One of the constant criticism’s of America is we are a cultural backwater with nothing to offer the rest of the world. Ignoring the obvious of Representative Democracy, Baywatch and Jerry Lewis, proof arrives again that it just isn’t so:

First from the EU, we learn that Muslim prisoners are undergoing a process of Islamic radicalization. MSNBC blames this on the lack of prison chaplains, however we have prison chaplains in the USA and we were experiencing this phenomenoma first.

The second example comes to us from Mexico where Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Democratic Peoples Revolutionary party (PRD) has just lost two ballot counts which given the election to the PAN party. Taking a page out of from the same playbook as Al Gore used in 2000 and Christine Gregoire in 2004, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is now insisting on recounts until he wins, then they can immediately cease.

Update #1 7/9/2006

Fears of civil unrest grow as defeated candidate calls supporters out on the streets

MEXICO faced the threat of civil unrest yesterday after Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftwing candidate in the country’s presidential election, said he was denied victory by fraud and vote-buying.

Sound familiar?

EU election monitors said that they had found no irregularities. The law allows for a full recount only where there is credible evidence of irregularities. But Señor López Obrador says hundreds of thousands of votes for him were missed when the official tally was made last week. He alleges that the computerised voting system was rigged. Legal challenges were built into Mexico’s democracy in recent years to help to ensure fair elections, so Señor Calderón cannot be declared President until the courts have weighed the allegations. The federal tribunal has until September 6 to finish.

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