Just in Case You Did Not Get the Memo, There is a Criminal Conspiracy at Work Against this Year's Election.
And it ain't ACORN.
Shit on a biscuit, could those republican thugs be any more transparently blatant, or is it blatantly transparent? In any case their "Plan B," for contesting the results of this election has been public for a couple weeks now. The assault on ACORN and voter registration serves only one purpose, to delegitimize an unfavorable (to the GOP) result in this election. They are laying the ground work now for an all out attack on the election result, if they loose. Even if none of the lawsuits currently contingently planned, and in some cases, already filed, have any merit, the plan plainly is to at least keep the base whipped up (Nuremberg style) and cause Sen. Obama's possible future administration to start off under as deep (if not unwarranted) a cloud of illegitimacy as Plastic Turkey Man.
Is there anyone with an IQ over 100 who doesn't see this?
Moving on (to the incident that inspired this post), I noticed on some message board this thread started by a right wing loon. I am going to lay out the absurdity (and try to avoid calling this loon anything worse than that.)
The loon starts a thread with a blog post from some CONSERVATIVE Canadian front group,
citing a press release from an Ohio CONSERVATIVE front group,
about how they are suing ACORN for a RICO violation.
Oh, but the part about how the Canadian blog was a conservative front, and the Ohio group was itself a conservative front (with notorious election hooligan Ken Blackwell on the board), and that the 'article' was merely based on a entirely self serving press release? Well the loon sorta left that part out. The loon.
Now here is the analysis. I have worked on a RICO case, I have done the research. My all time favorite maneuver as a lawyer was this one time when I scared the shit out of an opponent who was threatening to sue my client, by merely and mostly explaining my experience in the drafting of a RICO and securities fraud claims. What I remember most about RICO claims off the top of my head is the requirement of (criminal) conspiracy. Now in brief, in order to have a criminal conspiracy you have to have two or more people agree to the plan. If you have an organization that spans across a region or the whole nation, and if you have several people who on there own commit the same crimes or violations (for example), that is not a conspiracy. That is just having a few bad apples.
HOWEVER, if leadership of a nationwide organization, such as, let me grab one out of the air, the Republican Party, drafted and approved a plan to challenge the results of a national election, before the election actually was held, in order to delegitimize the results, committing fraud in the process? Well?
Not only do we have conspiracy there, in theory, but as a matter of fact we have a plan with a nefarious purpose and various individuals agreeing to it, at this point in time. The GOP and supporters very own talking points and actions tell us that is true. Not only that, but we have some fairly obvious evidence of individual actions in support of this criminal plan happening in various states in the Nation. The filing of the RICO suit against ACORN is just the most nervy and perhaps dangerous maneuver.
But ya know? As I have been editing my post here, it has occurred to me that this play could be a ploy. The lawsuit could be dropped before it gets past the preliminary motion practice. I mean, sitting here thinking about it (and with all the experience I have with the process of discovery) I really do not think that the members of the Ohio Conservative front group really want a counter suit that would open up all phone and email and documentary evidence of that group to ACORN's lawyers. Shit. That might be the fast way to prove it is actually the Republicans involved in a RICO conspiracy. Anyway . . .
I think that Team Obama is going to push back, even before election day. I am only a lowly volunteer at my local office, but I am impressed with the operation. I am sure that peeps much higher up the food chain than me are thinking about the same stuff. So keep your eyes open for the push back. Mmm kay?
Shit on a biscuit, could those republican thugs be any more transparently blatant, or is it blatantly transparent? In any case their "Plan B," for contesting the results of this election has been public for a couple weeks now. The assault on ACORN and voter registration serves only one purpose, to delegitimize an unfavorable (to the GOP) result in this election. They are laying the ground work now for an all out attack on the election result, if they loose. Even if none of the lawsuits currently contingently planned, and in some cases, already filed, have any merit, the plan plainly is to at least keep the base whipped up (Nuremberg style) and cause Sen. Obama's possible future administration to start off under as deep (if not unwarranted) a cloud of illegitimacy as Plastic Turkey Man.
Is there anyone with an IQ over 100 who doesn't see this?
Moving on (to the incident that inspired this post), I noticed on some message board this thread started by a right wing loon. I am going to lay out the absurdity (and try to avoid calling this loon anything worse than that.)
The loon starts a thread with a blog post from some CONSERVATIVE Canadian front group,
citing a press release from an Ohio CONSERVATIVE front group,
about how they are suing ACORN for a RICO violation.
Oh, but the part about how the Canadian blog was a conservative front, and the Ohio group was itself a conservative front (with notorious election hooligan Ken Blackwell on the board), and that the 'article' was merely based on a entirely self serving press release? Well the loon sorta left that part out. The loon.
Now here is the analysis. I have worked on a RICO case, I have done the research. My all time favorite maneuver as a lawyer was this one time when I scared the shit out of an opponent who was threatening to sue my client, by merely and mostly explaining my experience in the drafting of a RICO and securities fraud claims. What I remember most about RICO claims off the top of my head is the requirement of (criminal) conspiracy. Now in brief, in order to have a criminal conspiracy you have to have two or more people agree to the plan. If you have an organization that spans across a region or the whole nation, and if you have several people who on there own commit the same crimes or violations (for example), that is not a conspiracy. That is just having a few bad apples.
HOWEVER, if leadership of a nationwide organization, such as, let me grab one out of the air, the Republican Party, drafted and approved a plan to challenge the results of a national election, before the election actually was held, in order to delegitimize the results, committing fraud in the process? Well?
Not only do we have conspiracy there, in theory, but as a matter of fact we have a plan with a nefarious purpose and various individuals agreeing to it, at this point in time. The GOP and supporters very own talking points and actions tell us that is true. Not only that, but we have some fairly obvious evidence of individual actions in support of this criminal plan happening in various states in the Nation. The filing of the RICO suit against ACORN is just the most nervy and perhaps dangerous maneuver.
But ya know? As I have been editing my post here, it has occurred to me that this play could be a ploy. The lawsuit could be dropped before it gets past the preliminary motion practice. I mean, sitting here thinking about it (and with all the experience I have with the process of discovery) I really do not think that the members of the Ohio Conservative front group really want a counter suit that would open up all phone and email and documentary evidence of that group to ACORN's lawyers. Shit. That might be the fast way to prove it is actually the Republicans involved in a RICO conspiracy. Anyway . . .
I think that Team Obama is going to push back, even before election day. I am only a lowly volunteer at my local office, but I am impressed with the operation. I am sure that peeps much higher up the food chain than me are thinking about the same stuff. So keep your eyes open for the push back. Mmm kay?
posted by Abstentus at 10:30 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home