Man Commits Suicide Over Election.

[GePap]

You are right- just look at yourself

Three cheers for PV! Willing to submit himself to ridicule for the cause of greater idiocy!

[Ming]

Enough with the personal crap folks...

[Starchild]

Sloppy sloppy work. Shotguns are so overkill. He should have used a razor sharp voting ballot to commit seppukku.

[Shi Huangdi]

Ted, there is a huge difference here. THIS IS A DEMOCRACY!

Had Kerry won the election, I would felt "Oh well, well that's that". I would have accepted the verdict of the people. That's the way it works, you fight as hard as you can during the campaign, but once the people have spoken, that's final, we move on, and we deal with whoever we elected.

That is what you all fail to realize. Bush won the election, and the people have spoken, and that is that. This isn't South Vietnam, we have free speech as a means of expressing ourselves to the government, we have the ballot box as a means of expressing ourselves to the government, so we don't need to go burning or shooting ourselves in this country.

[GePap]

There is a difference Ted in the actions of this guy and the Buddhist monk- this action most certainly is NOT protest- protest needs to be seen, its a public act, not a private act. This guy may have gone to somewhere he felt was symbolically significant, but his act was stil a generally private one.

This guy must have had a history of low self-esteem, depression, or deen under great stress that while exacerbated by the election, was not caused by it.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
If I receive a draft notice in the next four years, I won't have any options left...

Cut your right index finger off at the knuckle.

Or, tell, even if they don't ask.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Ted, there is a huge difference here. THIS IS A DEMOCRACY!

Had Kerry won the election, I would felt "Oh well, well that's that". I would have accepted the verdict of the people. That's the way it works, you fight as hard as you can during the campaign, but once the people have spoken, that's final, we move on, and we deal with whoever we elected.

That is what you all fail to realize. Bush won the election, and the people have spoken, and that is that. This isn't South Vietnam, we have free speech as a means of expressing ourselves to the government, we have the ballot box as a means of expressing ourselves to the government, so we don't need to go burning or shooting ourselves in this country.

Yep.

Now I've gotten my annual "agree with BD once a year" out of the way.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Do you understand how pissed at this I am?

You lose an election, you dust yourself off and set up for the next one, because here THERE IS always a next one.

No there isn't. Thee's no guarantee whatsoever that there will ever be another election in the United States. There probably will, but there is a tiny possibility that there won't be.

[Ming]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
No there isn't. Thee's no guarantee whatsoever that there will ever be another election in the United States. There probably will, but there is a tiny possibility that there won't be.

You want to place a huge bet on it... oh please...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ming


You want to place a huge bet on it... oh please...

Sorry I was being logical. It is a fact that Nixon asked whether the military would support him if he mounted a coup d'etat. Fortunately he was told no, they wouldn't.

Let me Godwinize here. In 1933, no one expected the Nazis to seize the government despite winning a plurality. But they used the pretext of the burning of the Reichstag to take control. We had a general say previously that the U.S. was one major terrroist attack away from the end of democracy.

Today, religious nutbags are in control of two branches of government, and their allies control the third (and they mean to take that too). While I expect them to abide by our laws, I at least acknowledge the possiblity that they won't.

[Drake Tungsten]

You know, sometimes I wish I could be as paranoid as some of the people at Poly. I bet the drudgery of my day to day existence could be alleviated if only I truly believed that Bu****ler's agents were poised to swoop down upon me at any given moment...

[GePap]

Given your past posts, just think of a Kerry administration, and I am sure you will reach that level of paranoia just fine.

[Drake Tungsten]

I think a Kerry administration would've been similar to Carter's, which hardly instilled fear and paranoia in anyone, especially our enemies.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
You know, sometimes I wish I could be as paranoid as some of the people at Poly.

Am I paranoid to think I could be stung by a bee? Acknowledging a possibility is not the same thing as saying a thing is happening or will happen. I'm sorry if that's too simple a concept for you.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I think a Kerry administration would've been similar to Carter's, which hardly instilled fear and paranoia in anyone, especially our enemies.

But it would have lead to more peace in the ME, if it were just like a Carter admin.