[Lobbyist]

Could this happen in the U.S.?

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2395736,00.html

Kenya vote ‘badly flawed’
19/09/2008 13:18 - (SA)

Nairobi - Elections in Kenya that unleashed a wave of bloodshed earlier this year were so badly flawed that it is impossible to know who won, an official inquiry said on Thursday.

At least 1 300 people were killed and hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes in some of the worst ethnic violence since independence from Britain in 1963.

The report by the commission of inquiry, which was led by a retired South African judge, was handed to President Mwai Kibaki on Wednesday and to chief mediator Kofi Annan on Thursday.

“The conduct of the 2007 elections was so materially defective that it has been and will remain impossible ... to establish true or reliable results for the presidential and parliamentary elections,” it said.

The clashes ended with a power-sharing deal that made opposition leader Raila Odinga prime minister, while President Mwai Kibaki remained head of state.

The seven-member Independent Review Commission (IREC) said the poll was riddled with corruption on both sides, with vote-buying and selling, ballot stuffing and marauding gangs armed with machetes used to intimidate the public.

It said there was no evidence the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) had rigged the results in favour of any of the candidates, but said the crisis was due to the ineptitude and inefficiency of the body at all levels.

“The institutional legitimacy of the ECK and public confidence in the professional credibility of its commissioners and staff have been gravely and arguably irreversibly impaired.”

It said 1.2 million dead people were still on the voters roll, and that the whole system badly needed to be overhauled.

South African Judge Johann Kriegler, who led the investigation, said he was sure Kenya’s government would take the recommendations on board quickly.

“I have every confidence it will be expedited,” he said. “I know who lost in this election, the people of Kenya lost.”

Many in the east African country remained sceptical, fearing that his report will end up shelved like previous commissions of inquiry, never to be heard of again.

“Maybe they will not implement the entire report, but they have to do something about ECK,” said bank worker Sarah Wanjiku.

The full report is due to be made public on Friday.

- Reuters

[oust the louse]

Could this happen in the U.S.?...

I gotta think liberals (well I know) as a whole are lazy and dumb. Probably too lazy to give up thier freebies from the gubbermint to create havoc.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Good old Rudyard Kipling:


...When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four—
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more...

[Just A Nobody]

Could this happen in the U.S.?

Yes, including the riots and terrorism that followed. We have been charting this course for over a decade. Obama was training the corps back in the 90's.

[sarasota]

Only if Carvell’s prediction comes true. Sheesh.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Jerome Corsi was on Hannity yesterday and says he’s in possession of emails that prove collusion between Obama and his top aides with Odinga planning the campaign and indicating that Obama was aware of the plan to cast doubt upon the election and incite violence.

Obama may have played a role in that violence.