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opinion:
our view
Election debacle
still haunts us
There comes a time in every person's life when they have to
admit their wrongs. If that is too hard, then maybe simply
recognizing past mistakes without admitting your own guilt
could be good enough to allow the wounds to heal.
We as Americans
are in a healing process, still licking our fresh wounds from
the recent incidents of Sept. 11. Unfortunately, what we have
learned is that our wounds are the result of political landmines
set by our very own government, a classic example of not informing
the people to what was really going on.
Remember the Presidential
Election furore of 2000?
At that time every
voting American became disillusioned with the whole "democratic"
process, which we believed to be fair and just.
After all, crooked
elections happen in foreign countries, not here in America.
Then again, those
countries are so passionately in tune with their countries'
politics that the oppressive forces that be are never allowed
to get away with things like rigged elections.
Which brings us
to our illustrious president, who with the current events
that surround him has somehow been able to put the Florida
incidents behind him.
Well, not exactly.
There is still
an audit of ballot process that has recently been completed
and it seems that a group of newspaper conglomerates like
The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have decided to
kill the story for the time being.
Citing the recent
events and for fear of undermining the president's power while
he is fighting a war on terrorism, these papers have decided
to not print the results of these audits until possibly later
this year.
What an awful travesty
of journalistic responsibility.
See back in the
day, before everybody sold out to somebody else, corporations
were not in charge of the newspaper media. Therefore, journalists
had a social right to inform the people of the real goings
on in their country, city or state.
Since corporations,
who have their own best interests in mind, now own all newspapers
certain media outlets have lost sight of their true responsibilities.
We know we can't
depend on the government to keep us informed, so our last
hope is the media and their access should be used to inform
the people who choose to be informed of the events in our
world.
The release of
these audits has less to do with usurping Bush's power and
everything to do in keeping the American public informed.
We know Bush might
have snuck in the White House under voter fraud, in fact some
of us are downright sure of that. But, this scandal or any
other scandal yet to come will not affect the job that he's
doing in office.
Those who love
Bush will still love him and those who hate Bush will still
hate him, nothing should change about that. But in the end
it is all our faults for not being more involved in our countries'
politics and not demanding to know the truth.
Now is the time
to pull our heads out of the sand and analytically and critically
keep informed on our government's actions and it is up to
the media to keep us informed and give us the information
we can't get on our own.
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