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November 26, 2000 #209

 

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GORE CORRUPTED THE RULE OF LAW
 
They are at it again, butchering the language
and misinforming the American people. The "they" this time
are the political hacks on the left and their propaganda
artists in the media.
 
It's totally annoying to hear those Al Gore
supporters out on the far-left repeatedly talking about the
"rule of law" and intentionally using the term incorrectly.
To them, it seems like just another part of their "new-
speak" lexicon. In fact, now that I actually think about
it for a second, I guess it is. Because, the radical left's
lawyers and law professors are all saying the same thing.
 
First, let's run through the "rule of law"
drill one more time, lest someone think I'm making myself
the authority. Here is the definitive text we have used
many times before with the approval of honest legal-eagles:
 
One old political dictionary defines Rule of Law as
"an Anglo-American concept that emphasizes the supremacy
of the law and restricts the discretionary power of public
officials. The Rule of Law particularly stresses the
protection of individual rights from the arbitrary
interference of officials." In other words, when applied
correctly, it protects your personal freedom. Not the group
rights the leftist-liberal socialists try to push on us, but
our own individual, personal rights and liberties.
 
In "The Road to Serfdom," Professor of
Economics and Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek says of the Rule
of Law: ". . . this means that government in all its
actions is bound by rules fixed and announced
beforehand -- rules which make it possible to foresee
with fair certainty how the authority will use its coercive
powers in given circumstances and to plan one's individual
affairs on the basis of this knowledge."
 
That seems straightforward enough. The "rule
of law" means that laws are to be written and enforced in
such a way that people can plan their lives around them.
As part of that thought, the U.S. Constitution and most
State constitutions make ex post facto (retroactive) laws
illegal.
 
So, when you do something today, you are
performing that act (or violating the law) under the laws
of this day -- not under any laws that may be passed
tomorrow.
 
That's part of what is meant by the "rule of law." After
all, one would not want poker rules changed against them in
the middle of an important hand. Same thing applies in the
law. Election law, too.
 
But, that's not acceptable for Al "no controlling
legal authority" Gore. Following the law does not fit in
with his needs, so Gore wants the law changed --
retroactively. That's what all the court cases were about:
Changing the law to make Gore the winner of the election in
Florida.
 
Under the "rule of law" -- the law controlling
elections in Florida at the time of the election -- George
W. Bush won easily. Three times they took a count, and
three times Dubya came out the winner. Three times the
existing laws were followed in counting the votes, and
three times Bush won.
 
Also, under existing Florida law, Florida case
law and federal law which supersedes Florida law, most of
those absentee military ballots arbitrarily rejected for the
foolishness some Gore legal hack made up and passed out to
vote counters as a legal memo, would legally have to be
accepted. That means that Bush would win by at least 2,000
votes, no matter which count is used.
 
So, Gore lawyered up the State with 500 or more
imported liberal attorneys and proceeded to confuse the
issues. "No controlling legal authority" Al Gore challenged
the election "rule of law." That law was set down in the
Florida law books for over a decade for all to see.
"Unfair," that Florida "rule of law," Gore and his platoons
of liberal lawyers said. But it wasn't unfair. It was the
law at least two presidents and hundreds of State officials
ran for office under. Unlike Gore, they didn't cry about it.
They accepted the vote and either took office or went home.
 
However, Gore is a sore loser. He's an
elitist, a rabid liberal. Gore thinks the rules that are
law must be reformed to fit his needs. Like Bill and
Hillary, Al is but a con artist, a fraud who deviously
contorts the rules we call law to satisfy his own selfish
needs.
 
Gore won his war against the "rule of law" in
Florida. Last Tuesday night, we learned that the "rule of
law" in Florida is dead. That is, the rabidly far-left
Florida Supreme Court ruled that election laws that have
existed in Florida for a decade or more do not apply to this
narcissistic liberal candidate in this presidential election.
 
Is this the beginning of the end for the "rule
of law" and the nation we now know? It very well could be.
Only two things can stop the complete decline of our nation
at the hands if this egotistical socialist: First, dumb
luck in the ongoing Florida vote recounting scheme would be
needed. Or, the United States Supreme Court could overturn
that outrage perpetrated on the American public by the
Florida Supreme Court.
 
