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Gore is too cockey for me, I'd rather have Bush.
--- "Michael H. Collis" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> this was sent to me by a friend on a different list.
> Although he couldn't verify
> the Zimbabwe Professor, it does make one stop and
> think for a minute... Take
> this with a grain of salt, or whatever... but ask
> yourself, can we really
> trust Bush? :-) I don't... :-( And that's hard
> for me to say, I want to
> trust my leader... but until he shows he is worthy
> of my trust, I'm distrusting
> him.
> Mike Collis... (Putting on my flame retardant suit,
> now!!! lol)
>
> > Interesting Perspective From Abroad
> >
> > This is from an article in which a Zimbabwe
> politician was quoted as
> > saying that children should study this event
> closely for it shows that
> > election fraud is not only a third world
> phenomena....
> >
> > 1. Imagine that we read of an election
> occurring anywhere in the third
> > world in which the self-declared winner was the
> son of the former prime
> > minister and that former prime minister was
> himself the former head of
> > that nation's secret police (CIA).
> >
> > 2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost
> the popular vote but won
> > based on some old colonial holdover (electoral
> college) from the
> > nation's pre-democracy past.
> >
> > 3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's
> 'victory' turned on
> > disputed votes cast in a province governed by
> his brother!
> >
> > 4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of
> one district, a district
> > heavily favoring the self-declared winner's
> opponent, led thousands of
> > voters to vote for the wrong candidate.
> >
> > 5. Imagine that members of that nation's most
> despised caste,
> > fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out
> in record numbers to
> > vote in near-universal opposition to the
> self-declared winner's
> > candidacy.
> >
> > 6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that
> most-despised caste were
> > intercepted on their way to the polls by state
> police operating under
> > the authority of the self-declared winner's
> brother.
> >
> > 7. Imagine that six million people voted in the
> disputed province and
> > that the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only
> 327 votes. Fewer,
> > certainly, than the vote counting machines'
> margin of error.
> >
> > 8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and
> his political party
> > opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and
> re-counting of the
> > ballots in the disputed province or in its most
> hotly disputed district.
> >
> > 9. Imagine that the self-declared winner,
> himself a governor of a
> > major province, had the worst human rights
> record of any province in
> > his nation and actually led the nation in
> executions.
> >
> > 10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the
> self-declared winner
> > was to appoint like-minded human rights
> violators to lifetime positions
> > on the high court of that nation.
> >
> > None of us would deem such an election to be
> representative of anything
> > other than the self-declared winner's
> will-to-power. All of us, I
> > imagine, would wearily turn the page thinking
> that it was another sad
> > tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples
> in some strange
> > elsewhere."
> >
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