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Peroutka: International Election Monitors are Death Sentence to American Sovereignty
August 12, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: John Lofton
August XX, 2004 410-766-8591, 301-873-4612
Peroutka: International Election Monitors are
Death Sentence to American Sovereignty
Pasadena, Md.—“It is an affront to our sovereignty and independence as a nation to allow so-called ‘international election monitors’ to observe or in any way interfere with our constitutionally mandated election process,” said Michael A. Peroutka, Constitution Party candidate for president. “Not a single penny of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars should be spent to fund such an abomination, and as president, I will do everything in my power to make sure it never happens again.”
According to a recent CNN.com news story, the Bush administration has invited the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the coming November 2004 elections. This invitation was extended after a similar plea by 13 House Democrats to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was rejected. “Taking the extra step of inviting the OSCE to monitor our elections shows just how committed to an internationalist agenda are the candidates from the Democrat and Republican parties,” continued Peroutka.
Despite the efforts of House Republicans—who passed an amendment to a foreign aid bill that prevented federal funding of U.N. monitors—the Bush administration seemed undaunted, and in an end-around move invited the OSCE. “The steps taken by President Bush and his administration to contravene the will of the people, and his own party for that matter, drives another nail into the coffin of American sovereignty. It is inexcusable,” stated Peroutka. “For increasingly apparent reasons, American’s don’t trust our own governmental bureaucracy, so why would we trust the international bureaucracy?
“At the heart of this problem is the belief by the globalist elite, one-world-government types that the American people cannot be trusted to choose their leaders through a free and fair election process,” observed Peroutka. “The Democrat and Republican parties maintain their positions of dominance by controlling the election process from start to finish—from who is given ballot access to who is allowed to participate in the presidential debates—which ensures their victory while making the American people the losers.”
Dr. Chuck Baldwin of Pensacola, Fla., is the Constitution Party’s vice-presidential running mate.
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