Don's Tuesday Column

         THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   12/01/2020

Why #StoptheSteal2020 matters to all

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire;” alarms arise over the core principle of America’s 200+ year experiment in representative democracy. As Benjamin Franklin told a woman asking whether the Constitutional Convention had given the newly formed United States of America “a monarchy or a republic”: “A republic, if you can keep it,” he replied.

“And why not keep it?” the lady asked (according to a Maryland delegate, James McHenry). Franklin responded, “Because the people, on tasting the dish, are always disposed to eat more of it than does them good.” Similarly, a Scotsman named Tytler observed: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.” Democracy, crudely put, is 2 wolves and a chicken voting on the menu.

Founder and President John Adams’ wisdom: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Likewise: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” The citizenry will only give respect and cooperation to a deserving government that controls itself. Much pandemic-era public policy (rules) violates that principle.

Morality, religiosity and angelic purity are in short supply among the political and governing classes; accusatory aspersions flow freely at perceived opponents. “They did it first” and “what-about-ism” short-circuits a dispassionate review of facts about everything.

The partisan news media funnels only that which advances their collective preferred narrative. An informed citizenry being necessary to the integrity of “the consent of the governed,” we now no longer share the same common set of agreed-upon values and ideals. Hence those, claiming the superiority of the leftist, progressive vision, bemoan and chide the conservative side; we no longer trust that our betters in the governing/media/academic classes know what’s in our best interests.

Are the Democrat Party, their media supporters and “hack-tivists,” engaged in stealing this election? The pattern is consistent in the disputed, swing states. Politicians made changes to election laws on the fly, illegally, to enable fraud. Then they changed more laws—or ignored or deliberately broke them—in a manner that enabled fraud, and to prevent weeding out the ballots they stuffed in illegally.

Parroting the “no evidence” mantra, ad infinitum, ad nauseum—by those obsessed with seeing President Trump lose—ignores what hundreds of affidavits, witnesses, forensic experts and numerical logic prove. Honest, courageous judges and Republican legislators are needed.  

Fraud and cheating previously practiced on the fringes and in specific areas (i.e. Al Franken’s Minn. Senate race), had to be ramped up in haste with vote-counting computers designed to come up with hundreds of thousands of votes to succeed in countering Trump’s winning wave on election night.

None of the reliably “blue” states would help deliver electoral votes, nor could the “red” states be manipulated into flipping their electoral haul into Biden’s column. It was only in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia that big-city Democrat machines could close down the counting after midnight, determine how far behind Biden was, and create the tranches of Biden-only ballots. Secrecy was achieved by physically keeping all—but particularly Republican—observers out of sight.

Fraud allegations fall into one or more columns: 1) Illegal procedures, 2) Insecure voting machines, and 3) Illegal ballots. Data and proof? Look up “Doug Ross Journal Creates Infographics of Sidney Powell Georgia Lawsuit” (theconservativetreehouse.com, directorblue.blogspot.com, 11/26). Also, “Sidney Powell’s Allegations in Georgia [are] Serious Enough to Alter the Election Results: Expert” by Gary Du, (theepochtimes.com, 11/28). First Amendment and election law expert, Harmeet K. Dhillon is quoted.

A Nevada judge has set Dec. 3^rd to hear evidence of illegal voting and allow Republicans and the Trump campaign to “depose those who know about the dirty deeds of campaign 2020…If we get a fair hearing, I believe the results in Nevada should be switched” (Matt Schlapp). This will include evidence of a corrupt cash-for-votes scheme perpetrated by Native American groups (illegal gas cards, raffles and gifts).

Miscellaneous: Barack Obama told Chris Matthews that mail-in ballots can only be trusted if the signatures are verified. Potentially, many hundreds of thousands of ballots in several states were never verified. “Liberal Reporter Reminds Progressives of Their Unhinged 2016 Electoral College Plot Against Trump,” (Matt Vespa quoting Michael Tracey, Townhall.com, 11/25).

“Why do Venezuelans control a U.S. voting machine firm?” Conspiracy mongering Trump supporters? No, a chyron from a 2006 CNN report on the outrage over Venezuelan control of the Smartmatic/Dominion/Sequoia voting machine company, featuring Chicago Democrats and New York’s Dem. Rep. Carolyn Maloney. In 2019, Democrats Warren, Wyden and Klobuchar were very worried about Dominion Voting Systems, which were “prone to security problems,” while NBC warned about “Chinese parts” and “hidden ownership” that including “backdoors that could allow tampering.” Related: “Recounts Needed to Settle Dominion’s Role, and the Election” by Roger Kimball, 11/22.

“Digital Forensic Analysis Shows Dominion’s Server Connected to Iran and China: Affidavit,” (Tom Ozimek, theepochtimes.com, 11/27). “A digital forensic analysis by a former military intelligence analyst…claims to present ‘unambiguous evidence’ the machines were ‘compromised by rogue actors, such as Iran and China.’” On a conference call, a Dominion employee (Eric), responded to a question, “What are we gonna do if f***ing Trump wins?” Eric boasted “Trump’s not gonna win. I made f***ing sure of that!” (Matt Margolis, pjmedia.com, 11/28)

According to a CNBC/Change Research poll, only 3 percent of Trump voters believe Joe Biden legitimately won the election. It’s another coup attempt; to heck with “unifying.”