All
Apologies if the message below has already surfaced; I have been on holiday.
Before I start getting flamed, I do think some of it is OTT but it DOES make
you think and give you a different perspective. I'm just glad my trust is
not in princes nor in the sons of men.
BoW
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> > > Subject:Imagine....
> > >
> > >
> > > 1.Imagine an election in a third-world country in which the
> > > self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister-and
> > > imagine that the former prime minister was himself the former head
> > > of that nation's secret police.
> > > 2.Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote, but
> > > won based on some old colonial holdover 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
> > > of
> > > former slaves, 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 was himself a governor of
> > > a
> > > major province, and that his 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.
> > >
> > >.
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