← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · sylver
Thread ID: 13562 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-05-06
2004-05-06 00:06 | User Profile
You Should NOT Vote Ifââ¬Â¦ (A public service message)
* You get your facts from corporate TV news or radio
* You have no factual information about the issues
* You do not hold your government accountable
* You support a candidate without specific reasons
* You believe what is said in ââ¬Åsmearââ¬Â campaign ads
ARE YOU AN INFORMED VOTER? DO YOU KNOWââ¬Â¦
* How many convicted felons George W. Bush has appointed to office?
* How many international treaties the Bush administration has broken?
Moreââ¬Â¦
[url]http://tvnewslies.org/html/you_should_not_vote_if___.html[/url]
2004-05-12 03:06 | User Profile
I would like to see literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration, as well as a loyalty oath. Something similar to the Athenian oath which went like this:
"We will never bring disgrace on this our City by an act of dishonesty or cowardice.
We will fight for the ideals and Sacred Things of the City both alone and with many.
We will revere and obey the City's laws, and will do our best to incite a like reverence and respect in those above us who are prone to annul them or set them at naught.
We will strive increasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty.
Thus in all these ways we will transmit this City, not only not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us."