-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 95 November, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT: Congressman Billy Tauzin (R-LA), chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, will be holding hearings on the network's involvement in possible election fraud.The evidence proving the network's participation in vote rigging (and their ownership of Voter News Service) is documented in "Votescam: The Stealing of America". Contact his offices:1-800-352-2890 and 202-225-4031 and tell him that Victoria Collier must be a witness at this hearing. Contact her at 212-809-9090. Thank you all. Your support is invaluable. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> See also: <http://www.votescam.com/stolen.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --------------- --Bush and Advisers Urge Gore Not to Stand in Way --The good news of gridlock --Bloodless coup d'etat --Michael Moore to Kofi Annan Linked stories: *Polls in doubt in 3 more US states ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin stories: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bush and Advisers Urge Gore Not to Stand in Way <http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/11/politics/11ELEC.html> New York Times Saturday, November 11, 2000 Bush and Advisers, Confident of a Victory in Recount, Urge Gore Not to Stand in Way By FRANK BRUNI AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 10 — Gov. George W. Bush and his advisers said today that they were moving forward with preparations for a new administration and beseeched Vice President Al Gore not to stand in their way, cautioning that legal challenges to the election could yield wrangling without end. Although they acknowledged that there were absentee ballots in Florida still to be tallied, they said that a nearly complete recount of the overwhelming majority of votes demonstrated that Mr. Bush had won both the state and the presidency, though barely. "The vote here in Florida was very close, but when it was counted Governor Bush was the winner," Mr. Bush's chief representative in Florida, James A. Baker III, said at a news conference today. "For the good of the country and for the sake of our standing in the world, the campaigning should end and the business of an orderly transition should begin," Mr. Baker, a former secretary of state, said. The latest results from Tuesday's election continued to show Mr. Gore with a lead in the nationwide popular vote, by a margin of 218,441 votes. But in Florida, whose 25 electoral votes hold the key to the outcome, Mr. Bush led by 327 votes, according to the latest unofficial tally of votes that were recounted over the past few days. In their comments today, Mr. Bush and his aides tailored their words and actions to underscore the assertion that Mr. Bush had, essentially, won the election by winning Florida. When Mr. Bush spoke briefly with reporters at the governor's mansion here this afternoon, the placement of his chair and the tableau of advisers around him evoked a meeting in the Oval Office. "It's in our country's best interest that we plan in a responsible way for a possible administration," said Mr. Bush, making his first public comments in more than 48 hours. The strain of one of the strangest weeks in the history of American politics was obvious in his eyes, which looked tired, and his speech, which was halting and faint. "I am mindful that there are still votes to be counted," he added, referring to the absentee ballots, which the Bush campaign believes will strongly favor the Texas governor. But, Mr. Bush said, "I think it's up to us to prepare the groundwork for an administration that will be ready to function on Day One." Sitting near him were Dick Cheney, his would-be vice president, and Andrew Card, the likely chief of staff in a Bush White House. Both men were scheduled to meet with Mr. Bush at his ranch near Waco this weekend. As Mr. Bush took a tentative half- step toward the presidency, his advisers and the vice president's aides battled over the propriety of the manual recounts of votes in several Florida counties that were set to begin tomorrow. "The more often ballots are recounted, especially by hand, the more likely it is that human errors, like lost ballots and other risks, will be introduced," Mr. Baker said. "This frustrates the very reason why we have moved from hand counting to machine counting." According to several Republican officials, the Bush campaign was considering the possibility of seeking a legal injunction against the recounts, but campaign officials had not reached a decision late tonight. The State of Florida has already conducted a mechanical recount of votes, and the Bush and Gore campaigns waged a heated war of words today over whether that was enough, each side claiming the moral high ground and dressing its actions in the garb of patriotism. Concerning one of the disputes, the Florida secretary of state, Katherine Harris, said today that the so-called butterfly ballot used in Palm Beach County, which led to some confusion among voters on Tuesday, was legal. But Gore campaign officials continued to insist that it was illegal. Beyond Florida, other states in which the candidates ran neck and neck threatened to become scenes of prolonged legal action and intensive scrutiny of the voting process. Republican officials strongly hinted that if the Gore campaign pressed its case in Florida, they might follow suit in states like Wisconsin and Iowa that Mr. Bush lost by thin margins. That specter hovered between the lines of comments made by Mr. Baker at a news conference in a room in the Senate Office Building in Tallahassee. Mr. Baker used phrases like "rule of law," "the good of the country" and "the sake of our standing in the world" to call on Mr. Gore and his advisers to accept defeat — providing that the uncounted absentee ballots did not cut in their favor — and move on. "Let the country step back for a minute and pause and think about what's at stake here," said Mr. Baker, using a tone of moral suasion and even invoking Richard M. Nixon's actions in 1960 as a potential model for Mr. Gore. Mr. Nixon did not contest a narrow loss in that presidential election to John F. Kennedy. "The purpose of our national election is to establish a constitutional government, not unending legal wrangling," Mr. Baker said. Less than two hours later, in the same room of the same Senate building, aides to Mr. Gore held their own news conference. They said they were adamant in their resolve to make sure that there were not flaws in the voting process that wound up shortchanging their candidate — and costing him the presidency. "Other systems of government may work faster," said William M. Daley, the chairman of the Gore campaign. "Curtailing voters' rights may get a result that is faster. But no system of government is more just or more enduring than ours." "I hope," Mr. Daley added, "that our friends in the Bush campaign will join us in our efforts to get the fairest and most accurate vote count here in Florida." Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore ran so closely in Florida that the state teetered between the Gore, Bush and undecided columns all Tuesday night and well into Wednesday morning; A recount was required by state law. Although returns in a few other states were also so close that an unequivocal victor has yet to be determined, it is almost certain that the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes is the next president of the United States. State officials will not formally complete or certify their mechanical recount of all 67 counties in Florida for several days, but an unofficial tally by the Associated Press gave Mr. Bush a 327-vote lead. That total may change in the manual recounts that are to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday in Palm Beach and Volusia Counties, in response to requests from the Gore campaign. Palm Beach election officials will check ballots from three precincts, while those in Volusia will recount ballots from the entire county. Officials in Broward County, which is heavily Democratic, were to manually recount ballots in three precincts, beginning on Monday. The vote in those precincts, county elections officials said, was overwhelmingly for Vice President Gore — 3,554, compared to 133 for Bush. But the county Democratic Party chairman, Mitch Caesar, said that as many as 6,686 ballots may have gone uncounted because of the shortcomings in the machine count. The completion of the mechanical recount, which shaved but did not eliminate Mr. Bush's lead, prompted the Bush campaign today to begin using words like win and winner. Even so, Mr. Bush himself stopped short of announcing Cabinet appointments or staging any sort of celebration. "We're taking our time," Mr. Bush said. "We're in a very low-key manner." Outside the mansion, a group of protesters drew attention to what Democrats have claimed were irregularities in the Florida voting. Mr. Bush was asked what he would say to those Americans who would deem a Bush presidency illegitimate. "I would say we have a Constitution," he said. "I will live by the Constitution. We've had two vote counts already, and I'm pleased with what's happened." Mr. Bush seemed utterly spent and got confused about the name of a reporter whom he knew well. There was a large adhesive bandage on his cheek, covering what his campaign's communications director, Karen P. Hughes, said was a boil-like infection that was not a serious condition. Mr. Gore, who had traveled from Nashville to Washington, did not make any public comments today, but allowed television cameras to film him and his family playing touch football on the grounds of the vice president's house. Both men's demeanors belied the frantic activity and truculent remarks of their aides and the bustle of Republicans and Democrats trying to amass evidence in Florida to support their positions. Manual recounts are sometimes able to detect votes that machines do not, and Republicans argued that holding such recounts only in counties that have drawn Democrats' attention — and have a majority of Democrats — was unfair to the rest of Florida. "Treating those votes in a different way from other counties is absolutely unfair and illegal," said Haley Barbour, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee who advises the Bush campaign. Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state who is leading the Gore team in Florida, spoke at the same news conference that Mr. Daley did; he said that such actions would be well within the Gore campaign's rights. Mr. Christopher also balked at the notion, raised by Mr. Baker, that there was some danger in a period of time in which there was no clear president-elect. "We're only three days away from the election itself," he said. "I don't see any threat to our Constitution; indeed, what we're doing is a constitutional process." