“Voting integrity does not rise or fall on vote counting … there hasn’t been integrity in the voting system since the founding of the republic.”
— An Interview with Don DeBar, conducted by Rose Roby
Don DeBar is a highly-respected broadcast journalist and a courageous leader and former candidate for the Green Party. As Senior Producer at Community Public Radio CPR News (CPR), he has taken a strong stand against U.S. imperialism and is an outspoken advocate for social justice of every kind. In 2010, he was among more than 100 activists and journalists from a variety of organizations, religious groups and media outlets who attended a New York gathering with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the face of an incendiary media campaign that tried to silence them.
Don DeBar.
Now, the so-called “fake news” hysteria is again ushering in a new McCarthyism, with calls for silencing free political speech and for shutting down access to alternative news sites. Following a recent trip to Havana, Mr. DeBar was locked out of his Facebook account based upon allegations of “suspicious activity.” He has been informed that the only way to reinstate his account is to provide Facebook with sensitive documentation. We will not allow him to be silenced.
Jill Stein’s Recount debacle has gone out with a whimper — no recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and Trump actually gaining 162 votes in Wisconsin. But the media campaign to delegitimize Trump’s presidency — if not to actually overturn it — screeches on. Amid rising hysteria over Russian hacking already at fever pitch, part 2 of this interview with Don DeBar (see here for part 1) continues with his remarks on the past election and the political terrain that is starting to take shape.
The real origins of Jill Stein’s recount efforts can be traced back to November 2000, when George W. Bush was declared the winner by the Electoral College based upon a questionable win in the state of Florida, a state that was coincidently governed by W’s brother, future failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
I fear that Donald Trump will unleash a race war, will empower white mobs packing guns walking the streets of America, will give carte blanche to direct police rule in America’s urban wastelands, will shred what is left of the Social Safety Net that is the only buffer to the deteriorating American economy, and gut what is left of the few civil liberty protections afforded us by the U.S. Constitution.
I fear that Hillary Clinton’s triumphant call for American Exceptionalism (“USA!” “USA!”) will take us to the edge — and over the edge —to nuclear confrontation with Russia, to expanded war in the Middle East, to the Zionist regime in Israel finding a “final solution” to their Palestinian problem, and to shootouts in the South China Sea, as the neocons of both the Republican and Democratic Establishments unite behind her candidacy.
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In response to my last post, many people responded with one simple word, “Stein!” But many others said, “Wait and see what happens at the convention.” Maybe a lawsuit exposing Hillary’s voter fraud will turn the tide and the superdelegates will flip. Maybe Hillary will get indicted. Maybe Bernie has some secret master plan, and his endorsement of Hillary is just a clever ploy.
We’ve all heard the poem that goes:
— Rose Roby