It is very difficult for the Lawrence Welkian-American to understand exactly how devoid of morality leftist politicians are. Reference, if you will, the drumbeat here in the United States by the Democrats talking about voter suppression. And they are the ones who have "New Black Panthers" with truncheons at the doorways of voting precincts.
They are the ones who say Latins and Negroes are too stupid to figure out how to register to vote, so the fascist American system is denying them the right to vote.
They are the ones who play the games...well publicised...by SEIU, ACORN, etc. by registering people under false pretenses...by the hundreds of thousands over the last six years. Carolina, the Queen of Argentina, raises the issue of lowering the voting age to 16, and her initiative will pass the stacked, heavily marxist Congress, for the good of the cause of democracy, you know. Salvadore Allende was rushing Chile into the Soviet Bloc back in the day, when he was finally shaken out by a surprise, en palaise insurrection by Maoist Communists in his own upper echelon. They were certain that Allende and his Soviet KGB handlers would start to negotiate with the free labour unions and the 200,000 strong private truckers trade association during their CIA backed strike. Suddenly Allende is dead, and the Americans are conveniently blamed. Allende was moving to extend his term, and to cancel the right to vote for officers and enlisted in the armed forces. A kind of leftist "democratic enhancement".
They never stop coming. The Ortegas came back to help Nicaragua in its journey to democracy. Now, of course, there is ever-tightening strangle-hold on political processes that are prevailing in that beautiful, much abused nation. Various entities have proposed that more open elections be restored...at least to the level that existed DURING THE REGIMEN OF ANASTACIO SAMOZA!!!!!!!!!!!!! When Anastacio Samoza was the head of the "Liberal Party" and was fighting the dirty, stinkin' "Conservative Party".
It was suggested in various quarters to try to duplicate the Mexican registration and election process....but....you guessed it....the Ortegas said that the Nicaraguans were just too stupid to figure out how to register and vote with such restrictions and hoops to jump through. It just wouldn't be fair to the Nicaraguans who "needed a little help" in casting their ballots.
So now, in their inexorable march to make the election process more efficient, say like the processes in Cuba, or at least in Venezuela where the government finances the incumbent's campaign from the sale of oil, the Ortegas have taken another great leap forward towards that perfect social democracy that is so favoured by....someone....or whoever.
The measures being employed have been so repugnant that even the Associated Press has been left with mouth agape. Even the pro-pinko United States Department of State has had to register objections to the processes being employed by the Ortega's. To wit:
Sandinistas win majority of mayoral races in Nicaragua elections, opposition questions results
Published November 05, 2012
Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua – The ruling Sandinista Front has won at least 134 of the 153 mayoral races in local elections the opposition and the U.S. government say lacked transparency, according to results released Monday.
At least three people have died and dozens more have been injured in clashes between rival political groups since Sunday's elections, authorities said. Police Commissioner Fernando Borge said two people died in Ciudad Dario, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) north of the capital.
Octavio Alvarez, Sandinista Front's political secretary, said a member of the Sandinista Youth was shot to dead in the town of Nuevo Segovia. With more than 91 percent of the Sunday vote counted, the Sandinistas had 76 percent of the vote, said Roberto Rivas, president of Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council. Led by President Daniel Ortega, who was re-elected for another five-year term last year, the Sandinistas have made major advances in municipal elections. The party currently governs 109 municipalities, including the capital, Managua, where journalist Daysi Torres was re-elected.
But the opposition argues there was widespread fraud and the U.S. government said it was concerned the elections were not fully transparent, echoing claims made during local elections four years ago.
"We do not believe in the results given by a completely discredited Electoral Council, with no credibility and that plays on the side of (the Sandinistas), and that allows dead people to be listed as candidates," said Congressman Eliseo Nunez, of the opposition Independent Liberal Party, referring to reports that in several cities in northern and central Nicaragua there were people listed as candidates who had died or live abroad.
"We participated because the people should have a choice," Nunez added. "But we know that everything was rigged and the Electoral Council did what Daniel Ortega ordered."
