by Scott Creighton
Though they knew the election results were flawed and probably hacked, and even though Alvin Greene has been “disrespecting” democrats since this all began, and though they know he will lose to Jim DeMint… the South Carolina Democratic Party Executive Committee voted to reject the valid protest and thus ensured that once again, without showing up, Alvin Greene wins again. The most dispicable thing of all is afterward they announced a move to honor Vic Rawl for a lifetime of service to the Democratic Party of South Carolina… and gave him a standing ovation. This is the state of politics in the Corporatist Neoliberal Democratic Party; fuck over the voters and a life-long democrat in service to a corrupt republican. And do it right to his face.
Even though I predicted this outcome, during the hearing, which I watched all of it, I came to believe that NO ONE… NO ONE could possibly have the audacity to vote against the motion to have a new primary election with all the evidence presented showing the election results were flawed. The order of the hearing was that they had to vote BASED ON THE PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED… ALVIN’S SIDE PRESENTED NO EVIDENCE.
One woman got up and stated she was going to vote against Vic Rawl’s protest EVEN THOUGH ALVIN GREENE HAD BEEN DISRESPECTING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SINCE ALL OF THIS BEGAN BY NOT SHOWING UP ANYWHERE..not even at that hearing… AND SHE AGREED THAT THERE WAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE ELECTION RESULTS.
Alvin Greene is the Democratic Party nominee for the United States Senate from the state of South Carolina. and again, he never even showed up.
Without showing up again, without presenting any kind of argument as to his validity, the Democrats of South Carolina found there was a preponderance of evidence to reject Vic Rawl’s request for a new election even though THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE PRESENTED ON GREENE’S BEHALF.
14 witnesses presented in support of Vic Rawl’s protest… statistics proved beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a problem with the senate primary election… and yet THE DEMOCRATS VOTED TO KEEP ALVIN GREENE AS THE CANDIDATE TO RUN AGAINST CORPORATIST JIM DEMINT.
THE DEMOCRATS JUST PROVED THAT IT WAS THE DEMOCRATS WHO RAN THIS FAKE CANDIDATE TO KEEP A POPULIST CANDIDATE FROM THE SENATE.
The South Carolina Democratic Party is a cesspool of corruption and corporatist shills who just sided with the enemy over the clear wishes of the people of their state. Cowards with no backbone. They deserve Jim DeMint. Sellouts of the first order.
Even when the hackers of the vote tip their hand and screw up so bad as to call attention to their theft, the status-quo will continue on despite how it makes them look because they know the corporate media is there to cover their tracks.
There is no democracy, your vote doesn’t count, and even when the thieves get caught, the elected officials on “our side” will turn their backs on the people no matter what the cost.
Filed under: Alvin Greene, Electronic Voting Scams, Fake Democratic Elections, Hacking Democracy, Scott Creighton
The last tiny hope of true American democracy was ‘smirked’ down the gutter……. and the laughter will be loud in congress and the White House tonight.
Hi Jan! Taking a moment out for a brief pause in a very screwed up day. Look, you need a course correction about american “democracy”. It was never intended from day one to be a democracy, but a “republic.” Go watch the movie “gladiator” with russell crowe. In 2000 years, not a damn thing has changed, except the actors. The entire world is being taken care of by the Golgathon – the shit demon in the movie “dogma.” Watch that one too. And plan on moving away from florida… soon. Try oregon or hawaii. Much safer places.
Cheers
it was a constitutional representative republic. we were to be able to hold our “elected” representatives accountable by the threat of the next election.
for those who say this was never a democracy, they are missing the point.
yes, it was never a true democracy, but we had the power to hold them accountable to our wishes or at least to the wishes of those whose party they are from.
there has been election fraud since day one… but in the past, it has been at least investigated and when it was discovered actions were taken, people lost jobs, people went to jail
Since 2000 that has changed.
Have you not noticed a marked difference in how the politican on both sides seem to resent the voters? They scorn at those who ask questions they cannot answer… their responses are pointed, even angry. They have no patience with us because they have no fear of us.
as long as they serve the corporate elites who pay the bills (and that includes the fees for election rigging) they don’t give a shit how obvious their betrayals are.
THAT IS NOT what we set up here. In a constitutional republic the word of law is in control. It is not about 51% of the people dominating the other 49%, it is about what the rule of the constitution commands and our free choice to regularly SELECT those whom WE TRUST to uphold that constitution.
After 8 years of illicit criminal behavior, we had one hope and that was that the next administration would hold them accountable to the law and the constitution.
when they did not, when they turned their back on our laws and stated they would only look forward and not back, our system was doomed for there would be a precident of no accountablity from both sides and to be continued over and over again.
Now they will use whatever means they can to ensure that the next congress members and the next administration in the White House will also share their neoliberal savage capitalist agenda, and this country, this once proud constitutional republic…. is gone.
It is still the best demockracy money can buy. Remember the politricks care about us lil’ people.
Is this the beginning of the end? Is there no real point in fighting this battle because we’ve already lost the larger one?
From what I’m reading, we’ll soon have a world-wide oil slick that, IMHO, wil probably do for us what supervolcanos or asteroids did for the dinosaurs way back when. The masses will sleep walk into oblivion possibly never realising what happened to the American dream and still blaming foreigners for all their troubles.
Funny that I always thought it would be one of the major events that would take us out: Yellowstone supervolcano, large asteroid, nuclear winter but not a small hole drilled into the ocean floor!
Still, no point in complaining!
Deepwater Oil Spill – A Longer Term Problem, Personnel – and Open Thread 2
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593#comment-648967
“First of all…set aside all your thoughts of plugging the well and stopping it from blowing out oil using any method from the top down. Plugs, big valves to just shut it off, pinching the pipe closed, installing a new bop or lmrp, shooting any epoxy in it, top kills with mud etc etc etc….forget that, it won’t be happening..it’s done and over. In fact actually opening up the well at the subsea source and allowing it to gush more is not only exactly what has happened, it was probably necessary, or so they think anyway.
So you have to ask WHY? Why make it worse?…there really can only be one answer and that answer does not bode well for all of us. It’s really an inescapable conclusion at this point, unless you want to believe that every Oil and Gas professional involved suddenly just forgot everything they know or woke up one morning and drank a few big cups of stupid and got assigned to directing the response to this catastrophe. Nothing makes sense unless you take this into account, but after you do…you will see the “sense” behind what has happened and what is happening. That conclusion is this:
The well bore structure is compromised “Down hole”. “
Oh yeah…. you guys have really brightened my day..
And how in the world can a person ‘move’ when they can barely afford to live as it is?
there had been a bigger leak in Nigeria.. and look at what has happened to those people….
if all these ocean animals die and lands are made useless and ponds and lakes….. where do the elite expect to get their food? an oil covered ocean absorbs much less co2…. and that increases the global warming problem (or it will make a global warming problem)…… with less vegetation growing, we’ll have less oxygen in the air and more humans and animals will suffer beathing problems……….
maybe that is what ‘they’ want.. to smother everyone.
my cup of tea doesn’t taste as good this morning…
I read that the war in Iraq has caused so much stress that many of the surviving people have stress related severe mental problems now… guess the neo-murderers are pleased to know that….
they are stressing us all out……..
If you haven’t had the pleasure of Damon Vrabel’s Renaissance 2.0 series of lectures, please take time out and watch it now. Lesson 5 is where it really gets interesting and although Lesson 6 is a 3 parter, only part 1 seems to be available at this moment.
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 1 – Revisiting American History – Financial Empire
Damon Vrabel
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/19658/Damon%20Vrabel/
just wait the new world