-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THURSDAY DECEMBER 14 2000 US Election 2000 Civil rights leader calls for protest BY DAMIAN WHITWORTH JESSE JACKSON, the civil rights leader, called for massive non-violent demonstrations yesterday against the US Supreme Court ruling that handed George W. Bush the presidency. The black leader, who spoke to Al Gore daily during the battle over Florida, had said that if the court ruled against the Vice-President it would “create a civil rights explosion”. “People will not surrender to this tyranny. We will fight back,” he said. Often the loudest and most incendiary voice in the dispute, Mr Jackson provided the most vivid evidence yesterday of polarisation in the country. “In Third World countries when democratically cast votes are not counted or the person who most likely lost wins in a highly questionable manner, we usually refer to that as a coup d’etat,” he said. “I see this decision as a potential threat to our democracy and potentially destabilising to our democratic institutions. I see it as undermining the legitimacy of a President Bush.” Mr Jackson, who had led calls for an investigation into allegations that thousands of blacks were impeded from voting Democrat in Florida, had argued that Mr Gore should not concede until the last legal option was exhausted. He accused Mr Bush of stealing the election and cautioned that he would mobilise protests against him. “We will take to the streets, we will delegitimise Bush, discredit him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him,” he said, adding that the holiday in honour of Martin Luther King, five days before the inauguration on January 20, should be marked by street demonstrations. “We will not surrender our franchise,” he said. Mr Jackson has also pledged that his Rainbow/Push coalition would challenge the election by obtaining the disputed ballots through Florida’s open records law and count the votes themselves. “We will know before January 20 that Gore got most of the votes,” he said. Resentment looked certain to linger longest in Florida, where many will remain convinced that Mr Gore was deprived of a rightful victory. “I saw hundreds of votes not counted from Miami-Dade,” Ion Sancho, a Leon County election supervisor in charge of recounting ballots from Leon and Miami-Dade counties before the count was supended on Saturday, said. “We examined 4,000 of those undervotes and I’m convinced we had a massive failure in the punch-card ballot system. I believe we have not had an accurate count of the vote in the state of Florida.” Democrat leaders refused to condemn Mr Jackson’s words directly, angering Republicans. “Anyone in a position of leadership in this country would have to repudiate remarks like that,” a spokeswoman for Dick Armey, the House majority leader, said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
