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From: learn@ddsw1.MCS.COM (William Vajk)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Amendments
Message-ID: <1991May08.125942.3506@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 8 May 91 12:59:42 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.234221.15210@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991May03.144614.13531@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991May5.021202.19465@eecs.nwu.edu>
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In article <1991May5.021202.19465@eecs.nwu.edu> Patrick A. Townson writes:

>In article <1991May03.144614.13531@ddsw1.MCS.COM> William Vajk writes:

>> It was pointed out to me a number of years ago that folks have the right
>> to not care about politics and the political process. But at the same
>> time, folks who don't participate don't have carry much validity with
>> me when it comes time to complain.

>You'll have to pardon me, but who are YOU that I should be concerned
>with validating what I say or think? Are you a government authority of
>some sort? Can you make things change?  If so, tell me how to go about
>validating my complaints before you ... otherwise, I won't bother.

Then why have you bothered, Patrick ? And so many lines of it too.....
In doing so, you have validated either a position of superiority for me
(not true) or a groveling posture seeking attention from the readers in
this forum (true and successfully.)

>Ah yes, but I should go and vote also -- do a little slovering myself
>for the Demopublicans of my choice, right?

Slovering ? Seems to me that's what many politicians do close to election 
time. But more importantly, whether you like them or not, they are in your 
employ. Someone(s) needs to supervise.

And in that rather large population of elected public servants are some pretty
wonderful folks. It is a popular view with some part of the public to paint
them all with a wide black brush.

On of my friends, a 1956 immigrant, more recently said he thinks that this
country, with all its faults, ranks as number 1 of the best places to live. We 
both come from the same place. I beat his arrival by some 11 years. For him, 
and for me, accident of birth is not the determining factor in our choice to
live here.

I went to grammar school in a time and place where even the straight A report
cards had a handwritten notation at the bottom, "There's always room for
improvement."

Bill Vajk