Daarken
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Re: Government Does Not Equal People anymore
Considering I lived in that city for 10 years, and go there all the time, I have followed this project since it was first mentioned here and locally.
The incumbent providers used every means in the book, to get the citizens from lafayette to vote against this FTTH project.
They had telemarketers call votes, and give them miss-information, to the point where they had 2 "local citizens" who could not be found in any phone book, or city directory file a law suit against them. One law suit was dropped without a reason, the other was lost, and appealed. I can promise you an ordinary citizen would not be paying for those legal bills. *waves at Bellsouth*
Considering I have Cox cable from that area, and Currently pay $55 a month for a 9mb/1mb package, I'd love to see a faster connection at a lower cost. I had Bellsouth DSL, but the fastest speed I could get was 1.5mb down.
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Chicago_DSL6
join:2003-08-04
Palatine, IL
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said by Thaler  :said by Ga Dawg :If enough voters voted to confiscate his property would you be in favor of allowing that? You mean like imminent domain? Isn't that still alive and well? Voting is one of the inherit benefits, and downfalls of democracy. On the one hand, everyone gets a say. On the other, individual(s) on the losing vote don't get their way - kinda hard to appease both camps. Last I checked, America (for the most part) has agreed to a variety of "majority vote" systems. The U.S. is not democratic, it is a republic. |
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tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL
| reply to Ga Dawg
Government has that ability, yes; albiet, in a form that requires just compensation for the previous landowner's troubles.
Of course, that isn't a terribly popular measure, as you might expect. But, it still does happen these days.
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Thaler
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join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA
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said by Ga Dawg :If enough voters voted to confiscate his property would you be in favor of allowing that? You mean like imminent domain? Isn't that still alive and well?
Voting is one of the inherit benefits, and downfalls of democracy. On the one hand, everyone gets a say. On the other, individual(s) on the losing vote don't get their way - kinda hard to appease both camps. Last I checked, America (for the most part) has agreed to a variety of "majority vote" systems. |
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Ga Dawg
join:2003-09-11
Marietta, GA
| reply to tsu9
said by tsu9 :One citizen. Compared to [enough] voters that said, "Yes." If enough voters voted to confiscate his property would you be in favor of allowing that? |
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tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL | reply to TKJunkMail
One citizen. Compared to [enough] voters that said, "Yes." |
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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·Comcast
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said by Fatal Vector :What you fail to understand is that a corporation as a legal entity has the same basic rights you do as a human citizen. This is why crap like this gets going and goes on and on. If the corporation didn't have the same rights we do, they wouldn't get away with half the crap they do because they wouldn't have the legal rights they hide behind. In this case, though, it wasn't a Corporation that sued. It was a citizen of Lafayette.
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