Subject: ELECTION COMMENTARY------
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:48:37 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State
of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
I thought you might be interested in an article from
the AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER - Issue
# 100 - December 21, 2000 -
Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective - A.V.
Krebs - Editor\Publisher wrote in
part: ELECTION COMMENTARY:
"LIMITS OF TYRANTS ARE PRESCRIBED BY THE ENDURANCE OF THOSE WHOM
THEY OPPRESS".
It has been alleged that In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
"Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of
greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the
leader"
Ancient predictions and\or urban myths aside what we have
witnessed in the U.S. of A. since November 7 would in most nations beyond our
borders and shores rightfully be called a political coup d'etat by the right
wing of our country's solitary Republicrat Party.
Not only have we witnessed the woeful spectacle of a
presidential election being decided by a state that suffers from chronic
"electile dysfunction," but we have seen one-quarter of our nation's
population troop to the polls and vote for the lesser of two evils, while
another one-quarter choose to invest the country's future in the evil of the two lessors.
It is bad enough that George W. Bush stole the election
through lamentable legal sophistry with his final act of larceny being aided
and abetted by a U.S.Supreme Court decision which occasioned even dissenting
justice John Paul Stevens to write, "The position by the majority of this
court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of
judges." But then to add insult to injury the Republicrat Party and the
political pundits that grovel at its feet are now calling for "healing
and closure," attempting to festoon such ordure in the cloak of
"bipartisanship."
As my good friend and colleague Bob Schildgen writes in
the Winter issue of Mindfield: "But there is absolutely no reason for
healing and closure. To pretend that there should be healing and closure is
insane. Terrible Supreme Court decisions have divided the country bitterly
before, as well they should have. The Dred Scott Decision, when the court
declared in 1857 that a black person was not a citizen and had no legal rights
as one, is the classic example. It took a civil war and a whole century of
fighting to undue the evil works of that historic case."
http://www.dnai.com/~mindfld/Mindfield_Mag.html
The article continues-----
"Albert V. Krebs" <avkrebs@earthlink.net>
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