Archive for August, 2006

…yesterday a group of AMLO-sympathizers tried to block the entrance to the “parliament”. They were evicted swiftly by federal police (not ruled by DF police, that are under control of AMLO’s little puppet Alejandro Encinas). The action was quick and effective. 2 PRD legislators were slightly injured and needed medical treatment. So?

They’ve had Mexico City in a vice for more than two weeks. Thanks to Encinas and his complete lack of empathy towards the people that suffer daily to transport themselves through the city.

To block the entrance of the Mexican legislator’s building is against the law. Not even the constitution, granting people the right to demonstrate, gives them right to hinder legislators from entering their building. I think the federal police did right. Unfortunately two of these PRD-clowns were harmed, so now they are crying “opression!” all over. Well, opression is also not respecting a majority of the voters. A majority of the voters did NOT vote for AMLO. Regardless of whether AMLO won the popular vote or not. 15 million votes, against 55 million that either didn’t vote for him or didn’t vote at all. Shouldn’t he respect that fact?

No… he wants confrontation now. He wants full on confrontation with federal police. He wants to polarize this country even more. He wants to become the new martyr of Mexico. So, let him. Bring’em on! I just want him standing in the front row with Batres, Padierna, and all the other cowards. Of course they won’t. They don’t feel for the “cause” as they say they do. They are in it for the power (and the money). Fuckin’ double standard assholes. I am fed up with this bullshit. It’s time to move on,

…and according to PRD, Calderón lost 13 000 votes or so. According to PAN, Calderón lost basically nothing. Who is to believe? None of the above mentioned. It’s better to wait for the tribunal to give official numbers.

AMLO has now moved on, though. Showing once again that his “vote by vote recounting demands” are just part of his strategy. Today he said they would stage massive protests the day that Calderon gets the certificate that declares him winner of the presidential elections. So it seems, he has conceded but then again not. He knows he won’t win, but at the same time he isn’t ready to accept it. This strategy has been a long way coming. So this is the way he has been doing since before the elections:

1) Before elections he said he was leading by 10 points according to his own polls. No other polls showed more than maybe a 2 or 3 points lead. With this action, he cemented an expectation among his followers that he actually was in the lead and would win. During this time, he discredited all media by saying they were biased and right wing.
2) The election night, he went out before anybody else and declared himself president elect. This to heighten even more the morale among his followers (dumb sheep).
3) When the IFE said the results were too close to call, he immediately said there had been fraud.
4) And that’s what he has maintained since. Saying and showing – without any tactible proof – that this right wing win was orchestrated by the government, etc.

This has resulted in exactly what he planned – his followers, unable to take in any kind of truthful information from outside the sphere of AMLO – really think there has been a fraud. They really think their rights have been trampled upon. So now he is going to use them against the democratically elected government to stage all kinds of “pacific civil resistance”. Like the hijacking of downtown Mexico City.

What his dumb sheep don’t know, is that AMLO doesn’t care a single bit about them. Who gives a fuck about a bunch of losers that stage protests just because one asks them to, without questioning the reasons in an intelligent way? They are just cannon fodder. He knows it, but the cannon fodder doesn’t.

AMLO has an incredible charisma. It’s a gift that should’ve been used to some other purpose than to incite false hope into the minds of his followers. One looks into his eyes now, and sees only black rage and no common sense. The guy HAS lost his mind. He is so power hungry that he has lost everything holding him together. Pair that with the type of people around him (previous posts) and you have the perfect recipe for blood and death. Let’s hope it doesn’t go that far.

The partial recount has been going on for three days now, and YES, there have been irregularities found in the ballots. However, when doing the recounts, neither Calderón nor AMLO are gaining or losing considerably in the recounts. A couple of votes gained here, a couple of votes lost there. No proof of this “fraud” have been seen so far.

