Jennifer Brunner; an unsung guardian of Democracy

Have you ever heard of Jennifer Brunner? Probably most people in the world have no idea whatsoever who Jennifer Brunner is, unless you are her friend, you live in Ohio, or you follow the US Politics so closely and know what and who really matter in our world. Ms. Brunner is the woman whose work is crucial and essential in saving the democracy in the country with a democratic tradition and the global influence. Indeed, she is the woman who might save the entire humankind from catastrophic damages.

She is the Secretary of State of Ohio, who is in charge of administering elections in Ohio. Ohio is the most important "purple" state in the US whose vote was decisive in giving Bush four more years to destroy civil liberties, Iraq, America's worldwide reputation and the Right to Choose. It will be crucial in 2008, too. She is working to rescue Ohio from the election process marred and plagued by frauds that changed the course of history, and to enable it to conduct a fair election in 2008.

She asked all of four members of Cuyahoga County election board to resign, to reform the board so the elections are properly conducted in Cuyahoga County. Cuyahoga County, which includes the most populous city of Cleveland, is heavily Democratic, and was the main battleground of the 2004 electoral coup (read below). Three of them followed and resigned (some reluctantly) to restore confidence in the voting system; though one Republican member, Bob Bennett (who is also a chairperson of the Ohio Republican), is obstinately refusing to resign. Brunner has started the procedure to fire heavily partisan Bennett. She is, not only a believer in the genuine democracy, but also determined and capable. Jennifer Brunner deserves more media attention, recognition and praise for her ambitious, noble and Heraculian task to restore the American Democracy. Let us hope that Brunner successfully completes the task to get the US and the world out, after long eight years, of the dark tunnel called the Bush "presidency".


You might reject the election fraud in Ohio in 2004 as a mere left-wing conspiracy theory, but read this article before you jump to the conclusion. It's no wonder if you can't believe what you are reading; your eyes are not deceiving you, it IS real, Cuyahoga election workers were found guilty , in the Court, of rigging the Presidential Election in 2004. They are sentenced to 18 months in prison.

So WHY is this groundbreaking news not widely reported at all? It is an AP article; many Ohio papers, Washington Post, LA Times and a few other American papers reported it, (outside the USA only the Guardian did). While just a tiny handful of papers reported, while the others (supermajority) didn't say a single word on the Court verdict. And I don't know the treatment of the article in printed newspaper for each paper (e.g. how visible it was) or even if they published it or not (sometimes newspapers put AP articles in their website while not publishing that in their printed paper). It is not a mere issue of petty, local fraud case; these criminals stole something invaluable called Democracy. What it means is that THIS VERDICT OFFICIALLY CASTS A DOUBT ON GEORGE W. BUSH'S LEGITIMACY AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The hardest media bias is to detect, and the worst, is not biased articles; it is the absence of media reports on an issue. When the media doesn't even tell you that such a story exists, how would you be able to even think about the issue, let alone to criticise someone in power? It is, essentially, a thought suppression. And in this case, not only that so few newspapers fulfilled their role as journalists, the AP article doesn't tell any details of the case; the alternative media tells the truth. The mainstream media has the power to shape the political agendas, but we are empowered not to conform to the values disseminated by them and agendas they promote. Our thought need not, and should not be suppressed by the systematic agenda-limiting machines of the commercial, corporate media.