MaxedOutMama
Saturday, October 23, 2004
But really, folks
I found an article by Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian from September 22, 2004 entitled "Still No Votes In Leipzig", in which he argues very seriously that Britons should have the right to vote in our elections. Evidently the project to affect the vote in Ohio was an attempt to accomplish this goal in a slightly different manner.
I'm thinking his argument over quite seriously. I think the prerequisite, of course, should be that British voters would have to pay the US income tax. Of course, there would be cheating, so first we would demand a binding extradition treaty with the UK which allowed us to seize their property if they didn't cough up. Also we would need to have the UK government agree to report all UK income to the US, so we'd know if the US taxes were being paid.
Seriously though, doesn't the man understand that his argument parses out to:
- What one state does affects the citizens of another state,
- Therefore all citizens of every state should have the right to vote in another state's elections,
- We are really all one nation,
- All these individual nations should be abolished - the only just situation is one world government.
I'm thinking his argument over quite seriously. I think the prerequisite, of course, should be that British voters would have to pay the US income tax. Of course, there would be cheating, so first we would demand a binding extradition treaty with the UK which allowed us to seize their property if they didn't cough up. Also we would need to have the UK government agree to report all UK income to the US, so we'd know if the US taxes were being paid.
Seriously though, doesn't the man understand that his argument parses out to:
- What one state does affects the citizens of another state,
- Therefore all citizens of every state should have the right to vote in another state's elections,
- We are really all one nation,
- All these individual nations should be abolished - the only just situation is one world government.
