i left out the middle 'Brooks Brothers riot' references: *Brooks Brothers Riot* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
*Roger Stone's dirty tricks helped sway the 2000 Florida recount* by Ion Sancho, Guest columnist, Tallahassee Democrat, Feb. 3, 2019 https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2019/02/03/ion-sancho-roger-stones-dirty-tricks-helped-sway-2000-florida-recount/2742713002/ Ion Sancho was the Leon County Supervisor of Elections during the 2000 recount and appointed by the Florida Supreme Court as the technical adviser to Judge Terry Lewis. This account is an excerpt from his upcoming book about the Florida 2000 recount. *The GOP House Thugs Followed the 2000 Brooks Brothers Riot Intimidation Playbook That Stopped the Florida Recount That Would Have Ended in Al Gore's Election* Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash, October 24, 2019 https://buzzflash.com/articles/the-gop-house-thugs-followed-the-brooks-brothers-riot-intimidation-playbook On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:57 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin= [email protected]> wrote: > *Roger Stone calls for Trump to seize total power if he loses the election* > by Timothy Johnson, Media Matters, Sept. 11 > > https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/roger-stone-calls-trump-seize-total-power-if-he-loses-election > *"Stone also said federal authorities should seize all Nevada ballots, > federal agents and GOP state officials should “physically” block voting, > that Trump should nationalize police forces, and that Trump should order > widespread arrests."* > > *Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election* > by Martin Pengally, Guardian, Sept. 13 > > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/roger-stone-to-donald-trump-bring-in-martial-law-if-you-lose-election > . . . [Stone said]* “The ballots in Nevada on election night should be > seized by federal marshals and taken from the state. They are completely > corrupted. No votes should be counted from the state of Nevada if that > turns out to be the provable case. Send federal marshals to the Clark > county board of elections, Mr President!”* . . . > > > I didn't know that Roger Stone was a leader of the 'Brooks Brothers Riot.' > I have been well aware since that 'riot' ended the legal and requisite > 2000 recount proceedings in Florida that it was a dangerous use of > undemocratic strong-arm tactics (proto-fascist) (along with Supreme Court, > etc.) to put W. Bush in office and deprive Gore of the election victory > later reviews/recounts showed that Gore had won. An alarming part of that > whole episode is that Gore and the Democrats basically surrendered to the > Republican use of force, apparently choosing 'stability' over democratic > process. > > The next three references below go more deeply into the 'Brooks Brothers > Riot' and a recent similar 'riot'. The first is the brief wikipedia entry > on the 'Brooks Brothers Riot', the second goes more deeply into who > organized the 'riot' and how it was organized and succeeded, the third one > is a report on how Republican congressmen used the same sort of tactic to > disrupt the impeachment proceedings last fall. The ideologically extreme > right that has taken over the Republican party is obviously prepared to > rely on riot tactics. > > The next two references further below go into how Trump could take > advantage of undemocratic U.S. constitutional provisions to pull out an > electoral victory. The last reference is to a mainstream analysis of the > current U.S. political/electoral situation which impressed me. > Dayne > > > *Here's how Trump will steal the 2020 election* > interview with Greg Palast, Salon, June 15 > > https://www.salon.com/2020/06/15/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-heres-how-trump-will-steal-the-2020-election/ > > *Trump and Biden could face dramatic post-election battle — here’s what > might happen* > John Yoo on Fox News, September 5 > https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-biden-election-john-yoo > > *Ron Brownstein (CNN) analysis of the general/electoral political > situation in the U.S.* > Why the stability of the 2020 race promises more volatility ahead > by Ronald Brownstein, CNN, Sept. 15 > > https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/2020-election-american-voter-worldviews/index.html > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1624): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1624 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76881060/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
