:: Democracy & diplomacy where art thou?
: Whilst secrecy prevails democracy withers & fails.
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”*
-- Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner. Democracy = majority rule = mob rule = the law of the jungle = no law.
Fortunately for every American, the states united in America, or the united States of America, is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. A Constitutional Republic protects the rights of each and every person until that person injures another. We are sovereigns under such a system. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a corporation, governs itself by a democracy peculiar to it. Unfortunately, most Americans believe -- believe, not "know" -- that America is a democracy. This is a colossal fraud of epic consequences, fostered first in the U.S. public fool system and now a global claim, even among many influential web authors who should know better, and who are otherwise being truthful. Have you ever heard the Resident, or any President, introduced as the President of "America"?
Link to a most excellent website that clearly defines, outlines and describes, without error or equivocation, the heartbreaking truth about our Constitutional Republic and the "Democracy" fraud:
"The Truth As I See It"
http://www.usavsus.info/
*Despotism: "Despotism is a form of government by a single authority, either an individual or tightly knit group, which rules with absolute political power. In its classical form, a despotism is a state where one single person, called a Despot, wields all the power and authority, and everyone else is considered his slave. This form of despotism was the first known form of statehood and civilization; the Pharaoh of Egypt is a hallmark of a classical Despot.
The term now implies tyrannical rule. . . ."
Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotism
If everyone who says they want to help would only focus their personal attention, efforts and research on sovereignty -- their own and everyone else's -- and forever consign "democracy" to the Museum of Conquered Ideologies, we really could save the day.