{"id":151,"date":"2004-10-23T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T14:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2004-10-23T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T14:19:02","slug":"the-same-old-story-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"The same old story in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blah blah <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/news\/epaper\/2004\/10\/16\/1016suits.html\">Florida<\/a> blahblahblah <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/florida\/sfl-1022doublevotes,0,7999237.story?coll=sfla-news-florida\">elections<\/a> blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah voter discontent blahblahblahblahblah <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/22\/florida.registration\/index.html\">fraud and corruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The same old song and dance in Florida, I&#8217;m almost certain I&#8217;m boring the poor souls who read this website to tears with it.  But never before (at least in a country that claims to be free) have we endured such massive coverage of blatant election fraud and voter disenfranchisement, while the powers that be so blatantly and defiantly continue to perpetuate it.  I would argue that even when civil rights among African Americans was an issue, the people silencing African Americans had the werewithal to make it subversive.   Now, in an era where we <em>allege<\/em> that the time of fighting for civil rights is behind us, the abuses are open, blatant, and unbelievably obvious, and yet no one charged with the responsibility has done anything to try and stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Bush has hired Saddam Hussein as his campaign consultant, and is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/2331951.stm\">getting pointers from him on how to &#8220;win&#8221; a &#8220;democractic&#8221; election<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blahblahblah elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}