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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>Pat,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>Anyone who has been paying attention to
the issues and what has transpired in the past 4 years under Bush sure
wouldn't be voting to put him back for another term. I'm thinking that he is
pretty close to a religious fanatic because he said God told him to invade Iraq.
There are enough fanatics running countries in this world and we sure don't need
one running ours.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>Dick Schmidt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=auntiestablishment@hotmail.com
href="mailto:auntiestablishment@hotmail.com">Joan Opyr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020 Moscow</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 22, 2004 11:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Youth and
discernment</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Pat writes:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"I have come to the conclusion that people shouldn't be allowed to vote
until they are 30 and have finished serious classes about the two parties and
the candidates. AND about our history and what the<BR>different parts of our
government actually do. I really am coming to believe that some people just
shouldn't have the vote. All these kids that Ophra and others are getting
registered only know what people are telling them. They have not yet paid
enough taxes, tried to start a business or gone far enough in life to learn
who they really are and what they really think. I know that because I was one
of them. When I talk to people about our history and form of government I am
well aware that too many people weren't listening in History classes."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>While the young arguably lack experience and occasionally
wisdom, it's also the case that there's no fool like an old
fool. Those 18 year-olds that Oprah and others
are registering to vote represent our primary supply
of warm, willing bodies for the war in Iraq. It's not the old
white farts of Congress -- or of Latah County -- who are out there
patrolling the sands of Samarra. And it's not the
wrinkled and arthritic who will be paying off our national debt.
No, it's those poor benighted young people, the ones Pat thinks ought
to be disenfranchised who will be (and are) saddled with our
burdens. If anyone should be denied the vote, perhaps
it's those of us who are sitting here at home on our ignorant fat asses,
watching reruns of "Murder She Wrote," racking up debt, and blowing out smoke
about wolves and terrorists, snipe hunts and tax cuts. Youth doesn't
make you stupid and age doesn't make you smart. Not only is discernment
hard to measure, it's damned hard to find -- kind of like a fart in a
Jacuzzi.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You see, I did listen in history class, and what I learned is
that the old bitch tends to repeat herself. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment <BR><BR></DIV><BR
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