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I was outside the Broward County Courthouse, just north of Miami Dade, carrying my Gore/Lieberman sign, when I saw bus loads of people coming into the area. I ask one of the people getting off a bus where they were from? I was smiling as I asked. This person looked at me with such hate that I stood there stunned. These were bus loads of people from all over the U.S. that were paid by the Republican Party to come down and disrupt our county's and Miami/Dade's county's RIGHT to have a manual recount. Then someone in our crowd started talking about what was going on in the Miami/Dade Courthouse where they were trying to do their recount. The hallways were filled with what I called "beige shirts", honestly, they were all dressed about the same, and they were jumping up and down, pounding on the doors where the recount was taking place and being exremely threatening. Their Nazi tactic worked. Miami/Dade stopped their recount.
I knew then, that whatever I had thought about my country, the United States of America, a country that I had served in the military, where I had cried several times while saluting the flag, WAS GONE.
It's the main image that stays in my mind about the day our wonderful, if not always successful attempt at Democracy, was completely destroyed by a obviously stolen election. Not wanting to pretend that we have been perfect and there hasn't been stolen elections before, but also realizing that these were images I had seen in movies while growing up. The repulsive German Nazi tactics of World War II. I've won't even begin to recover from this nightmare until this administration is out of office.
I am not thrilled with Kerry. I know a lot of Democrats might feel the same way. But, BushCo has got to go. For those of you who aren't aware of what went on in South Florida in 2000 ( doubt there are many on this board that aren't) it was like being in a time warp. It was like actually being in one of those WWII movies. Try watching Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" and seeing it as a comedy.
It was, to me, the worst time this country, as a Democracy, has ever experienced.
And to think it was only the beginning.
Skarbrowe
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