CDR: Lawyers leading in Florida!
I can no longer keep count of how many lawsuits and other actions are now in the courts in various counties in Florida and heading for the State Supreme Court. At least a dozen, though some are being consolidated. More have been added, so the overall count will likely go up. There is not even any point in my trying to summarize what the various camps are arguing about...pregnant chads, due process, dimpled chads, explanations of why recounts are required, hanging chads, voter fraud, Carol Roberts switching ballots, swinging door chads, constitutionality of recounts, rights of African-Americans, sunlight tests, butterfly ballots, legality of absentee ballots arriving late, chads, and indented pregnant dimpled chads. While there were past close elections, and even elections where fraud probably gave the election to the loser, this looks to be a curiously modern election: the same lawyers who got O.J. off will get Gore into the White House. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)
At 10:06 AM -0800 on 11/15/00, Tim May wrote:
the same lawyers who got O.J. off will get Gore into the White House.
Yup. We're going for the Nullification Trifecta here, boys and girls: 1. Jury Nullification -- O.J. 2. Legislative Nullification -- Cigar Willie meets the Blue Dress 3. Electorial Nullification -- Gore goes to Klaatu without a Baruda Nicto The republic is over, welcome to the empire? Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
At 4:40 PM -0500 11/15/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 10:06 AM -0800 on 11/15/00, Tim May wrote:
the same lawyers who got O.J. off will get Gore into the White House.
Yup.
We're going for the Nullification Trifecta here, boys and girls:
1. Jury Nullification -- O.J. 2. Legislative Nullification -- Cigar Willie meets the Blue Dress 3. Electorial Nullification -- Gore goes to Klaatu without a Baruda Nicto
The republic is over, welcome to the empire?
1. "If it do not fit, you must acquit! 'Sides, if de odds a dat DNA whack shit be one in a hunderd million, and day be 200 million 'Mericans, most of dem whiteys, how come day not be lookin' for dat utter guy?" 2. "It depends on what the definition of "is" is. And I did not have sex with _that_ woman. Besides, there is no controlling legal authority." 3. "We want a re-vote until the will of the people is heard. Besides, our elderly Jewish voters were confused. 'Sides, dat ballot not be in 'Bonics so a brudda be unnerstannin' dat whack shit." The problems are obvious. The solutions equally obvious. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)
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