KLRU
Foreign Involvement in U.S. Voting
RECEIVED Mon., Nov. 6, 2006
Dear Editor,
There's been a relatively minor flap lately about a company called Sequoia that makes voting machines. Seems it's owned by three Venezuelans, and certain folks have leapt from that fact to the conclusion that Hugo Chavez, the Bush regime's nemesis in South America, could subvert election results in this country.
What a pretty little irony. A U.S. election result engineered by a government to the south. Anybody else remember a guy named Somoza from Guatemala, or Noriega from Panama? Anyone remember our CIA rigging elections and propping up dictators down there, making things all nice for the likes of United Fruit? Does anyone else see the connection between our political meddling in Central and South America and the fact that we have hordes of poor people compelled to cross our southern border in order to have a chance to live? Our government created those conditions over decades of misguided and immoral foreign policy.
If Hugo Chavez could fix an election in this country, it would serve us right for letting our government get away with the dirty deeds it has been guilty of worldwide.
There's been a relatively minor flap lately about a company called Sequoia that makes voting machines. Seems it's owned by three Venezuelans, and certain folks have leapt from that fact to the conclusion that Hugo Chavez, the Bush regime's nemesis in South America, could subvert election results in this country.
What a pretty little irony. A U.S. election result engineered by a government to the south. Anybody else remember a guy named Somoza from Guatemala, or Noriega from Panama? Anyone remember our CIA rigging elections and propping up dictators down there, making things all nice for the likes of United Fruit? Does anyone else see the connection between our political meddling in Central and South America and the fact that we have hordes of poor people compelled to cross our southern border in order to have a chance to live? Our government created those conditions over decades of misguided and immoral foreign policy.
If Hugo Chavez could fix an election in this country, it would serve us right for letting our government get away with the dirty deeds it has been guilty of worldwide.
Ben Hogue
