You are absolutely right about the re-vote, but the majority man to whom you gave your vote doesn't have the guts to ask for a re-vote, much less demand federal troops to protect Black voters, as in Mississippi and elsewhere during the civil rights movement. William Mandel monkerud wrote: > Okay, I'm pissed. I voted for the lesser of two evils and in the tradition > of America, the majority wins. My vote was in the majority and now some > peckerwoods in Florida are screwing around with the vote to give the > election to Bush. > > And I'm protesting the Bushes bringing in Republicans to disrupt the vote > counting. (Sorry Marty, I'm not pissed with you but your logic doesn't > hold. I would still protest the Nazis "civil disobedience" to attack the > Jews.) > > This is not longer between Gore and Bush, the way the news media is trying > to set it up. It's about me.. it's about my vote... and my vote isn't > counting! I would like to see a revote. > > Best, Don > > >I have to admit that that was my first thought too. Neo-fascists > >intimidating the election officials in Dade. But if they were lefty > >protestors, they'd not be intimidating? Though our causes may have been > >just, we on the left have been a helluva lot more intidimating. > > I don't believe the protestors caused Dade to stop the count. The Mayor > >is a right-wing Democrat, a Cuban, who is about to become a Republican. He > >hates the Clintonians cause of the Elian case. And the Cubans have little > >sympathy for non-Cuban minority voters. This was backroom politics, not > >demonstrators, calling the shots. > > More to the point, those of us who advocate militant demonstrations can't > >cry foul when the other side takes to the street. We can argue about > >their politics, but not their right to direct action. > > Marty > > > > At 06:12 PM 11/24/2000 -0800, you wrote: >I'm afraid we're just starting > >to see the grief that Bush will cause. Does >anyone else fear the > >neo-fascist protesters in Dade County who have now >intimidated the > >election officials from counting the ballots? Talk about a >stolen > >election... how many years have the votes been thrown out to favor >one > >candidate or the other? Any statistics kept on this? Or is this the >first > >time the old cranky machinery for counting votes failed in Florida? > >The > >local paper has photos, Bush or Revolution... but then American >politics > >have always been ugly. Those who have the strongest stomachs >win.... I'm > >afraid. > > >best, Don Monkerud >Santa Cruz > > >>-----Michael Rossman > >wrote: >> >> >>>So did >>>their stupidity in otherwise muting and > >center-izing his campaign. > >> >> >>But is it not probable that moving > >away from the center would have cost Gore >>more votes than it would have > >gained him. Holding contsant all other >>possible factors, it is > >indisputable that had Nader not run, Gore would have >>won an unambiguous > >victory in Florida and the nation would have been spared >>a good deal of > >grief, especially if Bush does eke out a victory. >> >>Tony Edmonds >>Ball > >State Universirty > > Marty Jezer * 22 Prospect Street * Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 > > > > Website <<http://www.sover.net/~mjez>http://www.sover.net/~mjez > > Subscribe to my Friday commentary (it's free), just send me your e-mail > >address by reply
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