<html> At 10:24 PM 11/11/00 -0500, Robin Blankenship wrote: <blockquote type=cite cite>The motto is emblazoned on the state flag, just below a picture of a WOMAN holding up the severed head of a presumed malefactor. It IS scary. And, tyrants should remember that.</blockquote> "Tyrants"?  That's what is scary, this level of explosive rhetoric.  Anyone who has ever lived outside of the United States can tell you how relatively insignificant the differences between one American party's views and another's really are.  To see real tyranny, you really have to travel.  The US is still proudly a place where that sort of thing is in serious remission, however inflammatory we want our rhetoric to become during an election year. Regardless of our party affiliations, here are a few facts: Regardless of Republican rhetoric, the presidential election has not yet finished its initial vote count, let alone "recount after recount".  This election is so close, every vote counts, and every vote has not yet been counted. Regardless of Democratic rhetoric, it is statistically likely that George Bush will win the election, at least in the constitutionally mandated electoral vote.  This does not mean, however, that victory in an American presidential election is decided by an Associated Press poll.  No matter what either party rants and raves in the press, the outcome is decided first by all states certifying their results, and then by a vote of the duly elected electors.  Until that happens, asking either candidate to concede is absurd. Regardless of how scary the situation may seem right now, we are only a few days after the election, and the country has had to, many times in the past, wait significantly longer to complete a fair vote count and declare a winner.  We have also survived several disputes over both counting and voting practices.  None of this is really new, no matter what the media says. Best thing to do, hard as it may be, is to forget about it and go back to work.  In a few days, or weeks, the vote counters will all be done, and the outcome will be known.  We'll get a new republicrat for president, and life will go on, much as it always does. Best Regards, Greg <blockquote type=cite cite>Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Anderson <greg@planetbeagle.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>; <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Politics! > At 12:34 PM 11/11/00 -0500, Robin Blankenship wrote: > >Sic Semper Tyrannis > >("Thus Ever to Tyrannts" - the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia) > > That's what John Wilkes Booth allegedly shouted on the stage of Ford's theater after he shot President Lincoln.  Wow, this is getting scary. > > Regards, > Greg > ___________________________________________________________________ > Greg Anderson                                 greg@PlanetBeagle.com ></blockquote> <div>___________________________________________________________________</div> <div>Greg Anderson                                 greg@PlanetBeagle.com </div> </html>