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From: Bruce/CO
Date: 13 May 1999
Time: 18:16:09
Gerrymandering-my dictionary says this word means "to manipulate unfairly to gain advantage" or "to divide a voting area so as to give one party an unfair advantage".
My earlier post below regarding rules 4 and 5 was divided into two parts: the first was regarding control of the names (dare I state them here?) of the potteries, the eloquent explanation given by another person about trademarks vs copyrights undoubtedly shows my argument about a board full of lawyers to be true.
The second part, regarding the 'gerrymandering' out of existence the regional representatives, smacks of something you might find at the other end of the river that starts in Itasca State Park.
If centralizing all this power in the hands of a few in a small area is not creation of a fiefdom I guess I will have to go back and review pre-renaissance history.