Posted on 08/29/2003 1:11:51 PM PDT by nwrep
A group of 3 Dutch private citizens has formed an internationalist website called The World Votes to register worldwide choices in the 2004 Presidential Elections.
This is an obvious attempt to highlight the unpopularity of President Bush among the America-hating, envious, statist citizens of the UN-worshipping world. As election day draws closer, expect these clowns to be featured on important news stories worldwide in an effort to influence public opinion in the United States.
They are hoping to show that voting for Bush is an extremely unfavorable choice among the "world citizens", thereby dissuading the US citizens from voting for Bush, and instead, casting a ballot which better reflects the opinion of the World.
Great opportunity to Freep the polls, but expect to be overwhelmed by about 500-1 as election day approaches.
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"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth." - Carl Sagan days from now, U.S. citizens will elect their new President. The outcome of these elections directly influences the lives of citizens around the world. In an effort to establish global democracy, theworldvotes.org gives people all around the world a voice in the forthcoming U.S. Presidential Election. Ensure that your voice is heard by casting your vote electronically and add momentum to a worldwide drive to establish global democracy. Who can vote? All citizens around the world who are committed to building a democratic international system of governance that is based on respect for universal human rights. When to vote? You can ! Every global citizen registered will receive an electronic ballot before the Presidential Election Day. From among registered voters, regular surveys will be conducted in the run up to the Presidential elections to monitor the preferences among citizens globally. Results published? The final outcome of the global vote for the U.S. President will be published on November 2, 2004. During the election campaign, intermediate polls will be published as well. How does it work? Simple. . In course, you will be invited to cast your vote electronically on theworldvotes.org, and monitor the results on the website or in the news that day. Mobilize your friends on the Internet to register as well. Electoral oversight? A global Electoral Commission will be established to validate the election process and results. It consists of the most experienced managers of national elections. What to do meanwhile? Democracy is built through engagement in dialogue. All citizens, including U.S. citizens, are most welcome to engage in this dialogue. Casting your ballot is an excellent way to express your voice and to make yourself heard. Opinion leaders and journalists from various continents will be asked to publish their thoughts about global democracy on this site. Who are the initiators? The initiative is taken by a who want to apply new technologies to provide citizens around the world with a voice in elections that affects us all. The initiative is planted as a seed for gestation on the Internet. You are free to join the initiative by casting your vote electronically. Democracy promoting organizations on various continents have been requested to host the initiative and to guide it along to the climax at the Presidential Election Day scheduled for November 2, 2004. Participate in this experiment! There has been a lot of writing and discussion about e-democracy. Can the Internet really change the way a nation, or even the world, is governed? Theworldvotes.org is the first global e-democracy experiment - ! U.S. Citizens: please note! Casting your vote on theworldvotes.org does not mean that you have voted officially. We encourage U.S. citizens to cast their vote in their traditional polling station as well. |
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Can we just let them go defend the holdings of Royal Dutch Shell on their own.
"There are two things I hate: people intolerant to others’ cultures, and the Dutch."
Thanks Michael!
Sad - but good pun, tho!
I found a paper - see excerpt below, there may be the promise of some reality therapy for the Dutch before it all goes under?
THE NETWORK SOCIETY AND THE SOLIDARITY CONTRACT
Challenges for Social Policy in the Era of Information and Globalisation, by Erik de Gier, University of Amsterdam
"The Netherlands experienced in 2002 a relatively strong political and social upheaval, till that moment unknown in the post-World War II years. Then, the existing sustainable pragmatist political coalition of social democrats and liberals suddenly lost massively social support in favour of a populist right-wing political party whose party leader has just been assassinated.
This new party for the first time publicly played the anti-immigrants playing card. The overwhelming political success of this party during the parliamentary elections in spring was only one of the expressions of an unforeseen social dissatisfaction at a large scale. The troubled relation between citizens, and between citizens and government reached its peak in the first half of 2002 (De Gier 2002).
The background of this dissatisfaction is the deeply felt experience of uncertainty and unsafety of many people in their daily life situation and as a consequence the decline of trust between people, and between the population and the government. Vos relates this directly to the informational revolution (Vos 2002). She states that the feeling of uncertainty and unsafety of people is based on the gradual decline of social cohesion in many neighbourhoods of cities in The Netherlands. Also neighbourhoods experience a development from a more traditional neighbourhood society to a network society. Geographical closeness of people in neighbourhoods as such, is not sufficient anymore for the creation of social cohesion (also Van Beek 2003)."
Aren't these the same people that came up with the bright idea of WOODEN SHOES?
Wooden shoes used to be quite common all over Europe, or at least in the northwest of Europe where you get lots of wet weather. Keeps your feet up and out of the mud.
In the middle ages there were even hinged wooden shoes, with straps to tie your regular shoes into it. The hinges allowed a more natural motion of the foot, but the wooden "sole" allowed one to wear ordinary shoes with these whilst staying above the mud. A kind of "outdoor shoe" to protect your good "indoor shoe".
Research the origins of the word sabotage. Hint: it's from a French word for wooden shoe.
In fact, here in the States we have people calling illegal aliens "undocumented immigrants" and they want to give them in-state college tuition, drivers licenses, welfare, etc., so why not let them vote too? We have the same kind of crazy people here in the States, so let's not jump on the Dutch because they have a few nuts of their own.
I'm not so sure ... there are a lot of stupid American voters who want only "to vote for the winner" and this DU site will be letting them know for whom to vote.
I'm hoping that it will tick off all those "mock voters" whose own countries do not even hold elections.
Great Idea! This is going to work nicely in cities like Washington D.C., Newark, Baltimore, etc.
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