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Post #5,020 by jb4 8/14/01 9:44:39 AM Reply	Wrong verb My point is I believe that the way we combat bad law is by a civilised process involving duly elected representatives and large amounts of paper.(Emphasis mine) What world are you living in? There hasn't been a "duly elected representative" in either country for somewhere around a half century or so. The verb you're looking for is "bought-and-paid-for" (which, of course, makes the following word, "representative", the second half of an oxymoron). jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #5,035 by pwhysall 8/14/01 11:33:32 AM Reply	Ahem At the risk of starting a flamewar, I'd like to point out that over here, we don't need to buy our politicians. I can understand an American being bitter at the state of their electoral system (and the inordinate influence of monied interests thereon), but don't tar the UK with the same brush. That said, if there was anything approaching a left wing in US politics the problem would probably start to sort itself out. -- Peter Shill For Hire
Post #5,036 by boxley 8/14/01 11:38:55 AM Reply	but the repos and dems ARE left wing, at least to some of us Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk
Post #5,174 by Ashton 8/14/01 5:25:58 PM Reply	Well Ox, if you Really think that, Your pendulum must swing in a really Weird force-field. What I 'see' is: One Party, Republicrat. With Two Right Wings\ufffd (The er 'center' is now called umm 'The Left') There Ain't no "Left-wing" on this bird - a pure physics explanation of why: it has been flying in circles since ~ when Ronnie's "trickle-down" added several Trillion to the national debt and did severe damage to language.. along the way. Tick... . . . . Tock ???? eventually but not in sight yet. We may have to go through a Theocracy first: Ashcroft's prayer meetings before 'work' are: voluntary ?! but the folks say anonymously (for all ob-reasons): "hmmm, I'd prolly better go or ____" And so it goes in Murica the Righteous. Left-wing. Hah !!
Post #5,199 by boxley 8/14/01 9:17:03 PM Reply	naw both a buncha commies :) what is a socialist/lefty/commie? One who believes the government knows best and the government is governed for and by the cronies of the government class. The rights of the little folk and fringe folks are trampled in the name of safety and common sense. If you look at the laws on the books in our younker years, aside from civil rights laws we have a lot less personal freedom than before. Now the dems have their cronies as well as the repos, just a different set of folks and us fringers are tracked, litigated against and imprisoned by the whims of the governed class while a member of that class literally gets away with murder. Already too left wing for my taste. Communists and Facists if one goes right far enough and the other goes left you get stalin and hitler two people with the same point of view. Aint a spit of difference between them. thanx, bill thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk

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