-Caveat Lector- http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT NOV 25, 2000 16:09 ET XXXXX REP NADLER: 'WHIFF OF FASCISM IN THE AIR' U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JERROLD NADLER (D-NY) HELD PRESS CONFERENCE IN FLORIDA ON SATURDAY NADLER: We're here to express our dismay as American citizens at the action of the Miami-Dade County board of canvassers in giving in to mob rule, and deciding not to count--recount the ballots when they had already decided to do so, pursuant to the election law of Florida. Paul Gigot in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, in talking about the mob that assaulted the offices of the board of canvassers and that roughed up some people says: ``Street-smart New York Representative John Sweeney, a visiting GOP monitor, a congressman, told an aide to, quote, 'Shut it down,''' unquote. And then the riot started. So we have a Republican rent-a-gang, led by a Republican congressman from New York, who says ``shut it down.'' Let's have the mob rule and shut down a legal process of counting ballots. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't think I've called anything else like this before, but I will now: A whiff of fascism is in the air. When you can have a mob deliberately seek, under the leadership of political party representatives, responsible people, ``shut down the count.'' Not by court order, not by a writ, not by a legal decision, but by intimidation and threat and physical violence. That is intolerable. It's absolutely intolerable. What is also intolerable is that we know they counted 1,800 votes--I'm sorry--1,800 ballots which had not been counted by the machines. The machines registered no vote for almost 11,000 ballots. They counted 1,800 of them, and they found 394 valid votes for Gore and for Bush. So we know that roughly 2,300, 2,400 of those 10,750 ballots are valid votes. The action of the Miami-Dade County board of canvassers in saying, ``We're not going to count them,'' is saying, ``We're going to disenfranchise and deprive of their constitutional rights those people who voted and whose ballots the machine simply couldn't read.'' But people can read. That is a violation of Florida law; it's a violation of state and constitutional rights. It seems to be a violation of Florida law, which says that once you've made a decision, a finding, once you've made a finding that--an error in the tabulation could affect the result, which they did find, that you must then count the votes. And they voted Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. to count the votes that hadn't been counted by the machine, and they had plenty of time to count those 10,750, and then they decided by 12:00 not to. What happened between 9 and 12? Did they suddenly realize they didn't have time enough by Sunday to count 11,000 ballots? No. What happened between 9 and 12 is a mob threatened them, banged on their doors, roughed up people, threatened them, and they succumbed to the mob violence and the intimidation. That is frankly un-American of the mob to do that, it's un-American of the Republican leaders to lead that, and it's un-American for the Dade County board of canvassers to succumb to that threat. Now I've heard some Republican orators, some Republican speakers, say, ``Well, Jesse Jackson led a demonstration, it's the same thing.'' There's a difference between a peaceable demonstration outside the building, and if the Republicans want to demonstrate outside the building, God bless them. There's a difference between that and coming inside the building, threatening physical violence, roughing up people, bounding--pounding on the doors and threatening people. That is not a demonstration. And it's an insult to peaceful demonstrators to compare them to a mob. So we're here to say that we are asking that the court reverse the action of the Miami-Dade board of canvassers, vindicate the constitutional and Florida statutory rights of these voters by having their votes counted, and make sure that American elections are not subject to mob rule and mob violence, and certainly not to mob rule directed by the Republican or any other political party. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <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! 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