-Caveat Lector- 3 stories: ======== 1) Republican Brown Shirts intimidate Dade-Miami vote counters http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/ELECTION_protests001124.html (ABC News Online) ...in an apparent exercise of spontaneous public outrage, pro-George W. Bush demonstrators surged through the county office building in Miami-Dade County, demanding an end to the hand recount there. The shouting demonstrators accused Democratic election officials of taking the count behind closed doors and apparently contributed to one election supervisor's vote to end the hand recount. "If what I'd envisioned worked out and there were no objections, we'd be up there now counting," election supervisor David Leahy said. But that demonstration, ABCNEWS has learned, was neither spontaneous, nor local. It was an organized Republican Party protest, run by 75 party supporters out of a motor home headquarters in Miami. ---- 2) http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2000/11/25/gop_muscles/index.html (Associated Press) ...Local Republican organizations rolled into downtown Fort Lauderdale in tour buses. Coming from New York, Ohio and Washington D.C., many flew to Florida on expense-paid trips. Tom Spargo of Albany, N.Y., who served as a GOP observer during the Miami-Dade recount, said his plane ticket to Florida was bought for him by someone in the party. He wasn't sure who. Terry Benham, 33, of Little Rock, Ark., said his plane ticket was paid for and he was sharing a hotel room with a GOP staff member. Yelling loudly that "they will count a dimpled chad, but they won't count a soldier," Benham said Republicans shouldn't back down. ---- 3) http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/24/politics/24MIAM.html (New York Times) ...demonstrations turned violent on Wednesday after the canvassers had decided to close the recount to the public. Joe Geller, chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, was escorted to safety by the police after a crowd chased him down and accused him of stealing a ballot. Upstairs in the Clark center, several people were trampled, punched or kicked when protesters tried to rush the doors outside the office of the Miami-Dade supervisor of elections. Sheriff's deputies restored order. <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! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
