Pubdate: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 Source: Boulder Daily Camera (CO) Copyright: 2000 The Daily Camera. Contact: http://www.bouldernews.com/ Author: Tom Barrus MAJOR PARTIES EQUALLY DISMAL Here are tips for choosing which party's candidates to vote for. If you favor government of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If you are pleased paying the IRS, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If you enjoy paying big bucks into the fraudulent Social Security Ponzi scheme, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If you don't mind that political office is for sale and if you couldn't care less about campaign finance reform, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If you favor security over liberty, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If you can stomach the hypocrisy of government unlawfully exempting the two deadliest drugs, tobacco and alcohol, from every drug law, while refusing to allow cannabis to be used for medicinal purposes, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If you're happy to have the government use violence to harm people who have done you no harm, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If it makes you proud when government-armed thugs break down doors and murder people like Ismael Mena, vote for a Republican or Democrat. If you think it is OK that the government can throw people in jail for years or decades, steal their homes, cars, cash, and other assets, and even kill them, for growing plants, vote for a Republican or Democrat. On the other hand, you might consider voting for a candidate of some other party, such as: Libertarian, Green, or Natural Law. You might also consider not voting for an office at all if there is only a choice between a Republican or Democrat and no one from another party is running. TOM BARRUS Golden - --- MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart