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Why you should not vote - ever

dh | 28.09.2003 23:06

While this is US 2004 orientated the same applies here
Discard the system
And at the same time it might be wise to consider Blunkett's smart ID cards. Will 40 quid buy a surveillance of your every move within 3 metres via Global Positioning Sattelite. Just like the paedophile tags?

Subject: Why you should not vote


Why you should not vote

Rigged computers plus corrupt candidates equal no freedom

By John Kaminski
 skylax@comcast.net
9-27-03

Here's a simple message vital to the future of the human species
that a
majority of Americans will have no trouble heeding — Don't vote.
Repeat: Do
not vote, under any circumstances.

How's that for a counterintuitive proposition? Don't vote and you
just
might, one day, regain your free country. If you do choose to cast a
vote,
chances are excellent that you won't ever see freedom again, because by
voting,
you simply a reinforce a system totally polluted by money and
corruption
that
ultimately has nobody's best interests at heart.

Why would you cast a ballot when fascist controlled electronic
voting
companies conceal from the public proprietary software that allows them
to
change
vote totals in any way they wish, as the 2002 midterm elections in
Minnesota,
Georgia, Texas, Alabama and other states so blatantly demonstrated?

Never mind that criminal Katherine Harris gambit in 2000 when she
personally disenfranchised more than 90,000 legitimate voters, allowing
George W.
Bush to embark on his pathological crusade to obliterate the world in
order
to
enrich his friends with lucrative no-bid contracts that destroy the
American
economy.

The real point is that your vote counts for precisely nothing if
some
politically motivated computer geek can whimsically change the ballot
box
totals
at the end of the night. Evidence of this activity is now
overwhelming.
That's what has happened in the last two elections, and that's what
will
happen in
2004.

So why would you bother to vote?

Then the real question becomes: What if they held an election and
nobody
voted? What would happen then?

Even if the votes actually were counted honestly, there looms the
larger
question of who to vote for?

In this sick dance charitably referred to as the Democratic
presidential
primary campaign, not a single candidate has even whispered a syllable
about
any of the three most important issues which should be in the minds and
on
the
lips of every prospective American voter — namely, the 9/11 cover-up
which
allowed the militaristic maniacs in the White House to start bombing
every
country they want to steal something from; the monstrous control of
American
culture
by Zionist media which has twisted the U.S.A. from a well-meaning
collection
of God-fearing villages into a murderous and pornographic circus; and
the
deliberate poisoning of America's own soldiers by their own leaders
with
radioactive ammunition and toxic vaccines.

Not a word about any of that on the Zionist TV stations, or from
the
so-called liberals and progressives who seek to challenge the tyrant in
charge who
performs his demented charades from the White House.

Of course the alternative to those posturing, gutless Democrats is
our
beloved unelected Republican incumbent, the one for whom was written
the
popular
bumper sticker: "Somewhere in Texas ... a village is missing its
idiot."
But
this is no joke.

How many Americans will actually vote for someone who kills
thousands of
people based on the lies he tells? Even when the people he kills with
those
lies are some of America's finest citizens! What kind of twisted
monsters
have
the American people become? Hiding in their decaying homes, ignoring
the
phony rationales for slaughter, they wave their flags and remain mute,
not
wishing to hear the truth in foreign newspapers shatter the hollow lies
of
their own
shameful silence.

Special note to all those parents considering a career for their
children
in America's armed forces: Uncle Sam is killing your children, even if
they
don't go to war ... which most likely they will be, lives wasted in
meaningless
acts of aggression against some innocent Third World country that will
be
based on lies. These leaders you venerate and grovel in front of are
deliberately killing your own children, and
you're voting for them!

OK, you can wave your flag now. And stay silent if you like.

What purpose would not voting really accomplish, you ask?

Well, when there's nobody to vote for who is really going to
address the
legitimate problems of the world, and when the votes (it has already
been
proven) are not counted honestly, what is the point of voting? It's
the
same
point as the presidential primaries: your future has already been
planned
for you,
and you have absolutely no say in the matter.

Of course it's impossible that NO ONE would vote. Diehard
political
organizations would pay people to cast ballots just to have totals to
count.
But
what if public participation got so low that it became impossible to
maintain
the fiction that the president had been elected by a majority of the
population? As it is now, only 42-44 percent of Americans actually
vote.
What if that
were cut in half, and only 20
percent voted?

