[ale] ["Topic"? I don't think it means what you think it means] Re: Incompetent corporate web sites

Thompson Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sat Oct 24 09:51:41 EDT 2009


The idea has some merit, but at that level of invasion  
_nobody_ will have much interest in working hard enough to  
be elected in the first place. Better we come up with some  
"positive" steps as opposed to just being punitive all the  
time.

Of course, just what sort of positive steps would work is  
something I'd like to know also. 8-(

On 10/23/2009 11:36:25 AM, JK wrote:
> Seriously, I've thought for years that all elected
> officials should have
> to wear a wire at ALL times.  They would have no
> indication of whether
> anyone was listening at any given time.   Yeah, it's an
> invasion of
> privacy.  Boo hoo.  I've read from "reliable" sources that
> there's no
> Constitutional right to privacy  :-/
> 
> -- JK
> 
> 
> Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Heh, heh, heh. Can you imagine if they were _REQUIRED_
> to be
> > constantly publicly recorded? Everything they say and do
> and who they
> > talk with is recorded for later publishing. They can hit
> the bathroom
> > once it's EMPTY and they must leave their cell phone
> with the camera
> > crew.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, William Bagwell
> <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
> >> On Thursday 22 October 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>> (maybe we should ban sequential terms in office - one
> term, get out,
> >>> wait a term, run again. hmmm.).
> >> An engineer I worked with many years ago took it a step
> further and
> >> suggested automatic jail terms. Four years in office,
> four years in jail.
> >> Your idea would certainly be a step in the right
> direction!
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