and traveled throughout Europe Then yi'll have seen a' the European countries that huv a mild socialist system, and huv a far more balanced society than the USA. Dinnae think socialism == the communism of the USSR or China, that's like comparing Bush to Hitler... --
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From an article in which a Zimbabwe politician was
quoted as saying that children should study this event
closely for it shows that election fraud is not only a
third world phenomenon...
"1. Imagine that we read of an election occuring
anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared
winner was the son of the former prime minister and that
former prime minister was himself the former head of
that nation's secret police (cia).
2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the
popular vote but won based on some old colonial holdover
(electoral college) from the nation's pre-democracy past.
3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory'
turned on disputed votes cast in a province governed by
his brother!
4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one
district, a district heavily favoring the self-declared
winner's opponent, led thousands of voters to vote for
the wrong candidate.
5. Imagine that that members of that nation's most
despised caste, fearing for their lives/livelihoods,
turned out in record numbers to vote in near-universal
opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy.
6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-
despised caste were intercepted on their way to the
polls by state police operating under the authority of
the self-declared winner's brother.
7. Imagine that six million people voted in the
disputed province and that the self-declared
winner's 'lead' was only 327 votes. Fewer, certainly,
than the vote counting machines' margin of error.
8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his
political party opposed a more careful by-hand
inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the
disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.
9. Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a
governor of a major province, had the worst human
rights record of any province in his nation and actually
led the nation in executions.
10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-
declared winner was to appoint like-minded human rights
violators to lifetime positions on the high court of
that nation.
None of us would deem such an election to be
representative of anything other than the self-declared
winner's will-to-power. All of us, I imagine, would
wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad
tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange elsewhere."
Easy! It's obviously a conspiracy by the English to prevent hard-working Scots companies with chinese characters in their name from having Chinese domain names.
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Also, if you live in an area that is too remote for telcos, go move to the city. What the hell are you doing out in the boonies? You must be some kind of weirdo. Join the rest of society and be productive.
Damn those weirdo farmers, who needs there food.
Soon, the entire spectrum will be owned by someone and you 'amateur radio operators' (read: Communists)
While we're at it lets get those commy amateur sports types, hell lets get all those commy amateurs! if you do something and don't get paid for it you are obvously a commy.
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and traveled throughout Europe ...
Then yi'll have seen a' the European countries that huv a mild socialist system, and huv a far more balanced society than the USA. Dinnae think socialism == the communism of the USSR or China, that's like comparing Bush to Hitler
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"1. Imagine that we read of an election occuring anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (cia).
2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's pre-democracy past.
3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory' turned on disputed votes cast in a province governed by his brother!
4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of voters to vote for the wrong candidate.
5. Imagine that that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy.
6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that most- despised caste were intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under the authority of the self-declared winner's brother.
7. Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only 327 votes. Fewer, certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error.
8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.
9. Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a major province, had the worst human rights record of any province in his nation and actually led the nation in executions.
10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self- declared winner was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the high court of that nation.
None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything other than the self-declared winner's will-to-power. All of us, I imagine, would wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange elsewhere."
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I am the real Bruce Perens.
Visit my site, technocrat.net
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have you never seen an abacus blue-screen?
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jis' be glad it wiznae a Jon Katz post ...
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I've been glueing together computers using porridge for many years now, totally recycleable, and very nutritious.
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You can find out more about this conspiracy here
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Ach dinna slag off the US system, it was invented and is run by Americans, so you can't expect it to actually work.
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Damn those weirdo farmers, who needs there food.
While we're at it lets get those commy amateur sports types, hell lets get all those commy amateurs! if you do something and don't get paid for it you are obvously a commy.--
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