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color=#0000ff>Hi Veni,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>I wish you had given some counter examples from Bulgaria as
well while you were discussing the nature of Americans, it would have been even
more enlightening.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>warm regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>Guru</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> venimarkovski@gmail.com
[mailto:venimarkovski@gmail.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Veni
Markovski<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 23, 2007 10:54 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
governance@lists.cpsr.org; Jacqueline A. Morris<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[governance] Reinstate the Vote<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi, Jacqueline, <BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Nov 23, 2007 12:04 PM, Jacqueline A. Morris <<A
href="mailto:jam@jacquelinemorris.com">jam@jacquelinemorris.com</A>>
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">that
I and the people I work with at home have a lot of things to do that<BR>are
not at all linked to a global vote in which our concerns will be a<BR>minority
and won't impact our primary issues either.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR>There's
another good proverb on that issue, "he whose belly is full, believes not him
who is fasting." <BR>For some of the Americans the issues about the Internet are
related to something, which some of them believe, is related to power. For the
other Netizens - we care about the price at which we get our Internet
connection, about the freedom of access, freedom of speech, etc. <BR>But some of
the Americans, who take so many things for granted, just because they happen to
be born in the USA, we need to just try to educate them about "the other world".
<BR><BR>I say "some of the Americans", because obviously not all of them are
like that (thanks, God!), but it is interesting that those are quite vocal,
while the others stay quiet. <BR><BR>veni<BR></BODY></HTML>