Italians stayed home and exercised their right not to vote on a referendum that did not produce much excitement amongst the people.
The referendum, which "sought to overturn four sections of law: one that grants the same rights to an embryo as to a child; one that bans most experimentation on fetuses; one that allows couples to create no more than three embryos, all of which must be implanted at one time without genetic testing; and one that bans couples from using eggs or sperm donated by other people.," required 50% participation and essentially died for lack of interest.
It appears that not being able to experiment on fetuses and getting rid of pesky rights for embryos is high on the priority list at The Blue Voice, where the referendum result is being characterized as a "boycott of democracy" by Neil, Bush Hater in Chief and all around spin-master, who can find a way to tie anything in with the Bush administration.
I wonder if the Bush administration will stand by its announced commitment to democratic ideals, or will it criticize the Vatican for asking Italian voters not to vote.
Given the President's commitment to defend the lives of frozen microscopic embryonic stem cells, maybe he would like to propose a bill to mirror the Italian law.
How nuanced. To quote Wonky Muse, I believe it is what's referred to as a "straw man" attack.
In the case of a referendum like this, not voting is just as much of an exercise of free speech and democracy as a no vote, or a yes vote for that matter. But that is of no consequence to Neil, who undoubtedly would have forced people to exercise their right to vote.
With democracy like that, he might as well tell them how to vote also. After all, what is democracy if it produces results one doesn't like?
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Unfortunately for Neil-phytes, everyone doesn't live in the Socialist People's Republic of Seattle where people are permitted to assume what their dead relatives would have wanted and cast votes for them, or where vote-counters are permitted to assume that someone who voted mostly-Democrat /obviously/ must have meant to vote Democrat across the board, then divine those un-cast votes from thin air in favor of 'their' cause.
Sounds like those silly Italians could learn a lesson from the SPRS.
Where are all of the "we care so much about free elections" lefties in Washington anyway?
I guess since they won it's no big deal.
Spotts,
Washington's "free election" left vanished before the election was over.
When the leftist judge allowed Democrats to re-canvass the vote during the re-count (contrary to State law), Democrats asked voters whether they voted Democrat or Republican. These re-canvassing Democrats walked away from everyone who answered "Republican," and stayed to detail all available information for those who answered "Democrat."
After literally crying tears before the judge while pleading for the right to re-canvass the vote, Democrat leaders implored that "every vote must count."
Clearly, they didn't mean every legal vote, or every military vote, or even every actually-cast vote.
They simply meant they wanted every vote for a Democrat to count - including the 10,000-plus "found" votes that didn't appear until well into the re-count process.
They couldn't give a shit about free elections. Clearly, maintaining their stranglehold on the state is all they were interested in - and for them, the ends justify ANY means.
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