, I wonder - will you continue to sit and think of your response, or will you, if/when the situation presents itself to you, "react"?
        Certainly, I make mistakes, often through "reacting", but my armor against such armchair critics
        • Forgot which Mr. Roosevelt that was? It was Teddy. He was actually quite dirty, in fact he started that lovely Bull and Moose party of his and ended up installing Woodrow Wilson, via a 3 way split vote. What did Woodrow gave us... ding ding ding.. yep, the Federal Reserve / Fractional Banking System and its IRS (incorporated in Delaware as a private company, not a "government branch" as we're taught).

          Woodrow Wilson also gave us that lovely World War 1 involvement. He was installed, and if you do your re
          • by RM6f9 (825298)
            No, I knew which Roosevelt I was quoting, thank you - anyone who establishes a national parks system can't be all bad...
            A third party does not "install" a president, and only a genuine moron would believe otherwise - all cheating being equal, the one with the most electoral votes wins. It never ceases to amaze me that a country who insists on so many choices for a pop idol contest insists that less choices are better when it comes to Presidents, and that even a semi-strong third choice is responsible for t
    • Considering that it's all a dog and pony show anyways we may find that the ringmaster will decide that term limits on the winning trick may be getting in the way of selling tickets. I don't think that will happen soon, though. There are enough people still enamored with, and being able to make use of, the drama of the election cycle that it will stick around. It's a useful way to reset the population when they begin to demand that politicians begin paying attention to the important things. Nothing beats
      • It is all our own fault. Or at least our parents, and in accordance to good christian dogma, the sin was passed down to us, right?

        Our fathers all fought against "evil" (as designated by the indoctrination machine they so gullibly believed), during revolutions, wars, religious upheavals, you name it, just like their fathers' fathers did. Yet nobody looked at the big picture, that those screaming for war were always a small elite group that never partook of the bloodshed unless it was perfectly safe for the