In the town of La Paz Centro, supporters of the Sandinista Front and those of the Liberal Independent Party fought each other and anti-riot police with stones, tear gas and rubber bullets.
"Opponents do not know how to lose. They have burned and destroyed public buildings in acts of vandalism that must be punished," said Lesbia Abarca, mayor of the town located 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of Managua. Before polling stations opened on Sunday, the opposition denounced the voting lists were confusing and had been altered. They also claimed supporters of the Sandinista Front were allowed to vote twice.
The U.S. State Department in a statement expressed concern that the elections "failed to demonstrate a degree of transparency that would assure Nicaraguans and the international community that the process faithfully reflected the will of the Nicaraguan people." Irregularities observed on election day included citizens being denied the right to vote, a failure to respect the secrecy of citizens' votes, and reported cases of voters being allowed to vote multiple times, it said.
"These disturbing practices have marred multiple recent Nicaraguan elections," it added. After the 2008 municipal elections in Nicaragua, the U.S. suspended some $64 million in development aid because of the fraud allegations.
At least three people have died and dozens more have been injured in clashes between rival political groups since Sunday's elections, authorities said. Police Commissioner Fernando Borge said two people died in Ciudad Dario, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) north of the capital.
Octavio Alvarez, Sandinista Front's political secretary, said a member of the Sandinista Youth was shot to dead in the town of Nuevo Segovia. With more than 91 percent of the Sunday vote counted, the Sandinistas had 76 percent of the vote, said Roberto Rivas, president of Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council. Led by President Daniel Ortega, who was re-elected for another five-year term last year, the Sandinistas have made major advances in municipal elections. The party currently governs 109 municipalities, including the capital, Managua, where journalist Daysi Torres was re-elected.
But the opposition argues there was widespread fraud and the U.S. government said it was concerned the elections were not fully transparent, echoing claims made during local elections four years ago.
"We do not believe in the results given by a completely discredited Electoral Council, with no credibility and that plays on the side of (the Sandinistas), and that allows dead people to be listed as candidates," said Congressman Eliseo Nunez, of the opposition Independent Liberal Party, referring to reports that in several cities in northern and central Nicaragua there were people listed as candidates who had died or live abroad.
"We participated because the people should have a choice," Nunez added. "But we know that everything was rigged and the Electoral Council did what Daniel Ortega ordered."
In the town of La Paz Centro, supporters of the Sandinista Front and those of the Liberal Independent Party fought each other and anti-riot police with stones, tear gas and rubber bullets.
"Opponents do not know how to lose. They have burned and destroyed public buildings in acts of vandalism that must be punished," said Lesbia Abarca, mayor of the town located 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of Managua. Before polling stations opened on Sunday, the opposition denounced the voting lists were confusing and had been altered. They also claimed supporters of the Sandinista Front were allowed to vote twice.
The U.S. State Department in a statement expressed concern that the elections "failed to demonstrate a degree of transparency that would assure Nicaraguans and the international community that the process faithfully reflected the will of the Nicaraguan people." Irregularities observed on election day included citizens being denied the right to vote, a failure to respect the secrecy of citizens' votes, and reported cases of voters being allowed to vote multiple times, it said.
"These disturbing practices have marred multiple recent Nicaraguan elections," it added. After the 2008 municipal elections in Nicaragua, the U.S. suspended some $64 million in development aid because of the fraud allegations.
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We leave this brief note so that the OROGs can be reassured that the Left throughout the world is adamant to prohibit the fair consideration of the Gospel of Self-Reliance and Limited Government. One of our candidates is from that sophisticated world-wide understanding of the lack of value of the individual and the invalidity of natural law. Perhaps Obama can move to Tegulcigalpa or Caracas and continue his campaign to destroy America....thereby imitating the role of Trotsky in Mexico City....perhaps Carolina can play Frida, and Hugo can play Diego, and they can live, besotted and mean and treacherous....the rest of their days. What to do with Michelle?
El Gringo Viejo
