Michael Connell, who was a key witness to the rigging of the 2004 election in Ohio, died in a 1-man plane crash Friday, December 19.

It may well be that stolen elections are not new or unusual in the US of A.  We don’t and can’t really truly know.

It may also be that stolen or manipulated elections are simply not spoken of much in their aftermaths.  I know that this was true of election manipulation that occurred within my College Administration, who unsuccessfully tried to manipulate an election to prevent this blogger from holding office.

Finally, it may be that the 2004 elections in the United States are no longer truly worthy of our worry, since clearly the damage is done.

However, what *is* worth our worry, and effort, is that the media-political establishment theatre refuses to acknowledge that something is deeply, fatally flawed about our political system.

NEWS FLASH: The 2004 election was stolen.  No, it really, definitely was.  Are you uncertain?  Don’t know all the details? read this alternet article. You’ll find that it difficult, given the facts that have emerged, to reasonably argue that it’s likely or even possible that legitimate elections transpired in Ohio in 2004.

Heard of Michael Connell?  At once a GOP operative and web developer and also a subcontractor in charge of developing vote-counting systems in Ohio, Connell had apparently confided to his attorneys that he had been threatened over the Ohio 2004 situation.  He had recently been subpoenaed in a court case to discuss his knowledge and / or role in rigging the election.

Well, he died Friday in a 1-person plane crash.

Now I’m a skeptic, and not at all a Democrat.  I don’t yet have any reason to believe that his death was part of a conspiracy.  I do, however, think that it’s very reasonable to believe that the 2004 election was stolen, and so I’m naturally suspicious of a mysterious death of a potential witness.

The real question is:  Will, say, John Kerry question this?  He never really has.  Will Barack Obama?  Will the corporate media?  Will this event and others like it become center-stage until the major outstanding questions are resolved, as is necessary for our Republic to survive?

Don’t respond with short cycnism.  Don’t tell me, “Of course not, the MSM blah blah blah.”  Instead, make it news.  Tell your friends and neighbors and family.  Talk about it around the dinner table.  Come on now.