🚀 go-pugleaf

In the _*Original*_ representative democracy, 2 women's votes equalled
three men's and you couldn't expect help diggin' a shithouse without
a vote on where to put it.  That was the Onotonosinae or Iraquois 
confederacy.  And they were also the most militant, warlike lot
on the continent and that includes the Aztecs.  Made the Spartan's
look like gentified wussies.  Damn near wiped Quebec off the map a few 
times in the early days and if they'd had iron there'd be no 
French here and probably no English, either.

What we've got is a rather tawdry compromise that the English cooked
up with to dampen down the ideological backwash from Hiawatha's 
constitution, which began, "We the people...".

Dhu


In article <411d2110.26257726@news.cogeco.ca>,
	mr_mac_daddy45@SPAMSUCKShotmail.com (Greg Macdonald) writes:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:17:35 GMT, tsarkon
> <tsarkon@freedfromthekillfile.com> spake: 
> 
>>Greg Macdonald wrote:
>>
>>> On 12 Aug 2004 09:04:03 -0700, panpiotrglownia@wowmail.com
>>> (PanPiotrGlownia) spake: 
>>> 
>>> [start loon quote]
>>> 
>>>>In Canada, the disgusting perverts and AIDS-spreaders seem to have
>>>>extra rights, not available to normal,law-abiding citizens!!
>>>>
>>>>Criminals,as long as they are fags, seem able to escape their just
>>>>penalties for their crimes, while normal people must go to jail.
>>>>
>>>>This is definitely not fair, but what can one expect from judges who
>>>>in many cases, themselves are either fags, or child molesters,or
>>>>frequenters of prostitutes,or similar?
>>>>
>>>>Canada needs a complete revision of the so-called justice system.
>>>>
>>>>Judges should be ELECTED, to better reflect the wishes of their
>>>>constituents, rather than being appointed by the government in power,
>>>>doing what the government wishes instead!
>>> 
>>> [end loon quote]
>>> 
>>> So your solution to having judges controlled by elected officials is
>>> to make them elected officials themselves? 
>>> 
>>> Yeah, you definitely need a refill on the meds.
>>
>>Then they are accountable to us, the public. If they go soft on crime 
>>and screw around they're gone. The caveat here should be some hardcore 
>>campaign finance law and judicial review processes.
> 
> So we don't like elected government officials, and feel they're out of
> control and do what they like, yet we'll be able to control elected
> judges? 
> 
> There's enough criticism of judges for being politically motivated
> now: how is electing them going to improve the justice system?
> 
> 
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> Life is just one damned thing after another.
> -Elbert Hubbard
> 
> 

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