🚀 go-pugleaf

Andrew Ostrander wrote:
> 
> "snowman" <x@x.x> wrote in message news:J%1_k.7613$ED.5318@newsfe22.iad...
> 
>>>> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:09:02 -0600, "Andrew Ostrander"
>>>> <apanda@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Harper wasn't elected into office.  I didn't see any choice on my 
>>>>> ballot for Harper.  I voted for my local mp.
>>
>> And was your local MP a Liberal, an NDP or a Separatist?  Or was he 
>> 1/3 of each?  Were you voting 1/3 for each one or just *one* party?  
>> See, that's the problem with this little coup, it is one vote, one 
>> party. That's something that Dion, Laytoon and their Separatist allies 
>> fail to understand.
>>
> I don't really get your point.  The Canadian people collectively elected 
> mps from 4 parties, and send them to Ottawa to work out a way to run the 
> country.  The way they've worked out doesn't have Harper as PM.

I've repeated this enough but for your sake, I shall do so once more. 
After the loss of a confidence vote, it is the people who decide the 
government, not three individuals who make backroom deals outside of the 
public scrutiny.  Why should it matter just how soon the last election 
was?  This is a democracy, not a banana republic.

-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------

"If a coup does not make use of the masses, or of warfare,
what instrument of power will enable it to seize control of the state?
The short answer is that the power will come from the state itself."

-Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook
                       By Edward Luttwak