Interview: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
[D]espite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad never received their ballots — or received them too late to vote — after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations. A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states, was discovered shredding Democratic registrations. In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment — roughly one for every 100 cast.
I can’t begin to guess whether Kennedy’s quest for justice will yield anything resembling tangible results, or whether it will turn out to be so much tilting at windmills. Is Kennedy chasing an honest-to-God pattern of fraud designed to ensure the re-election of Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader, or simply a collection of coincidences and incompetence indicative of no felonious intent? Of course, I shouldn’t have to tell you what I think; I strongly believe that Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader and his minions stole both the 2000 AND 2004 elections. The mainstream media was complicit in the 2004 theft, simply because they chose not to report the shenanigans and irregularities.
How to go about proving that there in fact was a concerted plan in place to steal the 2004 election? I couldn’t begin to tell you, but I wish Kennedy well. Even if Kennedy ultimately does not win his suit, if he succeeds in bringing the underhanded and illegal tactics of the Bush campaign to light, it will turn out to be a victory in it’s own right. Kennedy doesn’t necessarily have to win in order to expose and embarrass Republicans for their dirty tricks.
Still glad you voted Republican?
