jhull@spp2.UUCP (12/04/84)
In article <50@uwvax.UUCP> myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers) writes: >Hmm. Yes, I suppose that external aggression tends to unite a country's >people, as evidenced by the recent elections in Nicaragua, which have been >conclusively shown to have been fair (from all I have read, e.g. the New York >Times). > If by "fair," you mean the ballots cast were cast by people entitled to vote and were counted correctly, I might agree with you. But the accounts I have been reading allege: 1. many people did not vote for fear of harassment, exile, or being killed. 2. many who did vote did so out of fear of harassment, exile or being killed if they could not show that they had voted. 3. many who might have run in opposition to the Sandinistas were killed 4. many who might have run in opposition to the Sandinistas did not do so out of fear of harassment, exile, or being killed 5. many who did run in opposition to the Sandinistas were killed or had their campaign meetings disrupted by armed thugs This does NOT fit my definition of fair elections. P.S. No, I don't know what "many" means & I probably wouldn't believe anyone, even myself, who said he had firm numbers. -- Blessed Be, jhull@spp2.UUCP Jeff Hull trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP 13817 Yukon Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250
mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (12/07/84)
> ================ > >Hmm. Yes, I suppose that external aggression tends to unite a country's > >people, as evidenced by the recent elections in Nicaragua, which have been > >conclusively shown to have been fair (from all I have read, e.g. the New York > >Times). > > > If by "fair," you mean the ballots cast were cast by people entitled > to vote and were counted correctly, I might agree with you. > > But the accounts I have been reading allege: > 1. many people did not vote for fear of harassment, exile, or being > killed. > 2. many who did vote did so out of fear of harassment, exile or being > killed if they could not show that they had voted. > 3. many who might have run in opposition to the Sandinistas were > killed > 4. many who might have run in opposition to the Sandinistas did not > do so out of fear of harassment, exile, or being killed > 5. many who did run in opposition to the Sandinistas were killed or > had their campaign meetings disrupted by armed thugs > This does NOT fit my definition of fair elections. P.S. No, I don't > know what "many" means & I probably wouldn't believe anyone, even > myself, who said he had firm numbers. > > -- > Blessed Be, > > jhull@spp2.UUCP Jeff Hull > ================ You mis-read. (S)he said Nicaragua, not El Salvador. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt