Archive for July, 2006

AMLO today said in an interview that “I am the President, by a popular majority”… where is all his bitching about having “moral authority” and avoiding proclaming anything before the election tribunal releases a verdict? He was actually first in proclaiming himself president on the 2nd of July. Around 30 minutes later, Calderón did the same. Would he have done it, hadn’t AMLO gone out in media, saying that he had won? Who knows. I personally don’t think so. Actually, AMLO is the only of the candidates that has said “I am the president”. Calderón has said “as president, I will…..”, just in line with what all the candidates said during the campaigns.

AMLO has no moral authority to do anything. No polls have shown him as a winner. Not one. Well, except his own, which he won’t release.  Funny guy. Just like he said he was leading with 10 points a week before elections, although no other polls showed those figures… I just wonder when his sheep will begin to see the light and leave this big time loser.

What AMLO wants is full, violent confrontations. It is up to AMLO’s followers to try to keep the cool, and also up to PAN-followers to keep from falling into the traps of these vicious psychopaths, trying to provoke violence… All can be solved without violence, even though AMLO-people don’t think so. Something clearly seen on this and many other blogs. The confrontation tactics of these low lifes basically reside in insulting people, threatening them, and bashing without any arguments..

In an article in LA CRONICA, a famous shrink catalogued AMLO as being pathologically paranoid, or faking paranoia.

Since AMLO came to Mexico City to become mayor, he has been haunted with this idea that everybody is against him, and that there are numerous complots against him.

Dr Antonio Torres goes on to say that this behaviour indicates that AMLO may have live a severe pathological distorsion of reality. He has, for instance, likened himself with Jesus in that he is fighting the powers of the evil and that he is the martyr.

Another famous politician had also this problem. His first name was Adolf and he took control in Germany in the 1930′s…

THIS IS GETTING REALLY SERIOUS!!! AMLO needs to be stopped!

Today, Felipe Calderón was getting into his car outside the Senate, when 5 or 6 protesters tried to block his car from moving. One of the protesters hit the windshield and kicked the car. The protests are slowly getting to a point where violence might be difficult to avoid. The only person that can stop the violence is AMLO. And instead of separating himself from this incident and preaching peace, he says “I won’t condemn this violence, people are angry and they have all the right to be angry”. WHAT????? He is “between the lines” telling people to use violence, since they are “angry” and then they can do whatever they want… man, he is worse than Hitler.

He says the elections were fraudulent. No proof whatsoever has been given as to the veracity of this. It is up to the Election Tribunal to say if there have been irregularities or not. But he won’t listen even to them. He says “the vote of the people” hasn’t been respected. Somehow he thinks he has a majority of the Mexican people behind him. It is not true – whatever the tribunal says. The fact of the matter is “only” 15 million of the 70 million Mexicans allowed to vote, actually cast their ballots on him. Same for Calderón, but at least he’s taking it easy.

Few times I’ve felt so afraid and frustrated. What will he do if he gets into the presidential seat? Kill all company leaders? Do a Pol Pot maneuver killing everybody with some money in the bank and good education? Confiscating the resources of the foreign companies in Mexico?

God, please deliver us from his evil…

No answer on my two polite mails. This means in my eyes that senderodelpeje.com clearly stand for everything that the PRD does. “Democracy” is such a relative word…. they suck just as much as AMLO does. One would think different, but the recent elections just show what a fraud this guy and his followers are. I am deeply disappointed… Now AMLO says he won’t concede ever, even if the election tribunal declares Calderón president after counting all votes. He knew from the beginning that his tactict backfired on him and that he lost much of the popular vote in the last couple of weeks. And he’s just acting like a bad loser. Jeeeezz… Really, whoever voted for him should have their head examined. You would find lots of soap in there from all the brainwashing.

It is supposed that PRD (Partido de la Revolucion Democrática) is very much into democracy – as it’s letters state. The other day, I found a blog (that is very visited by the way), www.senderodelpeje.com. I tried to enter a comment there, but was greeted with the information that only team members were able to post blog entries or comments. According to the “who are we”-part of senderodelpeje.com, the blog moderators are in NO WAY affiliated to the PRD. They aren’t even members of the party and they aren’t for the party either… what a joke.

I wrote a polite mail asking as to why I couldn’t enter any questions or comments, but haven’t received any mail whatsoever explaining. This leads me to think the following:

1) Senderodelpeje.com IS part of PRD
2) The moderators ARE militants of PRD
3) They are NOT interested in anybody questioning their views or source of information, or even commenting them, unless they have control over the information.

The blog is littered with extremely biased and in no way proven propaganda. The biased part, I buy. I mean, it’s a blog for sympathisers of this guy. But the fact that there is no way for critics to even question the information makes it looks alot like communist era newspapers, where only one version is official, and other versions or questions are deleted. The new version of PRAVDA, I think. With every comment, the tone turns more and more violent. Some comments – obviously written by “team members”, call for confrontation and even violence.

With every moment that passes, these guys are frightening me. They DON’T want OR accept criticism. They DRAW clear parallells to Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, where the “people” have the power. That is – the people affiliated to the ruling party. They don’t care the least bit about whoever has put them in the power (voters), but they just like the power… and they are willing to take to arms to – as they say – defend democracy. It’s a shame that somebody can use the word democracy at the same time as calling to arms…. Really scary.

