Saddam the democrat
Who is more democratic, Saddam Hussein or the anti-war protestors? Saddam’s ballot’s at least offered you a choice, “Yes or No“. Contrast that with the “referendum” page at VoteNoWar.org, which offers you one and one choice only, in direct contrast to their stated philosophy;
The People’s Anti-War Referendum is a component of an ongoing campaign against war and racism and in support of grassroots democracy (emphasis mine), including teach-ins, conferences, local and regional events.
Not that it’s surprising, but there could hardly be a more shining example of what the Old Left actually thinks of democracy. It’s fine as long as you vote the way they tell you to. They won’t put up an on-line poll, because they’ll lose. They could blame their loss on thousands of Freepers pressing the buttons multiple times, but it would still be a loss. Interesting that the Old Left cannot somehow come up with the thousands of peaceniks necessary to stack the poll in their favor, or at least produce an equal number of obsessive clicks for their side.
You can send a vote in opposition to referendum@votenowar.org, I suppose, but one of two things will happen. One, they’ll ignore it. After all they’re not interested in a democratic process, which means that the only number they’ll pay any attention to is the anti-war vote count, even if 10 million people send in emails voting against them. Two, if they actually do get an avalanche of e-mail, they will claim they’ve been hacked.
Note also the lack of accountability on the site. There’s no actual way for a third party to either to count the number of visitors to the page or to see the number of votes. No matter what flimsy ass number the people in charge of the site come up with, there will be no way of checking it against actual truth, and the news media will swallow that number whole. I’ve got a pretty good feeling what the final number will be, as well. Even though the site has only been up since Oct. 19th, they’ve let you know that a mere $50,000 can purchase a full page ad in the New York Times to publicize the millions (again, emphasis mine) who sign the VoteNoWar.org referendum.
