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Originally Posted by Ted We had a homeless alcoholic chosen into the city counsel of Amsterdam in the '20's. His only political point was a free government-drink per day. He won the elections and the poor sod was declared insane and locked away in a luney-bin. How is that for a well oiled democracy? | Of course these are really protest votes, in the UK our method is to vote for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. In fact I know the leader quite well and have attended annual meetings in a local pub. Their defence policy was to declare war on France using peashooters as weapons off the cliffs of Dover, or something like that! http://www.omrlp.com/
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Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. Herman Goering
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