There is a great brouhaha over foreign nations interfering
in United States’ elections. Russia, we are told, not only interfered in the
2016 presidential election catastrophe but is back at it again, trying to get
their candidate re-elected.
How, one asks in righteous, democratic anguish, can such a
thing be tolerated? What is more sacred to democracy than a free and unfettered
right to vote? The thought of such interference in U.S. elections is enough to
make the angels in heaven weep!
This writer is a firm believer in reality checks, and now is
as good a time as any to take one. Let us look at just how much the U.S.
government believes in free and fair elections. The following is only a small
sampling.
In 1953, the CIA overthrew the democratically elected
government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, and installed the brutal Shah
of Iran as monarch.
The U.S. government supported his decades-long reign of
terror.
Following the Geneva Accords that separated Vietnam into two
nations, North Vietnam and South Vietnam, elections were scheduled for 1956
that would have been a referendum on reunification. The South boycotted them,
with U.S. support. “President Eisenhower wrote later in his memoirs that if in
fact the elections had been held, Ho Chi Minh would have gotten 80 percent of
the vote.”
Following Chile’s fair and democratic elections in 1970,
President Richard Nixon said this: “I don’t see why we need to stand idly by
and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own
people.” Please note that Salvador Allende was a Marxist, not a Communist. The
U.S. spent millions of dollars to foment economic and civil problems that
eventually resulted in the overthrow of Allende. He was replaced by the U.S.’s
choice, the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled for 17 years. “Truth
commissions set up after Chile’s return to democracy concluded that Pinochet
forces tortured some 29,000 people and killed more than 3,000.”
In January of 2005, Hamas won a decisive victory in the Gaza Strip of Palestine. Then Senator Hillary Clinton (later Secretary of State) said this: “’I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,’ said Sen. Clinton. ‘And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.’” (Emphasis added).
It is clear that the U.S. doesn’t disapprove of election
meddling, as long as it is the one doing it. But do government officials really
object to foreign nations’ interference in U.S. elections? Perhaps not.
In 2020, pro-Israel lobbies have poured millions of dollars
into the campaigns of various candidates. The haul by just the top 20
recipients, this year alone is $5,647,895.00. And once their candidates are
elected, the lobby groups write legislation for them, that is then introduced
to be voted on.
And one is naïve indeed if one thinks that pro-Israel
lobbyists write legislation for the benefit of the average U.S. citizen. No,
they write legislation to curtail the rights of U.S. citizens to boycott; to
increase foreign aid to Israel (let’s remember that places like Flint,
Michigan, still have to buy bottled drinking water), and to otherwise benefit
Israel.
It would be incorrect for the reader to think that
pro-Israel lobbies are only busy during a presidential election year. In 2018,
the top 20 recipients received $4,372,220.00. And the top 20 for 2016, another
presidential election year, received $6,454,498.00. And remember, please, that
these numbers only show the top 20 recipients of each year. Many other
politicians, children of lesser gods, apparently, still received huge amounts
of funding from pro-Israel lobbies.
Russia, apparently, is going about this all wrong. All that
country needs to do is establish a lobby group in the U.S.; say, the
America-Russia Political Affairs Committee (ARPAC). ARPAC members can meet with
candidates and officials running for re-election; take them and their families
on ‘fact-finding’ junkets to Russian resorts, and donate generously to their
campaigns.
There will be no more of this talk of Russian interference;
that country will simply be using the same method that has been so successful
for Israel, and look at how beneficial that has been for that racist,
oppressive, apartheid nation.
But, one might say, there may be some anomalies, but that
doesn’t negate the U.S. government’s deep commitment to free and fair voting.
(Source:GR) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)
