A McCain ‘Win’ Will Be Theft, Resistance Is Planned

Marxist threat issued

If your television declares John McCain the president elect on theevening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You shouldimmediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the WhiteHouse in Washington, D.C., which we will surround and shut down untilthis attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed.

AMcCain “win” will not be illegitimate because I disagree with hispolicies, but because he himself has rendered it illegitimate. He andhis campaign and allied supporters have sought to illegally removehundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls, fraudulently registeredpeople as Republicans without their knowledge and against their will,obstructed voter registration drives, falsely warned students againstvoting where they attend school, falsely accused community groups ofvoter registration fraud, falsely alleged the widespread existence ofvoter fraud, and encouraged supporters to falsely believe McCain’sopponent is a foreign terrorist through speeches, recorded phonemessages, and flyersAlready in early voting in a number of states there have been casesof votes on electronic machines visibly flipping to McCain or McKinneywhen intended for Obama. We will see McCain supporters on November 4thchallenging people’s right to vote, seeking to force people to vote onprovisional ballots, and seeking to have provisional ballots discarded.And we will see electronic vote counts wildly out of step with the mostrecent polls, although not with exit polls — which we will be deniedany access to unless they have been “adjusted” to match the officialcounts.

Inciting your supporters to violence with racist andreligious lies about your opponent, effectively alleging treason onabsolutely no basis, should be enough, alone, to disqualify a campaignfor the presidency of the United States. Working to block voters fromregistering should be enough on its own. Any of the dozens of creativeforms of vote suppression currently being used by the Republicansshould be enough. And allowing votes to be counted on completelyunverifiable machines owned and controlled by corporations allied withyour party should make the results illegitimate even if plausible. IfMcCain is declared the “winner,” it will not be plausible, but at thispoint he has so disgraced himself and our electoral system that he isno longer a legitimate candidate for president regardless of what thepolls (themselves fallible, but all we’ve got) say just before electionday. Too many people have already been denied the opportunity to evenpush the buttons and have their votes miscounted. Too much incendiaryslander has been let loose. Too much visible vote flipping has alreadybeen documented.

If Obama officially wins, McCain is likely tochallenge it, charging the Obama campaign with some of the very crimesengaged in by McCain himself. Our reaction should be exactly the samein the event of a McCain challenge as in the event of a McCain”victory.” We should not sit back for even a split second and wonderhow it will work out. We should not try to organize a plan on the spurof the moment to travel to key battleground states. We should beprepared already to immediately travel to Washington, D.C., headstraight for the White House, occupy Lafayette Square Park, theEllipse, and surrounding streets, block entrances, and shut the placedown until Obama is recognized as the president elect or we areguaranteed a credible election with universal registration andhand-counted paper ballots.

We may be there for days or weeks ormonths. But we must be there. We must be there by the millions. We mustshow each other, and the nation, and the world that we have had enough,that we will not stand for one more stolen election, that we will notgive in to fear, lies, theft, and intimidation. If they choose toattack our nonviolent gathering of citizens, let them do it right infront of George W. Bush’s White House with the world’s media watching.We will not back down.

I’m not hoping it comes to this, ofcourse. If it doesn’t because the official election results arecredible and just, we should celebrate and prepare to lobby ourgovernment for real change. But if resistance does not develop becausepeople are too scared and obedient to act, then you’ll still be gladyou packed ahead of time, and you might want to look into tickets toCanada.

Source: MWC News

2008-10-22