{"id":397,"date":"2006-06-03T12:49:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=397"},"modified":"2006-06-03T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T16:49:17","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-writes-of-stolen-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/robert-f-kennedy-writes-of-stolen-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy writes of Stolen Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;American history is littered with vote fraud &#8212; but rather<br \/>\nthan learning from our shameful past and cleaning up the<br \/>\nsystem, we have allowed the problem to grow even worse.<br \/>\nIf the last two elections have taught us anything, it is this:<br \/>\nThe single greatest threat to our democracy is the insecurity<br \/>\nof our voting system. If people lose faith that their votes are<br \/>\naccurately and faithfully recorded, they will abandon the ballot<br \/>\nbox. Nothing less is at stake here than the entire idea of a<br \/>\ngovernment by the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voting&#8221;, as Thomas Paine said,<br \/>\n&#8221;is the right upon which<br \/>\nall other rights depend.&#8221;<br \/>\nUnless we ensure that right,<br \/>\neverything else we hold dear<br \/>\nis in jeopardy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>edy note: I give you the summation &#8211; for non-believers,<br \/>\nor believers, wanting the documented details of<br \/>\n&#8220;everything we hold dear&#8221; being in stolen:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/10432334\/was_the_2004_election_stolen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;American history is littered with vote fraud &#8212; but rather than learning from our shameful past and cleaning up the system, we have allowed the problem to grow even worse. If the last two elections have taught us anything, it is this: The single greatest threat to our democracy is the insecurity of our voting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/robert-f-kennedy-writes-of-stolen-elections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robert F. Kennedy writes of Stolen Elections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}