{"id":5572,"date":"2010-03-03T19:24:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:24:53","slug":"kesha-rogers-to-provide-crucial-218th-vote-for-obama-impeachment-over-nasa-defunding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/03\/03\/kesha-rogers-to-provide-crucial-218th-vote-for-obama-impeachment-over-nasa-defunding\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesha Rogers to provide crucial 218th vote for Obama Impeachment over NASA defunding"},"content":{"rendered":"

… or more likely, the General Election will come, Kesha Rogers will win 15 or so percent of the vote against Pete Olson’s 70 and a feeble write in bid’s 15, and Kesha’s sponsors with the Larouche organization will claim victory that night with the on going mass strike as the Democrats lose 20 House seats.\u00c2\u00a0 (Hell.\u00c2\u00a0 Make that 50 and a Speaker Boehner.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t care, so far as this topic goes.)<\/p>\n

Most importantly, some funds will slush through with the twin dualities of impeaching Obama (there’s an audience<\/a>) and refunding NASA (there’s a different audience, and concentrated in this district.\u00c2\u00a0 The Larouche honchos — quick!\u00c2\u00a0 What’s that name I can’t think of right now — the guy in Texas right now — holds all those classes<\/em>. — knew what they were doing, and I knew what they were doing.)<\/p>\n

It is moderatly surprising, though not jaw droppingly so.\u00c2\u00a0 We knew that of the three Larouche Youth Candidates, this one was the one that had the best chance to pull the “Illinois 1986”.\u00c2\u00a0 I will have Kesha Rogers to kick around until November — meaning I may as well start getting her name right.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bug in our electioning system, but in this case not a very big bug.\u00c2\u00a0 This is fairly low impact — for comparison’s sake to the great Larouche Illinois victories of 1986, Kesha Rogers is Janice Hart, the Treasurer victor easily lumped away in any Democratic Voting function, and not Mark Fairchild, the Lt Governor candidate who doomed Adlai Stevenson III’s run as he was election-wise now tied to him.<\/p>\n

Under came in second<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 AND<\/a>:
\nYesterday was election day in Texas, and I voted.\u00c2\u00a0 And I voted.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I voted some more.\u00c2\u00a0 If my count was correct, I voted fifty-two times. [..]
\nBut this is ridiculous.\u00c2\u00a0 The correct word for most of the elections that happened in Texas today, and that happen in primary elections around the nation all spring and summer this year, is farce.\u00c2\u00a0 No one has any idea what they’re doing (especially in primaries, and in nonpartisan elections, in which you don’t even get a useful cue about what to do).<\/em><\/p>\n

A good chance to mock Texas in general<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And for the larouchies to call the cull of sort of wacky “human interest” stories this election result pops up as “Hit pieces”.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Oh my god, are you kidding me?\u00c2\u00a0 TIME FOR TRUTH makes an appearance<\/a>, from vintage “Time for Truth Factnet posting” <\/a>days!!!)<\/p>\n

Noted that Kesha Rogers now enjoys a wikipedia page<\/a>, thanks to a person who apparently has an interest in odd politics<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That makes sense.\u00c2\u00a0 More interesting, if you go to the “Jeremiah Duggan” page history <\/a>, you see some very recent change attempts from someone with the id of “DraftCB”, who is apparently a “sock puppet” of a banned user “Soledad22”.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know my Draftcbs or my Soledad22s, but it is funny how a lot of new identities of sock puppets sure take active interest in setting up their wares to sell or guard the Larouche empire at wikipedia.<\/p>\n

The edits appear to be something in the vein of silverchild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This article is full of plain old lies, but what would one expect from a British newspaper? […]
\nAs for Jeremy Duggan, it is a terrible tragedy that he took his own life, but to blame it on LaRouche is insanely false and totally politically motivated! The kid had a history of depression, prescription drug use, and psychological problems-due in some part to his parents’ divorce. His mother knows that, but she was manipulated into defaming and blaming LaRouche by Baroness Liz Symons, a friend of Lyn Cheney, the wife of former VP Dirty Dick Cheney.<\/em>
\nDeep in their heart and guts, what percentage of Larouche members trully believe that Dick Cheney had anything to do with Jeremiah Duggan?<\/p>\n

Incidentally<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is a valid point, as are the Action Group’s criticisms of the court and criminal justice system for failing to establish a wider responsibility that went beyond the actions of the actual murderer. Both these points need to be put in context. Germany has a long history of neo-nazi violence, with victims ranging from the homeless, left-wingers, asylum seekers, migrants, black people and other non-white German citizens. Case after case from the L\u00c3\u00bcbeck fire (1996)[1], to the hounding to death of the Algerian asylum seeker, Farid Guendoul (2000)[2], to the death in disturbing circumstances of the British Jewish student Jeremiah Duggan (2003)[3], have revealed a pattern of neglect – what we in the UK might call institutionalised racism – by both the police and the public prosecution service. This pattern ranges from the bringing of inappropriate charges, (manslaughter is often substituted for murder), flawed prosecutions (public prosecutors have been known to refuse to allow evidence of racist background to be heard), lenient sentencing as well as failure to develop a victim’s perspective on extreme-right violence. (There has been criticism, for instance, of the lack of compensation for the victims of racism.) And it is not just academics who are suffering from the knee-jerk reaction of police officers to file suits for slander. Amnesty International has documented a pattern whereby those who allege police racism find themselves served with a counter-accusation of insulting and slandering police officers.<\/em><\/p>\n

One can only hope that this misguided court case against Dr Sabine Schiffer will finally bring issues of institutionalised racism within the German criminal justice system to the fore.<\/em><\/p>\n

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… or more likely, the General Election will come, Kesha Rogers will win 15 or so percent of the vote against Pete Olson’s 70 and a feeble write in bid’s 15, and Kesha’s sponsors with the Larouche organization will claim victory that night with the on going mass strike as the Democrats lose 20 House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}