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The good news of gridlock <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bock/20001110_xcabo_the_good_n.shtml> Alan W. Bock FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10 2000 The chattering classes inside the beltway are already wringing their hands, wondering whether the confusion surrounding the presidential race, the narrowness of the margin, the fact that any president will assume office under something of a cloud and the closeness of the margins in Congress will mean four more years of dreaded gridlock in Washington. Those who value freedom, opportunity and the possibility of continued economic growth should be uttering loud huzzahs for what the voters have wrought. In terms of both domestic and foreign policy, gridlock is close to the best possible outcome under our current political system. When serious questions about the legitimacy of the president (whoever sneaks in) make for an utter absence of anything resembling a mandate, joy should reign supreme. In short, the results of Tuesday's election are about as favorable for the cause of freedom -- which I take to be the development of a society characterized by a growth in the importance and appreciation of voluntary interactions and transactions and a decline in the influence and relative importance of the political, coercive sphere of life -- as could be expected from such a quintessentially political exercise. The American people, despite reinforcement of the idea that politics is central to everything, are beginning to see through the mists and reject the choices the political system offers them. It would be silly, of course, to claim that the American state is on the verge of overt rejection and is withering away inexorably. The modern state, after all, is thoroughly institutionalized, steals about 50 percent of the fruits of productive activity from "its" citizens, considers itself the center of modern life, claims the right to regulate our every activity from what we eat to what we think and is constantly alert for more aspects of life to dominate, with little overt opposition or even understanding from the chattering classes. But the state and the relentlessly political understanding of life that buttresses it intellectually and psychologically are increasingly recognized as something of a joke. That's a healthy development. In the late 1970s and 1980s -- as the idealism that had originally been a part of communism disappeared, and the system degenerated into a rickety structure held together only by coercion, corruption, lies and inertia -- nobody could have predicted the precise moment when the system would collapse, let alone that it would collapse with a relatively peaceful whimper rather than an orgy of violence. But a few people understood that its collapse, while unpredictable as to time, was inevitable. Similarly, I see the collapse of the modern welfare-warfare state rooted in the European nation-state system cobbled together in the 1600s as inevitable. I don't know precisely when the collapse will come or what institutions and systems will be developed to serve the few legitimate social functions the state claimed to perform. I don't know whether the collapse will come without violence, though I hope fervently that it can be accomplished peacefully. But I'm reasonably sure it will come, that the process is already underway and, furthermore, that it will not be generally recognized until it has already occurred -- that most public intellectuals will never understand the true nature of the phenomena through which they are living. >From this perspective Tuesday's election was utterly delightful. After two years of non-stop campaigning, neither of the deeply flawed candidates for the office modern culture wants us to view as the highest in the land and the most important in the world was able to attract support from a majority of the American people. Neither candidate sparked enthusiasm, loyalty or anything more than desultory support -- except from a small inner circle of acolytes. Most people either stuck with a party out of habit, voted blatantly for their own narrow interests, or held their noses and voted for the lesser of two evils (having been presented with the evil of two lessers). Almost nobody believed either had an inspiring vision of what the future of America could be. In the midst of the most sustained and potentially exciting period of economic growth in history -- probably of the world -- the chosen one of the party in power was not able to beat back a challenge from a syntactically challenged dilettante with little to recommend him but a family name with an ambiguous history. That is remarkable. But it is due less to the admittedly very real shortcomings of Al Gore than to a definite if not completely conscious recognition that the government is not responsible for the economic growth of the last several years, except insofar as it has been forced by circumstances not to get in the way too much. The virtual tie, both in the popular vote and in the unfairly maligned electoral college, demonstrates that neither modulated version of the two approaches to governance that have dominated America command real support any more. In a very real sense both parties lost. The modulated New Deal-populist-administrative-state approach of the Democrats has been reduced to a defense of the status quo, promotion of dependency and fierce devotion to certain special interests. The Republican message that used to emphasize individualism, self-reliance and free enterprise has modulated into "compassionate conservatism" -- code for "don't worry, we won't reduce any wasteful program" that is meant to be reassuring but inspires almost nobody. The people were not inspired by either candidate or by either party, but were not ready to embrace, in the midst of economic boom times, the anti-immigrant culture warfare Pat Buchanan offered or the dour anti-corporate regulatory zeal of Ralph Nader. They didn't even notice Harry Browne, but it's unlikely they are ready for that alternative yet either. So they did the best the system allowed them to do. They effectively tied the hands of the national government so it will be able to do as little damage as possible in the next