UN Monitors for the 2004 Presidential Election?

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US lawmakers request UN observers for November 2 presidential election

"WASHINGTON (AFP) -Ninel members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send 2,000 observers to monitor the November 2 2004 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida.

Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine democrat lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annanasking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who spearheaded the effort.

"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," she said in the letter.

"This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself," she added after requesting that the UN "deploy election observers across the United States" to monitor the November, 2004 election.

The lawmakers said in the letter that in a report released in June 2001, the US Commission on Civil Rights "found that the electoral process in Florida resulted in the denial of the right to vote for countless persons."

The bipartisan commission, they stressed, determined "that the 'disenfranchisement of Florida's voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of black voters' and in poor counties." Both groups vote predominantly Democratic in US elections.

The commission also concluded, the lawmakers added, that "despite promised nationwide reforms (of the voting system) ... adequate steps have not been taken to ensure that a similar situation will not arise in 2004 that arose in 2000."

Thirty-six days after the November 7, 2000 presidential election, after several state court interventions and vote recounts in numerous Florida counties, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Republican George W. Bush, awarding him all of Florida's 25 electoral votes."

Lock and load!
 
One step at a time. The incremental approach has worked for these people over the last 100 years or so. Familiar pattern and m.o.

Some people should be asking themselves why those who currently have the power to do so within their grasp refuse to rid us of this abomination once and for all - completely - before it is too late to do so. Does not surprize me that they do not. Rather, they embrace it.
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"We must press on with our agenda for peace and prosperity in every land." - George Bush, to the United Nations General Assembly, November 10, 2001

"Our common border is no longer a line that divides us, but a region that unites our nations, reflecting our common aspirations, value and culture." - Secretary Colin L. Powell, Washington, DC - January 30, 2001
 
The joke may be on them, most of the corruption is in the inner city districts that send these critters to congress.
 
Is Eddie Bernice going to suggest that election monitors be sent to the Middle East to ensure that our troops serving there aren't disenfranchised like they were four years ago?

Also, I wonder what the good Ms. Johnson thinks the UN can do here? Call American troops? That benighted organization couldn't organize an expedition of sailors to a waterfront bar without Uncle Sam holding its hand. :rolleyes:
 
Tell me why the UN should have anything to do with the internal happenings of this nation?

If we let the UN oversee this upcoming election, wouldn't it set a precedant for them to further dip their hands in our bowl?

Excuse me while I vomit. :barf:
 
Oh, great.

The United Nations could be sending observers to monitor our elections. Wonderful.

The world organization that set the gold standard in graft, bribery, nepotism, and election-fixing is going to be skulking around our election.

Hell, the UN wouldn't know a proper election if it rose up and bit them on the butt.

So. Can I expect to see some dirt-stupid, inbred dacoit wearing a UN jacket standing next to Miss Ida Lou Hacksteader in the high school gym in west Itchy Paw Falls monitoring the election process? Please?

No? Let me guess. The UN catamites will be led around by the Democrats, whilst the same Democrats point out certain elections (while being steered around other elections -dead guy in Missouri? What dead guy?), and when not being led about by the ... nose... they'll be having their egos flattered by Democrat Hollywood movie stars.

Pfagh.

And what will these...observers...do if they decide that they do see problems with Republican-heavy elections?

What? Hmm?

All they can do is snivel.

I don't give a cockroach pop what a pack of Third World despots and goat-herders thinks of the 2004 election in the United States.

Y'all think the election is fixed or rigged? We don't care and there's not a damned thing you can do about it.

No, wait. I take that back. You can leave US soil in protest! the US election was an outrage, and the entire U.N. body needs to leave the U.N. headquarters -- on US soil -- as a protest!

Hell, I will promise you that somewhere in the U.S., during the 2004 election, there will be some irregularities, so avoid the fall rush -- pack your **** and get off my island!

You! Yes, you! And you, and you and the rest of the jumped-up pack of Third World parasites with delusions of adequacy: Get the hell out!

Go to France! Please! If France isn't to your liking, then bloody well tell the delegate from the Sudan to have his slaves slap together a new UN building.

If the Sudan isn't to your liking, then have it built in downtown Peking, I'm sure the Chinese delegate can scare up enough condemned political prisoners to toss together a new UN building.

Havana. Mogadishu. I don't care, just as long as it's somewhere else.

Do. The. Right. Thing: Protest the US elections by Getting. Off. My. Island.

:mad:LawDog
 
Didn't the democrats in florida set up ROADBLOCKS to keep the Haitians (who said they were going to vote republican) from voting!?! :eek: I still want to know why they weren't arrested and executed! :mad:
 
I think there's only one problem with having the UN monitor our election: finding someone in the UN who has experience with elections involving more than one candidate.
 
Truly heinous.

The UN badly wants to be a world government.

We must avoid aything that gives them the appearance of a world government.

Monitoring our elections sure makes them look like a world government.

Bad, bad stuff.
 
Didn't the democrats in florida set up ROADBLOCKS to keep the Haitians (who said they were going to vote republican) from voting!?!
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You mean this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1127468.stm

Catch the Bit where the NAACP Prez Said "The election in Florida was conducted in a manner which was illegal, immoral and undemocratic"

undemocratic? LOL since when was a US election Required to Side with the Democraps?

Still, why Shrub hasn't told the UN to butt there noses out of Internal US Affairs is disturbing.
 
What's so bad about international monitors?
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There isn't anything wrong with U.N. monitors, per se. I mean, even if they observe something irregular, all they can do is snivel about it. The United States isn't bound in any way to even listen to the grouching.

I have two problems with it.

1) The U.N. is doing nothing but monitoring now. On down the road, they'll want to do a little bit more. Then just a bit more. And later on, just a little bit more. Ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, and the U.N. won't just be toothless monitors - they'll have just a little bit of bite. Ten, twenty or thrity years after that, and they'll have just a bite more pull. Ten, twenty or thirty years after that and we won't be able to have an election without the Goddess-be-damned approval of the Goddess-be-damned U.N.

Bugger that for a lark.

2) This is the U.N. This is the same pack of parasitic invertebrates who put the Sudan on the UN civil rights board! The bloody U.N. thinks that Libya, and North Korea, and Somalia are on the same level as the United States.

I've got news for them: it ain't so. What the hell does a U.N. monitor from Libya know about fair elections? Or North Korea? China? Cuba?

How many of the countries making up the UN have ever had a free election? Have you ever heard of the staggering amount of corruption, bribery, nepotism and other goodies that the UN commits on a daily basis?

The UN is dirty. 90% of the member nations of the UN are dirty. Yet, here they are offering to 'monitor' our elections for dirty deeds.

Hypocrisy. Yet another service offered by the UN.

Pfagh.

LawDog
 
The federal Civil Rights Commission is now investigating these complaints. During hearings this month, the commission heard allegations of a road block set up by Florida state troopers near a polling station.

Roberta Tucker, a state employee, told the commission she was intimidated by the white troopers.
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Don't you love how everything can be turned into a civil rights or sexism case?

And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we created the UN after WWII. Still think thas the biggest mistake we made this century.
 
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