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Democracy in USA is fragile - a letter to the
WEF - 19.01.2002 21:45

Part I

A number of letters to the editor have without restraint
praised the maintenance of democracy in United States
although the question of democracy in USA remains
highly complex.

The democracy in USA is a trifle summoned up in
a constitutional right to vote a new face to the
White House, when people get tired of the old face.


Democracy in USA is fragile - a letter to the editor

Part I


Another business is that neither people nor the
democracy in USA have no means to get an insight
in to the guard of grey eminences that de facto
rule the country by influencing the presidential institution
and its unparliamentary compounded administration-government.

Practically it is being done by advisors, co-advisors, a row of
committees, so called think tanks(CFR, TC, Bilderberg
group) and a range of other semipolitical societies with an
untold agenda.

USA is also a nation that has a range of other halfpublic
organizations and institutions in which even the president
and ministers are not given too much of an insight to.
For example FED, CIA, NSA, NRO, FEMA, IRS etc.

For example the action taken by the NSA through the
global ECHELON eavesdropping system is apparently
being operated without any democratic control.

The long-drawn, infamous and democratically
incontrollable role of the CIA in international
drug and weaponbusiness and "black budget" financing
of USA-friendly coupmakers in countries with strategic
natural resources is notorious - Panama, Iran, Irak, Saudi-
Arabia, Afghanistan etc.

Likewise have many senators and representatives of the
congress with no success demanded insight to the
bookkeeping of the so called centralbank
FEDERAL RESERVE.

The military is largely a state within the state which is
divided into USAF, US NAVY, US ARMY etc.
The politicians haven`t got a clue of whats going on
in various militarybases. Some of them doesn`t even
exist officially - like the notorious Area 54 in Nevada.
National Security is the answer as we know.
Any measures taken in the name of National Security
are considered justified.

The spaceadministration NASA and its unexplainable
reticence has lead to that NASA has become famous
as "Not-A-Straight-Answer" if anyone from the senate
or congress has demanded an insight to where the money
has gone.

And all the astronauts are bound by military status and
obligation to observe silence. One can only make assumptions
of what secrets they are likely to carry when a considerable
number of them have either drowned themselves in alcohol
or committed suicide. Citizens have no insight into their
private experiences in the space when they flatly deny,
refuse to comment and refer to official spokesmen of NASA.

The book Dark Moon. Apollo and the Whistleblowers by
David Percy(Aulis Publishing 1999) raises a lot of
questions concerning what is true and what is untrue visavi
moonexpeditions that were accomplished during the
hottest period of cold war.

Summa summarum: No wonder that a variety of conspiracy
theories flourish concerning the USA-doings - and with good
reason. More than 60 % of the americans believe that
federal authorities in one or another way were directly involved
in the murder of president Kennedy.(Scripp-Howard News
Service poll 1997)

Consequently one should know the difference between theory
and practice of the principles of democracy implemented
in todays USA.

To be continued.

 

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henk - 20.01.2002 03:06

Area 51, zeker, ufo basis, bestaat formeel niet
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vermoedelijk bases op Zuid pool Maan en Mars, wat doet amerika daar? er zijn duidelijk beelden van wapentransporten. de anti global strijd kun je niet los zien van deze toestanden
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mensenrechtenschending op Mars 
dullboy - 20.01.2002 12:22

Zo zie je maar weer: El Quaeda heeft volkomen gelijk met haar acties tegen de VS, want de VS ondersteunen een uiterst ondemocratisch bewind op Mars, waardoor duizenden onschuldige Marsbewoners gevangen zitten en gemarteld worden. Het zou me ook niets verbazen als de Marsh-Shuttle op de heenweg wapens meeneemt voor dat verwerpelijke regime en op de terugweg gevangenen die door de VS op die militaire basis op Cuba gebruikt worden voor experimenten.
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