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To: TobagoJack who wrote (10272)	10/19/2006 7:38:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217822

TJ, I know democracy is a peculiar concept to you, but one doesn't have "No Maoris, women, old people, short people or Chinese allowed to vote". <given a vote of the maoris only, they would surely vote you home, so how about a vote?> Which "Maoris" would you say should be allowed to vote? We'd need a definition of that as a LOT of people would call themselves Maori [the now-accepted definition] if such a vote was to take place. And what do you mean by "home"? I was born here. Mother in China. Father in Auckland. Home is ? You could look up Wikipedia which I'm sure has a lot of information on democracy, voting, elections and the like. Also, I think you are wrong that Maoris [depending on just which persons you mean] would vote for me to "go home". I think they'd be more inclined to vote for higher taxes on me. Which would have a comparable effect. They are voting for that now. Hence, 1 million have left, 4 million remain [and the remainder is much less productive than the departed, with about half of them on the taxpayers' tit in one form or another]. NZ is an interesting sociological process. Mqurice