The outrage against democracy in America perpetrated by the Rove/Scaife/Delay putschists has been met by "Democratic Party" "leaders" with more acquiescence in the one party fascist state. Kerry can hardly find any words let alone actions in opposition to the vote fraud crimes in Ohio. Nancy Pelosi is apparently falling all over herself in support of an anti-abortion rights, DLC conservative candidate for the DNC top job! In other words, the "Democratic Party" leadership is acceding to all the DLC demands which amount to the absorption of the "Democratic Party" into the fascist coalition which has taken over by illegal means absolute power in the United States.

The current regime is by all evidence more negligent, more corrupt, more criminal than any other regime in the history of this country. Where is the opposition? Kerry's campaign was as much a fraud as Bush's. In the 60s, when war was raging in Vietnam, the academic community challenged the war openly, loudly, and assuming great risks. Today, there is not even a shadow of the resistance shown at that time. A hundred thousand Heideggers strut about America's campuses having forgotten or never having known the price of freedom.

It may well be that the fate of democracy in America depends upon the resolute persistence of the people of Ohio in accepting nothing less than a fair 2004 election, even if it has to be carried out in 2005!

-E.S.