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"To call party-based parliamentarism "democracy' is the greatest bluff in the history of mankind." http://home.swipnet.se/~w-38823/jiri1.htm"There is no causality between elections and democracy. To issue every four years "carte blanche" is the most humiliating thing that can be expected of democratic citizens." http://direkte-demokratie.de/public/pro.htm Kobach states at the end of his book, **_"Too often, observers deem Switzerland an oddity among political systems. It is more appropriate to regard it as a pioneer."_**In many countries, there is a rising agony towards politics. Politicians are either corrupt, or not keeping their promises from election time. There's much of demagogy - at the same time, the really burning issues of society are not adressed. Armies go to war, even though a vast majority of the population is against it. At the same time, the USA is legitimizing the war in Iraq partially with the slogan "we bring democracy to the world!". A lot of western people, in a "weak hour", get second-thoughts: "Is democracy any good?". Well, first of all, since we have witnessed the rise and fall of the "German Democratic Republic", we should know that not everything labelled "democratic", really IS democratic! Actually, it would be more appropriate to say "we bring oligarchy to the world!". Because that's a more appropriate designation of the real-life political systems on national level in most western countries today. So, the disappointments and reservations in relation to western countries politics today are in most cases not issues of democracy, they are issues of oligarchy. ( What is REAL DEMOCRACY then?Collapse ) ( 20st century - a lost century for democracy!Collapse ) ( Forms and levels of True DemocracyCollapse ) ( Advantages of Direct DemocracyCollapse ) ( Questions and doubts about Direct democracyCollapse ) ( ConclusionsCollapse ) ( Interesting links about Direct DemocracyCollapse ) ( Zurich Voting News - HOW WOULD YOU HAVE VOTED?Collapse )(3 comments | Leave a comment)

slyblya

"An unknown number of Iraqi women and children died of phosphorus burns during the hostilities".Yeh...Chemical weapons indeed. But who brought them? who's using them?" U.S. forces used a combination of white phosphorus and explosives known as "shake 'n' bake." "Ho shit! Somehow not surprised...sad...meanwhile:"U.S. forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons," the American ambassador to London, Robert Tuttle, wrote in a letter to the Independent newspaperand(The suspicion that former president Saddam Hussein was developing chemical weapons, as well as biological and nuclear ones, was one of the Bush administration's main justifications for the 2003 invasion of the Persian Gulf country. )Details here:http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/11/16/phosphorus-fallujah051116.htmlLiars liarsCurrent Mood: worried (Leave a comment)

slyblya

1) "We do not torture," Bush declared2) Bush supported an effort spearheaded by [...]Dick Cheney to block or modify a proposed Senate-passed ban on torture. [The same day...]3) "We are finding terrorists and bringing them to justice.[...]" Bush said.( http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1289683 ) and finaly4) "Foreign governments, [...] have criticised the tribunals as fundamentally unfair because the prisoners have no rights under the Geneva Conventions and limited rights as defendants" (ref to "guantanamo")http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1862098,00.htmlQuestion (again): which justice is he refering to? The torture or...?(Leave a comment)

beezari

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/30/security.italy.kidnap/index.html_Milanese prosecutors accuse the 13 of having organized the cleric's kidnapping on February 17, 2003, and secretly flying him to Egypt, where he was interrogated and allegedly tortured, a source close to the investigation told CNN last week.The 13 are believed to have left Italy and none have been arrested, according to Reuters._Does this mean that Bush Administration Sectret Service is now permitted to kidnap people for torture, brutally violating the country laws and get away with that..?Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: soilwork-figure_number_four-the_mindmaker-vis (Leave a comment)

slyblya

"The USA Patriot Act, in the name of fighting terrorism, allows the government to find out which books and Internet sites a person has seen. It lets investigators secretly search homes and monitor phone calls and e-mail. Now, officials in the wealthy New York City suburb of Summit are using the law to justify forcing homeless people to leave a train station ..." What a great country.... http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050630/ap/d8b1u7h00.html(Leave a comment)