06-13-2017, 11:28 PM
Obama did not want to meddle in the election. 39 states? This is new, and it suggests how pervasive the plot was.
As successor of the GPU and the KGB the FSB knows how to manipulate an election as happened in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
Security over American elections is shabby. Maybe we have the arrogance to believe that our military prowess protects our shores and airspace... but it does not have the means of protecting our elections. In view of the computerized handling of electoral data from voter registration to the count itself. We may not need hand counting of ballots; a paper ballot counted with an optical scanner is safe so long as the counting is off line. Registration on line is potentially trouble. The Russians may have done what a group like the Birch Society or a Klan clique might wish.
This mess is not over. What the Russians may have done the Chinese might do the next time. If the Russians can be shown to have tampered with with an election to get a dupe to serve diplomatic ends, then the Chinese can do so for economic purposes. They might try to rig the election to ensure that Democrats elect a champion of free trade. Let's not forget the current leader of the Free World now that the USA has a President whose idea of freedom is that his class can do whatever it wants to everyone else. If that sounds like a Marxist explanation of the behavior of our President -- the problem is that the explanation fits. India has some real experts at manipulating computers from thousands of miles away.
As successor of the GPU and the KGB the FSB knows how to manipulate an election as happened in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
Security over American elections is shabby. Maybe we have the arrogance to believe that our military prowess protects our shores and airspace... but it does not have the means of protecting our elections. In view of the computerized handling of electoral data from voter registration to the count itself. We may not need hand counting of ballots; a paper ballot counted with an optical scanner is safe so long as the counting is off line. Registration on line is potentially trouble. The Russians may have done what a group like the Birch Society or a Klan clique might wish.
This mess is not over. What the Russians may have done the Chinese might do the next time. If the Russians can be shown to have tampered with with an election to get a dupe to serve diplomatic ends, then the Chinese can do so for economic purposes. They might try to rig the election to ensure that Democrats elect a champion of free trade. Let's not forget the current leader of the Free World now that the USA has a President whose idea of freedom is that his class can do whatever it wants to everyone else. If that sounds like a Marxist explanation of the behavior of our President -- the problem is that the explanation fits. India has some real experts at manipulating computers from thousands of miles away.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.