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> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:03:04 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
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> Amy Guskin wrote:
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>> Frankly -- and I'm being sincere -- I think that guns would have been a 
>> better solution.  I don't think the Supreme Court should be choosing the 
>> president, and I'll be out in the streets in my riotin' shoes if they ever 
>> do 
>> so again.
> 
> The point of my little essaylet was that there was a court of *words* as 
> last resort, which the elite pols actually respected.
> 
> (That, and the Supremes *didn't choose the President*. They ruled on the 
> minutae of Florida elections law. And no, I don't even necessarily agree 
> that they should have had jurisdiction, actually... but there you are.)
> 
> What you're saying there is that guns are a better solution for choosing 
> a leader than a questionable court of last resort? <<

What I'm saying is, when is some other country going to come in and rescue 
_us_ from _our_ dictatorship?

>> Amy, even if that court is corrupt, *nobody died in the shift of power 
> from one faction to the other*. That's historically really remarkable. <<

Maybe so, but I don't think that how it shook out was legally correct.  How 
is this different from any other non-violent coup?

>> The pendulum swings, remember? We'll have a split Congress, or a Dem 
> Congress this coming January, and as much as you may wish to suppose 
> that the Ohio electoral process was corrupted, I'll point out that the 
> fact that we know about the irregularities at all is also evidence that 
> our political system is working really well compared to Thailand or Hungary. 
<<

I'd _highly_ recommend reading that Mark Crispin Miller book, "Fooled Again: 
How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too 
(Unless We Stop Them)." You can pick up a used copy on half.com or amazon.com 
for under $5.00, or you can probably get it for free from your library.

>> So when you *do* march, please leave the riotin' shoes at home. 
> Otherwise you're just inflicting pain on neighbors just as 
> disenfranchised as you'll feel. <<

Bad euphemism: let's call them my "demonstratin' shoes" instead. 
If getting 
out into the streets and shouting and holding up signs is our last resort 
(since we can no longer trust that our votes are being counted as intended), 
I'm there.

Amy
          
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