Update: I sent them another email today, asking them for some kind of explanation as to why they won’t let anybody write any comments in their blog. If they don’t answer, I think it shows exactly what kind of people they are… I’ll keep you posted.

…so… it’s been 10 days since election. AMLO insists on doing a full recount, publishes fake videos of “election fraud” and keeps going. The videos shown so far, have all proved to be fake. It’s really embarrasing to Mexico, that people in the “name of democracy” do whatever they please, and say that whatever else happens, it’s the opposition’s fault.

well… it’s Friday and the official election results were presented yesterday… Results didn’t change much, the final distance between Calderón and Obrador came to be 0.58% of the total vote. Calderón received just over 15 million votes.

Obrador has (obviously) not conceded and will take the results to the election tribunal, since – according to him – there has been fraudulent incosistencies in the election process. He wants to open all ballots and do a manual recount of ALL votes.

Now, this is a pretty staggering demand. All votes HAVE been counted once (election night). All disputed ballots HAVE been counted again (where Calderón lost approximately 15 000 votes to other candidates). And now he wants to put the country to a standstill to do it again, but now with over 41 000 000 ballots??? Jeeez. Obviously the vote numbers won’t change. He has other motives to do that, as I shall explain further down.

International observers agree with local observers that the elections were clean and transparent. A couple of goof-ups by the IFE (the election authority) gave the left wing momentum, but the goof-ups were only about showing the counted ballots, and the order in which the ballots were counted. They didn’t in any way alter the final results.

Mexico has been plagued by fraudulent elections since one can remember. In 1988, for instance, it is said that the then left leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, lost elections to Carlos Salinas by fraud. It is very possible, since opposition parties didn’t have access to the election protocols, as they have now. In 1990, the election authority was founded, and they have since been watching the elections. In 1994, the elections were also tainted by fraud, but all agree that in 2000 – when Vicente Fox won – elections were clean. The IFE has built in numerous security features into the election process to avoid fraud. Ballot counts are done by randomly chosen citizens, under supervision by representatives of all parties. Election results are sent electronically and physically to the election district head offices (there are 300 of them all over Mexico). In case of recounting ballots, these are recounted at the election district head offices supervised (again) by parties representatives.

Now, here’s my analysis: Obrador’s claim puts a dark shadow on the more than 1 000 000 citizens that have worked with the elections, saying that they are all in massive complot with the government, the IFE and Calderón. What he wants to do is to cause political instability, mobilize the (ignorant) masses as he always has, inorder to force the government to act harshly against them. This would of course put them in the victim’s seat and they would get even more fired up, and cause violence, etc. He is firing up an uprising, that will destabilize Mexico. And he does that without any regards whatsoever for the election results, that ARE real and truthful, as all analysts have said.

Obrador has never been peaceful, he has always been a man of confrontation. And it is not changing. Let’s hope the government handles this issue with satin gloves to avoid bloodshed. Because that is exactly what the PRD wants.

Elections last Sunday and they are pretty close, a manual recount (á la Florida 2000) has been ordered. Although this time, the recount is virtual. No ballots will be recounted unless the vote result envelopes have been altered. Mexico has 300 districts and a total of +130 000 ballot stations. The ballots in each station are counted and the results written on an envelope containing each station’s ballots. The recount is a manual recount of the number on all envelopes. Until today 2.5 million votes were “missing” according to one of the losing parties (PRD), but they were kept aside from the official vote count because of incosistencies (number of votes not corresponding to ballots, etc.). However, the Federal Election Commission has released the “final” numbers for the votes that hadn’t been counted in the preliminary vote count. This brings the election even closer. PAN is leading (winning?) by less than a point (0.63%).

These are the votes (not official, but probable results)

PAN
14,771,009 (35.91%)

PRI
9,127,889 (22.19%)

PRD
14,513,477 (35.28%)

Nueva Alianza
398,263 (0.97%)

ALTERNATIVA
1,114,006 (2,71%)

NON REGISTERED CANDIDATES
296,164 (0.72%)

INVALID BALLOTS
909,769 (2.21%)

TOTAL BALLOTS CAST
41,130,577 (100%)

So… what happens now?
PRD leader Lopez Obrador will obviously not accept the results. Anything but a huge victory for him (he said he lead the polls by over 10% just before the elections) is impossible. I would like Mr Obrador to present the polls that he says he lead in. It seems his pollsters are pretty bad at their job, which would explain the defeat. Anyway, Obrador – a huge fan of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Lula da Silva, etc. etc. – will probably stage huge demonstrations to “defend his victory” as he said. This will probably lead to violence – nothing new to Mr Obrador – and deaths. He is more power hungry than one would think.

This Obrador guy is a pretty sad figure. A couple of years ago, he insisted he would not ever run for president. “When it comes to elections, pretend I’m dead”, he said. Then he said “win me over in the ballots”, when he said he would think about becoming President. Then he said “We’re leading by more than 10 points” at the end of his campaign. Just before the elections he said he would inconditionally accept the IFE results. Hours after the election he said he would only accept IFE results if they were in line with his exit polls… and now everything is a complot against him. HAHAHAHAHA

Calderón, the virtual winner for PAN, says he is reaching out to his opponents – even Obrador – to try to build a coalition for ruling Mexico the next 6 years.

IFE (The Federal Election Commission) says they will begin the recount Wednesday and by the end of the week we will know who has won the election, although we all know PAN won.

…to be continued…