FunkDaddy. You melon head.
Alright, so we don’t have a Poly Sci major on our hands here, cool cool. How do i dumb this down… we don’t live in a real democracy, chowder head
Ok, sorry for calling you a chowder head, but maybe you might want to look in to the Canadian electoral system before making snide comments to people who may actually know better then you.
Sure, it looks like a democracy, ok, it smells like a democracy, but brother, that ain’t no democracy. I hate to be the first to tell you this, but if you’re the only person in your riding voting (say) NDP and everyone else in it votes (say) Alliance, you’re vote just doesnt count. Loverly, no?
Even if a few people in every riding vote NDP, say, enough to actually give them the popular vote (ok, ok, stop laughing, it might happen again, some day… or not) that wont matter because in their ridings they will have been out weighed by people split between the Liberals, the Bloc, Joe Clark, Stockboy Day and independants (not to mention the Green party, those nutty Yoga Flyers - bless 'em, etc.)
Isn’t it nice to know you dont matter? (As if Medicare and the education system didn’t teach you that alredy)
But wate, you say, it’s still SOMEWHAT like a democracy. I mean, at least we GET to vote, right? So what? So do Mexicans who must be ERALLY happy with their government because they’ve had the same one for 90 years now - who’s never won with less then 95% of the vote.
But wate, again, you say, we’re NOT mexicans (well at least i’m not). No, my friend, but we are Canadians, which means we have a Governer General with the power of veto over ANYTHING. Yep. Adriean Clarkson, people! Luckily the homeless have nothing to veto or they’d be in real trouble.
Funny you should mention that. Ever hear of a cute lil’ Newfie by the name of Brian Tobin? Give it a couple years.
Well, this really just didn’t make much sence, amigo, but i’ll give it a go anyway. I believe we’ve alredy covered that he wasn’t necessaraly the choice of the people (and even if he was that’s not going to stop me from wishing he’d suddenly burst into flames) so we’ll just more right along.
What is a typical protestar attitude? There there are problems in the world that need to be fixed? that the only way to get government to listen is to take it to the streets? do you disagree with this? How? Where are you getting your crack again? I’ll tell you something brother, i spent a solid week in Quebec City a month before the summet at a conferance trying to go through the “appropriate” channels (protesting, by the way, has always been one) and perhaps we did have some effect. But it isn’t enough. A demonstration like this is just exactly that. A demonstration of numbers, of solidarity and of meaning. It is the closest thing to democracy we have going here.
As for that last part, maybe you should read a little about this, or at least talk to some folks, before you go calling the massive labor and human rights problem of our hemisphere a dead horse (though i’ll agree, it’s getting plenty beaten)
To close, If our government hadn’t built the wall, it wouldn’t have gotten torn down. If our government hadn’t put the RCMP and troops there, there would have been no one for the un-peaceful (and let me make it very VERY clear that i do not in ANY way condone the violence of some of the more militant groups - but may i also point out that they were in the minoraty) to attack.
“My” protest (as you so uninformedly call it) was a protest BY the taxpayers nad may i suggest that you turn off your 6pm news and read a book.
Oh, and Cartoon sorry to jump brother, there’s just way too many people liek this putz around rolling their eyes and clucking their toungues about this. That, and i’d just heard about a few buds who had gotten the gas after charging the fence. Peace amigo.
I will now go out side, smoke my pipe, and watch the lightening storm which just began. Thanks all (please keep in mind that those aren’t actually grammer mistakes, i’m just spelling in metric)
