Posted on 08/04/2009 6:10:08 PM PDT by Loyalist
Niger's president pushed ahead Tuesday with a controversial referendum on a new constitution that would remove term limits and grant him another three years in office with increased powers.
Security forces on trucks with mounted machine-guns blocked the streets around the mayor's office in Niamey, where President Mamadou Tandja cast his ballot.
Opposition leaders called the move "illegal" and are boycotting the vote. International donors may respond by cutting aid to one of the world's poorest nations.
Ruler of the uranium-rich country since 1999, Tandja, 71, has twice won elections that were hailed as free and fair.
But in the last months of his final term Tandja, taking the same path as many African strongmen before him, broke his promise to step down when his term expires Dec. 22.
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Surely we can discuss attacks on the 22nd Amendment without racial slurs.
Seems to be a lot of this going on. First it was Zelaya. Daniel Ortega plans a referendum to get term limits lifted in Nicaragua and now this idiot in Nigeria.
Let me guess ... he’s a socialist.
Well. Let’s see if Obama supports the legalistic argument that will be used by this would-be President-for-life of Niger. Honduras did not set a reassuring precedent.
Another 0Buma Club Member...
Sounds like the United Nations, Hillary Clinton and Obama need to get behind this guy...there is a movement going on.
I have no doubt that future “President-for-Life obama” is taking notes to see how this succeeds or why it fails. Those who want to maintain a free country need to do the same and learn their lessons better than the thug in our White House learns them.
Perhaps history’s most important moment EVER came with the peaceful transfer of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. Giving up one political persuasion for another w/out bloodshed.
LOL. Buy gold and guns while you still can.
Well, why shouldn’t they feel free to throw their constitution in the crapper. tehy are confident Obama will support the move JUST AS HE HAS DONE IN HONDURAS.
My sentiments exactle! What’s up with that headline? I’ts 2009 for crying out lowd.
You've got to do more than that. As soon as you move away from constitutional norms he becomes an outlaw and you are in a revolution by definition. You've got to take him down hard.
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