Doug and anyone else interested in free speech, I have no problem with off topic postings here, as long as they are identified as such. Dustin's the final arbiter.
You may want to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The membership is open and the emphasis is on free speech. John Hebert At 11:27 10/4/2003 -0700, you wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
