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Keith
Kirk,
With all due respect, I think that dropping out is a mistake -
especially at a time when the voice of public opinion has gained so
much solidarity. Dropping out effectively says that
I am seeing a dichotomy here. I hear some say vote because it is important and then I hear evidence the vote is meaningless and rigged. I tend to think it is pointless at the polls. Voting with your money (or witholding it) is the only practical thing left. What is the point of being rich if you
Voting is meaningless?Well, you are part of a very largedemographic if you live in the United States (Ironic - United States).This demographic stays home at election time, leaving the other (roughly) 50%to cast votes ontheir behalf while they complain that the government is being run by
The point is this - if the machines are rigged then nothing happens until we take to the streets as in the Nam protests. Voting is a feel good illusion.Course if there is no fraud then some of us are paranoid nutters. I think it is fairly obvious the last election was "adjusted". Whether
Kirk,With all due respect, I think that dropping out is a mistake - especially at a time when the voice of public opinion has gained so much solidarity. Dropping out effectively says that you abstain from decisions which effect future generations and that someone will make themselves available
Gang,
Clearly we are all doing both at the same time: Trying to be as self-sufficient as possible in the basics - food, energy, etc. - to insulate ourselves insofar as we can from the mean upheavals of the fundamentalists (be they self-proclaiming free marketeers or fear-mongering
Keith Addison wrote:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12155.htm
Party Hacks
The fix is in for 2008.
By Chris Floyd
03/02//06 Moscow Times -- -- Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected,
Republican-appointed official in California decided the future of the
world.
Uh,
On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:57 AM, robert luis rabello wrote:
How can we take our own country back if the electoral system is
rigged against our wishes? I used to complain that the German
people of the 1930's essentially did nothing to check the rise of the
National Socialists to power, but now
Ken Provost wrote:
On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:57 AM, robert luis rabello wrote:
How can we take our own country back if the electoral system is
rigged against our wishes? I used to complain that the German
people of the 1930's essentially did nothing to check the rise of the
National
Huey "kingfish" Long had a colorful career as the governor of Louisiana. Things went a lot smoother for Huey after he installed an electrical voting machine. True story. The corruption in his administration is legendary. I dont know if he was actually worse than most - but he got a lot of
Keith Addison wrote:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12155.htm
Party Hacks
The fix is in for 2008.
By Chris Floyd
I still remember in 2004 the voting machine I used forced me to select
GWB, and then deselect him before it would let me select any other
candidate.
I worked
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12155.htm
Party Hacks
The fix is in for 2008.
By Chris Floyd
03/02//06 Moscow Times -- -- Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected,
Republican-appointed official in California decided the future of the
world. That future -- at least for the next several
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