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Hi Douglas,
You wrote,
This is very interesting, one of the reasons I'm looking for a good Belgian
political history covering the past three hundred years.
The convention in the UK and Canada is that the monarch must always given
assent
to bills passed by the legislative chamber. The 'strict' law is that the
Crown
has the right to say no to every bill (or so the courts say), the reality,
if
even one was refused, would be the kind of crisis you mention.
What year did this happen?
<< The year was 1990, this was seen by the Belgian people as another
demonstration by the King of his strong morals and Cristian beliefs.
( Not to me, though !!)
He was addicated for one day.
For more info, go to
write the next line in Dutch in the subject- area of your search- engine
< Koning Boudewijn I
Than go to
Biografische nota van Z. M. Koning Boudewijn
click on it
Go to the end of the page,
click on Belgische Monarchie
click on English
click on search
click on search engine
http://search.fgov.be
you can link further
Enjoy the ride.
A very creative solution, the 24 hour 'coup'. Belgium sounds much much more
complex than Canada, though.
<< I said it in my last post, though, but I feel I have to correct this,
it is more complex but also more... how would I desribes this.... more
laughable, more like I said surrealistic.
This is the example I was talking about earlier,
There is somewhere a pile- up. The police set up a roadblock.
To kill the time, the pile- up was about 2 miles ahead from where the road-
block started, the policeman were playing a game of football.
An absent- minded female driver ran into the roadblock and where the
policeman were trying to get her out, several more cars drove into the
poor woman her car and a new pile- up developped.
Neathless to say, a terrible and at the same time a humurious accident,
and I suppose in a lot of countries this accident would have been shown
in some kind of freak show like Candid Camera or at Wogan 's Christmas
Bloopers.
Not in belgium, this was shown in a human interest program called
Telefacts where the misbehaviour of the police was spread out over
an item of more than 20 minutes.
Nothing mush I suppose, but IMO this is a fact whish we must count in.
The fact that the media does this all the time, where IMO it would be better
that the media shows a real interest in what really matters, makes me mad.
This " blow- up " effect of minor accidents and faits divers is IMO
anti- intellectual and works deformation and decay in hand.
This effect is also visible the other way round, where serious fundamentals,
satisfactory solutions and specialized frameworks are needed, the public,
but also the " specialists " creates doubts everywhere.
Solutions to discrease the number of deaths among cyclists ran over by
trucks when those turn off right, were laughed away; were pinded down;
were seen as reasons for a discrease in the firms their competitive
position,
......and nothing happens.
And maybe memetics, in my quasi- clinical approach of the concept, is
not the most conductive to come to any solution, but it is IMO the most
satisfactory I got for the moment to explore and to try to understand
situations like describes above.
And for what I have written down about the subject, I think memetics
as the framework as I see it, gives me a great deal of delight and under-
standing.
Best,
Kenneth
( I am, because we are) better
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