It's Saturday afternoon, the famous (infamous) Las Vegas torrid summer in gradual retreat. I was trying to catch a nap earlier because I'm going to a USA Dance Party tonight at 7, but my overactive mind wouldn't let me have that nap.
I want to make the case that 9/11 was partly the fault of the U.S. Supreme Court. Take a little walk with me before you judge me cuckoo Recall that the U.S. Supreme Court gave the election of 2000 to the man who his friends fondly call "Dubya," the moniker derived from the "W" in the name George W. Bush. The Florida Supreme Court had just ordered a recount of ballots after approving a petition for a recount made by the Gore camp. The counties named in the Gore suit were getting ready to do their recount. But wait, the U.S. Supreme Court inserted itself in the case, encouraged the Bush camp to petition the U.S. S.C. to intervene. The U.S. S.C., led by rabid Republican Chief Justice Rehnquist, ruled that it was too late for the recount and therefore Bush had been elected president. Unprecedented. In all of U.S. history, nothing would compare to the U.S. S.C.'s grab of the power to name the country's president. Fast forward to the Group of Eight meeting in Genoa, Italy in late July, 2001. The air was palpable and doomsday: Al Qaida was rumored to be planning an attack on the summit attendees, using hijacked commercial airplanes as missiles. The City of Genoa was declared a no-fly zone and no attack took place. Presumably Al Qaida had been thwarted. Bush and his entourage came back to America, and satisfied that the world, especially the U.S., had dodged a bullet, Bush promptly left for his ranch in Crawford, Texas and cleared brush, rode his horses, and patted as many people as he could find, the way he patted "Brownie" for doing such a "heckuva job" as head of the Federal Emergency Management Authority, which was in charge of the City of New Orleans recovery from the devastation of hurricane Katrina. Ignoring warnings about Al Qaida's resolve to attack the U.S., Bush went back to work in September, after Labor Day, confident that Al Qaeda would not dare attack the U.S. Bush had no intimate knowledge of Al Qaida. He had assigned the task of monitoring Al Qaida and other organizations that had declared a jihad against the U.S. to his Vice-President, Dick Cheney, but the anti-terrorism group that Cheney had organized never met. While the Clinton administration, including Al Gore, was intimately involved in the defense, harassment and rooting out of Al Qaida elements anywhere they might be found, the Cheney group that had taken over from the Clinton administration never once met. There was no pressure on Al Qaida because the Bush people had not treated the Al Qaida menace as a clear and present danger to America. How did the three stooges - Bush, Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice - end up being in charge of the nation's security? Plainly and simply, because the U.S. Supreme Court chose Bush as president. If the recount of Florida votes had been allowed, who knows what might have happened? The Republicans wanted a recount of all votes cast, while Gore and his team wanted recounts only of some counties' votes. History tells us that a recount of all votes would have given the election to Al Gore. And if the Republicans had found a line of attack against the result of such a recount the Gore team could always revisit the issue of military votes. Thousands of military absentee ballots arrived past the deadline for such votes and were never certified by the army brass. Counting those votes was against Florida law. A huge majority of those votes were for Bush. The reason this issue of the 2000 Florida presidential election and the Supreme Court naming George Bush president is Gore's name is being bandied about as a possible white knight should Hillary falter as a result of her email controversy. I for one would work hard for Gore should he become the Democratic Party nominee because I believe strongly that the man actually won in 2000 but was denied the presidency by the U.S. Supreme Court. C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Center for Good Governance" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/center-for-good-governance. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
