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Sunday, June 25, 2006
| Category: Links The magnificent Diogenes' Lamp is always a good read. Yesterday's posts had a couple of magnificent quotable points. The first, suggesting people get the vote six years after finishing their education, also makes the point... When the British franchise was extended to all males over the age of 21y, one writer pointed out that it would mean that political freedom would decline, as soon as the populace realized that they could vote themselves money coercively taken from others.That goes some way towards explaining John Howard's disgraceful vote buying spree before the '04 federal election. The second posting is about Africanism but has this to say about Europe... The European Union hasn’t even worked for EUrope, where it is simply creating a pan-authoritarian state, and succeeding where Napoleon and Hitler both failed. |
