On August 31, 2003 12:29 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On 31 Aug 2003 14:46:16 -0400 > > Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > What about representative government? > > Dat be da point, mate, the government represents money, not people. > > I don't know too much about the Euro Parliament, but they are certainly > not "elected" in any sense we are used to...
Actually, they are. It's called Proportional Representation..and a particularly nasty and highly undemocratic form of PR at that. You get to vote for a party who then picks some functionary who is otherwise unelectable and off they go into the Euro Parliament. (side note...this so called Parliament has little or no actual power whatever except to give aid and comfort to the "a regulation for everything and everything must be regulated" European Commission.) This is in contrast to other forms of PR where you get to pick your MP's from a list the party provides. The really scarey part is that this elistist system is what proponents of PR in Canada (the Greens, the NDP and some loopy Liberals) want to to impose on Canada. Vote for a party and get someone as your MP or MLA (MPP in your case) who is incapable of getting out of bed without written instructions in triplicate from the special interests who support that particular party. Ain't the "new" dictatorship wonderful? Uncle Joe Stalin would be proud. ttfn John
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