But there is an interesting tidbit here, which requires a bit of history retold. I hope you bear with me, because this is important. The text below has been copied from Wikipedia:

René Bejarano, previously López Obrador’s personal secretary, later elected to the Mexico City legislature, was videotaped accepting USD $45,000 in cash. The video was played on March 3, 2004 at Victor Trujillo’s news program (which he hosted as his Brozo character), followed by an in-studio interview with a completely unsuspecting Bejarano. Bejarano claimed that the money, which was given to him by Carlos Ahumada Kurtz, an Argentine newspaper owner and city contractor, was a cash contribution for the political campaign of Leticia Robles (unrelated to Rosario Robles), a city borough mayor. Robles denied involvement in any illegal campaign financing. In this case, too, López Obrador failed to quickly distance himself from the scandal, placing the blame on a conspiracy by Carlos Ahumada and his political opponents (like ex-president Carlos Salinas), remaining silent about Bejarano. As more videotapes were released, AMLO found it difficult to not say anything about Bejarano’s involvement and after a few months he declared he had done something inappropriate. Carlos Ahumada, who fled to Cuba to avoid prosecution, was captured by the Cuban government and held in custody, isolated, for some weeks before being deported to Mexico. Ahumada says he videotaped the encounters for his own safety as he felt threatened by Bejarano’s cash requests, and released them as a desperate measure when his contracts with the city government were cancelled. He also gave money to PRD’s Carlos Ímaz, another borough mayor, who was introduced to Ahumada by Rosario Robles, AMLO’s predecessor. Carlos Ahumada was imprisoned in one of Mexico City’s prisons, in complete isolation; media requests to interview him have been denied. About a year later, in April 2005, when the possibility of Ahumada being found innocent of all charges and released in the following months became real, AMLO’s government pressed a new charge, low quality work in one of Ahumada’s contracts. This charge, a civil offense that can’t be punished by prison time, will keep Ahumada in jail for one or two more years, since the attorney general refused to receive evidence in his favor in the early stages of this new process, which would have allowed Ahumada to be processed outside jail.

Bejarano was controversially freed on bail on 2005; Carlos Imaz was found guilty and fined. Ahumada remains in custody, he has been held in complete isolation since he was jailed.

After PRD-controlled Mexico City government denied Ahumada, in custody without trial since 2004, his request to give a press conference, his wife, Cecilia Gurza, announced she would show new videos involving other prominent PRD officials. The videos would most notably show Horacio Duarte, who defended López Obrador in the Desafuero scandal and is now his political representative in the Federal Electoral Institute. The announcement was made on June 5, 2006.

A day later, at 7:00 am (Mexico Central Time), Cecilia Gurza suffered a failed attempt on her life. She was travelling in a van along with her chauffer and her offspring when supposedly three individuals fired at her van and failed to assassinate her. The motive is not clear, ¨but the incident has caused Ahumada’s wife to delay indefinitely the showing of the videos, which were to be shown the same day [4], also the date of the second presidential candidate debates for the upcoming presidential elections.

Police are still investigating the attempt, and no one has been accused or indicted. One line of investigation followed by city government is that the attack was staged, and at least one PRD official has advanced this view. However, Carlos Ahumada has denied this version, and has propelled his wife to ask for the intervention of other authorities that are not the city government. Federal Police (PGR) has declared the possibility of investigating the attempt. The van in which Gurza was travelling suffered an accident while being transported by city police. Mexico City police later reported discrepancies in the testimonies of Ahumada’s wife and her driver, and discrepancies between their testimonies and the physical evidence.

Because the videos supposedly showed members of Mexico City government in compromising positions, Cecilia Gurza has asked that it not be Mexico City officials who investigate this matter.

Ahumada’s wife has stated that she no longer has the videos she was going to publicise, since after the supposed attack, she sent them to her husband in prison, with a driver named “Alberto”, whose last name she did not know. Prison visitation records show no visitors to her husband by that name.

That was the end of the Wikipedia text. OK, so we have lots of names here. There are some that are more important though (at least for this post):

René Bejarano
Carlos Imaz

Let’s start with Bejarano. His brushings with the law are well known. It is also well known that his wife, Dolores Padierna (congresswoman, I might add, and a woman with over 150 judicial cases against her for everything from corruption to death threats), isn’t a white sheep. She is said to be the (unofficial) leader for the biggest illegal taxi association in Mexico City, for which she receives a hefty amount of money to protect them, e.g. not make police go after them. She and her illustruous husband, are also said to protect the more than 100 000 street salesmen selling everything from pirated movies to stolen merchandise in Mexico City. Downtown is infested with them, although it’s “illegal”. Nothing has been done about them, though.

