Saturday May 20, 2006 Weblog
Saturday May 20, 2006 So I'm filling out my DMV form, here in CA, and I come to a section that says VOTER REGISTRATION. What the heck? Since when has voting had anything to do with driving?
Over the page, I find the voter registration form and it is then that I see something truely horrifying - a section for you to nominate your party, oh, and one out of the 8 squares says "I decline".
Doesn't anyone realise that even attempting to collect this kind of information, on the kind of scale that this represents, is dangerous? Why does the DMV care at all whether or not you vote? Not only should this question not exist, but this whole form belongs somewhere else.
It is one thing for each party to have a list of its own members or registered voters, but it is alltogether completely different for a government body to even attempt to collect this kind of information. But when the time comes for them to ask people to line up against the wall, they will know which doors to start knocking on...
( May 20 2006, 04:58:17 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]The propoganda to build up public support for anti-Iranian policies is building up steam with a recent statement by leading politicians in the USA/Canada/Australia about a new law that has been supposedly passed by the Iranian government. In this story/ it spends the first half talking about what is coming out of the mouths of the leaders of our nations.
The story then goes on, to look at what is actually happening in Iran and wouldn't you know it, it is completely different to the news bites from our political leaders.
Now, if you were Iran, wouldn't you be upset by this?
But it makes you wonder, what are Bush/Howard & co. trying to achieve by going to the media with exagerations/lies like this?
( May 20 2006, 04:22:30 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]
