[plug] [OT] defense, democracy and Linux (was: Columbia)

[Bret Busby]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:

> 
> What we have in both Oz and USA is not a democracy, it's a republic. 

We wish.

Pity the australian feral parliament cheated the people out of the 
choice, and deliberately prevented the people from choosing to become a 
republic.

We are just a federation of british colonies, with some degree of 
autonomy.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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