Yay for the idiot page

Sometimes the idiots know what they're talking about.

From today's letters to the editor:

Democracy is a lot of trouble
Friday, September 21, 2007

Re: "Ballot clutter poses a public nuisance," Metro, Sept. 12.

John Maginnis suggests that qualifying to be a candidate for governor should be made more stringent.

While we are at it, how about:

-- Reconfiguring our system of government to place the legislative, executive and judicial branches into the hand of one man so that it will be more efficient.

-- Eliminating freedom of the press and religion.

-- Establishing a new poll tax.

-- Making the owning of property a prerequisite for voting.

Perhaps we should also repeal the Bill of Rights while we are at it because those civil rights lawyers just use it as an excuse to gum up the works and delay the true course of justice, if you know what I mean.

We should have known better than to let the riffraff think they could govern themselves.

John David Cassanova

Metairie

Good for you, Mr. Cassanova. I had the same reaction when I read that John Maginnis finds participatory democracy too much of an embarrassing nuisance for his refined and civilized tastes.