http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/04/24/how-to-steal-an-election/ A Blog of Ideas Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:12:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/04/24/how-to-steal-an-election/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 david Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:56:36 +0000 http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/?p=422#comment-3631 Perhaps that should be on the list of "ways to gain the imprimatur of international legitimacy for your authoritarianism." Perhaps that should be on the list of “ways to gain the imprimatur of international legitimacy for your authoritarianism.”

]]> http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/04/24/how-to-steal-an-election/comment-page-1/#comment-3630 Marchal Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:39:36 +0000 http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/?p=422#comment-3630 "Oh, by the way - if Mr. Mugabe can finally make himself and his party the winner of this last “elections” after all, why not let him host the next Olympic Games? I guess such an offer would really make him reconsider and become a kinder, gentler, less brutal and more democratic person (that was part of the idea why the Games where given to Bejing, after all, wasn´t it? Worked so well with Bejing and Tibet, should not fail its result with Mr. Mugabe and Zimbabwe then, should it?). Consider this IOC, will you? No, please, I was not serious, this was just sarcasm, really!" “Oh, by the way - if Mr. Mugabe can finally make himself and his party the winner of this last “elections” after all, why not let him host the next Olympic Games? I guess such an offer would really make him reconsider and become a kinder, gentler, less brutal and more democratic person (that was part of the idea why the Games where given to Bejing, after all, wasn´t it? Worked so well with Bejing and Tibet, should not fail its result with Mr. Mugabe and Zimbabwe then, should it?). Consider this IOC, will you? No, please, I was not serious, this was just sarcasm, really!”

]]> http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/04/24/how-to-steal-an-election/comment-page-1/#comment-3628 Link Banana » Zimbabwe Update Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:49:21 +0000 http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/?p=422#comment-3628 [...] little outside attention, no (meaningful) outside intervention. Mr. Mugabe has thus succeeded in carrying out step three, still working on four. Also of note, Morgan Tsvangerai wrote another plea for outside help in yesterday’s [...] […] little outside attention, no (meaningful) outside intervention. Mr. Mugabe has thus succeeded in carrying out step three, still working on four. Also of note, Morgan Tsvangerai wrote another plea for outside help in yesterday’s […]

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