Vote won’t count

Dear Editor

For me the saddest thing about elections is that they remind me that the vast majority of Australians still believe that their vote counts.

It really doesn't matter who is elected on June 18, the same Corporations will still be running the Territory, and the world for that matter.

But how have our 'leaders' managed to fool the masses for so long?

Mussolini told The London Sunday Express in 1935: "The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.

"The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."

Gary Meyerhoff
Rapid Creek

Newshawk: http://www.napnt.org/election2005.html
Pubdate: Fri, 17 June 2005
Source: Territory Times (Australia)
Email: territorytimes@iprimus.com
Copyright: 2005 Territory Times
Author: Gary Meyerhoff