American Democracy Is on the Line
Paul Craig Roberts
Saturday, Nov. 25, 2000
The corrupt Florida Supreme Court must be severely punished for participating in vote fraud. Impeachment is too good for the Gang of Seven.
Arrest, indictment and trial are the best response to the court’s criminal behavior. Republicans must not acquiesce to the Democrats’ misuse of judicial office to steal an election.
Florida is a state where Republicans have been overwhelmingly elected to legislative and executive office. Yet the Democratic, partisan and corrupt state Supreme Court has clearly overstepped its authority in an effort to help Democrats revote ballots to Gore’s benefit.
Why would seven jurists so audaciously and confidently participate in vote fraud, an illegal act, in a state where Republicans hold the balance of power?
The answer is that for almost a half century – since the 1954 Brown decision of the U.S. Supreme Court – the judiciary has been gradually appropriating the legislative role, adding the power of lawmaker to its assigned role of law interpreter.
Unlike the Florida Supreme Court’s brazen decision to assist the Democrats in stealing a presidential election, the Brown v. Board of Education decision was in behalf of a noble cause – desegregation of public schools.
The Brown decision remains sullied by the means through which it was obtained—an unethical ex parte collaboration between a sitting justice, Felix Frankfurter, and a litigant, Justice Department official Philip Elman.
The plot achieved its goal of abolishing segregation, but the means usurped legislative authority and created a precedent inimical to democracy. The judiciary learned that whenever it can claim the moral high ground, it can legislate.
Other factors have contributed to the judiciary’s rising power. The larger government grew, the more involved "special interests" became in politics in order to defend and advance their interests.
In the public’s mind, campaign contributions and interest group politics gradually undermined the authority of the legislative branch. A tainted and sometimes stalemated legislature permitted the judiciary to make inroads into the legislative arena.
With legislatures seen as agents of special interests, the judiciary has successfully ignored the constitutional separation of powers and appropriated more and more power.
The Florida Supreme Court now has claimed the power to void statutory election laws when its candidate loses.
The Florida vote count will not be over, the court declared, until highly partisan Democratic vote counters in a few heavily Democratic Florida counties revote enough ballots to change the election outcome.
By aiding and abetting vote fraud, the court has violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution. The votes of a relatively few people in a few Florida counties are being counted according to different rules from the votes of everyone else in the state and the country.
The Florida justices clearly do not expect the legislature to do anything about the vote fraud that the court is foisting upon the country. Rule by judges has become a habit. The Florida Supreme Court is relying on the legislative habit of deferring to judges.
If the Republican Party permits this extraordinary abuse of office by the Florida Supreme Court, Republicans will have signed an American version of the Enabling Act, which in 1933 transferred legislative power from the German parliament to Adolf Hitler, thus making him a dictator. Instead of signing over power to one person, the Republicans will have transferred it to the judiciary.
Elected representatives will have a difficult time reclaiming their authority from judges. After 46 years the judiciary can claim squatters’ rights to supreme power.
Hitler faced more constraints than our judiciary, which proceeds without an Enabling Act. The people’s will is being stolen behind Democratic profusions of "the intent of the people."
No longer effected by elected representatives, the people’s will is to be discerned by courts second-guessing voters’ intentions in the voting booth.
Massive Democratic vote fraud has made this election a close one. Having sized up Republicans as cowardly and timid, Democrats decided that they could steal the election behind a barrage of lies and propaganda laid down by their faithful allies at CNN and the TV networks.
These Nazi-style propaganda machines are playing a decisive role in the destruction of American constitutional democracy.
If Republicans can’t muster more courage than the Reichstag could find in 1933, the stolen election of 2000 will put an end to representative democracy in the United States.
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Vote Fraud (ad run in NY Times, USA Today, and Investors Business Daily)
A Special Report from NewsMax.
Millions of Americans are outraged that one of our most sacred rights — the right to vote — has been desecrated by vote fraud. The major media have been silent about this attack on the most fundamental right in a democratic republic.
NewsMax.com reports the facts:
Fact: On Election Day at 7 p.m. EST, major net-works reported that Al Gore had won Florida. There was no basis for this projection, and the call had the obvious effect of depressing Republican voting in the state’s panhandle in the Central time zone, where voters were still casting ballots.
Fact: Gore won the state of California by a 12-point margin, 54% to Bush’s 42%. Zogby, the pollster who most accurately called this election, re-ported that California was too close to call on Election Day morning, with Gore and Bush running neck-and-neck at 45% each. No doubt that phony Florida projection, which seemingly gave Gore the presidency at 4 p.m. California time, helped to keep down the Bush vote.
Fact: As the election hinges on Florida, the media have kept mum on the fact that heavily Democratic South Florida has been an area of rampant voter fraud for decades. Only two years ago the Democratic mayor of Miami was forced from office because of brazen voter fraud. Why has the press avoided discussing this national news story from just two years ago?
Fact: According to the Miami Herald, a study of just two counties found that 39 felons – including murderers and rapists – voted. Extrapolating that number, as many as 2,000 felons could have voted illegally in the state of Florida.
Fact: The Gore campaign successfully had 900 to 1,100 absentee ballots from our brave military men and women tossed from the Florida count.
Fact: The first statewide recount in Florida, that showed Al Gore gaining some 1,400 votes over George Bush, defied all statistical probability. Economics professor Tom Carroll of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas reports that should not have happened; based on mathematical probability, he said the likelihood of so many vote errors favoring Gore has the same probability as a person being "hit by lightning 30 times."
Fact: Vote fraud has increasingly become a way of life. The media will not cover this story because the vote fraud tends to help Democratic candidates. There is sufficient evidence in the past decade that several major elections have been stolen. More than 2,500 questionable absentee ballots, some filled out by illegal aliens, helped oust California Republican Congressman Robert Dornan in 1996. In 1994, the Republican candidate lost the race for the governorship of Maryland after thousands of votes mysteriously surfaced from precincts in Baltimore. In 1996, Louisiana Senate candidate Woody Jenkins lost after more than 7,454 phantom votes were cast for the Democratic winner, who won by a margin of just 5,788 votes.
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