Puppets
In developments in Mexico, the leftist loser of the Mexican election is calling for his supporters to increase their agitation for a full recount. His supporters, meanwhile are calling for what amounts to armed insurrection by demanding a seizure of the Mexico City airport or the Mexican Congress, whichever they think they can get away with.
Lopez Obrador told tens of thousands of followers in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza that they should indefinitely man the sprawling, week-old protest camps that have brought much of the capital's normally thriving center to a halt. The blockades have snarled traffic, costing the city an estimated $23 million a day.
The former Mexico City mayor said that he would continue to demand a full recount in the presidential race, despite the Federal Electoral Tribunal's decision Saturday in favor of a partial recount. Electoral officials across the nation will begin sifting through ballots from 9 percent of the nation's 130,000 polling places on Wednesday, wrapping up their work by the weekend.
Lopez Obrador asked his supporters to gather in front of the tribunal Monday evening, likely halting traffic on yet another main Mexico City street. He said he would demand the court "correct" its decision.
Before Lopez Obrador's speech, protesters chanted in favor of seizing Mexico City's airport. Some suggested taking over Congress, a move that would almost certainly trigger confrontations. Security has been increased at both facilities.
While Lopez Obrador did not say whether he would eventually approve such actions, he did promise "new actions, new measure of civil resistance." He asked his followers "to prepare ourselves for a struggle that may last longer."
"Even if I wind up alone, if I have the conviction that I am fighting for a just cause, I would continue, stubbornly," Lopez Obrador said.
The Mexico City government, controlled by Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party, has protected the protest camps that have blocked the elegant Reforma Avenue and the Zocalo. But on Sunday, police chief Joel Ortega indicated his patience was wearing thin.
"Everything has a limit," he told a news conference.
Lopez Obrador's supporters were enraged by the tribunal's ruling against their demands for a ballot-by-ballot recount, which they argue will show the leftist was the true winner of the election.
"We don't want anybody except him as president," said protester Maria Acosta, 52, a Mexico City housewife. "The people are tired. We are not going to allow this fraud. The people are not going to allow it. We will take this as far as is necessary."
However, this may not exactly be what it appears to be, according to Mark In Mexico. The crowd Andrés Manuel López Obrador was speaking to may be only a fraction of what the MSM is reporting.
Today in the Zócalo in Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador told a relatively small crowd that "I am not obsessed with power." He vowed to carry on the encampment in the city's center to defend "principles". He accused the PAN of trying to impose a "right-wing" government on the people.
The crowd was estimated by Mexico City officials to be only about 23,000 people. The city officials, all from the PRD, have been notorious for vastly overestimating the crowd sizes for all of AMLO various protests, marches, tent cities and the like. So I would suppose that the actual crowd size was about half of what they claimed it to be. To be fair, God has not been looking too favorably on AMLO and his followers of late. They have been getting a daily soaking from torrential downpours and hail storms. Yesterday, parts of Mexico City were under 2 feet of water.
AMLO is using his supporters as puppets to bolster his blind ambition to be president. Or is AMLO a puppet for Hugo Chavez and his blind ambition to be the next Castro.
Or are they both puppets to the ambitions of the new Persian Empire?
World news | Gaius Sunday, 6 August , 2006
By Howard Larson, Sunday, 6 August , 2006 @ 7:43 pm
Yes, the Marxists are trying to take over. And, the electorate is too ignorant to resist their populist blather.