[Fwd: Your message to Sky News]

[Chris Warburton]

Let's hear it for democracy: the tyranny of the majority!!!!

ChrisW
(Having a flashback!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M Holmes [mailto:fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Your message to Sky News]
>
>
> >  ----------- Your original message is below ----------
> >
> > I think the myth of Royalty is past it's sell by date and
> fully support
> > the re-birth of a British republic where members of the
> public can vote
> > for key issues on the internet. People who dont have internet access
> > could visit libraries and internet polling stations.
> >
> > Ben Fagin
> > London
>
> I can see it now: we'll put two hundred paedophiles in a stockade
> festooned with television cameras. Each day they'll have to select two
> of their number and there'll be a public vote as to which one gets
> hanged. Each day the public will be invited to email their favourite
> comic to denounce a neighbour, who'll then be escorted by a mob to the
> stockade. Denounce 50 paedophiles and meet the Queen Mum!
>
> Populism is a wonderful thing and internet voting is a great
> way to make
> it more efficient. You only need to read usenet to see that
> wise policy
> decisions would result from such a system.
>
> FoFP
>
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