The televised CSPAN vote-fraud hearing held yesterday by Chairman
John Conyers and other House democrats can only be described as the
nearest approximation to a farce one can envisage, since the overall
intent was readily transparent. Talk about throwing pablum to the
masses. It�s a wonder the committee did not put pacifiers in the mouths
of all those present. The purpose of the proceedings was not to recruit
or educate Americans but to provide a vent by which informed people
could blow off steam without affecting the views of a national audience.
One could easily conclude from the tone, comments, and faces of the
committee members that they felt those testifying had no chance of
succeeding in their endeavors and all assistance to them is essentially
fruitless. The very process by which the hearing was conducted was
calculated to eviscerate the enterprise. The hearing opened by allowing
knowledgeable people to present their views, opinions, and conclusions
as to the existence of fraud and felonies but very little in the way of
actual evidence was submitted which could not help but cause TV viewers
to reject the implications of the hearing. Instead of the nonsensical
manner in which events proceeded, the committee should have opened as
would a court case in which the prosecuting attorneys presented evidence
in great detail. Indeed, since Ohio alone was the focus of attention,
they could have opened by reading the entire 15 page letter, absent
footnotes of course, that was sent by the committee to Ken Blackwell,
the Republican Bushite Ohio Secretary of State. That would have given
TV viewers an excellent idea of the extent to which illegalities
permeated the election. Others could have added information they had as
well. In other words, the hearing should have opened with what lawyers
call a Bill of Particulars. Instead, it opened with a Bill of Opinions,
Judgments and Conclusions. Moreover, where was Blackwell since a
cross-examination of him was crucial?
To add to the ideological mayhem, some of those testifying only
succeeded in discrediting the plaintiffs. The Green Party's
presidential candidate, David Cobb, went into a tirade about how the
Greens were being excluded from state ballots which was not the topic
under scrutiny by any means. All he was doing was propagandizing for
his platform.
One woman in the line-up to speak just came in off the street
and presented an emotional argument about how she ought to be able to
vote since she paid her taxes and sent her son to fight.
Another speaker became emotional and appeared unstable, although he
claimed to have run in a congressional race in Florida.
People such as these only discredit our cause in the eyes of
many TV viewers, and I can't help but feel that was the intent of the
committee leadership, as they know from experience the kind of people
who come to speak at open sessions.
The reasonable conclusion to be drawn from today's activities
and the degree of pressure applied to everyone to speak rapidly and
briefly via Conyers and his gavel is that the very existence of the
hearing is attributable to mass pressure from below, not leadership and
a sense of outrage from above. Apparently mass demonstrations are the
only means by which justice is possible, since legal proceedings and
political leaders are proving to be ineffective.
for the cause,
Klo
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