Speaking of will to power...

[John Bailey]

(don't know of the verifiability regarding the source of the following - 
could easily have been a high school student as a "Zimbabwean politician."
Equally important that we don't seem to get sources for stuff like 
this...draw yr own conclusions.)
> >
> >
> > A Zimbabwean politician was quoted as saying that children should study
> > the US election event closely because it shows that election fraud is 
>not
> > only a third world phenomenon. To illustrate the point, he made the
> > following
> > comments:
> >
> > "Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the third 
>world
> > in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime 
>minister
> > and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that
> > nation's secret police (the CIA). Imagine that the self-declared winner
> > lost the popular vote but won based on some old colonial holdover from 
>the
> > nation's pre-democracy past (the Electoral College).
> >
> > Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory' turned on disputed 
>votes
> > cast in a province governed by his brother!
> >
> > Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district
> > heavily favouring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of
> > voters to vote for the wrong candidate.
> >
> > Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for
> > their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in
> > near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy.
> >
> > Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were
> > intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under
> > the authority of the self-declared winner's brother.
> >
> > Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that
> > the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only 327 votes. Fewer, certainly,
> > than
> > the vote counting machines' margin of error.
> >
> > Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a
> > more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the
> > disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.
> >
> > Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a major
> > province, had the worst human rights record of any province in his 
>nation
> > and actually led the nation in executions.
> >
> > Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner was to
> > appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the
> > high court of that nation.
> >
> > None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything
> > other than the self-declared winner's will-to-power. All of us, I 
>imagine,
> > would wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad tale of the
> > pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some third world struggle."
> >
> >
> > 
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