Do a recount: If George Bush loses in November, John Kerry should demand a recount – not of this election, but of the one in 2000.
The recount should not be done by one of those bogus blue ribbon committees of political officeholders and crony appointees.
Rather, it should be conducted by a bland panel of 13 faceless bean counters career attorneys, all of them from the General Services Administration or other obscure, but appropriate government agencies with nary a political ambition between them.
The panel would be given one year, one month and one day to determine who fixed the 2000 election, and how. Members of the U.S. Supreme Court who played a role in the coup should not be excused from investigation and charges.
When finished, the panel would then name names and draw up charges ready for presentation to a Washington, D.C. federal grand jury, one picked by lot in order to make sure it included regular, not particularly well-connected citizens.
Having already left office, Bush would, by then, not be subject to impeachment. However, he could be eligible for felony criminal charges.
Before any charges were filed, all the defendants, Bush included, should then be offered this simple plea bargain: admit to the charges publicly and apologize for his criminality to the world, to Iraq and especially to the nation, or stand trial before a federal court jury.
In exchange, Bush would be allowed to serve out a light sentence under house arrested at his Crawford, Texas spread. Llight or no sentences would be imposed on all those who confessed along with him.
However, should Bush choose not to plead guilty, the option of pleading out for light sentences would be withdrawn for all them, Bush and Company top to bottom.
They would all be tried en masse, Bush included, before a federal jury. If convicted, all would be sentenced to no- parole terms in the same federal prisons as street criminals. No Crawford sojourns, no cell phones at golf club detention centers.
An additional punishment would be imposed on Bush personally. His name and likeness would be stricken from all government-funded correspondence, documents books, publications, calendars and souvenirs for all time.
As for the Florida recount, there was a half-hearted recount of a portion of that tally. But that was stopped in mid-stream by gutless county clerks caving in to threats by Bush’s operatives and was ultimately shelved by the dastardly decision by Bush accomplices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Worse yet, the wimp Gore surrendered at a time when he could have saved the nation a great deal of pain and blood.
Too late for a recount? Not so.
Taiwan is finishing up a complete re-tally of an even more controversial election than ours that took several months ago.
Remember the distraught officeholder who set himself afire in the Korean chambers of government while other politicians grappled with opponents in election fight? And then there was the shooting.
Southeast Asian nations looked back into the Killing Fields times in national redress.
South Africans have undertaking a soul searching, curative retrospective of the political crimes committed during apartheid.
And there’s always the Holocaust Commission that had to looked back decades to assess what happened and who ordered it.
No, recounts and retrospective investigations are more common and more effective than many realize.
The recount should not be done by one of those bogus blue ribbon committees of political officeholders and crony appointees.
Rather, it should be conducted by a bland panel of 13 faceless bean counters career attorneys, all of them from the General Services Administration or other obscure, but appropriate government agencies with nary a political ambition between them.
The panel would be given one year, one month and one day to determine who fixed the 2000 election, and how. Members of the U.S. Supreme Court who played a role in the coup should not be excused from investigation and charges.
When finished, the panel would then name names and draw up charges ready for presentation to a Washington, D.C. federal grand jury, one picked by lot in order to make sure it included regular, not particularly well-connected citizens.
Having already left office, Bush would, by then, not be subject to impeachment. However, he could be eligible for felony criminal charges.
Before any charges were filed, all the defendants, Bush included, should then be offered this simple plea bargain: admit to the charges publicly and apologize for his criminality to the world, to Iraq and especially to the nation, or stand trial before a federal court jury.
In exchange, Bush would be allowed to serve out a light sentence under house arrested at his Crawford, Texas spread. Llight or no sentences would be imposed on all those who confessed along with him.
However, should Bush choose not to plead guilty, the option of pleading out for light sentences would be withdrawn for all them, Bush and Company top to bottom.
They would all be tried en masse, Bush included, before a federal jury. If convicted, all would be sentenced to no- parole terms in the same federal prisons as street criminals. No Crawford sojourns, no cell phones at golf club detention centers.
An additional punishment would be imposed on Bush personally. His name and likeness would be stricken from all government-funded correspondence, documents books, publications, calendars and souvenirs for all time.
As for the Florida recount, there was a half-hearted recount of a portion of that tally. But that was stopped in mid-stream by gutless county clerks caving in to threats by Bush’s operatives and was ultimately shelved by the dastardly decision by Bush accomplices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Worse yet, the wimp Gore surrendered at a time when he could have saved the nation a great deal of pain and blood.
Too late for a recount? Not so.
Taiwan is finishing up a complete re-tally of an even more controversial election than ours that took several months ago.
Remember the distraught officeholder who set himself afire in the Korean chambers of government while other politicians grappled with opponents in election fight? And then there was the shooting.
Southeast Asian nations looked back into the Killing Fields times in national redress.
South Africans have undertaking a soul searching, curative retrospective of the political crimes committed during apartheid.
And there’s always the Holocaust Commission that had to looked back decades to assess what happened and who ordered it.
No, recounts and retrospective investigations are more common and more effective than many realize.
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