RE: [PEN-L] [Marxism] Michael Moore and Wesley Clark

["Jose G. Perez" <elgusanorojo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim writes:  "This Bush family is on a whole other level in terms of the
usual criminality, psychopathology, fascist inclinations, ruthlessness,
penchant for revenge etc among candidates. They have been open and
covert supporters and financiers of outright Nazis, the likes of the
Moonies, death squads, the likes of the World Anti-Communist League, the
White Hand, etc."

I think you can examine the record of many major U.S. ruling class
families and find examples of precisely the same kinds of things. The
Kennedys, for example. 

Jim writes: "We have not seen, to the best of my knowledge, such a
calculated plan as in Florida for example, to covertly take African
Americans off the voter roles as purged felons, in the one state likely
to be the swing state, at the level and with the premeditation that Bush
demonstrated in Florida."

Actually, this is a time-honored Democrat and Republican technique.
Here's an article about one such operation:

*  *  *

Just Our Bill
by Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Saturday, December 02, 2000

Lito Pena is sure of his memory. Thirty-six years ago he, then a
Democratic Party poll watcher, got into a shoving match with a
Republican
who had spent the opening hours of the 1964 election doing his damnedest
to
keep people from voting in south Phoenix.

"He was holding up minority voters because he knew they were going to
vote Democratic," said Pena.

The guy called himself Bill. He knew the law and applied it with the
precision of a swordsman. He sat at the table at the Bethune School, a
polling place brimming with black citizens, and quizzed voters ad
nauseam
about where they were from, how long they'd lived there -- every
question in
the book. A passage of the Constitution was read and people who spoke
broken
English were ordered to interpret it to prove they had the language
skills
to vote.

By the time Pena arrived at Bethune, he said, the line to vote was four
abreast and a block long. People were giving up and going home.

Pena told the guy to leave. They got into an argument. Shoving followed.
Arizona politics can be raw.

Finally, Pena said, the guy raised a fist as if he was fixing to throw a
punch.

"I said 'If that's what you want, I'll get someone to take you out of
here'."

Party leaders told him not to get physical, but this was the second
straight
election in which Republicans had sent out people to intellectually
rough up
the voters. The project even had a name: Operation Eagle Eye.

Pena had a group of 20 iron workers holed up in a motel nearby. He
dispatched one who grabbed Bill and hustled him out of the school.

*  *  *

The Republican hatchet "Bill" was William H. Rehnquist, now, as in 2000,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

I stress that this denial of voting rights to Blacks isn't a Republican
peculiarity. One of the Blacker Georgia counties, Ben Hill, had a higher
percentage of disqualified presidential votes in 2000 than any Florida
county, 19% plus, and the 2000 election in Georgia was run by Democrats.

José



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