http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807B.shtml
Ben Franklin said:
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
Very radical subversive, anti-democratic words these... or words that recognize the defective nature of OUR democracy, as structured for the last 200 years.
What is the problem with our democracy? Human rights are in conflict with property rights, and human rights are losing. For two hundred years the power of the ownership class has grown, ever more able through control of our democracy to arrange the world for it's own bennefit. Government naturally works to fortify the conspiracies of the rich.
Garfinkle :When the richest nation in the world has to borrow to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pay it's bills.... something is amiss."
The pillar of the conspiracy is the concentration of media in the hands of the few. Media is more attentive to establishment views than the bleak realities experienced by the many." An elite determines what ordinary people see and hear, and what they don't. This is censorship of knowledge by monopolization of the means of information. What we see from the couch is increasingly the view from the top.
