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"jg" <jg@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2/04/2012 9:03 AM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote:
>> On 2/04/2012 9:37 AM, jg wrote:
>>> On 1/04/2012 10:01 PM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote:
>>>> On 1/04/2012 5:27 PM, Spartan613 wrote:
>>>>> "Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax" <gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid> wrote 
>>>>> in
>>>>> message news:jl8d3a$gja$2@dont-email.me...
>>>>>> On 1/04/2012 8:14 AM, Gillard Lies. Labor Dies. wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:28 someone claiming to be Oy Rool Out a Carbon
>>>>>>> Tax
>>>>>>> posting as gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid posted:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think earth hour is silly, not sure what it's supposed to
>>>>>>>>> prove to
>>>>>>>>> whom, but if it doesn't make people appreciate where their energy
>>>>>>>>> comes
>>>>>>>>> from now I can't see much point at all.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's like lots of fuzzy green things. It enables people to feel 
>>>>>>>> good
>>>>>>>> about themselves, and more pious than those who didn't. Then it's
>>>>>>>> back
>>>>>>>> into the SUV next day. Whoops! Forgot about it again.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I felt good about it last night.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I raced around the house, turned on the ac, and made sure all lights
>>>>>>> were on
>>>>>>> as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gee, and I even slept well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope Flannery didn't find out about it. He would tell his Earth
>>>>>> monster Gaia when he talks to it (it has developed consciousness now,
>>>>>> you know) and you will get demerits placed against your name, come
>>>>>> Gaia's Judgement Day.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> "If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to 
>>>>>> drop
>>>>>> for about a thousand years. "
>>>>>> -- Tim (it ain't a gonna rain no more) Flannery
>>>>>> - Australian Climate Commissar
>>>>>
>>>>> Seen that fuckwit Brown's latest offerings?
>>>>>
>>>>> Aliens aren't contacting us because they "extincted" themselves 
>>>>> through
>>>>> not being Green enough, and,
>>>>>
>>>>> His Watermelon one world government where the Chinese and Indians will
>>>>> be able to vote us into slavery through their massive population
>>>>> (not so
>>>>> Green, but Bob doesn't seem to notice) voting advantage.
>>>>>
>>>>> All this delivered while wearing his trademark Cheshire cat grin and
>>>>> disturbing and disturbed loopy eyes.
>>>>>
>>>>> The thing is a freak. Does us all a favour, Tasmania, it was a good
>>>>> joke, but the joke's over. Get rid of him.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brilliantly thought through, wasn't it... "one person one vote one
>>>> value" Chinks RuLe oK!
>>>>
>>>
>>> So it wouldn't be like the UN general assembly, with one vote per member
>>> country?
>>>
>>
>> So it's not really utopian democratic global government after all? Just
>> a purely elitist UN dictatorship? What about the poor non-member
>> countries? What about those who haven't signed up to, say, the UN
>> Refugee Convention? Do they get to have a vote or don't they "qualify"?
>> And what happened to the one *person* one vote? How do we know the
>> member country representative will be voting on behalf of all persons of
>> their member country? It would seem impossible if the votes in that
>> country varied in any way from unanimity. Sounds even more poorly
>> thought through than it first appears. Oh dear. :-(
>>
>
> Would you prefer the UN was one vote one person? 193 countries seem ok 
> with it the way it is.

Seriously?

-- 
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not 
want merely because you think it would be good for him".

Robert A. Heinlein.

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