Friday, November 18th, 2005
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,623
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Re: German political parties and elections
One of the big problems of parliamentary democracy. Every man is equally worthy since value of every man is determined by his possibility to vote. And thus in modern Germany thousands of ethnic Turks are as good as thousands of ethnic Germans for a politician.
Actually, the Turks can be of greater value than the Germans as they make a more compact voting community.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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