On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
in the U.S., that govt. is your agent, carrying out your representatives' instructions, and paid with your tax dollars. Unless
Er, the US is a winner takes all election, in which the candidate with the most votes,may still haveless than 50% of the viotes cast ---which is usually the case.
and until this becomes a literal dictatorship (and there is a valid
De Jure, the US is a military dicatorship. << That the enabling legislation is hardly in forceis another matter, entirely. >>
argument that it applies even then), you are responsible for whatever your paid agents do, from the street cop to the top politico.
That being the case, then AP is the only way to effectively vote against them. Which probably would be a _very good_ thing. None of those paid agents have any legitimate functions. xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com In the fight against terrorism, let us remember the biggest terrorist of the all --- the united states of america, which exports more death, destruction and mayhem that the rest of the world combined.