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Mexican Lawmakers Block Fox's Speech
Foes in Congress Seize Chamber

By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, September 2, 2006; Page A01

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1 -- In a historic rebuke, opposition lawmakers seized control of Mexico's congressional chamber Friday and blocked President Vicente Fox from delivering his final State of the Nation address.

Fox, who was adorned in Mexico's green, red and white presidential sash, stood awkwardly in the chamber's foyer for nearly 10 minutes before conceding that he had no chance of entering. Surrounded by bodyguards, Fox was handed a microphone. He quickly said that he would leave and gave a copy of his speech to a legislative official.

The lawmakers who commandeered Mexico's congressional building are aligned with the Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, and its candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is demanding a full recount of the July 2 presidential election results.

The bizarre scene played out live on national television. After giving up any hope of delivering his speech, Fox turned and left the building with Mexican first lady Martha Sahagun, who had donned an evening gown for the occasion. Fox smiled and nodded, while Sahagun chatted with the crowd that formed around them outside the building, which had been ringed by riot fencing and was guarded by 6,000 police officers. Then they disappeared into a waiting sport-utility vehicle.

This is the danger of Leftism. This is the danger of those who would turn this nation into a "Socialist Paradise." This is what comes when emotion rules over intellect. The rebel Obrador lost the election. He then claimed that the election was flawed and appealed to the seven judge panel of the Mexican electoral court saying that he would let them decide whether or not the election was legitimate. Once it began to appear that Obrador's demanded recounts and annulments were not affecting the outcome of the election, he began to talk of forming a "parallel government." If things continue as the have been progressing, Mexico will shortly be in a civil war, and our borders will be under even greater assault by those fleeing the conflict.

We have seen the beginnings of this same tableaux in our own country. Al Gore led the charge of our own American Left in his unprecedented and unseemly refusal to accept the results of the vote in Florida and his resulting loss in the Presidential election of 2000. From that day forward, those on the Left have continued a campaign of lies and inuendo alledging voting irregularities in every election they have lost.

"Diebold!" is the new rallying cry of the Democrats and their moonbat Kool-aid drinkers. Mind you they have not one shred of evidence to support their claims of election fraud, only their arrogant assumption that "most people" agree with them therefore their side "should have won" the election. Of course we know, and they know, that most of the "dirty tricks" and "fraudulent voting" have come from those on the Left. That is why they are so vehemently against the requirements various states have sought to impose that voters must have a photo-ID.

Voter roles including dead people, convicts, and non-existent people have all been seen in past elections. For some unknown reason these "irregularities" always seem to "crop up" in precints dominated by the Democrat Party.

As the general quality of our educational system continues to decline, we are turning out more and more young people incapable of bringing to bear the critical thinking necessary for discerning fact from fiction. The inevitable end result is what we see in the denizens of democraticunderground.com and dailyKos.com. For those people myth becomes truth and opinion is fact. They already routinely bandy about claims of Diebold machine hacking and "voter intimidation" following every election loss. How long will it be before the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. and Russ Feingold try to bar the President from the House Chamber?

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