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 __________________________________________________________ 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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