Carlos Imaz – as you can see from the above description – is a pretty bad guy himself. His wife, Claudia Scheinbaum was Secretary of the Environment in Mexico City during AMLO’s tenure there. Now she is his personal adviser (looking to be a possible secretaty of department if – God forbid – AMLO gets his way).

Is the picture getting clearer?

Now here comes the “great” news:

Dolores Padierna AND Carlos Imaz have been designated by the PRD to overlook some of the district recounts of the election!!!!! How about that for nepotism, even when it includes convicted fellons.

How are two people – one of them convicted for corruption – both known as crooks, going to see that a recount is being made in a fair way???

That shows ALOT about AMLO’s ways… either they have him by the balls or he is just a crackhead that needs to be put away.

I wonder if AMLO’s posture would have as “much” support if he were to leave Mexico City (where he has complete immunity thanks to Encinas and Ebrard, who support him with whatever he wants). What would happen if he tried to take his protests to Monterrey, N.L.? Or Guadalajara? Or Cancun? Or Morelia? Or Guanajuato? Or Queretaro?

He would probably be greeted by a mob willing to lynch him, and hang him high from a cactus. He stays in DF just because he knows he can do whatever he wants there, and noone gets to him there. It’s sad.

He doesn’t have the “suppport of the people” as he claims. He has te “support of his followers”, which is way different.

Yesterday he said in the news that whatever happens, he will reform the institutions that are the building stones of a (now) democratic Mexico. I think this is a great business opportunity for someone that sells straitjackets. There will be more than a few needed when they finally put him and his nearest followers away.

I heard yesterday (not confirmed rumours!) that one of the women staying in Reforma really wanted to go home, but that they (PRD) force the people to stay there, or else there will be harsh economic sanctions. Well, that’s the way to go, AMLO… that way people will really understand your “cause”. Sucker.

…Saturday August 5th, 2006 might become one of the most important days in Mexican history. This is the day when the election tribunal decides whether a recount of votes is to be done or not.

Two possible scenarios:
1) No complete recount. This will cause massive protests (some, probably not so “peaceful” all around Mexico. AMLO has fired up his troops and reading “senderodelpeje.com”, it looks as they are ready to get armed. Besides, the idiots think this is a fun situation “parece que va a ser chido”… jeeez. Too bad Mexico is catholic, since the massive use of condoms some 20-30 years ago would have avoided the problem we have now. Not so many peckerheads would have been born.
2) Complete Recount. This will cause massive protests…..bla bla bla… read 1). Why? Because these sensless idiots will do whatever they can to pressure the tribunal to give them the victory. No matter what. No matter if AMLO didn’t win (because he didn’t). AMLO says that he will respect the tribunal’s decision. Yeah right. There is always a “but”. In this case it’s “but only if I win”. There is no sane person in this world that believes AMLO would accept a recount only to lose. So what AMLO really says is “I will respect the tribunal’s decision, as long as they give me the presidency, rightfully or not”.

And I am now really getting mad at the suckers at senderodelpeje.com. The blog owner/administrator, is a pretty stupid person. He knows only how to speak using bad language and seems to have some kind of tunnel vision, like too much LSD or magic mushrooms or so. He doesn’t report about the intellectual AMLO supporters that are against the demonstrations taking Reforma and other avenues. Of course not. That’s a negative piece of news. When Calderón said – a long time ago – that he would accept the tribunal’s decision, he kept quiet. Of course. That is bad news for the revolutionary populustic uprising that is being planned. The fact that AMLO metioned this scumbag in his speech a few days ago, just confirms the theory, that AMLO surrounds himself with first rate losers – often coming from other parties where they have lost.

And now the most fun part – AMLO & Co say a majority of Mexicans voted for him. A majority my ass. maximum 20% of the voters actually voted for AMLO. 80% of voters didn’t – being by voting for another candidate, or not voting at all.

Yesterday the suckers closed access to the sock exchange building. The official PRD spokesperson said “it was just for fun, it wasn’t really part of our civil resistence”… damn. These guys (and gals) are really serious. Or not maybe. They are certainly dangerous. And must be stopped.

A few hours ago, the election tribunal decided that it will NOT do a total recount of the votes in the elections, that have left Mexico in turmoil, much thanks to AMLO and his “civil resistence”. The decision, taken unanimously by the tribunal’s members, is to open just under 10% of the ballots and to do a partial recount of votes.

