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."
> >