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Originally Posted by Stuart C
No, they didn't. However I believe the reasoning behind that is that when the voters voted the Government in, they gave the Government some power to make decisions on their behalf..
I don't remember voting for any Union leadership, so why should they decide I cannot receive post?
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Likewise, when the union members voted their leadership in they gave them the power to make decisions on their behalf - based on a democratic voting system.
You didn't vote to go to war or take part in the "war on terror" so what gives the Government the right to monitor you 24hrs a day and dictate what you can and can't bring on a plane with you?
It defies belief that someones perspective could be so distorted that they would consider the loss of a few days worth of post more of an affront to them than a Governments decision to send a nation into a war that has cost lives and serious erosions of civil liberties.
With all due respect, had you had due cause to be in a position to vote for the Union leadership then your argument might be valid. However, to extol the virtues of representative democracy used to send people to war on the one hand but deride the very same representative democracy because you'll be moderately inconvenienced by a disruped postal delivery service is a bit rich to say the least.