In violation of the law at the time of the election,
the recount to create more votes for Gore continues until
this evening. That does not look good for Bush.
 
Gore's liberal lawyers were able to talk the
liberal Florida Supreme Court into changing the law
retroactively, which also violates federal election law.
Therefore, the Bush campaign filed with the U.S. Supreme
Court. Last Friday, the petition for a writ of certiorari
was granted. The U.S. Supreme Court said they will
consider if the Florida Court's decision complies with a
federal law (3 USC 5) requiring states to resolve
controversies regarding the appointment of electors under
laws enacted before election day, not after.
 
Better yet, the Florida House and Senate are
joining the Bush action in the U.S. Supreme Court against
the Florida Supreme Court. Hopefully, the Florida
legislature will consider some impeachments, too.
 
Both sides were ordered to file briefs by next
Tuesday afternoon and responses to the other side's briefs
by next Thursday. The Court is scheduled to hear an hour
and a half of arguments at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday, December 1.
The next major event will be whenever the Supreme Court
gets around to issuing its opinion. That might -- might --
end the election.
 
 
GORE'S WAR ON THE MILITARY
 
Legal eagles often laugh when they admit that
someone committing fraud against one or two people will
often be arrested. But defraud a whole class of people and
quite often there are no legal penalties.
 
Let's see if we can make an exception this time.
There are quite a number of people who need some serious
prison time. Because, the people harmed were our American
active duty military personnel.
 
While in the military, people are stationed
somewhere other than home -- anywhere in the United States
or elsewhere in the world. Or, in the case of the Navy,
out on a boat in the middle of nowhere. Nevertheless, they
are all still American citizens and have the rights of all
other American citizens. Which means, according to the
laws of the United States, they also get to vote.
 
No matter where they are stationed, American
military personnel and their family may ask for an absentee
ballot from their home election committee and have a
perfect right to expect that their vote is added to the
normal election count.
 
Considering the absentee ballot is returned in
time and witnessed by another adult American, those
counting the votes have no choice. It should never be the
concern of the vote counters where the absentee ballots
came from. They must count all ballots received from
military personal and their families who are otherwise
registered to vote. In a nutshell, that is pretty much the
law, too.
 
Mail coming from the military may or may not
have a postmark, depending on who the mail clerk is and if
they even have a postmark stamp available. In fact, some
mail from military personnel does not even require postage.
 
Election absentee ballots are one type of mail
that does not require either postage or a postmark. 39 USC
3406 states: "(a) Balloting materials under the Uniformed
and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (individually or
in bulk) - (1) shall be carried expeditiously and free of
postage."
 
There are stiff penalties for messing with
these ballots, too: 18 USC 608 states: "(a) Whoever
knowingly deprives or attempts to deprive any person of a
right under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee
Voting Act shall be fined in accordance with this title or
imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
 
Therefore, we would like to take this space
to nominate for arrest about half of the lawyers aiding
and abetting in a criminal conspiracy currently known as
the Gore election campaign in Florida. To wit: Said
attorneys did, on or about November 7, 2000, write a legal
opinion memo titled "Overseas Absentee Ballot Review and
Protest"(1) and distribute said memo to people responsible
for counting votes throughout the State of Florida.
 
Among other specific errors, the memo wrongly
instructs ballot counters to reject all absentee military
ballots that do not have a postmark. This caused hundreds
of military votes to not be counted in Florida.
 
The Gore campaign and these attorneys should
have known, and probably did know, that the instructions
they were distributing were grossly incorrect and worked to
disenfranchise American citizens.
 
A high percentage of military votes favor the
Republican candidates. Therefore, the intent of the Al
Gore campaign committee and it's agents, the various
attorneys, was to keep as many ballots from military
personnel and their families from being counted as possible.
 
Furthermore, any and all of these conspirators
should also be charged with a violation of 18 USC 242,
which reads: "Whoever, under color of any law, statute,
ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any
person in any State, Territory, or District to the
deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities
secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the
United States, . . . shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both . . ."
 
