Dictator: A leader who rules with absolute power, usually by force.
>From: "Keith Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [RR] Fw: (Fwd) Fwd: (Fwd) (Fwd) Re: Food for thought...
>Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:25:57 -0500
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>Imagine that the self proclaimed winner was not in favor of counting over
>10,000 legal votes and one or more of his supporters filled in ballots in
>support of him which is against the law but the self-proclaimed winner has
>said nothing of throwing out 15,000 or more of these illegal votes. Of
>course if he were to support this action, he would no longer be the
>self-proclaimed dictator for 4 years.
>Keith Brooks
>The only way to tell who won is to count ALL the legal votes, by hand if
>necessary.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 12 05 00 2:07 PM
>Subject: [RR] Fw: (Fwd) Fwd: (Fwd) (Fwd) Re: Food for thought...
>
>
> >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
> >----- Original Message -----
> >> > > 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.
> >> > >
> >> > >.
> >> >------- End of forwarded message -------
> >> >
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