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- Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia
- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!qso.Colorado.EDU!perlman
- From: perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman)
- Subject: Re: Somalia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.160928.10581@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1hrcqcINNp4v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:09:28 GMT
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- In article <1hrcqcINNp4v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) says:
- >
- >>>The votes should be weighted according to how much income tax
- >>>the voter pays. The way it is now, the have-nots vote to pick
- >>>the pockets of the haves. We'll NEVER have peace that way.
- >>
- >>By this logic, people like Donald Trump or Michael Jackson have
- >>thousands of times as many votes as the average schmoe on the street.
- >>That's not what democracy means. Nor is it fair.
- >
- >You don't judge a proposal on its own merits; you judge
- >by comparing it to what you already have. What other
- >peace proposal do you have?
-
- How about the tried and true "one person, one vote?" I am judging your
- proposal on its merits: it's a prescription for dictatorship, not a
- better future.
-
- --
- "How sad to see/A model of decorum and tranquillity/become like any other sport
- A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess"
- Eric S. Perlman <perlman@qso.colorado.edu>
- Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder
-