The Law is an Ass, by Philip Ruddock

by Righteous Pragmatist Mon Sep 11, 2006 09:52

Representation in the Dail is based on the proportion the parties recieved of the registered voters who voted. The government is formed from the parties with the majority stake in the number of votes.

Would you rather than a group of self appointed thugs with no electoral mandate was in power?

by Seán Ryan Sun Sep 10, 2006 20:41

I wont get started on Bush. This will be a very short comment.

Majorities are a strange phenomena.

If one were to act on the will expressed by the majority vote in this country, not a singular arse that currently buffs a seat in Leinster House would even be allowed inside the doors.

The majority of voters in this country, consistantly refuse to exercise their votes. This was highlighted even more than ever recently with the voting register scandal.

by Righteous Pragmatist Sun Sep 10, 2006 14:18

There are many types of extremist political groups such as -
Islamic groups that want to maked society Islamic
Christian groups who want all society to become Christian
Socialists who want to end capitalism and establish a perfectly communal society.
Eco groups who want to humanity to return to primitive tribal hunter gatherer societies.

In a free society such groups have the right to associate, speak or publish their views.
They have nothing to fear as long as they respect the democratic system.
Before their ideology is adopted as the legitimate authority in society they must first be elected as the majority political grouping the parliament or congress.
If groups like these use force - either armed rebellion or sporadic and indiscriminate violence using bombings or shootings or hostage taking or threatening the use of WMD then they are terror groups and their members are terrorists.