[genna]

Are they trying to upstage the Taiwan parliament?

[fgfblog]

Bad Politics, Lesson 1: If you don't like the outcome of an election, attack your fellow legislators.

[Abnorttrano]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Is that even allowed? The state legislative assembly of West Bengal surely thinks so: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_f...tent_id=147754

[Veronnisa]

According to a radio broadcast I heard this morning the protesters did not succeed. The president was sworn in anyway.

[poonnassunlix]

Yes he was.

[discountviagraman]

Originally posted by aneeshm
Typical lefties. Ah, yes, people shouldn't protest a stolen election, they should just bend over for the US-backed Neo-Liberal thugs in PAN...

[LindaSmithXV]

Originally posted by Odin


Ah, yes, people shouldn't protest a stolen election, they should just bend over for the US-backed Neo-Liberal thugs in PAN... Well if they are going to start a fight, they should at least be able to finish it. It sounds as if the PAN kicked their ass.

[UTHZzJ6f]

[Adimonnna]

You're too civilized, apparently.

-Arrian

[JessiPollo]

Originally posted by aneeshm
Typical lefties.

[GotActichwicy]

The U.S. Congress used to be similar. IIRC somebody got caned by his distinguished colleague right on the Senate floor, shortly before the Civil War.

[gastabegree]

We don't see enough caning in Congress. I can think of a few senators who deserve it.

[tpJKhY8Z]

(Is tempted to make a joke about "fifty rounds," wonders if the NSA is watching this page for some daft reason, decides he'd better not)

[Druspills]

Originally posted by Elok
The U.S. Congress used to be similar. IIRC somebody got caned by his distinguished colleague right on the Senate floor, shortly before the Civil War. In the leadup to the Civil War, radical Northern abolitionist Charles Sumner (R-MA) made a speech that personally insulted the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (among other things calling them the pimps to the whore of slavery, and mocking their old age-caused ailments). One of the denigrated was Andrew Butler, whose cousin happened to be Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC).

Brooks considered challanging Sumner to a duel at first, but was persuaded that Sumner did not deserve a duel because he had damaged his social standing with the morally abhorrent speech. Therefore, Brooks decided to cane him in the Senate chamber.

Yankees cried that this was the proof that Southern "gentlemen" would intimidate anyone anywhere in the country from "free speech" on the issue of slavery. Southerners applauded Brooks for responding to a grave insult on his family's and state's honor. Southern newspaper editorials praised his action and many South Carolinans sent him canes engraved "Hit Him Again".

Sumner was unable to attend the Senate for years, and Brooks was fined $300 and narrowly escaped expulsion from the House, but both were reelected after the beating.

Good times...

[enencephoth]

@MrFun

[Sleedyhex]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I've heard the accussations that the election was rigged but has any actual proof ever been presented? Yes, in the many previous threads about the election.

[Talicoabilk]

Got what he deserved.

[Maydayvar]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Got what he deserved.
In today's world, I'm glad that most people no longer justify violence merely because they received verbal attacks.

[dserbokim]

HEY! WTF is this, MrFun ??

[anolbom]

Maritza Campos ([info]maritzac) wrote,
@ 2006-12-02 07:33:00
Previous Entry Add to memories! Next Entry
Things to do while I await disaster
Stuff like this:



Why "while I await disaster?" Well, because of this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/am....ap/index.html

It's embarassing to tell this story. It has been one of the few times I have felt ashamed to call myself a mexican.

As some of you know, the presidential race was this year. The governor of Mexico City, a guy named Lopez Obrador, spent four years pushing himself as a candidate. He was top of the polls for a long time. He was a member of the PRD, a leftist party. While the official party (PAN) didn't even have a candidate, this guy used his office and the money of the city budget in his campaign.

2006 starts and finally there's a PAN candidate, Calderón. Nobody gives a dime for him. He starts his campaign and slowly starts closing into López Obrador. By the time election day comes, the polls are so close it's a technical match.

Election day passes and Calderón wins by a margin of .58%. Less than 250,000 votes in aprox. 42 million.

Even when days before Lopez Obrador said repeatedly he was going to accept the results of the election, even if he lost by one vote, he cried fraud. Said fraud was never proven, and their accusations were very weak. The electoral trial declared Calderón as president.

Today it was the day Calderón was required to take the oath before Congress, as a legal requirement to be president.

Ever since the election, the PRD party has repeatedly stated they weren't going to let Calderón be president. On September 1st, the PRD congressmen took over the stage of congress, and president Fox couldn't make a speech with his report on the year. They said then they were going to do the same on Dec. 1st.

Some weeks ago, they started repeating it over and over again. We're going to take the stage. Calderón won't take the oath. Therefore he will be illegal. Apparently there's a legal hole they could use for that.

Except three days ago, the PRD congressmen were planning to take the stage, and the PAN congressmen got ahead. They took the stage, there was a brawl. Chairs were flying, congressmen were flying and got pushed down the stairs. The PRD congressmen surrounded the stage.

They stood there for three ****ing days.

They. CAMPED. There. For THREE. ****ing. Days.

That's right, they turned Congress into a pajama party.

Finally, today, there were more kicks and catfights. The PRD blocked the entrances. They say the whole room stank. Not surprised... they ate there, slept there, and for some hours, even managed to uhhh. Use bottles to... No. I can not say it.

We had no idea what was going to happen.

There was an entrance they couldn't block, right behind the stage. Calderón and Fox just... appeared there, in a copperfield magic act. Calderón took the oath and disappeared in less than 4 minutes.

So while I was waiting for the whole thing to end -and while I was laughing in relief when the whole thing ended- I made a CRFH logo in a notebook. I dunno, I kind of like it. Of course, I suck at making logos, so maybe it's the most ugly logo in the world.

When I mean logo, I mean the CRFH!!! thing. The characters are not part of the logo, but I put them there to fill space.

So yeah, we have a new president. Apparently, he's a tricky one. I'm very glad I voted for him.

Go Calderón!

Maritza
CRFH.net http://www.crfh.net/