clipped from: www.commondreams.org “No one owes obedience to a usurper government or to anyone who assumes public office in violation of the Constitution and the law. The civil population has the right to rise up in defense of the constitutional order. The acts of those who usurp public office are null and void.”
Article 46, Constitution of Peru
NEW YORK — Comedian Bill Maher is a brilliant contrarian. He dislikes George Bush. Yet his view of the stolen 2000 election is conventional, ahistorical and quintessentially American: Forget it! Move on! “Oh, Ted,” he replied when I mentioned the judicial coup d’état on his TV show, which aired October 3, 2001. “That’s so September 10th. It really is.”
It’s tempting, as Maher suggested, to try to move past 2000. But we can’t. What followed doesn’t allow it.
America might want to move on. How can the rest of the world let us?