---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: .... Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:06:09 -0500
A history professor from Uppsala University in Sweden, called to tell me about an article she had read 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 phenomenon:
1. Imagine that we read of an election occuring 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 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 third-world country elsewhere.
----Original Message Follows---- From: JC Helary <helary at eskimo.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: [ multitudes infos ] Sur Bush dans le Bush Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:12:38 +0900
in french, from zimbabwe, about bush...
----- Forwarded message from Yann Moulier Boutang <yann.m.boutang at wanadoo.fr> -----
To: MultitudesINFO <multitudes_infos at topica.com> From: Yann Moulier Boutang <yann.m.boutang at wanadoo.fr> Subject: [ multitudes infos ] Sur Bush dans le Bush Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:24:07 -0800
>Dans un article publie dans la presse du Zimbabwe, Jonathan Moyo, docteur
>en sciences sociales, ministre de l'information du gouvernement Mugabe,
>estime que tous les enfants du monde devraient etudier le deroulement des
>elections aux Etats-Unis, car elles sont manifestement la preuve que la
>fraude n'est pas un phenomene reserve aux pays en voie de developpement.... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com