Shortly after Bush stole the 2000 election, I wrote an article in which I suggested that it might be wise to consider the purchase of an AK47 as an investment. Today those words sound strangely prophetic, yet eerie alien.

Drawing A Line In The Sand: Bush & The Election

August 2, 2004
From the Streets of Little Beirut
Glen Yeadon

Shortly after Bush stole the 2000 election, I wrote an article in which I suggested that it might be wise to consider the purchase of an AK47 as an investment. Today those words sound strangely prophetic, yet eerie alien. Its like my first reaction to seeing the airliner crash into the World Trade Center---this has to be a video game. My mind knew what my eyes had seen was real, but it refused to believe it. Indeed it is hard to believe that in the short span of four years Bush has turned the citadel of democracy into a third world banana republic. Never in my life did I expect I would ever see requests for poll watchers in this country. Yet many of my fellow countrymen are calling for poll watchers.

There is good reason for the concerns of citizens about Bush stealing another election. Indeed, there already is an abundance of evidence that they already are well advanced in stealing the second election. Brother Jeb is already defying a court order about former prisoners being informed about the procedure to regain their full civil rights, including the right to vote. Florida is once again purging its voter rolls of names of suspected felons. Nearly every week another flaw is discovered in the computerized voting machines particularly those in Florida.

Clearly Bush and the Republican Party no longer believe in democracy and detest elections. Before the 2000 election Bush feared that he would win the popular vote but lose the electoral and had planned an elaborate system of what amounted to nationwide riots and court challenges until he was appointed president. Its clear from the Texas gerrymandering in which Democratic members of legislator fled to neighboring states to prevent this abuse of political power. It certainly was evident that the Republicans refuse to accept defeat at the ballot box in the recall election in California resulting in the election of Governor Arnold. However, Governor Arnold maybe part of the plan to steal the election by delivering California's 54 electoral votes to Bush. At anytime during Election Day if Bush was leading Arnold could declare a state of emergency and close the polls and then certify the results as valid.

The greatest concern among voters as the election approaches is the Bush administration may cancel the election by declaring a red alert or declaring martial law because of a potential terrorist attack. The Bush regime is guilty of instilling this fear in the voters by issuing terrorist warnings of an impending attach. Like Saddam's weapons of mass destruction these warnings are based on nothing more than thin air and a lot of bushshit. The warnings are becoming increasing transparent that they are nothing more than a political gambit. The latest warning came from John Ashcroft on the day Kerry gave his acceptance speech. The intent was clear to distract as much attention as possible from Kerry. The previous warning the week before the Democratic Convention suggested the terrorist would target the media during the convention, again the intent was clear to limit coverage of the convention and the Democratic Party. The real danger of these phony warnings is that after reaping a lie often enough many people begin to believe it. The Republicans in congress are now set to propose a bill outlining the steps to be taken if an election is canceled. Any such bill will provide the Bush administration with enough loopholes to cancel the election on little or no evidence of a threat.

Furthermore, Aschroft has begun to use the FBI as his private political Gestapo and has targeted various protesters and protest groups. Various groups and individuals have been singled out for questioning and intimidation. All of these groups have one thing in common ---they oppose Bush. Aschroft is clearly trying to revoke their first amendment rights of free speech. His false claim that these groups are violent and have made terroristic threats is ludicrous unless one believes in machine gun toting grannies.

With the increasing frequency of terrorist warnings and Aschroft's attacks on individual's free speech rights that this administration is growing more desperate as frantic as the election approaches. This is a direct result of the internal Republican polls. As reported earlier this week the Republican internal polls show Kerry winning the election by a substantial electoral margin at this time. This result confirms the many online polls that can be found on politically neutral websites. Most of these web polls show Bush losing by 20 percent, yet the polls reported by the media shows the race to be nearly even. While the web polls are nonscientific, the results should parallel the scientific polls. Such a wide disparity suggests the media is deliberately keeping the results close for the Bush administration. The more it appears the election is close the easier it will be for Bush to steal the election.

This desperation by Bush and his administration is manifested in the increasing bizarre behavior of Bush. Unable to satisfactory answer a persistent news reporter, Bush stomped offstage and backstage screamed at aides “Keep those motherfuckers away from me.