Stealing of the Election in Iran --Shades of Ohio 2004
Posted by John Rensenbrink on 06/15/09The Stealing of the Election in Iran: Shades of Ohio 2004.
Laura Leach for The World gave a thorough and compelling account of the political situation in Iran on National Public Radio today. It’s more and more apparent that voting was interfered with and the voting totals were manipulated to assure victory to the incumbent.
One’s mind flashes back to Ohio, 2004. There, as well, the votes of huge numbers of people were either not counted, or were counted as if for the incumbent. Or, the voting was made so difficult that thousands could not get to the voting booth, in spite of waiting in the rain for hours. And as we all bitterly remember, Ohio’s illicit “majority” for Bush pushed Bush over the top in the Electoral College and assured him four more years in the White House.
How very similar to Iran now! But I don’t read any “recollection” of this fraud in Ohio in the reports by American and European journalists on the Iranian situation.
They of course are “right” to question and criticize the stealing of the election in Iran. But they did no such thing when the stealing of the presidency that happened in Ohio in 2004 was in full swing. They were quiet as mice! Even quieter!! And shussed those of us who yelled “foul”! The Green Party’s presidential candidate David Cobb immediately intervened in the Ohio situation, bringing suit in the courts. But the American mass media and all its pundits said not a word.
John Rensenbrink
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