It is entirely possible that Al Gore really is entitled to be the new president

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Why Al Gore is cooked

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It is entirely possible that Al Gore really is entitled to be the new president. But somehow fate seems to have intervened and Mr. Gore is now behind the power wave. The judges in Florida, of course, are very aware that the world is watching them and to allow three counties controlled by Democrats to decide the presidency in the year 2000 seems to be inconceivable. George W. Bush won the machine-counted vote in Florida and, since that is the standard nationwide, it is enough to give the governor the White House. That was the message that the United States Supreme Court sent to their Florida counterparts -- don't allow partisan politics to call the race. That signal was coded and cloaked with all kinds of legal mumbo-jumbo, but those of us who study power for a living heard it loud and clear and so did the Florida Supreme Court. They will go through the motions but I believe they will not dare defy their more powerful brethren in Washington and reverse the rejection of the hand count made by a judge in Leon County.

Al Gore should understand what is going on, but he might not. The true powers that be in America simply do not want the system uprooted. They don't want the economy depressed, and they don't want the dreaded lawyers calling electoral shots. The few powerful men who really run this country like things just the way they are and don't really care if Al Gore won the popular vote or anything else.

America is run by members of the federal reserve board, by a few powerful senators and congressmen who chair important committees and by the sitting president and his close advisers. The Supreme Court Justices also have some say, especially if any of the power brokers get out of hand and start wielding too much influence.

This system works very well as long as the basic infrastructure remains intact. The folks vote, machines count the votes, and unless there's fraud or malfunction the winner wins and the loser goes home. The system was not designed for a tie vote, which is what we essentially had, so here comes the chaos.

Chaos is what the powerful in America fear the most. Belief in the system is what they want the most. Jesse Jackson and his merry band of agitators are trying to make a racial issue out of the election. You may have noticed the silence from the establishment media, which usually can't get to Jackson fast enough, is deafening.

You may also have noticed that chaos feeds on itself. The more confusion, the more unsubstantiated charges, the quicker things become so unclear that no solution is possible. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a perfect example of that. There was so much confusion after the murder that an effective investigation was impossible. I believe this was by design.

Likewise during the Vietnam War. The American government lost control of the citizenry because so many chaotic demonstrations were taking place that no effective dialogue or course of action was possible. Riots do not lead to reason. That was the one time in our lifetime where the power structure in America was defeated by the whim of the people. Not the will of the people because the people really never knew what the hell was going on in Southeast Asia. What they did know is that the government couldn't explain any of it, and lots of young Americans were coming home dead or maimed.

The current chaos in Florida is by design in my opinion. The Democrats wanted to demolish the initial vote tally and almost succeeded in doing so. But the rank unfairness of that was obvious to some of us in the press and most of the regular folks. Why should those Democrat-run counties carry so much weight and get preferential treatment? That is the key question that the Democrats could not answer.

So Al Gore is cooked. The power elite have subtly turned against him. He is now bad for business, and that is death in America. The vice president isn't a bad man, as some of his detractors would have you believe. He is simply an unlucky man. And try as he might -- his luck is not going to change anytime soon. The power elite will see to that.

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Veteran TV news anchor Bill O'Reilly is host of the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor," and author of the new book, "The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous," available at the WorldNetDaily storefront.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

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"But the rank unfairness of that was obvious to some of us in the press and most of the regular folks." A grudgingly whispered compliment to us regular folks couched in the same elitest mumblings. I hate all these guys.

So Gore "is simply an unlucky man." Yeah he's unlucky and got that way when the first person told him that personna could replace substance and that measured diction could replace truth.

The author isn't up to saying that stuff. Rather, it's TPTB that rule. A safe haven that helps assure his admiring readers will show up for the next episode of The Greening Of America that only he can explain. I reallly do hate ALL these guys.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2000


TYPICAL HORSE MANURE FROM NEWS-MIN: Al Gore should understand what is going on, but he might not. The true powers that be in America simply do not want the system uprooted. They don't want the economy depressed, and they don't want the dreaded lawyers calling electoral shots. The few powerful men who really run this country like things just the way they are and don't really care if Al Gore won the popular vote or anything else.

America is run by members of the federal reserve board, by a few powerful senators and congressmen who chair important committees and by the sitting president and his close advisers. The Supreme Court Justices also have some say, especially if any of the power brokers get out of hand and start wielding too much influence

BULL SHIT.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2000


It is probably worth noting here, that Al's legal bills are being paid by a Republican in Silicon Valley.

When asked why, he said that everything he could find out about the election convinced him that Gore had won Florida. Seems he thinks the actual votes should count.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2000


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