[extropy-chat] Re: is america fascist yet?

Acy James Stapp astapp at fizzfactorgames.com
Thu Feb 3 18:58:48 UTC 2005


As you wish.

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/02/us-encouraged-by-vietnam-vote.html

You can buy the original article from 
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/82602711.html?did=82602711&FMT=ABS&F
MTS=AI&date=Sep+4%2C+1967&author=By+PETER+GROSE+Special+to+The+New+York+
Times&desc=U.S.+ENCOURAGED+BY+VIETNAM+VOTE
which you'll note is the archival domain for the NYT at
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html

Mike Lorrey wrote:
> --- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> 
>> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry Samantha, but Ned is right here. You can't call a voter
>>> turnout of over 60% a 'farcical event' when that exceeds the
>>> typical turnout for US elections. In spite of 44 people being
>>> killed in violence (including a child suffering from Downs syndrome
>>> used as a suicide bomber), the Iraqi elections were an unqualified
>>> success, as international observers have all said. Turnout in the
>>> shiite and kurdish areas was over 70% according to reports, so it
>>> appears the only people who were discouraged from voting by the
>>> Sunni terrorists were the Sunni citizens of Iraq. Holy backfires,
>>> batman. The mayor of Bagdad has stated that they are going to erect
>>> a statue of Bush in the city center as a 'hero of freedom'. Hope
>>> his pose isn't the same as Saddams (assuming they use the same
>>> pedestal). 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/nytviet.htm
>> 
>> U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote:
>> Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror
>> by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967)
> 
> Show an original image of the article on a NYT domain for that. I've
> seen so much fraudulent peacenik bs lately.
> 
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
>                                       -William Pitt (1759-1806)
> Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism
> 



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