How do we "free" 300 million people and have free elections?

[kentuck]

Who can we invade when a dictator has taken over our own country? What can we do about free elections when they are fixed by the dictator's Party in power? Mark Crispin Miller speaks out on this subject in the letters to the NYTimes this morning:


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/opinion/l14herbert.html

To the Editor:

Warm thanks to Bob Herbert, whose June 12 column recommending Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s important exposé in Rolling Stone deserves the highest praise from every patriotic American citizen.

The integrity of our elections is certainly not a partisan concern or a left-right issue, but a civic matter of immeasurable importance. If we aren't free to vote our representatives and leaders in and out of office, we really aren't free at all, whether we declare ourselves as Democrats, Republicans or independents.

The Times is to be thanked, not just for running Mr. Herbert's column but also for its excellent editorials on the sorry state of our election system nationwide.

With the midterm elections now just months away, the system badly flawed and neither party willing to confront the problem, we're counting on the press to fulfill its constitutional duty to the people and make this all-important subject a top story.

Mark Crispin Miller
New York, June 13, 2006
The writer, a professor of media studies at New York University, is the author of "Fooled Again."


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[sam sarrha]

1. we have to fill the streets EVERYWHERE with PISSED OFF PEOPLE.!!!

[genie_weenie]

2. Maybe a nation this large is a bad idea?

How about making the US more along the lines of a Confederation or akin to the Commonwealth? There are too many people and too few political parties to ever accurately represent every group or individual's interests.

But, of course it's illegal to try and break apart the Union. All attempts are to be met with maximum force. The Federal Government is now it's own end, the government's reason to remain in control is to insure the government's continued control...