- This topic is empty.
-
Posts
-
Granted lol.
When the Saudi’s vote in a boy who tells the US to get them damn planes back on the Saudi Penisula the vicious circle is complete – so what to do prof?
We end up with causal terrorism which erodes our own human freedom our people fought so hard for. Vicous circle again.
The ONLY thing i can do about it is turn my back in peaceful protest.
Hence i don’t join in the voting game therefore not perpetuating the vicous circle.
Imperfect resolution but with a 60% turnout on a good day of voting for a new prime minister i’d say the non interested actually hold the majority vote lol.
non interested actually hold the majority vote
And you get exactly what you are due and contribute to the process….
How so?
40% not interested and/or don’t trust any of them.
30% labour
15% conservative
10% lib dem
5% a.n.otherLabour are still in charge unless you mean they’re in charge because we don’t bother vote them out.
Lol, that’as the point though – (for example among a few) – People are still with no food.I don’t want anyone in power, that has the military might to overrun any tinpot dictator who runs his country so pathetically that children starve to death daily, but lets it continue.
I refuse to ACTUALLY put my name to that kind of one sided biased blindness which all of the above just won’t address.
Not voting is a poor way of protesting though, I do concede.
Band Aid was 20 years ago lol. What to do?
I am very thankful that I am not an American citizen – I have three kids who are draft age.
I feel very deeply for all who have loved ones away in Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever else there is upheaval. I can’t bear the thought of the draft being brought back. Over 700 american soldiers have already died. Thousands of civilians have already died. For what? It isn’t right.
Draft is a word that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
I agree 100% with the Professor on this issue.
Professor’s Earlier Post
Three of them are.
I served in the US Army and have no problem with defending our country.
The point of this election is I want there to be a country LEFT to defend. Or one worth defending.
Not one that is bankrupt and so far in debt my daugthers will pay much higher taxes for the remainder of their lives for much less services then we have now.
Not a country that the rest of the civilized world despises so much it inspires their sons and daughters to take up arms against us.
Not a country where civil liberties have been so far removed they have no freedom of speach, no protection of privacy and no rights left to protect.
There are other issues besides the draft.
Having a President who actually went to war and SAW COMBAT is far superior to having a coward who hid in the National Guard to avoid Viet Nam and even then went AWOL. A man who knows war wont be so quick to send MY daughters off to die in a desert somewhere so that he and his Vice President can earn millions from big oil contractors.
I can go on, and probably, will but hopefully you start to examine this a little more closely then just one issue.
I agree absolutely, Captain.
This thread was started by Aleph about the draft, though, which is why it was brought back to that topic, not because anyone thinks it’s the only issue.
We have examined a lot of the issues here under “free for all”, under various headings.
Curiously enough the majority of Brits in this thread have moved away from the Draft/Bush/Kerry/War history onto instead the more insular, personalised to the UK point of, why vote?
When you feel so dismayed and unrepresented by any of the parties that can actually win maybe you guys just won’t vote.
When given an apparent free vote on 2 choices – vote to lose your left arm or vote to lose your right – what to do?
Am glad you US guys and girls have not got to the completely disillusioned with all parties situation.
It’s not a great place to be at.
Cheers.
