Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Most Gerrymandered State Has To Redraw Its Map" video.

  1. Simple solution: Hand over all, and I mean ALL boundary mapping to the Canadian Government, The Canadians will be NEUTRAL and Objective in their decisions, and once the Canadians have finished the process.... THAT'S IT! The USA states would/should have ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT OF APPEAL!
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  2. Well, look at the decisions made by the lawmakers in America! Haven't exactly covered themselves in glory now, have they? Gerrymandering electorates is a CRIMINAL act! We used to have a state premier who was notorious for blatant gerrymandering of electoral boundaries but he died about a decade or so ago and we're well rid of that contemptible old felon, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, former premier of Queensland.... long may he rot. Even the worms wouldn't eat his carcass, he was so corrupt, they'd die of food poisoning.
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  3. +Tracey S.: Russ Hinze indeed, yes, but you've forgotten Terence Lewis, he was, I believe, Police Commissioner during the Bjelke-Petersen era and just as rotten-corrupt as Bjelke-Petersen himself. So it's no surprise the Qld Police were so corrupt. Like the fish, the rot starts at the head and goes to the rest of the body, so it was with the Qld Police, the corruption started with Lewis and spread, like cancer to the rest of the force. As for the federal government, I doubt they even had the intestinal fortitude to sort Bjelke-Petersen out, BjElke Petersen held the top spot from about 1968 or so, right up the 1984(?*) FitzGerald Royal Commission into corruption in the Qld Government and Police. Thankfully we're well rid of this scumbag trio of Bjelke-Petersen, Hinze and Lewis but I still think there's more than a tiny element of corruption still infecting the Qld Police, and I doubt there's anything that could convince me otherwise.
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  4. +Tracey S. yeah, in a way it sort of makes one appreciate the Australian system a little bit more, even after Bjelke-Petersen and his cronies. Disappointing to see this sort of corruption in America? Yes. Disappointing but far from surprising! Would not surprise me in the least to learn it has been going on since 1776. Cheers, Tracey!
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