Other information shows that this fraud on the
American military may have been part of a well thought out
plan. For instance, last year the Clinton & Gore
administration reversed the decades old practice of setting
up polling places on military bases. They even tried to
stop National Guard facilities from being used as polling
places.
 
Congress responded with a bill overruling that
action, but Clinton and Gore had Senator Carl Levin (D-MI),
the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, block
it from passing in the Senate.
 
Arresting these vote stealing liberal lawyers
seems the least we can do to help boost the morale in our
military forces after Clinton messed with them for so long.
Video of these radical leftist lawyers all lined up in
orange jumpsuits and sporting shinny new shackles might be
a great way to do that. Most certainly, it would be quite
entertaining for the rest of us, too.
 
So, someone call in the police!
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(1.) http://www.uhuh.com/laws/milivote.htm
 
 
IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY
 
Let those smug dictators and socialist "world
leaders" in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South
America who were snickering and making snide remarks about
our election eat dirt. WE are Americans! Note that, you
socialist "leaders" who were laughing. There was not one
Army tank on our streets -- and not even one uniformed
military person. No shots were fired. No person was
harmed. No property was destroyed. No one was taken to
prison.
 
Such is our way. That is the American way.
So shut up, watch and learn.
 
Instead of physical force, the leftist liberal
Gore camp fielded over 50 squads of contemptuous fools
known here as liberal lawyers. Rather than guns, they used
loud mouths and liberal judges to exert their will on an
unsuspecting American population.
 
Sure, mistakes were made. Yes, many dirty
tricks were played. Certainly, our law was violated. And
yeah, tempers flared from time to time. But, not one
American citizen was physically harmed. Not one citizen
picked up a weapon. Not one police officer felt the need
to draw his gun.
 
We like it that way.
 
It is true that one liberal lawyer came very
close to being "knocked back into the day before yesterday"
for shouting in someone's face. But it didn't happen. And
it is also true that Republicans had thoughts of ripping a
door off of its hinges when liberal canvassers hid in an
office to count disputed ballots in secret. But that didn't
happen, either.
 
Tempers, sure. Violence, no. No matter what
foreigners think, violence is not part of our political
lexicon. It can be. But we bend over backwards to refrain
from that.
 
Besides, much of this happened during our
Thanksgiving week -- a time when we, nationally, stop to
give thanks for freedom, liberty and the American way.
 
Sure, there are a lot of cheaters, liars and
lawbreakers on our political left who constantly tax the
patience of normal Americans. But, in truth, they did us a
favor this election. They showed themselves for the
ruthless political connivers they really are. They proved
to good Americans across the country that they are not to
be believed or trusted ever again. By their own actions,
they have, in fact, greatly diminished their public support.
They should be scorned. And now, they shall be scorned.
 
Even if Gore somehow gets to the White House,
he would be a failed President even before he takes office.
All trust, all respect, all consideration, has evaporated.
He would be president in name only. Congress and the
people would adamantly protest every act he takes.
 
Unless you mess with us, that is. Then, all
bets are off, we become one solid block of Americans again,
and you get beaten back into the stone age. Because, we
can dislike our president and fight a war to a decisive win
at the same time.
 
If Gore gets the White House, the American
people would be angry but they would be relatively quiet
about it for a while. Then, as is our peaceful political
way, the Democratic Party would be decimated and
eviscerated in the next election. Socialism would die a
quick death and the Democratic Party would be forevermore
relegated to third party status. That's how we do things
here.
 
All this, without one shot being fired. Because,
we are Americans and that is our way. And, that is why we
all gave thanks this past week.
 
So be advised, you snickering "world leaders,"
this Internet is world wide and millions of people are
watching us. A lot of them greatly prefer what they see
here over what they have at home. Freedom and liberty are
contagious. There may, from time to time, be some pitfalls
inherent in this freedom thing we practice. But, it's a
world better than anything you have.
 
 
GET LAWYERS OUT OF POLITICS
 
By Thanksgiving day, one thing was quite clear
to Americans across our nation: Lawyers should not be
allowed to interfere in politics. They run the judicial
branch, and our court system leaves a lot to be desired.
Judges and lawyers should stay out of the political system.
 
