ok joining a bit late to conversation but its not long since i started browsing this forum...
i study History-Arhaiology and my hobby (exept Daoc) is history and war&political aspects of those
well i didnt have any opinion on english goverment (now its just blind followers of US policy as i see it) but some other posts are not only about that, so i saw few flaws in some posts from my point of view here we go:
Ovi wrote:Because if enough people don't vote you end up with a Dictatorship or "one-party" state? At which point those not voting would wish they had taken the time to vote.
I think the best example of a people not taking enough interest in voting or what they were voting for was Germany in the 1930s, remember Hitler was elected!
However crud our politicians are today, none of them are quite that bad!
first: well US goverment+allies (both got politicians) atmo that killed and killing lots of ppl like Hitler did ... with concentration camps over the world/warmashines that destroy everything and many major companies that manifacture weapons or comming after destruction to "rebuild" or to profit after that (dont forget he was seening that this was right way and many germans followed him to this doom-dream)
second: the election of Hitler was supported by many ... he actually tried many times to get power in Germany until he succeded and was also "pushed" by the "restrictions" and obligation to pay them that allies put on Germany after that WW1 also followed by economic crisis all over the world
Banana wrote:youd prefer them to be terrified.
peeps keep saying america and britian were wrong to start this and perhaps they were however sadam and the ppl in charge were pure evil to those peeps who lived there. But the only reason they went in in the first place was because when they first got there they ASKED if they could have osma and sadam refused. Peeps forget that bit...
hhhhhmmmmm
Osama who in Iraq???
than dont see things from the wester part of view ... in the Easy its not "democracy" and i doubt it ever be so called democracy ... they got rulers (aka kings) who can be called presidets etc and voted but u ever see same ppl from same family on throne (father->son->grandson etc) and their rulers have absolute power over the life and death of their subjects. Belive me it was like this from long long time ago and will be like this for long long time from now, so considering those i wouldnt say his regein was pure evil as u say, perchaps bad from our point of view yes. Than they ASKED to give Osama? Than they said Iraq got weapons of mass destuction ... than they said ... and list goes on ... and in the end we see major petrol companies benefiting from Iraq pertol (oh ye and their facilities are guarded by mercenaries there and they are many there btw aka.
Blackwealth mercenary company and others), they never found Osama there as well, the coutry is in absolut chaos, killing everywhere, britch and american soldiers turchuring iraqi and others in new concentration camps (aka.
Guantanamo and many others)
i dont want to remind u about Kossovo and Serbian incedent years before ...
when before in british press and all over other world albanias was called killers/reapers etc than it all suddenly changed (BBC in 1996-7 was at least i saw it) and Serbian suddenly became the bad dudes...
so "NATO" desided to help (UCK = albanian liberation army also one of the bigest drug and weapon dealers in the world atmo) ... the did the same in Afganistan with the "Northen alliance" (on the same foot: one of the bigest heroin pruduction and destributers in the world)
so tell me whos evil at the end???