Re: AUT: A Reply to Noam Chomsky

[Thiago Oppermann <thiago_oppermann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/3/2004 11:29 AM, "neil" <74742.1651@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1) Thiago , any kind of support for 'compulsory voting' is license
> to the bosses state  to step up their reactionary policies
> since they will be the 'enforcers' of the compulsion.
> Not only would this mean monetary fines, but also stepped
> up  additions of political files on the voter abstentionists,
> and then (in later crises) 'weeding out the troublemaking
> communists/anarchists', using this info/license you support
> to  help do so.
> This methodologically  goes in tandem with FBI/State police
> calls on neighbors and problably the voter
> abstentionists bosses as well.

Ha ha ha ha ha...oh, only an American could think like this. What nonsense.
You haven't realised the joke I am playing here: compulsory voting makes
abstention a far more powerful political device.

>
> Your illusions in capitalist democracy in the State is
> also rather shocking ,to put it mildly.

What illusion? I say "let's torture people into being good citizens" and you
think I am under some illusion?



Whatever... My back is raw from pepper spray and the pigs' caresses, so I am
in no mood for this.


Thiago



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