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To: Tamodaleko; kosta50; Banat; Gael; DTA
the rules were set by Slobo's team

two observations on this POV
1) It strikes me as slightly odd that whenever faced with a political situtaion that the "stauch defenders of democracy and freedom" don't like, these defenders of democratic values argue that the Laws of the prior government are invalid and should be blissfully ignored........this attitude contradicts one of the central tenants of rule-of-law and IMHO undermines democracy more than anything...........if one doesn't like the law(s), then they need to be changed following the rules in place, plain and simple, if one doesn't like the rules (ie the constitution), then change the consitution........but simnply stating "oh the bad guys made that Law so we don't need to follow it" is a prescription for chaos......

2) as for the having the Belgrade electoral rolls padded by 120,000 votes, at face value it appears this was done NOT by the SPS, but rather by the Parties who have controled the Belgrade area for many years.....and those Parties would be DOS parties, who have run Belgrade for a long time........... so here we have prima facia evidence of DOS committing massive electoral fraud.............One shouldn't be too surprised about DOS cadre committing massive fraud given their willful disregard for rule-of-law as evidenced by their anti-democratic attitudes as expressed on this thread

57 posted on 10/15/2002 6:55:34 AM PDT by vooch
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To: vooch
I agree with your both points about the present, no question. Thought you were whining about Oct 2000 (re:#46)

59 posted on 10/15/2002 7:20:30 AM PDT by Tamodaleko
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To: vooch
Excuse me, but I thought that after the protests in 1997, Belgrade was run by an opposition coalition, not today's DOS and Belgrade was ultimately run by the Serbian Renewal Movement, which would be Vuk Draskovic, not DOS, until 5 October.
In addition, some of the Belgrade Locals were still held by SPS, so Belgrade as a whole was never uniformly anything from 1997 until 5 October. Since DOS assumed power in Belgrade after 5 October, nothing has been done with the election lists.
76 posted on 10/16/2002 12:50:16 PM PDT by Ciganina
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