Posted on 12/01/2006 4:55:04 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Latin America: Ahead of what should be a majestic presidential inauguration, Mexico's losing leftists are turning Mexico's Congress into a fighting ring before the world. That shows how unfit they are for democracy.
In case you haven't heard, these leftists still haven't accepted the July 2 verdict of Mexico's voters, who chose Felipe Calderon to represent them as their president.
Instead, they've protested and camped out in central Mexico City, falsely crying fraud. Their weeks of street blockades deprived thousands of poor Mexicans of the right to go to work.
They also blocked critical trade routes into Texas in a bid to destroy free trade in northern Mexico, seeking vengeance against their fellow citizens who didn't vote as they wanted.
They took their case to the editorial pages of the New York Times. In addition, they held a fantasy inaugural for losing leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, putting him up on a podium with a phony presidential sash and a stage-set wooden balcony, making him resemble the little man on the wedding cake.
Now they've moved from the symbolic to the more dangerous area of physical force, and made common cause with leftist insurgent gangsters in Oaxaca, announcing the alliance at a rally in front of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles two weeks ago.
They've since employed Oaxaca-style insurgent tactics, turning Mexico's Congress not only into a place in need of a wrestling cage, but into a sleeping-bag camp that now resembles a pigpen.
This week, the Congress was blocked off by leftists who stormed the congressional stage and fought their democratically elected opponents in an appalling, and faintly ridiculous, free-for-all.
These tactics are not just protest. They are leftists' intentional subversion of democracy, using Mexico's own democratic institutions against itself. What they want is chaos, and ...
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ping!
Nacho Libre!
Yep. AMLO Libre!
I wonder where Hugo Chavez fits in to this nest of vipers.
Al Gore is beaming at the political baby he birthed back in November 2000.
The Truth is, they might be right about the voter fruad. At the same time, a lot of their votes might be the result of fraud. That is the problem with running a democracy amongst a population that has long accepted fraud and corruption. Of course, the US appears to be headed in the same direction.
I don't think so. The electoral board went through an ocean of insults and abuse and carefully considered every one of their claims about fraud. They found nothing. Any claim to fraud now is pure fantasy. Elections USED to be loaded with fraud in Mexico but not anymore, not since Carlos Salinas set up a board to start working on clean elections, the very clean elections that put Salinas' own PRI out on its ear. These elections were used as the model for Iraq's elections, they were probably cleaner than ours here in the states. What's more, I personally witnessed some of the voting in northern Mexico, and the tone of seriousness and fairness and transparency was all there - when I was there, the AMLO-ites told me themselves that the election was free and fair (back when they thought they were in the lead. After they lost their lead, they started telling a different story, but only after they lost it, not before.)The real problem is that they are leftists and cannot accept a loss. They are no different from al gore in this regard. Not being able to accept a loss explains their insane derangement and desperate need for a straitjacket.
Re: #6:
LOL!
What we ought to do is promote a hard-core stalinist takeoever of Mexico. Let them put up their own version of the Berlin Wall to keep their citizens from escaping.
AMLO is what the Dems are evolving into.
Nuts, and a war-room approach to politics.
Isn't he the one with the midget sidekick?
Thanks for the links.
As much as that would stop the illegal immigration problem, I would NOT want a Chavez/Putin/Jintao ally on our southern border.
Obrador lost by roughly 200,000 votes.
Think about the implications of that.
Here's something ELSE that's got to go along with AMLO: Mexican protectionism:
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/finanzas/55124.html
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