IP: Gestapo tactics?

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

No matter who you support this is not good for democracy djf

> Two Bush Watchers Report That ABC Has Confirmed Our Previous Reports..."On
> ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, Nov. 23, there was a story about the
> Miami-Dade protest [prior to the Miami-Dade decision to stop counting
> altogether, losing Al Gore an estimated bulge of 2,000 votes over Bush.] It
> was not so spontaneous, but maybe the planned work of a Bush group, whose
> operations were centered in a nearby motorhome. Bush Raiders or something
> like that. They appeared from out of town so when a reporter asked one of
> them where they were from another person told them to not say. They were
> ostensibly there to "help the media". Anyway when the protest was over and
> the near riot panicked the canvassing board into quitting, the group drove
> away."..... "That RightWing Dittohead riot down in Miami was PLANNED ! It
> was a GOOPER Dirty Tricksters operation. The majority of those people
> banging on the doors and walls were from outside of Florida. They also
> uncovered a mobile HQ for the operation, a motorhome parked out in the
> parking lot filled with tons of electronic equipment and Bushie
> brownshirts." 11/24/00
>
> MIAMI-DADE STOPPED COUNTING BECAUSE OF ACTUAL PHYSICAL VIOLENCE"The
> subsequent demonstrations turned violent on Wednesday after the canvassers
> had decided to close the recount to the public [because of fears of physical
> violence.] Joe Geller, chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, was
> escorted to safety by the police after a crowd chased him down and accused
> him of stealing a ballot. Upstairs in the Clark center, several people were
> trampled, punched or kicked when protesters tried to rush the doors outside
> the office of the Miami-Dade supervisor of elections. Sheriff's deputies
> restored order. When the ruckus was over, the protesters had what they had
> wanted: a unanimous vote by the board to call off the hand counting." --NYT,
> 11/24/00



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