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From: dougu@daemon.UUCP (Doug Urner)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: America-bashing
Message-ID: <991@daemon.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 16:19:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 16:19:36 1985
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Reply-To: dougu@daemon.UUCP (Doug Urner)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

>>> If a majority votes somebody into public office it is our RESPONSIBILTY
>>> to monitor their actions and to have them reflect our feelings, but with
>>> and appointed position I for one assume NO guilt for their actions. Does
>>> anybody remember James Watt for example.
>>>
>>>                                           --Bob Nebert--
>>>                                      Burroughs Corp. San Diego

Ahem, but I beg to differ.  Our government is our govenment no matter how it
gets there.  If I, or anyone else, wants to be absolved of responsibility for
the actions of our government then I had better be involved in defining the
policies of our government.  (I guess I'm making an assumption here... :-)
Anything else seems to me to be, perhaps implicit, approval of the actions of
our government.  But then that is the way of a democracy, however flawed.

I do, by the way, remember James Watt and I like to think that I did my part
to make it a little harder for him to run amuck in the woods.  I certianly
wasn't going to sit around and let him have his way just because I didn't get
a chance to vote against the @*%&!.
-- 

				Doug Urner
				Small Systems Support Group, Tektronix, Inc

				(503)627-5037

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