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Democracy in USA is fragile - part II International Olympic Committee(IOC) - 20.01.2002 22:04
Part II "USA is ruled by the hegemony of a small elite, not by the elected representatives" wrote the academic Thomas R. Dye and L. Harmon Ziegler in their book The irony of democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics(Belmont, CA;Duxbury Press, 1975) Democracy in USA is fragile - part II Part II The authors state further: "Now in the industrial, scientific and nuclear age, the life in a democracy is precisely like in a totalitarian society - compound by a handful of men" Also the author Jim Marrs, states in the introduction of his newest book "Rule by Secrecy",(Harper-Collins NY, 2000) "Today the common understanding about a tiny, wealthy ruling elite - an oligarchy - controlling the american society is supported by various examined facts." For example the official statistics point out how the already previous enormous gaps between rich and poor - dividing the society, has continued to grow for the last decades. A particularly interesting and seldomly discussed fact is that the american national debt is enormous. Already in 1996 it passed the line of 6 trillion(quintillion) USDs and it continues to increase. Meanwhile the american media turn up their eyes on the Argentinian debt which is(only) 880 billion USDs. According to some sources the federal state pays today annually rates of up to 300 billion USDs, more than the total of income tax harvested in US annually. Many view the Federal Reserve as the thief in the drama. Fed is undemocratic. The so called centralbank in USA, Federal Reserve - publicly known as the Fed is a particularly undemocratic chapter - a state within the state and hundred percently owned by private banks - some of them of foreign origin. Edward Griffin describes in his book The Creature from Jekyll Island(Am Media 1994) how it came to life irrevocably through a scandalous procedure - two days before Christmas in 1913. Senator Barry Goldwater(rep.) declared in the end of 80s: "Most of the citizens don`t have a clue of what the international investment banks are doing. And the bankers prefer it remains like that. We all notice on a more or less hazy level that especially the Rotschilds and Warburgs in Europe, and the houses of J.P Morgan, Kuehn, Loeb&Company, Schiff, Lehman - not to mention the Rockefellers have at their disposal and under their control fortunes of inconcevaible wide. How these families gained this vast financial power and how the power is implemented on a global scale, is a complete mystery to most of us.(...) We don`t get less confused of the fact that these same private financial powers practically both own and govern the american central bank - Federal Reserve"(Jim Marrs page 12) Finally some thoughts by the great innovative thinker R.Buckminster Fuller who also understod that USA was governed by powerful men behind the scenes. He wrote shortly before his death in 1983: "USA is not governed by its seemingly democratic administration. Nothing might be more pathetic than the role which must be played by the United States president, when his real power is approximately zero. Regardless of this, the media continues to supply a picture that everything is as it should be and that the president has one in the constitution defined sovereign powerposition here in the United Stats of America."(Jim Marrs; page 14) Among us ordinary people and less notable thinkers the Roswell case from 1947 and Dealey Plaza 1963 prove that the often praised democracy in the promised land behind the Atlantic de facto is virtually a "non-existent". Such belong only to totalitarian countries - and perhaps to seemingly democratic countries. And what is most important: the criticism is delivered by the whole spectre of politics: by intellectuals from left like Noam Chomsky to christian extremeright evangelistas like Pat Robertson and many more. These words should not be misinterpreted as having a negative attitude towards USA or its people. On the contrary. The criticism above is on a general level and is pointed out against various centers of power which like a cancertumour is sucking dry America and its people as well as the rest of the world through its tentacles in a.o Worldbank, IMF and NATO. Similar processes with similar patterns are taking place in other parts of the world, but the lack of democratic control is in its own class in the superpower USA. Unfortunately. And from our point of view this system is exported to all NATO countries which hereby largely are being infiltrated by negative USA-despotic elements. The egocentric demand of "national security" by the military is used as a self-lubricating camouflage. "We have to have the authority to assassinate people before they can assassinate us" - Senator Bob Graham, Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee |
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