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That's how teledemocracy is supposed to work, according to Perot, the billionaire computer executive and putative presidential candidate. The concept has a certain gut-level appeal. To voters fed up with the paralysis of Congress and the special-interest outrages that characterize politics-as- usual, the idea that the citizenry might bypass all the musty machinery of representative democracy and directly influence the government seems enormously attractive...
From Bosnia come daily tales of gut-wrenching savagery, few more appalling than last week's butchery in the capital of Sarajevo. Civilians were lured from their homes by a lull in the fighting to line up for bread and ice cream, when three 82-mm mortar shells smashed into the crowd. At least 25 people were killed and an additional 100 injured. While the brutality may have startled outsiders, Sarajevans were not surprised. Just the night before, shells had slammed into a maternity hospital, killing three newborns...
...gut, I have a real sense of insecurity about group manifestations in general." Feldman says. In other words, he does not like to rely on others to argue his position...
...point is, the whole nature of representative democracy is that a conscientious member of Congress -- and there are some -- can say, "Yeah, the people back home, according to the polls, are against me on this issue, but I believe in my gut that it's the right issue, and I'm going to do it anyway...
Enough to avenge last year's gut-wrenching overtime loss to the Minutemen...