UN Observers Requested for 2004 US Election

Given the results of the last US Presidential election in 2000, when George W. Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court, and close to a million black voters were disenfranchised by fraudulent Republican party voter list purges in the state of Florida; the decision by nine bipartisan lawmakers in the US to request UN Observers for the upcoming 2004 Presidential election is an excellent move. This from Agence France Presse:

Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Texas representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who spearheaded the effort.

"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," she said in the letter.

"This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself," she added after requesting that the UN "deploy election observers across the United States" to monitor the November, 2004 election. (click here for the full article)

If the 2004 elections are not conducted in an open and fair manner, and Bush is yet again placed in power in a quasi-legal and unethical manner, I fear for the state of the American Union. I do not think Americans will yet again sit idly by while their nation dominated by a select elite who flout even the appearance of democracy.