Rick,<div><br></div><div>Your astute and succinct observation is bang on. You have described my own exasperation to a T - even though (in my case) I thought I would have gotten over it in old age <img src="cid:gtalk.328@goomoji.gmail" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; " goomoji="gtalk.328">.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Seán</div><div>_ _ _ _ _ <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Richard Fairman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.fairman@hotmail.com">richard.fairman@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Thanks for the comments and advice Anita and Les. I just have such a problem with the let's-pretend-that-what-we-have-here-is-democracy posturing of the defenders of the status quo that when truth blazes down upon the ignorance, I naively expect a consensus to develop and a take-to-the-streets movement such as the counter-culture/occupy to ensue. But wow, it somehow still amazes me that true democracy is not what the powers-that-be want, though they like to use it as a buzz-word. I suspect that the system is already too democratic for their tastes, many coming from the dictatorial infrastructure of big business and all.<br>
Rick<br> <br><div><div></div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:leskadar@rogers.com" target="_blank">leskadar@rogers.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a><br>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:27:15 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] letter to editor<div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<div><font face="Arial">Nice letter.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Unfortunately those in office who received the fictitious
right to make the changes needed as described, are clearly not so eager to do
so.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Even more unfortunate, those that vote are even less eager
to insist such changes be made by staying home and not voting.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">les.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font> </div>
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<div style="font:10pt/normal arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="background:rgb(228,228,228);font:10pt/normal arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><b>From:</b>
<a title="richard.fairman@hotmail.com" href="mailto:richard.fairman@hotmail.com" target="_blank">Richard Fairman</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt/normal arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><b>To:</b> <a title="fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">Fair Vote Canada Wat Disc
Group</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt/normal arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:01
PM</div>
<div style="font:10pt/normal arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><b>Subject:</b> [fvc-wat-disc] letter to
editor</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone<br>I sent this letter-to-the-editor at The Record,
to which they responded saying that they would publish it. It was not
published in print but to my knowledge only in their on-line version of Jan.
30 and then, at that, only hidden under "view more articles" that must be
clicked in order to be viewed. Why did they even bother? Clearly,
The Record disagrees with the sentiments.</div>
<div dir="ltr"></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr"><font style color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Democracy means <i>the people rule</i>.
Representative democracy means <i>the people rule through their elected
representatives</i>.<br></font></div><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font>
<div dir="ltr"><font style color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Therefore, if representative democracy is to be
truly rendered, the will of the people must be accurately
represented.<br></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font style color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">The Canadian electoral method fails democracy by
typically awarding false, 60 percent majorities to parties with as little as
35 percent of the electorate's actual support. Thus, the will of the people is
typically deceived, defrauded and deposed, and consequently, the resultant
government illegitimate.<br></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font style color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Only an accurately proportionate voting system
mirrors, honours and serves the supreme will of the people; hence, only
proportional representation can be true to the first principles of
democracy.<br></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#5f497a"><font style size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Let's
repudiate our charade of an electoral system, a system that usurps precedence
over democracy itself, a system that's been in place since women were deprived
of the right to vote and is as morally repugnant. Let's get it right Canada!
</font><font style size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">It's called <em>progress</em>. Proportional
representation <em>is</em> democracy. Let's insist on
it.</font></font></div><font style size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font style color="#7030a0" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#5f497a"></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font style color="#7030a0" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#5f497a"><img style="vertical-align:text-bottom" title="Peace" alt="Peace" width="19" height="19"></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font style color="#7030a0" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#5f497a">Rick
Fairman</font></font></div></div></div>
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