Brice,
it fails, because a large number of people elected are corrupt and only
work in the best interest of the highest bidder.
Is it just human nature?
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It is human nature, people's basic nature is to be stupid and lazy.
If you have a system which rewards people for that, guess what happens?
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Where is then the difference between a dictatorship and this?
We can vote every 4 years, true. But that is about the only difference.
As soon as one is elected, the bidders show up and start throwing money
around.
Not many can resist this, no matter what party they belong to.
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You have to be kidding. The people still have a say in who gets elected.
A bit different than a dictator who answers to no one.
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That is one of the things that Tom DeLay really perfected. Bring
former/future politicians into companys and later they will represent them
with the best interest.
Maybe Wirt has a solution, I don't except not being quiet.
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Well, he thinks I am an idiot, so how do you respond to that?
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Even if this are the consequences: Free Speech ??????? DEMOCRACY ??????
Kirk Johnson writes in the New York Times: "A Colorado man who was
arrested
in June on harassment charges after he approached Vice President Dick
Cheney to denounce the war in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday
accusing a Secret Service agent of civil rights violations.
"In his suit, filed in Federal District Court in Denver, the man, Steven
Howards, an environmental consultant who lives in Golden, Colo., says he
stepped up to the vice president to speak his mind in a public place and
found himself in handcuffs -- in violation, the suit says, of the
Constitution's language about free speech and illegal search and
seizure. . . .
"The suit joins two others -- in West Virginia and another in Denver --
charging that Secret Service agents or White House staff members violated
the law in keeping people with opposing political views away from
President
Bush or Mr. Cheney."
Mike McPhee writes in the Denver Post: "While walking his 11-year-old son
to a piano lesson, Howards saw Cheney shaking hands and posing for photos.
He walked over and told Cheney, 'I think your policies in Iraq are
reprehensible.' . . .
About 10 minutes later, Howards and his 8-year-old son were walking back
through the square when [Secret Service Agent Virgil Reichle Jr.]
allegedly
walked up to Howards and asked him whether he had assaulted the vice
president.
"'He came out of the shadows,' Howards said. 'He didn't accuse me but
asked
me if I had assaulted Cheney. I said no, he grabbed me and handcuffed me
behind my back in front of my son. As he led me away, I told him I can't
abandon my son. He said he'd call social services.'"
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Oh come on Michael, you have to be kidding. With the world full of
potential assasins, and this guy thinks he can approach the VP like
that and not have consequences? Would you think the same if it were
Bill Clinton approached by some guys calling him a commie-pinko?
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