{"id":76652,"date":"2021-02-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76652"},"modified":"2021-02-10T07:14:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T13:14:21","slug":"joe1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76652","title":{"rendered":"Burma, Shaved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Have you heard about the election controversy?&nbsp; Votes cast by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/breaking-burmese-military-arrests-countrys-leaders-for-committing-alleged-election-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\">ineligible persons<\/a>?&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/myanmar-election-commission-rejects-militarys-fraud-claims\/article33698217.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Outdated voter registration list<\/a>s allowing fraudulent votes to be cast?&nbsp; Warnings before the election of \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/world\/2020\/11\/04\/Myanmar-army-chief-warns-government-of-unacceptable-mistakes-ahead-of-election\" target=\"_blank\">widespread violation of the laws<\/a>&nbsp;and procedures of the pre-voting process.\u201d&nbsp; Election officials saying, &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/myanmar-election-commission-rejects-militarys-fraud-claims-75558943\" target=\"_blank\">There is no evidence&#8221;&nbsp;<\/a>to brush aside allegations of misconduct?&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/congress\/menendez-calls-for-u-s-sanctions-against-myanmar-after-military-coup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats in Congress threatening to punish those<\/a>&nbsp;who question the election results?<\/p><p>No, not Trump.&nbsp; Myanmar (formerly Burma) where military officers have seized control, declared a one-year state of emergency, plan to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/features\/2021\/02\/01\/EXPLAINER-Why-did-Myanmar-military-announce-emergency-taking-control-of-the-reins\" target=\"_blank\">hold fresh elections<\/a>&nbsp;under supervision, and pledge to turn over control to the winner.<\/p><p>Apparently, their senior military leadership believes supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some fraudulent electoral ceremony.&nbsp;&nbsp; When they see the electoral process so blatantly corrupted that it robs the people of their right to self-determination, the military takes their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution seriously enough to intervene and force a do-over to vindicate the people&#8217;s Constitutional right.<\/p><p>What a bunch of haters.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Burma\/Myanmar is a decades-long expose not only of the failures of socialism, but of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2019\/12\/aung_san_suu_kyi_downfall_of_an_icon.html\">western Left&#8217;s myopia about the people they&#8217;s <em>supposed <\/em>to consider heroes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about the election controversy?&nbsp; Votes cast by&nbsp;ineligible persons?&nbsp;&nbsp;Outdated voter registration lists allowing fraudulent votes to be cast?&nbsp; Warnings before the election of \u201cwidespread violation of the laws&nbsp;and procedures of the pre-voting process.\u201d&nbsp; Election officials saying, &#8220;There is no evidence&#8221;&nbsp;to brush aside allegations of misconduct?&nbsp;&nbsp;Democrats in Congress threatening to punish those&nbsp;who question the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76820,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76652\/revisions\/76820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}