[ale] OMG politics goes digital?

[James P. Kinney III]

There was an episode of Dr. Who where people were drafted for civil
service. The job of President was to least desired job. The Pres would
make decisions and then strap into a "voting machine". The population
would vote their approval of his decision by remote control. The more
people disapproved, the higher the electric shock the Pres would get in
the machine. 

Makes one think...

On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 15:24, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Robert Heaven wrote:
> > 
> > I have the solution... stop "electing" the mouthpiece that the big money
> > corporations put up for election and start "selecting" our government
> > representatives by random draft of ordinary citizens. If we're smart
> > enough to serve on jury duty, standing in judgement of peoples lives,
> > then we're MORE than smart enough to serve in congress. Then, and ONLY
> > then, will we have a government "of the people, by the people and for
> > the people" instead of the mess we have now. (i.e., by the corporation,
> > for the corporation)
> 
> Boy, that's an interesting thought.  The downside is that many people
> are just plain fools - but you know, maybe if we lived in a society
> where there was a chance that we might be chosen for a stint in public
> service, then perhaps people might feel like they NEED to be able to
> read and write well, engage in critical thought, show up places on time,
> know the difference between a cubic foot and a furlong, etc.  I'd rather
> live in THAT kind of society.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> ---
> This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
> See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should be 
> sent to listmaster at ale dot org.
> 
-- 
James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244             \.___________________________./

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 



 PGP signature