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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (63687)	12/31/2002 12:24:36 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 281500

A wonderful and thoughtful response, Dennis. Thank you. I won't get bogged down in a point-counterpoint response and will only highlight a few things for consideration. First, on April 30, 1789, George Washington took his oath of office on a balcony overlooking Wall Street. Since that fateful moment, America continued to pride itself as a land deeply steeped in a tradition of liberty and justice for all. But America didn't didn't get it's voting rights act together until LBJ rolled in around 1964. And the damn GOP, as evidenced by Trent Lott's Good Ole' Boyism, still invokes "Southern Strategy" election tactics Secondly, not enough people vote in America's elections, and those who do usually are toting their respective party platforms where it's either up or down on abortion; up or down on gun control; up or down on capital punishment; with the general crime and drug issue giving each candidate, irrespective of their political party, a free ride to look good postulating to a genuinely concerned citizenry. And why can't this citizenry vote on Saturdays? Thirdly, who owns the media which reports the whole election process. Can anyone name a black-owned major print media? Do any own any of the major 24-hour cycle news reporting stations or major networks? Who owns and controls radio? Well, I'm getting to deep in my response so I'll simply leave this with two questions: 1) Is it possible that the best way to enslave people is to make them think they are free? 2) Should we better concentrate on improving our own society before we get into the business of nation-building other socieites? I mean until recently--and I'm not sure it's actually all that so today--mostly in the past America has supported tinpot dictators and colonial conditions. Oh, one other question: Can't poor folk get elected into the U.S. Congress? I mean we just somehow put in 43 millionaires to make our decisions for us--how'd that happen?