We're not as "free" as we think
Aug. 16th, 2005 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skylark913http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_voting_rights
Some people know how Puerto Rico can't vote. But they don't have to pay taxes either. The people in the Districat of Columbia still have to do everything that people in the states do, but they don't have any say in it. They bring the right to vote to Iraqi's, but some of our US citizens are still denied it? Does that really make sense? We need to deal with the problems in our country before we go off policing the world. Who made that the job of the US anyways. Why does it even need to be done. We shouldn't be getting involved anywhere until our own problems here are solved. Not only is it hypocritical, but it's also wasting the money that could be used to fix it here, as well as a great deal of lives. If people want to go over there and help, by all means they should go. But it should not be with government funding, approval and backing. They can go over there and start whatever kind of revolution they want, without a government. If the people in that country really want it to happen, then when someone ignites the kindling of unrest that's there, then they'll spark up too and join in. If a whole people revolt, change is inevitable. You don't need foreign governments for that.
Alright, I'm done getting working up for now. Ciao!
Some people know how Puerto Rico can't vote. But they don't have to pay taxes either. The people in the Districat of Columbia still have to do everything that people in the states do, but they don't have any say in it. They bring the right to vote to Iraqi's, but some of our US citizens are still denied it? Does that really make sense? We need to deal with the problems in our country before we go off policing the world. Who made that the job of the US anyways. Why does it even need to be done. We shouldn't be getting involved anywhere until our own problems here are solved. Not only is it hypocritical, but it's also wasting the money that could be used to fix it here, as well as a great deal of lives. If people want to go over there and help, by all means they should go. But it should not be with government funding, approval and backing. They can go over there and start whatever kind of revolution they want, without a government. If the people in that country really want it to happen, then when someone ignites the kindling of unrest that's there, then they'll spark up too and join in. If a whole people revolt, change is inevitable. You don't need foreign governments for that.
Alright, I'm done getting working up for now. Ciao!
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Re: Hypocrisy
Date: 2005-08-19 07:32 am (UTC)Re: Hypocrisy
Date: 2005-08-20 09:47 pm (UTC)Re: Hypocrisy
Date: 2005-08-25 06:11 pm (UTC)"we can compare Iraq to DC because we thought it was so necessary to send soldiers into a foreign country to fight and die to give them freedoms like voting. We can send people to fight and die for a foreign nation's rights but we can't give our own citizens those rights?"
Taking out a tyranical dictator obviously should take some priority. If it's that easy to give D.C. voting rights, why don't you suggest that to your congressmen? You don't have anything to gain by arguing with me that it's a good idea. And I don't think the United States is "forcing" any ideas on any countries.