LTTE Orlando Sentinel on Mexican election

[reprobate]

For shame! The front page 'Analysis' story in Friday's Sentinel is not analysis. It's nothing but opinion, and worse, it's opinion directly from the White House. The 'turn to the right' the story hawks is not reflected in the people of Mexico. They-the people-are simmering on the verge of uprising. They know the election was stolen. They know facts from their media which never appeared in ours.

For example, two and a half million votes were 'discovered' that had been hidden by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) on Tuesday.

The people of Mexico also know that 909,000 of their votes were 'nullified' a la Florida 2000. Someone learned well from Katherine Harris.

They know too, that the State Police barracks were discovered to have a program of marking ballots and sneaking them into precincts as having been marked by voters.

An unknown number of boxes containing many thousands of marked ballots never made it to the counting, but were found in a city dump.

It was known that members of Karl Rove's election manipulation team were in Mexico for weeks before the election, conferring with Fox's and Calderon's PAN.

Also on Tuesday the IFE were caught in a big lie: they had claimed that "98.5%" of the vote had been counted, when in fact they had hidden 3.3 million (more than seven percent) of the votes from view.

Significantly, nothing has been heard from the generals of the Mexican military, unlike the Presidential elections of six years ago when they unanimously backed the IFE's accounting. It's very possible that if the poor people of Mexico start to take to the streets the military will stay in their barracks. If not, the generals know they will face the repudiation of the world for the massacring of their own people. Puts one in mind of the situation in Russia in 1917 when the Tsar ordered his army to fire on the food rioters and they refused. Then, an empire fell. One can only wonder what will happen in Mexico if the army is not called out. Or even if they are!

But what, it could be asked, would be motivation for the Republican gaming of a Mexican election? Simple. Obrador has stated that he will nullify NAFTA/CAFTA, as well as institute a respectable minimum wage. That strikes fear into the heart of American corporations. It threatens to remove a cheap labor pool for those that have cut American jobs and moved them to Mexico. As well as threatening America's huge corporate farming interests by denying them the cheap illegal Mexican immigrant labor.

[fasttense]

1. I love it. Did it make into the paper? Do you have a link?

[reprobate]

4. Just sent it in today. I'll know couple of days if they'll print. Expect

they won't. It's too left wing for the Orlando Sentinel/Fishwrapper.

[Dembo98]

2. Sources?

Where did you get that information?

[reprobate]

5. Sorry, I meant to thank Laotra in my post.

Mostly taken from his post HERE

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. The OS has participated in its own kind of voter fraud.

For one thing, they usually endorse Republicans. Have been for several decades. They usually endorse Repubs, or pro-development types. They have also conveniently lost info sheets on challengers to the people they endorse, so post no information on the challengers at all.

Oh, and if there is something particularly incriminating to someone they want to endorse, they ignore it, no matter how many times someone sends it to them.

One of the cleverist ways they go about doing this, is that they allow the Countys' editorial desks around them to decide what gets printed in their county, and what does not.

[damntexdem]

6. Actually, it was the election of 18 years ago where the military backed ..

a stolen election. But that was PRI; and PAN has not necessarily been a darling of the military.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. How can it be a "turn to the right" if the outgoing president

is from the same gang?