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> November, 8 2000 > > Stop Bush's Theft of the People's Will > > Dear friends, > > It's after 5am on the East coast and things couldn't > be more insane. > > At 2:20am, they declared Bush the winner. Gore > called Bush and conceded. > > One hour later, all hell broke lose. Suddenly, Bush's > 50,000 vote lead in Florida had dropped to 500! > Gore, getting ready to take the stage in Nashville to > tell his supporters he had lost, looked at the new > numbers and called Bush to take his concession back! > > At 3:45am, they took Florida out of the Bush column. > Bush's lead had dropped to just 224 votes -- with > thousands of ballots still uncounted! The Florida > Attorney General acknowledged on NBC that ballots > in the Palm Beach area were suspiciously structured in > such a way that people who thought they were voting > for Gore ended up having their votes being counted for > Pat Buchanan! > > Now, an hour later, Gore has pulled out significantly > ahead of Bush in the nationwide popular vote -- at > last count, Gore leads Bush by over 260,000 votes > -- and it continues to climb. Ten percent of California > -- a state which Gore is winning big -- has yet to be > counted. This will only add to his popular vote as the > morning goes on. > > One thing is certain now: According to all the networks, > Gore is going to win the popular vote. > > But they are also saying that, no matter if he has won the > most votes, he may be denied the Presidency -- because > of the Electoral College! > > My fellow Americans -- we have to set aside our > differences regarding Gore and Nader and demand, > IMMEDIATELY DEMAND, that Bush step aside and > not claim the Presidency based on this insane ancient > Electoral College. The Electoral College was designed by > the founding fathers who wrote it into the Constitution along > with this rule: only white men who owned property and paid > taxes would be allowed to vote. > > The United States is no longer that country. This is a > democracy. One person, one vote. We should have done > away with this antique long before now. I guess no one ever > thought it would come to a night like this. > > Well, it did. > > Even though I did not vote for Al Gore, for all the reasons > I have previously stated (from his support of the death > penalty to his promise to expand our militrary), the majority > of those who voted yesterday DID vote for him -- and, > therefore the will of the people must be honored. He must > take his seat in the Oval Office. > > Already, the pundits and professional political hacks are > harumphing about how the Constitution must be followed. > They are saying both candidates knew the rules and now > must abide by them. > > It's also against "The Law" to wear a hat on Sunday in > Helena, Montana, and it is written into LAW that a woman > in Tucson must not spit on the sidewalk. Those and thousand > of laws like it are still on the books. But common sense > dictates that we ignore these laws. > > We must ask that common sense and decency prevail here > with this election. Al Gore is the choice of the people. To > go against that single, explicit fact would do more damage > to an already cynical electorate than I want to imagine. > Once again we had the same sad situation yesterday when > half the country didn't even vote! Can we afford to have > more citizens lose even more faith in our democracy? > > There will be ample time to analyze and discuss the > other issues regarding this election. One thing is clear > -- most of the Nader voters decided at the last minute > to change their vote to Al Gore. Nader's 5% in the polls > for the past month ended up being less than 3% in the > voting booth. In Florida, Nader went from an expected > 6% of the vote to only 1.7% of the votes cast! Exit polls > showed that Fear of Bush lead to nearly all of Nader's > support there to switch over to Gore. Nader's votes > came from those who said they were registered > Republicans or who were initially planning on not voting > for either candidate. In Oregon, half of Nader's voters > went for Gore, with the same happening in Wisconsin. In > the end, Ralph achieved neither his 5% goal, nor did his > supporters help to elect Bush. > > For me, what truly put Gore in jeopardy through most > of the night was losing his home state to Bush. Those 11 > electoral votes could have made all the difference. And > to lose Clinton's Arkansas was a serious blow to wrapping > up the election early. > > But a dead guy won, defeating a Republican incumbent > Senator in Missouri. At least two or three women have > been added to the ranks of the Senate. Hillary won, > causing right-wing nuts everywhere to go into convulsions. > The governor of Vermont, who many thought might lose > because of his support of Vermont's new gay marriage law, > won. The state of Colorado, in the wake of Columbine, > passed a gun control law by a vote of 70 to 30 percent. > Michigan slammed Bush hard, as I predicted. > > But, as I said, we can discuss all this later. Right now, all > good citizens must speak out today, in the next few hours, > loudly and clearly, that George W. Bush has lost the vote > of the people and we will NEVER trust all the shenanigans > that took place with the vote in Florida tonight -- a vote > presided over by none other than Little Brother Governor > Jeb Bush!! Send e-mails, call talk shows, contact your > congressmen and women -- RAISE HOLY BLOODY HELL!! > > I guess I'm not going to bed. My support for Nader will > have no integrity if I am not willing to do everything in my > limited power to support the main belief of the Nader campaign > -- demand that the will of the people be heeded and heard. I > ask all of Ralph's supporters -- those who voted for him, and > those who voted for Gore -- to join with me this morning to stop > this potential theft of our majority democratic rule. > > Yours, > > Michael Moore > mmflint@aol.com > www.michaelmoore.com > > |