four years. As a good Leninist might see things, they heightened the contradictions inherent within the system so that those contradictions will have to be resolved eventually. The dominant media have little interest in understanding this but enough has been written to buttress the idea that most Americans believe that divided government is not only desirable, it might be an important key to keeping the economic boom going. While many Americans are uncomfortable with the size of the Leviathan in place now, few are ready to disassemble it and a significant minority have become persuaded that they would be worse off without it. So it is allowed to survive, but not as a unitary structure, so its capacity to do mischief is limited. During much of the period when Democrats controlled the legislative branch we elected Republican presidents. Almost as soon as a Democrat more politically gifted than the hapless Jimmy Carter was elected president the people put a Republican majority in charge of Congress. While the inside-the-Beltway chattering classes deplore the resulting gridlock and most people will respond with standard good-government rhetoric if asked about nasty partisanship in Washington, in practice most Americans are content with gridlock. While we are figuring out what the next phase of governance is to be, it keeps the government we have from doing too much damage. Insofar as it makes politicians and the process by which they are anointed into national laughingstocks, that's an added bonus. Among the practical results of Tuesday's election is the fact that whoever descends to the Oval Office (people don't encourage their kids to aspire to be president anymore, an unquestionably healthy cultural development) will be completely lacking in anything resembling a mandate. There will be no ambitious domestic programs. And the next president, although he might have the desire if a domestic political crisis develops, will be almost entirely incapable of leading an international crusade. He might even choose to abandon the nascent incursion into Colombia before it gets too messy, even though both candidates gave the operation a pro forma endorsement. Presidents, prime ministers and/or high public officials from Russia, China, Germany, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, the European Union, Turkey and Indonesia were almost as red-faced as the network anchors were (or should have been) over the shifting projections that seemed to give the U.S. presidential election to Bush and Gore and back to too-close-to-call every 10 minutes or so. They all issued public congratulations to George W. Bush complete with the usual diplomatic effusions about the new Leader of the Free World and had to retract them. This is wonderful. Politicians who get diplomatic egg on their faces tend to remember the embarrassment as an unpleasant memory even as the details about exactly why the faux pas came about fade conveniently. The memories of these particular reminders of the fact that exalted leaders are imperfect human beings who make mistakes -- sometimes in public -- are likely to be transmogrified over time into a low-level resentment of the United States as an institution or a state rather than against Mr. Bush personally or the overeager prognosticators at CNN. So how will these and other leaders respond the next time the Leader of the Free World, whether Gush or Bore, sounds the trumpet for some new international crusade against terrorism, unpopular leaders or the latest famine caused not so much by state neglect but by an excess of state attention? Will they fall in eagerly, lusting to tax their people and send their young people into danger to please the President of the United States? And how will any country respond the next time the United States lectures about the importance of democratic procedures and proposes to send monitors to make sure the unwashed masses of the world are doing it right? The bottom line? Even more than they do already, foreign leaders will entertain second thoughts rather promptly about American-led international crusades. Most national leaders -- Europeans especially -- already view Americans as bumptious adolescents when it comes to international affairs. This is marvelous news for Americans who have no desire to see the country they live in the center of a world empire, whether because they believe such ambitions to be immoral, unwise, corporatist, subversive of American liberties or simply impractical. The closeness and the confusion surrounding Tuesday's election might have done more to undermine American imperial ambitions than all the third-party activity and intellectual fulminations of the last several years combined -- although those activities were and are important and may have fed into the divided outcome. A leader of a divided country is simply not in a position to be an aggressive leader overseas, to take big risks on behalf of international objectives. Ask Ehud Barak. One last thought. Among the phenomena the founders hoped to prevent through the Electoral College (and other non-democratic mechanisms) was the idea of a spiritual-political-mystical link between the people and a single leader. The presidency was purposely an executive position with not much inherent power because the founders feared the man on a white horse able to stir up the people and command their undying loyalty. The Constitution was written before Napoleon and before the "cult of personality" among communist leaders, but the founders would not have been surprised at these phenomena. They knew that a leader with a claim to be the authentic, direct voice of the people, connected to them directly by some mystical cord of charisma, chicanery and electoral success, would be more dangerous to liberty. The Electoral College system was seen as one barrier to establishing that kind of mystical link that could lead to tyranny -- and quite specifically to popularly supported foreign adventures. You could say that the idea and practice of the Imperial Presidency has arisen and flourished in this country despite the Electoral College, which was a compromise rather than an ideal structure and has never functioned as intended anyway. All that is true enough. But maybe -- just maybe -- the system offers at least a slight psychological barrier to that purported mystic people-leader link that can often serve to encourage foreign adventures. If eliminating it makes establishing that link more likely more often, it might be worthwhile to think about the wisdom of abolition for a while first -- as our charmingly undemocratic constitution will dictate anyway. Whether all this is actually a step toward freedom or a resting-place before the next push for more ambitious statism, of course, depends in large part on how we understand the situation. If we use the present gridlock to intensify discussion of alternatives to the kind of overweening governance we now suffer, we may find ways to throw off our chains. If we miss the meaning or fall for the delusion of bipartisan cooperation, we'll see the chains tighten. ---- Alan Bock is senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register, Senior Contributing Editor at the National Educator, a contributing editor at Liberty magazine and author of "Ambush at Ruby Ridge." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bloodless coup d'etat Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 From: Amy Pincus Merwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All, I consider what is a happening in Florida to be an attempt by the Bush's to be a bloodless coup d'etat. Read your history, because this is exactly how a bloodless coup would appear in America 2000. Look at the factors contributing: 1) Americans have extremely short-term memories. The Republicans are counting on this being a media blitz which will soon be forgotten by the masses, once 'King' George W takes power. 2) The Bush's are the originators of 'wag the dog'. Remember it was Jeb Bush who was in serious trouble with the Savings and Loan crisis. Before the evidence and the scrutiny of his involvement began in earnest Jeb's father, President George Bush began a war in Iraq. Suddenly the Iraq War was in the spotlight and the S&L crisis was on the back pages of every newspaper and forgotten by the public. 3) Problems with the Florida elections process: a) The inconsistencies in the Florida election are being reviewed by Jeb Bush's appointees. The process is being overseen by Jeb Bush's appointees. b) The ballot was illegal but that information is not being taken seriously. c) 19,000 voter's ballots where thrown out. Where are those ballots? Why aren't those voters being actually contacted to see how they intended to vote and let those voters re-vote. Even Buchanan has said that he does not believe that all 19,000 votes in west Palm Beach County were intended for him. d) Why did Florida originally 'appear' to go to Gore, then after Jeb made some phone calls, the tide turned? e) Why is a revote being considered highly unlikely or unorthodox. I heard that the Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering voter fraud in Southern Florida. What was that situation all about? In Georgia there apparently have been revotes and this is considered reasonable in that state, why not in Florida? 4) As 'King' George W preemptively begins his transition to taking power, while calling Gore the problem (sore loser, Gore delving too deep will unravel the national democracy, Gore is putting the democratic process on hold, etc.) the actual transition to power is already occurring. The rule with 'wag the dog' is look behind the smoke screen: 'what is really going on?' If the American people don't forget this the Bushes in conjunction with their military and CIA connections will generate a bigger crisis. Listen to the media— all are saying 'We have time to decide what to do because America is not in a crisis now." Watch for a crisis to emerge somewhere else to distract, shock and force a conclusion. 5) If Clinton remains in power while these voter issues go to the court, then his involvement, personal gain and complicity must be scrutinized. 6) Protest in this country always appears in the news to be lead by people who are not to be believed, admired or supported, but in other countries, such as recently in Yugoslavia, people protesting or overthrowing their government are considered democratic heroes. Watch how Gore is reduced to either a) conceding in order to preserve his chances to run for the presidency in the future, or b) fighting this result and appearing to be all that Bush and the Republicans are calling him. IT IS ONLY BY A COMPLETE PROTEST BY THE PEOPLE THAT JUSTICE WILL EMERGE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Moore to Kofi Annan November 11, 2000 To: Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan From: Michael Moore, citizen Dear Mr. Secretary General: Help us! Massive election fraud is taking place in an area that looks like a banana republic -- but is actually part of the United States of America! We are sitting here helpless as our leaders appear unable to do anything about this stolen election. On behalf of freedom-loving people everywhere, I appeal to the world community and the United Nations for immediate intervention. There is ample evidence to indicate that the votes of thousands of our citizens were not counted or, worse, were given to a man who has a sister named "Bay." Further