Election Delay
There's an idea being floated by the current administration is that if there's a terrorist attack before Election Day that we would postpone election day!:
U.S. officials have discussed the idea of postponing Election Day in the event of a terrorist attack on or about that day, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Sunday.
This great idea didn't start with Ridge:
Newsweek said the discussions about whether the November 2 election could be postponed started with a recent letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge from DeForest Soaries Jr., chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The commission was set up after the disputed 2000 presidential vote to help states deal with logistical problems in their elections.
So the masterminds behind the wonderful 2000 election are trying to create another disputed scenario??
The article claims that:
What has Homeland Security officials worried is that terrorists could attempt to disrupt the election in the same way that train bombings in Madrid created unrest three days before the Spanish general election, the Homeland Security spokesman said.
All of this logic makes sense. First of all, not like I like Spain pulling out of Iraq, but aren't elections so to allow the general population to exercise their democratic rights? Yeah, the terrorist attack helped change the Spanish opinion, but bright people realized that the Spaniards voted against the incumbents because they LIED TO THEM. Prime Minister Aznar tried to cover up an Al-Queda attack by blaming it on Basque separatists. In doing so, he exposed himself as a manipulative enemy of democratic principles. So yay Spain.
If our government wants to learn from Spain's example, they should start being more confident in the truth. But we know the only lesson they learned from Spain was that Truth is Bad because the Voters are Stupid.
There's an idea being floated by the current administration is that if there's a terrorist attack before Election Day that we would postpone election day!:
U.S. officials have discussed the idea of postponing Election Day in the event of a terrorist attack on or about that day, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Sunday.
This great idea didn't start with Ridge:
Newsweek said the discussions about whether the November 2 election could be postponed started with a recent letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge from DeForest Soaries Jr., chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The commission was set up after the disputed 2000 presidential vote to help states deal with logistical problems in their elections.
So the masterminds behind the wonderful 2000 election are trying to create another disputed scenario??
The article claims that:
What has Homeland Security officials worried is that terrorists could attempt to disrupt the election in the same way that train bombings in Madrid created unrest three days before the Spanish general election, the Homeland Security spokesman said.
All of this logic makes sense. First of all, not like I like Spain pulling out of Iraq, but aren't elections so to allow the general population to exercise their democratic rights? Yeah, the terrorist attack helped change the Spanish opinion, but bright people realized that the Spaniards voted against the incumbents because they LIED TO THEM. Prime Minister Aznar tried to cover up an Al-Queda attack by blaming it on Basque separatists. In doing so, he exposed himself as a manipulative enemy of democratic principles. So yay Spain.
If our government wants to learn from Spain's example, they should start being more confident in the truth. But we know the only lesson they learned from Spain was that Truth is Bad because the Voters are Stupid.
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