Good morning again, Tim! Tim Bedding wrote to Frank Reichert...
I previously wrote: > > Again, I consider > > it a far stretch to assume that individuals who strongly oppose a > > winning Candidate, have some tacit obligation to accept such an > > individual as their Representative. To which, you replied: > Taking your argument to its logical conclusion, you would > say also that George Bush is not the President since you > did not vote for him. Again, as Bill as done, you confuse and mingle two entities together as if they are one, e.g.: the individual, and the State. I never wrote that a Representative that I did not vote for, or even strongly opposed, was not a Representative. He or she is a Representative of the State of Idaho in the case of our national State delegation. In your above example, The Shrub<tm> unfortunately IS the President of the United States, sadly, even though his actions and performance in that office doesn't Represent me. In fact, as polarized as the U.S. body politic is today, I doubt that the Shrub Regime<tm> is the represenative of a significant majority of the population, as many are not only strongly opposed, but visibly demonstrate in the streets their opposigion to many of the policies of this regime. The issue at hand therefore, and one in which Bill Anderson and I have been discussing, centres around who is the Represents a particular individual, not who Represents a particular State, or country. Every individual makes either a tacit or voluntary choice whether or not a political office holder represents them or not. Bill strongly suggests that I am somehow bound to acknowledge that even a Representative, or in your case, this President that I strongly oppose, is my Representative. If you believe that Bill's argument here is the correct one, then this certainly implies that individuals are the victims of coersion and force, a have no right to choose for themselves who represents them, their issues, convictions and position on various matters. Kindest regards, Frank _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
