XPost: can.politics, bc.politics, ab.politics   
   From: someone@somewhere.net   
      
   catchme wrote:   
      
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   > i for one am not against anyone making a buck- however we live in a   
   > democracy, and so there is a thing called rights.   
   > supposedly the only way to take them from us, is if we vote against our   
   > own self interests.   
   > However, lately political parties have done end-runs on that, declaring   
   > that we "gave them a mandate" to run not how they promised, but   
   > according to their OWN self-interests.   
   > This gap in credibility allows for political parties to draft bills   
   > which every year further erodes our democratic rights to the point which   
   > we become de facto citizens of communist government policies, which are   
   > nonetheless driven by multi-national corporations possessing the gdp of   
   > many nations combined.   
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   edit- has the SPENDING power and capital of the gdp of many nations   
   combined.   
   --   
   To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States,   
   Resist much, obey little,   
   Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,   
   Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth,   
   ever after-ward resumes its liberty.   
      
   -Walt Whitman, 1860   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)