On May 16, 4:33*pm, wrote:
Of Course I feel that way.I do NOT Lie.

You really condemn democracy?

bpnjensen wrote:
On May 16, 4:33 pm, wrote:
Of Course I feel that way.I do NOT Lie.

You really condemn democracy?



I can't speak for Cuhu.

But James Madison certainly condemned democracy. So did Mencken and
Saki and many others. And so do I.

If the majority is allowed to seize your property or make its
opinions into law whenever it so chooses, how is that different from
an autocracy? (With an autocrat, bad as that system is, at least you
have a _chance_ that the ruler will be wise or benevolent or both.
With democracy, there is no chance whatsoever.)

That is why the founders opposed democracy and gave us a
constitution that would protect us from it, just as much or more as
it protected us from would-be kings.

They tied down the government with the stringent chains of the
Constitution, which, especially the Tenth Amendment, severely
restricted the areas in which government could do anything at all.

But politicians, notably Lincoln and the Great War Criminal but also
many others including G.W. Bush and Obama, have found that, through
bluster, intimidation -- and packing the court (and the law schools)
with those whose main goal was avoiding the founders' strictures --
they could get away with trashing the Constitution on almost every
level.

The result is that we now do indeed have the "democracy" that the
founders were trying to avoid; with the thoughtless majority easily
manipulated into doing almost anything the ethnically distinct media
masters want them to do.

The result is that we openly tolerate the invasion of our southern
border while we slaughter innocents by the hundreds of thousands in
the Middle East who never constituted even a slight threat to America.

The result is that we have a National Security surveillance state
which arrogates to itself the right to "monitor" almost everything
we say and do, and spy on our formerly private transactions and
interactions.

The result is that we now have almost totally given up the right of
freedom of association and must hire and buy and sell and send our
children off to school all in accordance with our masters' latest
arcane formulations based on the race and ethnicity of their "subjects."

The result is indefinite detention without trial.

The result is "extrajudicial rendition."

The result is Predator drone attacks on apartment buildings
containing mothers and children.

The result is the openly admitted ordering of the assassination of
an American citizen by one of those Predator drones.

Yes, I condemn "democracy" as it currently exists in the country
which is, quite anachronistically, still called by the name "United
States of America."


With all good wishes,


Kevin Alfred Strom.
--
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/

Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:


Yes, I condemn "democracy" as it currently exists in the country which
is, quite anachronistically, still called by the name "United States of
America."


With all good wishes,


Kevin Alfred Strom.

We are a liberal democracy. Not a pure democracy.

You're a pompous old fart, aren't you?

You ever heard of Lloyd Marcus? Paul Gallo is talking to him right now.
http://www.supertalkms.com

http://www.devilfinder.com
Lloyd Marcus

Lloyd Marcus is a GOOD Guy.

You want to know about democracy?

http://www.devilfinder.com
Dave Daubenmire And to the Republic
cuhulin

http://www.devilfinder.com
Red Skelton I Pledge Allegiance To The Republic

I used to watch Red Skelton's tv shows back in the 1950's.Sometimes he
is in some old movies, usually on the TCM channel.
cuhulin

Paul Gallo got that one Right too.
People who have those cell phones and doing all that texting,,,
That Will Make You Look Like An Idiot In Five Seconds!
cuhulin

On May 17, 6:38*am, dave wrote:
Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:

Yes, I condemn "democracy" as it currently exists in the country which
is, quite anachronistically, still called by the name "United States of
America."

With all good wishes,

Kevin Alfred Strom.

- We are a liberal democracy. *Not a pure democracy.
-
- You're a pompous old fart, aren't you?

More Dave 'facts'

We are a Representative Democracy [.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Democracy

alas you are simply 'dave' ~ RHF

Recap of Day FOUR.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...?ArtNum=289386

I am going to bed.Move over doggy,,, you wants ah cookie?
WOO WOO WOOF!
cuhulin

RHF wrote:


More Dave 'facts'

We are a Representative Democracy [.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Democracy

alas you are simply 'dave' ~ RHF
.
You're just a garden variety old fart.

Liberal democracy is a form of representative democracy where elected
representatives that hold the decision power are moderated by a
constitution that emphasizes protecting individual liberties and the
rights of minorities in society, such as freedom of speech and assembly,
freedom of religion, the right to private property and privacy, as well
as equality before the law and due process under the rule of law, and
many more.

Such constitutional rights, also named liberal rights, are guaranteed
through various controlled institutions and various statutory laws.
Additionally the constitution of most of the contemporary liberal
democracies protects the rights of individuals and minorities, and
prohibits the will of majority (majoritarianism), by almost eliminating
that rule in practice.

Some would argue that liberal democracy isn't democratic or liberal at
all. They would argue that "liberal democracy" does not respect majority
rule, except when citizens are asked to vote for their representatives,
and also that its "liberty" is restricted by the constitution or
precedent decided by previous generations. They would argue that, by
prohibiting citizens the right to cast votes on all issues—especially
for serious subjects like going to war, constitutional amendments or
constitution abolishment etc.—this turns "liberal democracy" into the
precursor of oligarchy.

Others would say that only a liberal democracy can guarantee the
individual liberties of its citizens and prevent the development into a
dictatorship. Unmoderated majority rule could—in this view—lead to an
oppression of minorities.

The concept of an open society is closely related to liberal
democracies. Since many liberals see democracies with strong statist
reflections through the public choice theory as slow, dogmatic,
conservative and not too apt for change, the liberal democracy contrasts
with what could be called the "statist" democracy in that it emphasizes
the civil society as the engine of its public discourse and development
further.

Pascagoula revives Blessing of the Fleet.
http://www.clarionledger.com

Backwater hick Fleet.

Fiskars (Fiskars scissors and other Fiskars tools, I saw some Fiskars
hatchets for sale last January at the Sears store) is opening a big
distribution center and warehouse in Southaven, 100 new jobs for those
backwater hicks.
cuhulin, the backwater hick