First, take into consideration that the U.S. Constitution
nowhere specifically guarantees the right of U.S. citizens to vote.
Next, also
realize that nowhere does our sacred document condone the use of exorbitant
sums of money to prevent U.S. citizens from voting.
And that
basically sums up the message of Greg Palast's latest blockbuster Billionaires and Ballot Bandits (Seven
Stories Books, 2012), his third New York
Times bestseller, and thank God for that. I wish it was selling even better
than it is, because it must reach the right people, those victimized by what
this Truth Sleuth names as "No Child's Behind Left," among other educational
challenges blocking the most recent generations from knowing what they need to
know.
And that explains
the comic book wedged into the center of the book to translate billionaire
garbage obstructing our voting rights, garbage that takes countless forms that
all cost money we'll never see.
At DC's popular
progressive hangout Busboys and Poets on Duke Ellington Alley yesterday
(10/22), Palast began from the end of his book to account for the nail-bitingly
close polls predicting Election Day results. Well, it all started in the Congo,
where one Vulture king, Paul Singer, stole a bundle of billions donated to
alleviate a cholera epidemic there.
Soon to be
prohibited from the UK, Germany, and other realms, the Vulture pounced on the
funds, buying them up for a song and transposing them into a symphony for his gluttonous
purposes. Defying the ignomy he thereby acquired, he next stalked the financial
crisis in Argentina at the beginning of the nineties, which Palast named the
biggest battle on the planet. In this process, though, Singer soon targeted
even bigger game: UBS, Citibank, the Bank of America, ultimately angering
Obama, who, with SoS Clinton, took the issue to the courts, hence angering the
Vultures and exacerbating the opposition that I believe will put the Democratic
administration "out of business" [I'm supporting Obama this time around--MS]
And so on.
Drawing on such voraciousness,
our illustrious Republican presidential candidate Mitt the Scheiss Romney militated
against bailing out the automotive industry crisis in Detroit but then, once
our prime export and economic lifeblood was rescued by TARP, he pounced on it
and flew off with $15.3 million--no, wait a minute, $153 million, a fact
confirmed by his campaign. Didn't it surface in wife Annie's "blind trust"? The
2009 tax return would tell us so much! Has it gone the way of so many Roving
emails?
The Washington Post had better things to cover. What's the latest punditry?
Most of Mitt's
millions now reside in Singer's claws. Good luck to whoever will benefit the
most. We, the 99 percent, could sure use it. Imagine if we reacquired the
educational elan that so transformed our country in the sixties. But don't
stray from the point. We haven't.
Obama takes
credit for a bailout initiated by the ignominious GWB. So much for partisanship.
Democrats, after all, were the source of
the Jim Crow legislation in the mid-nineteenth century. And elitist Democrats led by Governor Bill
Richardson didn't want the underclass to take over their party in 2004. Hence
the Land of Enchantment ended up red in 2004. Those Hispanics and Native
Americans "couldn't make up their minds" for some reason. Read the book for the
true deplorable details. Even Obama became a state senator by questionable
means, joining a long tradition set by some of our most distinguished elected
officials--in recent times such luminaries as LBJ and GHWB. Oh, well.
Billionaire Brother David Koch is running for office in Missouri as a Democrat.
Meanwhile, when
GM's auto parts division Delphi went under, the Vultures bought it out at 67
cents a share and donated it back to the Dow at $22 per share, then exported
most of it to China, along with all the employment that entailed. Why pay
benefits and pensions to 25,000 Americans when Chinese sweatshop labor is so
much cheaper? The Romney folks blame Obama's bailout for the job loss instead.
Understandably the
US of A wanted Delphi back, so the Vultures demanded $12.9 billion, OR ELSE no
more Delphi. The Treasure caved, so we footed the bill. Hence Annie R's blind
trust fattened up on that $115 billion.
And what do all
these nauseating investigative revelations have to do with our voting rights?
Well, it takes
billions of bucks to steal the franchise from millions of U.S. voters.
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