Good evening, Frank! > Lowell C. Savage wrote to Frank Reichert... > > I previously wrote to you with regard to your reply to Jay P. > Hailey: > > > > Bull! Where did you come up with this one? > > To which, you replied: > > It's the way the system works. I understand you don't like it. But if > you > > really want to make it so that the people elected from your district > don't > > represent you, move or renounce your citizenship. Much as I hated to > admit > > it, Slick Willy represented me to the world for 8 years. > > This is still bullshit, Lowell. I for one, never signed any > contract whatsoever that would suggest that either 'Slick Willy' > or the current fascist Shrub Regime<tm> represents ME! Since I > voted against both regimes, and outspokenly over 5 1/2 years of > both, from 1997 through 2003 in the Philippines without > 'renouncing my citizenship' or doing any other such things as you > suggest, I suggest you rethink this thing about 'representation > based upon a supposed contract' that you never signed on to.
Since when did you have to sign a contract somewhere in order for the definitions of words to become true? Elections are held to determine who will represent (in some capacity) a district, state, or country and everyone in that district, state, or country. > An election ballot to me is a very important document. When you > enter the voting booth you have the one and only chance to make a > choice over who will represent you. Right. And it is the same for the other hundreds, thousands, or millions of people who also enter the voting booth and look at the same choices. > If you lose, then by > default, you aren't represented at all, since you never voted for > the prostitute politician that the majority may have or did vote > for. No. You are represented by the person that the majority of voters chose, regardless of whether you voted for that person yourself. > Your argumentation here reminds me a lot of the war crimes trials > subsequent from WWII, when hosts of individuals were brought to > trial for war crimes. Many of them, as you may recall, claimed > they were only following orders. Well, many were either > incarcerated or put to death upon the pretext that individuals > must make a choice to obey orders, or else do the right thing and > protect those individuals who are victims of ordering criminal > acts to take place. I don't follow the analogy. Who is giving orders to you? You are part of the population that "gives orders" to the politicians. It just happens that you are in a permanent minority and don't like the "orders" given by the majority. Tough beans. > This isn't really such a giant stretch either considering that > much of what is occuring right now in Iraq under the Shrub > Regimes<tm> orders. I would, without hesitation, anywhere in this > entire planet, denounce this regime as a renegage and lawless > regime, and I refuse to obey it insofar as I can possible do so, > or support it, and it does not represent ME, as an American > whatsoever! Uhm. As an American citizen, you have the right to disagree with your country's elected official and express that disagreement anywhere in the world. I'm not sure what "orders" you have to obey. (Paying taxes, maybe?) But the elected officials represent you. > I also took note earlier, that you had some mental problems with > my description of Condom-loser Rice, suggesting that I might have > a credibility problem here. Well Lowell, I doubt I have a > credibility problem at all, since everyone here ought to already > know that I strongly oppose the current US regime in power in > this country, and believe equally as strongly that it is morally > destitute in terms of US foreign policy, economic and domestic > policy, and probably bordering on a fascist police state as we > speak. Actually, I don't think I was the one who wrote that. But I agree with the person who did. Gratuitous insults that play on a person's name are childish. People who act childishly lose credibility. We certainly know what your positions are on the current administration's foreign policy, etc. The trouble is that when you act childishly, it makes your opinions less persuasive and credible because they seem to be coming from someone who is not mature (even if that person is near or at retirement age). Lowell C. Savage It's the freedom, stupid! Gun control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
