[plug] Internet oppression - watch your backs!

[Bret Busby]

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On 5/5/99, 6:49:51 PM, skribe <skribe at amber.com.au> wrote regarding Re: 
[plug] Internet oppression - watch your backs!:


> On 05-May-99 Bret Busby wrote:
> > We wish! Oh, for democracy!
> >
> > We are not even going to be given a choice as to whether we become a
> > republic; only whether a particular model is to be adopted. If we
> > don't like the model that the people in canberra want to impose on us,
> > tough bikkies; no republic!

> We were given a choice.  That's why we had the constitutional 
convention.

You mean that holiday, for the rich and the famous? That picnic for 
the politicians' mates, that cost $500 a ticket, that was 
non-refundable, so that the average person had no chance of going on, 
unless they were rich, or, had rich friends? How many average 
housewives, or, other, normal, everyday people, were there? What 
representation was there, when the average person was ineligible to 
participate? What democracy? When the rich rule, I believe that it is 
called an oligarchy, not a democracy.

Bret Busby