What would really guarantee the effectiveness of this idea would be
a
new
law stipulating that a quorum of eligible voters be required for
election.
Since Bush became president with only 18 percent of the votes of
eligible
voters, under this law he would not have been able to take office. But
that's a
pipedream as incumbents in Congress would and will do nothing that
might
jeopardize their privileged status. Still, all legislative bodies must
have
a quorum
to legally pass legislation. It would be nice if the same basic rule
applied
to electing the leader of the free world/chief pillager of the planet.

But even without such a law, the consequences of such a mass
movement of
refusing to vote for corporate stooges who don't act in the best
interests
of
the people would have resonant repercussions and ramifications, and
kindle a
movement advocating the delegitimization of the American governmental
system,
which must happen if humanity is to be rescued from the clutches of
this new
and growing totalitarian police state menace.

Would things get better, or worse? Some would say worse. But
wouldn't
such a protest amplify the realization that Americans no longer have a
free
and
untainted election system?

As it stands now, only millionaires can run for national public
office,
and they must have the support of corporations, the very entities
oppressing
people everywhere in the world and curtailing individual freedom in the
name
of
profit. So the candidates who run for public office must endorse
oppressive
policies in order to capture the support of the powerful entities that
control
the lives of everyone.

This is not freedom, people. This is economic coercion, and
directly
responsible for America's new trend of subverting all foreign
governments
through
huge loans and huger repayment plans that wind up impoverishing and
indenturing every nation that takes the bait.

Anyone who casts a vote for any candidate is endorsing America's
stated
objective of killing anyone in the world for any reason it chooses.

We need to protest in a serious way that the integrity of America's
voting system has been profoundly compromised by electronic voting
manipulation,
and we also need to demand candidates who can tell some version of the
truth
that is not totally twisted by the perverse and inhuman influence of
corporate
financial blackmail.

Until we accomplish these objectives, we will continue to have an
America
that invades foreign countries based on wholly fictional pretexts and
kills
its own citizens with impunity, and we will have presidential
candidates who
cannot address the real issues that threaten our very survival because
they
are
gagged by the financial constraints placed upon them by the very forces
that
jeopardize our well-being and
our survival as a species.

My remedy for this double bind is not to vote. I urge everyone not
to
vote, under any circumstances.

The honest American people that still remain upright and
independent
must
withdraw their sanction of a criminal and despicable governmental
system
that
is strangling the life out of a majority of its citizens because it has
rigged the laws and the courts to assist in the accelerated robbery of
the
poor by
the rich.

What has our system of voting achieved? A Congress-full of lemming
traitors who virtually all voted to seriously damage our Constitution
without even
reading the legislation, and who by a wide margin abdicated their legal
responsibility to stop a tyrant who ordered two foreign invasions based
on
the lies
he told.

The eventual objectives of a voting strike by the American people
would
be to convene Constitutional conventions to restore what rights have
been
nullified by the Patriot Acts, to outlaw corporate personhood, to
recalibrate and
detoxify the court system, and to place new restrictions on campaign
financing
and advertising. All these goals should have the aim of wresting
political
power from the coffers of huge
corporations and returning it to individual citizens.

It's time for real Americans to stand up and be counted. Don't
vote.
Withdraw your approval of a recklessly criminal governmental system, or
share in
the guilt of its objective that eventually (and probably sooner than
later)
will destroy the entire world with its greed.

Don't vote.

Hopelessly warped by the shrill cynicism of men who do not care
that
real
people needlessly die because of their decisions, the American system
of
governance must be brought down by a massive outcry of moral outrage
and
sincere
shame from every corner of the land. Otherwise no authentic safety
exists
for
anyone anywhere, and the human future cannot evolve with confidence
that one
day there really will be liberty and justice for all.

What was once the American dream is now the American nightmare.

Only by withdrawing our support for a system terminally fouled by
the
limitless bank accounts of the patrician plunderers will we have any
hope of
awakening from it.

Don't vote.



John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a
collection
of his Internet essays published by Dandelion Books. For more info, go
to
 http://www.johnkaminski.com/ For more of his recent work, check out
 http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html

dh

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