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Re: hitchens weird
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, December 29 2010, 15:54:22 (UTC)
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all Maher could say is Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

...when America has behaved the way it has and does in the MidEast and when our Supreme Court handed the election to Bush, of what good was "democracy"? These champions of democracy, as a word, forget that what keeps a living democracy from becoming a mere tyranny of the majority is respect and protection of its MINORITIES...without our Bill of Rights all we have in America is mob rule....which is becomming more and popular each day...as when the Christian Right insists that the "will of the people" MUST come before the rule of law...that if the majority want to deny civil rights to Gays, Blacks and anyone else all it takes is a majority decision!!! This is what Americans increasingly want...they don´t want some damn judge telling them they CAN´T do as they think best, as they prefer. And this is what the funding of Christian madrasses in America is meant to achieve in a few generations...right now the Constitution stands as the protector of minority positions...these neo-cons can´t attack it directlyso they´re making an end-run...they´re betting on developing an intolerant, reactionary and neo-fascist majority which will insist more and more that democracy means the WILL OF THE MAJORITY...fuck the courts, fuck the Bill of Rights and anything that stands in the way of the will of the majority.

While Maher is expounding the glories of democracy in Israel he forgets how it is being attacked here in America...or, rather he doesn´t draw the connection between an America that is dismantling its constitutional protections with an Israel that gets blind support form this same America...also he doesn´t ask who supports the petty "kings" and tyrants of the MidEast who KEEP democracy and development from happening...as if their citizens WANT kings and life-time presidents...we pulled the same crap in South America for generations, propping up dictators and tyrants and mass murderers because it served the economic interests of the same people who are now bleeing the MidEast...American democracy, as a practical matter, has become a vulture roving the world looking for cadavers to devour...after the kill.



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