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 Message 120 
 Duggy to All 
 Re: Odd re Oz 
 01 Nov 11 11:31:06 
 
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From: Duggy 

On Nov 2, 9:48=A0am, Robert Bannister  wrote:
> On 1/11/11 4:05 PM, Duggy wrote:
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> > On Nov 1, 5:21 pm, LFS =A0wrote:
> >> On 01/11/2011 00:32, Duggy wrote:
> >>> On Oct 31, 11:37 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)"
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:11:18 -0700 (PDT), Duggy
> >>>> wrote:
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> >>>>> How did she become Queen? =A0I didn't vote for her.
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> >>>> She became Queen by right of birth.
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> >>> An' how'd she get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' o=
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> >>> to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an'
> >>> social differences in our society!...
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> >>>> How did you get the right to vote? Did existing citizens vote to giv=
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> >>>> you citizenship? Or are you, like me, someone whose citizenship is b=
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> >>>> right of birth?
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> >>> Supreme power comes from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical
> >>> aquatic ceremony.
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> >> Aquatic? I now have this surreal vision of a coronation conducted
> >> through synchronised swimming.
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> > I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some
> > moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
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> I don't like to break it to you, mate, but the Queen did not attain her
> present position in the way you describe above, nor did any previous
> monarch. "The King is dead; long live the King!" - or Queen, but you
> will notice there is no mention of knife-like objects nor of sexually
> aroused Egyptian women.

Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.  Come and see the
violence inherent in the system!  HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!

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=3D DUG.
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