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You may have seen this story earlier about overseas ISPs being blocked from accessing government sites (more). That is, if you're using wanadoo.fr or a number of the big European ISPs, you can not access US government servers. The DOD is claiming that this is due to the potential of “hackers”, but that's ludicrous — first, only the big ISPs are blocked, not all of them (too difficult), and second, even if a hacker was using a big ISP, they could bounce off some owned box and get around this in their sleep.
This block is in for one reason: to keep expats and other Americans living overseas from voting, since they usually vote Democrat. It's the same as the systematic moves to keep blacks from voting, since statistically blacks, unlike poor white folk, actually are bright enough to see who their enemy is.
The Pentagon as well confirmed (more, more) that they have begun “begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.” I've mentioned in the past about how military personnel overseas are not being allowed to vote privately in many cases, and other basic violations of the Democratic process… But I'm consistently shocked at how brazen all this is, and how Americans totally seem unwilling to look in the general direction of these issues.
You know, I don't care what you think of the Iraq war, gay marriage, or anything else. Bush and the Republican's total disrespect for democracy and their willingness to bend the law (more) to their advantage even when it means disenfranchising voters should be singularly enough to induce every patriotic American, of any political leaning, to throw these people out.
I have a simple question for Republicans:
What do you love more — America, or the Republican Party?
Of course, the average patriot is an idiot, which makes it easy to mold them. One of the things that always surprises me is that the polls of Kerry v. Bush I see in the international media (of domestic Americans) are very close, often with Kerry in the lead. On the other hand, the polls in the heavily right leaning US media have Bush with often outrageous leads (more, more) — and even though the pro-Bush ones have been shown to be fundamentally flawed (because they interviewed mostly Republicans; more). It just blows my mind that people can't clue in that they're taking advice not from impartial journalists, but from big corporations that are profiting from the big government systems, and stand to profit a lot more from Bush than they do from Kerry.
Simple truth: Since the big media are all publicly owned corporations, they have a legal obligation to maximize profit, not truth. In addition, the law dictates that they must lie if it means profit, assuming the lie is legal (which it is). But still, we hold on to these laughably preposterous idealistic notions that there's some “magical journalism spirit” that keeps them noble. Hello Santa.
So why are these polls inaccurate? For the same reason that a right wing paper will tell you that there were 100,000 people at a protest while the slightly less right wing paper will tell you there were 150,000… while in reality there were 250,000. Because people are cowardly sheep and want to be doing — and thinking — what everyone else is doing. That's also why they're so scared of people with tattooed faces, but I digress… So they tell you Bush is a “regular guy”. They tell you over and over (more), and they're doing it with $259 million dollars worth of money (more) coming almost exclusively from the richest people and companies in America (more).
And then there's the nonstop lying by both Bush, the Republican party, Republican-sponsored thinktanks, and of course the pundits. For example, Rush just said that half of Kerry's base “hate America”… and people take crazy old Limbaugh seriously? Then you've got the RNC currently warning voters in West Virginia (more) that Kerry is planning on banning the Bible and approving gay marriage — neither of which Kerry has ever suggested he'd do in any way and obviously wouldn't do (because banning the Bible is illegal, and because he's been very clear he won't support gay marriage — hell, Cheney is more pro-gay than Kerry). Then there's all his little lies — such as his stupid “more than 10 million voters” thing below, or even just the over-and-over mixup between Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas (more). I don't know what's more insulting… that he can do this with total impunity, or that anyone that questions it is labeled a kook and the mainstream media can't talk about it.
Do the rich really think Americans are this stupid (or at least ignorant and gullible)?
If they actually are, maybe rich people deserve to be rich, and the rest of y'all deserve to be poor?
NOTE: Before you start saying, “hey, aren't you better off than me, fucker!? maybe YOU are my enemy”, realize that while Rachel and I are well off on the whole, we're nothing in comparison to the genuinely rich folks who are paying to put politicians (on both sides) in place. So please don't chop off our heads.
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