From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.society.civil-liberty
Subject: Re: US regime keeps stacking elections against dissenting parties
Summary: The deck is stacked, but this is a little on the hysterical side....
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:34:57 GMT
Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.

In article <1992Oct12.120457.7458@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
> News from the World:
> 
> The U.S. regime continues tries to stack the elections against parties
> other than the governing two-branch Demopublican party.  In addition

	Jyrki, what's with the alarmist posting?  You sound like Dinardo.

> to continued use heavily government-leashed media (controlled by
> threats of suspending broadcasting licenses) for it's purposes by for
> example not reporting any results for dissenting parties in opinion
> polls or elections, rumors say that current actions include use of
> secret police to silence candidates from other parties.

	The media tilts towards Clinton because the people in the media are cut
from the same cloth.
	Secret police???

> The regime has also previously used aggressive means to treat
> candidates it dislikes, for example one candidate has long been
> sitting in jail 

	Lyndon LaRouche is in jail for credit card fraud, a fact of which you
are well aware.

> and one candidate from inside the governing party with
> unpopular views was promtly arrested when he tried to speak at a
> convention of the branch of the governing party known as the "good
> cop" branch (from a technique known as "good cop - bad cop routine"

	Agran was arrested for being a nuisance.  (Actually the charge was
resisting arrest while being taken out of the debate area...I think.)
	Not pretty, but the people running the debate have a right to tell
people to sit down and shut up when they are trying to conduct a debate.

...
>>RE: the debate.
>>
>>For what it's worth, I think that the "winner" of the debate was
>>Perot.  Clinton played rope-a-dope most of the time but did get in
>>a few zingers -- with help from H. Ross.  Bush was relaxed -- laid
>>back, almost.  I think they should cut his halcion dosage back a
>>few milligrams.  Meanwhile, out in the streets, there were supposed
>>to be thousands of Marrou supporters protesting his exclusion.  I

	I don't know about "thousands".  Maybe "dozens" :).

>>have heard zip from the media people so I don't know if the protest
>>actually came off or not.
>>
>>I did hear a story from my friend, Dennis, who is the Southern regional
>>coordinator of the LP in Indiana.  He told me that Andre was rousted
>>out of his hotel by Secret Service people along with a number of other 
>>people on the same floor because Bush and his entourage were going to
>>use that hotel.  The story is that Marrou first protested that as a
>>legitimate candidate on the ballot of all 50 states, they should be
>>protecting him, not trying to throw him out of his room.  Marrou and
>>company then left but returned with the press and, rather than
>>face a potentially embarrassing situation, the SS relented -- thus
>>Bush and Marrou were sharing the same floor at the hotel.  I have
>>no way to verify any of this -- I'm just passing on the story the
>>way it came to me ...

	I'm sure this would be out on the Libertarian e-nets if true.

Brett                                                      
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