The liberal lawyers blitzkrieging Florida for
the Gore campaign acted like a gang of prissy little boys
on the playground. Every time someone did something they
didn't particularly like, they ran home to mama (a judge)
and squealed. They think that, because they are lawyers,
they can act just as repulsive as they please but everyone
is expected to obey their every word. Except, that's not
working very well anymore. Both the people and the courts
are tired of seeing them. Even the liberals in the Florida
Supreme Court ran them off when they tried to file more
nuisance actions on Thanksgiving day.
 
In truth, these bands of political hacks with
law degrees were trucked into Florida simply because the
Gore campaign wanted as many hundreds of them as they could
get to totally confuse all issues. The main issue, of
course, was that Gore lost the election. The lawyers'
function, then, was to create a series of side issues so as
to cover up the fact that Gore lost. The liberal media's
job was to continuously blab about these side issues as if
they were important and to also act as Gore's public
cheerleaders.
 
After all, from the very beginning of this -- the
night of the election -- the national media improperly
called so many states for Gore early that they created the
impression that Gore would have a landslide victory. That
was obvious to anyone watching television. The national
media was and is very biased. But, this time, they were
part of a radical left plan that didn't quite work properly.
 
The television honcho's are now calling that
the "worst error in television history." But no, it wasn't
just an "error." They were intentionally helping Gore by
lying to the American people about who was winning. If
nothing else, those newsreaders can read. They saw the
actual numbers being reported by the States, then reported
Gore as winning anyway.
 
So, it's no surprise when this very same
national media pick up on each and every little side issue
Gore's army of attorneys bring up to cover the primary
issue, that Gore lost.
 
That's their plan, anyway. The Gore campaign
needs time to steal the election. Everything else is little
more than misdirection so they can cook the vote for Gore.
Which is, incidentally, exactly what they are doing.
 
Sure, the Gore lawyers got a great hand up
from those political hacks making up the Florida Supreme
Court. But ultimately, all that Court did was prove to
America that the judicial system has no business
interfering in politics. Now the only remedy left
available to Bush is the Supreme Court of the United States.
 
Funny thing about laws. Lawyers are expected to
know them. But, neither the Florida Supreme Court nor Gore
& company seemed to know about 3 U.S.C. 5, which says that
a State is required to select its electors by laws enacted
prior to election day. Which means, a State can't be
changing its election rules, retroactively, to help out a
candidate. But, that is exactly what the Florida Supreme
Court and a couple lower courts did last week.
 
The Bush campaign's only definitely sure thing
might be to force criminal charges against all those who
illegally refuse to count the absentee ballots from military
people. The federal law on that is clear, if someone can
get the Clinton Justice Department to enforce it. Hint: A
Writ of Mandamus comes to mind.
 
That's using fire to fight fire, of course.
Anyway, at this point, there is not much else that can be
done. And, if federal felonies were committed -- which
there were -- arrests should be made. We must demand it.
 
Of course, the Gore team also lied to the
Florida Supreme court. And what an outrage that scam was!
The Court scuttled its own State's well settled law when
the Gore team focused on an Illinois ruling. The Court
was told that the Illinois case was a sweeping directive to
count controversial "dimpled" ballots. Except, that was
not true at all. Gore's team was exactly wrong, but the
Florida Supreme Court didn't bother to check and so made a
completely improper ruling.
 
The Gore lawyers were negligent for not actually
reading that Illinois opinion before wrongly reporting it
to the Court. The members of the Florida Supreme Court
were negligent for not reading that Illinois court opinion.
And they were all negligent for not obeying 3 U.S.C. 5.
 
The Bush campaign was harmed by the Court's
improper decision. Many voters were disenfranchised by that
negligent opinion. All of Gore's lawyers were wrong. So
were the Justices. Yet, will any be punished? Nope.
 
They control the law. At the very least,
disbarment proceedings are in order for all of them. But,
nothing will happen and they know it. They are free to
perpetrate any legal scam on the American people they wish.
They all get a free pass. Unless, that is, we all kick up
quite a major fuss about the deception and force the issue.
 
Just as an aside here, consider what happens when
other professionals make errors that harm people -- even
when they are not intentional. Should there be different
standards just because one has a law license?

 

 

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