File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0303, message 818


From: "Heather" <Heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
Subject:  A Constitutional Democracy
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:14:47 -0000


I'm refraining from indulging in warnography (great phrase huh-nicked it off
chuck0) so stopped forwarding much on lists these days. Find myself closing
off inside and getting philosophical. This is the only thing out of 400
posts I just scanned through I thought worth sharing
H

 A Constitutional Democracy

"I hate to delve into semantics on such a bucolic evening, but there is
an aspect of this whole situation which needs clearing up. "War" is a
violent engagement between nations.  "Attack" is something that happens
when one person, nation or group sets about to beat the Jesus out of
another person, nation or group.  This is not a war.  This is an
attack.  Iraq does not have, and - were the inspectors allowed to
complete the job given to them by Resolution 1441 - would never have the
ability to attack America, either on their own or by proxy."

"America is not making war on Iraq.  We are attacking a nation of 24
million people.  Some will tell you that this is the first time a
democracy has instigated a war.  This is wrong.  Military empires have
reached out to crush other peoples and nations since time out of mind.
Silly you, for thinking this was a constitutional democracy."
http://truthout.org/docs_03/032103I.shtml
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America is no less a constitutional democracy now than when it had
engaged in the practice of kidnapping and enslaving millions of
trans-Atlantic victims for the domestic relief of its citizens.

America is no less a constitutional democracy now than when it had
attacked numerous sovereign nations for over a hundred years in order to
establish an empire from "sea to shining sea".

America is no less a constitutional democracy now than when it had made
wars with Mexico and Spain to aquire territories both near and afar.

And America is no less a constitutional democracy now than when it had
attacked Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Peru, Guatemala, Cuba, Congo,
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Sudan, and many others.

Nothing has changed.  The constitutional protections that aren't being
enforced today have a history of being neglected for a whole host of
ethnicities.  The cowardly violence of terrorism that is being
perpetuated today is the very same cowardly violence of terrorism that
has ever made America what it is; and the reservations remain as proof
of it.  America is no less a constitutional democracy today than it has
ever been.  Just because some of the people to have traditionally
benefited from America's terrorism are now finding themselves as being
on the other side of those benefits doesn't mean that anything has
changed.  It was the same during COINTELPRO, the same during the
McCarthy era, and the same during the Garvey movement.  It is the same
democracy of discriminatory lending and employment practices, the same
democracy of racial profiling, and the same democracy of unequal racial
"justice".  Nothing has changed.

America is the same racist terrorist state it has ever been since 1791
and the reservations remain as proof of it.  So when you visit a
reservation on the next approach of July fourth, realize that you are
interacting with the direct result of ongoing American terrorism under A
Constitutional Democracy.

Don't confuse democracy with justice as one has absolutly nothing to do
with the other as any lynch mob will prove.

Djehuti Sundaka





   

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