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I favour representative democracy. That means that the legislator must give consideration to the wishes of the people in his electoral district and only be required to support the party position where it is part of the platform on which the party ran. Every other vote should be a conscience vote.

I am against racism and antivilification legislation. However, actual acts of discrimination should be against the law.

We must stop destroying the environment. We cannot have an ever-increasing population and pollution along with decreasing habitat for the other life-forms with which we share the planet. We should examine our lives and activities to minimize human impact on the environment by zoning to make travel less between work and home, buildings less demanding of energy, banning of such sports as motor racing that waste fossil fuel, reliance on renewable energy sources and other means to minimize our environmental impact. Too much effort is put into ways to continue our wasteful life styles and not enough to make them less wasteful.

I favour legalization of drugs and prostitution. Drug addiction like alcohol addiction should be treated as a medical not a criminal problem. Gambling should not be illegal if it is a voluntary recreational activity. However, casinos and government encouragement and sponsorship of gambling along with tax revenues from that source create social problems. No casinos.

I would not use any tax money to support religion by means such as the chaplaincy program and state sponsored religious education unless it is education in comparative religions. I also oppose government efforts against religion. Religion should not be the business of government.

I prefer not using the terms right and left but state what one is for and what one is against. I have done so.

An address to the golden door
I was strumming on a stone again
Pulling teeth from the pimps of gore when hatched
A tragic opera in my mind...
And it told of a new design
In which every soul is duty bound
To uphold all the statues of boredom therein lies
The fatal flaw of the red age

Because it was nothing like we'd ever dreamt
Our lust for life had gone away with the rent we hated
And because it made no money nobody saved no one's life.

So we burned all our uniforms
And let nature take its course again
And the big ones just eat all the little ones
That sent us back to the drawing board.

In our darkest hours
We have all asked for some
Angel to come
Sprinkle his dust all around
But all our crying voices they can't turn it around
And you've had some crazy conversations of your own.

We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs
But we still can't just behave ourselves
Even if to save our own lives so, says I, WE ARE A BRUTAL KIND.

Cuz this is nothing like we'd ever dreamt
Tell Sir Thomas More we've got another failed attempt
Cuz if it makes them money they might just give you life this time.