Bah
When I first heard about this, I dismissed it as some insane babblings by some idiots and thought it would never happen. I was wrong. I’m talking about this:
Election monitors that normally would be expected to observe elections in fledgling democracies like Azerbaijan and Moldova are scheduled to watch the vote in a more established democratic nation — the United States.
Responding to a request from 13 Democratic congressmen and the State Department, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will be sending a group to make sure the United States holds a fair election in November.
Lawmakers who requested the OSCE presence said problems in the 2000 election spurred them to ask the international organization to participate. They say that the monitors will help ensure that the United States should have nothing to hide, but the observers will be there to make sure the election does not suffer any civil rights violations or other irregularities.
Who the Hell allowed this to happen? This is America. Aside from the issues of sovereignty, that it’s an insult to US citizens, and the appearance of kowtowing to international bureaucrats is the fact it’s embarrassing. Sure, Florida was an embarrassment but this is abysmal.
The fact that our government is allowing this crap is horrendous and should not stand. Who is the OSCE?
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the largest regional security organization in the world with 55 participating States from Europe, Central Asia and North America. It is active in early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.
The OSCE approach to security is comprehensive and co-operative: comprehensive in dealing with a wide range of security-related issues including arms control, preventive diplomacy, confidence- and security-building measures, human rights, democratization, election monitoring and economic and environmental security; co-operative in the sense that all OSCE participating States have equal status, and decisions are based on consensus.
So, if I understand that correctly, it sounds like a group with military capabilities. A peacekeeping force. Here. In the US. Monitoring our elections. That should scare the Hell out of us all. It does me. If it doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what to tell you.
As Jeff said: Didn’t we once fight a war over something like this…? Rest assured, any armed, foreign soldiers seen at SayUncle’s friendly neighborhood voting establishment will be confronted and told to leave.
This is my neighborhood, who the fuck let you in?
August 26th, 2004 at 11:09 pm
I read their report on the 2002 election and it seemed rather straight forward, but it is against everything I believe in to have them here.
August 27th, 2004 at 3:20 am
where have you been, dude? that news is over a couple weeks old…
August 27th, 2004 at 7:57 am
Simple, but somewhat naughty solution…get someone to insert the names of the observers into the “suspected terrorist” list…they’ll never make it past the airport.
August 27th, 2004 at 10:28 am
“In the US. Monitoring our elections”
I am not saying i disagree with allowing them, or agree with allowing them (though i am leaning to this side of the argument), but the potential for fraud in this election is great.
Last presidential election the problems where centered around florida. This year how many states are with in the margin of error? A good amount.
Did you know that only vermont and Nevada only have to vote for Kerry for us to have a tie?
In short, if you cannot trust the other party to count votes and you cannot trust your party to count votes, who do you trust? A thrid party?
Secondly, we might as well use some of the services that out money spends.
August 27th, 2004 at 6:19 pm
Think that that is bad, look who is going to be in charge of the group
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2004/deweese082604.htm