[pf] Fw: Just Imagine

by Kaleopono

08 December 2000 04:11 UTC

Posted on another email discussion list, quoted from some other source,
author unknown.  It certainly gives me pause.  Kaleopono
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> Truly Amazing !
>
> JUST..........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.