mercedo's Journal: 'Assassins'

In many ways election is similar to the real war. Differences are of course, whether they use the force or not. For the 37 'rebels' who voted against the privatisation of the postal services bill in the liberal democratic party, Mr Koizumi start sending 'assassins', he intend to stand the opposite candidate for those rebels, so far 22 people were assigned.

They just finished accepting application form and resumes from the applicants of the candidate of the general election, over 1000 applicants are reported to have sent their applications so far. It is too many for the executive body of LDP to brows all the applications, so I believe they will seek for other alternatives. 14 people were reported to have been chosen from the applications this time so far so the figure is not an ignorable one though.

Other alternatives- actually they have been seeking for other celebrities -famous people and many are responding favourably to Mr Koizumi's asking.

Most rebels seem to be about to be flowed away from Mr Koizumi's strong leadership, and determination, quick and steady transaction to the problems.

I am ready for his asking, so far no proposals, but I don't like to be called an 'assassin'. Election simply should be fought with the differences in policy, which has been traditionally thought to be unusual in Japan's political scene. Instead, ' human relationship and affection' were dominant. This election will change this old bad customs.

Look at the US before you say that.

[DaedalusHKX]

If you say that "human affection and relationships" are part of how people get elected, you're in for a surprise.

Relationships are how business people buy other people.

They buy politicians easilly enough, despite that the USA is supposed to be about "policy" and "freedom". So many morons buy into democracy=freedom that you may as well say that freedom=slavery (hey, sounds like 1984 doesn't it?? I bet Orwell's ghost is drinking ectoplasmic schnaps and saying "I told those morons so... but do any of them re

Re:Look at the US before you say that.

[mercedo]

So far 3 trillion US dollar pooled in a postal savings are exclusively used in public investment by national government, if the postal services were privatised all those fund would be likely to disperse into the hands of other capitalists including foreign companies.

This contry is a protectionist's heaven with little hope for foreign competitor's to attend the domestic market. Privatisation will make for another possibilities and chances for those who were excluded from these fund.

As to elections, politi

Re:Look at the US before you say that.

[DaedalusHKX]

I respect your point of view, but make sure you build the right countermeasures into what you are doing.

Otherwise, they will sell you out any chance they get. This is how capitalism works. Someone must die or be ripped off for the pigs in power to get fatter. You guys will put those pigs in power, so make sure you hamstring them as best you can first so they can only move with the approval of the people without screwing over the minority groups (except the rich, but I have a bone to pick with their abuse