Iceland Taps Facebook To Rewrite Its Constitution

An anonymous reader writes "Iceland is finally overhauling its constitution, and it has turned to the Internet to get input from citizens. More specifically, the 25-member council drafting the new constitution is reaching out to its citizens through Facebook. Two thirds of Iceland's population (approximately 320,000) is on Facebook, so the constitutional council's weekly meetings are broadcast live not only on the council's website, but on the social network as well. 'It is possible to register through other means, but most of the discussion takes place via Facebook,' said Berghildur Bernhardsdottir, spokeswoman for the constitutional review project."

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Re:Let me guess...

[Beautyon]

You are as wrong as it is possible to be wrong.

I dont likve in the USA, I am totally against the Federal Reserve and its money printing, Im against government destroying 'health care' through its absurd interference, etc etc.

As for 'laptop that I could never have bought without government borrowing from china' this is just pure economic illiteracy and nonsense:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009736/Irwin-Schiff-How-an-Economy-Grows-and-Why-It-Doesnt

try that for a primer on the fundamental principles.

Alcohol abuse in other people is not my business; and this is a deep flaw in your philosophy; you believe that because SOME parents are bad, ALL parents must be put under the wing of the State 'for the sake of the children'. This is the sort of reasoning that creates laws to control the internet, and it gives birth to totalitarian countries like Sweden (Home School banned, because their parliament says their society is perfect, and so there is no need for Home Schooling. Im not making that up. State monopoly on the sale of alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverages_in_Sweden etc etc), Finland (where you are fined for speeding proportionally to your income) and Iceland (train wreck vassal state, hollowed out by the banksters, where you dont have even the most basic of your rights).

No wonder alcoholism is rife; these people are living in a sort of hell, where the human spirit is so suppressed they seek escape through drugs. All people instinctively know when they are not free, even if consciously they think that they are. You know the line from The Matrix; these people are born into bondage, bondage to the State. I chafes at their soul, and so, they seek solace in a bottle.

The State; its enough to turn a man to drink!