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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Government to Grant Swift Endangered Species Act Protection to Hundreds of Imperiled Species
- Message-ID: <Bzzy4E.1wn@demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <1992Dec21.153441.8780@ke4zv.uucp> <22DEC199213514739@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1hnhckINNnna@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:14:37 GMT
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- In article <1hnhckINNnna@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- :You make such a nice sheep. Never questioned the propaganda they fed you in
- :high school civics class, have you? Please answer the following questions:
- : 1) When's the last time your vote mattered in an election?
-
- For me, I'm 33 years old and have voted every year since I was old enough.
- Only once has my vote been for the 'winning' party, and that was in the
- Referendum for Scottish devolution, and although we 'won' the vote, the
- result was ignored because the English politicians changed the rules in a
- panic at the last minute by insisting that the vote had something like
- a 45% turnout. Abstentions counted as no votes rather than going with
- the majority as in the normal democratic process.
-
- I have serious doubts as to the validity of the voting process in Britain.
- I was very buoyed up by your election. It showed that some minor degree
- of change *is* possible. I'm beginning to think the Tories have bought
- themselves into power for life in my own country.
-
- G
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