Hello Gord;

 -=> Quoting Gord Hannah to Peter Coggon <=-
 GH> Replying to a message from PETER COGGON 1:123/140 to PERRY SMITH,

 GH> Ah but if you had relatives even distant that fought in WWI or WWII or
 GH> even the Korean conflict, and if some never came home, they fought and
 GH> died in vain on your behalf, they were fighting for the right to vote
 GH> for all of us.

  First off Gord...For your information I did have relatives who fought
in WWI and WWII.  They were volunteers.  They didn't need to be 
conscripted as done in Canada.  The issue was not the right to vote
it was all about country and defence of their country. The issues
of WW1 and WW2 were quite different and so were how they started.
There can be no connected to a common issue.... BUT WW1 in my
opinion and the conditions of Armistice laid the groundwork for the
WW2, in part.

While most had it cushy here...my mother was a citizen nurse getting
bombed in a hospital. She cared for all servicmen...both sides, and
after the war she had many contacts with these men until they grew
old and passed.   My father on the other hand...could have enjoyed
a cushy job with his dad...but volunteered in 1939...and was at
Dunkirk.  He was woundered and after the war.... he never got
over it..I watched him from the day I could realize what was
happening to him...how he suffered until he died in 1986.
 
There are few vets today that echo this right to vote as a reason
to go to war.  No WW1 vets would agree with you...due to the situation
that led to WW1...as for WW2...well Adolf Hitler was reason enough.

As for Korea...well that is still at the line of truce.
 
 GH> I agree that Baystreet runs the country, and in my end of this vast
 GH> country Central Canadian results carry the day, it is all over and done
 GH> with by the time the polls close here, we get what the folks in Central
 GH> Canada decide whether we like it or not.  Try that on for size.

 And I am still ticked off that this Bloc bunch....openly wanting
to split from Canada, are feared so much.  I am sick of paying
blackmail to them to keep them in a conferation they do not want.
Try that for size.

 GH> If you want to see change write your MP or MLA and tell them to put:

 GH> "None of the above." on the ballot.

 GH> I wont comment any more.

 GH> Hope this helps.  Keep us posted.

  I usually get some candidates coming around the door, but they
really have not the time to address my concerns. They tell me
to come to the townhall meetings and ask all candidates...when
I get up to ask...I am cutoff...Well???

  I see every election the numbers show less people voting...and
now I have joined that crowd.  It is amazing that it is not
seen as a complete non-confidence in what is happening in Canada?

  Oh well...who cares...I still oppose the national census and their
personal questions that are used by Bay Street again the mums and
dads of this country.

Oh well back to you...

Peter




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