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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:59:00 CDT
From:         "Phil Gerdes K-State Univ." <PHILG@KSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Somalia/Bosnia or UN and US politics

From:         AHMED@DAYTON.BITNET >
>Give me a break..Why should the UN not be able to take any action against
>the U.S. or China?.....The UN may not be US's alone, so its got 4
>others, many of whom begging the U.S. for support....

The UN can take any action the UN wants to take against any county in
the world.  The UN is a group of nations meeting at one place and they
can discuss anything they want.  If a single nation does something
that the group of nations think is dangerous to world peace, then that
group of nations is free to combine their efforts and do something
about it.  When was the last time the USofA did something that the UN
thought needed any negitive attention?  The USofA wants the UN involved
and they use the UN as much as possible.  Just because the USofA makes
good decisions and works well within the system doesn't make the UN
any less a world organization.  If the UN never did anything the USofA
wanted would this make the UN a better organization?

>For the UN to be truly seen as a ffair body, everybody should be equal..

Why?  A nation of 200,000 is equal to a nation of 2,000,000,000?  How is
that possible?  In the general assemble they each get one vote and that's
about as equal as they can get.

>Its not my Gov't...and yes, I stopped voting....  If it was the peoples
>government, we would have national health insurance, gun control, no
>PAC's such as the AMA, the NRA and so on....

Just because YOU want those things doesn't mean the people want them.
I see nothing good about national health insurance.  If you want
national hospitals located around the country, okay.  Government pays
to train a doctor and that doctor works in the government hospital,
for 10 years, pick a number, fine.  I would go for that idea. But
I don't want my government to say there is only one health insurance.
I want a choice.  If you stopped voting then you are saying.."It doesn't
matter who wins, I will be happy with whoever is elected."  A no vote
sends a positive message to the government.

>We are already the only so called democracy where there is such low voter
>turnout, because to most its a one party system with two branches,
>Republican and democrats....The only thing we can be proud of as far as
>our election process is concerned is that we have the best looking
>white male presidents....no glasses, no smokers, no bald presidents,
>no fat presidents, no ugly birthmarks on face, no woman president....

If that is how you feel, I am glad you don't vote, you are helping me
keep things from being changed.  You seem to be swayed by non-important
things and are easy to control.

>I could go on and on......but its a waste of time as you seem to
>believe that "anyone can grow up to be president in the U.S."...

No, only natural born citizens can be President of the U.S. and for
good reason.  Dan Quayle is proof that anyone that wants to hold a
public office and it willing to work can make it.  I think if something
happens contrary to your belief, it is invisible to you.  You can't
see and don't listen, thank you for not voting...

-Phil--------------PHILG@KSUVM----------"Phir Milengay."-------------
                   Did Adam and Eve have navels?
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