Where's the Riot?
Events

Contrary to what everybody was expecting, there were no riots or violent acts on election night. In the days following there have only been token demonstrations scattered across the nation, receiving next to no media attention. This all comes as a bit of a surprise with the rather vicious tone of modern politics, but it seems that some UCSD students are trying something. Fliers have been appearing across campus, asking "Where's the riot?" and directing students to show up on the Sun God lawn this Friday at noon, wearing black. No other information. We'll keep an eye on this and see where it goes.

Aleph Solo, Nov 04 2004, 07:06 PM
Reader Comments

Attention all who are disappointed that Bush has been re-elected:

You lost.

Get over it.

Your whining is getting annoying.

Bush won by 4 million popular votes. You can no longer claim he is "not your president".

So kindly STFU and work harder next election to get your candidate elected. Rioting will only damage your cause.

That is all.

Posted by: DOlVlO [TypeKey Profile Page] on November 4, 2004 10:02 PM

I slept right on through noon (and a couple of lectures too). What went down over at Sun God?

Posted by: avarame [TypeKey Profile Page] on November 5, 2004 01:53 PM

I love being online.
I'm going to start a flame war.
DOIVIO, go away.
Whining?
A fucking war is going on. Our country has killed thousands of people in a preemptive war against a party which has done nothing against us. We're attacking Fallujah right now and probably hundreds of civilians are dying. I'm pissed as fuck. I protested against that war. Millions of people worldwide protested, and NOTHING HAPPENED. The president here, and governments around the world, basically said "fuck my people." Look, the nation was divided. I'm sure a lot of people wanted to go to war. But most of them that did thought -- and a lot of people still believe -- that Hussein had some connection to 9/11, and that Hussein has WMDs. But even assuming that the people who wanted war actually wanted to go to war for moral reasons, Bush ignored the UN and a substantial minority of the US population -- and you don't go to war if your people are divided, you need pretty full support, since this is a very serious decision for a nation to make -- and declared war.
That's why I'm angry.
Angry about the election?
I'm upset that Bush declares he has a "mandate" when he essentially won because of one state -- Ohio. A mandate means you have a sweeping victory over your opponent, with a lopsided electoral vote tally. That didn't happen.
I'm upset that Bush and Cheney seem to have convinced everyone that what they say is real, regardless of reality. How are we winning in Iraq? I don't see it. All I see is more violence.
So I'm not complaining about the election.
The problems us liberals are talking about are way more fundamental than that.

Posted by: trolanye [TypeKey Profile Page] on November 8, 2004 02:13 AM

DOIVIO, you apparently don't know about this:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/shared/news/politics/stories/11/05flavote.html
or this:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
I should have voted for Lex Luthor. LEX FOR 2008.

Mandate schmandate. When you're calculating votes on software that a comp. sci. major could have made, you're guaranteed problems. I demand to know why the US is turning to shit companies like Diebold (whose CEO stated he would "guarantee a win" for Bush in Ohio) to do their counting.

Posted by: nocaps [TypeKey Profile Page] on November 9, 2004 01:55 PM

This is also very informative:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1537201

Posted by: Yossarian [TypeKey Profile Page] on November 12, 2004 11:20 AM

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