--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now there's a lot more talk about all the voting > irregularities and the unconscionable "dirty tricks" > used again in this election. There will be more such > talk. Tough talk. Outraged talk. "We're never going > to allow this to happen again" talk. > > And again, nothing will happen. > > Same shit will happen again in 2008. > > If you disagree, keep us posted on this forum as to > the things you personally actually *DO* to stop this > kind of thing. Not what you *say* about what should > be done, not what you wish would happen, but what > you actually *DO*. We'll wait...
Just so this isn't all bitching, here's a suggestion for how to keep it from happening next time. Put some *muscle* behind the laws against such things. In France there are some great TV ads as part of the fight against child prostitution worldwide. They show really cute, nubile young women in different parts of the world, in the bars where they work as prostitutes. As each one appears, the text on the screen tells their age -- "14 years," "15 years," "12 years," etc. Then they show a scene of the French police arriving at some guy's door and putting hand- cuffs on him and taking him away, and the text simply reads, "Ten years." I'll bet that such a campaign hits its mark. So why not *tough* laws against this sort of election practice? No fines -- they do nothing to deter the rich folks who do this stuff, who can afford both the lawyers to defend against any charges and the fines themselves. Instead, why not set a mandatory sentence of ten years (with no possibility of parole or lessen- ing of sentence) for anyone and everyone who can be tied to such an act? I think it would help to put an end to it. But I'm not exactly hopeful that such a law will ever be passed, because frankly the Democrats don't want to rule such tactics out any more than the Republicans do. These tactics *work*, and if you're desperate enough, you want to be able to use them with little fear of the legal ramifications. Take this lack of fear away, and you might see some change in American elections. Another possibility is to institute a ruling that if such tricks are used in a two-person election, no matter *who* pays for it, the other candidate automatically wins. Then *both* parties would be on the lookout for such practices, and doing their best to prevent them from happening. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
