VOTE?... So how many people here are actually registered to vote .. If you aren't then why aren't you? Is it out of choice or financial reasons I can't vote as it means that I would have to pay lots of extra cash each month to be on the electoral roll .. seems you have to have an address too and the boat doesn't qualify, nor does a vechicle. Great way to keep people like me from voting wonder if I could live in a postal box?. But after all I am a halfwit and would only waste my vote so the less people like me vote the better it is for everyone else . right . Maon.
hahaahaahhahaaaaa! i cant vote either dude, as i have no registered address, but i would prefer the life of a wandering non voter than a permanently housed voter... i have recieved in the post to my current house over 10 voting forms however...for other people...the house has been rented so many times i have loads of names i could vote under... do you want to be vincenzo macheninie?
i'm a few weeks off being aloud to vote and to be honest....i dont want to vote... sounds dumb but... i cant deal with it. my brain cant comprehend the idea of chooseing someone to run the way i live. Maon if it was still true that because u dont live in a house you've chosen to go outside society and therefore lost your right to vote...surely that means that as you are not part of the political society you no longer would have to abide by the laws and rules that the political society applies to us. ... just a thought.
firstly .. a common myth dispelled .. just because people choose to live on the road doesn.t mean that they have abandoned society .. it purely means they want to live on the road. It is society which rejects them more often than not. Secondly I should still retain the right to vote as no matter how deep in the forest I live society can still come and chop down that forest I have chosen to live in and what happens in society still has a direct effect on myself. Thirdly I don't live outside society or pretend to and I still live within its laws. finally you can't comprehend choosing someone to run the way you live? Read the above points Its a very slack attitude if you can't be bothered to spend half a day checking or asking someone who knows what the options are to at least have a say in who heads the country you live in. You can't completly get away from society and the effects is has on your life here so you should take a little time to use that privelledge that so many have struggled to give you. So if you can then do. Why did you participate in the lockdown in the road at Faslane .. because it was fun and cool or because you wanted to make a differece?
WOOOOOOOOOAAAAH! calm down the comment i made about chooseing to be outside society was in reguard to what the law used to be and how THEY said you had chosen to be outside society... you of all people should know me well enough to know i wouldnt sujjest that someone who doesnt live in a house doesnt have a right in society because i lived 2 years of my life on the road. And yes i did lock-on at faslane to make a difference and yes i protested against the war to make a difference.. but does that mean i think i can choose a group of people and their personal lies telling me what they "wil" do to our country? Just because i choose not to vote does not mean i dont want to do things to change whats going on around me, it just means i dont feel asured that the people who im offerd the choise to vote for are people i trust! My knowlege of Political history and Political issues at presant is very poor, i know my moral beleifs yes, but as far as realting them to the political state of the world and country and deciding what it is i want i cant comprehend that. for a start i am 17, and as mature as i come across i am still a child at heart, its liek giving the right to 16 years olds to have a child, i dont think i was ready at 16 to have a child and i dont think i was ready at 17 to learn to drive or to have that responsibility and now at 18 (almost) i dont persoanlly think i have it in me yet to vote, i dont feel ready to do it.
also another thing that gets me is i got told once that i should vote because "women died so i could vote" ... and i argued, no actually women died and fought so as we had the right to choose to vote. back then we had no choice, now we have a choise and i choose not to just yet.
women did die, im not sayign thats why women should vote or they shouldnt but emily pankhurst died in the suffragette movement at the beginnign of the 1900s, trying to attach a suffragette flag to a horse in a big face so it would go across the line with the flag.. she failed.. and died.. i think thats right its years since i did that bit of history..
the reason I highlighted Faslane was because whatever you think at any given age where you become elegible to do certain things which you state and feel you are not ready, as you say, you can still do them. And you should. The way you make a difference is in being able to listen or not to listen to those around you who can inform you of the options available to you. I personally find it difficult to find the correlation (is that the right word?) between imposing an age restriction on being able to do certain things and not. In my travels across a multitude of cultures and lifestyles I have come across those who inherit wisdom at a far earlier age than our western cultures allow due to their elders talking to them on the same level. The post I made to you on the forums for all to see was as more to do with this aspect ... to quote ... I see many beautiful things in you and I see the talent in your art and your vision. Its a great thing. But I see a person who sees herself as being mature for her age. That I believe is a handicap. It will inhibit your growth and make you too defensive. Open up to me and those around you. Listen to them. In my opinion you have the means to be someone who can make an impact in what you choose to do, and for that I will give you all my time (for what it is worth ) At some point you have to trust people as trusting no one leaves you isolated in yourself. Only then will you find people you can trust. Love and peace to you fleassy Giles
I purposely removed myself from the electoral register years ago. I think I can get fined for that but I'm not sure ... they have to catch me first However there is someone who lives here who doesn't exist. He's just had a voting card through the door. I reckon 'someone' must have registered a non-entity at some point ~ very naughty of them What a great and foolproof system ~ I cannot vote because I didn't register yet someone who doesn't exist can.
