By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--October 25, 2012
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Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
“The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.” Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident. Their presence has become a flash point this year, however, as Republicans accuse Democrats of voter fraud while Democrats counter that GOP-inspired voter ID laws aim to disenfranchise minority voters. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott further fueled the controversy on Tuesday when he sent a letter to the OSCE warning the organization that its representatives “are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place” and that it “may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place's entrance.”Bravo, Attorney General Abbott! Thank you for standing up for American sovereignty, the superiority of American law, and all that! A polite warning to OSCE thugs seems in order: Although US President Obama is a quiche-eating wuss who hates America as much, or more, than you do, the American people are about to send this incompetent community organizer back to Illinois, Hawaii, or Kenya--as an unemployed victim of his own failures! Further, we do not agree with Obama’s hysterical willingness to serve up American sovereignty to a bunch of socialist pansies! In plain English: “Don’t Mess with Texas!” John W. Lillpop San Jose, California
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.