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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SofaSpud who wrote (2496)	4/18/2003 8:54:04 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37182

Rocan was a client too, i think .... and Collins [? - not sure] .... got to be careful what you say about some people, a goodly number have been known to express their love for free speech in litigious manner -g- ... of course, with the dead ones, a person is likely safer I always figured that we should leave looser the bounds of free speech here, give people like this plenty of rope, let them hang themselves ..... tough cases make for bad law, though, as they say ... but there is an SIer who would cheerfully burn every jew on the planet, truly despicable individual, and i have voted against him being terminated ... not without inner conflict on the matter ..... but free means free, it means the right to be wrong, even hatefully wrong, it means the right to speak evil ..... gee that sounds wrong, maybe i better rethink that Just did a little research and discovered that WCC did not run candidates in the 1974 election, the last one with Stanfield ... they claim they started after Christie wrote a letter to the Times-Colonist in December of '74 .... so i've remembered it all wrong, thought it was in that election i'd been tempted to vote for them .... wasn't very politically aware at that time, just caught bits of things here and there, busy working and building a house etc But it was with the part on 'direct democracy' a/k/a referenda, and on who gets to phrase the questions, that i thought i'd draw you out ... always recalled you mentioning that you'd had something to do with this policy, and you said so again recently .... it sounds a wonderful idea, but but but ... seems like there would be huge power in the deciding of the timing, and in the phrasing, even in the first place of deciding on which issue to hold a referendum ... but, no point in strenuous typing on Easter Sunday, hope everybody has a great holiday .... cheers ps - ever study prop-rep? .. proportional representation ... i once knew people hot on the idea, and the advantages are fairly plain, but i never heard the arguments against it expressed well