Bush campaign tries to have international election monitors arrested in Florida

The election is underway today in the USA and it appears the Bush-Cheney campaign feels the USA can monitor other people's elections, but cannot itself be observed. Sadly, this happened right in election hot trouble spot Florida, where Pres. Bush's brother Jeb is governor and where the 2000 Election problem occurred. They took a completely hostile approach to monitors from Denmark and a few other countries and tried to have them arrested.



From Jim Stratton of the Orlando Sentinel:



Four international election observers got less than a Chamber of Commerce welcome Monday when they visited a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Orlando.



Office personnel turned the observers away, then called police when the officials from Denmark, Finland and Belgium tried to explain why they were there, a member of the monitoring group said.



"It was like they kicked us out," said Kimmo Kiljunen, a member of the Finnish Parliament. "They said, 'We don't have anything to discuss with you.' "



Kiljunen said the encounter "was so tense, we couldn't even say what we were doing."



Kiljunen is with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, an international coalition that monitors elections, mediates conflicts and promotes the rule of law. It was invited to observe the 2004 election by the U.S. State Department. The United States has been an OSCE member since 1973.



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Is there no end to the amBushing of USA elections and the USA political process?



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