From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 17 9:31:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4257437B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:31:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA07128 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:31:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:45:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE In-Reply-To: <20001116212419.A62405@citusc17.usc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus > to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your > independence, effective today. The networks have propogated the myth that an election outcome is determined by the networks before the ten o'clock news on Tuesday night. People have come to accept this. This is not the case. The terribleness of our purported inability to select a President is a _created_ story. We have selected a President. We just don't know the official results yet. Hey, every four years we have 8 weeks to get it figured out. My point is that a vote is not decided until all the votes are in, in every state, counted by whatever rules that state provides. What people have come to accept as fact is merely a prediction by the networks. This year is different only in that the prediction cannot yet be made by the networks. It only appears that we have taken an inordinate amount of time. Our system of selecting leaders is no different than it has ever been. The media has to make a story out of this to perpetuate the myth that elections are decided _on_ Tuesday. I am not ranting too hard here. I just want people to recognize that what the media tell us and the truth are two different things. (Pending litigations aside.) And BTW, I thought this forward was cute. I especially liked the digs on American football and wearing body armor like "nancies". :) Frankly, I have become bored with the sport I once played. I like watching basketball. A lot more happens and it happens much more quickly. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message