I would like to have a BRLUG OT list. I was so outraged at the resolution on the ballot to divert the gambling money from education to the general fund that I was stopping people at Albertson's and warning them. Two of them are going to the polls simply to vote agaist it. They were not going to vote before we talked.
Why would someone not vote? A fellow that was a marine a life-time ago and I puzzled over that. I asked him if he had voted yet, and like me, he had voted prior to going to the grocery store. His well-cropped beard was white, but he still looked every bit the soldier. We discussed the current events and the low turn-out for voting. We decided that the draft ought to come back, only it should be 100%. Every last citizen over 18 should devote at least two years to something. Be it staff at a hospital, attendent at a home for the elderly, soldier, sailor, or airman; everone ought to have to give back in some fashion. That would not only increase voter turn-out. but solve some basic issues. How are we going to care for the baby-boomers? How can we be the world cops? Who is going to check the luggage? I vote in every election. It is my duty. It is my right. It was bought with blood, and certified by the death of my father's fathers. How can one neglect to vote?! Good people, mothers, fathers, and teachers of the faith fought and died to get the right to speak out and vote. Yet less than half of us actually register and vote. Oh, jury duty. If you register you might get called for jury duty. Jury duty is an honor like voting. Check the books! Do you know what it was like for an ordinary man to go to trial before there were juries? Have you heard the term "poor house?" That was where they left people like you and me to rot. If no one brought you food, you died. The Jury system is another one of our checks on the government. Let's review a case twenty years old. A man and wife divorced. The woman got custody and moved to the west coast, where she joined the "swinger" group. Her boyfriend raped her son. The husband shot him in the Baton Rouge airport, on camera, in front of wittnesses. He had been on the phone with the police seconds before the shooting, and had informed them of his intent. There was no doubt of the guilt, it had been wittnessed. That case never went to trial. It was plea barganed. Why? A jury would have given Daddy a gold medal and a bonus. Their only question would have been how good did it feel when you saw his sorry butt get the bullet?! Did he last long enough to get four or five rounds! Heck, I'd have started at the toes and worked my up, and slowly! Register to vote! It give you a voice! [Scrape] Doug's soap box going away. Can we get an OT list? I think it could have merit. 2 cents mine, US Doug __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
