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Do you trust your goverment blindly?

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Mithrantir, Apr 17, 2003.

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  1. rastilin Gems: 8/31
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    Food for thought, but who trusts press releases anymore?

    "In age we are varied"
    "In cynycism we're about 1000"
    -me

    And it is as it should be. There's nothing much we can do about our government now anyway short of running for election and actually keeping our promises once we get in power. Mind you if one of you guys does run you've got my vote. Maybe we could run a can of tuna for election, maybe it could actually get elected, a jackal kept power for 15 years this way.
     
    rastilin, May 28, 2003
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  2. Rotku

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    So many Australians here.
    Well anyway back to the subject
    @ rastilin
    There is something we can do in "democratic" countries like Australia, we can vote for someone who will keep their promises.
    I would love to run for the elections but I'm not old enough yet :( . And I disagree with all the main parties in New Zealand any way so that is a problem.

    [ May 28, 2003, 11:21: Message edited by: RotKU ]
     
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    So you could pretend to agree until you get into power then stab them all in the back.

    I was wondering though, this might be off topic but if no one trusts their government then how come people can trust god, I would place more trust in someone I could penalize if they failed me than someone whose entire existence I have to take on faith.
     
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    If there was no god, human beings would be so fragile and vulnerable, it would be a rather sad state of things.

    Lol, and if your unhappy with your goverment, try democracy instead, then you can be unhappy with your neighbour. ;) :D

    And we would be pleased to see some democracies emerge in my neighbouring countries, which are still monarchies. An old habit, which is hard to get rid off.
     
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    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    Finally (after 3/4 months) the Dutch have a government, still doesn't mean I trust them though :p
     
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    This is a rather hillarious incident from our politicians.
    There elections and the party that was in the goverment is re-elected. The new prime minister (who was also the old one) comes to the parliament to take the vow with the new goverment (which was more or less the same with the former one). He takes the vow and then he goes to the podium to make a speech. At one point he starts to talk about HIS former goverment and he says:
    The former goverment left behind a total chaos in the state departments :confused: :D :spin:
    Now that is a statement and i still think that they believe we are idiots
     
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