On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:18:19PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 12:41:33PM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > > >> On Thursday 05 June 2003 23:10, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:41:59PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > >>> > >>>> Sounds like Florida, eh? > >>> > >>> > >>> Not really. It's not Florida's fault that federal elections don't > >>> believe in democracy, or the States wouldn't have the electoral > >>> college to begin with. > >> > >> > >> Hate to burst your bubble but the US government is not a democracy. > It's a Republic. If you understood this, you wouldn't have made the > above statement. And if you're in the US, you should know this. > > > > > > > > Why is it that Americans (the USA variety) like to invade countries to > > install a "democracy" under an American leader, and whenever someone > > points out some facts about their home country, they point out that they > > themselves do not like democracy after all ? > > > Name one "democracy" we've set up. I'll bet you my right knuckle that > each and every one is a democracy in name only, and a republic in practice.
My bet is it will be something the rest of the world calls a "dicature". Of course the older examples were all done by secret services, so there is a very high deniability. The newer ones are recent enough to claim that they are really (democratic,republican,free) states. Frank (Why isn't there a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list ?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
