Looking to the Real President for Leadership

Posted on November 12, 2002 in Citizenship

If I were a Republican, I wouldn’t feel especially proud or cheered by last week’s election results. Not if Votewatch is right. Pollsters used the same methods they’d used successfully for years. And this time, they were farther off than they’d ever been in their history.

Consider the experience of Senatorial candidate Charlie Matulka who discovered that his ballot had been already filled out with the name of his opponent.

Couple this with complaints of voting irregularities in numerous locales and the lack of voter scrutiny into the workings of the vote counting software (“it’s a trade secret”), and you discover that America has become the world’s largest banana republic.

We’re not free.

I would rather that the electorate was blind and put these clowns into office, but I know far too many people who voted and are thoroughly puzzled by the results of this election. Those who have despaired may take heart: the American people are with us.

What is needed now are intelligent initiatives that resist the illegitimate authority of this government. I do not call for breaking the laws against murder, robbery, etc. or for violent rebellion. We must continue to observe these laws. What we must resist are the new measures that this Congress seeks to impose. We must think of intelligent, non violent acts of civil disobedience, targeted specifically at the initiatives of this illegal government of the Bushes.

President Gore, if you say the word, the People will follow.