Subject:
|
Re: Handgun Death Rate
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:53:13 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
622 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> Do you think they really could understand how it could work out?
Not the details, but the general idea.
> How modern
> media makes politicians almost instantly accountable?
Probably not. But I'm not sure that it is a significant difference in the
context of protection of freedoms. It is certainly significant from the POV of
the potential politician.
> How in transparent
> systems, like the UK, those funding politicians would be dragged out into
> the open?
I just don't know how that works, or really what you mean. Maybe I just don't
know enough about the differences between our nations.
> You will have to educate me a little here, did everyone get the vote from
> day one?
Everyone who counted. Our social context has changed so much that we think
that old way was seriously bad (and I certainly agree) but they weren't
excluding people who mattered.
> Men and woman at the same age? African Americans? Native Americans?
No, no, no.
> Were the ballots secret? Did husbands vote for there wives?
I think it varried, and I think not.
But so what? No nation in the world has ever given the vote to all the
citizens. Yours doesn't and neither does mine. And I think that's an
abomination, but there it is.
Chris
|
|
Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Handgun Death Rate
|
| My goodness Scott has been busy, hasn't he? I lost count of his posts this morning. Including some real gems like "Why?" as the entire body of his reply. (...) Agreed. Scott is wrong in suggesting that they wouldn't be able to think ahead, if that's (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Handgun Death Rate
|
| My goodness Scott has been busy, hasn't he? I lost count of his posts this morning. Including some real gems like "Why?" as the entire body of his reply. (...) Agreed. Scott is wrong in suggesting that they wouldn't be able to think ahead, if that's (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Handgun Death Rate
|
| (...) Do you think they really could understand how it could work out? How modern media makes politicians almost instantly accountable? How in transparent systems, like the UK, those funding politicians would be dragged out into the open? You will (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
182 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
