Iraqi and American democracy

[RJLipkin at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/12/2005 2:06:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
nelsonlund at erols.com writes:

Douglas  Laycock wrote:  
 
. . . . As to riots in the streets, the  closest we have come was the white 
collar riot of Republican  Congressional staffers seeking to stop the counting 
of votes in Dade  County. . . .



Wrong. There was no "riot"  and no effort to "stop the counting of votes."


Without wishing to  resurrect the 2000 Election controversy, a cursory search 
concerning this issue  reveals several sources contending that unruly and 
violent republican  activists besieged the government office where the recount 
was  being conducted. Is there some new, generally agreed upon authority 
providing  evidence against Doug's claim that we came close to a white collar  riot 
in Dade County in the aftermath of the 2000 Election? Or, instead,  is this a 
semantic claim concerning what literally counts as a  '"riot'" without 
ultimately denying that violent Republican activists were  shipped in to disrupt the 
recount?
 
Bobby
 

Robert Justin  Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of  Law
Delaware
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