skullaria wrote: ] Umn, like the Bush administration didn't go in the same ] direction after 911? Hell, Bush wasn't elected by popular ] vote BEFORE 911. No, but if you think that Bush sucks England and Israel's ass, you would have loved to have Gore and Lieberman in office! Wait a minute, wasn't Gore's wife the one who tried to ban rock music and Lieberman the one who sanctimoniously called for more of a dedication to faith-based bullshit and wanted to censor TV and movies. Fuck these people and fuck those who support them. ] ] ] ] Among Putin's reforms announced Monday: the country's 89 ] ] regional governors will no longer be elected by popular ] ] vote. Instead, he will appoint them and regional ] ] assemblies would approve the appointments. ] ] ] ] He also announced on Monday that seats in the Duma ] ] (Russia's national parliament) allocated to single-member ] ] constituencies will be replaced with a fully proportional ] ] system. The move "could see the few remaining independent ] ] voices forced out of the federal parliament" RE: Puntin uses school attacks to cripple democracy in Russia. |