evidence also shows that hundreds of African American voters were simply not allowed to vote. I ask that you appoint humanitarian ambassador/carpenter Jimmy Carter to head up an official United Nations team of election observers from Rwanda, Brunei, Bosnia and South Africa and send them to this state we call "Florida." They are desperately needed to oversee the re-count, the hand-count and any other forms of counting being conducted by people who apparently can count. Remember that guy Milosevic in Yugoslavia trying to claim victory when he got the least number of votes? He would love Florida! Next to watching greyhound dogs run in circles, election fraud is South Florida's favorite pastime (I am enclosing, for your observer team, copies of the Miami Herald series on voter fraud which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize). It appears on the surface that lame graphic design is at the root of this ballot problem, especially in Palm Beach County where Jewish votes were given to a man who always has a nice word to say about Third Reich. But even more telling is the situation in the Daytona Beach area. In that county, the Socialist Workers Party candidate, James Harris, received a whopping 9,888 votes. When your observers arrive, they will discover that the socialist revolution in Daytona Beach is running a distant third to drunken college spring breaks and NASCAR racing. In fact, you will be hard-pressed to find a single Bolshevik in Daytona Beach, let alone a decent cappuccino. What CBS News discovered is that these 9,888 votes in Daytona Beach for the socialist Mr. Harris represented more than HALF of his ENTIRE 19,310 votes nationwide! Some might see this a communist plot; election officials in Florida have tried to pass it off as a "computer glitch." I call it fuzzy math. You should know that the ruler of this disputed region of our country is the brother of the presidential candidate who is benefiting from these shenanigans, George W. Bush. He is already beginning to function as the "President-Elect," even though he got fewer votes in the country than his opponent, Al Gore! The networks had reported that Gore won the state of Florida, but after the one Bush (the candidate) made a call to the other Bush (the governor of Florida), suddenly the Bush running for president was ahead. This must sound very familiar to you. I know you have had to deal with "the relatives" before in places like Indonesia and The Congo, and, hey, who can blame them? Everyone wants to see family members do well. But in this case, the self-declared "President-Elect" is also the son of the former President who was dethroned by Gore and his running mate 8 years ago. Does any of this make sense? Would it help to know that the father of the "President-Elect" was also the head of the CIA? Just so you know what you are getting into. If you look at the map of the U.S., Florida is the section that seems like it is about to drop off into the sea. It is a backwater area whose climate and topography -- swamps, mosquitoes, unbearable humidity, reptiles everywhere -- resembles much of the Third World. It is truly a scary place -- ask any German tourist! It is the easiest state in which to buy guns in the United States. Prisoners are executed without the sort of due process you get in other parts of the world. According to your own U.N. report, more children are immunized in Jamaica than in Florida, and a baby has a better chance of living to see it's first birthday if it is born in Cuba than in Miami. Most of us just go there to get warm in the winter -- and, for many, Arizona is looking better and better these days. Please, Mr. Annan, you have to get here right away. The self-declared "President-Elect" is trying to stop the counting of the ballots. He knows what these ballots will reveal. His propaganda ministers have been lying to the American people for days now, saying things like "this kind of ballot is used everywhere, including in Chicago for Jesse Jackson's son!" Our esteemed journalist, Ted Koppel, held up the Chicago ballot last night on TV to show that it looks NOTHING like the Florida ballot. He told the American people they were being snookered by the Bush people. Mr. Secretary General, you are already at the U.N. in New York! Flights from NYC to Miami leave every 15 minutes! Mr. Carter is in the state right next to Florida! Stop by, pick him up, and tell him he may need at least his hammer, if not his nails. If the state of Florida refuses to admit your international team of election observers, I implore the Security Council to impose economic sanctions against this place which calls itself "the Sunshine State." The rest of us in America can no longer tolerate their rogue operations. Please remember this is the same state which earlier this year turned kidnapping into a legal sport when they refused to return a little Cuban boy to his father. We had to put up with that circus for nearly eight months. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. If this kind of thievery were happening in any other part of the world, we would have bombed the crap out of it by now. I am hoping for a peaceful resolution to this crisis and for the self-declared "President-Elect" to be returned to his box seat in Arlington, Texas. I know you are the man to save us. Yours, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.michaelmoore.com> P.S. Please note. This is not a partisan request on my part. I did not vote for Al Gore. In fact, I am currently in hiding, fearful for my safety, having voted for Ralph Nader. I am now being hunted down by liberals who, for the first time in years, have finally found something to get angry about. 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