This decision, although a bad piece of news for AMLO and his supporters, leaves the door open for more recounts. If there are large discrepancies and/or errors in the ballots that are to be counted, more ballots can be opened. It is, however, highly unlikely that all votes will be recounted.

This is – as far as I see – a victory for good judgement, democracy and law & order. AMLO and his followers didn’t present enough evidence of the “fraud”. As simple as that. As soon as Calderón is (presumably) determined as the official winner of the election, the Mexican government should do everything in its power to avoid the bloodshed of innocent people. Yes, there will be protests. And that’s fine, it’s a constitutional right to be able to demonstrate. As long the protests are peaceful, they are going to be allowed. I believe violent protests should be dealt with harshly. No more hijacking of the cities and roads. This has been gone on for far too long. It’s time for AMLO to fold down, cut his losses, and look forward to the next elections. In a peaceful way.

But he won’t. He is going to go for it all, as he once said. As I said in a post a couple of weeks ago, he wants full-on violent confrontation with the police and / or military. He and his followers want – as I read the situation – bloodshed and they want to bring Mexico to a civil war. Only that way, can they get the power they so desperately hunger for. And all this for a cause that now – officially – hasn’t been proved. Obviously he will say the tribunal is corrupt. Something he didn’t do before, as he thought his threats would make them order a full recount. The tribunal has acted in a fair and just way.

So, what now? AMLO’s followers are blocking the exits to the tribunal, not letting anybody leave. There are rumours of “taking” the tribunal. To what ends? To threaten to kill the magistrate if a recount isn’t ordered? To take hostages? MAAAAN. I just hope for the sake of this country that AMLO has more brains than that. I try to put myself in the shoes of a regular “Joe” that voted for AMLO. Not one of the fanatic supporters, but one of the enormously vast majority of his followers: a regular guy that likes him. Is it worth going to a full scale armed conflict over this? Has he (AMLO) fully proved his case? Am I willing to bite the bullet over his words? Would he really make Mexico that much more of a better place, that I’m willing to stick out my neck and die over it? Have my rights been trampled on – or am I being used as a pawn in a political game that doesn’t concern my rights, but rather the hunger for power of an elite group of violence instigators?

I sincerely don’t know. But then again I don’t like the guy and I didn’t vote for him. I am fully aware that the fanatics are willing to do that, and more.

Today my wife saw large signs in Mexico City that said something like “It will be the responsibility of the tribunal if Mexico is bathed in BLOOD”… Now, more than ever, it is important to hinder these people getting ANY power in Mexico. Mexico City’s mayor should be fired. He has allowed all these actions – against the law – saying that “he is willing to pay the price”. Well, Mr. Encinas… it is time to pay the price. Leave office.

In his latest attempt to revert the (as of now unofficial) election results, AMLO has called his sympathisers to camp out on Paseo de la Reforma (Mexico City’s own “Champs Elysees” and some other streets as well as the central square (Zocalo). The results are catastrophic – traffic chaos pervails in Mexico City since the heavily trafficated Reforma isn’t useable, and people used to use this main avenue are forced to seek other ways to move themselves.

It’s kind of ironic, though, that he is causing this trouble in the city where he received the highest percentage of votes. Interviews in media talk about “ordinary people” – people that voted for him – being really frustrated and getting into trouble for not being able to move about the city as before. 30 minute rides are taking 2 or more hours. Businesses along the blocked areas are losing tens millions of pesos every day. And I don’t mean big businesses like hotels and such (that are losing way more), but small businesses, led by people that in many cases voted for this guy.

Back in 2000, when he was mayor of the city, he passed a law that prohibits blocking of avenues and streets that implicate severe effects on traffic situation and pollution. He is breaking the law he himself passed!!! However, that doesn’t seem to bother him, as he has all the support he needs from the city government (also PRD). Alejandro Encinas – the actual mayor, says that everybody is in their right to protest. Against the laws. Jeeeez.

Even AMLO’s most ardent followers, including the writer Carlos Monsivais, are calling for an end of these road blocks, since they affect in a severe way the people that voted for AMLO.

But does AMLO listen? Nooooo… he blames Calderón for the blocks! Man is this guy psychotic or what.